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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you got married young, how did things work out long term for you/your marriage?

Would you have waited longer, dated more, done things differently? What would your advice be if your son/daughter wanted to get married young too? [/quote]

When we started dating, I was 19 and DH was 25.  When we married four years later, I was 23 and DH was 29.

After 32 years (28 years of marriage), we're very happy.  We're best friends and business partners with 4 grown children.  I wouldn't have done anything differently because things worked out so well for us.  Clearly there was an element of luck, but I think it was beneficial to our relationship that we grew up together, so to speak.

If my kids were in the same place, I'd be happy for them to marry young.  As it turns out, my grown kids are disinterested in marriage thus far!  But my niece (sister's daughter) started dating her boyfriend at age 19, and she'll be marrying young (likely ~21).  FWIW, all of us are college-educated professionals in my family, if that matters during your data gathering.

I think a factor for me is that my mom married when she was 20, and my parents were married nearly 60 years before my dad passed away; my sister married when she was 19, and she's been happily married now for 40 years.  We seem to marry young and mate for life.  That colors my perspective.

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