<p>Married at age 23 (just 10 days after my 23rd. birthday)
Husband was 22.
Married in 1980, we just celebrated our 30 year anniversary and are going strong.
Son came along 12 years after we married.</p>
<p>Let’s see…since I feel I’ve been married 50 years (at a minimum) that would make me about 4 when I got hitched. 
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<p>Actually 24. Kid came around at 32.</p>
<p>I was 30 when I married my boy-toy (it was actually during that 3 month window when we are the same age 
)
Married in 1987, kid arrived in that same 3 month window in 1989.
Still kickin’ it and having fun!</p>
<p>Married H1 at age 19 (1970’s). We were in the military and both went to college after we got out. Split up after grad school, in part because we couldn’t have kids and that led to some differences of opinion about lifestyle choices.</p>
<p>Married H2 at age 28 (1980s), shortly after divorce from H1. First kid at 28. (H1 also remarried and has a son not too many days younger than my oldest; it seems we were both misinformed about what was causing our fetility problems.) Still happily together with H2; not in touch with H1, so don’t know how that worked out for him.</p>
<p>it seems we were both misinformed about what was causing our fetility problems.</p>
<p>I have known several couples whose fertility problems resolved when they remarried- even after extensive fertility workups + $$$$ treatment with their previous partners.</p>
<p>I think there must be some biochemical reaction going on-</p>
<p>Married at 26 (H was 30). Married 21 years and still happily married! Children at 29 and 31.</p>
<p>Married in 1983, a week after I turned 27. My wife was 25. Still together.</p>
<p>Our first child was born three years and change later. There had been an intervening miscarriage. One of the main reasons to get married was that we planned to have children, although not immediately. </p>
<p>I had just finished a clerkship; her last year of law school started the day after the wedding (but she showed up a few days late). We were going to be able to live in the same place for the first time in two years. We had been a couple for over five years, and friends for almost seven.</p>
<p>A whole bunch of our friends got married around the same time we did. We went to five weddings in the three months before ours, including my three closest college friends (two marriages lasted, one didn’t), my brother (lasted 'til death did them part), and my wife’s closest law school friend (still married, dinner with us tonight and almost every week since our children were infants).</p>
<p>Married at 25 (H was 31) in 1988 still married. Had my first son when I was 29 - he was actually due on my birthday but I had him 3 days later. Had my second when I was 31.</p>
<p>Married at 23 in 1962. Still married. A little more time on my own and I would have had a difficult time adjusting. Have friends who married at 17, 18, 19 in the 50s and are still married - it was a lifetime commitment then. Several friends who married later had marriages that didn’t last - the lifetime commitment has gradually slipped away.
I support young marriage (before mid-20s for women and before late 20s for men) and children born to parents in their 20s.</p>
<p>Married 2 weeks before my 24th birthday. Dh was 25. Married in 1978; marriage lasted until his death 5 years ago. </p>
<p>DH and I met when I was 17 year old college freshman; he was 19 year old sophomore. We’d been together ever since. Moved in together post-college; went to grad school together; got married after I’d finished school and was working full time. (He had another year plus to go to finish his research and dissertation.) First child born when I was 31; second when I was 36. In between getting married and baby #1, we survived one of us facing a major, life-threatening illness and the diagnosis of a permanent long-term disability.</p>
<p>The year we got married was a marriage epidemic among the people we knew in grad school. Four other weddings that year–and all those couples are still married.</p>
<p>WayOutWestMom, so sorry for your loss.</p>
<p>My husband and I got married in 1979 at age 23.</p>
<p>Married in 1983 at 23; H was 24. Had D at 29. Still happily married 27 years later.</p>
<p>How old were you when you first got married? 18
In what Decade was your first marraige? 70’s
Did it last? yes</p>
<p>First child came along 7 years after marriage, 4 years out of college.</p>
<p>I was 41 when my husband and I married in 1989 (first marriage for both of us), and 42 when our son was born the next year. I certainly don’t recommend this path for everyone but in hindsight I can see the advantages. I had the opportunity to make tremendous growth, both personally and professionally during the 20 years between finishing college and marriage. I thoroughly enjoyed my freedom and independence, and I had all sorts of adventures traveling the world…including falling in love with a Londoner while riding the Trans-Siberian Railway. (And I was lucky that he was willing to make tremendous sacrifices to move to the U.S.)</p>
<p>Yes, we were older than most when we became parents, but we’re young in spirit and have never felt any older than other parents. My maturity has made me a more relaxed mother and our financial security has made the material aspects of life easy. </p>
<p>21 years later I’m happier than I ever believed I could be…and I appreciate this more because I took so long to find the right person.</p>
<p>How old were you when you first got married? both H and I were almost 24
In what Decade was your first marriage? 1980’s
Did it last? Twenty-four years, still together.</p>
<p>Children born when we were 26 and 29. Empty nest at 48. Hopefully we’re young enough to enjoy it!</p>
<p>Met at 29 and married at 30 - both of us. Children at 32, 34 and 39. Still married and glad we were a bit more mature. I think our timing was ideal - young enough to have children, but old enough to afford them.</p>
<p>Married at 21.
December 1979 so that counts as the seventies.
Still married.
Children born at 25,28,32,36.</p>
<p>Married at 25, DH 26…
1985 (think Billy Idol’s “White Wedding”)
Still together, kiddos at 31 and 34</p>
<p>I was 31, H was 29. 1987. Still having fun!!</p>