I look at all my friends, with their families and partners - they all have at least one. What am I looking forwards to? I have no family to speak of. The days tick by where I've even less chance of having one of my own - I do still very much feel that my best childbearing years have been cruelly snatched away by the WAW. There don't seem to be any available persons which fit my criteria for a partner, and I'm not going to lower those standards. A lifetime of solitude. Can't wait.
Reality is that which, if you don't believe in it, doesn't go away.