Young Marriage-and the reputation it holds.

I have been dating my-what is now my fiance for four years and we have been engaged for 8 months. Sounds good right? We know each other like the back of our hand, my family loves him, his family loves me, we have a dog, we don't live together, we are getting married in May, and everything seems to be falling into place right? Well-not exactly. See, we are young. I'm 19 & he is 20. Not everyone was really congratulating us on our engagement and our age is mostly to blame. I mean, we did get some congratulations-but amongst those were:

1.) "You guys won't last a year." 

2.) "They aren't even thinking!"

3.) "I wish you guys would wait!"

4.) "The divorce rate for young couples is soaring!"

5.) "What if Gage has to go to medical school? What will you do?"

6.) "Why can't you wait til you graduate?"

7.) "You're just being rebellious!" 

The list goes on-and to these, I replied: 

1.) Hopefully...we won't last a year. We plan to last much more. (;

2.) We aren't thinking? Look: this took a lot of thought. Really. We thought about our income, home, future....etc. Now, premarital sex, teenage pregnancy, drug use, and drinking coffee before bed is thoughtless. 

3.) Why wait? If we know we want to get married and spend our lives together-why wait? 

4.) Indeed it is! But we won't be a statistic. 

5.) Gage wants to further his career? What ever will I do? Surely, I must leave him for doing such a thing! How dare he try to do what's best! Seriously, I will stick with him and support him in whatever he wants to do. If it requires moving-so be it! 

6.) We did wait! We graduated highschool! Haha, okay, now I'm being a smarty pants. Again, why wait?

7.) Rebellious? Getting a tattoo or an odd piercing-now that's rebellious...and I have neither. I have been bungee jumping and did eat a whole pack of strawberries without my mothers consent once though.