I was perusing Lauren Winner’s seldom updated blog today and came upon somebody asking her to write a scathing response to this article. So, naturally, I clicked over to that article and read it to see what was so objectionable. Well, as someone who got married at 19, I wasn’t exactly in the target audience, and naturally agreed that marrying earlier rather than later was great. But as I tried to look at it from the perspective of somebody in her late 20′s who would like to be married but isn’t, I suppose I could find it a little insulting. I would think that the implication that my lack of a husband was my fault, either because I\’c3\’82\’c2\~overly valued my independence or was too picky\’c3\’82\’c2\~would be irritating, especially if it was false. But I don’t know. It’s difficult to wear somebody else’s shoes. All I know for sure\’c3\’82\’c2\~is that I’m very thankful to be 24 and married with kids! 
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Indeed, we do of course believe getting married young is a great plan!
Although her article was geared toward feminists, or at least independant-minded women, I believe she should have also distinguished them from the — quite different — family-minded woman who hasn’t found the right guy yet, so she has a job and a life while she waits. \par
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I do agree that one of the best things about being married young is that I never had my own car and I never lived on my own (unless one year in the dorm with you counted) — married life with sharing the one vehicle and living with consideration for other people was still the only thing I knew and I think that’s why we didn’t have the “first year is the hardest” that everyone told us to expect. We didn’t have to adjust to sharing because we hadn’t ever had to NOT share.
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On an unrelated note — Michael is free! Back to normal life! Woohoo!
I don’t think it should be insulting to an older woman who is waiting on God’s timing for marriage. Rather, the article simply points out the sad lies that have been ingrained into our society by the feminist agenda. \par
It is also excellent “food for thought” for the young Christian woman who is being encouraged to be a keeper at home, whether single or married, that she consider herself blessed to be in that position. In this situation, the grass is withered and brown on the other side of the fence.