I found my soulmate at 12 years old. It was love at first sight. Literally. I walked onto the school bus on my first day of 7th grade and saw him. He was so quiet, flawless, and mysterious. His thoughts of me were the opposite. I freaked him out that day by touching his face because his skin was so soft. But a couple months later I got a message on Facebook from him and we've been friends since. We texted constantly but ignored each other in school, and we never hung out in person even though we would make plans when we talked for hours on the phone. Our sophomore year of high school, we finally went on a date. Since then we have been together and have our future planned together. I still fall deeper and deeper in love every day, and I know I want him as my best friend and significant other as long as I live.

People question our ability to stay together forever considering we haven't experienced other people or being single. And yes, this conversation has come up in our relationship before, but we both say the same thing. We don't need to experience anyone else because why to break up and be single when we love what we have together and love everything about each other, even the flaws. Besides, there are many perks to finding your soulmate young.

You have already been through so much together. In the past four years, we have been through the good, the bad, and the ugly. We have gotten through his, mine, and our situations. Recently, we got through the hardest time we've had in our relationship and we managed to not just fix it, but bounce back better than ever. We make each other, and our lives, better.

You don't have to waste time searching for someone. We never have to go through the trouble of dating and wasting time on people that we just don't connect with. Instead, we can focus on planning our next adventure.

You never have to worry about being alone. It's so sad to see that 40-year-old virgin, so lonely, trying so hard to find someone special, anyone, that can make them feel special. The only thing we have to worry about it missing each other for the short amounts of time apart.

You have way more time to do things together. This is my favorite part! We have already gone on so many adventures and accomplished so much together! And it's only been four years! We still have our whole lives ahead of us to create memories by traveling the world and attending many more concerts and movies.

You will see each other grow through more stages of life. A lot of people meet their significant other later in life and can only hear the stories from their families, but we have and will experience over 70 percent of our lives together.

You can have your future planned and continue to plan your future together. Technically we have been planning things together since the 7th grade, but since we've been together we planned where to attend college, how many kids we want to have, when we want to get married, where we want to live, our dream house, careers, and more. It's constantly changing as we are changing and getting older, but we plan together and compromise if not a agree on all of it.

You can look forward to a lifetime full of happiness. Knowing that we are secure in this beautiful relationship ensures us on a lifetime full of happiness. The fact is that we are best friends, and he makes every day that much better; I can't wait to live the rest of my life with this man, my soulmate since 12 years old.