What age were you when you and dh (or your partner) started dating?

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What age were you when you and dh (or your partner) started dating? If you started/stopped/started again....put the youngest age.

 

Dh and I were both 18 when we started dating, we were married at 22. We have been together 20 years.

 

It seems crazy sometimes when I think back to the early days of 'dating' and just hanging out.

[Mrs Mungo]

I was *almost* 19, he was 20. This year was our 19th first date anniversary.

[jewellsmommy]

My dh and I had known each other as children (me 4, and him 9) and then lost touch when he moved away. We accidently re-found each other when I was 15 and he was 20 (about to be 21). We didn't start out dating. He reconnected with my family. Somewhere along the way we knew we were meant to be with each other. He (with daddy's consent) proposed when I was 17. We have been married 13.5 yrs.

[Audrey]

We met and started dating when I was 27 and he was 29.

[Amy loves Bud]

We were 23 and 29. Got married at 26 and 32.

[colleenebeans]

Dating at 16, he was 21 and just out of the Marine Corps. Married at 17 he was 22. Had our son about a year after that. We just had our 11th anniversary in August!

 

Yay!

[Jean in Newcastle]

Me 27 Him 32.

[Melissa in Australia]

I was 17 he was 31

[cindergretta]

He was 27 and I was 26. We got married 3 days after I turned 27. 3 and a half months later, he turned 28. :D

[Negin]

I was 28 and dh was 26. We got married the very same year. :)

[Mama Geek]

I was 18 and dh was 26. I got married just after I turned 20.

[fairytalemama]

I was 22 and he was 25 when we started dating. We got engaged 5 months later, and were married 1 1/2 years after that.

[Laura Corin]

I was 25 and husband was 31. He was divorced and bruised - I was single and wary. We married four years later. We've been married for eighteen years.

 

Laura

[sagira]

Me 19

Him 17

 

He turned 18 2 months later :)

[TN Mama]

I had just turned 25. We dated for almost exactly 1 year before we said, "I do."

 

ETA: Dh had just turned 31.

Edited December 24, 2010 by TN Mama

[Catherine]

I was 26, he was 28. Waited a year to talk about marriage, but then...it was just a matter of time.

[Liza Q]

I was 18 and he was 27. We married a few years later, when I was 21 and he was 30.

[Renee in NC]

I was 21 and he was 20.

[Rhonda in TX]

I was 23 and DH was 25. We got married less than a year later, when he was 26 and I was still 23.

[RegGuheert]

I was 21 and MomsintheGarden was 22 when we started dating.

 

I was 23 and MomsintheGarden was 24 when we got married.

[....]

I was 21, he was 24. Got married at 24 - had first kid almost instantly. :tongue_smilie:

[delaney]

I voted 20. We met my Sophomore year in college and got married few weeks after I graduated(he was a year ahead of me).

[Quiver0f10]

I was 16 and DH was 20 when we started dating and got marrried when I was 18. We celebrated 23 years in August.

[Kim in Appalachia]

We were 16. We went to highschool together. We didn't marry until we finished college.

[Mommyfaithe]

I was turning 16, he was 18. He didn't know how old I was for 8 months, and I didn't bother to tell him.:D he was so gorgeous, I didn't want to scare him away.

 

Anyway, we got married when I was 21 and he was 23. We have been married for 25 years.

 

Faithe

[Mommyfaithe]

I was 17 he was 31

 

And your Mom didn't "run him off?" :tongue_smilie: (See yesterdays thread...)

Faithe (who wouldn't have if he wasn't such a horrible creeper!)

[sassenach]

I was just shy of 16, he was 18. We've been married for 13 years.

[thescrappyhomeschooler]

I was 31 and he was 42.

[ChristusG]

I was 17 when we began dating and I was 19 when we got married. Gosh, I just re-read that and realized that I was just a baby!! We've been married for 10 years now.

[Dmmetler]

Had just turned 16. We met in the APEA program at CMU and I'd barely made the cutoff to live on campus-like by about a week!

 

We were married 5 years later. Our 20th first date anniversary was in 2008-and we went back to CMU for it :).

[Soror]

I was 19- he was 22, got married when I was 20 and him 23. July it was 11yrs.

[BarbecueMom]

He was 14 and I was 16 when we started dating. We married at 20 and 22. First kid at 23 and 25.

 

The statute of limitations has passed by now, right? :tongue_smilie:

[KatieH]

One month shy of my 17th birthday when we got together :)

[sonsmama]

I was 34 and he was 42. My first and his third. Coming up on 16 years:).

[MamaT]

I was 17 when we started dating, and when we got married. I wouldn't recommend it, but it worked for us. That was almost 30 years ago.

[MeaganS]

We met at a church camp when I was 15, he was 16. He asked if he could take me on my first date when I turned 16 later that year and made the 5 hour trip and stayed with my family for a few days. So, I guess we started dating (the first time around) when I was 16 and he was 17, although he asked me out when I was 15.

 

We got married when I was 20, he was 21.

[LizzyBee]

I was almost 27 and dh was 33, but we'd both been married before.

 

We got married when I was 28 and dh 34, but he turned 35 a week later. We are still together 18 years and 3 kids later. :001_wub:

[wendybird]

I was 16 and he was 21. We got married at 18 and 23. First baby at 20 and 24(almost 25). It probably wasn't ideal to my family, but I am so glad things happened the way they did.

[mytwomonkeys]

i was 28 when we started dating. i had my first child at 30. now i'm a few months shy of 40 & super happy!:D

 

 

ETA - oh, he was 27. first marriage for both of us.

Edited December 24, 2010 by mytwomonkeys

[redsquirrel]

Let's see..

I think he was 25 and I was 28 when we started dating. We moved in together the following september and that means I was 30 and he was 27.

 

I do know we got married in 1998 2 weeks before I turned 31.

 

DS1 was born in 2000

 

Good thing I have my wedding date engraved inside my ring. I don't remember the years of any of this. It's just a blur.

[Parrothead]

I was 29 when we met. DH was 24. His uncle, my boss tried to break us up because of the age difference.

[~Tara~]

I was 19 when we met. He had just turned 21.

I was 20 when we married. He turned 22 the next month.

[d.g.]

I was 19, he was 36.

[Jann in TX]

My boyfriend saw a movie with his family that I was wanting to see. I was not allowed to drive so I stood up in Trig class (when teacher left the room--we were a VERY social class!) and asked if anyone was planning on going to that movie--and if they could give me a ride. The boy sitting to my right said he would.

 

That evening he pulled up in the driveway--raced his engine (65 mustang convertible) and honked the horn! My dad was blocking the door before I could catch my breath... what saved the poor boy was the fact he called my dad 'Sir'!

 

We re-met the following year (his freshman year in college)... I was still with the same boyfriend--but that did not matter-- anytime my boyfriend went out of town (bf was a college student) he would come over and visit... we were 'just friends'...

 

BF and I broke up when he graduated from college-- DH and I were engaged 2 WEEKS later! Even though I had been dating bf for several years I realized I KNEW DH better--and that he was 'the one'...

 

We were babies--practically in diapers-- when we married the following year. I was 19 (a Jr in College thanks to dual enrollment) and he was 20--2 weeks from 21.

 

We will celebrate our 26th wedding anniversary in January.

 

Contrast this to my 20yr dd who is a college student living at home-- she has NEVER even held hands with a boy--- but granted since we live out in the middle of nowhere the pickin's are few.

 

Middle dd just turned 18-- she has lots of friends that are boys--but has never had a 'boyfriend'. This is just fine with me and dh!

 

Now youngest dd is 8 and she is glued to the phone with some boy named 'Ben'.... they even arranged a 'date' next week to see a trail of lights together (as families).

[WistfulRidge]

I was 17 and he was 30. We knew the moment we met that this was "it", but out of respect for the nerves/mental well being of my parents and siblings we waited two years to get married.

[2_girls_mommy]

I was 20, dh was 29. We got married 5 years later, and have been married 10.5 yrs now, together 16.. I can't believe it either sometimes.

[Dana]

We were at the same high school but weren't in the same classes. I was 16 and a junior (almost 17); he was 18 and a senior. It was April and we went to a math competition at Cal Poly (staying in a hotel) through school.

 

We walked on the beach together at night.

The first time he told me he loved me was about a month later. I told him he couldn't - we were too young and he was confused. :lol:

Went to the same college (with concern from my folks).

Married after college.

 

Met in 1989. Time flies.

I hope our son is as lucky in finding a person who's completely there for him and willing to work on any issues. We both feel incredibly blessed.

[Desert Rat]

I met my dh on my 22nd birthday. He was 19. We were engaged within 6 months and married a year later. Married 16 years.

[mommaduck]

I was 15 1/2 and he was 18 when we started courting/going steady. We were in a town where you were well chaperoned wherever you went, we went to church together, school together, he ate over at our house, etc. Official first "date" was when I turned 16. We were engaged when I was 17, married when I was 19, and first baby at 21. We've been married for 16yr.

[DawnM]

We were both 27. We got married at age 29.

 

We were friends first so didn't start dating until 12 months or more after we met. We got married within 6 months of dating because we decided we were either going to stay best friends and not ruin our friendship, or go all the way (not intimate all the way, I mean relationship all the way.)

 

Dawn