How old were you......?

We were both 18 in 1975 and been together ever since and married for the last 44 years. I've decided to give it another 44 years to see how it goes

I was 14, he was 17. He waited until I was 17 to ask me out.

Oops! Sorry 37 years! 🤦

I was 19 and DH was 32. Got engaged 3 weeks later and married a year after that. We've been married for 43 years. Not bad considering some people said it wouldn't last. 😀

We met at my place of work and he was on a summer break from uni, I had just turned 21 and he was 18 months older. We moved in together a year later and I married him at 26 in 1987. 38 years married now with 3 children and 4 grandchildren

16 and 18 for us can’t believe it really as when my kids were that age they had no idea about life ! We are still together now though so it must have been right for us. Husband still reminds me of when I tried to defrost a chicken in front of the gas fire at our first flat. It’s a wonder we survived !

We met at 17, started dating at 18, engaged at 19,he was Royal Navy so the Falklands war disrupted year 20!, married at 21, pregnant at 22, baby girl at 23! We’re now 61 and easing gently into our retirement!

I'm now 58 and hubby will be 63 in August but we were 42 and 46 when we first met in September 2007. Married February 2011. First marriage for us both!

29 (just) and 39 (almost 40). Married 22 years this year. I’m the older one 🫣

I was 19 and he was 21, engaged 11 months later but didn’t marry until I was 23. We didn’t live together however were saving up to buy a property and it those days, you married first before living together. We celebrate 49 years, this year. Many friends told us that our marriage wouldn’t work, we have our arguments like any normal couple but understand each other very well.

Married at 19 to late husband aged 38. Some hiccups but he passed away exactly a month after his 80th birthday and after 42 years of marriage. Some regrets throughout but determination on my part to stay the course.

I was 43 and he was 39 !
30 years later still together not married. Plodding on !!!!

BlueBelle

Looks like I m the only one who made a poor choice

No you’re not. Despite us being together over 50 years I do find him very frustrating at times and I should have listened to my mum.
I can’t imagine many teens nowadays deciding they’ve found the right partner so soon.

I was 23 and DH was 28. We married a year later and have just celebrated our 55th wedding anniversary. Long may it continue.

I was 23 (nearly 24) & he was 21. Met at a party 🥳
We're still together 41years later and still love each other as much as we did back then.

I was 18 and he was 20. We married when I was 19 and he was 21. That was 54 years ago. How time flies!!!

BlueBelle

Looks like I m the only one who made a poor choice

I def made a bad bad choice, although I do have the most wonderful children, 😀

Think I win - we were both 11 and in the same class in school - started going out at 15 and married at 17 - still together 53 years later :-)

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Calendargirl

I’m sure many of us married young because that’s what you did back then. You weren’t allowed to spend the night together, go on holiday on your own etc, and certainly not sleep together in your parents home!

But also, our expectations were nothing like those of today’s young generation. We didn’t expect to start off with homes better than what our parents ended up with, and just worked our way up.

Also accepted that our love lives were not going to be a Mills and Boon romance. Real life stepped in.

This is so true and most of it resonates with me.Apart from the "could not spend the night before the wedding" .We did,but at my insistence,after getting engaged! I wasn,t living at home then......shared a flat with another two girls.DH shared with a male work colleague.So I sometimes spent the night when his colleague was away! Naughty!

23 he was 28 - married a year later and still together!

I met my ex husband when I was 15 on a blind date. He was 16.
Love at first sight.
He turned out to be a liar and cheat. Left for someone he worked with.
Divorced Jan 1990 or 1991 can't remember which.

Conversely, I wonder if some of us married young because we found a soul mate at university where we had a chance to explore more, share homes (live together) and had time to engage in meaningful discourse about our futures?

Going to university at 17/18/19 was incredibly liberating and many of us pretty quickly shed the dreams and expectations of our parents!

Greenfinch

Also I think most of us wanted to have our children in our 20’s rather than our 30’s or even 40’s.

My own parents married late in life, both having looked after their own ageing mothers before getting spliced.

My mum was nearly 41 when I was born, and although they were good, loving parents, I always wished they were younger.

So I was determined to have my children when I was young, and did so, 21 and 23.

Of course, nowadays, 41 is quite a normal age to be having babies. Have never regretted having mine when I did though.

I agree Calendargirl. Shared independence away from parents although I'm sure some newlyweds had to live in the parental home.
We lived in a shared rented flat for 2 years and bought our first house taking a flatmate with us to help pay the mortgage.