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Old 12-20-2010, 08:02 PM
 
Location: Middle America
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You can, of course, still have a family, fertility notwithstanding.

I work with a family with FIVE adopted children, four of whom they fostered first, and one of whom they adopted at birth.
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Old 12-20-2010, 08:06 PM
 
Location: U.S.A.
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Yeah I have been feeling really depresed about it. Seems like I never thought ahead of 6 months when I was in my 20s, and now reality hit when I became 30. Even my family is talking like I will be single for life. I feel like I wasted my 20s and am really behind the 8 ball now. It sucks!
Man 30 changed everything...I totally feel you.

I never worried about relationships in the past so much as were they enjoyable or not, now I'm all like "oh, well, is this guy marriage material n sh*t..." uhhhg!
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Old 12-20-2010, 08:12 PM
 
Location: Marion, IA
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Marrigage material. I think that is more of a problem for guys IMO. It's impossible to find a decent, drug free, single woman +/- 4 years of me. All the good ones were snatched up by 25 years old.
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Old 12-20-2010, 08:15 PM
 
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Everybody will have a different answer, but I'm wondering when you are too old for it to be practical? I'm almost 31 and feel like it's too late. Everyone I know is having kids and some have 10 year olds which makes me feel like I missed out.
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No it's not too late at all, In fact most people don't even start settling down until they are in their 30's! Cheer up. Especially since you are a guy you have time. Women tend to have more risks after 35 but I've heard of women having babies into their 40's.
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Old 12-20-2010, 08:16 PM
 
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Everybody will have a different answer, but I'm wondering when you are too old for it to be practical? I'm almost 31 and feel like it's too late. Everyone I know is having kids and some have 10 year olds which makes me feel like I missed out.
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Huh?? Yeesh. I wouldn't even consider it before 30. You have PLENTY of time.
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Old 12-20-2010, 08:18 PM
 
Location: Eastern Washington
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Everybody will have a different answer, but I'm wondering when you are too old for it to be practical? I'm almost 31 and feel like it's too late. Everyone I know is having kids and some have 10 year olds which makes me feel like I missed out.
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"Everybody I know is doing it" - wow, that's a GREAT reason for you to do it too!

Flash - have a family if YOU want to. If YOU don't want to, that's an equally valid choice.

Parents "pressuring" you for grandkids? Growl at them like Belker in "Hill Street Blues". That's how you answer that...
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Old 12-20-2010, 08:19 PM
 
Location: Up above the world so high!
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Huh?? Yeesh. I wouldn't even consider it before 30. You have PLENTY of time.
All but one of us have told him that, yet he chooses to repsond only to the one guy who's also feeling sorry for himself - go figure
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Old 12-20-2010, 08:23 PM
 
Location: U.S.A.
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All but one of us have told him that, yet he chooses to repsond only to the one guy who's also feeling sorry for himself - go figure

Hey I'm a lady! And I said I was between a mix of relief and depression!
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Old 12-20-2010, 08:25 PM
 
Location: Denver
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I don't know. I'm almost 30, but I still haven't given up on the idea of having a kid.
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Old 12-20-2010, 08:26 PM
 
Location: Up above the world so high!
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Hey I'm a lady! And I said I was between a mix of relief and depression!

hahahahaha - I stand corrected, sorry!
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