When you're single for ages, you start to lose your potential ?

I don’t think you lose your potential to meet someone, I think you just get set in your ways and it gets harder to find a way to fit someone into your lifestyle. Then you meet someone who seems like a fit... then they turn out to be a scumbag... so you decide to buy lots of cats And become a crazy cat lady. 

I admit. I'm so admittedly like that. I think I want to be like that. I've seen too many delinquent things and sayings about the potential downfall of relationships and it runs in my family. I don't care. You can't miss what you never had and besides a Chinese lady said Oh_____, you don't need no girlfriend. You got your marijuana. Another said don't get involved from a young age. And then I haven't grown up in glamor at all but reality. So! This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at March 14, 2020 5:59 PM MDT

If you work on fulfilling your own potential first,
then the potential for partnership will expand and forming a relationship with a beloved will become much easier.

There's a bit of a long story Eric Ericson told about one of his clients, a young man who was a virgin and who lacked confidence in forming relationships.
Ericson first got the young man to volunteer as a helper for an old woman, doing her gardening and shopping, and spending a bit of time chatting each week over a cup of tea. The goal was to see a woman as just another human being, to relax in conversation, and to focus more on her needs than his own.
He got the young man to do night school, gain job skills and get a good job (while continuing with the old woman.)
Then to learn a musical instrument, guitar, so he would have an interest that increased his social attractiveness.
Not long after that, the young man met a girl he fancied, became friends with her, and later became her boyfriend.

The drive to get married and have children does start to die off as you near the 30's for men who have not done so previously..  The old saying is you need to strike the Iron when it is hot.. Mens Iron is hot when they are 24- 28...  And they are most hot for woman from 18 to 22..