I've been reading a lot of posts lately discussing why you
should stay single in your 20’s. Let’s be real for just a minute, if a couple
is committed to making the relationship work and have the love to back it up, age
shouldn't matter. So, here are my 20
reasons why getting married at 24 has been freaking awesome.
1. No kids!! Need I say more? Probably not but I will. More than likely you're not in a rush to have children and it gives you time to have a table for two.
2. You still look good. Your lifestyle hasn't caught up with you yet so when you’re old (you know like 30…JUST KIDDING!!) you
can remember when your spouse was sizzling.
3. The wedding. The wedding is a huge reunion of
college friends and is just about the only place that is socially acceptable to have
one cocktail too many.
4. Starting your lives together. Most of the time
neither one of you has bought a house, so you don’t need to worry about selling
one or both of them. Nope, when you get married in your 20’s you buy a house
together…or live in your parent’s basement for a couple years.
5. Make big purchases with little thought, you
know, being carefree (or reckless, you choose). Steven and I bought our car and
house with a flip of a big coin (best out of three).
6. The bachelorette/ bachelor parties. I don’t
think I need to elaborate.
7. Traveling. Making a list of places you want to
go and actually visiting them.
8. Socializing. Obviously you can do this at any
age but we've met a group of friends who we can really grow with through every
stage of life. Even the treating our dogs like actual real-life
children stage (lets be real, we’ll never grow out of that).
9. Eating
peanut butter sandwiches for lunch and knowing that someone else is eating that
exact same terrible lunch.
10. Sharing responsibilities. There is someone to
watch the money and someone to spend it.
11. Having the biggest cheerleader backing you up
through lay-offs, promotions, cooking a dinner that turns to disaster, crazy family situations, you know, just
life.
12. Someone to take selifies with.
13. Enjoying a day together that is completely
devoted to tacos and football…and naps. Like that is all we do. All day. (For
those wondering, the NFL regular season starts in 38 days.)
14. Eating junk food for your first year of
marriage, gaining 10 lbs., and it totally being OK.
15. Finding a way to work off that 10 lbs. together.
16. Someone to watch YouTube videos with all day. It’s
amazing how one website can make you almost pee your pants from laughing just
to do a 180 and have you crying all within 10 minutes.
17. Fights. You can yell as loud as you want and not
worry about damaging your children’s lives because you don’t have any.
18. And then together you learn the importance of
not yelling and how to talk through your issues so you don’t ruin your future children’s
lives.
19. Hopefully this is the first and last marriage
for the both of you. Ain't nobody want to deal with that ex-wife/ex-husband
drama.
20. Just because you love him/her and they are the
peanut butter to your jelly, the butter to your lobster, and the ice cream to
your cake.
