Marriage <!30

Not a long time back a friend of mine said to me “we are at a stage in life where most of our conversations revolve around either marriage or sex!”. As I spend this week preparing for yet another best friends wedding, I cannot help but wonder does marriage really have an age limit? As a girl entering her late twenties, I am at a stage in life where half of my friends are married while the other half is being chased down by their families to yield to this tradition.

As a modern independent women, I do believe that the only reason to marry another soul is love and while I scroll through my social media pages filled with countless pre and post wedding photo shoots, I wonder how many of these are made of love. Looking at my dwindling singleton gang slowly but steadily yielding to the pressures of the society, I wonder how and why age has become such an important factor in the marriage equation. While marriage in itself is a beautiful concept and does provide some undeniable benefits especially as you reach your late twenties and early thirties. For example our need more deeper companionship especially as your married friends have less and less time for socializing and the younger lot is still burning the midnight oil in pubs ( a recent study suggest more people will die of loneliness than obesity). But as a girl who grew up on movie romance, I do hope to choose love over tradition and marry for the reasons other than age.

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