Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop offs at tedium and counter productivity. There's a territorial ritual to an aerobics class. It was three years before I could work my way to the back row. Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown. Some say our national pastime is baseball.
Graduation day is tough for adults.
They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.