Why do people get married so early?

It varies.

Nowadays its normal to rush into pretty much everything is it not? Especially if your young.

I was with my current partner for 11 years before i proposed and got married 2 years later - I'm 33.

it's takes you 2 years to know favorite song and family? WAYYYY TOOO SLOWWW.. all that comes out inside of 4 months easy. future plans by 6. after that it's reassuring yourself you want to be with the person for life. The trouble is most people do not know themselves at an early age and are not flexible enough for marriage, hence the high rates of divorce. you look back to the 50s and most people had very short courtships and very long marriages. back then people accepted the fact of marriage was more the norm than it is today. now a day people put up so much BS roadblock to get married because in effect they are selfish.

Stupidity, anyone who marries is heading for doom

But why on earth would we have waited over a year to get to know each other's favourite songs and family? Why would we have waited over two years before sharing our future plans and what tics us off? Most of the things you mention were covered in the first few dates! I mean, come on, favourite music is a typical speed date question! Same for future plans. We knew these things about each other before we even agreed to a second date, let alone marriage.

We knew within weeks that we were a match, and confirmed that during the year leading up to our wedding.

Because later on your realize marriage is a stupid contract that only benefits the woman. So if you don't marry early you will know better than to marry later on.

Very reasonable explanation.

You have a limited number of three years before you're too old.

One year is good.

i think your analysis is dead wrong .. divorce rate is high because sex is treated like a transaction in this country and morality is treated as relative .. if MORE people married young without screwing 50 people and stayed monogamous the entire country would see an immediate boost in the economy and we'd have less troubled kids, welfare 'wards of the state', crime, and psychological disorders ..

A year is plenty, if you are open and honest with each other.