42 years ago today I eloped. Within the first year, I knew it was a mistake, but I think the person making the biggest mistake was my mother.
She did not like the man I was dating because he did not graduate from college. I was 20 years old then and a legal adult age was 21 back then.
I had won a full scholarship to college and was going completely free, except for my books.
At the time, I had finished the first half of my junior year.
In order to break us up, my mother took away the phone and my car, (which I had paid for, but could not yet be in my name because I was not 21)
She also withdrew me from college. Because I was only 20, I could do nothing about this, so I got a job.
I had to walk to work.
With no car and no college, I decided I might as well get married, so we did elope. (I was not old enough to marry in the state of florida, but I was in South Carolina)
I wonder how my life would have been different if I had finished college?
Well, after meeting my dh 30 years ago, life has been really good for me, so I am not complaining one bit!
42 years ago today
February 12th, 2007 at 04:53 pm
February 12th, 2007 at 05:28 pm 1171301322
Wow, that's a very interesting story! Yes, isn't is amazing how the decisions we make now can have such profound impacts later on?
I hope that, for the most part, I am making the best ones possible.
February 12th, 2007 at 06:06 pm 1171303608
February 12th, 2007 at 07:53 pm 1171310036
February 12th, 2007 at 11:41 pm 1171323719
and yes, you found your pot of gold at the end of your rainbow in that wonderful DH of yours!