My advice for Bristol would be . . . make it a long engagement. At least eighteen months. And don’t live together, let him court you and prove to you that you’re more important to him than anything or anyone [including himself].
Take it slowly Bristol, learn from the past or you’ll be doomed to repeat it.
[I’m a 65 year old mother and grandmother, I know where of I speak.]
I agree....I made the poorest choice of my life at nineteen. These are lifelong decisions she is making. Although, a long engagement probably won’t make a difference. Maturity will help, but I have to admit it took me 15 years to figure it out.