As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today
What do you think about being highschool sweethearts versus meeting a partner later in life?
Would you believe in a love at first sight?
Yes I’m certain that it happens all the time
- The Beatles “Wit a little help from my friends”
Yes, I know that that quote from the Beatles is more about love at first sight that it is high school sweethearts. But the fact of the matter is, falling in love with your high school school sweetheart is, at most, a close relative of love at first sight.
There certainly are people who marry their high school sweethearts, but personally, I find that to be really limiting. My aunt and my uncle were high school sweethearts, and they stayed together until my uncle passed. Of course, my uncle, God rest his soul, had an incredibly dull personality. He was a nice guy and all, I just never really saw a lot of emotion out of him. How much that is just his personality and how much of that is a result of the fact that his life was basically met out for him just after high school.
But in all reality, the whole concept of “high school sweethearts“ is kind of alien to me. The truth is, I’m not the same person that I was in high school. I can’t imagine being with one partner exclusively since that time, and growing old with them.
Hell, I’m not the same person that I was five years ago when X2 and I split up. That might be one of my big hangups about getting into a relationship right now. I don’t know who I’m going to be in five years, let alone 10 or 20. How can anyone even know what kind of person they’re going to turn into while they’re still in high school?
Marriage is great, but the great unknown as whether or not two people will actually grow old and evolve together. More often than not these days, they don’t. People grow apart.
For me, it is just always made more sense to meet a partner later in life. I think that you need to get out of high school, leave home for a bit. See the world. Get to know yourself. Go through some relationships. Have your heartbroken a few times. Finally, figure out what you want and what you don’t want; what you are willing and what you are not willing to settle in a relationship. I just don’t think that a person can figure out that out when they’re 16, 17 or 18 years old.
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