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Marrying young went well for me, part 1 • Otherwise

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Apparently I wasn't that clueless at 23

Jeff and I got married 14 years ago. Alongside having our children, that’s been the best thing in my personal life. We were 23 — that’s not far off from the median age at first marriage for US women at that time (25, now 28), but a lot younger than most of our peers. There’s a way that this feels unkind to write about, because so many people would like to be married and aren’t, or are in a marriage that’s not working well. But I hope it’s useful? Note on selection bias: you won’t get many accounts of the messy middle ground of marriages that aren’t doing well. There are people who feel g

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