Are High School Relationships worth it?

[Anonymous]

Yes

No

[NathanDavis]

they can be worth as long as you dedicate to them...

in high-school I had my first girlfriend and we're still best friends to this day

I also made another two friends, which are still the closest of my friends today...

for the rest of the class, we're not that close but we're still in touch... acquaintances let's say, which can be very helpful from time to time as everyone took different ways and you never know when could you need help with something and connections make some things easier

[caring__1]

High school relationships are part of the high school experience. It's not about being presented the answer to any question, but teaching you how to question, research and discover what is most likely to work. We must have experiences to discover what works or doesn't and what our preferences are. If we don't have the experiences when we are young, we'll have them when we get older. Adolescents understand there is a lot of awkwardness during that stage, so they tend to make more allowances for the stumbling. Later on, people will be less tolerant of this stumbling, for they'll assume you already went through that stage. If you stumble when you are older, people will assume you haven't learned from your past, and they'll be stuck with dealing with stumbling forever (if they choose to remain with you).

[caring__1]

I understand first time experiences tend to be extreme, both when it comes to joy and pain. You may be questioning whether the pain is worth having. That is part of any learning experience. We can play it safe and never feel any pain, but that will also limit our experiences. The only thing that allows us to appreciate joy is having the opposite to compare it to. Positive and negative tend to be balanced. Your experience of someone quickly getting off a teeter-totter when balanced on the end is much different from if they get off while balancing near the center.

Some people prefer to never get in a relationship or never have a pet, because they don't want to have to go through the grieving process when it ends. Just look at what we would give up if we didn't have that special connection. Our life wouldn't have been the same without that experience. We value that which we might lose much more than that which we can't get rid of. Have you ever valued a swarm of mosquitoes biting you all over?

[Prettygurl12]

My husband and I met in middle school, dated in high school, and got married after college. Rare, but it happens. So my high school relationship was totally worth it.

But even if you don't marry them, I think relationships in high school teach you a lot about what you want in a relationship in the future.

[Apple1996]

It was worth it for me since I married my high school sweet heart.

[Jamie05rhs]

Not sure. That's a good question. When I was in high school, I did want to have a relationship. I wanted to find someone to be my girlfriend and I wanted to be in love. Tbh, I didn't really know exactly what that entailed. I guess we would just sit at lunch together and maybe dance together at the sock hops and homecoming. And we would write love letters to each other, and possibly hold hands once in awhile. And maybe we would have gone out to eat at Arby's.

Ideally, we would have grown closer in love and grown up together into adulthood, and then we would have gone to college together and then gotten married.

But all of this is hypothetical, and none of it ever actually happened in my case. 🤷

[shreejan]

Yes and no. Yes in the manner it makes you experience love young in life and it overall helps to improve your personality. When in relationship you face through different experience which overall improves the way you would react to towards the situation in future.
No as in if you think school relationship would last life long and that you would marry that person. I would say very very slim chance

[BCRanger10]

These days, I don't think so. At least not as much as I used to.

[exitseven]

I didn't have many friends in high school I do not ever see anyone from high school. I never went to any reunions. I feel like I missed out but you can't go back.

[JHNS98]

Sometimes. Some of my friends from primary school got into relationships in 9th grade and are still together with their boyfriends.

One of them even has a child now.

[Inexpensivefurniture]

Yes. You learn from them even if they are juvenile and unlikely to work out

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Nope, they can end up in sadness , that is why I'm glad I never had a High-School Sweetheart

[Clairvear69]

It help learn that men are still boys and do stupid thing like when at school.

[Anonymous]

Good to learn about what you do and don't like; and how to treat others.

[Leavesbound]

They are good practice for later in life.

[JesseJayNeak]

If they can make it work out

[Anonymous]

Its all about our dedication and situations