to be sad about this comment by my friend?

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My friend and I are the same age (roughly 3 months difference with her being older)

A couple of months before her birthday we were talking about turning 25. She remarked - I can believe I'm going to be 25 and single, how pathetic is that? In front of our mutual friends (they all have partners and we were the single ones)

She then got a boyfriend a week later and they are inseparable.

It is my birthday in a couple of days and I just feel like this is how they all see me - sad and pathetic all because I'm single at 25.

Ha ha!

I'm single and 32, but I want to be single! It has to be said that not many people understand this!

I met my df on my 31st. Too busy enjoying life in my 20's.

You can 'enjoy life' with a partner, you know

I wouldn't call it pathetic but I do think that there is something a little sad about people who have age related life maps. I don't want to come over all 'Sunscreen' but life is unpredictable, odd stuff happens and oppotunities come when you least expect them. I know a couple of people who married when they thought it was appropriate instead of when they found someone they couldn't live without. It caused all round misery.

im 25 and single i really dont care who cares about partners why are people so afraid to be alone, im trying to make my life better by getting rich and owning a house by 32 and not having children who will suffer

That was what I was getting at with my above comment.

Sometimes it just seems a bit too mapped out.

Twenties - Young and wild
Thirties and forties - marriage, children
Fifties - semi retirement, more travel
Sixties - grandchildren

I had a horrible period in my twenties and so I'm being carefree in my thirties instead!

Enjoy being young, in control of your life, your home and your money! I was with DH at 25 and sometimes do wish I'd enjoyed my lovely, organised, single 'girlie' world a bit longer!
Your friend is BU. When they split up she'll be desperate for a drinking buddy again. Chin up x

That's just "her" opinion though isn't it.

I think meeting someone and becoming "inseparable" rather immature. When/if it ends she will almost certainly regret it.

Sounds like your friend just grabbed hold of the first available man that came her way that week so she could say she wasn't single at 25 - why take tips on how to live your life from someone so insecure?!

Married and divorced by 25, the following five years where amazing, in them five years I learnt the importance of being happy within myself and it gave me confidence to wait for someone I really wanted to be with instead of feeling thankful someone would have me.

25 is not for being tied up in a relationship!!!

Seriously. From one who got married at 25 I wish wish wish I had waited til at least ten years later. This is your youth: it is short; enjoy enjoy enjoy!

25 is no age to be worrying about being single - enjoy it and let life happen at its own pace! Seriously, I have plenty of friends in their early 30s who are either still happily single, or who have only recently met their DPs. You've nothing to worry about!

(I am a bit baffled by the posters who seem to think that it's 'too young' to settle down, though. I married at 24 and nine years on its still one of the best decisions I ever made. I didn't become a boring old fart the moment the ring went on my finger - DH just became part of the fun )

Do you live in Essex?

In the town I grew up in I would describe most people as serial manogamists. (Sp) Bizarre. If you didn't have a boyfriend/girlfriend you were bucking the trend. Didn't experience it when I was in other counties or countries.

Single at 25 is great fun. Quite often I wish I was still 25 and I didn't meet my dh until I was 26.

Enjoy yourself!

I am turning 25 in 2 months.
I am married with a child and my own home.
I am the only one of my friends or age group. I am the odd one.
Frequently I wonder if I should be doing what you do... being out playing the field snd having fun etc.
I have friends with kids, or who are married, u most are not.
Do not SETTLE!

Oh to be 25!! jealous

Don't fret OP. You have years ahead of you to do what you want, at the time that's right.