I am 26 and not ready to settle down, am I behind in life?

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Most men on earth do it. They tend to be less suicidal than other men.

Most marriages end in divorce too
Frequency of sex also plummets when people get married
Let me ignore that and get married because everyone else does it though

This "everyone else" does it reasoning is compelling :ohhh:
 

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a wise old man once told me: "you're 22 years old thinking about marriage and babies... listen, fukk all that and enjoy your life to the fullest. once you're older (35-40+) and more established, then you can think about all that. for now live your life, young buck".

he's right.
 

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Right so I'm going to tell you guys a true story. I was once a woman 21, 22, 23, 24 25... I had girlfriends that age too. We never dated guys that age. Ever!

You guys need to let go of this idea that very young women want you as much as you want them. I didn't, they won't. I suggest he start getting serious in his late 20s because he will need a few years to get to know the woman enough to marry and then have children.
Just because you and your friends didn't doesn't mean other women won't. And goes for a lot of things :shaq:

Late 20s is probably a good time to start getting serious. Though I think a man is OK into his early 30s. Basically I think a man has room to start having kids in his late 30s/early 40s at the latest, which is plenty of time.
 

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"However, about 40 to 50 percent of married couples in the United States divorce. The divorce rate for subsequent marriages is even higher."

:manny: about half, which are shytty odds to get into something I don't want or need
:blessed:

We've all heard that 50 percent of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce.

And while that disheartening stat continues to get tossed around, the divorce rate isn't really at 50 percent -- and it isn't rising either. In fact, a new piece in the New York Times' data blog Upshot suggests that the divorce rate has actually been dropping for some time now. Looking at the numbers, the Times suggests the high divorce rate of the late 1970s and early 1980s may have just been a "historical anomaly," rather than a trend.

Below, a few of the most interesting tidbits from the Times:

  • The feminist movement of the 1970s played a considerable role in where the divorce rate is now, according to economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfer. As women entered the work force and gained reproductive rights, marriage began to evolve into its "modern-day form, based on love and shared passions, and often two incomes and shared housekeeping duties."
  • The fact that people are marrying later in life, resulting in more mature marriages, has helped matters, too. The median age for marriage in the 1950s was 23 for men and 20 for women. In 2004, it rose to 27 for men and 26 for women.
  • If numbers continue to go down, roughly two-thirds of marriages will never involve divorce, according to data from Wolfers.
For more on why the divorce rate is on the decline, including an infographic illustrating the dip, head over to The New York Times.
 

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That's pretty normal in this day & age. :yeshrug:

sometimes i wonder how much experience thecoli has with women

Little to none.

There's so many virgins on the Coli, it's crazy.

:wtf:

Then you got old man @Art Barr who fukked tons of hoes his whole life and is still single.
:old:


And all the guys in JBO & TLR who smash hookers & hoes.

:snoop:

There's maybe a handful of men on this site who know how to deal with women. The rest are sexually frustrated.

:manny:
 

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I'm 31 and I have legit NO desire to get married or have kids. Why do I want to slow my life down and limit my freedom for them? :mjlol:

Plus I look at all my friends who got married and had kids...most are miserable, fat, balding, out of shape with a beer gut, looking ten years older than they actually are, and genuinely unhappy. Plus kids annoy the fukk out of me...especially other people's kids.

I got money, my own business, looking at touring with my music, a successful web blog, clothing line, and looking into more and more and more...fukk that...I'm happy with my own life now. It took ten years to get to this point. fukk settling down... :camby:

Plus I got my looks, and top of the line physique

:blessed:

*feelings will be caught by this post*
*don't care*
 

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We've all heard that 50 percent of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce.

And while that disheartening stat continues to get tossed around, the divorce rate isn't really at 50 percent -- and it isn't rising either. In fact, a new piece in the New York Times' data blog Upshot suggests that the divorce rate has actually been dropping for some time now. Looking at the numbers, the Times suggests the high divorce rate of the late 1970s and early 1980s may have just been a "historical anomaly," rather than a trend.

Below, a few of the most interesting tidbits from the Times:

  • The feminist movement of the 1970s played a considerable role in where the divorce rate is now, according to economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfer. As women entered the work force and gained reproductive rights, marriage began to evolve into its "modern-day form, based on love and shared passions, and often two incomes and shared housekeeping duties."
  • The fact that people are marrying later in life, resulting in more mature marriages, has helped matters, too. The median age for marriage in the 1950s was 23 for men and 20 for women. In 2004, it rose to 27 for men and 26 for women.
  • If numbers continue to go down, roughly two-thirds of marriages will never involve divorce, according to data from Wolfers.
For more on why the divorce rate is on the decline, including an infographic illustrating the dip, head over to The New York Times.

Divorce rates could be 0% I still wouldn't wana get married lol who gives a shyt
Flabby ass lifestyle :camby:
 

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That's pretty normal in this day & age. :yeshrug:



Little to none.

There's so many virgins on the Coli, it's crazy.

:wtf:

Then you got old man @Art Barr who fukked tons of hoes his whole life and is still single.
:old:


And all the guys in JBO & TLR who smash hookers & hoes.

:snoop:

There's maybe a handful of men on this site who know how to deal with women. The rest are sexually frustrated.

:manny:
to think everything is just going to fall into place when your'e 35 is insane
 

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Most marriages end in divorce too
Frequency of sex also plummets when people get married
Let me ignore that and get married because everyone else does it though

This "everyone else" does it reasoning is compelling :ohhh:

Most marriages don't end in divorce. There are some couplings that have a higher rate of divorce than others.

Young people
Poor people
Non black women married to black men
Anyone married to a white woman...

The frequency of sex doesn't plumment when you get married but obviously relationships change ie you got kids, you get older etc.

You erroneously assume single people have lots of sex. Being on the coli should have told you these nikkas ain't married and still got ashy balls.

Didn't say you should get married because everyone else does but most men do and they aren't killing themselves. Actually their quality of life tends to be a lot higher than single men. If you're a black man your life is 1,000,000 times better if you are married. Do your homework bro.
 
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