The Grey Zone of Marriageable Age

Marriage in itself has always been a topic with different views from people that keeps changing from century to century and affected greatly by the culture of that particular place.
However, one of the grey areas of marriage has always been the age.

What age range is permitted to get married together?

At what age do you even consider marrying even?

These are questions that you can never get a solid answer to as the act of marriage is basically something personal and can never be imposed on anyone.

Back in the days, marriage was left as something you enter only when you are getting "old" and it was considered as the time when you can comfortably take care of yourself and someone else's daughter and make your own family; this was in the effort to curb divorce and broken marriages.

In most countries, there are minimum legal ages to get married but I have never heard of the maximum age, this was also in view of preventing child marriages.
The idea of introducing a rule where people marry within a defined age range might sound appealing from the exterior but will also have it's downside.

For a fact, it will help foster compatibility. This is because people of same or close age range can easily be said to think alike since they had the same generational experience. Just the way it would be easier for couples of 25years and 30years to be discussing about a random post on tiktok than it would be for couples of 55years and 18years since the 55year old counterpart didn't experience it.
This might just be solving the social imbalances, the emotional disconnects and decision-making challenges encountered in marriages.

Also, it is often said that men get into marriage amidst other things but to find someone who will gain care of them when they are getting old, something that personally don't sit well with me. Hence, making this rule of specified age range will be an avenue of couples growing together and aging together eliminating the disproportionate burden of caregiving in future.

But on contrary, marriage is always something mutual where you get to spend the rest of your life with someone you love. Making this age-range rule will immediately meet an objection of people feeling like you want to control them and want to make the decision for them. Many persons will feel it's unjust and intrusion into their personal lives.

Many will also argue that compatibility in marriage isn't sedimented on just age as the only prognostic factor as there are thousands of other factors such as sharing same values, lifestyle and communication.

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Personally, I feel Education, awareness, and open dialogue about healthy relationships will do far more to safeguard individuals than just putting up an arbitrary legal restriction in a bid to attain similar result.

On papers, marriageable age range is something that may look very wonderful on paper, but in practice, the benefits could be said to be very minimal because Marriage in itself, isn't something that can just be confined within just age.

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