I didn't marry until I was forty, and our marriage is in its sixteenth year. My sister married at twenty one, and her marriage is still strong at twenty four years. Age doesn't matter as much as people having similar goals, or at least understanding and supporting each other's goals, I suspect.

A lot of people marry without paying attention to what the other really wants in terms of kids, career, lifestyle - they think it will 'work out' because they are in love, not understanding that 'love' does not necessarily conquer all.