Young Marriage

Lizardly
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 23:55:30 +0000

My folks were high school sweethearts. They knew each other from junior high and my mom said she had a crush on my dad back then. They married at 21 with my mom racing through school so she would have a degree and job to support my dad in medical school. His degree was a joint project; she helped him study and she was smart enough and knew enough she could have been a doctor herself after that. They were married for sixty-one years.

Their story is romantic and old fashioned and was not for me. I got all my degrees and worked in all my tough, time consuming jobs before I got married. I have been married 30 years.

My kids? I think they fall somewhere in between. I don’t think they will wait as long as I did nor do I think they are as careerist as I was. They have wonderful, supportive GFs and I don’t think they have to choose between career and love.

That wasn’t really an answer, OP, but my position is there is no one right answer. The kids sound great and whatever choice they make will work out fine.