" Certainly, affairs should not even be thought of before you are thirty. Once you have reached this age, if you will not hurt any third person and can take all that you will have to take - take it silently, with dignity, with a little humor, and without any weeping or wailing or gnashing of teeth - perhaps the experience will be worth it to you. Or perhaps not.

The sad truth is that whatever you decide, you'll think you regret it. You'll hate the shabby end of romance, and you'll detest missing it altogether. "

― , Live Alone and Like It