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This article is about what you need to know about getting married in your teens and what to do to make it last. With so many marriages falling apart out there it is nice to know that some of us in our teens that got married are still together in our 30´s and 40´s.

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Marriage in your teens?

I know, when you hear that sentence as a statement or in any other form you automatically hate the idea. People often say that if you marry someone in your teens or even in your early 20´s these days that it will not last. How can it right?

Well I am here to tell you that it can work. I am one of those silly teens that got married when I was just 16. My husband was 18 at the time. We had already gotten engaged a year before that. I know what you are saying, "How on earth could anyone get engaged at the age of 15?" Well that was me. Going to my high school as a freshmen wearing my brand new fur coat and my lovely engagement ring. People looked at me as if I were crazy. See my husband was working as soon as he turned 16 so he had some money to spend and my mom helped him out some also.

So we were a very young couple and very much in love but with no plan whatsoever. Then one day our whole world turned upside down. My dad decided to sit down and tell me that if I did not marry this guy he was going to send me away to an all girl Catholic school. I was devastated as well as blind sided . So I called my husband (boyfriend at the time) and cried to him and told him what my dad had told me. His family had already left him behind while they did a 5 year stay in Okinawa courtesy of the Marine Core. So he figured, what did we have to lose? My dad had not given me any other choices. At the young and tender age of 15 what did he expect me to say? So needless to say, we got married as soon as he turned 18. My mom had the lovely job of rushing us off to Vegas and we got married in 1986 in a court house in our jeans. I was allowed to pack a few things and then she dropped us off at a friends house to start my new life.

Not a very graceful send off to say the least. So things went on from there and we had our fair share of problems and still do. We have been married for 22 years now and actually are very happy. We have our problems as most people do. We also have 5 kids who are between 3 and 18. So it is definitely not easy. Nothing ever worth anything is easy though. The problem these days is that people seem to think that it is just so much easier to just let go instead of trying to work things out. You are going to have so many problems in marriage, in life really. So unless you are going to commit suicide you have to handle life right? So why isn´t it that way with marriage? I think because people think that they can just go and start all over. They keep hoping that the next marriage or girlfriend or kid is going to be better then what they already have.

That cruel old saying that the grass is greener on the other side cannot be further from the truth. When you give up the person that you are with, you open yourself up to a whole new can of worms. So before you are so ready to give up on your marriage, stop and think it out very carefully first. Yes, there are some marriages that cannot be saved and should not be saved. Abusive relationships can be harmful to everyone involved and should never be saved unless the abusive party is ready to get help and change. Unfortunately that doesn´t happen that often. Controlling relationships can also be very bad for your health all the way around. Some of these issues though can be changed if the person is willing to try. The one thing that people need to remember when going into a relationship is that if there is no communication, it will not work. No matter how bad you may want it to, it cannot happen. If you cannot talk to the person that you love then how are you going to make it work? One person cannot do it alone. Also watch out for infidelity early in the relationship. I am not going to say like most people do that once a cheater always a cheater. I know from my own experience that people can change. No one really knows how they are going to react to this type of situation until they are actually in it. So never say that you know what you will do if this happens to you. There are always reasons for cheating and the most important thing is to find out why the cheating occurred . Most people that cheat do it for one reason or another. So never just throw in the towel when sometimes things like that can be fixed.

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