Hugh Grant admitted to being scared that he will never find love in a
recent interview with the
Daily Mirror. As he approaches his 50th birthday, the Hollywood bachelor seems to be losing hope in ever finding his leading lady.
He says: "Fifty’s not a good number and we all have age terror sometimes in the middle of the night. I think I might have made a sort of pact with the devil in which I think I can have fun now and sort everything later. But then he comes back and says, ‘Time’s up and I’m taking you to hell as you’re going to be a lonely, sad old man’."
If I was reaching 50, I'd be a little scared too, Hugh. Personally, I have dreams of getting married by age 27. I set my cutoff date -- the date in which I have to start preparing for life as a cat-lady spinster -- at 39. Carrie on Sex and the City may have been 40 and fabulous, but I just don't think I'll have it in me. Trust me, I am knocking on wood as we speak, just in case.
So I'd like to take a poll of the Datingish community:
At what age do you hope to be married or settled down? Is there an age where you might start to get nervous like our pal, Hugh Grant?
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Let's not forget that Hugh Grant got busted with a prostitute. That's probably a bit of a turn-off for some women.
@SeeBeeWrite@xanga - Hahaha no kidding!
@SeeBeeWrite@xanga - lol that's exactly what I was thinking! I have a friend who was an extra in one of his movies, and he said he was a total knobhead. That might be something to do with it too!
But no, I haven't set an age/ time for when I feel I need to be settled by. I remember when I was a kid I thought "TWENTY!" Twenty was definitely the age to get married and have babies at... back when I was 7 and retarded!! haha. Now 20 sounds like such a baby in the grand scheme of things!
gosh, i don't like to admit an age b.c i'm too afraid to jinx it. =X
i've kinda set my getting married age at 26...but now its more like 26/27...so in 4-5 years...ask me again in a year or so haha i've never thought about my cut-off age, hopefully i wont ever have to think of it, although i want to start having kids before i'm 30 so...
I really don't think an age to settle down should matter so much. It just stresses people out more and could cause them to make unwise decisions just because they want to rush something that shouldn't be rushed. As long as you want to find someone and you do eventually, it shouldn't matter at what age you settle down.
Establishing a definite age also allows too much room for judgment. Hell, some people never settle down romantically and that's fine. Others still were never interested in finding someone to settle down with in the first place, like me. I'll be happy to be an old maid, kicking ass and taking names and I don't want people telling me I ~passed my window of opportinuity~. Fuck that shit. My window's been closed since I was born and I like it that way.
i have no idea really...i feel like i would have to be somewhat settled with my career before i get married.but hopefully i'll find that special someone around my mid-twenties which is like 5 years from now
I KNOW IT!
I'm going to be a lonely old woman with 27 cats who subscribes to Playgirl!
-sobs-
I don't know if I ever want the married lifestyle.
To me, getting married was always synonymous with getting old, and the idea of getting old freaks me out.
I DUN'T WANNA BE OLD!! NOOOOO!!
I'm 19 and I already feel like I should be writing a will, ha ha.
I think the only problem with me is finding someone who can put up with my extremely weird, socially crippled, arrogant, blunt, bitter, overly opinionated self.
If I had to say, I'd probably go with 40 as the age I want to be settled down at.
@Cosmar@xanga - Same here. I'm weird, socially awkward, and crude. But because I want to get settled, because my confidence is close to zero, because I believe I'll end up a spinster anyways, why not just go flirt for the hell of it? (;
yeah, he is a bit of a creep. but there are a lot of older single people out there, and i feel as though the next generation may be divorcing at a greater rate than the previous.
so... singles unite. i think it will be okay to be single at an older age. WHO CARES! as long as you have friends and family, your health, and your mental stability.
hugh grant has accomplished a lot in his lifetime. he should be happy with that. you can't have everything.
I want to marry by 28. If it doesn't happen, oh well..
I'm hoping in the next four years, but I'm only 20, so I don't think its very likely... espesically since I've never had a boyfriend!!! life of a lonely old spinster, here I come!
It really depends.
I think I want to be settled down by my early thirties? There's so much to life that's unpredictable that I feel like setting an age is a tad ridiculous.
I'm 22 right now, and would like to get married by the age of 27-28. I also want to plan to spend a few years with my husband alone before having children. I figure it's important to live it up and strengthen your bond to it's fullest potential before embarking on 20+ years of child raising.
@BlehhItsTu@xanga -
What's flirting? xD
I don't think I've ever flirted in my entire life.
-reads Flirting for Dummies-
I dont want to until 30ish. But I dont put a limit on it. My grandfather was widowed in the early 1970s, but then remarried 25-30 years later. I believe he was in his late 60s.
I don't feel bad for him. He had Liz Hurley and screwed a prostitute.
I wanted to be married by the time I was 28. I ended up getting married at 21, early.. but I am very happy about it.
I'd want to know who I want to spend my life with by late 20s. I've got 10 years for that to happen.
I'll be happy to settle down as soon as I find a good job, a good man, and have a pretty decent idea of what direction my life is going. Hopefully that'll be somewhere between 23-25? But we'll see...
Ahhhhh! THIS ALWAYS FREAKS ME OUT!
It only scares me because other people are scared too.
BUT...
I'm really really old fashioned and i want it to be when I'm like 18.
HELL..
I'm going to beauty school so I'm like not going to be tied down with college and crap so...
~Mel~
@mcmeister89@mancouch - aww that's actually kind of sweet!
~Mel~
I use to think my cut off was 30 but that came and went, much to my surprise. I always figured I'd be on my 3rd ex-wife by now =P
I'm still feeling young and adventurous but I would say 40 is definitely my cutoff point. If I'm not married by then, time to consider giving up on finding the great love of my life and just settle for whatever I can get. Not exactly something I look forward to but it's better than ending up alone. Hahaha, maybe I should make a pack with a friend where if we both hit 40 and we're still not married, we'll have each other as Plan B.
I actually thought it through at a young age, call me crazy or not! But I suspected of being married by at least 25 and having my first child by that age. I think that's a pretty good age. I would be a little bit sad thinking that I can't get married by even 50 years old!
I want to be married before i'm 30. I'm aiming within the next three years...so I'll be...nearly 26? LOL. I'm pretty sure my boyfriend of nearly 3.5 years is the person for me...but i'll hopefully find out soon if he feels the same way.
25-30 = marriage
30-35 = kids