How old were you when you got married?

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I was sixteen and he was eighteen. A few bumps along the way, but it only made us stronger. Eight and a half years later: still haaapppy togethaaaaaarrrrr!:dancing:

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(And no; it wasn’t shotgun.) 😉
 
I was 22, hubby 21. Both a semester away from college graduation.

We wouldn’t have had it any other way. Our engagement was long enough at 18 months, and marriage is SUCH a blessing…why wait for those graces to flow!!!
 
First time me 15, him 19 , also no shotgun marriage, not that it would matter. Married 43 yrs. before his death. Second time 62, him 63, married 9 years.
 
I had just turned 23 and DH had just turned 25…looking back it would have need wise to wait another year. I was in my final year of college and should have had a job before i got married…it caused some strain down the road. We have been married for 6 years and have had ups and downs…
 
I was 19 and he was 28. We’d already been together two years, and it was both of our Sophomore year of college.

we both graduated and got jobs and whatnot, no problem. Marriage is DEFINATELY not an impediment for college! 🙂

I’m not going to lie, those first three years were EXTREMELY difficult, because I just wasnt very emotionally mature yet, and frankly, we were poverty-level broke and eating ramen noodles four nights a week 🙂

BUT, I knew going in that marriage was for life and so did he, and when near-divorce circumstances arose, we both committed to working through it, and work through it we did! We’ve now been married going on 8 years, and our marriage is the strongest it’s ever been!

I do think in religious circles people tend to marry younger-- because religious people tend to truly understand the commitment they’re making, and also, tend to turn to God for help when things get rough!
 
I was 22, my wife was 20. Just over 20 years later, we are still VERY happily married. 👍 😃
 
I was 39 and she was 28. I wanted to wait so I could finish reading “that book”, but she tore out the last few pages and said I’ll show you.
Wow 😃
 
I was 23. Now that I have been married a couple years, I know that to be honest, it wouldn’t matter if I waited until 65 to get married, if God wasn’t at the center of my marriage I would never have the maturity to be a good wife.
 
John21652 said:
I was 39 and she was 28. I wanted to wait so I could finish reading “that book”, but she tore out the last few pages and said I’ll show you.
Wow 😃
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I love it! :clapping: Good for her!

And what is the big thing with finishing college? I never finished (I was pressured into going–everyone advised me it was the “smart” thing to do because there were no guarantees in marriage :rolleyes:), DH never went, we’re doing just fine 22 years later. Other friends married at a young age (wife was 18, hubby was 20) he still had 2 more years of college, their first child was 10 months old when he graduated (and they’re not from back in my era… he just graduated this past December! You never saw a happier young couple!)

Like anything else, if you want to be married, you have to work at it… EVERY day!
 
We both were 21, close to 22.
We’ve been married for a year and a half now, and the first year WAS rough. Yet I don’t think it had much to do with our age (although, of course, the “being broke” thing didn’t help:rolleyes:), and like others said: we were ready for marriage, which meant: ready to grow within our marriage, with God’s help.
Which we did, and I’m SO GLAD : to my mind, once the common basis of value is there and has been discerned, a few months of marriage are incredibly more “efficient” (ie: for growing and advancing towards Heaven) than a few years engagement…
 
We were both 23. Everyone seems to think we were young, but I thought the timing was perfect. Expecting child #2 now at 27. It’s generally not unwise to start procreating in one’s 20s 🙂
 
We’re planning to get married next year - I’ll be 24, he will be 26.

One of our (read: my) biggest dilemmas is that we’re living in Massachusetts, but we’re hoping to marry in his home parish in New York. If you have tips, tricks, or a success story, please PM me - I could use the encouragement!
 
Both 19, we would have gotten married right out of HS if they let us, but finally realized going to separate colleges was dumb and did it anyhow. They reconciled when the grandkids started coming regularly. 40 years and we just renewed our contract.

There is a certain kind of couple, mature, sure of themselves, very much in love, but realistic about life, marriage, family, motivated, with shared solid Christian values and hard-working who should marry young and just get started with the business of living. They are fewer and far between in this current culture of artificially prolonging adolescence into the late 20s.

Finances are NOT an impediment to marriage or child bearing, that also is a false cultural idea. You have to work separately, why not work together and build together.
 
My Great Great Grandfather was 45 when he married his 17 yr old bride and they went on to have 12 kids. He lived into his 90’s and she into her 80’s. Four of their kids also had 12 kids and of of that generation one also had 12 kids. Twins came out in each generation and the last who had 12 kids began with twin boys and finished with twin girls. In the middle was my mother who went on to have seven. She also had twins. One of my brothers had twins first up.
That;s a lot of Catholics! 😃
 
I was 22 and dh was 27.

We’ve been married almost 19 years!!
 
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