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Isn't 16 a little young for marriage?
I fear my niece is making an age-old mistake.
By Cary Tennis [2007-09-06]
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  • One never knows...my fiance's mother and father married young and they were very happy.

    She was 18 and he was 20 and they married in the late 1950s. They truly had one of those fabled one-in-a-million marriages. I doubt that will be the case with this one, but sometimes I have to drop my reflexively cynical attitude and just shrug.

    In the meantime, go to the wedding, stay quiet, and talk honestly with your daughter before and after.

    --Anonymous
    Sunday, September 9, 2007 02:46 PM

  • attending the wedding

    Don't know if the LW should go to the wedding or not, though from what I see, much of her cringing is understandable.

    Just wanted to point out that if people attended weddings only when they fully approved of the matches, or had confidence that the marriages would be happy and long-lasting, there would be some pretty sparse wedding attendance around these parts.

    --Anonymous
    Monday, September 10, 2007 03:32 PM

  • bridesmaid at 16

    That's no big deal. Sixteen is a little old to be a flower girl, after all.

    I was a bridesmaid when I was 17 when my big sister, an Ivy League superachiever type, got married. That doesn't mean I followed quickly in Big Sis' footsteps, for better or for worse.

    --Anonymous
    Monday, September 10, 2007 03:39 PM

  • After a year of reading Salon...

    I've become convinced that heterosexuals hate marriage.

    -- Omni32
    [Read Omni32's other letters]
    Monday, September 10, 2007 06:37 PM

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