When did you get married?

**debbiepete** · 08-16-2002, 09:06 AM

I met my hubby when we both were stationed in Groton Ct while serving in the Navy. We met on July 3, 1977, got engaged Sept 6, 1977, married November 26, 1977, We both were 18. No one said it would last. LOL We will be celebrating our 25th this Nov 26th.

**Lori Biever-Launder** · 08-17-2002, 02:59 AM

DH and I met IN Mexico! We were on the same tour together and got separated form our tour group. We dated for a year and a half, lived together for a year and a half and got married December 18, 1981. I was 20, he was 21. We will celebrate #21 this December--25 of being together!

**AmyBoz** · 08-17-2002, 09:38 AM

Dh and I met halfway through our Junior Year of high school. We went to the Junior Prom together and started dating. Then, that summer, I went on a work project with the youth group of my church to Tennessee and met a guy there. When I got home, I broke up with dh in order to have this ridiculous long-distance relationship with a guy I had known for a week. Dh has always been a kind, gentle, wonderful man who treats me like a princess, but I had VERY low self-esteem and wasn't ready to have someone treat me so well. Didn't realize I deserved it. Anyway, needless to say, the long-distance thing didn't work out. Dh and I had sorta remained aquaintances through mutual friends. I dated other guys over the next year, but the fall of our freshman year of college, I wanted him back. He was leery to go back out with me, considering I had broken up with him before, but he gave it a chance. Now, I went to school in Ohio and he went to school in NJ, so WE were now the long-distance relationship. It was tough, and by the end of December, we broke up again. We really didn't stay much in contact over the next four years, and I made some TERRIBLE choices in men, feeding my low self-esteem to the hilt. I wound up dating this guy for 2 1/2 years who treated me terribly, was abusive and alcoholic. So, of course, I moved in with him during college. Such a smart woman I was! Anyway, he got kicked out of school in the middle of our senior year, and this gave me the push I needed to break up with him. I spent the second half of my senior year living alone and working hard towards graduation. I really got to know myself and what I wanted out of life and out of a relationship. The summer before, dh and I had reconnected through mutual friends and had been keeping in touch on a friendly basis. When I graduated and got back to NJ, we started hanging out together, I realized that he was exactly what I wanted. No one had ever made me laugh as hard, smile as much, feel as good, or love so deeply as he had, and FINALLY, I was ready for him. Well, smart man that I married said, "Um...I don't think so. I'd have to be a fool to go out with you again, although I really have very strong feelings for you." So, I bided my time, and one day he said, "You know what? What have I got to lose? Either you break up with me again and I'm proven to be a fool, or this will turn into the rest of our lives and it will be wonderful!" So, we started dating AGAIN in 1994, got engaged in 1997, married in 1998, and had dd in 2001. I'm SO glad I finally figured out who I was, because being married to dh is the most wonderful feeling in the world.

**justjenn** · 08-17-2002, 12:36 PM

Dh and I are highschool sweethearts. We dated for a year and a half, and then we got married because we couldn't stand not being married to each other. We didn't have a big wedding because we just wanted to get it over with and be together. We were young and still are. He was 20 and I was 19. We will be married 4 years at the end of this month. I love him more than he'll ever know. He makes me so happy.

**Leiloni77** · 08-17-2002, 09:48 PM

Wow Amy, obstacle after another you still wound up together!! I'm seeing Lot's of High School sweethearts and love at first sights. Just proves there's no ONE way to do it. Keep them coming.. Your stories are wonderful guys!!!

**mustang80** · 08-18-2002, 03:37 PM

DH is my high school sweetheart, too. We met when I was 13 and he was 16. We started dating September 1982, just after he graduated high school. We dated for 5 years, and have been married for 14 1/2 years. We are best friends and love to laugh! DH has a great sense of humor, and I am his best audience. I laugh at everything he says! We have 3 beautiful daughters...life is good.

**wife228** · 08-18-2002, 05:15 PM

We dated 7 years before we got married. We lived together two of those years. I knew three weeks after I met Gregg that we would someday be married. We just had our 9 year anniversary on July 14th. When we got married we had NOTHING!! WE went to the court house and that was it. We didn't go on a honeymoon. I didn't even get a ring. I got blue topaz and diamond earrings. MY engagement ring is the diamonds from my mom's ring in a setting I picked out. My father told my mom it was to go to the first girl who got married. It makes no difference to me that I didn't have all tha fancy stuff. We are very happy together and I wouldnt change a thing.

**simplemom** · 08-18-2002, 10:50 PM

We met at 17. We went out together for 5 years and married at 22 yrs. old. We have been married for 16 years.

For us getting to know each other very well before marrying did helps us. I want to add I am still discovering some special aspects of my dh that I still didn't know. Sometimes it can be wonderful, other times it can be new differences we need to accept from each other.

I'd love to say more but I'm tired and it's late.

**dolphin** · 08-19-2002, 12:08 AM

We met at Dh's graduation from Basic Training. Had a drink at the Cafteteria with him and other friends. Never expected to see him again. I thought he was a nerd cause he liked to play pinball. lol

Dh and his friend got caught in a hail storm while riding a motorcycle. They stopped at my place and we fell in love. We were engaged within 2 weeks and in a few more weeks he was leaving for Germany. He stayed in Germany for 9 months untill he could save enough for my ring, and an apartment. He mailed my engagement ring to me for Christmas and sent me a dozen Red Roses. He flew home after the 9 months and we got married 2 days later on June 7, 1975. Three days after that we both flew to Germany to make our new home. He was 18. I was 19. We have been married 27 years now. We grew up together and have never regretted it. It helps if you don't believe in divorce and you work at any problems that come up, together.

Your hearts will tell you if it is the right time or not.

**jooj66** · 08-23-2002, 11:40 PM

Met my dh in Va Beach when I was a senoir in college and he was an ensign in the Navy. We dated for a year, and will celebrate our lucky 13th anniversary on Sept. 3rd

**Megareader** · 08-24-2002, 03:56 PM

Dh and I knew each other for 3 years before we got married, we'll soon have our 17th anniversary.

**bamamomto4** · 08-24-2002, 06:19 PM

Steve and I met when I was 15 and he was 16.We dated for almost ayear and I got pg.I walked down the isle 7 months pg and this past june we celebrated our 13th Anniversary

we started out with NOTHING but each other.He had no full time job and worked after school at a service station.He grad from highschool the week before we got married and the next week got a full time job.We lived with my parnets a month before we could afford to get our own place.It was a long hard road but one I would take again today

**MANDERS** · 08-25-2002, 10:33 PM

Dh and i met Feb 1997 i was almost 17 and he was 22 almost 23 in 4 mo.(dad had a cow)Anyways found out we were pregnant in may got married in july and had dd in jan of 98.THis past july we celebrated our 5th anniversary.We both knew after a month of being together that we were soul mates(i knew the first day we met)