As an Independent Bride, I Refused to Let My Father ‘Give Me Away’

‘I don’t belong to my father, and I won’t belong to my husband’

Photo by Valerie Elash on Unsplash

I got married at nineteen years old. As I tell anyone who will listen, getting married so young was a terrible idea. Even then, I knew it was a terrible idea. I barreled forward with it anyhow.