Bf's parents started dating when she was 14 and he was 16. Got married when she was just 18 and she had their first kid at 19. Still together, but I think they're the only couple I know who got together that young and are still together.
Wesley: Illyria can be...difficult. Testing her might be hard without getting someone seriously hurt. Angel: We'll make Spike do it. Wesley: Good.
'Underneath'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Oct 06, 2006 7:44:11 pm PDT #2596 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
beekaytee - Oct 06, 2006 7:46:18 pm PDT #2597 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
There are people who will write fetching ebay descriptions for a nominal fee? Ye GAWDs I need this service. I've got the photos, and know html and I'm not afraid to use it!
But I keep getting stuck on the words.
I've explored the 'assistants' route and a bit averse to giving up quite that big a chunk of the take.
Any thoughts on how much such writing would/should run?
beekaytee - Oct 06, 2006 7:49:37 pm PDT #2598 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
My wicked step sister had her first born on her 18th birthday. I'm pretty sure she and her husband are still married 40 years later. (gasp...I'd never done that math before. Little M is 40? No WAY.)
Allyson - Oct 06, 2006 8:43:24 pm PDT #2599 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
My mom and dad got together when she was 15 and he was 18. I was on the way when they were 16 and 19, so they got hitched and have been together ever since.
Volans - Oct 06, 2006 8:59:43 pm PDT #2600 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Hastert's passive-aggressive defense of Foley, blaming everybody including George Soros, prompted this from a friend:
Secret Gay Cabal! I believe I have their second album "Mennonite Schisms", a track list:
1) Bobbin' O'Reilly (aka Teenage Waistband)
2) I Touch Myself
3) Paradise by the "Scroll Lock" Light
4) YMCA
5) Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard
6) Sweet Child of Mine
7) Theme from "Rawhide"
8) Union of the Snake
9) Turning Japanese
10) Burning Down the House
11) Don't Stand So Close to Me
12) One Night in Bangkok
13) Let's Hear it for the Boy
Gus - Oct 07, 2006 2:35:19 am PDT #2601 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
I was 18 when my boy was born. "Early" babies turn out pretty and smart.
Cashmere - Oct 07, 2006 3:05:25 am PDT #2602 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
My mom was pregnant at 17. Mom and Dad married when she was 18 and he was 20 and are still together after 46 years. I'm not saying those marriages don't work.
I still get creeped out by watching Coal Miner's Daughter when I remember Loretta Lynn was 13 in the beginning.
Theodosia - Oct 07, 2006 3:31:46 am PDT #2603 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
It's always a lovely triumph when couples who marry early and/or have a kid early stay together like that -- certainly not the way to bet, but it sure can and does happen.
Cashmere - Oct 07, 2006 3:33:30 am PDT #2604 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I suppose there is a lot of biological sense to it. Younger people have more energy and are physically more suited to bearing children--can't say that hasn't crossed my mind a thousand times in the last two years.
Anne W. - Oct 07, 2006 3:46:42 am PDT #2605 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Younger people have more energy and are physically more suited to bearing children
My best friend will be in her mid-fifties when her daughter is in high school. Her husband will be in his mid-sixties. That was something they thought long and hard about before deciding to go ahead and have a child.
I wonder if, in some cases, having known one's childhood sweetheart since pre-school can help with the longevity of a marriage since there was already a friendship there before the hormones started kicking in.