Its best for you to marry someone exactly the same age. An older dude will shorten your life and a younger one will really shorten it. A recent study in Rostock, Germany determined that the greater the age gap between you and your husband, the lower your life expectancy.

At what age was it okay to marry?

“The ideal age to get married, with the least likelihood of divorce in the first five years, is 28 to 32,” says Carrie Krawiec, a marriage and family therapist at Birmingham Maple Clinic in Troy, Michigan. “Called the Goldilocks theory, the idea is that people at this age are not too old and not too young.”