<p>If I’m deeply in love with that person & sure I wasn’t to be with them forever, then yes.</p>
<p>I was IN LOVE at 18. Got engaged at 19. Thank God we didn’t get married! It would have been a colossal disaster. Don’t marry young, guys!! Whatever you think, you just don’t know enough to make the most important decision of your life.</p>
<p>^I’ll never know enough: no one can tell what the future holds. A five-year engagement between people in their forties might still fall apart. Perhaps a marriage will be a colossal disaster, perhaps it will last a lifetime, but you can never know unless you take that risk. If I were with someone I loved, and I felt like our love could last forever, I see no reason not to attempt a marriage. You see the possibility that you might regret a marriage, but not the possibility that you’ll regret letting someone go.</p>
<p>@MaineLonghorn you don’t know that. people are different. it might be okay for some people and not okay for others</p>
<p>@MaineLonghorn, did you get married to the same guy later on in your life?</p>
<p>My parents got together when my mum was 19, my dad a few years older. Even when they had my older brother, they still waited a few years to get married, as they were both at university and completely broke, so it made sense to wait a while. She was 23 when they finally did marry.
I don’t think marriage has that much relevance in today’s society, and in particular to me, if you really love someone, then why do you need a marriage to prove it? (just one of the reasons I hate Bella Swan)</p>
<p>^If you’re really in love with someone, why do you need</p>
<p>—to give them Christmas presents—
—to tell them you love them—
—to kiss them—
—to make sacrifices on their behalf—
—to spend time with them—</p>
<p>to prove it?</p>
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<p>this isn’t necessarily aimed at UKgirl, but why does the money situation matter when it comes to marriage? isn’t marriage just meant to be a special bond? it doesn’t mean that two people have to settle down together and have everything, for lack of a better term, set in stone, although that’s typically how things are done</p>
<p>If someone like Peeta existed, yes. ;)</p>
<p>But seriously, I’d rather get married when I’m out of college, more financially secure, more mature, etc.</p>
<p>JimboSteve, of course things can go wrong even when you’re older, but you learn a LOT about yourself during college. I learned that it DID matter that my fiance and I were on opposite ends of the religious spectrum (atheist vs. serious Christian). Also, since he was my first serious boyfriend, it wasn’t until I dated others that I realized he hadn’t treated me that well. I would have shortchanged myself if I’d stuck with him.</p>
<p>I met my future husband in grad school, two years after I’d broken up with the first guy. DH and I have been married 25 years and we’re crazier about each other now than we got married.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t, but not because of the whole “love doesn’t mean marriage” thing that everyone else is talking about. I wouldn’t because that’s just when life gets interesting with college. I think that if it was true love then we’d stick together through college and then figure it out and get married.</p>
<p>I’d be very, very tempted, but studies have shown that couples that marry earlier are more likely to divorce. If marriage is the best way to maintain my relationship, then that just shows that I shouldn’t marry! Marriage should happen between you and someone else because you truly love this person; it shouldn’t be something you use wrongly to protect your relationship. And if I got pregnant, oh jeez… Probably still wouldn’t.</p>
<p>No lol. I don’t even want to get married.</p>
<p>By the financial thing I was talking about the cost of the wedding, not actual marriage. But i think they got their wedding pretty cheap anyways, as they were at New College, Oxford they could use the church there for free, my mum made her own cake and a friend made the dress :)</p>
<p>I would never get married at 18. If I was truly that in love, why the hell would I need a piece of paper to confirm it? If I had a kid (first of all, god help me), I still wouldn’t get married. I would wait until I at least finished college if I had a kid. Otherwise, I plan to wait until at least 27-28 if I do end up getting married.</p>
<p>I don’t plan to get married until everyone is given the right to marry the one they love. I don’t feel like I should get some sort of special privilege over other people, just because I fit the standards of what certain people believe is a proper marriage.</p>
<p>I’ve heard colleges don’t like to offer admission to married people…
And the crazy group of people I’m around have considered marriage to help a friend… because marriage gives US citizenship and we have a friend who doesn’t have green card or other certain legal docs and thus is thrown into the international pool of applicants.</p>
<p>@UKgirl ah. gotcha</p>
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<p>I don’t think I’ld want to go to a college that cared :/</p>
<p>I personally would not be able to live with myself if I married at 18 under ANY circumstances since we both would not be ready to deal with the consequences of being married even if i really did love him or had his baby. Plus, Im not one to fall easily in love anyways even if he is “perfect” so that would never be an issue for me.</p>
<p>I don’t want to get married at all so no. If I got pregnant–well I can’t guarantee what decision I would make in that situation, but I definitely know that my life hasn’t been established enough for me to raise a child and get married.</p>