I was born and raised in WV (although my dad is from PA and we now live in PA) and no one in my family wants me to get married for a long time. All the women in my family had at least 1 kid by the time they were 20.

They all tell me to just wait because I will end up much happier. I just look at as it'll happen when it happens but I'd like to be married before I'm 23.

Monet, you're feelin me girl. ;)

I'm sorry if I offended you! I'm only 19 so anyone above 30 is old to me! I always just feel like whenever I say how old my parents are, my friends' parents are like 5 years younger than mine. I know the age for having kids is getting pushed back more and more.

Oh, dear.

Sweetheart,

30-something is when a woman reaches her prime in life. Everything becomes clearer... And if she's working, she has a little spending money--for that jet set trip to Frankfurt party or Paris shopping--with the cute young thang named "Hans" or "Pierre". She sometimes has a villa, chateau or NYC condo...

If she's not working and has been a housewife all this time, she now knows how to handle things and starts doing thangs--her kids are old enuf to take care of some thangs in the house. She goes to grad school and finish 3 degrees if she has to. And starts clockin' her own business...

Most 30 year old women just get started going on... By the time they are 40--it is on, lak hott budda popcone... And they know about the "spin move" for men... And aren't afraid to use it, with new Kama Sutra positions with sets of nine and hit several Tantric chakras--all at the same time...

A 19 to early 20-something is barely broken in... And if they are at that age, whew, they will look and feel 90 years old by the time they are 30... And these youngins barely know where's it at... Yeah, they look cute and all on a pedophiles arm because they can wear that teenie bopper stuh still, but they can't flash up in Cache's and make the new playboy, hustler honey or FCUK tees be a fashion statement at the same time...

And one thing you NEVER want to do is have your elder boyfriend around a 30-something year old woman in heat... Because that is the quickest way to lose him...

You can call us 30-somethings up in GC old... But gwirlfriend, we all can take your man, married or not, and leave y'all runnin' home cryin' to yo mama...

(I am not offended... Most of my students are your age and shocked when they figure out how old I am... Then the little boys start being fresh with me... Most of what I said is of course to make you laugh... I am just like that... I got jokes like that there...)

AKA_MONET IS AWESOME. :D

Damn, Damn, Damn. You sound like the 30 yr old that broke my ass in when I was 20.

Hey! Hey! AKA_Monet, hats off to you, Girl!

Girl, you are awesome.

DITTO!

Couldn't agree more!

I stand corrected.

Well, I think the difference is I (and many people I know) want to go to graduate school to solidify careers before they get married. Another 4 years of school and $150,000 of debt will take a while to get under control.

I can't believe the number of people around my age from my hometown who are getting married. Where I'm from, you reach a certain age--for girls, it's in their final couple years of college or just after graduation, for guys it's a little after that but only by a few years--the fashionable thing to do is get married. Well, I won't say fashionable...it's just what everyone does. And the kicker is, even if they went to school out of state, a large proportion end up marrying people from our hometown! Egads! I can't imagine that with all the people who are out there that they may have met at college, they have to come back and marry people they went to high school with. This only happens with the "upper classes," though, I guess you'd say...ones who don't belong to this group usually get married in high school or just after or not at all. I never really thought about it much, but the other day it hit me as I was looking through the local paper at my parents' house and saw how many of my classmates were listed in the bridal registries...it was insane. Thank God my parents don't ascribe to the idea that if I hit 25 and am still single, I'm an old maid--my mom has always told me to wait as long as I can, but if I do end up being crazy enough to get hitched I should wait until at least 27 or 28, preferably over 30. I'm loving that...no pressure for quite a few more years at least! :p

I went away to college and moved back home afterward. I live in one of the hugest cities in the world and I am currently interested in two guys from my hometown of a couple of thousand. I laugh at myself because I'm making all these changes in my life - moving out on my own, really settling into my career - and I'm into guys that remember me from kindergarden.