no I totally feel you on the high school relationship hate—I have two good friends of mine who are getting married this summer, while still being in college from a high school relationship and I just don’t see it as working out for them, considering they don’t have jobs/a means to provide for themselves nor the knowledge of the world to know for sure what they want now, or even what industry they’d like to work in.
I guess I’m just curious where the bright line comes in that makes after college okay—even when important things have yet to be figured out, yet high school marriages are somewhat ridiculous and an unmarried woman in her 30’s is ‘sticky territory’.
So I’m not so much asking on the merit of the relationship, as much as the societal standards and practices. Some people (country folk/extended family of mine) have accused me of old-maid-dom since I’m 20 and not tied down, yet my friends getting married are way too young. So is there an age that’s acceptable or is there always a limbo of too old/too young going on. Also, reproductively, unless the marriage is going to ensue ‘shot-gunning’ out children as fast as you can, women don’t have a long shelf-life in the matters of baby-making, so waiting until fiscal responsibility has occurred (30’s usually) seems like it limits other choices.
so yeah, I guess what’s your vote on my 21 year old friends who are getting married mid-junior year of college?