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My boyfriend (18m) and I (18f) have been together 11months.  Very happy together, blah, blah, blah, I feel like we're compatible and have a mature outlook on our relationship despite how young we are.  After writing out a budget and discussing it with our parents, we've decided to move across the country to go to college and get out in the real world.  My dad has been strongly encouraging us to get married before we move this Fall, but I feel like that would be rushing things.

Okay, so today in school, I was talking to one of my guy friends- about school, work, family, etc and then he mentions that, "Oh, by the way I got married over Christmas break; it was just a small ceremony."  I was shocked!  My 18yo friends are getting married left and right, having babies, being downright COMMITTED...and here I am, wondering if they will end up regretting it or if I'm the dumb one, moving in with my bf before marriage. (Also, we're abstinent from piv sex if that changes anything.)

My questions are as follows: how did your young marriages work out? What's your opinion on it?  Advice for young couples living together, miles away from home?
<bot>: highschool friends are tying the knot, I'm wondering if I should too before moving away with my bf, or if waiting is a good thing in general