I am happily married mother of 3 adult offspring.

Ope, that was me. Forgot to click the not anonymous button.

I just want to say that create a truly good poll takes more work than 99% of people appreciate. It's harder than it looks.

This poll wasn't bad, but yeah -- you don't want to lump in widowed with "divorced/separated" nor do you really want to lump it in with those who have given up on finding a spouse, etc. Not if you want to do anything interesting or draw ANY useful conclusions with your data.

Mithrandylan is a young man -- apparently he doesn't give much thought to the end phase of life. He probably doesn't have many deceased or widowed friends either. Just saying. Which reminds me: about 90% of people have difficulty escaping their own subjective and personal biases -- i.e., difficulty placing themselves in others shoes, especially automatically or on a routine basis. That kind of objectivity is RARE in my experience. It is what it is.

Happily married father of 9 here.

I just want to say that create a truly good poll takes more work than 99% of people appreciate. It's harder than it looks.

This poll wasn't bad, but yeah -- you don't want to lump in widowed with "divorced/separated" nor do you really want to lump it in with those who have given up on finding a spouse, etc. Not if you want to do anything interesting or draw ANY useful conclusions with your data.

Mithrandylan is a young man -- apparently he doesn't give much thought to the end phase of life. He probably doesn't have many deceased or widowed friends either. Just saying. Which reminds me: about 90% of people have difficulty escaping their own subjective and personal biases -- i.e., difficulty placing themselves in others shoes, especially automatically or on a routine basis. That kind of objectivity is RARE in my experience. It is what it is.

Happily married father of 9 here.

Oh, thanks for adding the widowed option!

There isn't an option in the poll for my situation, but my situation may be a bit unusual. I'm happily married to a non-Catholic. Married for 42 years so far. My situation is far from ideal, but it's the situation that Our Lord has placed me in, so I make the best of it. 

Single, hermit-like Polish rooted bearly human male 
Tried in the places I could to fulfill a vocation within Traditional Catholicism. It got to the point where there was place subjectively to fulfill my vocation and my age and health further ruled out any possibility. I never had the calling to married life, and again after all the vocational forays were exhausted, age and health firmly closed that door.

I wish I could retire as a layman to a monastery or religious house and live out the remainder of my days as a lay apostle. 

Happily married for over 20 years!