Does anyone ever get a relationship out of wanting one and sounding desperate?

Anything is possible I suppose, but any relationship that's usually worthwhile or lasting? I'd lean towards not very often. Both parties would probably have to feel the same way, but for a lot of people, being that way can be a turn off.

I have a good friend from college who married a man who's about 10 years older than her. They dated briefly for a year and not even seriously. She only saw him to have sex so that it would take her mind off her own loneliness. They have nothing in common, she doesn't find him physically attractive, he's a bit on the slow side, he recently went through a divorce (and never settled his baggage), he sucks in the bedroom, he's terrible at handling family finances, as well as a laundry list of other bad qualities. He is though very devoted to her and loves her dearly. With that said, she's confessed to him that she doesn't love him and she only married him out of fear of dying alone. I was on the phone with her when she told her husband this. That wasn't a fun thing to have gone through. Now she's seeing someone on the side. It was first a sexual S&M relationship (she's into stuff like that), but now this someone else has become a friend that she can actually have fun being out with. She's not interested in him as a life partner or anything like that but she sure does want to divorce her husband now... and she's pregnant with her husband child. My advice... don't do it.