Is 25 too young to marry if you still need parents help?
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Anonymous
| If you are not independent at 25, are you too young to marry? |
Anonymous
| Educational help doesn’t count. |
Anonymous
why? |
Anonymous
| To help with… what? Still on cell phone plan or insurance? Eh whatever. |
Anonymous
| I think financial independence is a cornerstone of being ready to marry. #adulting and all that. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| If you are getting significant help then you are part of that family and shouldn't be starting a new one. |
Anonymous
| Yes |
Anonymous
Because parents who have the financial means position their kids to come out of med school, law school or MBA debt-free. Weddings too. Make no mistake, the kids are high-earning, charming and well-educated themselves. Bill Gates paid for Jennifer’s medical school & bought her housing to live in during it. He has the means to and it would be unnecessarily hampering her to not do so. Avoid futility. |
Anonymous
| 25 is too old to need parental help (and I say that as someone with advanced degrees who was in school for a million years). |
Anonymous
| This sounds like one of those “poor and rich but not middle class” riddles you see on social media. Poor people often need to live in multigenerational housing their whole lives. Rich people give their kids financial support their whole lives (eg gifts and trust disbursements). Only middle class people define adulthood like this. |
Anonymous
| I'm 40 and know a lot of people who help their parents financially (some you would not find so obvious). So I'm not going to comment on what is an appropriate financial arrangement between families. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
+1 but if you are still getting education related support, then you are too young to marry. |
Anonymous
Very middle class attitudes. |