Is it too late to marry in your 30s?

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EasterJoy said:
**You’d be surprised how many sweet Catholics do not get around to dating or marrying until later in life. **A lot of Catholics are also mature enough to have stopped concerning themselves with finding a spouse who is as free of sin as they were at fourteen.

Yes, the older people get the more of a past they have. They’re usually not changing nearly so fast as when they were younger, though. You are more likely to be seeing what you’ll be getting, and your spouse will be, too.

It is always a huge mistake to marry with the idea that you’re going to change someone, but even more so if they are older and less likely to change than when they were in their early 20s.

The chance you take when you marry too young is that you’ll change.
The chance you take when you marry late in life is that you won’t!! 😃
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Right.

A lot of people just don’t have a chance to date until fairly late in life. In the advice columns, there are a lot of people writing in in their mid-20s who haven’t dated at all yet.
 
Physically, of course not. If there are other factors you want to consider, so be it, but since the question is kind of vague, it is hard to know what you are asking. FWIW, I married my wife at 33, and she was 31. In 8 years, we have three children, conceived four more, and are trying for another. Luckily for both of us, we waited for the right Catholic person and didn’t marry any of the people we had dated before. Better to wait for the right relationship than force the wrong one.
 
Nothing wrong with marrying older. But understand that fertility might be an issue for older couples. This is more common among women, but it isn’t limited to them, it’s possible for men to have their own issues.
 
Nope. Not too old at all. When my parents married in 1954 my mother was 29 and my father was 36. My mother had me when she was 39.

I married at 38 and my husband was 36. Sadly, we divorced ten years later. I don’t know if I want to get married again but I’m keeping my options open.🙂
 
Is it too late to marry in your 30s?
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It all depends on whether you have reached the subjective age of reason:

If not, no age however old is too late to marry.

If yes, any age however young is too old to marry. 😉
 
pwlj_christ87 said:
I have a question regarding having girlfriends and getting married at the age of 30. I am a 29 year old male, who is single, and though i live myself and work, i find myself with financial struggles, or at least, i dont make as much as others, that being said, do you think its too late to marry in your 30s, when i approach those years, i would like to get marrried, because i would like to be married eventually, right now i know i cant, because of my own funds, and personal situation, but later, would that be ok, or is it too late? also do you have to want to have kids or do you not need to?
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I got married at 39, so don’t sweat it. Any age could be the right age - it depends upon the person.
 
I think the average age of first marriage in Ireland is 31 for women and 33 for men. That was a few years ago; it might be higher now.
 
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