Hello all. I am sixteen years old and a junior in high school. I have a man that is in prison he is 18 years old and I love him. He is amazing and he treats me well. We met when I was thirteen and we dated for a little while. We really connected. I broke up with him from hearing some unpleasant news but it turns out it wasnt tru at all. Well I switched churches and I ended up at a church with his family. I didnt know they were his family at first but then I started really missing him and I asked one of them if they knew him and he told me that he was his uncle. And one day his aunt invited me over after church and she said that she was going to see her nephew I asked who he was and she told me it happened to be him. I told her I wanted to go see him also so we went. At first we just started off writing each other and he began calling me. I was on a friend basis but he wasnt plannin on that ha. We continued to write and he began calling me like everyday. He told me about a month later that he wanted to be with me and have a relationship with me and that he had been thinking about me a lot since we broke up. I felt the same so we are now together. We have been together for 6 months now and we really love each other. We have a lot of trust and love and we communicate alot. He was sentenced to 7 years with one year time served but we are in the process of an appeal and have been granted the appeal so his sentencing and trial is being redone. I really love him and I want to be with him but it gets really hard sometimes. I am not a person that  really needs to have sex I guess but I do need that emotional relationship and we have that but every since he been at the prison we havent been able to communicate as much. I want to be his ride or die especially because I know he did not really commit this crime and he is doing someone else's time. I never stopped loving him and wanting to be with him. In my mind I know that he loves me. He even asked me to marry him. I said yes. BUT! So many people are being very negative and I just need some support sometimes. His family is very supportive but mine is not for real. I take care of him by sending him money and food and visiting him and trying to be there for him in anyway possible I have a job so its not a big deal. So many people say that he will not be the same when he gets out and that he will not wan to be with me and that its all just jail talk. I really love him but I'm just not so sure how to cope with everyone else. Can someone please give me some advise on how to deal with peoples negativity or even just your opinion on my situation.