I'm old-fashioned.

I want that old-school, gentlemanly type of love.

I can't wait to have the wedding where my dad walks me down the aisle while I wear a stunning white dress surrounded by my best friends and family. I want to be a wife and a mother. Everything about how I want my future screams "old-fashioned" and "outdated."

As of recently, my boyfriend of six months gave me a promise ring.

Since we're both too young to get engaged, let alone married, the symbol of a shiny promise ring is something that means the world to me.

The shiny diamond ring on my finger shows me that I am someone worthy of love and worthy of a future. It shows me that someone wants to spend their life with me... To build a future with me and to start a family with me. It's a symbol of love and intention.

To some, that may seem old-fashioned and irrelevant.

Dating in this society has seemed to have lost it's romantic appeal and is now replaced with read receipts, open Snapchats, and subtweeting. It's not all bad, though. I have been lucky enough to find someone to treat me like a princess despite being surrounded by frogs.

For the longest time, I was in modern day "relationships" which consisted of not talking for days, abuse, and honestly just plain rudeness.

This is not how I wanted to be treated, but how I thought I should be treated because that's what society told me was normal.

But now, being in a normal relationship - with respect and love - I realize that I wouldn't trade my "old-fashioned" realtionship, and certainly not my promise ring, for anything.