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[traveler]

Enlisted in the Air Force during the Vietnam war.

[proudlyfromNJ]

Just because people marry young doesn’t mean they can’t get an education past high school. My former husband had a doctorate and was a college professor. Married at 20.

What is good for one person isn’t always good for another.

[dex]

I ran away from home at 13 with a friend from school.We wanted to prove to our parents that we could take care of ourselves.We lived on Vancouver island and  tookthe ferry to Vancouver.We spent a very exciting two weeks before the police caught up with us at midnight panhandling on Granville street for money to buy peanut butter.We stayed with a group of draft dodgers from USA who happened to be a really nice group of guys that treated us like little sisters and never touched us inappropriately...says a lot about those boys.We were really lucky to have run into them and I am sure their families must have been excellent people.

[suzyQ3]

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@Carmie wrote:

Got married when I was barely 19.  It wasn't a mistake, just nutty when I look back.  I am still married.

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@CarmieI married my husband after my freshman year in college and after my husband had just graduated from college. It was a bit different back then. I think our academic pursuits (especially that my husband had finished his degree) and our family backgrounds perhaps put us a bit ahead of other very young marriages.

Some of the best memories I have were from the three years that we lived in UCLA Married Housing (not called that anymore).

I don't think that I would have been overjoyed if our daughter had married at 18; times had changed so much by then.

BTW, we celebrated our 50th last year.

[Carmie]

@suzyQ3  congratulations.  What a wonderful story.

I would never had guessed you were married for 50 years.  You come across as being so much younger because of the way you think and express yourself.  You still have a youthful essence.

i guess you haven't aged a day in those 50 years.

[suzyQ3]

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@Carmie wrote:

@suzyQ3  congratulations.  What a wonderful story.

I would never had guessed you were married for 50 years.  You come across as being so much younger because of the way you think and express yourself.  You still have a youthful essence.

i guess you haven't aged a day in those 50 years.

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@Carmie 

[trenet]

Like @Carmie  and @dulwich , I think marrying young was crazy.   I, too, was a young bride - married 2 weeks shy of my 18th birthday.  

Together 48 years, (no kids);  I question whether we would have stayed together had he been home all those years!   How many years did we really live together if I subtract all the time he was deployed?! 

He was career Navy, then a civilian job where he first travelled

a lot but now, he is home most evenings.  It is a tough adjustment - I like lots of time alone!  

[SXMGirl]

When I was 14, my best friend pierced my ears with a sewing needle.  I was afraid to go and have it done professionally, but for some reason thought it was a good idea to spend hours having a sewing needle put through my fat earlobe.

[Carmie]

@SXMGirl   I did the same thing when I was younger than you.  My mother had her ears pierced and we got a new girl in my school who came from Italy and she also had her ears pierced.  

I was hooked and wanted mine pierced too.  Back then it wasn't popular yet.  My mother told me her friend pierced her ears with a needle and thread while holding a clean raw potato behind the earlobes.  So, that's what I did....one ear only.

I showed my mother what I had done while she was on the phone.  She hung up quickly.  LOL

After that day, she took me to a doctor who pierced the other ear.

[house_cat]

DH and I moved our two highschool aged teens across the country - they had to leave their school, their friends, our extended family.  Needless to say, they were very angry and it was a very difficult two or three years to follow.  Now that they're grown they admit it was a good move for all of us, but at the time it was a very risky thing to do.