Quora: On Early Marriage
Q: Should I be concerned about getting married by 30?
A: Are you set to expire when you hit 30?
If not, then it doesn’t matter whether you get married before or after that age.
Marry if and when you find the right person, and only then.
This is not a race.
You don’t win the Gold for getting hitched before 30.
There is no second place or finishing last.
Take your time.
Q: Should you be able to get married at 17?
A: If the age of emancipation in your country is 18, getting married at 17 most likely requires parental consent.
Even if the age of emancipation were 14, a person that age would not be capable of understanding the responsibility that comes with marriage and would not be ready for it.
Getting married while still in your teens is most likely a decision based on raging hormones, and not a well thought out commitment. And marriage is not something anyone should rush into. Not if you truly want it to last.
Besides, if it really is true love, it still will be in a year or three.
So what’s the rush?
Q: What is your advice for getting married at a young age (23 and 24)?
A: Well, admittedly you are both quite young. That could be an issue, but it doesn’t have to be.
What you both need to be prepared for is that change is inevitable. Everybody changes, throughout life, but when you are young the changes occur more often. The person you marry today, may not be the person you wake up with in 20 years, maybe not even in 5 years.
There is really no way that you can predict the future, but there are ways to prepare for it. One thing you can do before tying the knot, is go through these questions together to see if you really are as compatible as you think you are.
