High school relationships lack longevity

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Written by Keerthika Ramakrishnan

High school relationships may be fun and exciting, but are they going to end in marriage? Not many people end up marrying their high school sweethearts. Not everyone sticks with the same people all through the four years. Coming in as freshmen, students feel excited and nervous about having a girlfriend or boyfriend. By senior year, some students are just ready to leave the immature world of high school dating.

High school relationships start off as crushes. You talk to the girl or guy that looks cute to you, and at one point, if you like them, you ask them out. After you start going out, you find more things in common between you. The school dance is around the corner, and you go dance like you have never before. Everything is nice and smooth until you find something out about the other person, or you start to have arguments. You don’t talk to each other for a day or two. After that you apologize and start talking again. Soon enough this roller coaster of ups and downs will lead to longer fights and shorter make-up times. At one point, you call it quits and become ex-girlfriend and boyfriend. Then you move on to another person.

On entering ninth grade you think you are all grown up, but looking back as a senior you will wonder what you saw in your ex-boyfriends and girlfriends. High school love can be immature. The girl will try to rectify her guy’s habits, and boys get filled with anger. Boys tend to be egotistical and want the girl to call and say sorry first. Both of them start becoming jealous and possessive. The couples start disliking their partner’s possessiveness while they themselves are being possessive. Hypocrisy and big egos are the main reasons for breakups.

There is also the physical versus the mental liking. At one point, some relationships begin with the person’s outer appearance and not with their heart. Many girls and boys get into relationships with the wrong person without knowing the other person’s true incentives. Love has to be between two hearts, not bodies, to be everlasting.
Only a few high school couples have gotten married. Most high school love and especially one’s first love is never forgotten but rather kept as a experience for the future life.