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No matter where you live and how hip of a crew you hang with, it will happen. You might think it won't but it will. Believe me. Not the social pressure per se, but everybody getting married and having kids and not being able to hang out.
Idk, I also have 3 cousins (late 30's) and 2 aunts (Late 40's) in my family who never got married or had kids-because they cohabitate.
Also my boyfriend has three sisters, all in their late 30's who cohabitate, don't want marriage or kids.
I think I just seek out like-minded people, in respect to relationships.
She twists! She wraps! She's trying to fit a square peg into a round hole!Sweetheart, your futile attempt at decimating me has failed. Regardless, I must applaud your paltry effort. Maybe next time.
I know this is a reply from a few pages ago.Just wanted to say if what you end up doing follows the info in my original post, it is not abandoning friends. It just may change the time spent with some.Honestly, a real "friend" does not demand or require any set amount of time. It is someone you could go days, months, or even years without seeing, and the day you do see them again is like any other day. There is no judgement, expectation of performance, or anything. It may help define who your real friends are, but it certainly is not abandonment of friends.
yep. no divorces in my circle...yet. but i see a few in not-so-distant future. yikes. agreed. i clearly need a new circle of friends, like, yesterday.
that sounds bad. hey, just find someone and marry that person. the cost/benefit analysis is in you guys' favour! get that piece of paper!
Yea, the cross generation dynamics are a lil different there.
IME, baby boomers way of life was to become an adult, get a career and a s/o, and start a family.
Of course not all did such, but I bet a healthy adult single past 30 had whispers and gossip about them.
I could be wrong, but it just seems that getting married was just 'something people did'. And not to make it trivial, but the average marrying age is certainly much higher now compared to even the 70's.
I though it was 32-33ish, but i noticed someone on CD the other day put 28, which I believe is wrong... but maybe that is an average age for 1st time marriages? hahah, yikes!
No matter where you live and how hip of a crew you hang with, it will happen. You might think it won't but it will. Believe me. Not the social pressure per se, but everybody getting married and having kids and not being able to hang out.
Oh...no. Your southern platitude isn't lost on me. I reiterate: Maybe next time. By next time I mean in the distant future, battle of the last word notwithstanding.
A lot of this can depend on where you live. I used to live in a very socially conservative nearly all Catholic mid-size city in the Midwest and if you were not married after about the age of 25 a lot of people would think you were gay or that something was really wrong with you like serious mental illness.
Here in South Florida it's way different, it's perfectly acceptable to be single & happy, and almost no one will question whether you're gay or have some sort of personality disorder.
their is indeed tremendous social pressure to be paired up , Ive found myself being left out of things as ive gotten older for the crime of being single , I think its worse for guys , a bunch of women can still get together and do things in groups into their forties , bar playing football etc , guys cant really im considering pairing up with someone im not even attracted to , shes definatley into me enough , shes overweight and plain but at least I can have someone on my arm at the next ball
What? Worse for women? Groups of men do lots together, go to strip clubs, bars, play pool, golf, football, camping, fishing.Bachelor vs. spinster.player vs. wh oreI'm not sure where y'all live that your under so much pressure to marry or pair up. I live in the middle of the bible belt and I hear more encouragement on NOT marrying.Bless your hearts.
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