Boys (or Lack Thereof)

Some time ago a friend was bemoaning her lack of a boyfriend on Valentine's Day. You know the acronym for Single's Awareness Day is SAD, right? So is "Sarah Appreciation Day." Anyway, the other day I was thinking about relationships that don't work out and how often we begin calculating our worth with our dating or marital status as one of the main variables. Why do we do this to ourselves? Let's live lives that don't revolve around whether or not there's a man in them! Sure, I need a guy to be a wife and a mother, but I don't need a guy in order to wake up early, exercise, eat nutritiously, read a good book or write an even better one.