[ SECRET POST #2357 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2357 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[vongroovy]

That's one of my favourite endings ever. Even as a kid watching it, I felt it was the most realistic way their relationship could have gone. I've never liked childhood sweethearts ending up together forever - there's just so many people in the world to meet after you get out of school, and you can change so much, especially from teens to adulthood, that I can't imagine sticking with one person you met before you'd really come into your own, I guess. Probably doesn't help that the one couple I knew who were childhood sweethearts were unbelievably insufferable about it.

[(Anonymous)]

I personally could never see myself being with a childhood sweetheart for keeps either, but wow, life-policing much? People aren't obliged to ~play the field~ or whatever bullshit if they're genuinely happy with who they're with now and don't have any doubts. Sure, maybe it won't work out, but the same can be said for plenty of romances that start later in life too. I believe marrying and committing early is a bad move, but what's so wrong with marrying someone from your youth after you've had a lot of time to become sure?

And your romantic relationships aren't the end-all-be-all of who you are. They don't totally define you, and staying with the same person doesn't force you to never change. You can "come into yourself" in plenty of other ways - new friends, education, jobs, places - without ditching a person who fits you and who makes you happy, if you truly aren't happy with anyone else. Loads of people go through huge personal growth or changes later in life without their marriages breaking up, so why not early in life?

Now, I'm sure it would be pretty difficult, given the restricted freedom, to explore yourself properly while also keeping up a romantic relationship with the same person (which is why I could never have done it), but if doing that is what makes someone happy, why the fuck not?

[vongroovy]

Wow, way to overreact to what I said much? I was in no way talking about what other people should or shouldn't do in real life. I don't give a fuck about what other people do, and I never said anyone was obligated to play the field or that romantic relationships defined you or whatever else you somehow got out of what I said. If someone meets someone young and ends up staying with them forever and they're happy, good on them! That's great! Anyone finding love and compatibility at whatever age is fantastic. When I said I don't like childhood sweethearts ending up together, I meant in fiction. Because of my experiences, my preferences, and what I can imagine for myself, all of which was coloured by the one childhood sweethearts couple I have known and the fact that after I left school, when I felt I was able to really come into my own for the first time, it was a huge break with my former lifestyle and childhood friends. Apparently it could have been better said so as not to be completely misinterpreted, but it was fuck all to do with life policing anyone.