I'll be 18 in two weeks and Im a E-3 in the U.S Marines Corps and I leave to Iraq in June,my fiancee will be 18 in April and we want to get married in May, is that to early???!!

Fr_Chuck

Personally I would wait till you get back, a year away from a new bride is tough on any marriage.

Jesushelper76

How do you and your fiancee feel? Is it too early for you or too early for your fiancee? Your questioning it? My question to you is why do you think your questioning it? Is it something inside you that is saying it may be too early or do you have others giving you that advice? It is your decision on what to do? Yours together, but I also agree with Father Chuck that waiting until you come back would be a better idea.

Joe

Meggx7

OMG yes that is wayyyy tooo early my bestfriend got married last july 2005 to a marine she was 18 shes now 19 her hubby will be 21 in january and it is just way too hard for her to be away from him and they always fight all the time about their finacial problems and where they're going to live next i would deff wait!!!!

gansada

rkim291968

Another "yes, it is too early" vote.


I've seen too many others who married in their 20's and their marriage broke down due to immaturity on their parts. 18? Whew.! There is no need for you to rush into this. If you must, try living together at least for 2 - 3 years.

samsclub

Please do not make a major life decision when you are about to take on something as big as going to Iraq. Marriage is really serious and it sucks to be divorced (I am). It would be better to wait out your current circumstance and see how it is at the end of that- than to regret it and get a divorce and have the "I am divorced" thing hanging over your head. If it is true it will work out at the end.

talaniman

What the hurry is what I've been saying for a long time. Much better to wait till you comeback and can be with your new wife.

chuff

I'm only 10 years older than you and I can tell you that you have no idea how life changes in the next 10 years. You will be a different person in 5 years and a completely different person in 10 years. I had a best friend from 8th grade (13 or 14 years old) who I hung out with almost daily until about 20 years old. He moved away lived life had a child, and I went to college started living life and about two years ago we happen to meet at a gas station by accident. We started talking and had lunch at a taco bell next door. We were cordial with one another at the end of lunch and we exchanged numbers. Neither of us ever called the other.

Do you know why? Because we were two different people then we were in high school. We had lived life and experienced different lives, seen different things, and become different people. We had gone in different directions and had lost any kind of common connection that had made us friends years before.

You don't know who your going to be in 10 years. The person will be vastly different the person you are now.

Feeling Foolish

Strickly a personal opinion based on experience. Wait. If you really love each other that's not going to change. There's no reason to rush into marriage. What you want now may change in a year or even a month.