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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Their brains haven’t even finished developing yet. I would not support my adult kids getting married or engaged before 25. [/quote]

DH and I got married at 22.  We are 55.  Married 33 years.

My parents got married at 21 and 23.  They just celebrated 58 years of marriage.

DH's parents got married at 20 and 26.   They have been married for 60 years.

My sister got married at 22.  Her DH was 23.  They have been married for 29 years.

My other sister got married at 19.  Her DH was 23.  They have been married for almost 30 years.

My oldest got married at 25.  His wife was 22.  They have been married for seven years.

...Given the divorce rate in this country, our "brains" seem to have been more mature than most.

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It's far more likely that you are part of a family/culture that just stays married no matter how unhappy you are or how dysfunctional your marriage is.  The metric we are looking to measure is not longevity, it's satisfaction/happy/functional.  
The two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, nor are they necessarily synonymous.

Some people stay married no matter what - abuse, infidelity, etc. - and one thing that is going largely unsaid here is that sometimes people who marry young don't know BAD when they see it, or have so little independence - financial or emotional - that they can't leave even if they SHOULD leave.  [/quote]

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