Congratulations, Cecilia! Some of the happiest people I know were married in their early to mid-twenties, as was I. There are pros and cons to getting married at any point in life. One person's right time is another person's too early. Marriage has required a lot of sacrifices - some quite considerable - but it has also proven extremely rewarding in expected and unforseen ways. I wouldn't wish marriage on any unprepared soul. Nor would I wish a single life on someone devoted to marriage.

Married early often solves problems of not maturing together, at a more similar pace. Difference of age, times and experiences are also minimized, to some degree.

I could never marry at such an age, but my parents didn't marry until quite late into their twenties, both having had decent careers and well able to live on their own and support themselves.

If I marry, and I'm not big on the concept,I want someone who is a full adult, who makes their own decisions and has had a certain degree of life experience - travel, work, education - and by that will have a good idea of who he is. I assume whoever I would marry would also be the type to want the same thing in me.

Knowing who you are helps you know what you want, and in the case of committing myself to someone forever I believe I could be a totally different person in ten years. This may not be the case for others, so this is purely subjective.

I'm sure everyone knows a few totally happy couples who married in their teens and twenties and are still together, but that iS snot usually the case. I don't know statistically how it pans out but I do believe statistics should always be taken into account. In general, those who married younger in life have higher divorce rates, while those who have more education have lower divorce rates. Highly educated people who married later in life have the lowest likelihood of divorce.

Been married since I was 18 and now 5 years in and still going strong. Everyone laughed and doubted us. The divorced despise us.

I met this female. We screamed and danced all night. Everything felt perfect, secure, and bright. The next day we were engaged and I still today am unable to describe the energy that surrounded us that night. I actually had friends beat the crap out of me for such a "stupid decision". I had recieved her fathers blessing, a black curly haired, Catholic, italian from Bronx. Three months later I was to deploy so we decided to get married a little early.

Never, ever let people discourage you. If there is one thing I have found, it is that the divorced will constantly compare their failed marriage and tell you why yours wont work. How great being single again is. How bad and how much you do not know about marriage...which is correct to an extent.

My favorite being the "You dont know, just wait and see. X did this and that to me. You will see, just wait." Or the famous omg im 21 now break out phase.

Im not saying my wife and I are 100% perfect, but its not looking bad either. A few years after we met we found out we went to the same kindergarten. Crazy.

Marriage is not something you just plan on March 12th, 2015. I was pretty party hardy prior to meeting her and never ever ever wanted to get married...until I saw her. Its hard and their are many many sacrafices and sometimes rough decisions involved.

At the end of the day she is totally worth it. At 23, its nice to know if something ever happend to me I know she is taken care of and can take care of herself. If im around long enough, im ready to spend the rest of my life until her old ass turns to dust.

We have supported each other no less than the first day we met.
She is my life, my Juliet, my best friend, my Punk Rock Princess, and things I want to say NSFW. So, it is definitely possible no matter what others say.

The majority of young people nowadays care more about themselves. I'm not saying it's selfishness or a bad thing, but more individualism in a sense.

If you do found someone worth marrying for and he/she wants to marry you back for what you are, the perfect soulmate etc then that's great. There should be no reason to look at someone any less because they marry early or marry later.

But i think in the end, it comes down to the individualisticness of a person, so no it's not odd at all to see someone in their early 20s making reasonable decision about getting married. Or someone like me, who don't want to get married in a decade (or two).

If we're talking about "values" that's been put aside, well sort of really.

For men even though I can't speak for them, but the idea of finishing college then finding a stable job for providing a family was always there for them. So they already have the whole "career" in their mindset anyway.

For women, the fact that there had been a lot of women's right and what not being overhauled for the better we have now come to the era that women can and will stand on their own two pretty heels, great jobs, careers, etc. I think we're just catching up. 50 years ago, best accomplishment for a girl out of school was probably to marry well.

I don't want to marry young, don't want to have babies, don't want to have a relationship that's too complicated because i don't have the time anyway. What I know I do want is to have a succesful career, i want to buy a house, get a nice sport car, and maybe lots of moolah in the bank.

50 years ago, the only way to accomplish this for a girl is probably to marry rich. I don't even want a rich guy, i just want me on the driver seat and no passengers. I can't speak for all the women, but a lot of my girl friends who probably have better more awesome careers than me seems to think the way I do.

I do know what love is and experienced it too. Crashed and burnt, rinse repeat, etc etc etc. The whole lot. I could be bitter, but i did learnt that having $$$ helps soothe things to a degree so that's my take on life.

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