Someone who married at 22, divorced at 30, and spent a decade co-parenting shares what they learned. Young marriage locks you into expectations formed before you know who you are. Modern partnerships need both people playing parent, advisor, and companion at once.
What did you learn about yourself through getting married in your early 20s, getting divorced in your early 30s, and being not married for the last 10 years, but co-parenting?
I don't advise people to get married young because it's very formative years. In the modern age, maybe back in your dad's time, my dad's time, it was a bit different expectations and criteria.
It didn't work for my parents when they got young too.
Yeah, I don't know. Maybe if it worked because maybe the expectations and criteria of marriage was different 50 years ago or 80 years ago. Today, I think because you want them to be proper companions, coming in and really get you. Like, we were talking also about your relationship. You need that proper partnership because they kind of wear more than one hat. Not just the mother of your kids or just your wife. It's your go-to, your advisor.
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