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I married my childhood friend- AMA

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Flowerrose · 28/05/2019 17:15

I'm not sure if this is interesting at all but I first met my now DH when we were about 3, have been together since we were 16 and are now 30

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Reenascreena · 28/05/2019 17:31

Do you continually get people tutting and saying you should have had more life experience before committing? I started seeing DH when we were both 19, and we’re now mid-40s, and have had quite a lot of that.

Flowerrose · 28/05/2019 17:48

I got quite a lot of that when we got engaged, to be fair we were 19 but then also when we started to organise the wedding and we were mid twenties. Someone told me I didn't know what I was getting myself because I had never experienced heartbreak but then if I was sure I was going to have my heart broken I probably wouldn't have married him

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Estellastar · 28/05/2019 18:23

Aw that's lovely OP!
How do you stop getting bored of each other?

Estellastar · 28/05/2019 18:24

Or rather, do you ever feel bored of him?

Iamtinkabella · 28/05/2019 21:12

oh what a lovely thread. Happy foe you OPThanks!

Iamtinkabella · 28/05/2019 21:12

for*Blush

WotNoLoobrush · 28/05/2019 21:38

Do you get on well with your ILs?

Flowerrose · 29/05/2019 10:17

How do you stop getting bored of each other?
I'm the sort of person who needs alone time every now and then, so I suppose I get bored of everyone. If I ever need that I just escape off to a different room for a few hours but I've gotten used to being around him so much, it's weird not having him around
Do you get on well with your ILs?
Yes very well

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shartsi · 29/05/2019 10:21

When did friendship turn into attraction and who made the first move?

BettysLeftTentacle · 29/05/2019 10:25

This is so interesting because I also married my childhood friend, although we didn’t get together until early 20s and had a ‘life’ before. Smile

Reenascreena · 29/05/2019 12:20

I'm not the OP, but started seeing DH when we were 19 and are married with a son in out mid-40s -- in answer the questions about boredom. I've genuinely never been bored by him, but then, neither of us ever saw a committed relationship as a reason to 'settle down' or limit ourselves.

I think the thing about getting together so young is that, inevitably, you change, and the relationship is either flexible enough to adapt to that, or it ends. Having said that, though, we're both restless, easily bored people, who didn't ever plan lives of school, university, job, mortgage, marriage, children -- we've moved around the world a lot, done lots of different things, sometimes in different countries, had our only child at 40, and the seven years we've spent in rural England (not from the UK) is the longest we've spent anywhere since we met.

He's lovely, and I'm astonished I made such a good decision in my teens.

Hollowvictory · 29/05/2019 12:22

Does he mind you saying gotten

Flowerrose · 29/05/2019 13:19

When did friendship turn into attraction and who made the first move?
I'd say I first started to notice I saw him as more than a friend at around 14, I didn't manage to pluck up the courage to tell him untill 16

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Aroundtheworldandback · 29/05/2019 17:06

So good to hear your still happy! My ds met his gf at 16 and they are talking long term but I’m just so worried for them. Great to know it can work.

WotNoLoobrush · 30/05/2019 12:14

Great to know it can work.

^Absolutely. I'm wondering if this will happen to someone in my familyWink

OP, Did you just meet through nursery/school or were you neighbours/parents friends or something? Did you see a lot of each other as kids?

Flowerrose · 30/05/2019 14:59

We lived on the same street so our parents knew eachother and then we became friends through starting school. We were at eachother's houses a lot and spent a lot of time together during school too

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