[HitmanLV]

Postponing a lifelong commitment for a decade as you mature and develop as a person isn't a bad thing at all, and it doesn't mean you aren't romantic.

It's ok to be selective, but don't be prohibitively selective. Be realistic in your expectations. Hold attainable standards.

Dating more will help you from falling too quickly and too deeply for a woman. It' not a good place to be and messes with your clarity of thought.

I'm a romantic, sentimental guy, and that has nothing to do with marrying young.

Food for thought for you.

[JamesP81]

Postponing a lifelong commitment for a decade as you mature and develop as a person isn't a bad thing at all, and it doesn't mean you aren't romantic.

I hear what you are saying. My mother told me all the same stuff. She's on her 4th husband. Everything I ever tried to do that she told me I couldn't do because I was 'too young and immature' I succeeded at. Moreover, she also failed at most of those things herself. Her years of experience did her absolutely no good. My dad tells a story about a coworker at his machine shop, he wanted to do something the wrong way. The guy told my dad that "I've been doing it this way for 25 years." Dad immediately informed him that he'd been f****** it up for 25 years, which he had.

I respect what the 'wait a while' folks are trying to say, but when I see the older folks leading totally screwed up lives, lives that I want no part of, then statements like this:

People at the age of 24 simply do not have the life experiences that older folks do.

aren't going to fly.

I assure you, I know myself very, very well. And this self knowledge came the hard way.

All that being said, it remains in the hands of the Lord. Personally, I think the time is near but if He has other plans, I'm certainly going to submit to his correction and guidance.