I've been in a relationship for over a year now, and of course the topic of marriage has come up. We decided that we don't want to take that step until after I've graduated… but guess what, that's still before age 25. Are you going to look down on me because, while I'm getting married after I've started my career, I'm getting married before the age of 25?

You're looking down on people for getting married too soon is pretty much the same thing as them looking down on you for NOT getting married.

Everyone is entitle to an opinion, but that doesn't mean that anyone's opinion is particularly RIGHT or WRONG.

Most of us in LTR's know its hard work, and usually can get pretty stressful, (still absolutley worth it) so why would we rub that in our friends' faces?

Maybe some girls let their insecurities or personal desires make them believe others are looking down on them, when they really aren't.

I'm a single girl at heart, and I sure do miss my crazy nights out, but I still wouldn't trade my bf for the world.

I must admit though, hearing single friends whine about settling down when they're getting to go out partying all the time is kidna annoying…

I mean really, you aren't usually gonna meet "mr. right" at the local bar when you're drunk face every friday night… I dunno.

I got married at 21 (well, 2 months shy of 22) and December will be our 2 year anniversary- and you know what? Our social lives have not suffered a single bit- we have a lot of mutual friends (some of which are married, some are not) and we have some non-mutual friends…

My husband and I love spending time together- he works as a retail store manager so he has strange hours sometimes and I work 9-5, so we don't always get to hang out much every night, sometimes it's just watching an episode of TrueBlood and then going to bed… But we always eat dinner together and Sundays we always go on a date, dinner and a movie, or to the beach or whatever…just re-connecting time- but we don't feel obligated to do EVERYTHING together when we're both off- Friday nights, I have girls night with my girlfriends and maybe he stays home and plays his X Box (they don't grow out of that…he's 30) or sometimes he goes out and grabs a beer with HIS buddies.

Maybe marrying young doesn't make sense to you- maybe you're not at the 'ready to settle down' maturity level — not everybody hits it at the same time… but maybe we got sick of the endless nights of beer pong and one night stands (or maybe we skipped that all-together…) and decided we were ready for something substantial and worthwhile.

Marrying my husband was the best decision of my life-

However, I do have to say that we've both decided we're holding off on kids until I'm at least 25-26…I'm not quite ready to jump into being THAT domesticated yet! I still enjoy my GNO's after all…

But this is so not one of those stories.

To that say this story offended me is a grave understatement as I am indeed a HAPPILY engaged 21-year-old. K., I appreciate that you attempted to amend this childish and jealous rant in the comments section. However, I think it's lame that you said you were being funny with this post. I have a decent sense of humor and can easily pinpoint things that are funny as opposed to things that are not.

Come on, man! This snarky shit couldn't be any further from funny! Not all engaged or married people are pompous jerks. I'd also like to say that getting married does not mean that you will subsequently become a house wife. What an incredibly archaic belief. Quite frankly, I'm shocked that a writer for such a female-empowering site would make such a sexist, snide comment.

Has it ever crossed your mind that we betrothed folks might be just a bit envious of someone in your situation? Congrats on being single (though you seem kinda insecure about it) and choosing a major and all, but you need to be nicer to engaged couples. Well, you can do that or write an article that is truly funny, not catty.

I'm in a long term relationship and am 22 and I'm starting to feel the pinch of all of the people I know who are marrying and having kids. AND they're starting to question me saying "When are you getting married", and "You're next".

It makes me think that I'm missing out on something until I think about the financial stress of a wedding and the mountains of poopy diapers from babies.

I think I'll wait.