I have no spouse, no kids, nor house too......I too had an ideallyc childhood, and hence believed life was a 'bowl of cherries........' then I came upon some very dark, dark years.....the emptiness was unbearable......slowly, my life turned around one piece at a time....now I'm at 35 years, and happy as a clam.......life wasn't exactly a bowl of cherries.........a chair of bowlies....(cute quote I once heard...)

Stefano you sound intelligent and funny, and perhaps your life will ever so slowly turn around...........and don't buy into the myth that being married or having kids is everything......families are everywhere & I do get jealous sometimes when I see a family that seems to have it all.......yet I have it all myself, I have inner peace.....one's perception of what life is like can change....in a heartbeat......