Becoming a teen Bride was not a decision I made lightly. Before I met my future husband I had every intention of going to a university and getting a degree in history and seeing where life took me. I remember hearing a speaker say there is always one event in a person's life that is the separating point, for example: before natural disaster, after natural disaster. Mine was before I met my husband and afterward. I was young and naive, and frankly I still am, and was the "new girl" in school and never had a guy's attention before. It was completely knew for me to have multiple guys wanting to take me out and I soaked it all in and had my first heartbreak as a result. Then, as if on que, my now husband swept into the picture and I've been with him ever since.
We went through our struggles mainly because of his family's controlling and manipulative ways in the years to come, but came out a stronger couple. At the tender age of 17 and 19, after a few years of dating, we decided we were going to get married after I finished school. I made the tough decision of not going to college and working until my husband's finished with school then becoming a housewife and mother. I knew I could do both, but I felt I was forcing myself to choose a career when what I really wanted to was take care of my family. I went through the rest of High School in a daze, dreaming about the wedding and marriage and how great it's going to be. I felt different from my classmates who were crying over a boy while I was on my way to the altar and had my life planned out well before my time. I only had a couple friends that I felt comfortable with and rarely went out and did any normal teen activities. Instead, I focused more on my future with my fiance that lived 6 hours away while he was going to university. We spoke on the phone each night and saw each other every 2-3 months or so...this went on for 2 years. I skipped my junior and senior prom and graduation parties while planning the wedding.
A week after I graduated, we got married.
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