The best thing for you to do at this stage in your life is to be concerned about getting yourself together; stuff like getting good grades, looking into colleges, getting involved in extracurricular activities, building your character…things that are going to help make you a well-rounded, mature individual. Those things are enough to keep you busy. Don’t let yourself get so emotionally caught up with someone that you loose focus on what is most important right now. The time for getting married, having a family and settling down will all come soon enough; but hopefully not until you have matured, prepared (financially, emotionally, etc.) and know enough about who you really are as a person. To be honest with you, not too many kids even just out of college have it together like that.

It’s a good thing to want to get married and dream about having a family one day. The best thing for you now is to prepare yourself so that when the time comes, you will be ready and able to not just get married, but stay married. It is easy to become emotionally involved with someone and emotions have a tendency to dull the senses and cloud judgment. Someone a great deal smarter than me once said, “It is a foolish person that starts to build a house without first counting the cost.” Your personalized translation…Save sex for marriage…and save marriage for when you're confident that you are ready and able to follow through to make it a good one.