I wrote this long entry, unfortunately someone switched my PC off and it was lost. Oh well. I didn#t see live 8 as i was at a wedding. spoke to the groom and asked him about single men there and he said none as he got married so late in life. The groom is the same age as me.
I am trying not to be despondant and remind myself that i am a nice person and that it is possible for people to get married for the first time who are not in the their twenties.
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The average age for first marriages in England and Wales in 2003 was 29 for women and 31 for men, compared with 23 and 26 respectively 40 years earlier. However, only 59 per cent of all marriages were to first-time brides and grooms … In 2003, the mean age of women having their first birth was 26.9 years. This was a rise of 3.2 years from 1971. Around one in five women currently reaching the end of their fertile life are childless. This compares to one in ten women born in the mid-1940s. (http://www.statistics.gov.uk).
That was 2003, marriage age has gone up even since then. I know LOTS of people who have got married in their 30s or later (for first time) just cos they had independent, interesting lifestyles that they didnt have to plug by getting married or doing the expected. I think you live your life very positively, you are constantly learning & trying new things, you bravely go out on your own to face things. I do not see why marrying the first person who asks to get stuck in a lifeless, miserable, dull existence would be preferable! Really it wouldnt. I got married at 31 and am now in the throes of a divorce. I am happier now than when married. My life is fuller. Smallkat, carry on with the challenges and experiences you set yourself and see your life as fulfilled already by YOU. It is certainly how it appears from the outside.
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