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To say my February 1983 wish came true 😊

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SweetAndSensual · 25/01/2025 22:14

Back in Feb 1983 I had a MASSIVE crush on a lad - I knew my mum wouldn’t like him even back then as he’s working class ! 😮 - and she was a snob!!

Anyway I’m pleased to confirm that we got to know each other, made a connection, and now in 2025 I’m pleased to say he’s the most important person in my life 😊 - my raison d’etre !!

we overcame the odds - I love my ‘Working Class Hero’ ❤️❤️

Just for context in February 1983 Kajagoogoo were no 1 with ‘Too Shy’.

So what were you doing in Feb 1983??!

I can’t believe that me, the shy, awkward unhappy girl in Feb 1983 - well my dream came true ! ❤️

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TurquoiseTortoiseToastyToes · 26/01/2025 16:56

Congrats OP!

Feb ‘83 I was in utero 😁

InSearchOfMartin · 26/01/2025 13:01

Wasn't even born in 1983. But I like reading what everyone else was doing.

TwoBigNoisyBoys · 26/01/2025 13:00

In 1983 I was still in primary school and my crush were Paul Nicholas and John Travolta ha ha! However, I do have a similar happy love story…

I first met my now DP when I was 16, and we hung out in the same crowd. I liked him immediately and we got on so well, but I had a boyfriend (one of his mates). So nothing happened. Then my boyfriend and I split up, but by then he had a girlfriend…so nothing happened. I went on single for years, then met my ExH, and got married, and so did he, marrying the year after I did. My husband and I split up in 2012, as did he and his wife. We chatted on facebook, and the spark was still there, but never saw each other in real life and I got another boyfriend. He eventually got a girlfriend. Still we chatted, innocently but still the spark was there. My boyfriend and I split, and I was on my own for a couple of years, but he was still with his girlfriend…until they eventually split. Finally we were actually single at the same time…! So, in January 2018, after chatting online for months, he asked me out for a drink and as they say, the rest is history. It took us over 25 years to get together, but we’ve been very, very happy for 7 years now 🥰🥰

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SweetAndSensual · 26/01/2025 11:33

TubeScreamer · 26/01/2025 11:30

I was living in a very deprived area of a big city. In February 1983 I head that I’d got a scholarship to a grammar school in the next town. I was excited and terrified at the same time. It was the best thing that ever happened to me, and a life changer.

That’s fabulous 🙌

I wonder if you lived in Kent as I know someone who experienced this at exactly this time

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TubeScreamer · 26/01/2025 11:30

I was living in a very deprived area of a big city. In February 1983 I head that I’d got a scholarship to a grammar school in the next town. I was excited and terrified at the same time. It was the best thing that ever happened to me, and a life changer.

MiddlingMarch · 26/01/2025 09:57

I saw Meatloaf on Top of the Pops singing Dead Ringer for Love and apparently told my mum that I wanted to be him.

Peri-menopause is doing its best to grant me that wish.

Jennifershuffles · 26/01/2025 09:56

In Feb 1983 I was mostly drawing five soldiers, cutting out pictures of religious figures with superlative skill, playing in the home corner, being proud of being able to tie my own tie and feeling insulted by my reception teacher calling me and the other reception kids 'babies' to differentiate us from the Y1 kids.

MrsMurphyIWish · 26/01/2025 09:53

I was 5 so most likely acting out scenes from TJ Hooker with the boy who lived on my estate.

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SweetAndSensual · 26/01/2025 09:52

BakewellGin1 · 26/01/2025 09:47

How lovely for you.

I was born Feb 83 so either about to be or just arrived x

It was specifically Friday 11th 1983 I first clapped eyes on him - the proceeded to follow him and put little notes through his door.

i bet a teenage boy loved this from a 10 year old girl 😭😭🤣

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BakewellGin1 · 26/01/2025 09:47

How lovely for you.

I was born Feb 83 so either about to be or just arrived x

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SweetAndSensual · 26/01/2025 09:27

PrincessDonut · 26/01/2025 09:15

Feb 83 I was 18, just starting my first ‘proper’ job with the Civil Service and 5 months into a relationship with a nice lad who was a lot of fun but neither of us expected it to last. All these years later we are still together and 1st Feb 94 I became Mum to our first child.

Aw that’s lovely ❤️

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NormasArse · 26/01/2025 09:18

Mummyoflittledragon · 25/01/2025 22:48

I had just started secondary school and was dreaming about marrying George Michael. My periods had just started. I’m really surprised that you had a crush on someone older when you were primary age.

I had a crush on Emlyn Hughes when I was in Primary School… 😬

And you were dreaming about marrying George Michael the year after you left…

GretchenWienersHair · 26/01/2025 09:16

This is so lovely

PrincessDonut · 26/01/2025 09:15

Feb 83 I was 18, just starting my first ‘proper’ job with the Civil Service and 5 months into a relationship with a nice lad who was a lot of fun but neither of us expected it to last. All these years later we are still together and 1st Feb 94 I became Mum to our first child.

ClassicStripe · 26/01/2025 08:51

HoraceCope · 26/01/2025 08:40

its in the title,

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But it isn’t February 2025. None of the dates in the story are relevant today so just wondering why she has posted about this today.

HoraceCope · 26/01/2025 08:40

ClassicStripe · 26/01/2025 07:33

I don’t really get why you are posting this if you’ve been together since 1991?!

its in the title,

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SweetAndSensual · 26/01/2025 08:33

moonsunandstars · 26/01/2025 08:12

I didn't exist - I was born 4 years later in February 1987.

My children were all born in the 2020s.....I realise how fucking old I am now 😅

Massive congratulations on your relationship xx

Thank you - I had a nice surprise in February 1987 - one of those lovely unexpected ones ! ❤️ -

Tuesday, Feb 10th 1987 to be exact 🙌

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moonsunandstars · 26/01/2025 08:12

I didn't exist - I was born 4 years later in February 1987.

My children were all born in the 2020s.....I realise how fucking old I am now 😅

Massive congratulations on your relationship xx

Simonlebonbon · 26/01/2025 08:01

MrsMoastyToasty · 25/01/2025 22:41

I was studying for my O'levels....and wondering how I could get Simon Le Bon to marry me....

If you can cope with an extra Bon, I’d be happy to oblige 😁

ClassicStripe · 26/01/2025 07:33

I don’t really get why you are posting this if you’ve been together since 1991?!

Squirrelsnut · 26/01/2025 07:31

Rather ironically, I had a crush on Limahl. He was my first poster on my bedroom wall.

HoraceCope · 26/01/2025 07:01

happy for you @SweetAndSensual

i was probably 6 months into a 2 year relationship with a boy , he was our lodger! i was 16
my dm threw him out but we carried on our relationship.
i dont have many memories of it oddly, i would like to find out what happened in his life but i think he left the area. he had a difficult upbringing, hence being our lodger.

Frontroomroomjungle · 26/01/2025 07:00

What a lovely story OP!

February 1983 I was a newborn so some variation on eating/sleeping/filling nappies.

WinterFrog · 26/01/2025 06:54

Lovely story! Dreams do come true! 💕
1983 was my O Level year so I'd probably just done my mocks. I still have the desk I did my homework on. I had posters of Duran Duran, David Essex and Nik Kershaw up, alongside slightly more battered ones with horses on them all round my bedroom.
I was still dreaming of being a professional show jumper then. And getting a boyfriend 😂 Didn't become a show jumper, nor did I get a boyfriend for quite some time after that. Ten years later I was married with two small children! Ten years after that I got my first pony 🦄
I'm enjoying this thread!

LordJohnGrey · 26/01/2025 06:35

Getting divorced from a violent man and trying to get my life together again for myself and my DS.