User blog comment:Messi1983/Discuss Anything Blog/@comment-1824274-20110329222907/@comment-3145713-20110405133816

If I'm not mistaken, she was betrothed to him at age 9, but married in the form we know today when she was 18-ish.

Link: The minute people start saying "Muhammed pillaged cities" or "Muhammed was pedo" or even "Read Quran 8:12!!!!111!!!", stop listening. These guys are ignorant on historical context and just talk about something they read on some biased media. And it seems to be working.

It's not like she was forced to get married to him or anything, not to mention, IIRC, girls matured rapidly back then.