Hi Bridget,
I'm a fairly young mom of an 18 year old son. I'm sorry your not getting the respect it sounds like you deserve from your fiancee's parents. The only thing I can think of is if my son announced he was getting married to anyone at this point in time I would have a difficult time accepting it. I wouldn't be disrespectful of the person he felt he loved enough to marry, but I would be concerned. The two of you are so very young and there are so many experiences you have yet to experience before marriage. Yes experience them together, explore things together, just not married, yet. I don't want to sound like someone who doesn't understand where you're at, I just remember very vividly how very much I thought I "knew exactly what I wanted" when I was your age and come to find out, I didn't really have a clue. Wow, life changes so dramatically, in a blink of an eye. Is there any way the two of you could wait a year or two? If you're going to be together forever anyway, why not have "dating" time first? I sincerely wish you the best of luck.