She gave up family for career and then when her clock had just about run down, desperately grasped for family.
A woman really needs to be married by about 22. Family first, plenty of time for career later. Career can wait, but in most cases family cannot.
Tell that to guys: they should be married at 22. Most of them would run for the hills. Most men have to be lasso’ed into getting married and then, as an old friend once said, rebuilt and refurbished like a used car.
My views on this have changed substantially over the years. I no longer think it best to wait. Traditionally “love” had very little to do with it. Young people (or their parents) decided that a match was “close enough,” vows to each other and to God were made, and then a household was established. BOTH people worked to make a go of it, often in sexually differentiated roles. Kids came. Family grew. 20 years later the two people sometimes found that they were in love with one another.
Did it work all the time for the best? No. Did it work as well or better than what we have in this generation? I have come to believe it did. I am 66 and have been happily with the same woman for 46 years. I advised my kids to not get married early. They did anyway, and are happily married, doing well and have presented my wife and me with the loveliest grandchildren imaginable. I was wrong.
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I think 22 is too young a cut off. Most of my family married at 23-26 yrs and I think 28yrs is no real problem. First baby before 30 yrs is key and last preferably by 40 yrs.