Was she really religious? Some denominations or whatever are big on setting the kids up relatively young and it leads to stuff like that.
When I was in college I knew a guy in my branch of engineering who was dorky as hell. I mean, that doesn’t narrow it down, but in a major of dorks he stood out. Never drank, didn’t curse, church 2-3 times a week, etc. There were only like 25 of us in the major so we were all in each other’s business.
Anyway, sophomore year his HS girlfriend who he’s been dating the whole time but we had never met comes to VT, just to be with him. And she’s gorgeous. I mean, one of the most attractive girls I’ve met. Rifle would give her a solid 8 then a solid 6 if she’d let him, which she wouldn’t, because she’s even more religious than my friend.
I guess their parents had set them up (later he told me it wasn’t an “arranged marriage” but was a “firmly suggested marriage”) and they’d done whatever their version of dating is in high school. And she was all about it, wanted to get married ASAP, everything.
Turned out she was a loon and it was all too much and he dumped her. She left VT immediately (like didn’t even wait for the semester to be over) and my friend avoided home for a few months.