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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd also be curious to know if she would even be ready for marriage- by her own admission, not an outside judgement from DCUM. I know that I was madly in love with my college BF and that I wanted to marry him. If he had asked I would have said NO WAY when I was just out of school!. FWIW, we actually did get married at about 28, but I just knew I wasn't ready at that young age. [/quote]

OP here: She has told me that she wants to get married and more to the point that she would like to marry me. We have discussed waiting until graduation though. I'm an quite circumspect about this however.[/quote]

Well you will figure it out. There are I'm sure plenty of stories where it works out as well. I think we would be kidding ourselves to really think "for every bad story there is a good story". No I think probably the odds aren't 50/50 but that's not doom for everyone individually.

Definitely wait until graduation though- even if she pushes, as someone who loves her I would push back that this is a very limited time in life, the living with friends or as a young person on her own phase and that ends, forever, with marriage. You should want her to experience that as much as possible at such a young age.

People definitely do get married this young and survive or thrive just fine, but adding in the age gap plus the barely on her own 2 feet, those are 2 obstacles that I wouldn't take on together. It will probably only help your relationship to insist she get through college and that bit of independence first. If it turns out that this "freedom" means she ends up deciding that she wants to date around, well that would have happened within some years of marriage anyway it would seem and you saved yourself a whole lot of money this way.[/quote]

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