Comments on: I Hope She’s Happy

By: Stanley

Stanley — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:42:21 +0000

i found you by typing “you’re lucky to even know me” into google. and i love you because, i love liz phair.

By: dweebie

dweebie — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:55:54 +0000

Jodi, statistically you are right, marriages that occur after 25 stand a much better chance of enduring (according to Dr. Phil!) It’s become a term of psychologists to refer to these young marriages as starter marriages, because they usually move on to a second one, but who’s to say what lessons they learn going through it all, My generation just lived with someone and made the same mistakes, but at least there weren’t the legal hassles, fortunately we used birth control so we weren’t ripping children’s homes up, some of us, that is. Maybe that’s why there’s so much infertility….
My friend has just found her special someone at age 51, though she’s gone through a few marriages to get there, so keep smiling.

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 00:19:22 +0000

This is how I felt as I stood as the maid of honor at my best friend’s wedding after she had JUST turned 18. I’m only 21, and we’re the same age, but I still couldn’t put aside how young that seemed.

Unfortunately, she’s not very happy now and while she sometimes tries to convince me that it’s the best thing she ever did, she tells me about the fights, the problems, and finally admitted that she wonders if she made a big mistake.

Maybe it wasn’t because she was 18 and they had been together for barely a year by their wedding day, but it’s hard to rule it out.