Monday, May 16, 2016

Is 20 too young to get engaged if you ve been financially independent for multiple years?


So me and my girlfriend have been talking very seriously about marriage more and more as time passes, collectively we ve easily spent 40+ hours seriously going through the topic. Everything from how we want the engagement to go, how our families would react, where we are financially, how long of an engagement we re up for, everything.

I m 19 and she s 18, at the time we were planning on having the engagement I d be 20 and she d be 19. That fact is the only legitimate concern we have, but only given how people like our close friends and family members would react given this fact.

We ve been living together for more than a year, we own our home in an expensive but very nice neighborhood, we re completely debt-free, no mortgage on the house or anything like that and we bring in enough money to pay all the bills and acquire a substantial amount of savings ($25,000 in savings annually after taxes and all of our expenses). We support ourselves and in terms of our assets/the amount of money we have direct access to, the current total is 1.3 million.

We re an exceptionally committed couple, fighting is less common for us than any other couple I ve met and it s clear we re on the same page with regards to what we want and what our needs are. As far as we re concerned, we will never date another person again, if she died I would never attempt to find anyone else, I have full conviction that she s the one and my family is on board all the way.

So, is it an unreasonable decision?

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