What is a smart comeback when someone asks, when are you getting married?

Question

My twenty-something friends and I are always being asked by our relatives and friends: When you are getting married? When is he going to buy you a ring? etc, etc. We need a good comeback to get them to stop asking and let us just live our lives!!

Answer 1

"we're waiting til after we have our first kid!"

That should get them to keep quiet!

Answer 2

1. In the beginning, there were no elliptical trainers or low-fat/high-fiber muffins, and so people lived to only about 40-something. Maximum. Meaning, the pressure was on to get married before age 25. However, today, thanks to medical advances, we can all hope to live to 80. Easy. Meaning? Even if we marry at age 40, that's still 35, 45, even 55 years to be with a mate. Plenty of time to be married. What's the hurry?

2. Married people are not necessarily better catches simply because they were caught. I mean, have you taken a look at some of the married people out there? Seriously. Even Frankenstein got married. Obviously married people are not superior people.

3. Meanwhile, look at some of our cool single role models: Catwoman: single. Buddha: single. The Lone Ranger: single. Actually, virtually all superhero types are single: Superman, Wonder Woman, Dudley Do-Right. And then there’s The Ultimate Superhero: God—also single.

4. Plus, when you think about it, there’s no such thing as a Stepford Single Woman.

5. Why limit myself to being dissatisfied by one relationship when I can be dissatisfied by an infinite variety?

6. It’s interesting how our culture has the expression “happily married,” but no expression “happily single.” And those words are 100% certified by the US Census Bureau. Statistics show that although married men are reported to be happier than single men (surprise, surprise!)—single women are reported to be happier than married women (also a big surprise, surprise!). Meaning? This only furthers the irony that single women are branded as "unhappy” and “lonely” and “loser-esque"—when single women are just boldly holding out for the right situation, rather than getting married just to get married.

7. It's easy to become married. Millions of people do it every year. If you want to pressure me to become something, hey, why not pick something a little more challenging—like an astrophysicist.

8. True love is rare. That's why it's called "love" and not "really like" or "settling." And why we don't say: "I’m settling for you, honey" over candlelit dinners. True love is worth waiting for…and that’s what I’m doing.

Answer 3

It depends on who's asking. I bought a house when I was single and 28. The elderly woman next door said "So, you never married?" She was generally a rude person, so I said "It's not 1929 when women were old maids at 25." When I married at 32, she said, "It's too late for you to have kids. You're too old." So, now, at 34, when walk by her house with my daughter in the baby bjorn, I think about flipping her off, but just keep walking.

You could always tell them that you married at 14 and were divorced at 18 and you really need time to heal.

Answer 4

Oooh I'm liking some of the answers to this one! Why don't you ask them - "When are you going to get your Masters/PhD?" Or "when are you going to get a career?" Those are real accomplishments, getting married is not. I'm not saying marriage isn't a reason to celebrate, because it is - but it isn't an ACCOMPLISHMENT. It's not like you have to work hard, have discipline and a good work ethic to get married, OR to have kids (Although to have a SUCCESSFUL marriage, you might need those things). Some women have only marriage and kids in their lives - no career or education, so they are forced to measure success by those things. If they measured success by an other standards, they'd have accomplished nothing.

Answer 5

1. Angry comeback: "When are you going to shut that stupid piehole of yours?"
2. Critical comeback::"I'll get married when you stop being an old nag."
3. Harsh comeback:"When am I getting married? When are you going to die if that's what it takes for you to shut up?"
4. Smart comeback: "I'll probably get married long before you develop enough couth and manners to stop asking me about it."
5. Silly comeback: I'll get married just as soon as monkeys fly out of your butt."

Answer 6

Here's a few things to try:

!) Shoot them a hostile look and say "Are you kidding me? We got married last week at the courthouse... oh, that's right, you blew me off - of all the family members I wanted there, to witness my marriage, I wanted you there the most...." then turn around and storm off in the opposite direction.

2) Ask them "Married? You mean they've lifted the ban on same sex marriage? Ye-haw!! I'm getting married today!"

3) rub your tummy and say "As soon as possible, before he finds out he's not the father..."

Of course, in all three cases, they will look at you and say "Really?" and you just smile your best shiteating grin and say "Nah." and walk away!!!

Have Fun!!!

Aloha!!

Answer 7

When the prison official ok's the ceremony to take place during visitation.

Answer 8

I used to say Half Past Never.

Answer 9

Whenever the right girl comes along

Answer 10

When I want to be totally miserable and unhappy.....

When I get lonely and I ain't that lonely.....

When I decide that I want to put up with a man forever....

When I can find someone who makes me as happy as you are...

Answer 11

Tell them, if you want to drink for free i'll invite you a beer if that is why you are asking.