5 Drawbacks to Marrying Your High School or College Sweetheart

I recently published an article listing 5 advantages to marrying your high school or college sweetheart. Although it has worked out well for my husband and I, there are some drawbacks as well that I wanted to discuss. So in this article, I will give 5 disadvantages to marrying your high school or college sweetheart.

#1 - If you meet your significant other when you are both very young then odds are that you will not have the opportunity to date very many other people. For some people, this can result in a lot of questions about whether or not you missed out by not dating more people just in case "something better" came along. On the one hand you don't want to break up with someone you love just so that you can see what else is out there, but on the other hand people often question whether you really know what you want if you have never experienced anything else.

#2 - Since there are many more complications that can arise from marrying before or during college, I think that it is best in most cases to do what we did and wait to get married until after graduation. However, that can be difficult when you have been dating since high school because often it means going to seperate universities and dating long distance. Even if you do both go to the same school you may have a long wait ahead before you get married and that can add strain to a relationship because after 3 or 4 years you can start to feel as if you are stuck in a rut and nothing will ever change.