For unmarried people - by what age would you like to be married?

[Simfan34]

Somewhere between 30 and 35... my dad was 45 when I was born, which I've never been entirely enthusiastic about. But if end up going into the field I'd like to (that is, academia), I won't be seeing real money (or the real world, in a way) until I'm 29-30.

I mean I can recognise oakvale's incomprehension but it's something most of us are going to do, and it does factor into my consideration of how I'm going to be planning my life after I graduate. Like I mentioned, my dad is relatively old, albeit perfectly healthy, and it's somewhat strange seeing most of my cousins getting married and having children while that's something at least a decade off for me... I mean, if I get married at 35 my dad would be 80 (!) then. My "vision" of the future quite usually assumes some breakthrough in medicine that allows everyone to live past 100.

So there's a desire to do it sooner rather than later, which is working against the general need to be secure in terms of your career as well as the desire to make the most of your single years, however one might choose to interpret that.