The Life of A Confirmed Bachelor   The Life of A Confirmed
Bachelor What makes a man choose singlehood?  Last week, I was
“forced” to cook dinner for a guy I dated a lifetime ago. I
wanted to interview him for this blog and the only way he would
agree to it was if I cooked for him. (Sigh). So I did.  Though
we didn’t make it as a couple, he and I have remained friends
through the years and it was a fun night. Why didn’t we make it?
There’s no one specific reason, but I do know that we have
different sensibilities about a lot of things. For example, he
didn’t understand why I would get mad when he would use my
toothbrush. Eeeeww!  John (as in “Doe”, because he won’t let me
use his real name) is a youthful 54-year-old executive in the
entertainment industry. I wanted to interview him because I
write a lot about my own spinsterhood and was curious about the
male experience. I don’t pretend that John is representative of
other men who’ve never been married, but I found his responses
to my questions rather intrigu