Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
I don't believe men and women were meant to live together. I think perhaps they should just live next door.
If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.