Marriage #1: 21 and an accident. Had to drop out of school and get a crappy job. Lived 5 minutes from my super controlling in laws... I think its pretty evident that the marriage wouldn\'t last and it didn\'t. Divorced at 24 with 1 son.
Marriage #2: 32 and planned. Had graduated college, but still hadn\'t started my "career". Finally got a good job, asked my wife to marry me and we moved from DFW to Georgia and were married shortly after we moved. Eleven months later we had my 2nd son. This marriage is working out much better than my first - I am much more mature and willing to take responsibility as opposed to when I was in my early 20\'s when I felt I was robbed out of so many things. I have a good job so money is not as big of a deal as it was in my first marriage. Instead of despair (which is all we saw in my first marriage) we have hope and we have goals we want to achieve. Added bonus - inlaws live 800 miles away!
No marriage is perfect and we do have our arguements - getting through the first 2 years was what I considered the most difficult (life adjustments), but things have settled down and I am honestly enjoying it. Looking at my ex wife now and looking at my current wife - I have to just shake my head. My wife has her faults, but she is 10 times the woman and mother my first wife was. I also look at my first son who is quite frankly lacking discipline in any shape or form and my first wife\'s answer to this is "roleplaying" (see the movie What About Bob for an example) and medication!?!? She hasn\'t grown or changed significantly since we were married, where I have grown from an irresponsible, thought I knew it all kid - into a responsible know I know it all adult.
Poll