Archive for November, 2002

Teenagers and Marriage: Not a Lethal Combination

As I start to get older and begin to experience adulthood, I don’t think any aspect of growing up has hit me so hard as the concept of marriage. Not only marriage, but marriage and me. The first time someone I considered to be one of my peers told me that she was getting married, I couldn’t believe it. No one our age ever got married. We weren’t at the age where it’s normal to get married and I wondered why anyone our age would want to do so anyway. And then suddenly I realized that we were at that age.