I discovered a tv show called Find my first love the other night and it’s the perfect binge show on those nights/days you don’t want to think too hard.
However in one of the episode the mother was a sceptical due to the fact her daughter was in her early 20s and thought her early 20s should be for experiencing life and not for finding love, this bothered me a bit being a female in her early 20s who has found love.

I met my partner when I was 18 going on 19. I was enjoying life in a different country, making friends and living life when I met a person I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.
3 and a half years later and moving across the country twice with each other, I am very thankful that I not only get to still experience life and learn so much about myself I get to do it with my better half.

I understand when the older generation get sceptical on people under 25 being married/in a serious relationship, but the reality of it is this is nothing new.

When I was younger and age vs time wasn’t a thing I said I wanted to be married at 23 and have kids at 26

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My grandmother was 21 when she got married.
My mother was 26.
My potential mother in law was 19.

My grandmother was married for over 50 years.
My mother was married for just over 25.
My potential mother in law is still happily married after 30 years.

I have class mates engaged and planning their wedding and there are classmates who have been together since they were 13. Not once do I look at them and question their love or feel it’s going to fail. I look at them with happiness because they are growing as people and with people and fighting back against young love is never destined to last.

It’s easy to be sceptic when tv shows like Jeremy Kyle showcase the younger generation with no jobs and 3 kids to 3 different dads. But I’m sure that happened back in the day too, they just didn’t have Jeremy Kyle to broadcast it to the nation.
No one wants to watch a tv show of the 22 year old getting engaged and owning their own home. Sad but true.

Young love is not dumb, stupid, or destined to fail.
Young love is a beautiful, magical and is changing the game for the new generation.

I grew up in a generation where it was cool to have sex at 13 and I lost all hope, but today I see my peers, some have been together since they were 14, others have just got their first house with their partner, others are engaged. We’re all under 25 and we are building our future just like our grandparents did despite being told constantly were too young.  

Yes there are also people who have multiple kids to multiple partners but that’s okay too, I have half siblings too, I aint gonna judge. You shouldn’t either.

But its time the older generation started realising, we are making our own future, we are changing the game. And if we want to be married and in a house at 24 then we’re going to make that happen.