There are other reasons to be in a relationship, one of which (this is going to sound callous but it is in fact very true, just look around you) is that if you have a relationship whether or not you want kids, it shows employers, and others a situation that raises your importance level above the single employees, because there is potential child making, meaning a higher potential need for the job(protecting woman and child, with income), if you're single, and you have a co-worker of equal or lesser overall performance value to the company, and they have to lay one of you off, it'll be you looking for work.
I've been in love before, it fucked up my entire life, I don't suggest it as a reason to invest your life in anything, but it is a nice experience while it lasts.
As it is, I would love to be in a relationship with someone, for a handfull of valid reasons, stated below:
1. I Want to have someone with whome I can share my many adventures, and have fun with, and share life with on a deeper level than just friendship.
2. I tend to hate having a cold bed, and I find it hard to sleep restfully with an unfamiliar person in my presence.
3. I have herpes, and as such a relationship where my condition is a known quantity, and over and dealt with, saves me from having to go through like 30 women to get one night of "fun" during which my ego takes the beating of a lifetime, as most of those women treat me like some kind of leper, or some kind of freaky abomination, rather than like a person, with feelings, who happens to have been dealt a really shitty hand by life.
4. I suffer from a kind of depression, which ends up with me losing all hope in life if left alone for too long, and a lack of meaningful physical contact with others over the last 2 years has kinda put me in a position where I suffer from an automatic subconscious fear response when women so much as brush against me accidentally, causing muscle tension, and sudden mindbending levels of awkwardness.
5. Because I have a lot of love to give, and a lot of skill where the showing of love in different ways is concerned, and it takes time for me to get close enough to a woman to even be able to use said skills appropriately, and something about not using some of my most finely tuned abilities, and watching me get rustier and rustier, pisses me right the fuck off.
Those are in no particular order, but still, when it comes down to it, the longer I go without someone to be with, the more neurotic and broken I become, and it takes more and more effort even to relate to my friends on a normal level, whereas most if not all of my friends would tell you that I'm a great guy and have a wonderful personality, when I'm in a relationship, but tend to become an ambition devoid, emotionally crippled downer, if I'm single too long.
Cuz not only is it immensely hard to find a woman who fits with my personality, but finding one who fits my personality AND can get over the fact that I have an STD, is like finding a diamond in a porkchop, theoretically it could possibly happen, but it's not likely by any stretch of the imagination.
So yeah, right now, I'm in a really bad place psychologically, and I'm not getting any better, not like I'm going to kill myself or anything, well not actively, my subconscious is seemingly trying though, I'm suffering from insomnia and a massive loss of appetite... Still, no woman wants to be with a sad piece of worthless shit like me...