Messing with the Math

I heard a woman say, I was a child bride, though she was actually 26. It’s a little joke that’s meant to mess with the math of wedding date + intervening years = how old she must be now.

But “child bride”? Yikes. In this culture, is that more appealing than letting people know our real age?

In a world without ageism, we’d say I got married in the ’80s, then tell the rest of the story without pretending this age thing is a problem.

Because this age thing is not a problem if we stop treating it like one.

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