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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Individual women may do okay, but as a whole - yes, much harder in your 30s. There are lots of stats backing this up. I cringe to refer to this book, as the title is awful, but the content is very interesting and much less offensive than the title. It should be required reading for any woman between 25 - 35 (but especially 25 - 30) who want marriage and possibly a family. Time does not increase your options, and the stuff you rule men out for in your 20's will be things you'd happily take in your 30's... but now your options are usually worse.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/03/marry-him/306651/

http://www.amazon.com/Marry-Him-Case-Settling-Enough/dp/045123216X

People take their careers, their educations, their fitness, their finances very seriously and make plans for them. And then we leave our life partners up to "fate" and "hope" and "you'll meet him when you least expect it." BS. While I don't advocate for settling with someone you're not happy with, I'm a huge advocate for opening your mind and making your search for a mate purposeful. There's an exercise in the book about determining your few must-haves, and then being open-minded on other things. I read this book just a few months before I met my DH, and I can guarantee you I would have ruled him out if I hadn't read this book. As it was, I almost did brush him off anyway. Been married 4 years now and very glad I didn't wait until further into my 30s to get serious about finding a spouse. The number of good mates in the pool and my ability to attract one of them wasn't going up. [/quote]

This, a 1000 times over. I'm surprised you haven't gotten flamed for posting this yet. It's exactly true![/quote]

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