Are our timelines of when to marry compatible at all?

Hi, everyone! I’m new here on Fluther. My boyfriend and I have been together 3½ wonderful years. I love spending time with him, we make each other happy, we annoy each other, we have arguments but get through it, we have the same values, I love how he treats kids, so I know I want to marry him one day. I’ve always known he wanted to marry but he never really said specifically to me.

So this past Saturday I thought I would bring it up. I asked if he could see himself marrying me one day and he said yes. I asked him to give me a time frame of when he sees us getting married. He said 27–32 (He is 24 and will be 25 in 3 months). My range is more like 27–30 (I’m 25 and will be 26 in 4 months). I didn’t really emphasized how important it was for me to marry before 30 though.

I’m not exactly sure why he chose this age range, I didn’t think to ask if he had like a bucket list in mind to reach before marrying. I think I chose that because I see it as a thing to do before settling down with children and I do not want to be too old to start a family. When we first dated we mentioned 2 kids would be nice by 30 or so… for me maybe 29/30. Finished before I’m 35…

I am a bit uncomfortable with his idea of possibly us waiting 10 years of dating to finally marry in our 30’s…but then again he could marry as soon as the next 2 years? I feel like I need to discuss this with him but I don’t want to bring it up again making him feel like he is being pressured.

What shall I do? Thanks a bunches!