Originally posted by axemansean
Statistics prove most marriages that occur when the couple is very young don't last very long. You don't learn to walk first, you first learn how to sit and then crawl and then you learn how to walk. If you jump into marriage when you are fairly young you potentially end up realizing you are with the wrong person because your perspective on life has changed.
Obviously maturity tends to come with age.
What I'm saying is that in upper middle class suburbia I've seen way too many 15- or 20-year marriages go to shit for whatever reason and just as catastrophically if not more so than what can happen to people who get married "too young" and stay together for less than 5 years.
I know it sounds pessimistic but it's mainly why I know I want to be DAMN sure that I'm doing the right thing when I get married because I've seen too many families that I'm close with get fucked up beyond recognition.