DD boyfriend plans to propose. They want to get married next summer, she will be 19. I got married 3 weeks after my 18th birthday and have been married 25 years, very happily. But I will not lie, it isn't always easy and I have warned her.
I think if they were both just in college they would wait, but he is in the Navy and she wants to go to school and live on base with him. He is getting deployed in the fall so wants to give her the ring on his next visit home so she has it before he's gone.
I have very mixed feelings, they do love each other, but are so young. She just got a very high score on ACT's and should be able to do anything she wants in life. They have both assured us they intend for her to go to college.
I wish I could convince her to wait but really don't think its gonna happen.