To alll marrieds (smug or otherwise)

cyclingyorkie

1 relationship of 9 months, 1 of 21 months ( he broke my heart) followed by 2 years with no relationship.
Met OH at 22, married at 25 - silver wedding next year...

oh and I was his first - and only...

Gigervamp

I was married for 6 years, then lived with someone for 8 years before I met my 2nd husband. We've been together for 12 years now, married for 6. This relationship is sooooo different to my previous relationships, my hubby is my best friend.

I'm 47 and he's 37.

Sally42

I'd had two serious relationships before meeting my hubby on August the 8th, 1998. I was 29, he was 19. He proposed to me four days later, went back to Germany where he was based three days after that, came back to England on December the 18th and we were married on December the 21st, three days later!
I was his first serious relationship, we've been together 13 years, have three sons.

spikyspiky

Its complicated lol
First bf from 16 to 18 resulting in number one son.
Second bf at 19 but only for 5 months.
Third from 24 ish for 2.5 years resulting in daughter.
Fourth from 28 for 12 years.
All disasters in one way or another except 2nd one which was just short.
Then at age 40 bf number 2 got back in touch and I knew instantly
We got married in January this year when I was 42 and him 44 and are sickeningly happy.
I'm female by the way.

skintchick

Just one serious one, we were engaged before I called it off after 4 years, but I've been in less serious ones many times, that lasted for maybe up to a year, and also gone on far too manny dates!

I'd known OH 11 years before we got together as a couple (he was my brother's mate) and we married 19 months after our first date.

I'm female, 36, OH is 44. He had only had one serious relationship before me.

travelgran

So, what's this all in aid of?

Lunar_Eclipse

One, aged 18 that lasted about a year. I was 'in love' with him, but always knew that he was definitely not who I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.

Then got together with DH at 18/19, knew he was the one immediately and we have been together/married for 21 years.

Gingham_R

My husband was the fifth man to ask me to marry him and the second I said yes to. I broke off the first engagement very quickly as I knew it was wrong for me.

The first was a bully who threw me into a hedge when I said no.
The second I said yes to - lovely man but I just didn't 'feel it'.
The third was a bully too and he used to talk about 'when we get married' rather than asking me specifically. We lived together for a couple of years.
The fourth was a friend I'd known for years that I had a summer fling with. We're still friends. (No way we were compatible.)
Then I lived with my ex for 4 years and a wedding was never on the cards. We split up because I wanted children and he didn't.

When I met my husband, 10 years ago, I quickly realised that it was totally different.

Xaniwoop

I was 18 when I met my DH, married at 21, that was 6 years and 2 children ago. We'd both only had short-lived teenage type relationships before but knew right away this was different - we decided to get engaged after a fortnight but had to wait 3 years to get married so our parents didn't totally freak out!

Pee

I'm female and mid thirties. Got together with boyfriend 6 years ago and we are now fully commited although not married, basically because I don't believe in marriage.

I had one serious relationship where I lived with someone before this. That was from when I was about 23 to 29. This was a commited relationship and I thought for a while that it would be the one.

I had two long term relationships besides which broke up over the marriage/ live together question. One was 18 months from when I was 16 and a half and the other nine months when I was 22. In both of those I thought there would be a future together until the point where those boyfriends both wanted more and to be honest I got scared, mostly due to age and what I wanted to achieve in life and partly I believe because they were not quite the right person.