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Originally Posted by spicytuna
Those are American numbers. On the other hand, the divorce rate for international marriages in Japan is 1 in 2.5 marriages according to the Japan times.
Personally, I wouldn't want to be in a position where I had to depend on my spouse to teach me everything from using the toilet to riding the subway. I'd do my best to become self sufficient in the foreign country of my choice before I'd consider marriage.
Of course that's just me. I'm hoping the OP has taken all facets of this serious commitment into consideration.
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I wonder what the rate is for international marriages between people under the age of 20.
If he is 17 and doesn't live in Japan, and she is 19 and does, how much actual time could they have possibly have spent together? A couple weeks? A month? At all? I don't know, so I am not going to guess, but my spidey-senses tell me it isn't enough time for someone who isn't even fully physically or mentally an adult to make a decision on.
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Originally Posted by alanX
You're a Japanese translator. You do it for a living. You should have told him the correct kanji, like you did. This isn't translating Japanese. This a kid's decision about what he want's to do with his life. I respect your opinion. But I'm sticking to my own, and personally, I hope this individual follows through with this plan, I see no fault in it.
There are subjects in which you give people advise, who and when to marry is not one of them. And that's all I have to say about this.
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It's funny how my experience and maturity is important for tattoos, but for actually important life-change decisions it is not.
I know YOU don't see any fault in his plan. Because you are his age. I am a little older and have seen a few more things. And now I see a car possible headed for a cliff, so pardon me if I try to waive him off.