How old were you......?

I was 22, he was 29. We married just under two years later in 1989, so celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary later this year.

We were both 18 when we met, engaged at 19, married at 20 (58 years ago)

Married at 29 and divorced with three children at 37. Married with another baby at 44. It’s our twenty fifth wedding anniversary soon but he’s very poorly with anxiety and I don’t think he’s up celebrating.

Late 30s

I was 21 and he was 20. He invited me to his 21st and we were married two years later. Married 41 years before I lost him.

Just celebrating my hundredth.

Second marriage, and I was 62. I met my first husband when I was 28. We were together until he died, 30 years later.

I was 14 he was 18 when we met . Two years later we started dating then got married when I was 19 and him 23 . We had a DD and 2 DS before my 23rd birthday .
He died when he was 57 and I was 54 , two months before our 35th wedding anniversary. That was nearly 17 years ago.

I was 15, she was still 14 when we met at a party. We were married 9 years later (almost to the day) and will have been married 49 years in May.

Iwas 18 and he was just 19.We met in our first term of university in 1969.We married in 1974 and are currently celebrating our Golden Wedding Anniversary this weekend in Scotland.

We were both 16. Far too young and married at 20/21. Again far too young.
Still together now for almost 53 yrs.

My DH knew of me when at High School but I wasn't aware of him. Only when both working did we meet and that was it. 22 for me and 23 for him. Together until he died two years ago.

Amazing that those who met their 'the one' as teenagers have stayed together.Really lovely! Certainly teenagers today seem ,in the main,to be too immature for long term commitment.Still I suppose you can,t generalise and I think today there is so much emphasis on further education.I have to agree with the poster who stated "most of our friends married young"!

Second marriage- but best thing I ever did! 33(me) & dh 39 celebrating 39 yrs together this year. No one thought we would last!

I met my husband at age 22, he was 21 (6 months age difference). We married at age 24. Our Ruby anniversary was last August 2023. We both struck lucky, I reckon. Wouldn’t swap him.

I was 16, still at school between O and A levels, DH was 2 months short of 21.
We met on holiday, and lived over 20 miles apart. “Courted” for 4 years, engaged at 19, married 2 months before I was 21. My dear Father told me I could have a 21st birthday party or a wedding, I chose wedding and did my own 21st! We celebrate 57th Anniversary later this year.

Met at dancing. Had an amazing ten days together whilst we were both on demarkation leave, he RAF for Germany and Malta for me with WRNS. 7 years later we had an unexpected encounter in a city street and married 6 months later. We had 30 wonderful years before he died totally unexpectedly.

I was not quite 19 and DH was 23 - both in the Army. We married a year later, suddenly faced with me being posted to one side of the world and him to the other; we couldn’t face the thought of being separated. We had fifty six good years together before he died two years ago.

Ist marriage met when i was 14, he 17 , at boarding school near me. Married 10 years later. 3 children. Largely happy years, but both troubled pasts. Divorce 30 years later. Massive shock to me and years to get truth . All pretty traumatic, to whole family. Married again 3 years ago, longer relationship, but never envisaged it, probably a mistake. Im younger and seen as a nurse and purse . All happened in lockdown whrn everything changed. But I'm grateful he put me in the picture as to what was going on with my ex . I had no idea, for years andchildren did.
Now im in possession of all facts and minus quite alot of money, family fragmentation and me a carer.
But im stronger and still have choices . Life’s complicated but im determined too enjoy it !

Allex50

Just celebrating my hundredth.

Hundredth birthday?

Or hundredth relationship?

Met when I was nearly 19 and he was 23……married in 1964 when I was 21 and he was 25……amazingly still together and we’ve been married for 60 years now…..heaven knows how! I guess the explanation could be that we have lived in three different countries since we married, and have had 10 different homes. But his redeeming quality that must have kept us together all these years is that we each have different hobbies throughout the year and we aren’t ’joined at the hip’. By thst I mean we have individual friends related to our interests as well as the normal couple friends. Unquestionably we both feel very fortunate that now we have reached our 80’s we are still living in our own home that’s perfectly suited for this time in our lives, we live close to family and grandchildren, and we have each other around for day to day company..

Delia22 - I didn’t know anyone who married young except us so "most of our friends married young" does not apply in our case.

All our friends post-university were 8-10 years older than us and most still are. We had children young too (I took my finals whilst 9 months pregnant) and had no friends with children.

Obviously we made new friends once we had children through the children really (and through campaigning).

I do know a number of our university friends who married pretty much straight after university so at 21 or 22... Some are still together - some not.

I was 14 he was 18 when we met. We married at 16 and 20.
51 years later we are loving each other more each day. When you know, you know .

I think I can beat you Willow500. DH and I were both 9 when we started at a new school that opened in January just before the March that we were both 10. We went our separate ways after the eleven plus and didn’t meet up again until we were both 22. Married seven months later and have been married for 57 years now.