Boyfriends, girlfriends, beaux, lovers, partners, wives, husbands.

ive not had anyone long enough to comment but this thread will be fun to read.

Oh heavens, I definitely couldn't compile a list with any accuracy!

ethel, don't you remember what your husband did?

ana my husband was as follows:
schoolboy
apprentice engineer
died just after qualifying.

So I cant do a long list of his achievements but I do know he was very well liked, was a member of several lifesaving organisations. He was the best.

btw I had a partner in later life but only one word describes him: waster.

You must miss him ethel

(husband, not waster!)

actually I miss them both, the waster was a looker and a charmer but he liked to share his charm with everyone he met. Husband was caring and thoughtful but after 20 years time does move on. Got lots of photos though and DGD has seen then and asks about her granddad.

That's lovely - my DGDs think that their granddad must be driving a steam train in the sky because steam engines were his passion, although he was an electrical engineer by trade!

Husband as follows:
Schoolboy (posh, private sort of prep school)
Left school at 14 and went into;
Family Business. (grocery store)
Business collapsed when big supermarkets arrived.
Joined Co-operstive stores.
Still there, retires next year and he can't wait!

This is shaping up well, but I meant each boyfriend/girlfriend etc. not the same person.

You can't always dictate or predict how threads will turn out!

Musician/layabout/ (prob also love of my life - my priorities, eh?!)
Carpenter
Banker/Scoundrel
Electrician
QS

Without wanting to derail thread, this got me thinking to the 'quality' of love at different stages of life. It's so intense early on - is that why so often people talk of their early loves as being love of their lives? It was the one thing you had time and energy to focus on (before careers/families/responsibilities came along).

Schoolboy
Police cadet (till he became a proper PC and booked my dad for forgetting his car tax!)
Wanabee Estate Agent (Mummy's boy. Waste of space)
Farm Manager

47 yrs now.....Yikes!!

You are dead right Tinytwo about the initial intensity of young love. I don't know what started me off on this thread, memories of my youth just came flooding back.

Fair point Ana it is up to each person on this thread to interpret it their own way.

Plasterer
Apprentice toolmaker, then qualified toolmaker for many years, then all round engineer, till retirement.

Trainee fireman
Schoolboy
Civil servant
Management trainee
Student
Teacher
Headmaster
University lecturer
That accounts for all the men in my life including one husband for 25 years!

Bank clerk.
Police officer/ private investigator/bas**rd
Financial advisor/Liar
Car mechanic/paint sprayer/drinker
Labourer/Liar

First love : School boy, butchers boy. Last saw him when he was 17.
Second love : School boy, farmer, apprentice cabinet maker, piano maker, packing case maker, paper factory worker, retired, part time gardener.

School boy
Student
College graduate
newspaper sports reporter
Newspaper copy editor
Retired
crime novel writer
Screenplay writer

First love teenage neighbour aged 16 who had the most beautiful golden retriever
Second love my civil servant boss. I was 18 and he was 31
Third an last love another civil servant and still very romantic husband of 48 years

1st Love - wood cutting machinist
Geography teacher
Mining Engineer
Customs Officer
Carpenter/Joiner/Musician - 51 years so far - think this one will last.

1st Love : Student, TV cameraman, TV producer (we are still in touch after 46 years!)

Farmer
Actuary
Doctor

Last Love: architect 38 years until he died

Schoolboy
Civil servant
Lab chemist
Wireless operator (hush-hush)
Lab chemist (same one)
HGV lorry driver - #retired/getting on a bit.com, (but still soldiering on)!