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If you got married straight out of high school or college, you might start to reconsider your relationship later on. According to a 2015 study from Nicholas Wolfinger, a professor at the University of Utah, couples who marry younger are at a greater risk of divorce compared to couples who wed in their late 20s and early 30s. Unfortunately, if you get hitched when you're under the age of 20, Wolfinger estimates that your divorce risk is 32 percent, based on age alone.

Every person in a relationship just wants their voice to be heard—but in return, you need to give your partner that same respect and actually listen to what they're saying. If your partner thinks that you're ignoring them, they will feel like their opinions and emotions aren't important to you—and consequently, neither is the relationship.

After getting married, it takes work to maintain the spark that once existed in your relationship. If you don't work on keeping it alive, you risk falling into the same old routines. "From the moment you begin to live together, romantic moments are no longer automatic," says Tessina. "Instead, much of your time together is spent on more mundane things: doing laundry, washing dishes, paying bills, or going to work. As soon as the initial newness of living together wears off, such everyday things cease to feel exciting and romantic, and you may find yourself feeling worried that your partner no longer cares as much or is as excited to be with you."

You can pretend to settle an argument with your spouse just to make it go away, but that is only going to make things worse. Why? "Holding resentment is the quickest way to destroy love," says California-based psychotherapist Tina Tessina, PhD. "Resentment is like the rust that eats away at the bonds of your relationship." If you don't resolve the underlying issues that are causing your resentment and anger, then your relationship will inevitably be worn down to the point of no return.

One of the most important parts of being in a relationship is loving your partner for who they are without trying to change them. People who secretly wish that their partner was just a little bit more fashionable or athletic will find that they love an unrealistic version of their partner and not the actual person with whom they're coupled. It always helps to remember that love is unconditional—and if yours isn't, then it might not be love after all.

The Friends phenomenon strikes in movies, too. Despite having lackluster careers and barely scraping by in virtually every respect, 20-something characters are always living in sprawling apartments without a roommate in sight in expensive places like New York, Los Angeles, and London.

Movie characters never have to suffer the indignity of trying to pick someone up in a bar, only to end up having to shout at the object of their affection just to compensate for the blaring music. In fact, they can always have a conversation at a totally normal volume, no matter how packed the bar or club they're in is.

Ask anyone who's ever worn a pair of six-inch stilettos and they'll tell you: standing still in them is challenge enough. However, you'd never know it from watching movies, in which a sky-high pair of heels is as comfortable and easy to sprint in as a pair of running shoes.

Luckily for most movie heroes, the villains they encounter never want to attack all at once. Instead, they simply stand around in a circle, taking on their victim one-by-one, allowing him or her to easily defeat them.

For most people with jacked bodies, they're a result of lots of hours in the gym and a healthy, if spartan, diet. In movies, characters will smoke a pack of ci******es, chug beer, eat entire pizzas, and never hit the gym, yet somehow maintain their enviable abs.

Sure, your average adult may have an all-black outfit to wear to a funeral. However, the odds that everyone attending your service also owns a matching black umbrella—an accessory every funeral-going movie character seems to have—are slim.

Need to escape a building quickly? In movies, as long as there's a Dumpster nearby, you're in luck. Movies always seem to make Dumpsters seem like a cushy place to land, rather than the hard metal boxes full of rotting trash they actually are.