When you hear a girl say, "I'm getting married!" and then the follow-up question is, "How old are you?" and the response is 19 or 20, some people cringe, others are happy for her, and then some aren't sure how to feel.

There are good and bad sides to marrying young, so let's go over them, shall we?

Pros:

1. You get to grow old together, literally.

Marrying young can be considered a plus because at the young age you are, you are spending the rest of your lives together. Enjoy the wrinkles and gray hair!

2. If you're lucky, you married your best friend, so everything you do is endless fun!

Amusement parks, haunted houses, carnivals/fairs, the whole 9 yards. Those are fun things to do and even more fun when you do them with your significant other, and let me just say, it makes it all the while when they're also your best friend. Who doesn't love a good funnel cake? Am I right?

3. Someone to tell you what you look like.

If you have bed-head at 9 a.m. making breakfast in an over-sized tee, or if you're dressed to the tens in your best dressed going to see the Nashville Symphony, your husband or wife is gonna straight up do a double take and admire you no matter what you are wearing, simply because it's you.

Cons:

4. Friends can start to avoid you because of who you chose to marry.

This sucks because most people don't like who you decide to spend the rest of your life with and I'm going to be brutally honest here... Who you marry is about you and the person you marry, not about the person who delivers your mail, the woman who painted your nails for junior prom, or the lady that dyed your hair two weeks ago. So, if your friend really cares about you and loves you, they will support you (maybe from afar) and give their support unless they see that your life is in danger.

5. Your families could hate each other.

Granted, this isn't just for marrying young. Understand that I learned firsthand what it felt like to have people hate each other that hadn't even met one another yet and I was young and confused as to how you could hate someone and not have even met them yet. Don't be the person to not meet your significant other's family and then say you don't like them or say that they hate you.

6. The nasty end.

You marry young, it doesn't work out, you have a nice shiny car that he bought you, he has a nice TV, and a dog. Who gets what? Lovely ending, right? WRONG. This is what your parents, friends, and anyone who has been married before in your life try to warn you about. You think that when you're young and getting married that this won't happen to you, and then the whole thing goes south in the blink of an eye, and for what? Life happens people.