When should I get married?

I wanted to share thoughts of a reader on the right time for marriage. I have said before that marriage is a big responsibility and one should plan well before getting married. And here are some more secrets to a perfect marriage.

"I am only 26, and I am constantly surprised at how many of my friends have gotten married by the time they were my age or much younger in many cases. It would seem like as time passes and people become more educated and independent, less people would get married in their lower 20's, but that does not seem to be happening to my generation. I personally think it's: "Well, now I've graduated from college, what do I do now? Get married, I guess." We've been given specific paths to take our whole lives, and once people reach a point where they have to make a decision about their future, they just do what is expected, or what their parents did. They only realize around, say, 28-30 as in Dr. Neil Clark Warren's article, maybe there's something I want to do for myself that WASN'T in "the plan."