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Where would you be if you married your first partner?

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  • SmallL
    SmallL Posts: 944 Forumite
    Much happier as we have been togetehr for over 5 years, however our young age and going through uni/getting careers is getting in the way of any attempt to make a family and marry!
  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,635 Forumite
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    At the risk of sounding smug, I did marry my first boyfriend who I met when we were both fifteen. Thirty two years later we are still very happy together. So it can happen.

    Pink x
  • Chakani
    Chakani Posts: 826 Forumite
    A doctor's wife in Australia - although we are both much better suited to our current partners! We are still friends :)
  • balletshoes
    balletshoes Posts: 16,610 Forumite
    What would life be like if we all married our first boyfriend/ girlfriend...

    I have no idea - haven't clapped eyes on him, nor heard anything about him, since we split up.
  • I did marry my first partner. Although we split up for several years, dated other people then came back to each other and we married.
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  • Goldiegirl
    Goldiegirl Posts: 8,821 Forumite
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    I'd be a widow - sadly my first boyfriend died in 1992, at an early age.

    We had split up in 1979, and I met my now husband a few months later.

    I was sad when I heard about my first boyfriend, as I had always remembered him with fondness, we just weren't right for each other.
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  • Tiglath
    Tiglath Posts: 3,816 Forumite
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    I'd be bored. We dated in our midteens and we did bump into each other 18 years later; he was driving the taxi I'd called for. I didn't recognize him at all and certainly couldn't see why I'd ever fancied him.
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  • Nicki
    Nicki Posts: 8,166 Forumite
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    Mine got his next girlfriend pregnant at 14 :eek:. So, I'd probably be broke, with no education and grown up kids and probably also a grandmother at the grand old age of 44 :(
  • My first boyfriend spent the 10 years after we split up in jail for armed robbery .. phew (***wipes brow**)
    I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be
  • Frith
    Frith Posts: 8,967 Forumite
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    edited 5 December 2012 at 4:48PM
    I'd be in Austria! Or if we're meaning just boyfriend, rather than partner, I would be widowed as he died from cancer aged 31.
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