Were Romeo and Juliet really in love?

If you have read the play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, then you know that Romeo and Juliet were very young when they first met. They met when they were both about thirteen to fifteen years old, and they were already in love about one week after they met. Now, I think that Romeo and Juliet weren’t really in love. I think that they liked each other a lot and cared about each other a lot, but that they were not seriously in love. To really love someone, you have to get to know them first and be with them for awhile, while Romeo and Juliet only knew each other for about a day when they decided that they were in love with each other. Isn’t that crazy? Romeo and Juliet had only known each other for about a day when they decided they were in love and they wanted to get married. Not only that, but they hadn’t even been married for a week before they killed themselves. Romeo and Juliet were only married for about four days before they ended up killing themselves.

Although some people might think that Romeo and Juliet were in love because they killed themselves over each other, I still think that they weren’t really in love and that they were just over-exaggerating when they killed themselves. Also, how could Romeo and Juliet really be in love if they weren’t even very mature? I mean, the only reason why Romeo killed himself was because he believed that Juliet was dead. But she wasn’t even really dead. She just drank some potion that would disease her for awhile and then she would wake up. And do you know why she drank the potion? It was because she didn’t want to be married to Paris, the man who her family wanted her to marry. If Juliet had been mature, she would have just told her family that she was already married to someone else and that she didn’t want to marry Paris. Even though Juliet probably would have gotten into a whole lot of trouble for denying her father, that would have been the mature thing to do instead of trying to find a way out of the marriage. Also, since Romeo didn’t know that Juliet wasn’t really dead, he too drank a potion, or poison, that killed him. Right after Romeo drank the poison, what happened? Juliet wakes up, just to see her husband drinking a poison to kill himself. She wakes up too late to save Romeo, so she waits until he completely dies so that she can stab herself with a dagger. In the end, both Romeo and Juliet die. I believe that Romeo and Juliet weren’t really in love, because if they had been, they probably would have gotten through everything and they wouldn’t have had to kill themselves.