Women face pressure to marry young or get “left on the shelf.” But your odds of finding someone to marry remain high well into middle age (and even beyond), and your odds of getting divorced fall dramatically the older you are when you marry. That’s not only because you have fewer years of marriage when things can go wrong but also because people who marry older are more stable and fully formed. Marrying young is a risk. You’ll have more financial stress, and the person you marry may grow into a different person.
