It's official: Gen Z are not delaying marriage til 30s anymore, young weddings are cool again

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Anonymous wrote:DD and her boyfriend are 23, and he just proposed to her on Valentine's day. They've lived together for more than a year and love each other so much. I was 24 when she was born, and his parents met in college and married shortly after graduation.

My friend's 24 y.o. DD is about to marry her boyfriend of the same age in a few months.

You are low ses people.

If you say so. We (and our friends with a 24 y.o. DD) are well educated and live in McLean. I traveled to 12 countries last year (including France, Japan, and India): became an empty nester at 44.

Missionary trips?

Yeah, saving the Japanese and French from poverty, to ensure that they don't marry at 23 like DD.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Two UMich senior student-athletes just got engaged.

Fake news. Young people at elite colleges don’t get engaged until they’re 35 years old.

— DCUM shrews

Newsflash UMich isn't elite

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Anonymous wrote:People here don't seem to understand the meaning of anecdotes, data, and sample size.

For as highly educated an area as DC is, it’s been interesting to see how much dumber we are than I thought.

The people posting about getting married young probably aren’t the brightest bulbs on the tree. They probably aren’t even in the DC area.

Yup, brightest bulbs prefer to panic after 35 and settle for whoever is available so they can first deal with infertility and then enjoy divorce process together.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People here don't seem to understand the meaning of anecdotes, data, and sample size.

For as highly educated an area as DC is, it’s been interesting to see how much dumber we are than I thought.

The people posting about getting married young probably aren’t the brightest bulbs on the tree. They probably aren’t even in the DC area.

DCUM has had an influx of RWNJs in recent years.

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It's a fundamental tenant of the rwnjs that they want kids married young. They don't want them wasting time getting educated and possibly more liberal. Marry young, have low level blue collar jobs and it's assumed they'll become repugnicans.

Many in my circle have married young after undergrad but continued their higher education or career training and not even one is doing low level blue color job. Literally zero. However, almost all of them had free education paid by parents, merit or aid.

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*collar

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Weird couple to point out as a success story considering she is 20. Let’s check in again in about 10 years.

I think both of these kids are adorable and I wish them the best. But a couple red flags….they’ve already had to have a second wedding, and now they’re planning a baby, all of these things are really fun and romantic, but at some point, theyve gotta settle down and adapt to the mundane and day-to-day. Let’s see how that goes. Marriage is not just about the fun party and honeymoon and cuddling together listing off baby names.

Also not sure why she’s posing provocatively in lingerie. Nothing wrong with that of course but it’s definitely a little weird. “I’m settled down. We’re having a baby but please look at me!”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People here don't seem to understand the meaning of anecdotes, data, and sample size.

For as highly educated an area as DC is, it’s been interesting to see how much dumber we are than I thought.

The people posting about getting married young probably aren’t the brightest bulbs on the tree. They probably aren’t even in the DC area.

Yup, brightest bulbs prefer to panic after 35 and settle for whoever is available so they can first deal with infertility and then enjoy divorce process together.

[Anonymous]

FOBO or fear of better option stops people from committing to marriages and keeps unhappy in marriages regardless of age and often leads to unhappiness, cheating or divorce.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DD and her boyfriend are 23, and he just proposed to her on Valentine's day. They've lived together for more than a year and love each other so much. I was 24 when she was born, and his parents met in college and married shortly after graduation.

My friend's 24 y.o. DD is about to marry her boyfriend of the same age in a few months.

You are low ses people.

If you say so. We (and our friends with a 24 y.o. DD) are well educated and live in McLean. I traveled to 12 countries last year (including France, Japan, and India): became an empty nester at 44.

Missionary trips?

Yeah, saving the Japanese and French from poverty, to ensure that they don't marry at 23 like DD.

Mormons go everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do some of you feel the need to comment on when people get married. Are people who get married in their 20s so insecure?

Clearly

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People here don't seem to understand the meaning of anecdotes, data, and sample size.

For as highly educated an area as DC is, it’s been interesting to see how much dumber we are than I thought.

The people posting about getting married young probably aren’t the brightest bulbs on the tree. They probably aren’t even in the DC area.

Yup, brightest bulbs prefer to panic after 35 and settle for whoever is available so they can first deal with infertility and then enjoy divorce process together.

Right. Because that’s the only other possible scenario. Thanks for proving my point, dumb ass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People here don't seem to understand the meaning of anecdotes, data, and sample size.

For as highly educated an area as DC is, it’s been interesting to see how much dumber we are than I thought.

The people posting about getting married young probably aren’t the brightest bulbs on the tree. They probably aren’t even in the DC area.

Yup, brightest bulbs prefer to panic after 35 and settle for whoever is available so they can first deal with infertility and then enjoy divorce process together.

Don’t forget these men and women have to spend age 25 to 30-whatever serial dating and sleeping with total randos they meet on dating apps. And then maybe get set up with another desperate leftover by friends or family. How dreamy and romantic!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do some of you feel the need to comment on when people get married. Are people who get married in their 20s so insecure?

People who aren't married or married late are the ones bothered by others marrying in their mid 20's.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People here don't seem to understand the meaning of anecdotes, data, and sample size.

For as highly educated an area as DC is, it’s been interesting to see how much dumber we are than I thought.

The people posting about getting married young probably aren’t the brightest bulbs on the tree. They probably aren’t even in the DC area.

DCUM has had an influx of RWNJs in recent years.

+100

It's a fundamental tenant of the rwnjs that they want kids married young. They don't want them wasting time getting educated and possibly more liberal. Marry young, have low level blue collar jobs and it's assumed they'll become repugnicans.

It’s tenet, not tenant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The people posting about getting married young probably aren’t the brightest bulbs on the tree. They probably aren’t even in the DC area.

DCUM has had an influx of RWNJs in recent years.

+100

It's a fundamental tenant of the rwnjs that they want kids married young. They don't want them wasting time getting educated and possibly more liberal. Marry young, have low level blue collar jobs and it's assumed they'll become repugnicans.

I couldn’t have been the only one who had no idea what the acronym RWNJ meant, right? I had to google it. Seems like a term used by people who spend too much time on the internet and listening to partisan podcast babble. Whatever the case, politics has nothing to do with young people getting married, becoming homeowners, and building a life together. Outside of DC, the average young adult doesn’t give a darn about politics. Caring about politics in your 20s is dorky and fringe.