Single ladies, how do you respond to "why aren't you married yet?"

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Originally Posted by ThetaDancer

A friend of my parents (whom I never really liked, but he's friends with the family and has kids around our age so we all sort of grew up together...) told me the other day that I'm "approaching old maid status." I'm 25 and just ended a significant relationship, so it was especially inappropriate timing

Something to think about:

Whether 25 is considered an "old maid" depends alot on the context of the place where you live, and the cultural context of the people who are calling you one.

Example: Whenever I visit my family in rural Alabama, I get similar types of comments (I'm 24 and an M.Ed. student). But I have to understand that where they are from, the girls typically marry immediately following HS. They also typically go straight to work or something, so there is no real need to delay marriage or a family for things like college and careers. So they see no need for a girl to be over 18 or 19 and single.