can I retire?

Thursday night, I'm at B&N with my knitting group, and the group leader announces that she's retiring from dating. I didn't know you could do that. I told her I'd say the same, but I figure I'd have to actually be dating to say I was retiring from it. She's much younger than me, but is about to enter grad school, so she says it's not worth her time. Yeah, I hear that.