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I agree with you. Many women I know in their 20's and 30's feel they have to "have a good time, stay single and just have fun." While this may be fine for some, the majority I know end up miserable because before they know it they are in their late 30's, still single, childless and having a hard time finding a husband.

Good point. Another odd point, all of my college friends have gone unmarried(we're all between 24-27.) There's always SOMETHING wrong with our relationships that leads to their dissolution. However, my cousins(both of whom dropped out of HS but got their GEDs) are both married with children despite being younger than me. I think going to college nowadays delays other life events by 5-10 years. Sure, I'd rather have gone to school than dropped out of HS, but I'd like to have a family too.

I'm currently in a relationship with a college girl, and despite being focused on finishing, she doesn't want to wait until she's 30 to get married. Will it work out? I dont know, but she's far more trustworthy than most women out there and at least she isn't talking about waiting forever and definitely not about "having fun," a euphemism for having sex with different guys/girls.

I feel kinda sad for my friends and I because we're all in our mid-20s and aren't even CLOSE to being married(except one.)

That was me. I was having a great time and would argue that I was going to be the "Cat Lady" on the block. Baking cookies for the kids and rollerblading with a long gray braid. You know, the crazy old woman on the corner with 100 cats that all the kids call "Aunt".
I was blessed with meeting my husband at work. That is rare at 34. We have two wonderful daughters. My husband had a long relationship with a young chick who was shallow and left him because he was "boring". I would like to find her and shake her hand. She gave me, what I thought I didn't want, a great, stable husband and two beautiful daughters.

Nothing worse that hitting that 50th birthday and realizing that career was not worth it.

having a hard time finding a husband

Maybe they should put their compacts (or whatever the hell it is they keep their blush in) away for a few minutes, stop gazing into their own reflections and stop being all around snobs to men who merely say "Hello" to them in public, and they'd solve that problem. The other day I had the 'audacity' to say "Hello" to a vaguely attractive woman in her late 20's who sat down beside me at the pub, purely innocent as well, as I myself am attached. Well, she just looked at me like I was a lunatic and/or a leper (and I'm not a bad looking guy if I do say so myself, at least my wife thinks I'm decent enough). That look she gave me said it all, "How dare you say anything to me, you're not fit to shine my shoes". Women really have to drop the attitude, and I think with women in their late 20's, it is really important, but unfortunately, they're still geared into what was mentioned in the article - that in their early 20's they are fawned allover by men of all demographics. Problem is, as they reach that 30 someting plateau, they've lost the lustre/sheen yet retained the bad attitude traits of a younger, snobbier, girl with the mindset of "I can have any man I want". It's pretty sad, but I think it's a reflection on popular culture. This trait seems to be more of a western world trait in women.