Shot gun weddings and such
I was seventeen or eighteen when a guy named George asked me to sleep with him. I think he was about eighteen months older than me. I bluntly said to him "My parents are willing to put me through college. If I sleep with you and they kick me out, will you put me through college?" Nope. He was struggling to support himself. No can do for a little short term fun. He never bothered me again. Somebody told me "Boy, everything she wants Is everything she sees" I got married at nineteen to another nineteen year old. I came into the marriage with enough household goods to adequately furnish a one bedroom apartment . He was a loser with no life whose only assets were a devoted girlfriend and a dream of being career military. My father was career military. My uncle was career military. My cousin was in the military. I knew a military career came with excellent benefits that would make it hard to screw up so bad we couldn't keep ourselves in a middle class life. It'...