Did you marry your high school sweet heart?

Question

Do you think it is possible for two young people to spend the rest of their life together? Oh this question dosen't affect me it is about my friend. I don't think her and her boyfriend will last but I wanted to see how you feel about high school sweet hearts and marriage.

If you didn't, do you know people in real life who did? How many do you know?

Answer 1

No, I did not, but it is possible to marry your sweetheart from high school and have it work out.

Answer 2

Personally I havn't been to High School yet but I will start next year, but I've known people who have tried and all it does is fail. People who do marry their high school sweet heart are more then likely to get a divorce because of some reasons: One side of the relationship or even both think that everything is staying the same and ran out out of things to talk to, and since they never got to figure out if there was anyone else right for them instead they got married. So this usually causes one another to cheat on someone or leave the marriage. But hey I don't know much about love I am just going from what I've heard from older friends.

Answer 3

I think it is possible for two people to spend their lives together. I think it takes a lot of work. I think it is much harder to stay with someone and stay committed today then it was for our grandparents generation. Today, marriage is not sacred like it used to be, divorce doesn't carry the same stigma that it once did. Nowadays people would much rather go to court and end their relationship than to a therapist to see if they can work it out. Our generation is one that lives fast. Fast food, fast cars, fast women, fast lanes, and with all of our luxuries have become a society that lusts for instant gratification. We have become accustomed to rushing into things, including love. We don't court each other and take the time to get to know each other like we used to. One of the reasons the marriage mortality rate is so high is because of this and Mr. Right becomes Mr. Right Now.

I married better than my highschool sweetheart, I married my bestfriend. I've been friends with him since grade school, and I am more in love with him everyday. Will we be together for the rest of our lives? Who knows, but I sure hope so.

No matter what age you marry, you have to be willing to accept that people change. A sixteen-year-old girl will have different dreams, goals, thoughts about the world, and hopes for the future than she will at twenty-five where as a sixteen-year-old boy may have the same dreams, goals, thoughts about the world, and hopes for the future when he is twenty-five and vice versa. Like they say, "Some people grow up, and some people grow old." You have to be able to embrace and accept the fact that you might change or may not and the same goes for your partner.

Answer 4

It's possible, but rare. My wife and I have been together for 30 years. It's a challenge because people can often change, both physically and mentally, but it can be done. My daughter (who just turned 16) has been seeing the same boy for 2 years and, at least right now, thinks she will spend the rest of her life with him.

Answer 5

I only know it from the women's point of view, but women VERY MUCH change after they get out of school and get into the real world. What they look for in a man changes especially. You can't possibly know what sort of man your BOYfriend will turn out to be once he's in the job world. And women don't know what they will want either. I am sooo glad I didn't marry the guy I got engaged to my senior year of high school! He turned out to not have anything that I would need in a future provider.

Answer 6

Yes, if they are truly committed and love each other. My grandparents were childhood sweethearts and they celebrated over fifty years together before my grandfather die. I also have two aunts who have been married over 50yrs. My mother is going to celebrate 51 years this September. My sister is still with her first love after 31 years. Was it easy, no. They have all gone through ups and downs, fall outs, fall ins, affairs, drunkenness, sicknesses, but their love and commitment to each other never diminished. The bible says "Love covers a multitude of sins" 1 Peter 4:8.

Answer 7

it's possible, but not really in my family. i never had a high school sweetheart. my younger sister did and they broke up last year and he took off to portugal. my older sister had one too and they too broke up last year. they were going out for six years until he started talking bout marriage and spending everyday together where my sister broke it off with them. my parents were never high school sweethearts. my dad had a girlfriend at sixteen, an italian one, and soon after they were engaged, she took off and he never heard from her again. he does think about her from time to time. my cousin had a highschool sweetheart too with my other cousin's ex. she was thinking of marrying him, but he never wanted marriage. he's totally against it, and in the end he broke it off with her because of her possessive ways and he didnt feel the same way about her anymore. the only ones in my family that got in this position as your question is my uncle and aunt. they met while she was fourteen at a wedding and have been together ever since. they got married back in 1997 and have a five year old son who just started kindergarten. they were together for fourteen years before they got married, and havent spent a day apart from each other since. they even work together. and at many times they would send their son over to my house to spend quality time together and go on outings. they do have their problems every now and again, but they always seem to work through it as a couple and you can tell that their love for each other is there. wait... that does sorta give possibility that it does work.

Answer 8

No, he's a dips**t. Everytime I see people that marry their high school sweethearts they're all miserable or divorced. Don't get married. What does a piece of paper from the govenment have to do with love? It doesn't tell you to love each other more or anything. Handfasting, that's the way to wed :)

Answer 9

I am married to my high school sweet heart we have been together 7 years i am pregnant with our second kid and if i could turn back time and i knew what i did now well lets just say things might be diffrent. but i do have to say only recently after all this time have things started going to S#!& so it may last but i dout forever.

Answer 10

Yes I did and it was a big big mistake we were too young to really know what a relationship is . It turned out bad and we were divorced 2 years later.