Early Engagements

At my school it's a very normal thing for people from 13 - 17 to get engaged...Actually buying a ring (worth about $5), and asking someone to marry them. I'm 16 and have been engaged twice... and it's without a doubt one of the stupidest things I have ever done =]. I was just wondering if it's something that occurs a lot...or just a fad at my school.

I had my ex boyfriend ask me to marry him when we were fourteen! I said, "WHAT MOM, YA NEED ME?" and ran like heck out the door as though my mom had called me so haha I took the best answer I think.

Lol Many of my cousins were like that, they would be going out with a chick for like a couple weeks, maybe months and then they would be engaged, it was funny yet sad, I never really understood it lol I don't want anyone saying they love me after a couple of weeks, let alone asking me to marry them.

Illu, true story too and one of the fastest times I had run!

Ha that's hilarious!

I think it is absolutely ridiculous for children to get engaged at 12, 14, 16, or whatever it is they're doing these days. Clearly they don't take marriage very seriously. If people see engagement as a fun, spur-of-the-moment, short term deal, then what do they see marriage as? Probably not much more.

You get engaged to someone that you plan on spending the rest of your life with. And if you have the rest of your life, then why rush it during such an iffy time in your life?

Exactly ^

It is so stupid. ive been engaged 2 times, for some stupid reason. i think that i was just like...well...i think i love them? lol. one was when i was 14. and we only dated for 3 months..my longest relationship though sadly. and yeah. my 2nd one was even funnier. he asked me to marry him and a week later he broke up with me lol.
since then i've learned that its not something u rush...at all...haha.

yep =]

I got slighty defensive when I read these responses but ya'll are right-I was engaged for 5 months this year and then he decided he didn't want to get married young and called it off...but we're still dating&it hurts me to fell degraded like that because I really do want to spend the rest of my life with him and he says he wants to spend the rest of his life with me too but I just don't think he's ready to commit 100% to marriage so I'll wait...we've been together for 1 year and 8 months so yea...I can wait

Uh just a fad...that NEVER happens here

I was going out with my ex last yr and he asked me to marry him after we were together for only 1.5 months. I said "yes" stupidly because I found out after we broke up that he was cheating on me with my best friend the whole time we were going out.

I think 16 is not too young to get engaged. If you get engaged, doesn't mean you have to get married straight away. You can leave it for a couple of years.
But I don't like the idea of getting engaged after 3 months of dating. It has to be atleast a year.
My brother has been dating his girlfriend for about 8 years and they still aren't engaged. But they do live together.

Haha! Wow. Yeah, some of my younger friends (who're 14 & 15) do that. They ask all their friends to marry them, & maybe by a cheap ring from the dollar store (but it's the thought that counts). I think it's totally random, & my friends are totally random (& I love it). But, it's not serious... It's a big joke.

But yeah, no I don't think it would be wrong say for 17, 18, 19, etc. year olds to be engaged. Like someone mentioned earlier, that being engaged doesn't mean you're getting married. And an engagement doesn't always mean a ring on the ring finger, sometimes it's just a commitment from heart. If in this case, then I am engaged too. But I wouldn't suggest people to become engaged, or married even, so young. You've got your whole life ahead of you. Take engagement and marriage serious.

Well I am 20 and my boyf who is now my fiance is 16 and we live together and have been together nearly 2 years. We arent rushing anything we dont actually plan on getting married until a couple years or so.
As long as your serious it should matter about anything else.
:D

xx