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The Case for Getting Married Young (Atlantic article)
This is a thought-provoking piece and interesting reading. I don't necessarily agree with all of her premises and conclusions.
http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/the-case-for-getting-married-young/274293/
I thought it'd be neat to spin off this article and ask:
1) How old were you and your husband when you got married?
2) How old were your parents and grandparents?
I was 29, and my husband was 31 when we married.
My mom was 19, my father 21.
My grandparents were 20 and 23 respectively. (married after WW2)
I will add a partial excerpt of the article. That reminds me of something----how do you say "excerpt?" My colleague says it without the p, like "X ert," and it drives me nuts.
now i know how Nancy Kerrigan felt. that's insight into SCARY ISLAND. you have no clue what really went down.
Re: The Case for Getting Married Young (Atlantic article)
A compelling case can be made for the advantages, particularly for college-educated women, of delaying marriage until after the mid-twenties, as Eleanor Barkhorn recently <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/getting-married-lat
I was 25, DH was 26. My parents were 34 and 35 (Mom's second marriage). My grandparents were 28 and 18. Not sure about my other grandparents.
And I pronounce exerpt with the "p" sound
Otherwise it would be exert which is a totally differ
I was 18, my ex-husband 19.
My mom was 29 and my dad (his 3rd marriage) was 41.
Not sure about grandparents.
I got married at 28 (DH was also 28). My parents got married in their early 20's (both before 25). I am not entirely sure when my grandparents got married, but late teens, early twenties sounds about right.
I think I got married at exactly the ri
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I honestly think it varies by individual as to what is a good age to get married.
Why does everyone have to fit into a tiny box? Some people can benefit from getting married early, and for others it would be a bad idea. Some are ready
Statistically speaking, 26 is the 'right' age to get married. That's the age at which your risk of divorce plateaus. For every year under that, your risk increases.
People love to say "well, my grandparents married at 18 and they're
I got married at 26. DH was 29.
My parents were 34 and 25. My dad had been married previously before he went to Vietnam.
DH's parents were in their early 20's (HS sweethearts still madly in love today with a healthy, stable marria
1. I was 22. DH was 24.
2. My mom was 19 the first time she got married (my whole childhood she used this as Exhibit A for "Don't get married young", though after I got involved with DH she said that her first marriage's problems were mostly due
i was 23. DH was 22. we've been married for 10 years, together for 13.
my parents were 20 and 21. they'll be married for 45 years next month.
my grandparents were older than that, i think. but they got divorced. 
There's really no benefit to getting married at 18 as opposed to waiting until you're, say, 25.
Sometimes there's personal financial benefit for pooling resources. There have been studies that show that, in general, marriages
I got married a few weeks after I turned 21. DH was 26 but this is his second marriage. He was 21 the first time. My parents and grandparents all wanted me to get an education and a "good job" first but I didn't. I've always found it amusing that in a
Married straight out of college but waited 10 years to have a child. The benefit of young marriage was full rights as a military dependent or survivor. The military doesn't recognize fianc? or live-in.
Parents married young but