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Dear Millennial With Megan Tan

#12 When Would We Get Married?

Dear Millennial With Megan Tan

Megan Tan

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

After four years of being in a relationship, my boyfriend and I have never talked about marriage. But after sitting down with my family, all of that changes.

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0:20.0

When I'm going to get married? I clench my teeth and awkwardly smile. I have no idea what to tell them. I have been in a relationship for four years with my boyfriend Ben and we have never talked

0:26.2

about marriage.

0:29.0

Which is a problem for everyone around us because I'm 25 and he's 28 and everyone is thinking

0:34.8

tic-talk but I've never brought it up and it's not because I have a problem with

0:40.6

commitment I just think I have a problem with the act of

0:43.5

marriage and the idea of marriage because to me it feels like when people get

0:48.8

married bad things happen to their relationship and after four years I wouldn't want that to happen to

0:55.3

mine. But a part of me also knows that this fear is a little irrational and in order to

1:01.1

get over it I'm going to have to figure out where it came from and why it exists,

1:07.0

especially because things between Ben and I are getting a little serious.

1:12.0

I also think confronting my problem with marriage would help me deal with

1:15.6

moments where someone like my niece is basically saying what everyone is thinking.

1:21.6

Okay Jillian, wait, what are you telling me?

1:24.0

Ben, what's Mary, Auntie Megan.

1:33.6

Thank you.

1:36.6

I don't know.

1:37.6

I thought the pressure would be from someone else.

1:39.7

I'm Megan Tan and you're listening to millennial a podcast about maneuvering your

1:48.0

20s captured in real time. spoiler alert I am not going to be getting married by the end of this episode.

1:55.0

But I am going to be pulling some skeletons out of the closet

2:01.0

to understand why the idea of marriage does not come easy for some of us. It was around the holidays, which has nothing to do with marriage but everything to do with going to go see my family in Ohio.

2:22.0

To me, it felt like this was the place where I could find

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