SRS 1,
Women truely can't stand to see a man happy! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I personally think a secure, happy, single male seems more attractive to women. If you have a hungry look in your eye, they will run away. If you appear secure and content, they beat a path to your door.
I married when I was 24 (almost 25) and am closing in on my 10th wedding anniversary. I married a wonderful women and we now have two beautiful kids (boy and girl). Now, I will tell you that I do reap the benefits of her being married too young before me. If I ever meet her first husband, I'm gonna shake his hand and thank him for making me look so good. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
This is the advice I give almost everyone: Girls, don't take a boy from his mother's house to yours. You will be expected to treat him like mom did. And boys, don't take a girl from her father's house to yours. You just become the new daddy and are expected to treat her that way. Two people that have been on their own, know what it takes to make it on their own, and are content on their own, usually have good relationships. People that get their feeling of self worth through others is a recipe for disaster.
By the way, when/if you finally get married, people will just bug you about having kids. Once you have kids, they move on to someone else. Everyone had given up on my wife and I, we did not have our first child until after we had been married about six years. We took that time to enjoy being with each other and decide if we could stand each other for the long haul. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif