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

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.

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

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

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.

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! ?

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

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 !

I wish there was a ‘like’ ‘love’ button on Gransnet

First date - 12th March 1973, married 22nd December 1973 just nine months later! They said it wouldn’t last ? Just clocked up 46 fabulous years ❤️

We are headed for 20 years together but only been married 3 x

We stated ' going out ' in March 1980, engaged end of August 1980 and married a year later. I was 23 and DH was 26. Coming up to 39 th WA.

Met when I was 17y and he was 19y. Married when I was 20y. 45y ago now.

It’s lovely to think we have our shared past, adult children and our two gorgeous grandchildren together. He makes me laugh still - he’s so quick with his one-liners! I can’t beli he’s nearly 68y. It’s scary to think where those years have gone.

Sometimes on a sunny morning when I awake, I look across at his head on the pillow and think ‘god, who’s that old bugger lying next to me?’
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Oh Artdecogran - I’m so sorry, that must be so difficult

Some very fast movers on here - I’m in awe! How did your parents take the news? We announced our engagement after three months as it seemed more acceptable somehow My parents took it remarkably well, considering, and cracked open the champagne. I’m not sure I’d be quite so happy if any of our DCs did that - or maybe they just hid their shock well.

Artdecogran

So sorry, that must be so hard

We had our first date on June 4th, got married on August 19th same year, which I think was 10 weeks and 6 days. We were married for 40 years and 4 months when he died in December 2018, and I am struggling without him.

I was sixteen, he was seventeen, we were good friends but went on to be with other people for a couple of years.

Continued to be close friends till one night things changed, we’ve been living together from that night onwards. Married within a year, and still together after forty five years.

Well having been already married twice before (18 and 23) . I was very reluctant to marry a 3rd time . We lived together with my 2 young children for several years before we married on the spur of the moment 21 years ago this year.

DH and I met on December 19th 1969, he proposed on 26th Jan 1970 and we got married on 10th Oct 1970.

We have been lucky to have grown together rather than apart over the last 50 years. It was pure lust at the beginning but has become a deep love.

We have weathered some awful things and enjoyed lots of good times. We have laughed and cried and I count myself very fortunate that fate brought us together and that I have spent my life with this kind, supportive, generous, hardworking and irritating man.

TheReadingRoom I think yours is the fastest courtship. I had thought it was ours. We met in January and were married in April. 13 weeks and 2 days later. That was 51 years ago.

Met DH when I was 17 and he the same. We were students at art school. Married 3 years later. Just past 55 year anniversary.

Met whenI was 16, he was 18. I only went out with him to stop him asking me. We got engaged after 4 1/2 years and married 15 months later. Now been married nearly 43 years.

Husband number one I knew for two years. He changed for the worse when we married. I left him after a year after.

Husband number two was a friend of a friend. I never dated him. He just stayed with a group of people for a weekend party - and never went home! We lived together for six years, then married (one and two thirds kids, so thought we should) and were very happy for another 15 years, until he died young. We'd still be together now, I know!

I think you don't really know somebody until you've lived with them for a while.

Met and married in 11 weeks due to his posting to Singapore with the FCO. That was 45 years ago!

Love these stories!

because if had taken the wrong train from Waterloo. Should write a book... Do tell jura!

DH and I almost didn’t meet either. He was the friend of my friend’s cousin and all the lads had been out in Edinburgh after a rugby international. My friend suggested we all go and meet them but I was choked with a cold and really couldn’t be bothered - she was very persuasive though. DH had been considering going home - he was tired and fed up of drinking with the lads but had been persuaded to stay because the girls were coming! It turned out that his mum and my mum had lived in the same street in the forties and fifties before his mum moved away and our grandfathers knew each other and used to get the same bus into work. Maybe we were meant to be! (God help me...)

My husband and I "lived in sin" 6 months after we met (50 years ago this year!) and eventually married 2 years after we met.