What are some major disadvantages of indulging in relationships during student life?

I just answered this question on Quora yesterday, but thought would host it here as well.

By relationship do you mean love in the light of a romantic relationship? If yes, then here are the reasons why it is better to focus on everything other than romantic relationship during student life:

• Focus shift: Your focus would be about one person and this curbs your thinking.
• Individuality compromise: You will end up compromising a lot of yourself for the other person in the relationship just because you want to keep the other happy. This can wait until after you marry someone at 28+ of age when compromises are inevitable.
• Constant insecurity: Always one person in the relationship will feel insecure throughout the period in college/student times. The mind is not ready to accommodate another person.
• Loss of time and money: You will end up spending more than you should in your relationship, often. Time as well in planning a distant future together, which often won’t happen once the minds mature and move on.
• Mind’s study time and an independent fun time is lost with one person. How unfortunate for students to be stuck with one person throughout their student life!!! Student times are for friendship, sensible fun, focus, give and take, and lots of good thoughtful memories that you can carry for a long time. If you are stuck with one person — going out, meet and greet, drink and dine, movie and sweet nothings, aren’t you really missing out on life at large as a student when it should be happy go lucky times?? Aren’t you better off studying together and making the most of what has been given to you, your youthful playful times instead of sitting in a boring so-called romantic relationship for which there is a whole lifetime?
• I do not mean to curb your relationships or thoughts about a special someone, but this can wait until after 25 when you will have significantly finished studies, achieved some level of understanding about the romantic relationship, and will know if you really want to spend the rest of your life with this person.
• Assuming you have the Indian mind, where we strive to marry the one we loved, it takes time to understand that the same two people in love will change personalities when they get into the marriage responsibilities and start living under the same roof. Love life is not for experimenting like a lot of children today do. It seems to have a lot of repercussions in the minds of people later.
• Never experiment with love. Be committed to love when your mind is ready for adjustments, sacrifice, give and take, listening to one another, and thinking less of ‘I’ and more of ‘We’. You don’t always score a 100/100 in studies. Similarly, when in the institution of marriage, you cannot expect 100 percent because there is more than one person in the equation that will parameterize your Indian married life. In love, yes, it is still possible, because it is just two people constantly trying to keep another person happy. Both are two different aspects — Love and Marriage.
• Since all these are complicated, as a student, the headache of your studies and some cricket match’s sixer, or a movie’s beautiful heroine, or a joke that doesn’t allow you to shut up in class, lots of fun talks and true healthy friendships make your life more successful and ‘lived’ than love life.

Definitely be in love, but wait for such a time, when you are done being ‘single’ and are ready to really give some space for another person to share your life. At 20, sharing chocolate can be hard. So just enjoy it all for yourself :) and maybe give away to ten people. There will come a 28+ or 35+ (this differs from person to person) whenever you are destined to take responsibility for another person’s joy along with yours for love, marriage, and family.