I am a 19 year old hopelessly romantic teenage girl I have been in a relationship for about a year now and I was talking with a friend of mine and she asked about my relationship. I told her about how very in love I am with my boyfriend, who is me in boy form. Yes, we have differences and we get into arguments but every relationship has those. She went on to ask if I saw him in my future and without hesitation I said he is the person I am going to marry and build a family with.

This claim astonished my friend. How could a 19 year old college student know that she was going to marry this boy? I love my boyfriend and I want nothing else but to marry him and start a life with him. The relationship we have is freeing. We are goofy together and I have never felt so comfortable with someone. He taught me what it means to truly love someone and what a real relationship is like. We have fought and we don't have the same views on a lot but we don't let that get in our way. No, we have not had our big fight yet and yes that does scare me but I know that no matter what gets throw our way we can handle it. He is my person.

Now, notice how I did not say he is the one. I believe that is impossible that on this Earth there is one person made for you and nobody else. You don't get one shot at love and that is it. Soulmates exist but there is an -s at the end of the word for a reason. There are all kinds of soulmates from romantic to platonic soulmates. He/She may be the one at the moment. They may be the one you need to pull you out of darkness or plunge into the darkness so you can find yourself.

The phrase "my person" come from the show Grey's Anatomy and it is genius. Saying my person means that they are what you need, they stick with you and it is a promise to be there. Saying someone is the one means that after them, if there is an after them, there is nothing else they are it. Which if you think about it is very sad. The one means you have the one shot to get it right and if you miss your shot by an inch its all over because there no other one its just the one.

Now being 19 and saying I want to marry my college boyfriend is not out of the ordinary. My friends say they are going to marry the significant other. As much of the hopeless romantic that I am I can admit that even if I say I know he is the one or my person, I never really know. To other people that is a very difficult to admit.

Nobody wants to say that there is even the slightest possibility that there college or high school relationship will not work out. I, however know that there a 1% chance that it could not work out. I hate to think that I could at some pint live my life without him by my side but reality has to be looked at. You know that your significant other is who you want to be with and who you see a future with but the reality is you know 99%. There will always be the 1% of unknown.