"You are just wasting your time."

"Don't you have a lot more of your life to live?"

"There is a lot of other things you could be focusing on instead of getting married right now."

"Your money situation does not look like it can handle supporting a family."

I often hear people say things like this, and I do not think it is necessary. I feel like often times some people have forgotten the saying "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

I want to make something very clear: Getting married at a young age is not a mistake. Yes, there is a whole bunch of life to live. When you get married young, you get to experience that life with the person God has blessed you with.

There are adventures, travels, experiences, friends to meet, and places to live that will be that much better with a partner. When you find someone that you want to do absolutely everything with, they become your best friend and you do not even want to go grocery shopping if they can't come with you.

A cord of three strands is not easily broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12

And the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate. Mark 10:8-9

A relationship that has a strong foundation in God and that God has blessed will not fail. If He has a plan for you to meet your spouse when you are 11 or 40, He knows what He is doing and He will not go back on His promises. With God all things are possible, and like the verse above says, your relationship or marriage will not be broken if He is a strong part of it.

I want everyone to know that you are not wasting your time getting married -- whether you are young or not. There is not one person who can break your relationship or marriage if you truly follow God and make Him the center of it all.

I knew I was going to marry my fiancé a month before we even started dating. I was spending time with God and praying about my relationships and He clearly pointed out who I was to marry. Of course, I did not know when or how or where each of our lives would be going to lead to something so big and important, but I knew God had a plan and He would never fail me or break His promises.

If God has His plan set out for you and your boyfriend/girlfriend to be married and be that 'cord of three strands', know that He is not making a mistake. Even when you think that it is absolutely not possible because of money problems, you have so much school to finish and focus on, or you want to travel and go on adventures, just remember that you will have a new best friend to do and experience everything with.