Sarah and Jason have three kids now, and I really can’t imagine they’ll ever split up. They’ve literally grown up with each other and basically represent the best possible outcome from marrying a first and only love. They are a true high school sweetheart success story.  More from CafeMom: 10 Signs a Marriage Is Really Over But for every Sarah and Jason out there, there are more young couples who marry their high school sweetheart and don’t end up with the happy ending they were hoping for. For any of us who’ve been in long relationships, it is pretty tough to imagine being married to any of the people we dated before turning 18. We spoke with 11 women (who wished to remain anonymous) who married their high school sweetheart and found that young love simply wasn’t built to last.  More from CafeMom: 13 Cowardly, Insensitive & Just Plain Heartless Breakup Stories unsplash/Josh Felise “But I’m 24 now and I think I’ve made a huge mistake. I still love Brian, but I feel like I missed out on the chance to do a lot of stuff. I’d like to live somewhere else or go to college. Brian is set on living down the street from his parents for the rest of our lives. I feel trapped.” “I’ll be totally honest — we’ve both cheated. We’ve talked about having an open marriage but we aren’t totally there yet. I think the cheating happened because neither of us got to sow any wild oats when we were younger.” More from CafeMom: 6 Ridiculous Divorce Stats That Will Scare Any Sane Woman “I was 18 when I got married and I had NO IDEA what being a military wife would be like. It is hard and lonely and I missed out on a lot of the fun of being young. I still love him, but knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t have said yes that early.” “We stayed married for over 20 years. But when the kids left the house and it was just us — well, we didn’t really have any reason left to stay married. Our life had been raising kids. I lost the first half of my life to being his wife. The second half of life is for me.” More from CafeMom: 9 Women Share Why They Are Divorced & Better Because of It “You know how this ends, right? We were over before we graduated from college. My parents were SO PISSED when I told them that I was married and that I needed to borrow some money so I could get divorced.” “Turns out getting married so you can have sex is a pretty terrible idea. The fun of getting to have sex wears off and then you are just 22 and wondering why you settled down so young.”

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title: “12 Women Get Real About Marrying Their High School Sweethearts” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-05” author: “Candice Brooks”

Sarah and Jason have three kids now, and I really can’t imagine they’ll ever split up. They’ve literally grown up with each other and basically represent the best possible outcome from marrying a first and only love. They are a true high school sweetheart success story.  More from CafeMom: 10 Signs a Marriage Is Really Over But for every Sarah and Jason out there, there are more young couples who marry their high school sweetheart and don’t end up with the happy ending they were hoping for. For any of us who’ve been in long relationships, it is pretty tough to imagine being married to any of the people we dated before turning 18. We spoke with 11 women (who wished to remain anonymous) who married their high school sweetheart and found that young love simply wasn’t built to last.  More from CafeMom: 13 Cowardly, Insensitive & Just Plain Heartless Breakup Stories unsplash/Josh Felise “But I’m 24 now and I think I’ve made a huge mistake. I still love Brian, but I feel like I missed out on the chance to do a lot of stuff. I’d like to live somewhere else or go to college. Brian is set on living down the street from his parents for the rest of our lives. I feel trapped.” “I’ll be totally honest — we’ve both cheated. We’ve talked about having an open marriage but we aren’t totally there yet. I think the cheating happened because neither of us got to sow any wild oats when we were younger.” More from CafeMom: 6 Ridiculous Divorce Stats That Will Scare Any Sane Woman “I was 18 when I got married and I had NO IDEA what being a military wife would be like. It is hard and lonely and I missed out on a lot of the fun of being young. I still love him, but knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t have said yes that early.” “We stayed married for over 20 years. But when the kids left the house and it was just us — well, we didn’t really have any reason left to stay married. Our life had been raising kids. I lost the first half of my life to being his wife. The second half of life is for me.” More from CafeMom: 9 Women Share Why They Are Divorced & Better Because of It “You know how this ends, right? We were over before we graduated from college. My parents were SO PISSED when I told them that I was married and that I needed to borrow some money so I could get divorced.” “Turns out getting married so you can have sex is a pretty terrible idea. The fun of getting to have sex wears off and then you are just 22 and wondering why you settled down so young.”

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title: “12 Women Get Real About Marrying Their High School Sweethearts” ShowToc: true date: “2024-10-21” author: “Christine Cummings”

Sarah and Jason have three kids now, and I really can’t imagine they’ll ever split up. They’ve literally grown up with each other and basically represent the best possible outcome from marrying a first and only love. They are a true high school sweetheart success story.  More from CafeMom: 10 Signs a Marriage Is Really Over But for every Sarah and Jason out there, there are more young couples who marry their high school sweetheart and don’t end up with the happy ending they were hoping for. For any of us who’ve been in long relationships, it is pretty tough to imagine being married to any of the people we dated before turning 18. We spoke with 11 women (who wished to remain anonymous) who married their high school sweetheart and found that young love simply wasn’t built to last.  More from CafeMom: 13 Cowardly, Insensitive & Just Plain Heartless Breakup Stories unsplash/Josh Felise “But I’m 24 now and I think I’ve made a huge mistake. I still love Brian, but I feel like I missed out on the chance to do a lot of stuff. I’d like to live somewhere else or go to college. Brian is set on living down the street from his parents for the rest of our lives. I feel trapped.” “I’ll be totally honest — we’ve both cheated. We’ve talked about having an open marriage but we aren’t totally there yet. I think the cheating happened because neither of us got to sow any wild oats when we were younger.” More from CafeMom: 6 Ridiculous Divorce Stats That Will Scare Any Sane Woman “I was 18 when I got married and I had NO IDEA what being a military wife would be like. It is hard and lonely and I missed out on a lot of the fun of being young. I still love him, but knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t have said yes that early.” “We stayed married for over 20 years. But when the kids left the house and it was just us — well, we didn’t really have any reason left to stay married. Our life had been raising kids. I lost the first half of my life to being his wife. The second half of life is for me.” More from CafeMom: 9 Women Share Why They Are Divorced & Better Because of It “You know how this ends, right? We were over before we graduated from college. My parents were SO PISSED when I told them that I was married and that I needed to borrow some money so I could get divorced.” “Turns out getting married so you can have sex is a pretty terrible idea. The fun of getting to have sex wears off and then you are just 22 and wondering why you settled down so young.”

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