What is the right age to get married?

[ringmastery]

25? 30? 35? never? ;-)

[unblock]

1. the day you and your intended are ready for it and not a day sooner

[Whitacre D_WI]

2. 14.

Granny says yer an old maid by 17.

[ForrestGump]

5. Hey, Jerry Lee.

What's shakin'?

[Whitacre D_WI]

10. Aw, there's a WHOLE lotta shakin' goin' on, King.

But me & Myra been havin' problems. She wants to get a dee-vorce. "We can still be cousins," she says.

Damn women.

[ForrestGump]

3. Never! Well, this varies by individual. But definitely not 13. Or 27-1/2.

[Snoggera]

4. When someone wants to ask

and someone wants to say yes. And, you never want to be without that person again. Ever.

No fear.

[Champ]

6. Whenever you feel it is necessary

I don't really see how putting an age bar means anything? Some may never be mature enough to settle down and get married, many may be ready at an early age. I just say if you can have a committed relationship for quite sometime you might be able to get through a marriage. But no one should rush into it at all no matter what age their at.

[cheezus]

7. macabre?

As a married man
I would say that you should wait
for in-laws to die

[SarahB]

8. Whenever the day comes

That you don't hear silent screaming in your head while standing at the alter saying "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? THIS IS NOT THE ONE FOR YOU! YOU ARE TOO YOUNG!"

Aside from that- maybe 50? 65? :shrug: Maybe never.

[stellanoir]

9. the age at which you arrive

at the miraculous opportunity to meet the right person. . .

aka. . . anytime/any age/ any place

Believe me I've been counselling folks for years. Once met a lady in her 90's who was ready to dump her paramour because "he was stupid and boring and listened to Rush Limbaugh."

Strangely enough I felt she'd more than likely meet someone far better. She was a total hot ticket.

[Snoggera]

11. When you are certain

you can afford the child support and insurance after.

oops.

[Speck Tater]

12. When you're all grown up. For me that was around 40 or 50. n/t

[KittyWampus]

13. Whatever Age You Realise Sex Isn't Everything

and isn't solely for immediate self-gratification.

[Champ]

14. Looks like I'm ready for marriage!!

:D

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

15. My Love and I are getting married this Tuesday - I will be 28 and 8/12ths

She will be 25 and 8/12ths,!!!

[onethatcares]

16. may the gods smile on your union.

been in wedded bliss for 35 freaking years, have fun, don't get boring, kick her if she does. let her kick you if you do. go on with it now. best of luck.

[welshTerrier2]

17. marriage is absurd

if people want to keep getting married, that's fine with me ...

but i think of marriage as a totally absurd institution ...

one day you "just have a relationship" and the next day you have a different relationship because you get married ... and what's really changed? i think the idea that you can "lock in" the status of a relationship is absurd ... why would anyone even want to do such a thing? real relationships evolve and putting a marriage label on a relationship cannot change that ...

your relationship is your relationship ... the idea that marriage somehow changes a relationship seems to me to be an artificial perspective ... if you seek an exclusive relationship, you can say that (and mean it) without getting married ...

the only "benefit" i can see with retaining the institution of marriage is that it solves a tangled nest of man-made legal problems ... it seems that we could easily restructure our laws to solve that problem ...

this isn't to say that i am not supportive of long-term or even lifetime relationships ... when they work out well, it's great ... I just see marriage as an extraneous, external definition of relationships ... i think it does a disservice by putting more emphasis on the packaging than on the product ...

[Pithlet]

18. 31

I'm 31, and just got married last year, right after my birthday. :)

I was 23 when I married my 1st, so 23 is a bad age to get married.

[latebloomer]

19. 38 worked for me

Finally got my fill of charismatic "bad boys" and was ready to accept someone who was partially sane.

[Nikia]

20. When you've met the right person

Some people thought that my husband and I were getting married too young at age 22. Was I too young? At age 26, I am still not sure of a lot of things, including what I want to do with my life. Some would say that you should not marry until you know what you want to do with your life and are more sure of who you really are. Then and I now though I knew that I was with someone who I could not stand to be apart from, so I married. Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like to have the "single life" but then I would not have my husband.

[playahata1]

21. Age ain't nothin' but a number when it comes to marriage.

There are 18-year-olds who are ready and willing and able to assume the responsibilities and the give-and-take of marriage. There are 28-year-olds who should have never tied the knot.

Readiness and maturity are what counts most in my book. I am almost 37 years old, and I am far from ready for marriage. I have spent all of my adult life looking out for myself (i.e.: establishing myself professionally, trying to get myself together personally). Even with my current situation, at this point in my life I have too much invested in myself to want to share my life with someone else. And it's not that I DON'T want to share my life with someone else; I'm just not ready to surrender that part of myself that lends itself to intimacy -- physical as well as emotional.

And then there's the TRUST factor: How will I know that the man I think is Mr. Right on my wedding day won't all a sudden morph into a total jackass/asshole/100 percent MONSTER one week into the marriage? THAT is the one situation I don't want to have to encounter, other than death (and I know damn well I can't avoid THAT).

Furthermore, I am not possessive of any potential life partner to maintain any kind of relationship, just as I don't want any potential life partner to even THINK that he OWNS me lock, stock, and barrel.

In short: don't make that commitment unless you are ready to. And want to. Peace.

[Cooley Hurd]

22. 26 or older...

I think people are still too "in flux" before the age of 26 to seriously consider a lifetime committment like marriage (wish I waited - I was 22 when I got married, and 27 when I got divorced)...

[SOteric]

23. I believe the necessary wisdom and stability comes to one at the age of

110.

[camero]

24. 35 My uncle always said

and I agree. About the time the kids would be ready to leave the house, you would be ready to retire. Almost perfect timing.

Plus you have a little more money and maturity.