At what age did you "tie the knot" (for the first time?)

[Bicoastal]

Poll question: At what age did you "tie the knot" (for the first time?)

In honor of my sister, who's getting married next year at 30.

[hobbit709]

1. I was 45, Donna was 43

[mwooldri]

2. First and last time. 24...

Will be 10 years on March 20th this year :)

Mark.

[PBS Poll-435]

3. You mispelled poles.

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Marriage? Who needs it

/ex-fiance turned me off to it

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Bicoastal...

I was 21 when I married for the only time so far!

I knew what I wanted...and my husband was it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Same here, Peggy. :^)

:hi:

[NightWatcher]

7. 29 1st marriage, 31 divorce....should have waited till my late 60's

[mnhtnbb]

8. If I'd waited until 30 I could have saved myself a divorce at 28!

Married at 21--to the wrong man. Married at 34 to the right man. Still married at 57.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. 24

[krispos42]

19. New Jersey recognizes homosexual marriage now, yes? n/t

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

28. Well, they recognize civil unions

We got married by a minister (Pacifist Patriot) and we're only "civil unioned." My mom and stepdad only got married by the mayor, and they're "married."

It's stupid, and allegedly Corzine is going to sign gay marriage into law, because our civil union law is a joke.

[krispos42]

35. Congratulations are in order then!

I hadn't realized that you and Lost tied the knot!

That "marriage" issue is on it's way to being corrected, don't worry about that.


/says this divorced straight guy

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

41. Thanks!

We got married in Sept 2007.

We had a DU contingent there. Midlo didn't bother to come. Same lame excuse that she was in the hospital.

[krispos42]

42. Pshaw...

Like she needs BOTH kidneys...



:D

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

43. Seriously

I mean, she does just fine without a liver.

[Lucian]

10. 26, never been married.

I don't see myself getting married until I'm in my 30s.

[originalpckelly]

11. Other: Can't get married.

:-(

[krispos42]

21. Gay marriage issue? n/t

[justabob]

12. married at 22, separated at 24, divorce final at 25

I wish I had waited. :)

[NMDemDist2]

13. I got married at 19, again at 29 and this one at 39

this one seems to be sticking though, 15 years in Feb

[emilyg]

14. Got married on my 20th birthday.

[Adsos Letter]

15. And we celebrated 30 years together 2 days ago...

...although the wife says it seems like longer...

[Fleshdancer]

16. married at 21. Still married 10 yrs later. n/t

[Missy Vixen]

17. My first and only marriage: 33

It's good to wait till after 30. Of course, that's IMHO.

Julie

[mcctatas]

18. First marriage at 24...

and I doubt I will EVER do that again!

[krispos42]

20. Were you planning on being 24 again?

:P


I was 24 as well. Millennial Marriage. :-)

[mcctatas]

22. Ya know....

I just knew some smartass would come along and say that! :rofl:

[krispos42]

24. Better a smartass than a dumbass, right?

:-)


I want to get married again. I miss greatly what I had and don't like what I have.




Hmmmm... maybe I am a dumbass after all...

[travelingtypist]

23. 16. Divorced on my 17th birthday.

He died about six months later. I'm 44 now, never did it again.

[Jamastiene]

25. It is illegal for me to get married. n/t

[Witchy_Dem]

26. I was 31 and he was 23.

Still married 12 years later.

[Nevilledog]

40. I'm 8 years older than my husband also.

Going on 9 years here. Must be a good age difference...LOL

Although I don't care for when I mention a song that was popular when I was in high school and he looks at me and says, "Hmmm, I was 8."

[Witchy_Dem]

51. We say that kinda stuff all the time. Like when I started driving he was 8.

What's nice is having kids and having us both OLD. hahahahaha!

Luckily he's got much more gray hair than I do so it all evens out.

[Nevilledog]

57. We don't have any kids.

But he's the principal of an elementary school so I can go "visit" the little ones....and come home to peace and quiet. I'll always have more gray than him...heck, I started going gray in my 20's, but Clairol keep me young.

[Witchy_Dem]

59. I think it's weird when I'm about to leave one decade, entering another one,

just as he's getting used to the one I'm now leaving. He had a better 20s decade than I did. He had me~! LOL The 20s decade SUCKED.

[Nevilledog]

65. LOL.... I hear ya.

I keep telling him the 40's are the shit...he doesn't believe me. I can't believe we're going on 9 years. When my parents found out that at the time we met he was teaching middle school they figured that was the perfect qualification for getting along with me..LOL My mom said that she knew he was a keeper when he actually blushed at something she said....she had low standards for me I guess.

[Witchy_Dem]

69. Low standards? Nah. More like kickin intuition!

Or you're young at heart. :o)

I am still trying to get used to the 40s, being only 42. It's harder on me physically but I'm good in my own head.

My parents swore it would take a guy with a whip and a chair. They never counted on the strong, silent type who has never even raised his voice. Hahahahaha!

[Witchy_Dem]

52. Dupe

[vard28]

67. Holy crap!

It's been THAT long? Seems like just yesterday I was feedin' the Little Green Men slot machines all my quarters!

Geez... we've known each other for a LONG time. :rofl:

[Duppers]

27. 21

and that was 41 yrs ago!

Yes, I'm that old and I've been married 41 frikin' years ago! Do I get a some sort of prize?

:rofl:

[Arkansas Granny]

29. Married at 19, divorced at 30. Never repeated the mistake.

I advise every young person I know to take a few years to be their own person between being someone's child and becoming someone's spouse.

[NewJeffCT]

37. Good advice - I told a woman about 19 that once

I was going through the divorce process at the time, and it was not an awful/hateful divorce or anything...

but, this 19 year old was engaged and was complaining about how terrible her future in-laws were, and then would turn around and later say how anxious she was to get married ASAP. So, the next time she complained about her in-laws, I turned to her and said something like, "You do realize that you will have these in-laws for the rest of your life? If you dislike them so much, would it hurt you to wait another year before getting married? If your love is truly meant to be, it can survive another year's wait."

[Bertha Venation]

30. It may not be legal yet, but I was 37 when Mrs. V. and I knit our lives. n/t

[LaraMN]

31. 20. eom

[Sisaruus]

32. 18 and pregnant.

Back in 1970 when birth control was still illegal for single people. Divorced in 1981.

[latebloomer]

61. I'm your age, and I don't remember BC being illegal for singles.

Condoms certainly ween't. And I think I was on a diaphragm, and then the pill, around 1970 or 71

Must have been a state law.

[Sisaruus]

71. Eisenstadt v. Baird

Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972): United States Supreme Court case that established the right of unmarried people to possess contraception on the same basis as married couples and, by implication, the right of unmarried couples to engage in potentially procreative sexual. The Court struck down a Massachusetts law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried people, ruling that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.

[NewJeffCT]

33. First marriage at 31, divorced at 32, remarried at 34

though, I was only a week short of my 35th birthday the second marriage.

[Mad_Dem_X]

34. I was almost 31.

First and only time.

[MorningGlow]

36. Married at the ripe old age of 32

:rofl:

I have nothing against getting married earlier; he just didn't show up till then.

But now that I think about it, I truly enjoyed being single for so long. I had several friends who married just after college and were miserable before they hit 30, only because they'd changed so much during their 20s that they eventually found themselves incompatible with their mates. :(

[BarenakedLady]

38. 28 and never again.

[Nevilledog]

39. I was 34, hubby was 26.

Yes, I am a cradle robber. Had been engaged previously, but in the back of my mind I always felt I was "settling". When I met my hubby I never had a doubt. It's like porn, you know it when you see (feel) it.

[AwakeAtLast]

48. I'm a cradle robber, too!

I'm 38 (and female), husband is 30

[Nevilledog]

50. I guess our moms raised us right...hehehe.

I'm 43 and he's 35....but we both act like we're twelve and fight over whose turn it is to play video games...LOL

[SidneyCarton]

44. 22

[WritingIsMyReligion]

45. Someone was married before 18?

Or even before 20?

My mind just exploded with wonder. :o

[MissMillie]

46. Nobody wants me

I'm 44

[MedleyMisty]

47. 21

Turned 28 on Wednesday. Still very happily married. :)

I keep hearing that you have to do something for 10 years to be really good at it. Next September will be the 10th anniversary of our first date, so I tell my husband that I'm almost really good at hanging out with him.

We have gotten better at it - we've both changed and matured over the years and learned how the other person communicates and made compromises and allowances. Although I admit that I think he compromises more than I do. I'm quite willing to, but it's just - I don't know, he's the oldest of five and all self-sacrificing and I'm the youngest/only and terribly spoiled.

It seems to be working out, though.

When I brought him home for the first time my mother said "You mean you found someone who likes books as much as you do?!"

[Haole Girl]

49. 32

It was young, compared to when I always swore I would get married! lol

[Tikki]

53. We got married during 'The Summer of Love'...

we were 19 and 18 years old....over 41 years ago.


The Tikkis

[davsand]

54. Married Kevsand when I was 35.

Lived with him for a few years before that. The main reason we got married was because we wanted a family and we figured it was probably gonna be less hassle in the long run to observe the formalities. I think we pretty much always knew it was a long term thing, but the decision to have a family really brought that marriage discussion to the foreground for us. For both of us, marriage was what you did "forever" and we had both avoided it up to that point.

I have to confess, reading here I see a lot of folks talking about getting married young and it makes me shiver. I am so VERY glad I did not marry the first one I thought I loved. Dunno where he ended up but it would have ended BADLY had we been tied to each other in any way other than emotionally.

I waited for the BEST one for me.



Laura

[mykpart]

55. Married at 20, divorced at 27.

Did not remarry until I was 52. That was 9 years ago, and I'm very happy.

[mokawanis]

56. Married at 24

I'm 50, she's 48 = married for 26 yrs.

[S n o w b a l l]

58. 37 but lived together for 4 yrs before

so I really consider it 33. He was 8 years younger....divorced 13 yrs later. Haven't remarried.

[Genevieve]

60. 23.

[TroglodyteScholar]

62. 22...

If I could go back, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't do it again.

[latebloomer]

63. 38

and I'm glad I waited! Was into the "bad boys" previously, and it never worked out.

This one did. :D

[RubyDuby in GA]

64. I was 31 and my hubby was 46.

And we brought something unexpected back from our honeymoon. That would be our now 2 1/2 year old son :)

[femmocrat]

66. 20. Way too young. n/t

[sakabatou]

68. I'm engaged but no date for wedding yet

[SallyMander]

70. 3 months ago! I was/am 28

Hubby is only 26 though. :D

[datasuspect]

72. dodged that bullet

[Turbineguy]

73. My Cousin has it worked out

her husband is 6 years younger. She won't have an old coot to take care of.

[Auggie]

74. 28... the big mistake