Last night a friend gave me a warning.. "Don't grow up too fast," he said.. Which got me thinking, I'm not growing up too fast, if anything, I GREW up too fast...
In my last relationship, I matured quickly, because when it comes down to it, he didn't want to. I was 16 years old, a junior in high school, thinking about how I was going to survive in an apartment. "What if I got pregnant?" I asked myself, and I thought of how we would finance THAT as well. (I'm not looking for sympathy, I'm merely giving examples.)
"Don't rush things.. you are still a kid..." people say all the time, but the truth is with my last relationship I lost an innocence I can never have back. Call it growing up too fast, but if so, I did that WAY before I was going to get married.
I'm not trying to blame my ex for my "growing up too fast," I guess in a way you mature a little more from each significant event that happens in your life. (It is what shapes who you are..) I'm merely trying to say that for everyone who believes I'm "growing up too fast," I'm not. I did that a long time ago.
"with my last relationship I lost an innocence I can never have back"
you sound regretful. don't regret!
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with my boyfriend being in the army for a little over a year now i found that i rationalize like a 30 year old. ive lost some friends bc ive "matured too much".
but its all for the better. do not regret anything.