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I think maturity level is the thing that should matter, not age. With that said, I don't think thirteen or fourteen year olds should be engaged because it's very unlikely that you've had enough life experience at that point.

I'm seventeen years old and I've been married for five months, my husband will be turning twenty next month. I'm not going to bore you all with my sob story about how my circumstances in life caused me to have to grow up more quickly than a child should. Telling my story wouldn't convince you that I'm mature enough to handle this, so I won't waste anybody's time attempting to do so.

Marriage is hard. It's a life-long committment and it's not something that anybody should step into lightly, let alone teenagers. It takes so much effort to make it worth, but it's worth it for me.

Yes, we could have waited. Maybe if we had waited people would be more convinced that we can make this work. I graduated high school a year early, I was done before our wedding. It was a personal goal of mine. I'm not interested in a college education at the moment, so why should I have waited? We're very happy with the choice we made.

My parents were never married, but they lived together as if they were until my mother died. My husband and I didn't wait until marriage to have sex, but we did take precautions so that I wouldn't get pregnant until after the fact. Since my parents weren't married, it's been important to me to wait until marriage to conceive any possible children.
Uhm, I guess that's it. If anybody has any questions, feel free to ask-I'll do my best to answer them.