>>87023856This is the fantasy.
>>87023898This is the reality.
In all likelihood, you'd never keep her by your side from childhood to adulthood. Instead, you'd get something even worse than you could have bargained for:
Watching her succumb to peer pressure as a teenager, seeing her become extra slutty and starting to drink a little too often, because that's what the cool kids are doing. It's only a matter of time before she leaves you, before High School is even finished, because your uncoolness is "holding her back" from being accepted by her peers. By the end of it, she becomes another Stacy, because at the end of the day, most people feel better being accepted by the majority around them who don't really care and disappointing one person than being loved by one who really cares and shunned by everyone else.
I'm not one of those "More like relationSHIT!" -types of bitter loners. I'm just saying: Life, especially women and relationships, are NOT like they are in the movies. These lofty fantasies of marrying the girl next door and going from childhood sweethearts to "that 90-year-old married couple with a ton of grandkids who still somehow love each other" are just fantasies. You see them in the media all the time because they're more whimsical and endearing than the heavy nature of our reality.
The only reason you're "missing out" is because you're sitting around lamenting over what could have been instead of getting up and making something happen. Every year you don't try to get the thing you want is another year of "what could have been".
