If you're not married by 28 ....

[Margie J]

What do you think about this (reported on Compuserve):


If You're Not Married by 28 It Means...

...you're an old maid! That's the word from a new survey from Lenox, the china company. They found that 78 percent of Americans think a woman should be married by age 28 or it's just too late. Men get a break. Just 66 percent of Americans think men should say "I do" by that age.

Wireless Flash reports that 28 percent of Americans think guys should hit 29 before settling down, but only 14 percent think a woman should wait that long.

And senior citizens really do have some old-fashioned ideas about the best age for matrimony. According to the Lenox survey, 27 percent of seniors believe a woman should be wed by age 23, but only 15 percent of the general population feels that way. (No word on how your mother voted in this survey.)




Guess it's WAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY over for me if I believe this.

 

[DukeStreetKing]

Nah, "older" single women are sexier than younger married women. They have more real life experience, probably have their stuff together and know what they want and how to get it. Confidence gained through age is very sexy.

 

[goin2disneyagain]

Originally posted by Margie J
Guess it's WAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY over for me if I believe this.

Me too. However, I don't believe that way.

 

[Disney Princess 6]

I know a lot of women who aren't married at 28...or 30...or even older. My SIL is 32 and unmarried. Now, having said that, she'd like to be coupled but just hasn't met the right person. If it's meant to be, it will happen. The time will come.

 

[disykat]

I got married at 29. When I was single, I shared a house with several other women. We had a joke that you became official old maids at age 25. It started when I was moving in with them (they were 25 and 26, I was 24) and an older gentleman in our church said "oh, I hear you're moving in with the old maids".

He said it to get a reaction and he did - but we thought it was funny. When I turned 25 they threw a big party and everyone brought appropriate old maid gifts. I think because we just made it official early, it wasn't so touchy for me.

My sister is 44 and unmarried, I would never call her an "old maid". I think the term is terribly outdated and is only used now as a joke. I also think she will probably marry one day - when she meets the right person.

Lenox just wants to do anything to encourage people to marry young and maybe even often! They have a vested interest.

 

[Pop Daddy]

I will be the judge as to who has it going on and who is an old maid, pics

 

[Toby'sFriend]

I think Lenox is pissed that all your 2nd cousins haven't bought those Wedding Gift place settings yet.

:lol:

 

[WDWAurora]

Haha My grandparents sure weren't two of those seniors! While my dad's mom loves DBF, my mom's parents haven't "gotten" the fact that our engagement, and thus, marriage, are iminent. I'm 22 now, and will probably be married right around my 23rd birthday. I think they still operate under the assumption that I'm 6 years old however...Oh well. They'll get over it. They don't like me living alone anyway, so maybe they'll like me having a big strong man to protect me after the marriage.

 

[Pugdog007]

Hogwash they're just trying to sell china.

 

[Bellamia4]

I thought the rule was "by 30". I squeeked by at 29.5 years of age.

 

[olena]

Lenox is such an authority on the subject.

 

[UncleKyle]

Originally posted by Pop Daddy
I will be the judge as to who has it going on and who is an old maid, pics

I'd like to be included on this panel as well.


FYI, I always make 28 the age to go to my backups. I have 3 of them, and currently they are all single so at 28 my life might become complicated.

 

[Amberle3]

DFi says "Them's fightin words!"

I'm currently 35, he's 36 and we're getting married next summer. First marriage for both of us.

Of course age is such a relative thing... when I was a kid a friend and I were followed a bit by a guy in a car. It really spooked us, apparently enough that we went running to her place and her mother called the police. I remember being questioned by the officer about the guy in the car and asked how old he was. I said "middle aged". She asked how old that was, and I said 30!

 

[goofygirl]

I guess that makes me a CURRENT old lady with lots of cats!

 

[poohkinandpiglet]

I got married three weeks before I turned 30. My husband and I joke that I "barely escaped being an old maid".

 

[MScott1851]

Marrying a "backup" isn't so bad, UncleKyle...

Just ask my DH....I am pretty sure that at one point in time he regarded me as his "just-in-case" but I managed to sucker him in.

 

[JayCT]

Among professional people in the Northeast, I think the trend is wait to marry and have kids until your careers are established. I have noticed that there are a LOT of older parents around our town, including DW and myself.

If you go to the small towns of the midwest, I think you will find that 28 is the cutoff. I have friend that lives in the midwest who is 47 with two 10 year olds. People where she lives think she is old to have 10 year olds, and they only think she 37. She tells her children to never ever tell anyoone her real age because it would really cause a stir among the PTO crowd.

 

[shortbun]

married at 34, parent at 42. no biggie.
Of my high school friends, no one married before finishing
college. One married for the first time, 2 years ago after
turning 49. Another has never married at 50 and still keeping
their options open. We were all partiers and probably qualified
for Peter Pan awards. Marrying seemed so final when we were
having sooooo much fun.

 

[Serena]

Well, I was married before I turned 28. Now I'm back to being single.
Old Maid? Ha!

 

[minniepumpernickel]

Wow, what a way to start my day!

I think I need to get some cats too.