Found this article on The Frisky.com. I thought it was interesting, seeing as I've got several weddings to attend this year, numerous friends who are newly engaged and about a million more girls who want to be married. So here is the list according to the author.
- Live by herself for at least a year.
- Live with someone else for at least a year.
- Recover from a broken heart.
- Have a vacation fling.
- Take a road-trip with a group of girlfriends.
- Relish sleeping in a queen-sized bed by herself.
- Get her finances in order.
- Learn to love her body.
- Have sex with at least one person she’d never want to marry (or introduce to mom).
- Find reliable birth control.
- Pay off as much credit card debt and student loans as possible.
- Spend way too much on a something frivolous.
- Exorcise all past relationship demons.
- Travel somewhere exotic.
- Establish a strong circle of friends.
- Forgive her parents for not being perfect.
- Have at least one night she can’t quite remember.
- Experience some really bad first dates.
- Find hobbies that fulfill her.
- Celebrate her 25th birthday.
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Um could NOT agree more. Sadly, most girls/women don't get to fulfill all of these, but can they really be blamed? Sometimes you can't help when you meet someone, however...if the relationship is strong, why can't you do somethings for yourself while still being in a relationship? Just because you are in love and doesn't mean you have to sacrifice something you've always wanted to do, even if it is something seemingly trivial like go to a book reading by an author you adore.
Still working on number 7, haha. :)
Love it! I still have several more to do...[yesss!] This list speaks to your previous post "My beef with girls". Too many people are getting married probably without doing some of the most essential of these things on the list like 1, 8, 13. We're so quick to wanna lose ourselves in someone else, we never got a chance to find ourselves in the first place. And then we wake up 40...unfabulous...and thus begins the mid-life crisis!
Olivia -- number 7 will be some work for me as well! I love this list! Very essential tasks. Couldn't agree more!
great list even though I'm out! the real trick is to find a guy that doesn't settle you down, but sets you free :)
Amen Seshie. I've only not done 3 of them so I think I'm doing pretty good.
I agree with Whitney though, marriage shouldn't be about being put on leash.
Whitney and Adrianne, totally agree. The author of the post on thefrisky.com put the list together a little more than a week before her wedding. I love the "doesn't settle you down, but sets you free" That is exactly what I:ll be holding out for.
and, ehem, Adrianne,,. I'll be looking out for your engagement announcement :)
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