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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 12:28 AM
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Since it seems to be the theme tonight, did anyone marry young?
And if you did, are you still married to that person?

Regardless if you are or not, how old were you when you got married? How long did you know the person?

I was 19 when I met my husband. He was 22.

I was 21 and one month when I got married. He was almost 24.

I had known him exactly 17 months the day we got married (but he was overseas for six of those months).

We are still married 13 years later.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 12:30 AM
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1. We met when i was 19 and he was 23
and we got married when i was 24. Looking back now it does seem young.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 12:31 AM
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3. Wow
you guys just waited longer than we did to marry.

I know, I can't BELIEVE I was getting married at 21. What the hell was I thinking? Oh well, I'm happy, he's great.

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outraged2 Donating Member (306 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 12:31 AM
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2. Married at 21
.... lasted a whole 2 years. :eyes: SIlly silly girl I was.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 01:38 AM
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13. Turned 21 a month after marriage..he turned 26 3 months after
Our 35th anniversary is March 1 2005..:)We did not have our first child util 4 years later, so it did not seem "young" for us..:)
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CelticWinter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 12:32 AM
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4. I was 18 and
he was 27 when we met and I was 20 when we married and still married 26 years ago.
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gaia_gardener Donating Member (333 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 12:33 AM
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5. We met at 19 (almost 20)
and got married almost exactly 2 years later at 21 (almost 22). We married the day we graduated college so it didn't feel young then (and I was one of the last in my HS class to get married). That was in the mid 1990s and we're still together and have 2 kids.

In many ways it feels like yesterday and in many ways it feels like forever ago.

I look back and think I must have been young, but I can't "feel" it.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 12:33 AM
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6. I was 13 and my husband was 14 when we met
we had an extremely long engagement and married
when I was 26 .

True love does wait , as my parents told me when
I met him .
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Democrat 4 Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 12:50 AM
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7. Met at 15 (he was 17), married at 17 (19) - lasted for 33 years
then he dumped me for a tart (whore - on her fourth husband when he found this "prize") who is younger than his oldest child.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 12:52 AM
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9. Are you my former sister in law?
we had one of those happen about 10 years ago, my husbands asshole brother, No one talks to him anymore but we are all on good terms with his ex.
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Democrat 4 Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 11:57 AM
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14. No, I'm not your former sister-in-law
although my ex's brother dumped HIS wife when she was pregnant with their second child for the babysitter! She came home from work one day and he and the babysitter had packed her and the first child's clothes and moved her back to her mother's house that night! Then he and the b*tch essentially complained about having to pay child support for the next 18 years. Classless bunch of boobs.

Oh, my God - my life is the plot of a really bad soap opera. They all deserve each other.
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Lugnut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 12:51 AM
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8. You could say that
I met my husband when I was 18 and he was 20. We were friends for two years before we actually "dated". I was 21 years and 1 month old and he was 23 years and 5 months old when we got married in 1966. 38 years later we're still married. Go figure! :D
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 01:05 AM
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11. Oh my gosh
that's EXACTLY how old we were!!! To the month!

Cool.

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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 12:59 AM
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10. My sister and her husband
she was 17 when they got married; he was 23. They eloped, as my father hated him. It's been 34 years for them; 2 kids and 3 grandkids later, they're still very happy.

And my dad adores him now.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 01:11 AM
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12. I was 16 he was 19 when we met. Married at 18 and 21.
Edited on Thu Jan-06-05 01:11 AM by Lone_Star_Dem
I had just graduated HS when I first met him. I attended a very strict private school where you had no social outlets. He was the wild and crazy guy I was craving.

He ran off with a MUCH younger bimbo recently.
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