Milannia Martin-Hayes’s Reviews > The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now > Status Update

- we don’t study or prepare for love how we do other things
- marriage is a chance to pick your family (but just your partner)
- living together before making explicit commitment may lead to issues down the road because of the sliding effect
- it’s much harder to leave than it is to get into a relationship
- match personalities (BIG FIVE)

Career
- we have to start somewhere
- build a resume of experience that means something (not just barista)
- decide a direction we want to take (decision paralysis is the real enemy)
- let go of the “should”