Jo does not want Meg to marry Mr. Brooke, Laurie's tutor, because she is anxious to keep everything and everyone at home, just the way it has always been. She knows that if Meg gets married, Meg will move out and begin to have a family of her own, and Jo just wants all the girls to stay young and stay home because she loves their family dynamic so much. Her concern never really gets "resolved" per se; it's just that Meg and Mr. Brooke are in love, and though Marmee and Mr. March make them wait a bit to get married (until Mr. Brooke can purchase a home in which they can live), they do eventually get married. Jo has to deal with the fact that this is the way of things: people grow up, they move on, and life changes.
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