Depends on how "steady" one wishes to be.

@Julie808 @Petter Decades ago that worked. I know couples who married right out of high school and have been married almost 60 years. But things were different back then.

@TheoryNumber3 I'm not so sure about that. I know couples who, 50 years ago, married "too young" and divorced within 5 years. I know other couples who married "too young" and 50 years later are not only still married, but still married to each other!

@Petter Yep, it varies like most everything else. Some people just get lucky on their first choice. Many others don’t, often no matter how often they try. I’m 0 for 3 and have pretty much given up.

@Petter In the 50's and 60's most women stayed home and took care of the children, and they were completely dependent upon their husbands for support so they couldn't leave. But once women became self supporting I believe the number of divorces skyrocketed.

@TheoryNumber3 Where I grew up, women were almost all capable of being self-supporting and had a lot of independence. Yet divorce was rare. My wife was a main frame coder, for instance. After our child were born she preferred to stay home and enjoy them, whilst I worked, but she had her own car and independence. Once they were in advanced education she went back to work.
Most of our friends did likewise.

@Petter You're talking about an entirely different generation, not a different continent. I highly doubt that women were "coders" in the period I'm talking about. I was a teenager in the late 50s. It was the "Father's Know Best" generation where men worked and women took care of the house and the kids. Most women had no education behind high school so of course they were dependent upon their husbands. In the 50s most women had limited work options like.... teacher, a nurse, or a housewife

@TheoryNumber3 My wife was a main frame coder in the mid 60s, with ICL.
My mother, in the 50s, was a personal assistant to a highly respected defence lawyer. By the 60s she was the personal assistant to the East African operations manager of an international bank.
My sister was an air hostess on international jets. They all earned more than me, a mere junior bio-chemist.
We had all had excellent educations, as did most of our friends.
But we were in a bustling colony where women were not so subjugated as in "advanced" nations.

In the mid 60s I was in my early 20s with a BA in psychology. Computer programming was not widely being taught in schools. I saw an crowd sourcing ad asking for people to come in and take an aptitude test for on the job training as a programmer. This was a huge insurance company in Chicago. Literally hundreds of people showed up to take the test for the training program. They needed 3 programmers. After a few interviews, they had whittled down to 6 and I was still in the running. Then they called me in for a meeting and told me that they felt I was their most qualified applicant of the group, but they were not going to hire me because they did not want to invest the time or money in a woman of child bearing age who might get pregnant and quit. They actually said that. And it was perfectly legal. So ok... you wn this one