Getting married too early

I get hooked on marriage reality shows. Married at First Sight, 90 Day Fiancee. Even The Bachelor. There is a new one I just found-about getting married really early. Eighteen-twenty two years old. 

I see this happening a lot with religious people. Because they don't want to "live in sin" they get married much earlier than people in the outside world. I know there is a lot of pressure in the church to get married young. So much pressure in fact that those who don't get married often wrongly think there is something wrong with them. 

Getting married young is fine, and it can work out of it's done correctly. Sadly though, I can think of several people I know personally where it didn't work out and they were on the wrong side of a divorce, sometimes multiple ones. Sure they are in the minority but divorce is so soul shattering and painful that it worries me when people do things that make it more likely. 

Again just to be clear-getting married early won't assure a divorce, but it does make the likelihood higher. Simply because when you are young you still need to have room to grow personally and find out who you are, much less who someone else is and if you are compatible with them. You are not the same person at 22 that you will be at 42 and you don't want to be. Sometimes it's for the better. In fact, it usually is.You'll mature and realize what you really want. If you marry young, you better pray your spouse also matures and grows the way you do.