I mean I have mostly been thankful I escaped the relationships I had from 16-21. This is a very weird way to look at life. The only people I know of who think HS was the pinnacle of life (or relationships) are complete losers who suck at life.
I don't really buy it. I think first love is like that, doesnt matter if its when you are 15, or 21.
Plus I know multiple people who ended up marrying the person they first started dating in high school, and there is nothing sadder than that. On of the two is always hugely whipped and gets walked all over because they never learned there are other options out there. So dodging that bullet alone makes up for anything you might miss out on imo.
I have extremely fond memories of my first love in high school and I certainly hope he's happy and doing well but these types of relationships are just a learning ground and if you didn't experience it then, there is no point regretting it now. Make the most of the present, don't regret the past or be too super focused on the future.
I have found my adult (post-college) relationship to be much more fulfilling than my middle and high school relationships.
Yes, there is an exciting innocence to high school relationships, but adult relationships are even better imo because you're better at the courting process, better at romance, better at sex, have fully fleshed out your desires and dislikes in life, have fully fleshed out what you look for in your partner, are more adept at handling conflicts, making the best of things, etc etc
Meh, been there done that then you move on. Plus teenage chicks aren't as good in the sack as an adult woman, a relationship that lasts more then 3 months is pretty dope too.
Just don't be that guy who is 35 and a virgin. I know a dude who is 36 and still one, I think he just gave up a long long time ago. It's messed up cuz you see clones of him everywhere in life and on the internet, that long haired neckbeard I live in my mother's basement and I only wear black clothes and glasses look.
LOL yeah too bad you missed out on talking to some vapid 15 year old girl all night while looking at the stars. I'm married and pushing 40 now, but high school was so awkward and self conscious for almost everyone. Like literally one or two guys in my small town would have experienced what this picture shows. Every other relationship I can think of in my high school was much more awkwardness and social uncertainty and less sex than described. The picture presents some false ideal that puts high school girls on a pedestal, ignoring the shallowness, inexperience, and awkwardness that accompany the young body, not to mention the lack of your own place to live.
Honestly taking a girl's virginity kinda sucks, there's all the self consciousness and expectations, then it can be painful for the girl which can make it guilty for the guy. Teenagers haven't really developed blowjob skills either, though maybe this is different as I was a teenager before the age of on demand internet porn.
Guys who miss out on the college scene are doing themselves a much bigger disservice, but still relationships in my later 20s were more satisfying then in the college years and relationships in my early 30s were more satisfying still.
"all the good ones are taken now"
"you'll never take a young, tight, hot bodied girls virginity"
"they have already felt those new exciting feelings before, and are usually jaded and bitter"
**** man, some of these lines are brutal, you must admit. I think those of us that missed out on this, didn't get to experience everything life has to offer. Not to say that we still cannot make it.
In all seriousness though, if you are a genuine late bloomer, and are regularly ****ing and dating women in their 20s and 30s, and yet spend your time thinking about how annoyed you are that you can't **** 13-16 year olds now without being judged, that's... um... pretty creepy