I was sort of in the same headspace as you. I graduated high school at 17, and some of my friends married their high school sweethearts that June. I dated a senior as a freshman, so if we had gotten serious, I could have been ready to get married at 17.
But all of the points you bring up are valid reasons to make a younger graduate wait a few extra months to get married.
Not to mention that getting married right out of high school hasn’t been a widely successful life choice for a few generations now. It mostly worked up until my parents’ generation, but that was probably more to do with cultural expectations and legal barriers to divorce. None of my late GenX friends who did it stayed with their spouses for more than a few years.
I was sort of in the same headspace as you. I graduated high school at 17, and some of my friends married their high school sweethearts that June. I dated a senior as a freshman, so if we had gotten serious, I could have been ready to get married at 17.
But all of the points you bring up are valid reasons to make a younger graduate wait a few extra months to get married.
Not to mention that getting married right out of high school hasn’t been a widely successful life choice for a few generations now. It mostly worked up until my parents’ generation, but that was probably more to do with cultural expectations and legal barriers to divorce. None of my late GenX friends who did it stayed with their spouses for more than a few years.