[mechagodzilla]

I married at 22 and moved to nyc. I lived through meeting peers that thought we were freaks (“you two are definitely gonna get divorced”), to the gradual normalization as we got older and more of our friends married. I knew lots of people that transitioned from young and invincible and definitely never going to get married to dismayed at coming up on 40 and feeling like they hadn’t quite started “real life” yet. I don’t like the article’s depiction of the guy “taking her under his wing” had they gotten married earlier, but I will say that there is something great about sharing your youth with someone unequivocally on your side, if life gives you the opportunity.

[senordevnyc]

I also got married young (21) and moved to SF and then NYC, and got all the same reactions.

But then at 38 we did divorce lol