Sad Bastard of the Week: Can you be too young to get married?
Posted at 10:22 AM Nov 10, 2009
By Andrea Grimes
Somebody must have had a sit-down with DoubleX's Lucinda Rosenfeld, because she stuck with mainly banal, inoffensive advice in "Friend or Foe" this week, which means we can get back to other forms of sad bastardry in the world of advice columns. I love the animated Dear Prudence videos from Slate, and I find this young lady's predicament to be particularly moving. "Young and Restless" is young and engaged to the man of her dreams--but she's never been single.
Dolls, do you think there's such a thing as getting married too young--even if the relationship is ideal? Is singlehood all its cracked up to be?
Comments
boy am i glad i dated nothing but assholes until my late twenties.
seriously.
this one's tough.
Posted 11/10/2009 at 12:39:50 PMand that advice was no advice at all.
I just left a dude who wanted to marry me because I wasn't ready to commit. If it doesn't feel right, maybe it isn't, and if it feels great but you're not ready, it won't be great for long. At the end of the day, you've just gotta make the choice and hope that if he's really the one for you that he'll be around when you're doing getting your ya yas out.
Posted 11/10/2009 at 02:42:44 PMIt is possible to get married too young, but I think its more a maturity issue rather than an age issue (as long as they are above the age of consent and they have the mental capacity to give consent). I know of a few people that weren't mature enough to get married (between the ages of 18-20) and ended up getting divorced fairly quickly. Mainly because the males in the relationships weren't mature or intelligent enough to solve arguements with anything other than their fists.
Posted 11/12/2009 at 04:35:39 AM