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My parents divorced after 29 years of marriage, and my wife's parents divorced after 57 years. Both of our parents married before each spouse was little more than teenagers (In fact, her mom was 17 and mine was 18: really too damned young.) We will celebrate 30 years in August.
Both of us decided early on (unlike our parents) that we would never buy into that work young/ marry young/ die young mentality: education came first, and there was to be no wedding bells until we were established in our careers. By the time we were married in our early 30's we'd each lived a lot and had seen a lot. We'd each lived on our own and if there were any rough edges in the marriage it was because we were both somewhat set in our ways as individuals and had to learn to mesh as a family.
Both of us decided early on (unlike our parents) that we would never buy into that work young/ marry young/ die young mentality: education came first, and there was to be no wedding bells until we were established in our careers. By the time we were married in our early 30's we'd each lived a lot and had seen a lot. We'd each lived on our own and if there were any rough edges in the marriage it was because we were both somewhat set in our ways as individuals and had to learn to mesh as a family.