Stories of marriage and a family happening quickly when youre in 30s...?

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In recent months i have begun to panic a lot about being single. i am totally ok on my own, and if anything i am probably too picky with men. but my concern is this: i'm early thirties. if i meet someone, date, get engaged, married, etc etc, all this could take years before we get round to the family bit. all, literally all, my friends have been with partners for a minimum of 5 years by now.

any stories of it happening quickly? i feel i will always have missed out on that lengthy pre-marriage relationship, because those years in my twenties have already gone and i havent met anyone significant to have started building that relationship with.

Met when we were both 34, married within a year and 2 children within the next 3 years. We were both just ready to settle down I think.

I broke up from a LTR at 31, cancelled wedding, the lot. Got with now dh 3 months later, totally unexpected, pg just over a year after that, had dc at 34 and 38. Happy as Larry with it all. Married at 37, when we could manage to fit it in.

Hang on, my ages are wrong, I must've been 32 when LTR ended. It's all a long time ago now! Lol

I met DH online when I was 31, engaged after a year, married 6 months after that, DD1 born 9 months after our wedding, DD2 born 16 months after her sister, so went from long-term single to married mum of two between the ages of 31 and 35 - bit of a whirlwind but brilliant! OLD can be horrific but in so many cases it is worth it!

Met DH at 29, married by 31, pregnant now at (just!) 33.

We got engaged after a year. 3 months later got married. 3 months after that had ds. That was a busy year!

Met a party through a friend, I was 32, married at 33, first child aged 34 and will have have had second child after I turn 35

Still can't quite believe it's really happening to me!

waking up to reading these is really helping the sunday blues :) thank you to everyone who has posted.

I'd been engaged in my mid 20s to partner I was with since teens. We split up shortly before wedding. Was single, and very happy with that, for a long time. Looking back I really value that time in my life.

I met my now DH at 32, and had DS and DD in late 30s. No plan, that's just how it happened.

I think everything is easier in your thirties. You know who you are and are past caring what people think.
Its just as well after the drama of teens and twenties just thinking about it exhausts me...
FwIW i met dh at my 18th birthday party if we had got together then it would have been a total car crash

A friend of mine was single at 35. By the time she celebrated her 40th she was married, had a two year old and was pregnant with her second child.

Two of my friends got together at my wedding in their early thirties, 4 years ago. They haven't got married but they have bought a house together and have a 1 year old