My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My parents got married when I was 12.
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
Somehow, I always knew I would get married by the time I was 27. Even in college, I had this weird thing in my head that I would get married when I was 27, and hopefully my career would be stable, and I'll have kids by 30. And that's exactly what has happened.
I didn't get married until I was 38.
It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
I always wanted children late; I had my first daughter at 39 and the second at 45.
I wasn't going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.
I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.
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