thescrappyhomeschooler Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Some high school friends posted on FB that their 20th anniversary was today, so I just was wondering how common it is for high school sweethearts to get married. I was almost 33 when I got married and it was to someone I worked with, but had never gone to school with. If you went to high school and college together, vote high school. If you were married to someone from high school or college, but are no longer married to that person, still vote in that category. Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I married someone I did not know in high school or college. My brother married someone he started dating when they were 15 (they didn't marry until just before they graduated college, though). My in-laws just celebrated 50 years and they married before high school graduation. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma23peas Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Met my husband the summer after I graduated college...funny thing was, we grew up in the same town and although he was full private schools and I was public, he went to a public school for one single year, that year we both were on the same field trip to the same place and on the same bus (in 5th grade!) Too funny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWOB Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I married someone I met in Navy Nuclear Power "A" school. We noticed each other in boot camp but never met. You needed an "other".;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chepyl Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 We met while in high school, but did not go to school together. DH was homeschooled, we met doing theatre. We went on our first date to my senior prom. We had been friends for over a year and had a large group of friends we had been hanging out with before dating. We married one month after my college graduation. We will celebrate our 11th anniversary in Jan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessicaLady Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 My husband and I met in college. We lived on the same floor in our dorm my Freshman year. We weren't friendly w/ one another at first (in fact, rather disliked him and likewise). We grew on each other eventually. We've been together for 17yrs (married for 11). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myeightkiddies Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I married my childhood sweetheart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessReplanted Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I picked option #3 because my husband did not go to my college. But, I did meet him at my college graduation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglei Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Met dh the summer following my high school graduation. We did not live in the same area, nor therefore attend the same schools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternalknot Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Met at university, though he wasn't attending - we met through mutual friends (who DID attend with me). Most of those mutual friends are just now getting engaged or married (early- to mid-thirties); a few to people they've met at school for advanced degrees, but most to people they've met through family or friends. We're big social networkers LOL. Everyone's a matchmaker :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ereks mom Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I met my husband the summer after we both graduated from high school. We lived in cities about an hour's drive apart, and met at church when my family visited his church one Sunday. We were in the same Sunday School class. That was in 1978. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 My maternal grandparents met as PhD. students and my grandma married at 25. My parents met as master's students and my mom married at 23. DH and I met as undergraduates and I married at 21. I really hope that neither of my girls will continue this trend... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakia Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 We are high school sweethearts. I was 15, and he was 17 when we met. We got married 5 years later and celebrated our 13th anniversary in August. :001_wub: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyzenthlay in Pa. Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I was in high school when I met my husband, he was out of school and living in another state. Dated 4 years , married 32. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I don't think it's uncommon to marry someone you met in high school; it's just rare to still be happily married 10 years later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsBasil Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 We met when I was in high school. He had graduated, we were 17 and 19. We married 4 years later and have been together for 12 years, married 8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennay Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 DH and I are high school sweethearts - we were 16 and 17 when we started dating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIS0320 Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I was in high school when I met my husband but he was attending the university in my hometown at the time (I was a senior in hs, he was a junior in college). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairyMom Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 University, freshman year..... 22 years ago. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeaganS Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 We met when I was 15 and he was 16 at church camp over the summer. We lived in different states, stayed in contact, visited each other a few times, and then started really dating in college when we attended together. So I voted High School, although he had a pretty serious girlfriend (not me) for most of it. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomandlorih Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 And for extra results for you. Of my 2 sibs and I, none of us married anyone we met in school. Of my dh's 2 sibs and him, only 1 married someone they had met in school.. And they had gone to school with the whole way through, actually, not H.S. sweethears though, reconnected on MySpace a couple years after graduation and .... does that count??. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 We met through mutual friends at college, though we weren't attending at the same time. I was engaged to someone else :blush:. It was scandalous :D. Nearly 19 years later, I don't regret a thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venusmom Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Married my neighbor!:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I met my dh when I was 15. He was a senior in college. We waited until I was 17 to date (it took that long to talk my dad into it being a good idea). I could have married him 2 weeks after we met. I knew he was the one. We have been married 30 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah C. Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 DH and I were high school sweethearts - though we were only dating and both in high school for 3 weeks. ;) Married almost 3 years later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Not sure how to vote. I met my dh while IN high school, but we didn't go to school together. He was a college man ;) (FWIW, we got married while I was in high school too :lol:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serenade Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I married someone I met through a dating service, long after college and grad school. Tee hee, that was 16 years ago -- my dating service husband was definitely a keeper! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltop Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 My dh and I met in elementary school when we were both in fifth grade. We dated for a couple years in high school, went our separate ways for a few years, and then began dating again during our last year in college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jar7709 Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I met my DH on the internet, a random chat room 12 years ago. This was internet dark ages and my friends and family thought I had gone off the deep end when I went on a road trip by myself to meet him in person a few months later, but obviously it worked out. None of the guys I met in high school or college were up to my high standards (and/or, they didn't ask me out). :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Met in grad. school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 My husband was a senior when I was a freshman at the same high school. I vaguely knew who he was, but I don't think we ever met there. We started dating years later (I was 21, he was 24). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Well, I voted college, but only because I met him when I was in college (he wasn't attending). I met him through our mutual college friends. We started dating at 18yo. We lived about 6 blocks apart and drove past each others homes constantly. We had the same set of good friends for several years, but never met. He dropped out of high school right about the time I started attending that high school, otherwise I am certain we would have met sooner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embassy Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I met my husband over a year after I finished grad school. I was working on an island in Alaska and he was a Canadian going to Bible school in Texas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathGirl Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 DH was homeschooled and did not go to my high school but we met and started dating while we were high school age (15 and 17). Got married 4 years later and have been married for almost 12 years now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hen Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I chose that we met in highschool, though we went to different schools, so we met outside of school. I have known him since we were 16, we dated 5 years and have been married for 18 years. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I met dh when I was 30. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaSheep Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I "met" my husband in college, but it wasn't until we reconnected several years after I graduated that we started dating. (He was working on his master's at the time.) A mutual friend commented that the two of us dating caused a major disruption in the space/time continuum. I've always wondered what he thought when we not only married, but reproduced. But I've never had the guts to ask...lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elinnea Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Dh was an exchange student at my high school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyofsixreboot Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Met dh at work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 Hm. I met dh while HE was still in college. He graduated in May and we were married that October. When I add this, I'm going to sound like such a floozy.... I was engaged to my hs sweetheart. We met when I was 15. I was also engaged to My ds's father, who I met when I was 16 (but I was 20 when we were engaged.) The first one of those two made much more sense! :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down_the_Rabbit_Hole Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I met my DH in high school. He was a senior in college I was a senior in hs. Never revealed that info to my parents until we were dating for a while. We have been married for 23 yrs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zebra Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 (edited) I met my DH while I was in high school, I was 15 and he was 18. We didn't go to high school together, but we went to church together. We didn't start dating for a few years, and got married when I was 20. I kind of consider him my "high school sweetheart" because there was never anyone else I was interested in. We've been married for almost 15 years at this point. It's always interesting to me when people get married later in life. I was such a young, kid really, and I always wonder what it would have been like to live a life first. I truly have no regrets. I married the right man, at the right time, but it's always fun to hear how everyone else's life turned out. :) Edited December 29, 2011 by MeAmy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 The thought of having married someone from my high school makes my stomach churn! Did not meet in HS or college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissKNG Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 My sister is happily married to her high school sweetheart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choirfarm Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 How should I vote? I was a college junior when I met my dh who was in med school on a blind date on April Fool's day. So he wasn't someone I knew at my college ( though we did go to the same one and ended up having mutual friends, but we never met while he was there.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I was in high school...dh in college when we met. Faithe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashfern Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 When I met my DH, we were both in college but not at the same one. :tongue_smilie: We'll be celebrating our 20th anniversary next year. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted December 29, 2011 Author Share Posted December 29, 2011 How should I vote? I was a college junior when I met my dh who was in med school on a blind date on April Fool's day. So he wasn't someone I knew at my college ( though we did go to the same one and ended up having mutual friends, but we never met while he was there.) For that, I would vote college, because you were in college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 When we met, dh was already out of college and starting his career. We will celebrate our 22nd anniversary in May. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted December 29, 2011 Share Posted December 29, 2011 I voted high school, but we didn't go to the same school. We met at a church diocesan conference (went to different churches in the same area). We dated of and on, then "went steady" in college, but we were in different colleges, too. Been married 26+ years. Just an aside--It's funny when you reach that point of having known your dh longer than you haven't known him. LOL For me that was 12 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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