Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown. Some say our national pastime is baseball. Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries.
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo. Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club.