Age may only be a number to you, but numbers are important.
At 22, you probably don't want to start a family yet (then again, maybe you do). What happens when you do want to start a family? Maybe by the time you're 30 you will want children.

Of course, that's 8 years away, and an 8 year relationship is still a decent length of time to be with someone. Perhaps, when the time comes, you can both shake hands and go your separate ways - but it can put a dampener on a relationship when you have a definite knowledge that it is definitely going to end at some point; because if you do ever decide that you want children, you will have to choose between her or having a family.

The knowledge of the relationship's impending doom will hang over both your heads like a Sword of Damocles, as your remaining time together ticks away.

Of course, you may never want children and be happy to stay with her forever. In that case, you can look forward to burying her when she dies of old age when you're in your early 50s.

Hope this helped to cheer you up.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 17:42, 2 replies)

Yet? When?

Where has this assumption that everyone wants to start a family come from?

That aside, why are you judging the merits of a relationship based on what it might or might not become, rather than what it is and what it's giving him right now?
(Musuko, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 17:46, closed)

See the bit where I mention the alternative if he doesn't want children?
It's a "what if" scenario. Perhaps you didn't understand.

As for your other question; this is the internet. It's what the internet is for.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 17:55, closed)

Lies. The internet is for porn.

If hypothetical, why "when" and "will" rather than "if" and "might"?
(Musuko, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 13:54, closed)

I'm happy in the relationship at the moment
and that's all that matters right now. Perhaps if people were more content with what they've got rather than worrying about the future, there wouldn't be so many depressed people in the world.
(Dazzorifik is bored of b3ta, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 17:57, closed)

All that semen going to waste though.
I'm sure we could find a use for it if you're not using it.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 18:00, closed)

"Perhaps if people were more content with what they've got rather than worrying about the future, there wouldn't be so many depressed people in the world."
Very much agreed.
(Musuko, Fri 5 Dec 2008, 13:54, closed)