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Originally Posted by MMM
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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I completely agree with you but then again, I'm over twice the age of the OP and I'd like to think that I'm a lot wiser as well.
I still remember the crush I had on my first girlfriend in high school. We constantly talked about getting married and running off without a care for this world. Thankfully, we listened to our parents who told us that they'd support us 100% if we still felt that way after we graduated from university.
Of course by then, we realized that the world was at our disposal as we decided to go our separate ways. She became a doctor and traveled the world as she volunteered her medical services. I became an extreme athlete and corporate puppet.
We're still the best of friends but we both laugh at how close we came to limiting our options at such a young age.