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Can you give me reasons why you should get married before 30?
A woman's fertility drops off after she turns 28. If you don't get married until 30, you
may not start trying to have kids until it is hard for you to do so.
I read about women having kids at 40 or 45.
Most of them used fertility treatment, and that costs as much as a car if not a mortgage.
There are women who have kids before they get married.
Then their odds of divorce are much higher, whether they marry the biological father or
someone else. Or they have kids and end up being a fiancé for the rest of their lives.
*That’s a staple of Jerry Springer, the woman with four kids and her fiancé. What's
another reason to get married before 30?
Waiting until you are 30 to consider marriage means you miss out on your best prospects.
You make it sound like a game of musical chairs.
You are most likely to marry someone you are dating, are friends with or know in your 20s.
I've heard that your 20s are like the new teens.
That's coming from a generation that once said never trust anyone over 30. You're an
adult at 21, able to do everything dangerous from buying a gun to renting a car.
I don't put those things in the same category.
If you meet someone you want to marry and refuse to finalize it for years, they may
assume the delay is actually a refusal to admit you don't want to commit. Then you lose
the partner because you won't make it legal.
I don't want to rush into marriage.
You shouldn't marry a guy after dating a few weeks. After 12 to 18 months, you should know.
An extended courtship gives you more time to get to know someone.
If you spend several years in a courtship, you get set in your own lifestyles, making
it harder to merge lives. Get married now, and just put off major commitments.
Like kids.