Did you fall in love back in high school? Did you marry your high school sweetheart, maybe after “going steady”? Did it last?
Wow! Wasn’t falling in love at such a young age an amazing experience? Yes, raging hormones were a big part of it, and the difference between falling in love and falling “in lust” were almost impossible to distinguish from each other.
Of course, on the flip side, getting jilted back then was among one of life’s most painful experiences. But we won’t talk about that (no need to bring back bad memories).
If you fell in love way back then, did it endure? If so, which wedding anniversary did you last celebrate? Have you reached 50? Longer?
After you answer the poll, please leave a comment with your story — how you met, where you met, what your parents thought, and how it’s gone since then.
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52 years ago, we met at separate boarding schools, became best friends, fell in love, married 2 years later. Oh, what a journey it has been and I can’t imagine life without her….we used to dream of traveling the country by RV and for the past 4 years we have done just that….upcoming 60 day trip to will take us to some of our favorite locations. As for our parents? We both came from large families and they were nothing but supportive of us….today, we have 2 children & 7 grandkids…and most importantly, good health that allows to participate in life.
My wife and I started to go ‘steady’ the summer before our senior year. We were even voted the worst matched couple for our senior year. But still married after 46 years.
Yes, 54 years ago in October 1969
Nope. And glad I didn’t looking back.
Yup. We met in the fall of 1967. I was a senior, she a junior. The classic “boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back”. we married in the spring of 1970. We celebrated 53-yrs a few weeks ago!
Yes and will be 51 years this year
No I didn’t, but a good friend did. And they are still together (last I heard) nearly 50 years later.
No I did not either but My Best Friend & Centreman did & unfortunately He passed away. I went thru school with both. & Yes; I still think of them & Smile. Both were & are good people!!
Yes, I did, but we were way too young and immature and divorced a couple of years later. Met and married my second wife (also divorced and with a two year old son) a couple of years or so later while in the Air Force and after a tour in Vietnam. We recently celebrated 50 years of happy marriage. I think the AF Chaplain who married us after a counseling session made a lasting impact when he advised us that statistically a second marriage had a better chance of lasting than a first marriage, but if a second marriage failed the chance of ever having a successful marriage went way down. True or not, it really stuck with me.
That was probably true, after my first marriage I married my second wife who also was divorced and it lasted 41 yrs before she passed away. Now in my third marriage with an also widowed lady and this is the best of the rest. 6 yrs and 9 mos.of wedded bliss. We both feel like we should’ve met very early in life and started this marriage much sooner. We cherish every day God gives us together.
Both my wife and I got our “practice marriage” out of the way. We’ve been married 36 years now and going strong. Best friends, lovers, and confidants.
Yes, I did. 46 years later we’re still honeymooning and still best friends.
Also, we renewed those vows on our 40th anniversary on a cruise ship off the coast of Barbados.
We were not High School sweethearts, although we did attend the same school and knew each other. I had already graduated when we started dating, because of a mutual friend.
It’s now 53 years later.
Yes, sort of. We were acquainted in high school but didn’t get together until after I graduated. We celebrated 54 years in November 2022, and still counting.
Left H.S. and got away as fast as possible. 53 years ago, I married my college sweetheart. Still going strong.
No but I wish she had been my high school sweetheart. The last 6 yrs and 9 mos have been so wonderful I wish we could’ve spent the previous 60 years together.
NO, thank goodness!!!
Amen to that brother!!
That Garth Brooks song says it all!
Every time I hear it, this is exactly what I think about.
My husband and I were not high school sweethearts, but we were born together in the same hospital in Boston, MA, one day apart and were in the nursery together. We reconnected 21 years later and married in 1977. Still happily married for 46 years.
Not only did I marry my high school sweetheart, but we celebrated our 50th anniversary last year. The funniest thing is that almost all the people who knew us thought it would never last. However, when you both don’t believe in divorce, you’re far more committed to make the marriage work.
No, but I did marry my college sweetheart. We met through a mutual friend our freshman year and will celebrate 44 years in a little over a month.
No, I married my college sweetheart almost 58 years ago.
You might need another category in this survey. I asked her to marry me in 1962. She did say yes…..in 2001.
And still together after 55 years!
yes 54 years this June. very young and grew up together. learning as we went. You must maintain respect for each other.
Met in 8th grade. Dated all thru high school. Graduated 1971; married 1972. Celebrated 50th anniversary in 2022. Hubby still makes me laugh! Both retired and enjoying our RV motorhome.
I married my college sweetheart in ‘73. Cut her loose 21 years later to chase her dream, (her boss). Met my “forever “ sweetheart 3 years later at a church function 26 years ago. We celebrated our 25th anniversary Valentine’s Day.
I had no sweetheart in high school or college (and I went to college for a long, long, long time). I did marry someone I met late in my college years. We dated for three months before she graduated and began law school hundreds of miles away. We were engaged a few months after she began law school and married during the summer between her first and second years of school. Our 34th wedding anniversary is this summer.
She dumped me when she went to college. So glad, or I wouldn’t have ever met my actual wife of almost 30 years. And in the process, learned how very, very bad my high school girlfriend would’ve been as a wife.
Not high school but did marry my college sweetheart. This coming August it will be 56 years!
Yes, married my HS sweetheart and this year will be 48 years. Very happy together. No one thought we would stay together. My mother did not like him. I knew we were “suppose” to be together and we made it through the highs and lows.
No, but we’ve known each other since junior high school. Met up again 3 years after high school and have now been married for just over 45 years. Been camping all through the years since!
Will be 64 years this AUG.8. Going strong, and still camping.
She started chasing me 63 years ago and caught me 54 years ago. Well… actually she had me caught me the first time I saw her. (The chase started when we were still on bicycles.)
Met in 6th grade. Started dating as juniors in high school. Married for 53 years. Finest woman I’ve ever known!
Yes! We will celebrate our 43rd wedding anniversary in June.
I didn’t marry my high school crush but my wife did; I had graduated. We went out twice and then agreed to date until we got tired of each other. That was 38 years ago. Never proposed just got married 36 years ago.
My best friend my senior year wanted me to take this gal to the Prom for him, because he had promised years earlier to take another the girl he had been stringing along for years to it. He figured he could, errr…., well, he had scandalous plans with both of these ladies. I was talking to the new gal he wanted to date, and let her in on his plans. We hatched a different plan as we chatted at night (back in the days when you had a long phone cord and a closet for privacy). We went to prom, left early ditching them all. We kept up our friendship, and ended up married three years later. She’s tolerated me over multiple deployments, two wars and (now) three careers. Thank the Universe she has!
We met on her 16th birthday and were engaged 1.5 years later, married another two years later. 38 years in, it just keeps getting better and better every day!
Thank God, NO. She married at 19, had a child at 20, and divorced at 21. Married my college sweetheart 55 years ago in Colorado and we are currently camping in our motor home in OK!
Not high school, but met my husband (3 college dating years plus 59 years married) the first week of college! He fell off his dining room chair while telling a funny story and has said he “fell hard for me”. Still going strong and RVing when we can get away.
I met her in dads blackberry field. We were sophomore’s in close by different schools. We lived just 2 miles apart. Dated for 4 years before marriage. That is 63 years of together to the best/happiest girl I know. We’ve been RV camping for 62 years and still enjoying everything.
No, and unrequited love is the hardest thing I have ever lived with.
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YES, I did marry a person I dated in High school, but we got married 42 years after we dated in HS. We both went our own way for 42 years and have been married for 19 years. We did a lot of RVing during that 20 years since we started dating after we got back together.
I didn’t but my parents were and did. After 61 years of happiness together, my father passed away.
Yes, will be 48 years this coming October
Yes. Met in 5th grade, began dating as Juniors in HS, graduated in 1967, married in 1970, now married 53 years and happy together.
Met my Darling Angel when she was a freshman and I was a sophomore in High School. We got married my junior year in college. It will be 58 fun filled adventurous years this June. We have traveled the world thanks to the military and have been RVing for 23 years. Still going strong and our next adventure is just around the corner.
Our story is a little different. I married a girl I barely knew in HS. BUT I met her at a party 10 years later and we have been married 49+ years.
No.
I married my best friend from college.(Took me 9 years and 9 months to realize that when my ex asked me for a divorce 3 months in because” he loved me too much to make me stay married to him” that he was serious. I seriously think he married me to have me put him thru college)
One of my good friends brought her boyfriend to the 24/7 house party that ran at our commune(for the guys- the girls were too busy trying to work our jobs and keep the place going) We became good friends. I had more in common with him than I did with her. Suddenly a few months later she ghosted us both. My parents had disinherited me on my marriage and I had lost almost all my friends when I had to drop out and go to work. But my former room mate and Ed were still there for me.
We married in 1981and are still together. He even put me thru my final 18 months of my English Lit degree. <3
I bought a camper in 2016 when I’d been retired 2 years. I love camping!
We met through a mutual friend. We will be married 57 years in October.
We started going together at 15 while Sophomores in high school, married at 22, two kids and a ton of fun and adventures later, we are still enjoying each other’s company 41 years later.
We met while I was a senior, got married 2 years later, I was 20 she 21. Married on Treasure Island, San Francisco Bay. June wedding in 1962, will be 61 years in June. Still full time RV and workamping. Life is good 👍
Started 1st grade together. Lived only about 1/2 mile apart. She then, for the next year, transferred to a Catholic school for the next 9 years. Came back for 10th grade and we started dating through high school. Married when we were 21 and 3 sons later and will be 55years this July. The love of my life!!
Met our Jr year in high school in the band room and married 2 months after graduation. That was almost 57 yrs ago.
We met when I was a senior and he was a junior – from neighboring high schools. We married soon after he graduated and will celebrate our 51st anniversary this coming June. 4 children, 10 grandchildren, and our first great-grand child is due in July. Still crazy for each other!
Met my wife to be when she was a sophomore. I had just return from Germany, for my junior year.
Sitting in math class before the bell rang, overheard a girl complaining that her boyfriend was not taking her to the upcoming dance.
Being rather cocky I turned and blurted out, “Why don’t you dump your boyfriend and take me to the dance.” She did. I did, and we stayed friends for years afterwards. After high school we lost track of each other, and reconnected 13 years ago. I proposed a month later in Yosemite on Thanksgiving. We have been married since.
never had a high school sweet heart. too many girls to have just one
We met in latter part of our senior year.
50 years later we are still together.
52 years this August. We met in my senior year. Her junior year. We were introduced by a mutual friend. I first saw her when she was at work in a mom & pop drive up burger joint.
We have been married for 50 years!
Friends in high school; dated in college. Been married 52 years!
Couldn’t stand her in high school. Met after graduation. Been married 59 great years now,
We were sweethearts for 5 years before marriage. We were assigned to be 10th grade biology partners. I was mad because I wanted a better student than he was! I told him if he wanted to be my boyfriend he had to attend school and get good grades, He did. 🙂 In September we will celebrate 50 years with a splurge: A cruise and land trip to Alaska. Our first no RV vacation in forever. We have camped and RV’d our entire marriage. Took our 3 children all over the USA in a 22′ no slide TT. Our latest is a 34′ fifth wheel, 3 slides.
My hubby is and always has been my best friend. He also makes me laugh every day. Life is good together. He was also the best caregiver ever when I was undergoing chemo treatments. He has his own health issues and I take care of him as well.
Our children have all expressed that they looked for a mate that they thought would best match the relationship they saw growing up in our family. So far they seem to have chosen wisely.
Feeling very blessed.
I moved into the neighborhood in the 7th grade. There were 7 of us that played together. I walked to school with 2 boys and thought of them as brothers. Soon one stood out and he had a red bicycle. We started dating through high school. He enlisted in the Air Force after graduation. At Christmas of 1951 he sent me an engagement ring. January 1st was Leap Year so I sent him a telegram saying “HAPPY LEAP YEAR. I LOVE YOU, WILL YOU MARRY ME?” Ten best words I ever said. We were married 70 years, 5 month and 11 days before he passed away. We started camping in 1963, raised 3 girls, traveled with both mothers in a RV. We both loved to travel so enjoyed our life while on the road. When we retired we would travel West. We went to California over 20 times and it took us one or two weeks to get there as we would stop and tour areas we had sped past before. We changed campgrounds every 2 weeks and met new people all the time!!
What a wonderful story, Frankie. Thank you! So, he got to you with his red bike, eh? At least it impressed you enough that you remember it this many decades later. 😉 And I had forgotten about women getting to ask men to marry them in a Leap Year. 👍 Have a great day! 😀 –Diane at RVtravel.com
I saw her standing there, the most beautiful girl around. And I was just some nerd (still am, but an uber nerd now). My friend put her arm around me, and my arm around her and walked off. We dated a bit, then she jilted me for another guy with the same name. I loved her too much, so walked away with my head down and tail tucked.
I never married, I had a few dogs. She married soon after high school (not the guy she jilted me for thankfully). Years later she found my website, and I missed her contact twice. Found it the third time. We chatted for about 15 years. Really getting to know each other.
A few years later, her husband died. We went on a first date, and again I almost blew it by telling her how I’m done with dating. I had to explain later I didn’t mean her!
We’ve been together about 6 years now, never even an argument. A few sour notes, but never even any words.
It took me 43 years, but I finally got the most beautiful girl I ever saw.
What a sweet story, George. So happy for you! I hope you two have many happy and healthy years together. 😀 –Diane at RVtravel.com