How Old Were You When You First Met Your Spouse/Partner?

[Charlotte ~08]

I was 20. I even remember the first time we met, and where it was, not the date though.

 

[EpcotSweetHrts0512]

I was 20 too!

 

[cmariew]

21, senior year of college.

 

[SydneyBristow]

21

 

[disneyholic family]

why didn't you list teens as a possibility?

i met my husband when we were 19...on our first date a month later he told me he was going to marry me....which we did, 4 years later....

my son, who'll be marrying this coming May, met his girlfriend when they were 15....

 

[akhenaten]

we were teenagers..... met freshman year of HS began dating at 15...
(now we are 46 )

 

[tzolkin]

why didn't you list teens as a possibility?

I was wondering the same thing.

I met my DH when I was 14 (freshman in high school). We liked each other, but went to different schools and dated other people in high school. We started dating after I graduated and got married after college.

My parents met when they were 16.

 

[daughtersrus]

I was 17, DH was 18. I was a senior in HS and he had graduated the year before. We didn't go to the same school, but worked together at a local store. (Does anyone from the Chicago area remember McDade~~~~The Catalog House! )

We married when I was 21 and he was 22. That was almost 23 years ago!

 

[islandmum]

met him when I was 15, he was my golf coach at my golf club, he was 22! Started dating him a year later when I was 16 1/2 and he was 23 ..... and they said it wouldnt last - 18 years and counting

 

[#1hockeymom]

I was 18, he was 21... just days after I graduated HS in 1984. (He went to the same HS, but we never met during our overlapping year.)

 

[singingpixie]

I think I was 19... I was a student in the theatre department and he worked in the scene shop. I was dating someone else at the time, but he was part of my extended circle of friends so we stayed in touch. We only started dating 6 months ago, when I was about to turn 24. Apparently he'd had a thing for me for years, but it took me a while to be in a place where I was looking for a relationship again, and saw him in that light.
ETA- if I was 19, that would have made him 24 at the time.

 

[friendofgusgus]

I was 35 when I met my DH - he was 36.

It is his second marriage and my first.

 

[Pooh67_68]

I was 17 when we met.

 

[jimmiej]

I was 12, she was 11. At school, I used to watch her playing four-square with her friends at lunch & I thought she was cute. We dated for 8 years & have been married for 27.5.

 

[Michelle67]

I was 12, she was 11. At school, I used to watch her playing four-square with her friends at lunch & I thought she was cute. We dated for 8 years & have been married for 27.5.

I think that is one of the sweetest things I have ever read here.

I met my ex when I was 17 and he was 22. Didn't date him until I was 20. I met my husband when I was 28 (he turned 30 a couple of weeks after our first date) and married him two months before my 30th birthday.

 

[jenlynn0808]

I was 18 and DH was 20 (by 3 days). That was 18 years ago.... And like another poster said...about a month and half later he said, "You know I'm going to marry you!" Which we did 4.5 years later...after college!

 

[Handbag Lady]

I was 26. I was in serious relationship, though. The same year I met him, I realized I was disappointed he didn't make it to my birthday party, then I realized what a total jerk my then boyfriend was to me all time (like I was wearing blinders and they suddenly came off!).

I quickly broke it off and started dating my now-husband. We've been married for 8 years now.

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

I was actually 26...he was well worth the wait though. We're getting married Oct. 17, 2009!

 

[Alice28]

I first MET my spouse when I was 14.

The first time I really paid any attention to my spouse, I was 17. We started dating around my 18th birthday.

I'm 36 now. He's 39.

 

[theycallmered]

I met my husband when I was 15 and he was 18. That was 11 years ago.

I am kind of surprised with how many people have met their spouse/partner at such a young age. A lot of the time I feel like my husband and I are in the minority but here it seems like just the opposite. Kind of interesting and neat.