I’m glad not to have met my fiancé at uni

Ladies! There’s new advice on how to snag yourselves a rich husband! According to research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, female graduates are more likely to marry well-paid men. Apparently, being in possession of a degree increases your chances of meeting a spouse who earns £100 a week more than the average worker. And to think, we once assumed women who were “too educated” would have trouble finding a husband at all.

What’s more, having a degree boosts a woman’s chances of pairing-off with a fellow graduate by 20 per cent. Try Durham University, where 72 per cent of students reportedly meet the love of their life. To which my first thought was: how dreadful.

A week from now, it will be my wedding day, and I can’t tell you how grateful I am not to have met my future husband at university.

Throughout my twenties, I was a serial monogamist and had a series of (mostly) lovely boyfriends. But none went the distance because,

frankly, I didn’t know what I wanted out of life, let alone what I wanted out of a life partner.

If you’re one of those alien creatures who met their spouse as a student (and I have a few among my wedding guests – please don’t trip me up as I walk down the aisle), congratulations. I admire you.

But it’s fine to admit that most of us need a decade of adult life experience to truly understand what it takes to make a relationship work. Maturity, perspective, a sense of our place in the world – not to mention an end to student drinking.

Oh and, reader, my husbandto-be didn’t go to university at all. Let alone, thank goodness, with me.