There is time. I've had a lot of bad relationships, and didn't meet my soulmate until I was 42. Even he isn't perfect, nobody is, so of course he doesn't meet all my needs. No one person can. And the most basic need I have--the need to have someone understand what I'm going through when I am in a deep depression--that's where he is weakest of all, and can't help me. When that need arises, I have to turn to someone else, like one of my daughters, a therapist, or PC.

Still, I did finally meet "the one." But I do recall the loneliness, and I know how bad it hurts.