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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 12/26/2007 10:02:43 AM
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Consecrated2God
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My mom was 18, my dad was 19. They've been married for over thirty years, but I can't remember the exact number.
My mother-in-law was 17 when she married, and my father-in-law was in his early twenties, but I can't remember exactly how old. I think he was 21 or 22. They've been married 31 years. I can remember their anniversary a lot easier because it was twenty years earlier than ours, and my MIL's parents had their anniversary exactly 20 years before that. We celebrated our fiftieth, our thirtieth, and our tenth wedding anniversaries all within a month of each other.
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 12/26/2007 11:17:09 AM
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In 1945, my dad was 25 and my mother 26. In small-town Miss. this was considered "old" at the time.
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 12/26/2007 11:50:39 AM
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Both were 21 and in college. High school sweethearts!
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 12/26/2007 6:17:21 PM
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My parents married in 1975. My mom was 17 and graduated high school in 1976. My dad was 22. He knew my mom's sister's boyfriend...and they went on a double date one time...it wasn't supposed to be that...my mom was supposed to be "watching" her older sister...well, they met, he stayed around visiting my mom a lot, and when my sister and the other man got married, people said in the prescense of both my mom and dad, "Why don't you get married?" Daddy said, "Do you want to?" Mama said "Yeah, that's fine." That was over 32 years ago now... Isn't it amazing how young people used to get married, and how they have stayed together. It's hard to find that these days.
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 12/28/2007 11:41:50 AM
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Mom was 21, Dad was 20. They have been married for 37 years.
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 12/28/2007 3:18:00 PM
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Mom was 20 and Dad was 28
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 12/28/2007 3:50:47 PM
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Mom was 17, Dad was 19. They've been married almost 28 years.
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 12/30/2007 9:43:51 PM
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Mom was 15, Dad was 21, in October 2008 they will have their 49th wedding anniversary.
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 1/1/2008 2:07:35 PM
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My mom had just turned 25 and my dad was a week shy of his 26th birthday. They met when my mom moved into a duplex and needed to use the phone, so she went to the other side of the duplex where my did lived to borrow the phone. So I can say that my mom married the boy next door. That was in '68. They divorced less than 10 years later.
My mom remarried at 41, and my stepfather was nearing 50. They were married almost 12 years, when my mother passed away. We met him and his wife at our pastor's house. After his wife divorced him and she remarried, my stepfather, having known my mom for nearly 5 years, asked her out on one date and proposed on that date and they were married two months later.
My stepfather is now nearly 73 and still going strong. He's remarried to a 42 year old woman and they live in Cambodia where they are serving on the mission field.
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 1/1/2008 2:59:27 PM
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My mom was 18 and my dad was 21. They just celebrated their 46th Wedding Anniversary. There say that there are angels living here on earth amongst us and I think that my mom is surely one of these angels. She is such a faithful person and everyone that comes in contact with my mother falls in love with her.
I give credit to my mother for my personality and strength. I remember as a small girl I dreamt of growing up and being just like my mom. It is an honor to me when people say to me that I look so much like my mother. She is my best friend, my confidant. No matter what I am going through whenever I talk to my mom she has the right scripture to give to me. I do not have to mention to her what it is I am going through she just knows. When I read the scriptures I am in awe as to how right she is.
A few weeks before my husband left, my mom told me that she had a dream about me and that it was not a good dream and she gave me Psalms 3 and told me to concentrate on the 3rd verse (But thou O Lord art a shield for me, my glory and the lifter up of mine head). How could I ever go wrong with a mother like mine. I am thankful for both my parents but I have a closer relationship with my mom.
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 1/2/2008 4:37:11 PM
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They were 18 and 19
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 1/2/2008 10:31:40 PM
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dad/mom -- 19/18 respectively
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 1/5/2008 1:48:57 PM
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Both were 24, and 36 years later they are still crazy about each other. My in-laws were 25 and 28 (I think!) and they also have a wonderful marriage. I'm so grateful DH and I both had the experience of growing up in healthy, intact families.
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 1/5/2008 5:58:47 PM
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My mother was barely 18, and my dad was 26. They were married for 42 years until my dad passed away.
My husband's parents were 19 (mother) and 20 (dad). They will celebrate their 57th anniversary this year.
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 1/6/2008 8:52:24 PM
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My mother was 18 and father 19. They will be celebrating their 56th anniv. this year! If given the chance to do it over again, the only change would be to wait a few more years before marriage.
Blessings!
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 1/7/2008 12:07:20 PM
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17 & 17. Divorced 20yrs later because of adultery on my father's side. Both remarried someone 11yrs younger. Father is divorced again and moving on to his 3rd wife. I think this will be his last marriage.
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 1/7/2008 11:11:59 PM
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Mom-18, Dad-20
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 1/7/2008 11:44:53 PM
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My mom was 20, my dad was 25, they were married in 1961, still married, but have had some rough patches (though NOT adultery or substance abuse or anything like that), but have been doing very well last few years.
< Message edited by OneOfHisJewels -- 1/7/2008 11:51:22 PM >
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 1/10/2008 4:21:33 PM
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Dad was 22, Mom was 20 (I think). They were married about 12 years before my mom died. My dad married my step-mom the next year (he was 35, she was 34) and they just celebrated their 23rd wedding anniversary. Both examples have been very good examples for me to live by because God was at the core of both of these marriages.
I hope I can capture that in my marriage one day.
God's love & blessings to you all who have the same goal or are living it.
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RE: How old were your parents when they got married? - 1/10/2008 5:42:16 PM
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Mom was 18, Dad was 19. They were highschool sweethearts. They celebrated their 35th anniversary last Sept.
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I got married at 20, my sister at 22 and one of my brothers at 21. No one on my side of the family (grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.) has ever gotten divorced and almost all of us get married young-ish. Oh, wait. I have a great-aunt and a great-uncle who have been separated for about 25 years. They still had a 50th anniversary party, though, even though they haven't lived in the same house for half their marriage 
