20 Reasons Why it isn't Terrible to be 20-Something and Married

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.