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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The good ones are all snapped up in college or grad school. You don’t have to marry right away, but they are all seriously committed by 25. At least in my own experience - this describes everyone I know in a healthy stable marriage with a reasonably equal partner. Even if they waited to marry/have kids, they were together fairly young.[/quote]You don’t know if they are stable, as lots of people are floored when friends get divorced, because they never saw it coming. We just never truly know. [/quote]

Out of the handful of college couples we know who got married, a very high % of those ended in divorce. They were just too young at the time. 
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Every couple minus one in my friend group (about 10 couples) that got married after college were divorced by 27/28. None had kids. Most did go on to remarry and have kids (GASP!) In their 30s. None of them want their kids getting married young.[/quote]

Yes - I should have said that almost none of the college couples had kids in their 20s. One couple who stayed together I think had kids in their late 20s, but most were in 30s after they remarried.

We were at a "selective college" and most went into grad school/med school. 
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IMO, people change a lot from the early/mid 20s to their 30s, especially if they are career oriented because of the trajectory of their careers, whether they want to stay in that career or want to focus on it more.

I told my teen DD to get married after late 20s, same for my nieces who are 25 and 30.[/quote]

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