For sure! Plenty of successful fulfilled single people. But having an animal as your SO, doesn’t check all those boxes. If you’re happy being single so be it all the power to you! But marriage to an animal is a one sided affair. It’s not the same. Nothing wrong with it if that’s what you want, don’t get me wrong.
Thanks for saying this portion. Not to say anyone can't go it alone, I'm sure, but I see what a lot of people write and I get a sense of lots of magical thinking around this. I think the userbase skews young, from what I can tell, so I'm sure there's heavy romanticism at play. I'm not even saying there's an objective right or wrong choice, it's just with every possible combo there are inherent plusses and minuses like with everything else, so it's best to acknowledge them to be able to balance best. I'm really trying to figure out a way to structure my shit where I can still get the deep intellectual connection of a person but the physicality of an animal with some overlap between that I'm still unsure of. Shit ain't easy and it's sometimes frustrating to read people that have simplified the considerations into cartoonish nonsense.