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What is the best age to get married?

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annelisle | 2 years, 2 months ago
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According to an article that I've read which is written by Dr. Neil Clark Warren, the best age to get married depends on many factors like maturity level, ability to earn a living, progress in education, and so on. But statistically, marriages seem to be more stable when they begin earlier than the midtwenties. In a recent study, it indicates that most stable marriages of all have "starting date" of 28 years of age.
In the book of Marcia and Tom Lasswell, they conclude that divorce rates are lowest for men and women who marry for the first time at age 28 or later and chances for a stable marriage increase when both partners reach the age of 30 and then the rates level off.

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meyermv | 2 years, 2 months ago
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Ideally?:
Certainly after highschool, so after you turn 18.
After you have matured a little, so after you turn 20.
If you can hold off, wait until after college, so at minimum after you turn 24.
-There are just so many stresses (even at equilibrium) of being married or living with someone AND going to school. Groceries and laundry can become an arguement.
After you have a couple bucks in the bank, so after you turn 25.

Also after you've had a chance to be single, for a while, or date some not so nice people. Then you can truly appreciate what you have.

You must know the person you want to marry very well. Live with them, love them, hate (gently) them. Then after you know them, decide if you can and will love them. If that takes one year, so be it, if it takes 5 years so be it. Only after then, should you marry someone.

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browneyed | 2 years, 2 months ago
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I believe it happens when you're in ready in your head, ready in your mind and ready overall as far as life aspects are concerned, like the financial, the professional, the social etc.
To me, this state *should* be there by 26 years of your age.
Again, this is just a personal opinion of me, and we may agree to disagree :)

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christina_r | 2 years, 2 months ago
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Ask anyone over 30 this question: "Were you the same person at 28 that you were at 18?" and you will hear a resounding, emphatic, "no!" So it is not surprising that a Canadian study showed that couples who marry as teenagers are twice as likely to divorce as are those who get married between ages 25-29. People who get married in their mid-thirties or later are 43% less likely to divorce than the teenagers.

Take that last statistic with a grain of salt; however. If a couple wants to have children, fertility rates start declining sharply after age 35 in women and age 40 in men, and chances of pregnancy problems go up.

If you are female, there is the strange phenomenon that many older men seem to have an ageist prejudice against dating women their own age! Women tend to find it increasingly difficult to find a "good man" as age goes up.

Balancing all this out, the ideal marriage age is late 20s to early 30s for women, early to mid-30s for men.

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crazy2lolo | 2 years, 2 months ago
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No younger than 23. and when 2 are full matured. and have a good paying job. But most of all are you and her ready to give all of your self to each other? and Work on your love for each other 24/7 for the rest of your life???
getting married is and will be the most hard work you must do.. loving someone is very EZ but staying married is very hard...........
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ai-ai | 2 years, 2 months ago
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According to what I've read, the best age for a woman to marry is when she feels mature and prepared both physically and mentally, and feels responsible and ready enough for motherhood. There is no set or recommended age for marriage because cultures vary across the world. For guys, the most ideal age for marriage is 40 since this is now the new 30 and 30 now is the new 20. Well, I agree to this idea since men at their 40's are often established and are more ready to settle down. Of course, we should not set aside the individual's preferences. Please see other ideas in these links:
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/best-age-to-get-married.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Know-the-Right-Age-to-Get-Married
http://hubpages.com/hub/Best-Age-To-Get-Married
http://www.ladyzona.com/the-best-age-for-women-to-marry/
http://www.divinecaroline.com/22073/81376-what-s-age-married--guy-s-perspective
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paresh | 2 years, 1 month ago
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i think the best age is nearly 23 and above...

the time for a person to understand the meaning of living with a new ones. below that is the time to understand their own living and later they understand their partners...

after, any age may suit the guy to marry...

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silvester | 11 months, 4 weeks ago
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At the age of 18, you attain physical maturity but mental maturity is still absent. Well you can marry at the age of 18 too but it won't success due to lot of teen tantrums and attitudes..the right age can be after 26 years of age. At this point of time, an individual have faced lots of ups and downs and becomes prepared for many to come..but at the of 18, such changes may act as a shock to the innocent soul.

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m2ponce | 2 years, 2 months ago
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I got married at the age of 31. I learned that I was best to get married at the age of 27-28 since I am still young and can go with the activity of my 3 year old kid. The only problem with marrying before 30 is financial stability. Only a handful have decent and high paying jobs at this age and a husband should be earning good to support a family with 1-2 kids. I am already 35 and by the time my firstborn turns 20, I will be 52. When my next child (will be born this April) will be 20, I will be 55. I want to enjoy and grandchildren so marrying late, beyond 31 or 32 is not really ideal. Staying fit and healthy will be my priority if I want to enjoy my grandchildren without being too old.

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sunshine09 | 2 years, 2 months ago
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I think 24 is a good age to getting married. You should have a great start (if not finished by then) at a college degree, and hopefully have had an opportunity to learn a little about yourself. If I could go back and redo my education first opposed to getting married and having children I sure would. When the big "d" came I knew I was in trouble for I only had a high school diploma and knew that was not going to be good enough for me to raise two children on.

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affordableweb | 2 years, 2 months ago
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The best age to get married would be whatever age you are when you find the one true love of your life as long as you are legal to marry in your country.

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drmatt | 2 years, 2 months ago
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I think we do MOST of our changing in our early to mid-twenties. Although I don't think there is a "best" age, I've seen more couples succeed in marriage when they get married in their late twenties.

In your late twenties (in general), you're pretty well-established in your vocation. You have your personality pretty well set. You've become more responsible and are partying less. It also gives you enough time to do things with your spouse as a couple and still have plenty of time before having kids.

This also gives you time to learn the difference between "being in love" and "love". Many people believe that, because they are "in love", they should get married. "In love" is the Disneyland-state where you are on your best behavior and everything is unicorns and rainbows. "Love" is being yourself, being honest with the other, and understanding that it takes WORK.
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cdoud | 2 years, 2 months ago
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Best age, schmest age. It's only about being ready; knowing what you're supposed to do with your life and making sure that marriage is not going to get in the way of that, unless the only thing you were meant to do was get married. The last thing you would ever want is to harbor any resentment toward your significant other because you felt they were holding you back in any way.

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emaren | 2 years, 2 months ago
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When you feel ready.

For me it was 26.

Then again at 34 :)

At 40-something I am such a vastly different person now that I have nothing at all in common with my school friends even.

Based on my own experience ?

1) When you are financially stable
2) When you are emotionally stable
3) When you have achieved a few goals in life.

Oh and 4) when you have seen enough of the world to know where it is you want to spend your life.

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