Yes - you are a bit young still for that amount of forward planning. Being that attached, on the other hand, is pretty normal. One of the reasons that young love is so sickeningly cutsie to the rest of us.
Not going to lie to you, the chances of you two successfully lasting for years is low. That is the way of first love. It is usually a trial run for the main event. A rehearsal, if you like.
I have a friend who got married at 18 to the girl who he started seeing when they were 12 or 13. They drifted apart, as their adult personalities became more and more incompatable. He is now working his way through a nervous breakdown, trying to rebuild his completely shattered world. This is the more usual result.
I also know a few people who met each other in high school and who are very happily married with grown kids now. It is rare but it can happen.
So enjoy every minute of your time together, including the wild dreaming and reaching for the stars. You never know, you might actually catch one.
I'm almost in the same position, just a few years older... I'm now dating and crazy about a guy that I knew through high school (we're both in second year of undergraduate school) - we weren't really close friends in high school though, so I guess I got to observe him from a relative outsider point of view... and we're doing the same type of planning you guys are... the biggest thing I can say is be realistic so you can adapt as you change, and most of all, keep reassuring yourself that you are an individual outside your relationship with him, and that you will be okay if things fall apart, because at our ages, chances are higher :(
Best of luck to you and your bf, hopefully you beat the odds!
I met my ex when we were 17. We both had no idea what we were going to do when we graduated that year. We started dating that December, and we made plans from day one. I dumped him when we were 21, last summer, and he is still job hopping, I'm going to have my diploma, started my career (not job) and it was an experience to tell the grandkids (and strangers on Guyspeak).
When you do fall in love, and you make plans far, far into the future, and it scares you, remember that you are number one, no one will watch out for you better than yourself.
The point is, things change. People grow apart, differently. Just be cautious and be yourself.
best of luck...
Does it still apply to couples who are a bit older like 19 and 20 who are in college or have jobs who are in deeply in love with each other but it's their first boyfriend/girlfriend? Is there a chance this will last and maybe get married someday?
I love this reply. Its not insulting but its honest and stays true to...well..the truth. And theres not white lies or stretching the truth here. Rarely do high school sweethearts actually end up lasting...so enjoy it while it lasts.
Mystery Man is dead on. I'm sorry, but at 15 (or 14 or 16 or however old you are), you are too young to know you who really are. You may think you do, but I PROMISE you don't. I also promise that there's a 99.99% chance that neither of you have the emotional maturity to declare some kind of "forever" commitment right now.
I too had a serious boyfriend whom I was genuinely in love with during my sophomore through senior years of high school. We were even "engaged" and were dead serious about it. After a couple of years we turned into completely different people with different goals and incompatible personalities. Needless to say, it never would have worked.
This is why I advocate not entering into any serious relationships in high school. High school and college (if you go) are the most opportune times you will have to figure out who YOU are WITHOUT someone else. I have watched multiple friends break up with longtime high school sweethearts and then emotionally break down because they have no idea who they are apart from their S.O. Everyone makes the mistake of thinking that they're the exception and not the rule. Don't be that couple.
Then again, MM also made a point that by some bizarre chance, you two COULD be that couple. So yes, just enjoy it for now and don't worry about the future so much. I can only think of one couple I know form high school that is still together, but they're in grad school and engaged, so...it happens.