I agree with Faye not every young relationship fails. I met my wife when she was 16 and a half and I was just 18. We courted for a year then married. When asked what we did after we got married so young she answered "we continued to raise one another."
We celebrated our 52th anniversary last year.
When we left the JW's we were not DF back in that era but our relationship was and remained pretty frosty with our respective families. Sometime's silence is kinder.