SHAMSUDIN HAKIMI help you break the Love Pattern that keeps choosing the wrong person.

Stop! Your 'soulmate' choice at 19 might be a brain glitch. 🤯 The science behind why early relat...

7 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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Your prefrontal cortex, which handles long-term planning and impulse control, doesn't fully mature until around 25. Choosing a serious partner at 18 or 19 means making that decision before the part of your brain that understands consequences is done developing.

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Let me give you some science. Your brain isn't fully developed until you're about 25 years old. The last part to develop is the prefrontal cortex. That's the part responsible for long term planning, for impulse control, understanding consequences, emotional regulation and identity formation. So when you get into a serious relationship at 18, 19, or 20, you're not just choosing a partner with an underdeveloped brain, you're building your identity with an underdeveloped brain. Brain.