Ages like 20-25 or younger.I mean damn,a 21 year old guy in my congo got baptised a couple weeks back and now his in a relationship with a JW gal and their getting married soon.Any thoughts?
Why do JWs get married at a young age?
by XPeterX 46 Replies latest jw friends
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Witness My Fury
No sex before marriage is a strong motivator towards young marriages, and for many of them it means a poor choice that they will later regret very deeply.
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sir82
21? A virtual old maid / confirmed bachelor by JW standards. Many JWs get married in their teens.
Do you really have to ask the reason?
Here is the answer: SEX
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wisdomfrombelow
A young age is relative. I would not consider 25 to be young. (You gave the range 20-25). I consider a teenager to be young in the western world. I consider a young marriage to be one where the individual needs parental permission to marry rather than being old enough to do it on his or her own. That being said, there are still a lot of young marriages among JWs and among fundamentalistic christians.
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Elbear
I remember I went to a JW "prom" thrown by a prominent family in the congregation. This was basically their time to pick out a suitable wife for their young son who was in highschool. The guy stuck by his "date" the entire night. I remember I had a theory that while I was at uni, this same couple would be getting married. Low and behold, it happend just this way.
I even remember the mother of this boy eyeing me ALL THE TIME in this creepy way. In the middle of the meeting I'd turn and see her staring. I guess she was marking me to see if I was suitable for her son. I passed the appearance test, but the spirituality test, not so much. She would ask my mother and I very inquisitive questions all the time, to "check in". She quit after a while, but the stares never stopped.
Thankfully, this weird getting married young thing was one of the main factors involved in waking me up. I knew that what these kids wasn't true love but mere infatuation. I mean how can you know what you want in a mate when you never had the oppritunity to spend time alone? Unfortunately for these kids, they then begin living the life of an adult, smething theya re hardly prepared for. I have no idea how they will support each other with no education or even expirience living without parent's care.
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Paralipomenon
Sex
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BU2B
Because your hormones are raging, cant look at porn, cant masturbate, cant have sex otherwise......soooo early marriage it is. In my experience those that dont marry early end up DF'd for fornication.
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wannaexit
They want to. Jump in the sack before armaghrddon
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Londo111
I didn’t go on my first date until I was 29.
There were a number of factors behind this:
(1) In harmony with the publications and talks by COs, it was deemed I could not date until I was ready to financially support a wife—and my mother would add, “Be able to do repairs around the house.”
(2) Of course, I wasn’t financially ready because I pioneered out of high school and did not go to college.
(3) I was 20 when the Watchtower allowed limited college, and I was 22 before I had an associates and began working. I moved out at 23.
(4) However, I’d no idea how to go about dating. I wasn’t popular. Since even phone calls were considered dating and dating was to be taken seriously, I’d little experience talking with females.
In fact, all the stuff that people learn in their teens by dating, I still have yet to get.