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I love when I read something that I *possibly* would have disagreed with

... only to read it and continually nod my head in agreement. I went over to Faith and Family this morning and read this article on marrying young . This little excerpt was quite interesting ... The standard advice we give young people is to finish their education, get a good job and find themselves before taking the plunge of getting married. It sounds right, but here’s the catch. Psychologists tell us that character solidifies at about age 30. After that it becomes not impossible but vastly more difficult for the couple truly to knit themselves into unity. Youth, by contrast is more flexible and a young couple has the benefit of being able to build from scratch, if you will, instead of trying to remodel. My observation has been that the younger a couple marries, the more success they will have forging a coherent family life rather than persevering forever in what is more or less a roommate model of marriage: two separate lives lived in the same household with some necessary overlap....

Maybe *sharing* isn't always best ...

Like when one person was sick the week before and shares their drink at Panera(on Sunday) ... oops.  Then that next person gets sick(on Monday)  and then another (on Tuesday afternoon). *3 stomach bugs in one week *Many, many loads of laundry *Some carpet steam cleaning I'm guessing that most of today will be a day of rest, but I'm not so sure the remaining 2 children will be spared. But one can hope ...