thank you everyone:)

Pleased to meet you all.

Hello to all.

I never sign up for these kind of things so this will be an experience for me.

I'm looking for friendship right now, not anything serious, possibly dating.

I'm a creative person who loves books and traveling.

It will be interesting to see who is willing to just be "friends" and not expect more!:D

I think that ultimately if you truly love someone you want to marry them. You can be in a committed relationship without being married, perhaps live together for years, but obviously a "fear" of some sort is still there. If you were totally fearless about getting married, then you would do it. IMO, people who live together for years without getting married want to keep it that way so if things fail there is an easy way out. That way, there will be no messy divorce, annoying papers to contend with.

I for one am terrified of marriage. However, I also did not live with my ex. I guess I'm old fashioned.