Mum shares panic as 18-year-old son plans to propose after A-Levels (Pictures: Getty)

There’s nothing like that secondary school romance which blossoms into your first real love.

Your whole world tends to revolve around school work, hanging out with friends and seeing your school crush turned boyfriend or girlfriend every chance you get – it can feel pretty serious.

But one mum thinks her son’s young love has gone way too far, after he broke the news that he was planning to propose to his childhood sweetheart after A-levels.

Sharing her story on Mumsnet, she wrote: ‘My eldest dear son is 18 (January birthday) he has just finished his A-Levels, sensible kid usually.

‘He’s been with a girl for nearly two years, she is the daughter of our close family friends, they grew up together effectively, my dear husband went to school with her dad, she turned 18 in April, also just finished her A-Levels.

‘They are very very close, we live an hour from her, they have never gone to the same school etc. but at every opportunity he drives to either pick her up and bring her to ours or he is staying at hers.’

Young love does work out sometimes (Picture: Getty Images/Tetra images RF)

The mum explained they had a rule that her son and his girlfriend couldn’t see each other from Monday to Thursday during school but there was no rule about weekends.

However, now their exams are finished and their friendship groups have merged they are ‘together more than ever’.

She added: ‘When I say to him “why not just see your friends this weekend”, he tells me they are her friends too.

‘They are going to uni in the same city but different unis next year and have decided they want to live together.’

The mum was particularly concerned when her son took her and his father for lunch, which he doesn’t normally do.

She wrote: ‘He told me that when they go on holiday together next month he is going to propose.

‘He told us he is telling us now as he is going to speak to her parents about it once she goes off to her prom tonight and doesn’t want us to find out from them rather than him.

‘I’m shocked to put it lightly – he is only 18! He told me doesn’t think they will get married while at uni, but would like to show her that he wants to and fully intends to spend the rest of his life with her.

‘I didn’t know what to say, so I said I thought it was a bad idea but I would stand by him no matter what. Am I being unreasonable to think he has actually lost his mind?’

Her son is planning to propose on holiday but doesn’t think they’ll get married soon (Picture: Getty Images)

The post received nearly 300 replies with most of the fellow mums believing that actually, the original poster was indeed being unreasonable.

One mum commented: ‘He wants to reassure her and for her to feel like she still very much matters despite such big changes happening in their lives!

‘He’s not rushing up the aisle, he’s proposing for a engagement that could go on for literally years and making a commitment to her…I think it’s very sweet! Ahhhhh loves young dream!’

Another wrote: ‘It does work for some. And how many people still regret not ending up with their first love? They might be the lucky ones!’

Other mothers didn’t think that the engagement would last, but said that getting engaged didn’t necessarily mean they would get married.

One wrote: ‘Nah, roll with it. They’ll either still be together at 22 or they won’t. He’s saying they won’t get married until then. Just go with the flow.

‘A pregnancy and a shotgun wedding would be the time to disapprove or worry. He sounds sweet and sensible, really. Don’t set yourself up for tension with him over this. She might even turn him down.’

Another mother commented: ‘Don’t worry they’ll break up at uni, engagement or not.’

While other mothers suggested it may be because the mum doesn’t like her son’s girlfriend, she was quick to point out this isn’t the case.

The mum wrote: ‘No no, I do like her, I love her, I’ve watched her grow up, I remember her coming over for playdates as a toddler and them going to one and other’s birthday parties.

‘She’s a lovely girl, smart and sweet. Its as much for her sake as his that I don’t want them rushing anything.

‘Don’t get me wrong if it was five years down the line and he told me they were getting married I’d be over the moon (bonus of already knowing and liking the in-laws haha).’

She added: ‘I know her and her family quite well, her parents are lovely, not overbearing etc. I imagine they will feel like me but not object and I’d be more shocked at her saying no than him asking!

‘They act like they are the only people to have ever been in love!’

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‘They’ll break up at uni, engagement or not’.