>>509653933When you marry your high school sweetheart, you have something that is unique.
Human brains process images in a lazy way,
Similar to a web browser cache.
Our brain takes a first impression, and can easily miss minute changes. Humans can be fooled watching video at as little as 11 frames per second.
When you marry young, you see your bride as she is at that moment, for the rest of your life. Others may notice wrinkles, and crows feet, but your brain can erase them, and revert to the original.
In a song from long ago called "Wild World"
Cat Stevens summed it up nicely "I'll always remember you, like a child"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jta56wBl7SM
People who marry after college, after they have a career, after they are"prepared" miss out on this phenomena. Their roasty wife will haunt them forever, or until they divorce.