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[quote=Anonymous]I think it is regional, cultural and social. There are statistics (probably low after 40) and then there are individual cases.

I also think there are exceptions. I have a female friend who married for the first time at 51--she had everything going for her all along (looks, brains, job, etc) and it was a mystery why she didn't get married earlier (she also didn't want kids).  She married someone divorced. I have another female friend who married for the first time at 44, also to a man who had never been married before (he is maybe a year younger).

the biggest predictor is, I think, why someone hasn't been married by X age. In both these womens' cases, it was always strange--they had a lot going for them, and just had bad luck with men, high expectations or both. One thing that I think is kind of nice about getting married in late 40s or 50s is that it is not driven by biology (presumably) to have kids--its a choice. A lot of people who settle down at 35, 36, 37 are doing so because of the biological clock. I count myself in that latter category, btw. I'm happy, but I picked DH because he was the right enough guy at the right time and I needed to stop wasting my time with relationships that went nowhere.

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