Boyfriends and Soulmates?

I've been dating Mark Winfield Wetherbee for a long time. We met online at okcupid.com (yeah I know that's cheesey.) and met in the real world at my house in June of 2007. It's been semi-long distance since. He's from central Jersey, I'm from eastern PA.
I wasn't nervous about meeting him. I never questioned the danger involved in online meetings. I made sure that my parents were home when he got here and he came here first. My mother hated the whole plan.
He showed up and my mom fell in love with him to. She agrees that I couldn't have found a more perfect person for me.
I never believed in soul mates. And I still don't. That there's one person out there designed to be for someone else. I'm not religious so I don't believe God has any type of plan for me. And fate sounds like just as much crap as God does to me. Things happen because of choices I make.
But if I believed in soul mates, I'm positive Mark is the one for me. We have similar views on life, and similar favourites. We have our differences, but that keeps us interesting. We've never had a fight in the 8 months we've been together, or the year that we've known each other. Not to say we haven't had tifts. When either of us have a problem with the other we bring it up gentley and compromise. We make sure that we're never changing for anybody but ourselves.
I've helped him with his anxiety issues just as he's helped me learn more about what's important rather than completely petty.

Because of all this, I feel we have a very unique relationship. Everyone I know at our age (18-20), has all kinds of relationship issues. Whether or not it's a big deal, they have them. But Mark and I never seem to be near break-up or even thinking about doing anything that doesn't have to do with the other.

In saying that, I should mention he goes to school at Rider University. He lives with his parents and is as sophmore in college. He already lives an hour and a half away from me. Come August 22, I'll be moving into my dorm at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Clarion is located just north of Pittsburg, and is (of course with luck) 5 hours west of my current hometown.
I'll be millions of miles away and both of us are aware of the distance. Neither of us plan for there to be any issue. We'll see each other at least once a month. So there shouldn't be a problem.

My parents love Mark and Mark's parents love me. We're all happy.

I know I'm young. 18 and 19. We're both young. But as far as the both of us can tell, nothing will ever get between us. Nothing will ever make us stop wanting to be with each other.

So, here's another question (as I've got so many of them).
How young is "too young" for marriage?
Neither of us are stupid. We plan on finishing school and getting good jobs before we actually GET married. But we both have determined we will be getting married at some point in the future.
New question. How young is it "too young" for engagement?
That's a better question.
I don't know. I mean engagement is much easier to reverse than marriage. So shouldn't engagement the time of trial? I think it's like a marriage trial run. So I'm curious.

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