Recent studies according to "The Divorce Organizer and Planner", say that teenagers under the age of 18 years old's are more likely to get a divorce. They're brains aren't fully mature yet, meaning they aren't ready to commit for a lifelong commitment at this age is just not "realistic".
According to a study in 2001 made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that 48% of those that marry before they're 18 years old are predicted to get a divorce within 10 years. Compared to the 24% for those that marry at the age of 25 years old. http://www.divorce360.com/divorce-articles/causes-of-divorce/general/teen-marriage-and-divorce.aspx?artid=1343
Specialist say that couples should wait until they're 20's to get married because....well because they say we don't have the maturity nor the capability to maintain a marriage or a lifelong commitment. I say that it isn't quite true. At least not the 1% of teens that are sure of what they want for their life, that have an objective, and have learned to be mature. Sure I agree that many under the age of 18 and some ranging in their 20's aren't fully mature yet for their actions show it. Meanwhile there actually is a group of teens that have a mentally of an adult already, they're capable of keeping a lifelong commitment. Why judge if a marriage will work just because the majority failed to persevere, to sacrifice to make their relationship work?
In order to make a relationship work isn't about feeling, is about continuous sacrifice and perseverance. Unlike what majority of people think it doesn't involve feelings, it's about actions. Unfortunately it takes the effort of both individuals to make the relationship work, so if one stops trying it's harder to keep the fire alive.
It isn't always about maturity though, it's more about perseverance, about sacrificing, and through that you'll gain the maturity. It's through the errors that we make that we're able to learn from. It's from perseverance where we'll learn to fight to make the relationship work. It's from sacrificing our likes, desires, our ego to make the other person happy that we succeed in having a "bulletproof" marriage. There's no need to flash forward and predict every one's future marriage by comparing it to the failures of others, after all not everyone is the same.
