What is a good age to get married?

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What is a good age to get married?

  • 18 - 21

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • 21 - 25

    Votes: 7 31.8%

  • 25 - 29

    Votes: 11 50.0%

  • 30 - 35

    Votes: 2 9.1%

  • 35+

    Votes: 1 4.5%
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I'm a traditional person so I probably wont get married until I'm in my late 20s or well into my 30s.
I'm want to make sure I'm finished with secondary school and have a job before I think of serious dating.
What do you all think?
 
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supers said:
I'm a traditional person so I probably wont get married until I'm in my late 20s or well into my 30s.
I'm want to make sure I'm finished with secondary school and have a job before I think of serious dating.
What do you all think?
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Just be careful that you aren't setting a target age for marriage and setting yourself up to potentially settle for someone who isn't right for you or marrying out of desperation. Your thought on focusing on your education and professional goals is good...commit to the Lord with whatever you do and everything else will work itself out.
 
30-35 seems good to me. Right now Im too busy enjoying not being married and i dont see that changing for another year or two
 
People should really wait until 25 because its a known scientific fact that the decision making part of our brain, the cerebral cortex (frontal lobe) does not fully develop until age 25.
 
for me its better around 23 ? but it just depends whether u already have the serious relationship or not lol
 
supers said:
I'm a traditional person so I probably wont get married until I'm in my late 20s or well into my 30s.
I'm want to make sure I'm finished with secondary school and have a job before I think of serious dating.
What do you all think?
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Since when is this traditional? All my grandparents and great grandparents were married by 22-23 at the oldest.

Something in our society is making us get married later....

The younger the better, but they guy needs to be responsible and they both need to be committed.
 
God will give you your spose @ the right time. i'm not gonna hold off on a Great guy just because i'm "too busy" living my life being single. i know that there are plenty of Dogs out there to marry so if i find a good one then i'll be married next year! lol. but if not then i might not be married till i'm 40. ^_^ i'm in no rush to find a husband. and if i don't find one so be it. this is a short life that simply a test to get to heaven. eternity is what i'm really looking forward to.
 
Stuey said:
Something in our society is making us get married later....
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its mostly people wanting to do things for themselves i think. there are a variety of things for someone to do travel, degrees, graduate school, and now marriage is not the most important thing for many people.

Aqua_Girl09 said:
i'm not gonna hold off on a Great guy just because i'm "too busy" living my life being single..
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Im not holding off, but then im not even looking for a serious relationship that would lead to marriage right now. I might go on a date but its not the same as relationships.
 
I can't see any age being optimal for marriage. My pastor back home married his wife when he was about 19, and they've been together over 50 years now. On the other hand, a former coworker of mine married at 37. Depends on you and the person. Can the two of you adequately handle stress, communicate well, resolve or tolerate those pesky things the other does, etc.?

Personally, I'm waiting until I finish college and get at least some kind of job going. I don't plan on being single forever, either. I would reckon the prime marrying age is somewhere between 25-35.
 
I really don't think there is a "perfect" age to get married. Obviously people are tending to get married later into their 20's these days than in prior generations, but some of that is happening because a higher percentage of people are going to college than in former generations. I think the other thing driving this trend is the relatively new idea that people need to have a solid career, house, etc prior to marrying. In generations past couples worked together to accomplish those things.

By far, maturity is a bigger issue than age when it comes to marriage and it seems to me that many in the younger generation don't want to grow up.
 
It is best for everyone if people marry as early as reasonably possible. By that I mean capable of earning a reasonable salary. Demographic replacement rates are a big deal, but you don't want children having babies.
 
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It is best for everyone if people marry as early as reasonably possible. By that I mean capable of earning a reasonable salary. Demographic replacement rates are a big deal, but you don't want children having babies.
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Wait... huh? Why marry as early as reasonably possible?
 
shawntc said:
Wait... huh? Why marry as early as reasonably possible?
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Ideally, maturity, health/physical reasons, responsibility, and because you can enjoy your partner in youth as well as old age.

I know getting married young doesn't always translate as such, but it can. That's why I began with 'ideally '.

In any case, going with my earlier post, there are joys and pains to being both single and married. I believe I'll try to be content with whatever the situation, but my Mother commented once in the past that I 'glow' when I have a woman to love who loves me.

It's just nice. Some of us have this missing piece in our lives when that's not present, but it's all good. It certainly would help with ministry to better relate to married couples, for counciling, and just in general when having a partner to help fulfill God's plan for my life(and I to help her).
 
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