JUST WHAT AGE IS RIGHT FOR MARRIAGE?

If you have to ask whether you are ready or not, then you are not ready.

It’s so unfortunate that life does not come with a manual. Neither do human beings

Marriage is the institution where you spend the most of your lifetime and you can’t be ready before you meet that person you’re going to dedicate the most of your lifetime to.

If you’re ready before you meet that person it means you’ve given in to pressures from within and outside. In this case you’re mostly ready to settle with anyone who comes along your way and this may cloud your judgment of the person so you may miss on the danger signs, if any or realize you’re stuck with a total stranger after committing yourself to that person.

My mom once told me that marriage just happens. It is not something you can plan for.

I subscribe to that school of thought because just like love, you can’t decide when you will fall in love. It finds you when you least expect it.

Some people get married at 19, some at 30 and others at 43. At the end of life, all of them will have and been married. Isn’t that all that matters?

Marriage is a big deal and a huge commitment and is a decision that should be made with a sober mind.
It’s not like walking into a supermarket and picking an item but after going home with it and finding it faulty you return it to the customer care desk for exchange or a refund.

You have to be sure that you’ll want to stick beside this person for better, for worse.

Our tastes and preferences in the opposite sex changes with time. When younger, we’re more into physical attributes but the older we get, the preference for just more than the physique grows. We consider character.

Our biblical roles in marriage are respect for the man and love for the woman.

A woman who is found by the man she can respect in whatever circumstance and a man whose love for his lady is unshakeable, a person whose craziness and weaknesses you can put up with for the rest of your life that person who’s not the most attractive but you find peace within you ignoring the better looking ones for, the one whom you find worth YOU and worth hurting for

Truth is, everyone’s going to hurt you-you just have to choose the ones worth hurting for.


Above all, trust your instincts.
Whether you meet this person at 19 or 43, marry them!