All of these horror stories/sob stories make me feel fortunate.
Marrying/living with someone has never appealed to me. I'd love to have a wife for about 2 days a week. That's not gonna fly, so I've avoided all that. I've only dabbled in the fun first 4 months of a relationship, then let things fizzle and move on.
All the good, none of the bad.
Similarly, my love of children influenced my career, not personal life. I have no desire to have my own kids because I work with them every day....and get to send them home. One thing online teaching has revealed is how hectic/loud my students' homes are. And I assume that's pretty normal. I get to come home to a quiet apartment just how I left it, everyday. Any messes are my messes. I leave it messy for an hour or a week - and it only affects me. One thing I really hated about longer relationships has been my behaviors affecting someone I love in a negative way. I love-love-love that my faults or failures or laziness or shortcomings don't affect anyone as a single guy.
Any women I have spent quality time with in the past, I still have a net plus relationship with. One even spent a week in FL with me a few years after we broke up. She was a good one. If I had to get married, it'd be to her.