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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
I agree with Roach....I divorced after 15 years (1 child) and even though it was an amicable and much wanted (on both sides) divorce, I still had a difficult time emotionally when it was finalized (ask ratbastid, I was in tears and just sitting in my car at the courthouse not knowing what to do next)
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Yeah, I remember that. I didn't know whether to congratulate you or console you.
Course, you had Dave at home, so I knew it was more toward congratulate.
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Originally Posted by Ustwo
While on the one side it horrifies me, on the other I'd put a gentlemans wager that very young marriages like this one are no more fucked up than normal ones on average.
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I believe I'd take that bet. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the stability of a marriage, in general and all other things being equal, is directly related to the age at which people enter into it. I'm not quite sure how you'd settle such a wager (how do you quantify "stability"? Divorce rate doesn't quite entirely capture it.), but it seems intuitively true.
I think I'd be willing to say that the direct relationship between marriage-age and stability has no boundaries--that a marriage entered into by two 70-year-olds is more stable than a marriage entered into by two 40-year-olds, and that two 19-year-olds would be more stable than two 17-year-olds.
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Originally Posted by dirtyrascal7
I said how, not why. I agree getting married that young is a bad idea... but that wasn't what Kadath and abaya were addressing, and neither was I.
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I entirely misread that. My apologies. I really need to post more slowly.
