Question: How old were you when you got married?

[StatGuy2000]

Hi everyone. I've been reading of repeated posts about PF members going back to school in their late twenties, often with a spouse (and children). So I wanted to pose this question to all of you -- how old were you when you got married? (this would include same-sex marriages for those of you who are LGBT -- in Canada where I'm from, same-sex marriage has been legal for the last decade, and same-sex marriages are legal in several countries in Europe)

As for myself, I'm currently 40 years old and am single (never married), although I am in a long-term relationship.

This poll will be closed after 90 days (approximately 4 months).

 

[George Jones]

43.

Before getting married, I lived for 19 years as a bachelor without housemates. I recently mentioned this to a friend, who instantly and perceptively replied “That must have been hard on your wife!”

 

[Jonathan Scott]

For those of us who have been married more than once, how do you want us to answer?

 

[wolram]

I was married to young and regretted it ever since.

 

[fresh_42]

Where is the corresponding divorce vote?

 

[Bandersnatch]

I got to say, for a 'statguy' that's a pretty poorly worded stat question.

 

[newjerseyrunner]

I was 30 and my wife was 34.

 

[Pepper Mint]

Not yet, still looking...

 

[CWatters]

Been married 32 years. My wife says you don't get that long for murder :-)

 

[1oldman2]

Been married 32 years. My wife says you don't get that long for murder :-)

5/9 was 36 for me. Your wifes humor helps doesn't it. (convicted of 1st degree marriage)

 

[Samy_A]

5/9 was 36 for me. Your wifes humor helps doesn't it. (convicted of 1st degree marriage)

You beat me by two months: 3 august will be 36 for me.

 

[StatGuy2000]

For those of us who have been married more than once, how do you want us to answer?

I would count the first time that you were married.

 

[StatGuy2000]

I got to say, for a 'statguy' that's a pretty poorly worded stat question.

How so? I am asking how old were you (or other PF members) when they first got married. I'm not interested in whether or when you were divorced -- that's for a separate poll/questionnaire.

Part of the reason I've set up this poll is to determine when people (at least the PF members) first marry. Do PF members tend to marry young, or older?

Within my own family, I've noticed members of my mother's side of the family tend to marry late (if they marry at all), and members of my father's side of the family tend to marry early. As I'm 40 and still single, I wanted to get a sense of whether that is common in the PF population.

 

[Bandersnatch]

I meant that it's not unambiguous whether you meant the first marriage, or the current one. Don't take it too personally, I was drunk when I wrote it, so it comes off as more belligerent than I'd normally intend.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I would count the first time that you were married.

OK, first time - that wasn't clear from the initial post. Personally I don't count the first time, as that's when I got it wrong, and it didn't last very long. The last time is when I think I got it right, and has lasted many times longer.

 

[Bandersnatch]

The statistics don't bode well for my matrimonial options, unless I get on to it really fast. :/

 

[StatGuy2000]

OK, first time - that wasn't clear from the initial post. Personally I don't count the first time, as that's when I got it wrong, and it didn't last very long. The last time is when I think I got it right, and has lasted many times longer.

Fair enough. I should add that the poll wasn't intended to ask whether the (first) marriage was right or not, or happy or not, merely when you were first married. I admit that the question should have been more explicit about this.

 

[davenn]

25

 

[MarneMath]

I was 20. At one point in my life I was one of the "married, with children and planning to go to graduate school." I still remember having to dumpster dive to feed my family. Thankfully my daughter doesn't :D.

 

[Kevin McHugh]

My wife and I were both 31. We just celebrated our 28th anniversary in Feb.

 

[1oldman2]

We just celebrated our 28th anniversary in Feb.

Congratulations !

 

[Kevin McHugh]

Congratulations !

Thanks, that was one thing I got right

 

[geoffrey159]

At 30, last september

 

[StatGuy2000]

I am yet single :)

Since I posted this thread last year, my status has not changed -- still single (although I am dating). :)