Well, I think I might have almost the best of both worlds! I live alone, and my cycling pack consists mostly of men. They are very women-friendly and married or partnered. One designs human powered vehicles of many sorts--particularly recumbents and trikes, some of them are just so, well, darned cute, and another fixes cars, another is in medicine, another writes--so it is kind of like having a multiple personality boyfriend. And, I never worry about something going wrong with my bike on a ride. They have been just a wealth of information for someone who has not been riding that long. A bunch of us are riding a century this weekend and I have gotten a lot of good training rides and advice. I am so content living alone that sometimes I think I should want a partner, but wonder how much I really do, hmm.