Getting married young seems like a recipe for divorce and/or infidelity. I feel like every story I read on here about a relationship gone wrong always starts with:

“My (45M) wife (45F) and I have a great marriage, 3 kids, nice house, got married right after we finished puberty. Our life is great but I think she might be cheating on me blah blah blah…..”

I’m being a bit facetious of course but honestly I do see this a lot. As a millennial (34M) I totally understand why people my age and younger are waiting longer to get married and have kids. It just doesn’t make sense to me to commit to someone for the rest of your life before your brain has even finished developing. Seriously getting married before the age of 25 is insane to me.

Of course this isn’t a hard and fast rule. I’m sure there are plenty of happy couples who got married as soon as they were old enough to vote and divorced couples who waited longer to get married. But for the most part I think the best way to set yourself up for success in a relationship is to experience as much of life as you can first, do the best you can to grow into the person you want to be and then try to find someone who lives that person and will want to grow with you.

Another reason I think getting married young is bad is that I feel like it tends to lead to infidelity. I see a lot of stories on here people who cheated because they were sexually dissatisfied or incompatible with their partners and a lot of the time they were never able to properly explore their sexuality and sexual interests because they’ve only ever had one partner their whole adult life. Inevitably they’d fallen into a slump of standard, vanilla sex that left one or both unsatisfied and then that led to someone cheating.

I’m rambling now but anyway those are my thoughts, curious to hear what others think.