How long did you know your husband/wife for before you were married?

Met him in 1968 when I was 18. Knew him for six months then and I finished the relationship.

Met him again 44 years later. One year later we married.

Wish I could turn the clock back to 1968. I started to regret finishing with DH in 1969, after I had been married five years !

We met at a friend's 21st birthday party and married one year later. We'll have clocked up 52 yrs in March.

Met in March ‘72 and decided we were getting married 3 weeks later. Waited till November to exchange engagement rings and then were married in April ‘74.
Kittylester your description “this kind, supportive, generous, hardworking and irritating man.” fits perfectly! ?

Met by chance in uni hall of residence - someone down the corridor was wanting to do some country dancing (a bit random I know!) in their big twin room and my OH was a spare needing a partner - so they knocked on other doors to see if anyone was ion. I was, and obliged.

Next morning he rang up to ask me out. Friends (whose room the dancing was in) knew him well and warned me against going out with him!!!!!! But I like a challenge.

We lived together for years before marrying - golden wedding due this year, but who knows what may happen? - he is in nursing home with PD. I miss him - but on reality he is not very much like the OH I knew.

I do not seem very good at the word "in" - I have written both ion and on. Hey ho!

Met when I was 18, he was best man at my first wedding and we married after my divorce, 24 years later!

One of my sons met his wife at school when they were just seven years old and they became 'best friends'. They started 'going out' together when they were sixteen, then married six years ago as soon they both graduated university - and they're still each other's best friend.

We met on a blind date. I was 17, he was 19. We married 6 months after seeing each other four times and lots of letters between us. (He was in the armed forces)
We've been married for 53 years. All happy years with lots of adventures.

I went with a group of friends to a rock concert (Deep Purple and Family - absolutely NOT my scene).

The guy who picked us up was driving a Land Rover and we all piled into the back.

At the concert, or seats were very near the stage and I could not stand the volume so walked out.

The driver of the Land Rover followed me ( also hating the loudness) and we sat outside St. Geroges Hall in Bradford, chatting until the end of the concert.

On the way home he asked if he could see me again.
That was in December and we married the following June.

My husband was part of the student crowd I was friends with. A quiet, intelligent, unassuming and awkward young man with a very dry sense of humour. We finally started dating, and after a 3 month engagement, married. We’ve been together 45 yrs. Neither sets of parents approved!

I would advise everyone not to consider marrying anyone until you have seen them with their family. Then you get a proper idea of what sort of person they are and how they were brought up.

Crikey - if I’d used DH’s family to help me decide if I wanted to marry him I’d have run a mile. His mum and his sister are truly bonkers,

I suspect you are too late for the posters on this thread, ladymuck.

We have tried to persuade our children to be cautious but dont really have a leg to stand on.

My friend asked me to make up a foursome at a Barn dance with her boyfriend and his brother. That was in July, we were engaged September the same year. Married the following July.

Sadly split up July (must be a significant month) 1984 as he decided he was gay! We did have 2 children together.

We were great friends and got on so well, so I often wonder if we would still be together if it had not been for that. Will never know though! He is still with the same man he left me for though

met 1968 autumn, engaged spring 1969, married summer 1970. 45 very happy and content years. We knew straight away

Widowed now and I choose to stay single for the rest of my life. He was my one and only and ever will be

We met sometime in our first year at university. We were both members of the sailing club. But this was no university romance.

We graduated, went our separate ways, but for a few years after we graduated, ex SC members met at the Boat Show each year. DH acquired a boat and needed a crew, so at one of these meet ups he asked me if I would crew for him.

Anyone ever been a dinghy sailor? if so you will understand. After 18 months of being shouted at, sometimes sworn at and generally being blamed for everything to do with the boat and its crew, we ditched our then current boy/girl friends and after a six week courthship, got engaged and married six months later. We had known each other 7 years, with a 2 year gap in the middle.

I reckoned after 18 months of crewing for DH, I could survive anything being married to him could throw at me. I was right, 52 years together and still going strong.

My parents didn’t take it well! Just said No.
we were parted but stayed in touch and married at 22/23 Against their wishes. 46 years later I am so glad I defied them - though their unkindness never truly leaves my thoughts - despite a very happy marriage and sons and grandsons ??

both dh and I second marriages
Met October 25th, engaged nov 14th, married the next year Jan 31st... would have been 50 years this month, he died Nov. 12th.

now I am trying so hard to stop this crying.. and I have started again.

Met my hubby in September, engaged in the January and married in May so 8 months ?. Happily married for 48 years now

We started dating in August, he had to return to Australia at the end of October so for the next few months, we wrote letters (we didn't have a phone until just before he came back).
He returned at the beginning of February, proposed a week later and we got married at the end of the following September. I might also add, that I knew him slightly (he was a friend of a friend) for 3 months before our first date.

We got engaged after six weeks and married after six months. We were both 30-ish and getting a bit desperate to set up the kind of nuclear family we'd both been secure in in childhood. And I was anxious about security in old age. Our first child was born exactly nine months after the wedding. Not all has gone smoothly for my husband and I over the last 41 years, but I'm facing major surgery next week and am so grateful for the love and support of my sons.

My parents got together in the post-war boom years - engaged in ten days and married after four months. I suppose for my mother and I it was always about the partnership and never about the romance.

Met in January ,engaged a month later,married in June.
My fiancé was working abroad so we had seen one another
12 times when we married. No try before you buy!!
We were married very happily for 47 years.

Nine weeks - from meeting to marriage! That was in 1991.

Only a few weeks, lust at first sight. We spoke different languages, came from different cultures, religions & educations... I was 16 he told me 21, ( he was actually 25). It hasn't always been easy but we've been married 53 years.

Met my other half in the April when I was 16 and we got married in the August just after I turned 17 and he was 20 still together after 47 years