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Originally Posted by lovespink88
That's horrible! If it makes you feel better, I just had a family friend ask me how I got into my school. He was being completely serious, too.  Not quite the same, but still a bit insulting sounding, even he didn't mean it that way... |
I'm in my mid-30s, have been dating my bf for 4 years, and get this all the time. My family staged a sort of "intervention" to see if I ever planned to get married to him--they had been talking about it behind my back and actually drew straws to see who would "confront" me about it! I'm usually perfectly content with my relationship with my bf, but then people tell me that we "should" be married by now, and then I get anxious. I hate it. But it's none of their business. I have plenty of friends who have kids and are divorced, and I am glad that I am not in that situation. I am the only one from my pledge class still not married, but I don't feel bad about it, so I don't know why anyone else should worry about it either.
PS: Lovespink88, don't listen to those idiots who are worked up about the admissions stuff--yes, that's a total aside from the purpose of this post, but the Trib is just trying to get readers and your degree is worth a lot!