9 Reasons why high school sweethearts have the BEST marriages..

8. We proved our families wrong.

My grandmother said to me, verbatim, “It’s not like you’re going to marry him,” after her first meeting with my husband. Granted, she’d walked in on us in a heavy make out session in my room, but I was determined to prove her wrong.

My husband’s mom didn’t have such high hopes for our relationship, either. But slowly, our families came to see how genuine our love was and now our relationship has become the benchmark of what happy couples should strive for. It’s funny how things change with time. (Side note: I love being right.)