Last week I got the opportunity to do a little networking and socializing with one of my good friends from NYC. Her best friend just bought a house down here a couple months ago so she and her husband were having their housewarming.
Let me cut to the chase, I saw this gathering as a great potential place to find a prospect or two. I mean husbands usually have male friends right? And he did, plenty of them. Too bad they too, were all married. Well, let me not say ALL because there were probably 2 or 3 who were not. I don't mean to generalize but had this party been in NYC, married couples would be the outliers not the norm! Actually, there probably wouldn't have been any married couples at all, MAYBE an engaged pair but that's about it. And no, I'm not being dramatic. Just ask anyone who lives or has lived in NYC.
It honestly shocked me to see so many young, black married couples. I never believed the hype that black people just aren't getting married anymore but when you look at New York City, that's definitely the way it seems. Why is it that the dynamic between these two metropolitan areas is so entirely different?
Is this whatever little bit of Southern charm that's left in DC that doesn't look at settling down as the end of the world? Is DC just so boring that there's nothing else to do but get hitched? Lol. I'm sure that's not the reason, but there has to be something going on here.
Even though I don't know what has young people in DC feeling compelled to jump the broom, it was definitely refreshing to see.
This is refreshing to hear; it definitely seems like young black 20-somethings (more specifically men) want nothing to do with marriage at this point in life, so much so that they make it seem like 20-something yr old black women are "crazy", "desperate", and completely out of our minds for wanting that to be in our near futures. Smh..good to see that's not the case in DC.
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