My boyfriend and I considering getting married at 18-19, and there’s many reasons for this. I know that the first reactions are “You need to explore…” or “You know that 1/2 of married couples divorce around that…” Honestly, I’m just trying to seek constructive feedback and more insight about the choice, but I do want to live a happy life, that you know, makes sense. We don’t mind stepping out of the zone of the American dream as long as it’s personalized to be enjoyable for the both of us. Anyways, so the details necessary to give context and more layers to this is that, 1. We’re Christians. We want to move in together (lower the cost of rent & just enjoy each other’s presence) and he wants to be able to provide for me as my husband. 2. We’re both want to go to college and have the same career for a while, we want to be a travel rad techs (2 years in college) and then we branch off, like I want to be a software engineer or UX designer, while he goes into marine biology or an art director. 3. Toxic household on my part, so as a peace to all the chaos, I want to get away from all of it and start a new life. 4. He’s the perfect boyfriend for me and my best friend. There’s nothing he’s not willing to work out, he has emotional and practical intelligence, loves me a lot, never have to worry about cheating, wants to spoil and pamper me in the future, etc. He still has some maturing that needs to happen due to an undeveloped brain (and me too), but he has the amount of maturity that would typically be needed to make a marriage work. ALSO, I wanted to know if married in college is smart for one because I see online lots of married wife become SAHWs and I do want to build a career for myself. Also adding in 5. We want to grow together. I heard the “you guys need to explore…” phrase a lot, but I’m just confused on what I need to figure out that I can’t do while in a marriage. We can give each other personal space to do things that make us happy and interest us. We don’t like to drink, do any drugs, etc. We want to travel together and do things that we didn’t get to experience as child and heal one another. 6. I plan to be on BC, due to not wanting to be pregnant young. I do want to live my life and grow to be stable before kids. (I’m not sure which to go on, I’ve heard horror stories of people still becoming pregnant) Anyways, I just wanted to make it personalized to allow tips or thoughts that are constructive help see me the best course of action! Have a lovely morning or evening everyone!