What age is acceptable to get married?

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When would you say is the right age to get married if you think there is one?
Just seen an old friend (19) get engaged and sparked this thought in me.

When you’re sure you’ve met the right person and feel ready to get married. I don’t think there’s a particular age that’s the same for everyone.

It’s entirely subjective.

My best friend got married at 16 and had a very long, loving and successful marriage until the day she died.

I got married at 24 and it was a disaster.

It depends on the people getting married rather than their age ime.

When you’re sure you’ve met the right person and feel ready to get married. I don’t think there’s a particular age that’s the same for everyone.

I agree. I got married at 22, 6.5 years ago. We’d only been together 3 years which looking back feels crazy but felt normal at the time! Still as happy as we were then!

When you’re sure you’ve met the right person and feel ready to get married. I don’t think there’s a particular age that’s the same for everyone.

I agree. I got married at 22, 6.5 years ago. We’d only been together 3 years which looking back feels crazy but felt normal at the time! Still as happy as we were then!

When you’re reading. DH and I have been together since we were teenagers, got engaged a few years later at 19 and married at 22. We’re still together now well over a decade and a half later.

Any age from 30-105+ if it’s the right person. Any younger and I would err on the side of caution but if it feels right, go for it

30 isn’t my arbitrary cut-off but I don’t think you even know yourself til then, let alone know what you want from someone else

I don't think age has anything to do with it. There are some 20 year olds who are more mature than 30 year olds.

Whenever you feel ready and are of legal age to do so . Some people mature faster than others.

There is no acceptable age limit. It's either right for you or it isn't.
I got married at 17 to my husband who was the same age. Not because we had to, but because we wanted to.( eldest child arrived 6 years later )
Thirty odd years, 2 kids and 2 grandkids later, we're still together.
Whatever the age, some people last the course, some don't.

Can't really put an age on it, depends on the people, maturity, so many factors. I got married on my 19th birthday! People said we were too young and we would miss out, it wouldn't last but we both went to university, travelled etc so don't feel we missed out and were still together now 11 years on.

I can't put an age on it but looking at my friends/colleagues, it seems from 30 onwards - even if said couples had been together for a good decade before then.

That said, the happiest woman I know never got married and she's 64 now

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People said we were too young and we would miss out,

This always makes me laugh. Miss out on what, exactly? I dated a lot of people and for the most part, it was a shit experience. As for 'you need to travel', some people don't. My husband didn't do much and never felt the need to. There's no one right way to live life. I've got friends who got married as teens who are still together and those who got married in their 30s and split up and plenty who never wanted to marry at all or have kids.

18. I know people have married at 16 and 17 in the past, but these days most young people are in sixth form or equivalent education or training at that age, which I think is preferable to finish first.

I'll be honest and say that my initial reaction is usually 'what's the rush', if the couple are younger than 25ish...

In my experience, most of my peers who married young (under 25) are no longer together and had pretty short term marriages.

Of course it does work for some but I think we change so much that it might be better to wait a bit longer.

As others have said when you feel ready which isn't really related to age. DH was 22 and I was 25 but we weren't interested in going out, dating a range of people etc. What we wanted more than anything was a stable, loving home and family which is exactly what we have :)

I was 19.
That was right for me and DH.

@MrsCar It depends how long they've been together though, I'm almost 25 and have been with DP for almost 8 years. If we got married now I wouldn't exactly call it a rush.

When you're very sure, and know that you're ready to commit sexually to one person for the rest of your life (assuming both want monogamy). This could happen at any adult age.

I reckon I'd advise DD to wait until she is at least 25

First marriage at 19
We had our son when I was 18
Both went through uni/medical school.
Divorced when I was 35 nothing to do with marrying so young.
Don't know if I would marry gain lovely DP has asked several times but age 51 don't think I will bother.

Well it is to do with a persons culture surely - it is normal where h is from for the bride to be late teen to early 20s and a groom to be in their 30s. I can’t think of a divorce ...

There has been a lot of threads recently from
women who have got married very young who are now bored in their marriage and wishing they experienced more relationships when they were younger.

Married when dh was 23 and I was 21 (we were engaged when I was 19), have been married 22 years, so just over half my life.

I don't think there is a right age, just a right partner.

My dm has been married four times, first time she was younger than I was when I married, the other three times older than I was. Only the last one has lasted any substantial length of time, it didn't matter how old she was, it mattered who it was to.

I think marrying as a teenager (17, 18) might be too young for many though as often times teenagers need to mature and don't necessarily know what they want to do in life, never mind what it means to be married. (Tbh I didn't know much of what it meant to be married at 21 either, but was old/mature enough to learn, some teens might not be mature enough to deal with sharing their lives with a partner and adapting to marriage.)