Before attempting a serious romantic relationship with anyone after high school, consider these things..seriously.

Several reasons why it is best to put off getting seriously involved with anyone right after high school. (I don't care how convincing the person tries to be because they will tell you that you should have stood your ground anyway)

Apparently, as a man, It is important to do things that make your woman happy. It is important to make them feel loved. It is important to make them feel secure. It is also important to cater to them in so many ways because failure to do so will warrant their exit out of your life (Well who the fuck asked them to come along anyway right?) We rarely get told that it is actually ok to function individually, even as a "couple" Why should either side have to lose for something to work?

At 17-year-old, it is likely that you have not gotten up to speed with who you are and how you work as a man yet, let alone the mystery that is a woman. And you most certainly have not gotten up to speed with the manipulative power some women so effortlessly wield. (As if Women "maturing" faster than men weren't already an unfair advantage.) Basically, you are not close to being ready to being a man yet.

Some women will come into your life and soon try to control your whole existence because you will let them, because if you don't, somehow it means that you do not love them and they will make you feel horrible about that. The best thing about the control thing is that sometimes it doesn't even have to come as someone holding you hostage with a gun to your head or anything like that either. You'd wish it had been that way instead because the crime would have been much more obvious that way.

Secondly, C'mon, you are young. What do you even know about whatever you think you are pursuing? Taking cute bathroom pictures are cool and all but that certainly is not it. Listen. Forget anyone that tries to make you love them. That is obviously one sign that they have not fully committed to loving themselves yet, which means that you are now responsible for filling insecure holes in their life that aren't always present til it's always too fucking late. And the trouble you will go through to help them get through will ultimately backfire on you as time passes. Because some people don't give a fuck about anyone else but themselves. Despite what you have heard, you are not responsible for anyone's happiness.

Lastly, remember that take over your life part I mentioned earlier? It happens, and That part sucks. You will be really committed and When it is all said and done and you two are no longer together, then comes the part of you functioning as an individual again. Because at this point you have abandoned your world several times that you have no idea what it even looks like anymore. And since it began after high school, you would have never even established one for yourself. Stay your ass in a church somewhere and don't let your guard down for anyone that says God is the main man in their life because for some reason you trust that shit and you let your guard down. Also keep in mind that it's a case by case kind of thing (Remember that lady who said the same thing but ended up being slutty as fuck?! Yea, just take it with a grain of salt)

So Where do you begin after it's all said and done? In the middle of no fucking where. At this point, any type of trust has gone out the window. You are not the same person anymore and it's just not worth it anymore. How do you pick up the pieces? You don't. You just wake up each day asking what the fuck happened, and how in the hell did you allow yourself to "Fall" for this stupid trick.

I'll end here. Love Hard,