So my best friend from childhood just got engaged...

[ziggystardust]

and while I'm incredibly happy for her, she's ecstatic, I just can't believe it. I can't believe my friends are at the marrying age, its so weird to me and I'm 25! why do I think its so weird? Why do I feel that 25 is just super young to get married? Whats wrong with me?

 

[andromedaslove]

I am not really sure why you think 25 is super young to get married, my husband and I were married 5 years ago, and I was 22. We had our first child that same year. If it makes you feel better though, we have tons of friends that still aren't married and are almost 30.

 

[kpm76]

I understand what you mean. I am almost 30 and sometimes I think "OMG, I'm married!" I certainly don't think this is a bad way (love DH more than anything) but it amazes me that I am old enough to be married....lol. I think 25 is on the young side but everyone is different and ready for marriage at different points. None of my friends married before their late 20's. I think alot depends on if you go to college, grad school and focus on a career before "settling down" which is what we all did.

 

[ziggystardust]

I am not really sure why you think 25 is super young to get married, my husband and I were married 5 years ago, and I was 22.

No I know it isn't super young at all, but I guess for myself I feel like it is. I have other friends (not as close) that were married at 21 and they're still going strong and I'm so happy for them but what I was trying to say is that I just can't imagine being married right now and I have a great guy in my life, one that I plan on marrying. Thats why I was asking what was wrong with me.

Oh and Congrats on 5 yrs!

 

[TexasCourt]

Quote: kpm76 "I think alot depends on if you go to college, grad school and focus on a career before "settling down" which is what we all did."


I have to disagree with this statement. My fiance and I are graduating with our master's this May, I am 23, he is 24. He has already signed onto a company, and I have 1 more year of schooling left to get a second degree (a BSN) through an accelerated program. We plan on getting married next May 2007, when I am 24, and he is 25, and we will both have our undergrads, grad degrees, and careers into play. This also goes for many of my friends that I know.

 

[mtemm]

I remember when one of my best friends from high school got married when we were 23...she was the first and I remember being shocked and feeling so old. then a friend of mine who was around 30 laughed at me and said, nope, you don't feel old until your friends start getting divorced. lol.

congrats to your friend! all I can say is and so it begins.

 

[WDWAurora]

Quote: kpm76 "I think alot depends on if you go to college, grad school and focus on a career before "settling down" which is what we all did."


I have to disagree with this statement. My fiance and I are graduating with our master's this May, I am 23, he is 24. He has already signed onto a company, and I have 1 more year of schooling left to get a second degree (a BSN) through an accelerated program. We plan on getting married next May 2007, when I am 24, and he is 25, and we will both have our undergrads, grad degrees, and careers into play. This also goes for many of my friends that I know.

I'm right there with you. We got married at 23 (he was about to turn 24 and I had just turned 23), but he had been working for 2 years after graduating college and I had graduated undergrad and had one year of grad school down. He finished college in 3 years, I finished in 4, and we dated since halfway through our first year. We didn't exactly rush into it, but we were/are young by conventional standards. I certainly think we have everything in order though and were fully prepared before we got married.

 

[sajetto]

I'm another one that agrees that it makes no difference college educated or not. My DF and I are getting married in Jan at ages 22 and 26.

I'll be finished with my Masters and he graduated with his in 2002. We just bought our home, are stable emotionally and financially, and are MORE than ready to be a married couple.

 

[canwegosoon]

You are just not ready(may be there's things you want to do first), and she is...no big deal. When the time is right, the time is right. I got married at 30...and have 2 great kids.