Highschool relationships?

[RedMage]

Aw, now we'll never know what that was all about.

Just trying to lighten the mood a little...eh-heh.

[JediSonic]

heh my thoughts exactly.

as I said: not meant for serious debate

[Danderson]

For that matter, I'd like to again thank everyone for their input! I'm seeing a lot of sense (as I always have) in being cautious of highschool relationships, but I also do find the opinions of ClosetOtaku and Termyt to be pretty solid, if applied with due prayer and aforementioned caution.

As for my own situation, I'm not entirely sure how it'll all turn out. I've asked this girl, Katie, to literally just go pray with me tomorrow - something the likes of which I might want to do regardless of relationship status - and just perhaps I'll discuss all of this with her. If anything worth relating comes of it, perhaps I'll let you all know! In the meantime, thankyou for your prayers, advice, and support in putting God first.

I say very, very good choice...

Here's my opinion on the whole dating thing...If Jesus is the Lord of your life and you've entrusted your life to God, why can't you let him pick that perfect someone for you instead of you doing it yourself and messing everything up?

Again, I'd say that you're going along this path and again I say right on...

[JediSonic]

Thanks, man!

Well after we had prayed for most of an hour (at "adoration" - a catholic thing) I asked Katie some stuff including what she thought of highschool relationships. Her first thoughts on it were "they can get you pretty screwed up." So from there I basically told her the gist of what's been going on in my mind lately, but came no nearer to asking her out than to say I'd been thinking of it (for 2 weeks). To cut to the chase, it looks as though we'll be keeping the "relationship" (as Mave said) to more of a platonic level, and I really think it could work out best for everybody. At any rate, I certainly feel better just to have the feelings and decision off of my chest for the first time in a couple of weeks. Even if it means being shut down for the moment in some ways, at least I know that in a year I'll have no major regrets about it and the friendship can grow/mature normally in that time. And I have confidence that it will! As I said, this could be my greatest connection to Christianity in a friend nearby, so the stability of friendship may prove immensely valuable later on.

Again, thanks for the prayers, advice, and support. Without it, I would have had a harder time determining God's will in putting or not putting the "label" on what is still, in the broader scope of things, a pretty young friendship between pretty young people. As I was discussing the matter with a friend today, I found myself for the first time admitting out loud that I almost hoped she'd say no. And maybe, thats why I was so quick to interpret what she said as such; but after this much prayer, I feel confident that God's will is at work here. So again, thankyou!