Age of Marriage?

[Ben Davis]

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This is sort of a "ladies only" thread. Gentleman, please post elsewhere. I suppose though if you do post.. just be polite/discrete okay? Like talk as if your gradnmother can read it.

Ladies, what age do you think is appropriate to marry? I know its really common to wait until your late 20s, early 30s to marry. When our grandmothers were alive, they tended to marry right out of high school at age 18.

They did school, became an adult and married. I did that myself. Im 35, married when I was 20 or so.

In my case, finding a good man by the time I was 20 made things less complicated. No heartbreaks, no bad relationships, or irresponsible decisions. I mean I became sort of an adult, or at least more of one after I became Mrs. Spokes.

I had to say goodbye to crazy drinking and partying. (Though I do drink and party on occassion !)

Its sort of a crazy thing these days, how many of "us girls" choose to behave. It's like so many girls don't want to be married but act like the "wife" of tons of guys all through their 20s.

Our grannies would be shocked by it. So many girls who perform the marital act, but are old maids well into their 20s! Sorry if I offended anyone, I do not mean to.

What is the right "marriage age?" Are any girls here married?  Any looking for "Mr. Right?" And finally, are there those of us who gave up on finding a man, and have resigned yourselves to being a spinster or your nephew/niece's maiden aunt? Let's talk if that is the case, maybe I can give some advice!

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Legal Marriage™ is unethical. No government or religious institution has the right to tell me that my commitment to my S.O. isn't good enough until ratified by them! Like I'm some licentious Lothario who can't stop himself from sleeping with every woman he meets without some form of penalty-contract. They can keep their grubby little hands off my relationship! Plus, here in the UK, there are legal & financial 'incentives' (bribes!), just to taint the process that extra bit

Sure, the ceremonies are wonderful and I'm all for the public celebration of relationships, if that's what the people involved want but there's something decidedly false and misogynistic about any society that indoctrinates its women in to 'desiring' marriage, unthinkingly. Don't even get me started on the capitalistic industrialisation of weddings!