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It's Okay to Get Married Young

I don't regret it.

By Samantha LondoPublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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“Don’t you regret getting married young?”

“Are you really getting to experience life?”

“Is your marriage really going to make it? You got married so fast. You’ll be divorced in a year.”

“Sex is all you guys know, that’s what your relationship started as.”

I got married six and a half years ago. I was nineteen. Four months shy of twenty. I don’t regret it, not one bit. It’s because I got married that my life started rolling. I owe it to the man, five years older than me, who fell in love with me instantly. Here I am nearly seven years later, still no regrets. I adore the man who knocked me off of my feet.

Nineteen years old, still living with my parents and no a care in the world really. Until he came along. The man in question, my future husband. It started out as rebound and a fling. He was home from the army for the first time since he had joined, and had his eye on me. It was around Christmas and new year. My boyfriend of the time had recently broken up with me, and I was just not in the mood for a relationship. Little did I know he would change that. Sex turned into just talking, after he left communication was all we had. He got stationed halfway across the world.

About a month into talking, our relationship became official. We were a long distance military relationship. People always say those are the doomed relationships. They’re not. Communication is the biggest thing when it comes to any relationship. Long distance relationships are that, communication. That’s all you have. You can’t physically be with that person, so talking is the key. Two months later he asked me to marry him. I said yes. Four months later we got married.

We’ve been together coming up on seven years, not a day goes by that I regret any of it. I don’t regret any of it. I couldn’t regret it, because of him I have lived. I’ve experienced life, a lot more than other people have. I’ve lived in Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, and Nevada because of him. If it weren’t for him I wouldn’t have gotten to experience different cultures and lifestyles. I wouldn’t have gotten to learn the value of the Hawaiian food. Believe me, Hawaiian food is probably the best food out there. You’ve not tasted good pork until you’ve had real Kalua Pig. Hawaii is an amazing place full of amazing history that you should at least try to go to once. That’s a story for another day though!

My marriage has lasted because my husband and I value each other. We haven’t had huge arguments and when we do we always work it out. One of the greatest pieces of advice we were given when we got married was, “Never go to bed angry with each other. Always talk it out, even if it takes all night.” We have lived by that when we have had arguments. Not because we were told to, but because we’ve made the effort to want to be okay with each other and want to be next to each other. You’re never guaranteed another day, that is why you should always work it out.

So yes, I do believe my marriage will last. For at least eighty thousand years, he’s stuck with me for that long at least. By the way, it’s been more than a year. Thank you, all of you who were routing against us. We’re a strong team and your doubts about us have made us stronger. We defy the odds.

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Samantha Londo

Sam. Mom. Wife. Student.

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