I saw that you met your husband when you were 16! I think that meeting someone young and growing old with them is one of the sweetest and most romantic things, yet nowadays it seems to be seen as a negative to settle down young or to not ...
(cont.) 'play the field'. As someone that greatly respects you I was curious as to how old you were when you married and to what your thoughts are really. I'm now 20 yet people seem shocked to think I'm already dating the boy I want to one day marry.
Love this question :)
So yes, I met my husband when I was 16. A few months later we were already best friends and the moment we decided to be together was when we both, out of the blue, told each other that we wanted to marry one another. So, still at 16 years old, we made a commitment to each other to get married and we went and told our families. There was not much support, to say the least, but that was only because most people believe that a 16 year old person could not possibly "know".
The only people who believed in us were the people who were younger than us. Our sisters, cousins...anyone who was young enough to believe that anything is possible. My husband and I have been together in the most solid way imaginable ever since that day when I was 16. We got officially engaged when I was 19 and married when I was 21. I have never known anything other than him, and he has never known anything other than me. Even those who were very skeptical about our relationship have come to regard it as something special, and there is not a single doubt surrounding it.
The thing to remember is that real love will show itself no matter what. Not everyone will understand at first, and not everyone should. Any pressure you feel from people saying you should date around should mean very little in comparison to how how you feel about your love. I think there is a stigma to getting married young because of the facts out there...it often ends in divorce, this is true. It never hurts to wait because if you are truly in love, it will endure, and if not, it will be best that time told you so.
I have always and will always put love before all else, and when I believe in love I believe in it fully. Have that same passion, and people will come around and see it for what it is - something special.
