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Women: Why you need to wait till 30 to get married

Most women start panicking about getting married when their biological clock ticks 26. Some will even do dumb stuff to get married only to regret shortly when things go wrong. I would like to believe that women view marriage as a race against themselves and whoever ties the knot first, gets promoted into Disneyland. No, you should leave that thought to linger until you celebrate your 30th birthday.

So how do you go through your 20s? First of all, the societal pressure might weigh you down but it won't kill you.The society expects that once you're done with college, you will bring home an impressive dowry that will compensate the cost and efforts it took to educate you. If they see you're lenient and too relaxed to bring home a potential suitor, they will send a word around for prospective suitors. That does not only happen in my village but in most places in Kenya.

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