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It should have ended in divorces


Because that is a fact, kids this young are too immature to marry and they are not mature enough to do all the proper work in a marriage. It should have ended with them divorcing then show a shot of them older and on a date but both have wedding rings on their fingers. We the audiances guess whether or not they got back together and remarried? Or they married other people and they are just having dinner together as friends or they are having an affair.

Just keep it a mystery, don't tell us they lived happily ever after but that they are happy, the end.

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Where I come from, marrying young is normal, and the marriages last. I know quite a lot of people who married at 18 and are still together 12 years later. In fact, my aunt and uncle married right out of high school twenty years ago, and they're still together and happier than ever. It's very possible. While it's a fact that some kids that young are too immature to get married and to do the work marriage requires, it's not a fact that every kid is too immature. Plenty of them are mature enough to handle it.

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Princessmatchie, where are you from? This film is focused on current Western culture and is showing how immature and idealistic the common teenager is. There are always exceptions but it is so rare. Adults in this culture are not even able to stay married. The last census showed that close to 50% of marriages end in divorce. This is for many reasons---one of which being that we simply don't have the same values we did decades ago. I wish the film had been more of a cautionary tale to youngsters thinking they are mature enough to handle marriages. That thought right there is proof that they are not ready. If they can't wait and are so eager, that's a problem. Plus to show that they worked through everything is a nice idea but not reality.

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Can't this movie be about the rare exception? You say yourself there are exceptions so they decided to make a movie about one. It's a Lifetime movie, how many teenagers are even going to see it?

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I was born and raised in the United States, but thanks for jumping to conclusions about that and giving me an unnecessary lecture. I've spent most of my life living in Utah, where the marriage rate is stronger than most of the rest of the country, and yes, we have a young population. It's very common here for people to marry right out of high school or in their first year or two of college, and to stay happily married for the rest of their lives. I have known plenty of people, even some I grew up with, who married young and were able to keep their marriages strong. Lots of older teens, graduated from high school, are mature enough to handle it.

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Lol Utah? Where all the polygamist Mormons live? Of course the marriage rate is stronger than the rest of the country, the men in the compounds won't divorce their 5 wives because wives are like a measure of social status there!!!

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saramacg09 - You can't just assume that because someone lives and gets married in Utah that they are a Mormon polygamist. I am in a strong, happy, monogomous relationship with my husband. We are LDS, have four wonderful kids and a great life. I was only 18 when we married and he was 19. It's been over ten years now and I wouldn't change my life for anything. There are happy stories out there about young couples that are 100% in love years later.

Being mature in marriage is not about age, but rather the work that you are willing to put into your relationship. Some much older people still haven't figured that one out. So, who are we to judge a young couple who wants to be married, when it seems that even older couples don't always live happily ever after.

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You can't just assume that because someone lives and gets married in Utah that they are a Mormon polygamist.
Yes I can.

We are LDS

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I think this is a good movie that discusses a very controversial issue getting married young. While I believe that a person needs to know who they are as a person before the marry, that is just my opinion. I know people can still choose someone whom they want to grow and experience things together with in their life. Society has a really bad habit of using statistics to justify their own personal opinions. Or they think their opinions or common trends is the law. The truth is marriage, like so many other things itself, is a choice and can have good or bad experiences. Couples will handle situations well or badly. It is especially harder on young people because society places so many of their opinions, influences and pressures on them. They typically try to make thing more perfect than they really are. Not everything is right for everyone and not everything works for everybody. Their life are their choices.

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