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I can only think of one couple that I know that met in high school and are still married today. There were several people I know that met in high school but didn't start dating till they were in college. Some got married and some didn't. I went back and dated a girl that I had dated in high school my senior year of college. She was still pulling the same shit she did then. I saw a headline on "The Onion" one time that said something like, "Man Discovers Soulmate in a Town of 1,000". Basically it was his high school sweetheart, and it was basically satirizing getting married to that girl you knew through high school. Until you have a chance to do some growing up and know who you really are, you aren't going to be in any position to marry someone that will be good for you for the long-term.
Side story: I work for a Fortune 500 company and had a voicemail the other day from a guy in our company that I apparently went to high school with. I graduated from a large high school and frankly did not remember this guy at all beyond vague memories of the name. He wanted to have lunch to catch up. It was funny in that he described himself as someone that basically just screwed off in high school while I was one of the academic types. He got into college on the basis of his SAT scores alone, but when he got there he apparently discovered learning. Today, he is an assistant controller for the company while I hold a senior staff position in our engineering group. The point of this is that he obviously had no clue what he could achieve or do when he left high school and reached his potential during those years he should be growing and learning. He married another college graduate/super-achiever type.
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