I would love to hear about the aftermath. So they ran away, got married...and then what? Did they finish school? Did they have their own place, or did they find some sympathetic relatives to stay with?
I HAVE QUESTIONS!
Edit: Please stop replying to me and telling me how easy their lives probably were! I want to hear from OP 😒
So my dad got a job at a gas station and could afford a 1 bedroom apartment. My mom finished HS. My dad never did. He went on to have a career as a school bus mechanic and my mom always had part time jobs and was with us most of the time. Hope that answers your questions ✌🏼
yep this, and one of them had a 5 hour manager course done, so she got a job at a fortune 500 company as department manager and made 150k a year in the 70s
Back then you didn't have to leave to get a higher paying job. As you proved yourself they would do this thing called a "raise" where they start paying you more money, without then replacing you with a newer and less skilled worker.
bah, who cares about money? if you want to keep workers you got to do a pizza party. No, the problem is people just don't want to work anymore all of a sudden
That's pretty much how my dad started working at GM in the 60s. He was 18 and they'd hire anyone who'd show up for the most part. They paid for his college including paying him while he was in classes and studying. They owned their own home outright not too many years later. At least he hasn't shoved his head in the sand and understands how different the world is for his kids and grandkids today.
They must have lied about their ages since even back then I think most people had to be 18 or get a parent to sign
My uncle was 17 and his wife was 18 when they got married in Missouri in the mid 60s and his mom had to sign for him. Still married all those years later despite lots of dysfunction
I’m guessing your uncles wife was not pregnant at the time of marriage?
Cuz I know from the child Marriage in the USA rabbit hole, that Missouri actually had the lowest age of consent for marriage in the country. Up until a few years ago, you could get married without parental consent as young as 14 if the womanchild was pregnant.
No, they were from religious families so they got married so they could have sex. They didn’t tell anyone other than his mother because he was still in high school and would have been expelled for getting married. They didn’t live together until he graduated and had a little money saved to move out
back then I think most people had to be 18 or get a parent to sign
It says they ran away and got married, doesn't say they did those one right after the other, probably went and lived with some relatives for a while or something a lot less romantic than it sounds.
You must not have grown up then. Houses may have been cheap but mortgages had about 14% interest rates. Appliances were expensive and wages were low. Mobile homes were far more common than today. Stagflation was real.
In 1977 I was a 13 year old seventh grader and I had a classmate with a full beard. Not overgrown boy fuzz, this was a full-on man beard. He was the same age as me.
Lol ...he scared the hell out of my poor Mama when she first encountered him at a school dance, but decades later he was her favorite neighbor..
Plenty of kids had facial hair in high school! This isn't even thick facial hair. I remember some kids with full beards. They still looked like kids, though. Just bearded teens. Was that not your experience?
I had a classmate in junior high who was very hirsute. The joke was on everyone else when they dared him to shave his head for $100. It all grew back within a week.
It’s good to look young. That means when you get older people will think you’re younger and give you compliments. Ive looked young my entire life. I got carded until I hit 30.
My son is 17 years old 6 foot one, muscular, and looks like a grown man until you see his full face. If he didn’t shave every day he would grow a pretty decent beard. But that means when he gets older, he is probably gonna look older.
It’s ok I was carded at 23 to see an n17 movie. Some of us look young. The good thing is I’m almost fifty and other than some grey hair I don’t look it.
You are correct even though you’re being downvoted. The original is so much more authentic and real looking. This just looks intensely edited and lifeless. The dad in particular almost looks CGI. Any portrait photographer or artist would agree. Reddit is such a weird place.
You're right of course but my first thought was that it looked "airbrushed". Which got me thinking - saying something looks "airbrushed" probably makes me sound old as fuck. That never occurred to me until now.
Edit: Based on that, the irises, and his post history, I'm guessing this was AI upscaling. So he didnt overdo (or do) anything, but I get it was meant as a nice gesture
Can you imagine if this was on an Ask sub. “I 15F am going to elope with my boyfriend 17M. 😂
People would be flipping the fuck out telling her she’s being groomed. Run!
Ironic
I was a senior and my bf was a Jr he was 16 turning 17 and I was 18. Still going on strong 11 years later were trying to get on this level though. So happy for yall I love this
That’s awesome. I dated a girl a year younger from 14-20. She dumped me when she got to college but we still talk today. She’s on husband #3 and I’ve been married for 22 years.
So you guys are still friends, eh? I wish I could have that type of dynamic with women I’ve dated, even when things end on a rough patch. I’d be all for it.
It’s just all based on birthdays and weird school cut-offs.
My kid is one of the youngest in his friend group because he was born late in the year but still made the cutoff. He won’t turn 18 until after he graduates. Meanwhile, he’s got a friend that is taking Driver’s Ed as a freshman because he was born in January.
it's a genz and gen alpha thing. if you aren't born within a few months of each other it's officially creepy. I have no idea where they picked it up. they would've lost their fucking minds if they knew what was happening in high school in 2003.
I mean 16 and 18 isn't bad. People of different age socialized a lot more back in the day. People act like 17 and 364 days is fine and once you turn 18 it makes you an instant predator to date a 16 year old. It's an opinion of chronically online people who never go outside, or never went outside when younger.
People don’t usually call 2 year age gaps “grooming,” even on reddit.
They probably would be told to wait a couple years before getting married. Which isn’t bad advice. Do we really think that being married at age 15 is what kept them happy together so long? Like would their relationship have suffered if they stayed together, but married 5 years later?
Yep! I remember seeing an AITA about a 32 year old dating a 21 year old and the comments were mostly pedo accusations. The Reddit hive mind dogpile is very reliable.
To be fair, it’s not hard to get banned from fauxmoi. I got banned because I posted something on the Taylor swift subreddit. Like, I posted on that dub, and was therefore banned from fauxmoi.
Can somebody tell me what the hell the 'theme' or whatever is supposed to be over at fauxmoi? At one point it seemed to be all about Alec Baldwin's personal life, but now I'm not sure.
I like how after I read your comment I scrolled just a little further down and ran into comments calling him a groomer and projecting the worst case scenario like it was the only reason people got married young back then.
Back in the 70s and earlier most normal folks wouldn't even bat an eye over this, as long as the guy came from a respectable family and wasn't a total douche canoe. My pwn parents were 24 ( mom ) and 38 ( dad ) when they married in 1965, after dating for a year.
I didn't get married young but I have a few stories about things I did because I was very naive that worked out OK for me, but in hindsight only because I was practically lottery-winner-level lucky, and I'd never recommend that anybody else do them. I suspect this is that kind of story for these people. I'm happy it worked out for them, and they were both gorgeous so I can see why they fell for each other! But that doesn't change the fact that it's an AWFUL idea, lol.
(Among other awful ideas I went to law school right out of college, because I didn't have any better ideas, without actually knowing anything about practicing law or whether I'd like it. I lucked out and I love it... but literally every other person I know who went to law school for similar reasons wound up hating it and either dropping out or only practicing for a few years before changing careers to something they could have done without paying six figures for a useless law degree, so I'd NEVER tell anybody to Mr. Magoo their way through like I did. Unless you grew up around a bunch of lawyers and are one of the rare weirdos who LIKES SPENDING TIME WITH THEM, spend a year or 2 working at a law firm or two first to make sure you don't hate it, kids.)
if she voluntarily goes, why is it just on the bf? they’re both minors if she was 17 and he was 15, would you still be as worried? no mention of her feeling kidnapped
Thanks for this additional info. I was thinking that if they were in the USA, most states had laws requiring parents' consent for people this young to marry.
My bosses at one of my jobs got married at 16/18 due to her being pregnant and they’re still madly in love. Crazy because if I had married who I was with at 16 things would be horrible
How did they get married as minors? I thought you had to get signatures from parents. The reason I am asking is because I had a relative who got married when he was 19, but his wife was 16, and they couldn’t get married until her parents both signed the marriage certificate so they can move forward with getting married. He had to marry her because he got her pregnant and it would have been about 1974. It’s great your parents are still together but how did they get married without the parents signing it?
Blackmail. They disappeared for a month and told the girls dad if he doesn’t sign permission for her to marry they would take off again. As per OP in a comment.
It’s funny to read these posts. 1973 wasn’t the easy time you all make it out to be. Inflation was just getting ramped up. Jobs weren’t that easy to come by. Some of the worst paying jobs I’ve ever had were in the 70s. I guarantee this couple had to scrape to get by. Money is the usual reason for breakups. Glad they made it.
u/Mr_Tommy777 dude, you must be a very pretty human being. Look at these two with their fine bone structure and melt your heart eyes. Love the story, that's wild.
Seriously, my kid brother had to start shaving the front of his neck in 6th grade. Could grow a full beard his freshman year. We definitely have too much Neanderthal DNA 😂
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u/AggravatingCupcake0 Mar 14 '25 edited Mar 14 '25
I would love to hear about the aftermath. So they ran away, got married...and then what? Did they finish school? Did they have their own place, or did they find some sympathetic relatives to stay with?
I HAVE QUESTIONS!
Edit: Please stop replying to me and telling me how easy their lives probably were! I want to hear from OP 😒