What's the best age to get married?

[Teddyrose54]

Daughter is 17 and her boyfriend who is 19, was discussing this last night.

He said young was best, she said after 30~

Should prove an interesting relationship~

[shezz]

Never

[moonwitch]

I think..somewhere between 30 and never

[bykimbo]

Daughter is 17 and her boyfriend who is 19, was discussing this last night.

He said young was best, she said after 30~

Should prove an interesting relationship~

Sounds like he wants a laundry maid and she wants a career

[papagran40]

the best time for me was 1962 ... ( and still going ) some arguments since then ....but no regrets...would do it again.....
.... you can never tell about things like this....but I do believe that some people are not prepared to work at married life....they still want to act like they are single and do what they like.....it does not work like that...perhaps the lack of marrage is part of the problem with the way things are now ( family life ) ????...........papa.

[shelleywelley]

Dunno really, my dad's getting married for 2nd time in a couple of weeks. He's 53, she's 39 My step mum is 6 years older than me

I'm 33 and tbh don't really see the point in getting married. Been with Jon for 15 years, got 3 kids, bit of paper and a ring's not going to make any difference to me.

[astral276]

The average male lifespan is around 77 years - so 78 would seem a good figure to aim at for getting married.

Or as my dad once told me:

'Don't get married boy until you are too old to darn your own socks'.

Of course...nobody darns socks nowadays - so I never bothered.

[Cocksparrer]

Never

Have to agree with Shezz on this one, been asked to marry peeps 4 times & showed them the front door off they plodded.
Whats the point in a piece of paper name change & a ring. If youre committed like me to the Asylum then marriages is a no go

[SalusLibrorum]

I'd go with never too. It's a really BAD idea.

There is no advantage to being tied to someone contractually nowadays, in fact since the married tax allowances were abolished, it is not in a woman's best interest to get married at all, because it makes her finances tangled up with the mans (and from experience I know that can be a very bad thing indeed). Marriage used to be an institution to give women some sort of security when they had children and weren't supposed to be working, and to keep a man reminded of his responsibilities.

It just aint like that any more. From the experiences I've seen all around me, the woman just collects another child rather than a partner, and ends up still doing all the work, or maybe families around here are different to the rest of the UK.

Tell them not to do it, and to keep their finances separate, then it's not so painful when the split happens (like it does much of the time nowadays).

[victorfrank]

I think the ladies are being a tad negative in their replies.