Same story, a new generation.

[reynardo]

When I was 20, I met a guy who was much older and who was wanting to settle down. I thought I needed to settle down too, and we ended up living together and engaged. It wasn't until I realised that there was more to being married than just a big party and being the centre of the attention for the day that I came to the conclusion that I didn't want to grow old with the guy. He was a nice enough man, secure, mature, stable - and not the life partner I needed.

At time time, though, that's what most of the women I knew were doing - they'd had this fairy-tale princess ideal about marriage and the "right man" and what their dress was going to be and how big the wedding was going to be, without any real idea of what marriage meant or an idea that it would be more than "Happily Ever After". It took me years to shake that preconception, and more than a few broken relationships.

And now I find that the same ideal, the same "Princess" concept, is being pushed again for women.

Whoever is pushing this rubbish needs slapping. Hard.