I want to marry a man without my dad's permission when I turn 18. I am 17 right now and my boyfriend is 19. He is a junior in college, majoring in history and going to get a phD after he graduates. He also works as mechanic and has several scholarships. I am in my senior year of high school and will be a licensed nursed by this time next year because I'm concurrently taking classes.
My parents are secular pretty much we never went to church or anything. My dad makes fun of me for wearing long dresses and such, but is fine with my sister wearing bikinis. It's probably been years since any of them read the Bible and they all come home from work/school and meaningless TV and are just generally shallow and buy right into consumerism.
My boyfriend is very religious we met at church, we have the same values and even when we went camping he has never made our relationship physical and believes we shouldn't until we get married. He also doesn't have a smart phone and reads a lot and is very smart and hardworking. My family likes him okay, but always tell me hes unattractive and how could I kiss someone unattractive.
They're also always commenting on how much better my skin would look if I wore make up and how my hair would be much better if I cut the dead ends and used more styling products.
I am not interested in cosmetics. I think personal hygiene is good but cosmetics are bad.
These are the major differences between me and my family and my boyfriend has asked me to marry him when I turn 18. My dad pretty much refused to have any say in it because femenism and it's my choice but he recommended I waited until I'm at least in my late twenties to get married. Please help. I don't know what to do because I truly feel and believe God has given me wisdom and direction to see through a lot of evil things in society. But I do want to be humble and people tell me I'm young and young people think they know everything but I really cannot imagine growing up and getting an 8-5, mortgaging a house, having two kids and then watching reality TV over microwave frozen dinners then staring at my phone until I fall asleep every night. This does not seen like maturity to me.