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

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

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!

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

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.

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!!

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).

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

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

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!

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!

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.

(husband, not waster!)

You must miss him ethel

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

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.

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

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

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