re: #600 HappyWarrior

I can’t even imagine being in a serious romantic relationship at that age let alone getting hitched but then again I’m a very nomadic person.

The Soviets often got divorced young too—but the only way to get an apartment in the old USSR was to get married. No real way to shack up.

Marjane Satrapi got married at 21—her family wouldn’t allow it earlier—partly because in Iran you just couldn’t have a relationship outside marriage, and so people married quite young even in her family’s educated and secular circles. Her father told them that he insisted that she have the right to divorce in the wedding documents, and told them to divorce when they no longer loved each other because life’s too short.