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Cohort Effect!!!
It's actually a thing. Where, even if it's not what you personally want to do, 'everyone else' is doing it, so one feels as if they "should" be. Part of why the average age for 1st marriage is early 20s in some parts of the country, and late 30's in other parts. :D And why people in the UK take a Gap Year, & people on the US don't. Doesn't matter what it is, though. If 'everyone' in your age group, school, work, hometown, etc. Aka your "cohort" does X? OMG! I need to do X! Marriage and kids, in particular, cracks me up. Nothing like a single proposal, or first kid, in a group of friends, to start a domino effect of now all of a sudden everyone is popping the question, or going off their birth control! I think of it as the "Lemming Effect" :sneaky:
(I knew that sociology class would come in handy one day!)