27 is way to young to start worrying about not having "that person". I got married at 27 [she was 23] and it was one of the biggest mistakes
Ive ever made...lasted 8 years I wish I could have that time back.
Women have kids even into their early 40s now , so if that's a concern
you have plenty of time. A lot of relationships start when you least expect , so next time you see a man in the grocery store looking
helpless, go strike up a conversation and ask if he needs help. You just never know how or
when you might meet that special person.

I found that looking for the one and holding my breath under the weight of all that expectation has brought nothing but anxiety... i got married at 22 which was too young, i am still in love with her and always will be although we have been pulled and pushed in different directions.
I have been very lucky in my life and don't regret any of the time shared with any one of the people that i have loved and that have been generous enough to love me back.
it will come to you, and it will feel like nothing else. for now take what your great friends have got to give you and give your energy back to them, take pleasure in it and be generous.
love can come at you in the strangest of places or the most normal it can be a rush of intense newness and discovery and it can be a shelter built from something familiar than sneaks up on you.
I know that the harder you look and the more expectation you have the more disappointment you can face along the way - it will be different every time
x

You're both totally right and that is what makes it bother me more. I spent the bulk of my teens and twenties not worry about it or caring one way or the other about getting into a relationship... I was of the "well if it happens, cool, if it doesn't, also cool" mindset... but over the past year or two I've started to want that in my life and now that it's what I am looking for it's hard because so many people my age are getting married and the ones who aren't are largely in relationships and I'm starting to feel like maybe I should have put a little more effort into that part of my life than I used to. I'm beginning to regret my "meh" attitude toward dating for so many years.

It's getting to me because the years keep going by faster and faster and faster as time goes on... today I'm 27 but in the blink of an eye I'll be 28, 29, 30... 40... 50.....

I'm cool with still being single right now but I'm not cool with being alone in 5 years. I don't want that. I know it's stupid. I know it's not something I should worry too much about but I can't help it :(

It realy I sent stupid for thinking that way that you want that special person in there life .....that is somthing most people want ....but you have a beautifull child and to me you schould be enjoying your life just as it is with your child enjoy all the stepes of them growing up and the future will take care of its self ......sometimes if we try to hard for somthing we can miss it looking the wrong way ........having your child might be making you think more about having that mister right for your child ....but so long as your child has all your love and strength that's all they need ........and you do start thinking about these things when you start feeling your internal clock working .....it is natural ......if you are also depressed it can become a problem because the depreshion can make this feeling jump to way over what it schould be and so start taking over that is somthing you need to work on ......I. Find that living one day at a time realy works for me and it could help you to ......your time wasent wasted because you have a wounderfull child today you might not have had you lived your life differently .........I will keep you both in my prayers ......take care enjoy your child they. Grow up so fast ........ and don't mistake me I am not. Saying you do not enjoy your child I am just reminding you and telling you what I did .......I had two children and my husband left and I got very depressed untill I relised I needed to enjoy every littl bit of my children's life with them my husband never saw them ........I gave my cheldren all my love all I had to give ......and today they have family's of there Owen and are very happy ........and that man of my life he came a long ........so that is why I have told you what I have ...........I gess I am babbling ......god bless

Twenty seven is still very very young. And your feelings are completely valid. If it is meant to be so you will have that special someone in your life all in good time. I have some very special people in my life now and each one of them is someone I love and cherish. Today my wife of nearly twenty six years finally moved out. At one we both thouhgt of the other as "the one." But now things have changed. So we both are back to being single her in her late forties and me in my fifties. I have no doubt that if it is meant to be that someone will be there for her and maybe someone for me too. The world is full of precious and wonderful people . I truly hope that one of them is the person that fulfills your needs. I especially hope that you find each other really really soon. And when you do always always always treasure and cherish each other because the years can wear people down and they can grow apart. While others get to spend the rest of their lives together. I hope the latter is true for you. All the best to you.

...but you're NOT going to be 28,29,30,40,50 in the blink of an eye.. you'll just be 27yrs, 3mo+ a blink of the eye. You still live every minute to hour to day, etc. Jumping all those years thinking you're going to be just the same as you are this second is a tad unrealistic. I know you know this, I'm just saying learn to stay here and not try to see a bleak 30+ yrs from now. My worst year was 29 when I realized 'omg, I'm aging' and that was my one and only bad year. From that point on, I turned 30 and said to myself, "I'm pushing 35" at around 33 I started saying to myself, "I'm pushing 40. Why? cuz the year means nothing anymore, I already got to that age 10 yrs ago.. it's a breeeeeeeze. :o)

Maybe I'm nuts but it works to be nuts.