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Would you and your SO...
Actually have gotten together if you had met at a different time in your life?
For example, my husbad and I have talked a lot about the fact that we probably wouldn't have even acknowledged each others presence if we had met in high school, much less got married.
Or for those that are with their high school sweetheart, have you ever had any major growing pains?
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Re: Would you and your SO...
Definitely not!
He is over 10 years older than me and previously married so the time in my life that we met eachother was just perfect.
We weren't exactly high school sweethearts but we did meet when I was pretty young.
If it were any sooner, I don't think I would have been interested. I wasn't interested at all in a relationship when we first got together, so I can't imagine it any sooner.
As far as later in life, I don't know. I love his personality, and I think I would have been able to appreciate it later on as well.
I highly doubt it.
He's 8 years older than me and we actually worked together for about 3 years before we ever got together. Honestly I didn't have any feelings for him whatsoever up until then. We had both gotten out of long term relationships, so that's basically what brought us together.
I've seen pics of him when he was in his 20s (he was 35 I think when we got together) and honestly, just going by looks, he would not have been my type at all
He's aged very nicely
We frequently laugh about it. We went to the same school at the same time for like 5years and never knew each other.
Had I known him then, no way I would have even acknowledged him! Stupid boy with blue hair.
When we met I was still in HS but he was out.
Highly unlikely!
MH is 14 years older than me and previously married. He also is originally from England. We were in a similar circle of friends for the couple of years before we got together. Actually, I had seen him at a meeting where I caught him checking me out but I was kinda creeped out, lol. It wasn't until his co-worker started dating one of my girlfriends that we met and got to know each other.
Funny how things work out.
No way!!
H is 6 years older then me and we worked together for years before anything ever evolved from our work relationship. It wasn't until we both went our separate ways job-wise that we even thought about giving it a shot between the two of us.
He actually graduated high school with one of my older sisters and they knew each other back in the day. Weird to think that I had met my husband when I was only 10 years old!
I guess if you ever wonder if your relationship would be different, if you had not been together during the 16-22 range. If that makes sense. Poor wording on my part because I don't know how to explain it very well.
DH is actually several months younger than me, which means he graduated HS a year behind me. I probably wouldn't have given him the time of day in HS, because when I was in HS I had a thing for older guys. In fact, when DH and I met my sophomore/his freshman year of college, I was actually engaged to a guy 3 years older than me that I had been dating since I was a HS junior.
Not to mention DH was very different in HS and I probably would have found him annoying, lol. He's grown up a lot since then.
As for growing pains, we did start dating at 19, but I don't think of us as young love or anything. I have always been mature for my age, and DH grew up FAST when we started dating. If anything, the rockiest time in our relationship was right at the beginning. Things have been great for years now.
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Nope lol.
We're very different people even now. H is is very Southern (aka redneck
) and I'm pretty preppy. Somehow we make it work, but 5-7 years ago we wouldn't have even crossed paths.
Funny story...I met him twice.
Once when I was 17 and again when I was 21. When I first met him, he was engaged and if he had gotten my number, texted/called, etc. we wouldn't be married now.
We've acutally never talked about it. We've talked about our age difference but not if we had met at a different time.
If we met when we were younger, probably not. We met when I was 19, he was 26. Started dating when I was 21, he was 28. By the time I graduated high school, he had already been engaged, dumped, and his exFI already married.
Later in life, probably.
Nope! All through high school I would have thought he was a loser. He never went to school and therefore failed out. I would not have given him the time of day because I was a semi smart girl looking toward the future of college always! I would have never dated a high school drop out.
We also just missed each other in BFF's life. DH was in our mutual friends' wedding back in 2006. He and BFF were both in the wedding and used to "talk" and even were going to date until BFF screwed it up and got married (long weird story).
Fast forward to 2009, he was engaged to his high school crush, had just become a police officer (which his ex's father helped him get that job) and I was in a serious relationship. We always say things happened for a reason. We met each other so we wouldn't be miserable with our exes.