New Bride Writes An Open Letter to Single Women Everywhere After Getting Married in Her 40s [Video]

When fitness influencer Aly Teich fell in love and got engaged in 2022, after years of always being considered “the single one,” she wasn’t sure how to tell her friends and social media followers about the happy milestone without making some of them feel, well, less than.

“For years I felt like I was left behind as all my friends got married or had children,” say Teich, 42, who started the fitness lifestyle brand Sweat Life, and now works in content strategy for Nike in Los Angeles.

“I was running a small business doing all these awesome things, but I think as a woman, and for men too, all these other things are trumped by the one thing that’s expected of you…. we were raised that the norm was by your late twenties you should have met someone and gotten married and starting a family by your early thirties.”

The experience of …