Ok I'm prepared to get flamed for this.
My friend recently told me of a couple she knows (who are in their late 30s) who have been together since they were 13 - "isn't that the sweetest thing you've ever heard??"
I smiled but in my head I was thinking hell to the no. I couldn't imagine living should a sheltered life that I'd only ever been with one person.
I had my heart broken twice, it was one of the worst pains I've ever felt but I feel the experience of that has made me a much stronger person and grow up.
My husband was married before he met me and I couldn't care less that he was married before.
I was on another forum where a woman had been with her husband since 16 and they have 3 boys together. Someone started a thread about a nights out and I remember her saying she never did nights out with friends and would only go out with her husband (then boyfriend) when she turned 18 and that they would meet up with their parents at the end of the night for a drink.
All I kept thinking was what?! You never used to have girls night, dressing up, dancing and drinking. I'm not saying youth has to be drunk and drugged up partying, but surely you need some wildness in your youth?
I have another friend been with her boyfriend since 17. We lived together at one point, all the couple did was argue, and I knew that both had cheated on each other yet they are still together. Why - because they can't imagine life as being single.
I understand it's your own life and do with it as you will but there's just a part of me that cannot find the idea of childhood sweethearts sweet.
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LittleMermaidAriel · 16/01/2013 04:30
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