This is tough. I'm 43 and have never been married and am extremely lonely. My whole adult life, any time I met a woman I was interested in, she'd be either already married or have a boyfriend or something. It's hard to believe single women exist :)

This is tough. I'm 43 and have never been married and am extremely lonely. My whole adult life, any time I met a woman I was interested in, she'd be either already married or have a boyfriend or something. It's hard to believe single women exist :)

Not too many single women in the 35 to 45 age range unless they are widowed or divorced.  

I wrote it wrong...

St. John Chrysostom:

"The road to hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lampposts that light the path."

That doesn't prove the married state is safer. Hell is full of people from every state of life.

The religious state is the safest because it provides the most protections and graces. Fr. Lasance, in Catholic Girl's Guide, describes the religious state as "the shortest, most direct way to heaven"; virginity in the world as "lead[ing] to the same bright, eternal goal, by a slightly circuitous route"; and marriage as a "road lead[ing] away to the left, into a hilly region".

I know a traditional Catholic woman who is 39 and unmarried and in a similar boat as you.  Any respectable men just never asked her out.

Are you considering that marriage is your vocation?  In what state do you live? 

I'm in north Idaho, near Coeur d'Alene. I'd definitely like to be married and don't see how anything else could be my vocation at this point.

No, she's not in a "similar boat". She's a woman. The OP is a man.

Lol..  I said similar not not same boat...  

I'm in north Idaho, near Coeur d'Alene. I'd definitely like to be married and don't see how anything else could be my vocation at this point.

Are you interested in a long distance courtship?  I can ask the woman I know if she might be interested in at least talking to you.

Are you resistance, sedevacantist, SSPX or independent? 

Everyone has a distinct vocation according to St. Thomas Aquinas. 

Sure, virginity, religious life, and the priesthood are the highest and the safest path to Heaven. But they have their loneliness and burdens; such consecrated persons give up having a marriage partner to embrace and for you to be embraced from; they give up having children…who wouldn’t want to witness their children receiving their First Communion? Walking your daughter down the aisle? The gatherings of family life? Priests and religious have given it all up, not because they are selfish- but because for a Higher Good… for His Love. 

Trials come with marriage too. There is no such thing as “happily ever after.” Marriage is not some fairytale. It’s responsibility, the raising and rearing of children, the commitment towards your spouse and children- and yes, even more commitment when your spouse commits adultery. There’s the souls of your children going astray, even some children fall into Hell. Married people have tribulation of the flesh, but even more so, they STILL have to practice chastity. We all have to practice chastity according to our state in life. 

God does not call everyone to the same thing. If it’s His Will that two people marry, then they will grow in holiness. If St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s parents never married, she would have never been born.