How old were you when you got married?

[Northerner]

I was 21, nearly 22. Am 30 now and been married for 8 years, mostly happily

Chatting about it at work, and I looked at the single 22/23 year olds and thought, christ I was married at that age, and how young they seem.

They all say I was far to young to be married. I've never even thought about it like that tbh.

How about you?

I was 23

Although I was 19 when I met him. Been together 10 years now, married 6.

Where do people get off on telling people 'it won't last'.

How f*cking insulting can you get?

How the hell does anyone know that?

You could say that about ANY relationship.

FFS.

Colin and Justin got together when they were 17 and 18 and, 20 years on, they're still together.

I was 23, dh 24.

Who the hell are Colin and Justin?

the designers.

that whole thing just ticks me off.

my granddad saw my grandmother at a dance. and he told his mates, 'there's my wife.'

but in order to work up the nerve to talk to her, he relied on a little Dutch courage, so that the first thing he said to her, instead of his planned, 'would you like to come out w/me?' was 'will you marry me?'

she said, 'yes, but you'll have to take me out first.'

they married 3 months later and he died 42 years after that.

and everyone said it wouldn't last.

I was 23, dh was 10 days off 30 (he likes the fact that being on honeymoon meant he "never actually turned 30" lol.

i look at single people that age or older, and sometimes wonder how different their lives are to how mine was.... not in an i wish kind of way but in a curiousity fuelled nosiness.

I told my mum three weeks after I met dh that I had met the man I was going to marry. I knew about 4 days after I met him. And I'm not really a silly romantic rush-into-things person. I just knew. And we've been together 10 years and I still feel as though I am "at the beginning" of something, rather than the middle or the end, IYSWIM.

i was 19 . dexh was 20 5 days later. i was ready and had previous dd1. i was preg with dd2 and he was great . it lasted all of 4 years , we had split after 2 y though he held his hand up and said he wanted his life back and wasnt ready for the kids and amrried life thing . we are great friends now though. paid maintainance since the day he left had sees her regulary, his mum is my best friend and still looks after dd1 and dd2 and also dd3 !!! she is my mary poppins

colin and justin are the gay-lord house renovating/ clothes slagging off couple on tv

21, dh was 20

it was my 24th birthday, dh was 23, it was only 3 years ago and i regret it like mad.

My granmother was a bit of a floozie really, and when she sent a letter back home to her mother to tell her she was married (she was in the army, posted in Trinidad), my great grandmother wrote back saying "I've read back through all your letters and I can find mention of LOTS of men, but none of them are called X".

And although it did take nine years for us to actually do the deed, we were 20 when we met, and I knew very soon that it was the real deal. We just did things after we graduated that took us to opposite ends of the country for a few years. I am intimately acquainted with the east coast mainline!

We met when I was 21 and he was 24, married when I was 24 and are now nearly at 10 yrs married (and nipping off to Barcelona to celebrate!)
And I still think he's lovely!

I was 24.

37 - this year!

(thought it may never happen...)

dammit sleepfiner - you beat me

23

not sure its a case of beating... I didn't get there first ...

29 and dh was 33.
My mum and dad were 21 and 20, no way was I anywhere near ready at their age

32

If I had been married in my 20's I would have had a totally different life

Je ne regrette rien

19... nearly ended up in Gretna Green @ 16, but thankfully we didnt know about getting a licence etc!

I was 26, Dh on his 29th birthday

Mum married at 19- way too young f0r me, but I had collectd several proposals (and a fairly long engagement) before DH