Seniors read the obituaries with a great deal of interest, as they are sadly getting to the age when everyone they know is passing away.
Twenty and thirty-somethings read the wedding announcements so they can count the people they know, or once knew, that are getting married.
When you're single in your late 20s and early 30s you can usually count, with one hand, the number of friends you have who are still single.
When you are in your late 30s and early 40s, you may likely be able to count, with both hands, the number of friends you have that are divorced.
Perhaps this is because people get married too quickly. And maybe, subconsciously, they do it for the sake of getting married. They overlook a person's problem qualities because they want them to be Mr. or Mrs. Right.
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Having rushed into a marriage when I was young your points are pretty accurate, DL. I had moved to a new area, felt alone and was questioning if I'd ever meet "the one"; so I settled. It took me almost 7 year to rectify that mistake. There's more to it than that, but it was almost a marriage of convience.
Live and learn. Right?
The more we live, the more we know what we want and what we don't want.
Most of the people I know are in their late 20s & early 30s and very few are married. We're starting to think that Gen X is the Non-Marriage Gen.
The Mad Dater,
"Because there's a Bastard in all of us"
It seems, tho, that the born-in-80s kids are more keenly getting married again, or maybe just in a super complacent city like Regina that's the case.
Just because people aren't getting married, doesn't mean they don't want to... don't let career-focus fool you.
It is better to be with no-one than to be with the wrong person, but it is better to be with the right person than it is to be with no-one.
But Coatman sometimes we try so hard to make the wrong person into the right person.
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