Parents won't quit bugging me about dating/getting married?

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I still don't have even the inklings of a kid at age 55.

My mother says it's not too late, though LOL

One of the things that really bugs me is how he's all but guaranteeing I'll get married someday. "Just about everyone does, Adam," he keeps telling me. The idea that I might be one of the ones who doesn't seems completely lost on him. It's like, he's making promises on something he has absolutely no authority or ability to keep. Do I want someone to love me? Absolutely. I practically obsess about it sometimes. but I know there's too many things wrong with me for any woman with any sort of standards to accept me as the one they'll spend the rest of their lives with. Why isn't my dad able to see that? I don't like talking bad about him, but he's got absolutely no problem pointing out all my other flaws and things I do wrong, so why is it thing one particular thing that he suddenly becomes my own personal cheerleader?

And for the record, my brother (technically half brother) adopted six culturally diverse kids before having one of his own. But he also lives in Florida, and we live in Arkansas, so he's lucky to get to see them every other year.

He also makes six figures teaching as a professor at a university, runs a foster care agency in his spare time, plays in a band, his wife could pass as a supermodel, and he himself looks like a male model. I think I definitely got the short end of the stick in the "cool" genes

I think he's just trying to reassure you and make you feel better.

Indeed, just about everyone does, which means everyone does except those who don’t.

My parents have never bothered me about this. They just want me to be happy doing what I want and not what they want.

With me being 33 and childfree (not the same as childless), almost my entire family has given up on asking me about marriage/children, let alone convincing me to actually go through with that. The only family member who still does this is my grandmother. Her heart is in the right place, but man oh man, she goes about it totally the wrong way! Every single time.

For instance, she talks about the "beauty of love", while telling me that in a long-term relationship, my interest don't matter at all (!), only "feelings" matter. Which effectively scares me out of ever entering a romantic relationship of any kind. After all, why would I be dumb enough to engage in something where I'll be subhuman? I tried to explain that to her, but as an elderly person deeply set in her ways, she didn't understand what I was talking about.

Needless to say, with "beauty of love" like that, my single lifestyle seems even more desirable in comparison.

When he is telling you you are going to get married eventually because everyone does - don't fight it. The more you fight it now, the more you will feel like you were in the wrong if it actually happens and the more your dad's happy face will hurt.
I was like "I will never get a boyfriend or girlfriend because I don't want one" when I was 18 and "It's impossible for me to get a boyfriend nor girlfriend" when I was 23. Currently I am like "I will get a boyfriend or girlfriend if I happen to met a right person" and I am not dealing very well with the fact I was wrong when I was 18 and I actually dated a guy before and tried to date a girl and introducing them to my father was embarrassing like hell because of his "I knew it" attitude.

Lost Cause Dept.: My mother lived to be 89yo. When we went through her things, we found, in the middle drawer of her dresser, on the left, on top, my First Communion veil. She once said that she was keeping it for me to wear at my wedding. I never married.

Non of my family or friends think I'm good enough for women.so ie ever experienced this. At least they think you should be able to find someone and want you to.