I don't know yet. Don't rush me!

I was 29, he was 40. I guess I was late to the game, but I've often thought it was good that I had time to focus only on myself before committing to being a couple. I think the trend in the article is a positive one.

I've lived through many of the same-sex marriage reasons via my brother. We fought so long for same sex marriage but there was a point where his attitude was,"Fuck it. We don't need their damn license to make us a couple." However, he proposed at a family dinner, and they married on the 25th anniversary of their partnership (so both over 50). I suspect that the vast majority of couples at the wedding had not been together nearly that long.

I was much older than average - 37!

My first marriage happened way too young. I was 28 with a maturity level of an eight year old. I think I've finally caught up with my age.

I was 17, my ex was 21. We made it work for almost 20 years.

All of 22… With ‘single daughters’ both older than that, I’ve let them know how pleased I am.. Their mother had been 19 ..nearly children ~

20 years old... 1st last and only...

21 and 58 years later going strong even though both parents did not approve and they gave us 6 mos at most. We had $87 between us.

I don’t remember, maybe 24 or 25. Not doing that shit again.

I was 19, in the Army, got married in Leominster, Mass by a JP that was also an undertaker. He was 28, the marriage lasted less than 2 years. When I married the father of my children I was 25.

I was very very young, just turned 19, and pregnant. Lasted 2 yrs, doomed from the onset.

I'd been 16 a month and a half. My husband was 18 and turned 19 a month later. 6 1/2 of the longest years of my life. I was widowed at 22 with a 5 year old and a 4 year old.

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One of the many mistakes in my life.

I was 20 and we were married 33 years before we got divorced. It was too young IMO.

I was 24. I realize now I was too young. I would advise anyone to acomplish some goals and experience some failures first. Get to know who you are and what is best for you.

...and, how old were you?

I was first married at age 18. She was 19. It was 1981. We had been sexually active for about a year, and on my 18th birthday went camping. My father sternly warned us to be careful, assuming we would be engaging in sexual activity at the campsite. Doing it at home was one thing. Doing it in a public area was quite another. He was concerned because the news in Wisconsin included the story of an unmarried couple in the Sheboygan area who were caught having sex and arrested for it. It was technically illegal in Wisconsin at the time for an unwed couple to have sex, but the law was not generally enforced. I don't remember why they dropped the hammer on this couple.

Anyway, my girlfriend got pregnant with my daughter. Wanting to do the right thing, I married her that summer. We had a second child, my son, a couple of years later, but by that time the marriage was already in serious trouble. She would go back to Pennsylvania for months on end to be with her family, typically at the behest of her mother, who hated me and seemed to blame me for getting her daughter pregnant. Whenever she went to "visit" her family, I was never sure whether or not she would return. Married, to a woman who is half ghost, with two kids that I barely know because they're spending so much time in Pennsylvania.

I finally called bullshit on the whole thing and filed for divorce. 5 1/2 years after my first marriage, my first divorce was final. I figured divorce would at least result in a court order that would let me see my kids, but it didn't exactly work out that way. Although I always kept up with my court ordered child support, she never lived up to her end of the visitation order, so I still didn't get to see my kids very much.

25 in 1990... Divorced two months before my 30th birthday.

21...

20 years and about 8 weeks in 1979.
Pretty young given 1970 was my last year of primary school.

I was 25 when I married for the first time, in 1962.

I was 31 but only got married so that we could legally live together. We were living in Dubai, U.A.E. at the time. Dubai can be quite strict when they can be bothered. We didn't want to get into any trouble with the police for being unmarried and living together. If we were living anywhere else where it wasn't such a big deal, I doubt we would've ever married. We are separated now...lol...

27. In court, on a christmas day and never to repeat so help me I.

after years of abuse on the part of my father i just had to get away. at the time the legal age was 21 in germany, whereas i had just turned 18. so a friend (not lover yet) offered to marry me, for which we decided to travel to the famous blacksmith in gretna green at the scottish border. hitchhiking our way up north we were told, while getting our clothes seen to at a launderette in nottinghamshire, that this option doesn't exist anymore. so we registered right there & then & were wed in newark on trent. the marriage lasted 3 years. ... as did the second, which i also entered into for legal reasons.

the idea of getting a marriage certificate for love never appealed to me, especially as having children wasn't an option i ever considered.

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