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You will do what you want to, and hopefully learn from experience.
I did, and still do things despite anyone's advice.

There is a lot of good & caring advice from others in this thread,
especially us older folks, who would like to spare you youngins
some of the pain we went through figuring this stuff out.

In my experience:

Experience is the best teacher.

You can't save people from having to make their own mistakes.

( I wonder if the Internet was around, and I had access to all the good
books that have been written since I was a teen, on interpersonal relationships, etc..
would of made any difference.) huh.