getting married too young?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I wish.
 
 

Originally posted by chaz:
  Was she a porky midget??
   

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  She might by now, but it was black at the time. No word on whether she liked the Pixies, but I sort of doubt it.
 
   

Originally posted by very sonick:
     

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  I've got an older woman (10 years older) tale, but it's probably not fit for a family board such as this...

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[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  I wish.
 
   

Originally posted by chaz:
  Was she a porky midget??
   

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posts of the week!

[Samantha]

Congratulations Sweetcell and Manimtired!  And you're welcome for giving you an in to announce your engagements  :p
 
 My sister will be 20 in December, her boyfriend (now fiancee) of 4 years is a bit younger.  Neither of them have ever dated anyone else.  They work well together and you can tell they care very much for each other, and I'm sure they'll do fine.  I've always known they'd get engaged, but I was expecting them to wait til they graduated.  (They don't live together.)  I wasn't particularly happy with this news because yes, they are very young, and very naive.  My view is: what's the point?  Why not wait?  Why not have your own life for a little while, graduate, figure out your career path?  If you love each other, what's the rush?  It was doubly as worrying because they are both in college, and I have a cousin who is a couple months younger than me who got married last year at 20.  She would have graduated this Spring, but she got pregnant.
 
 However I shan't judge, it's just frustrating is all.  I am biased against marriage in general, and have gone on tirades against young marriages before, so I'm sure there are people out there with smug smiles on their faces in my direction.  Oh well.  I shall be content to be Ye Olde Maide.  I don't have much faith in the institution in general.

[Thousand Made-Up Loves]

20 year olds are barely mature enough to pay their own bills and live on their own, nevertheless understand the gravity of entering the most serious financial contract in their lifetimes, other than a mortgage. Plain and simple, it is flat out foolish and stupid for any 20 year old to decide to get married, especially for a man, who has much more to lose in the case of a divorce than a woman.

[Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface]

Originally posted by Thousand Made-Up Loves:
  it is flat out foolish and stupid ... especially for a man, who has much more to lose in the case of a divorce than a woman.

Sorry, I can't hear you all the way back there in the 1950's.

[Mobius]

Originally posted by Thousand Made-Up Loves:
  20 year olds are barely mature enough to pay their own bills and live on their own, nevertheless understand the gravity of entering the most serious financial contract in their lifetimes, other than a mortgage. Plain and simple, it is flat out foolish and stupid for any 20 year old to decide to get married, especially for a man, who has much more to lose in the case of a divorce than a woman.

this is hilarious.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Getting married young is not so bad as having kids young.  If the marriage doesn't work out, it's not that difficult to get divorced these days.
 
 As for kids -- you're stuck with them, and if you're in a relationship that goes sour, then the kids are stuck with the consequences of that as well.
 
 People in their early 20s tend to think that love is stronger than anything and can make everything in the world better -- it's best to be a bit more realistic about things before bringing kids into the equation.