do you know anyone who got married very young nowadays

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I recently found out a distant relative (who is now dead) got married when she was just 18 and her DH was also 18. This was a very long time ago and I know times were different but when I look at my DS who is 17 and although he’s a lovely lad the idea of him getting married next year seems beyond ridiculous. So I wondered does anyone know anyone who got married at a very young age (18/19/20) recently as in since 2010. How did it work out? Did they stay together? How did they manage finances ect?

I know a couple who got married when they were 20, a few years ago.
They’re strict catholics, and she said she couldn’t wait to bang him anymore so they got married

I have a couple of sets of friends who've been together since age 16 or 17, so the mid-noughties. They're happy. And another tranche of Christians who got married quickly after uni, who also seem happy but also quite ideologically opposed to divorce.

I think there are just more options these days. We move around more, have more varied career options, plus it's not usual to have 'a job for life' in the way it used to be, when young men might have been pretty much settled on their career path by their early 20s, with a wage intended to support a family. The economics of buying a home and having children young just aren't the same at all. And further education is prioritised, which extends those years of responsibility-free adulthood.

My cousin married at 21 to a 19 year old in 1986 . They're still very happily married.

I'm 37, I know a few couples around my age who have been together since 16 although they didn't get married super young. And a few more who got together at 18/19. They're all still together so far!

Me, aged 21 in 2012. Did not last, wouldn't recommend.

I went to school with 2 Mormon girls who both married at 19 and 20, this was around 2011.

My dad was 17 and my mum was 19, married for 47 years until he died last year

I know lots (100s) who married straight after graduating, usually aged 21 or sometimes 22, and a few who married aged 18/19/20.

All evangelical Christians, which is a significant factor in the fact that all of those couples, except two, are still together, or in a few cases have been separated by death.

I know of two couples, first were 19 & 24, had a baby about a year later, split up for a bit shortly after and got back together, had more children and still together 17 yrs later.
Second are two old school friends, got together at 18, had first child a couple of yes later then married at about 22/23, had more children and are still together now in their mid 40s and just become grandparents.

OP said RECENTLY from 2010 onwards, why are people talking about the 90s and early 00s?

A friend of mine from school got married a few years ago- when she was about twenty-one. Still going strong two or three years in, they're Mormon so not exactly typical of my age group though

Slightly earlier -2006, aged 20. Still together

I got married age 20 in 2008, met my husband age 16, we had our first child when I was 17 and have been together ever since. We now have 4 children and are still very happy and very much in love

Yes

Yeah I’m 25 and my best friend got married at 18 (he was 21). She had her first baby at 19. They are currently trying for baby number two. He went to uni shortly after they were married and finished his degree and she started hers after he graduated. Being married actually put them in a much better position financially because he got more money in his student loan (uni also paid 85% of childcare fees which is why she went herself after he finished).

They have actually just bought their first house and he has a good job now and they seem happy. Guilty to say whilst I was happy for her at the time, I did judge because she was young, but I’m jealous now as they seem much more ‘further’ in life than myself.

I married in 1983 aged 22. My husband was 33. We split after 10 years in 1993. Our DD was 6 years old then. I married too young. I remarried two years later aged 35. That was a much better age. My DS was born in 1996 when I was 36.

Married in 1979 I was 16
Six children
3 grandchildren
I'm now 59
Husband is 67
Still together
It's been crazy ride but an exciting one

I married when my husband and I were both 22, in 2014. One child age 2. Still married! Very happy.

We were 20/21 but not as recent we were married in 2004 and still very happily married. We have outlasted other couples who got married ten years after us so age doesn’t necessarily make a difference.

I married aged 20 (almost 21) in 2002. A few people were at the time as DH was 8.5 years older
Still together and very happy 20 years on

I got married at 17 in 2010 still together with 1 dc 😁😁

Married at 22, met when I was 16. Been married 16 years so far, together 21 years.

My nephew and niece. They were 17 & 18 when they had their first DC, then had another 18 months later, married last year at 22, and since have had twins.

Only arranged marriages in specific. particularly-conservative Muslim communities. The stigma against divorce in these communities is so pervasive that they're unlikely to end in divorce. I had undergraduates from the same community who were frank about only doing the degree to postpone their marriages by a couple of years, but knew they would graduate and then marry immediately afterwards.