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If you've seen old photos of your OH, what did you think?

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LittleLifeRaft · 22/11/2018 00:50

Did it affect how you view them now?

I'm in a new relationship. He's handsome . We recently became FB friends and of course I had a look at his profile and there is a photo of him taken about 8 years ago and he was beautiful. I mean, I really fancy him how he is now but I absolutely would have fancied him if I'd met him sooner!

OTOH I was shown a photo of an ex when he was younger and he just looked like a thug. It put me right off him. Rightly so as it turned out as he still was one.

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AngeloMysterioso · 22/11/2018 01:12

I first met DH when I was 20 and he was 21, although we didn't get together til we were 27 and 28. I definitely got him in his prime, he's much better looking now than he was then!

AnneLovesGilbert · 22/11/2018 01:17

About 10 years ago, before we knew each other, he was about 4 stone heavier and not happy. I feel sad thinking about him being unhappy (not because of his weight, he was in an awful relationship and says he was eating his feelings, so it wasn’t the weight per se) and I’m glad he’s now really himself and healthy, happy and looking after himself. When he was much younger he looked more like he does now. More hair, no grey, earring, compared to shorter hair, mostly grey, no earrings, but optimistic and the start of the man he grew up to be and I love that you can see who he was going to grow into. That person is still in there and he’s just got better with age and experience.
His laughter lines and bright eyes are him through and through.

I wonder what he’d say about me

Rixera · 22/11/2018 01:28

Met my OH when we were teenagers so not much else to say!
But other beau (we're open) is in his 60s and gorgeous. He's seriously close to male perfection in my eyes. I've seen photos of him in his 40s and 50s and I would still have been all over him- dressed sharply, absolutely stunning- but he's told me how insecure he was in his 30s and 40s, whereas now there's a comfortable self contentment I find irresistible.

ShreddedBanksy · 22/11/2018 01:40

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SpaceCadet4000 · 22/11/2018 03:25

DH matured well, thankfully. He's dressed like a surfer in all his late teen pictures- shell necklace, flip flops etc. He grew up a whopping 12 hours from the ocean.

I can't say much though as I had an emo phase!

CosimaNiehaus · 22/11/2018 03:36

Curtains. Big, big curtains.

sunshineandshowers21 · 22/11/2018 03:38

my partner and i have been together since we were 14 (now 26) so i’ve seen him change from a lanky gawky teen to very gorgeous man. he hates looking at photos of himself back then though! but will happily show people photos of me in my white denim hotpants with neon pink boob tube and matching leg warmers - and ridiculous curly hair and the biggest quiff you have ever seen 😂

Bloodybridget · 22/11/2018 03:39

It's quite odd for me to see old photos of her, we were both into middle age when we got together so she's always had grey hair while I've known her (and never been the size 8 she wistfully remembers now!). I like seeing pics of her DC as children as they were grown up when I met them.

Tattybear16 · 22/11/2018 03:41

Wish I’d met him sooner, (met him when he was 50) he’s still gorgeous.

everydaymum · 22/11/2018 03:51

OH looked dodgy as! I was lucky to meet him much later.

MistressDeeCee · 22/11/2018 04:23

DP is 63 and a very handsome silver fox who looks nowhere near his age. In old pics he is so gorgeous - but he's still the same person with mellow personality so I'm happy with him as he is now. Which doesn't mean I never had vague thoughts of what it'd have been like being with and shagging the younger model...

MawkishTwaddle · 22/11/2018 04:32

I didn't get together with DP until he was in his 50s.

Tbh,he's grown into his looks hugely and I think he looks better than he ever did, although he was built like a brick shithouse back then and I would have climbed him like a frigging tree

Mainly I just laugh at his massive flares though

ThePoliticiansPraiseMyName · 22/11/2018 05:01

My Dh now is fit as chips. He has aged well! I have seen pictures of him as a late teen and he wasn't my type then 😂 but my type then was utter wankers and I'd have been lucky to have met Dh instead. Dh as a child was utterly beautiful, our ds is the absolute spit of him and I think that influences my opinion!

Zoflorabore · 22/11/2018 05:17

I have known my dp for 20 years but been together 10 years and remember going to visit his elderly dgm once and looking at all of her pictures of the grandchildren on the wall from school.
I pointed to dp and said to him "who's that?" Yes it was him aged around 13/14 and honestly never in a million years would I have recognised him.
He had curly hair for a start!!

AnotherOriginalUsername · 22/11/2018 05:19

Mine hasn't changed since he was about 8. In fact I told him he looked like he was 12 years old yesterday when he decided to go clean shaven 😨

DinosApple · 22/11/2018 05:22

There's a big age gap between us (15+ years) and DH's family only have a handful of photos and none of him as a man.

We've been together 14 years now and I saw the first clear picture of him as a young man this year, he was flipping gorgeous, same cheeky smile, same amount of hair, just blonde and skinny as a rake .

We got together when I was in my 20s so he knows what I was like then.

NottonightJosepheen · 22/11/2018 06:02

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EastMidsGPs · 22/11/2018 07:32

I used to have a couple of those photo booth photos of DH attached to my work PC monitor. They made me giggle every time they caught my eye - sadly they disappeared when IT did some essential maintenance.
They were of a late teen/early 20s DH, long before I knew him.

Kevin Keegan perm
Stud earring
Huge large framed glasses - eat your heart out Dierdre Barlow!
A v necked cricket jumper over a shirt with collar lapels as wide as the Thames
Bum fluff beard

Such a catch - by the time I'd met him he had contact lens, a sensible haircut, better dress sense and well trimmed beard.

Cuzcothellama · 22/11/2018 07:34

My DH looks very different in his childhood photos. He's got a very rugged look now, which obviously isn't childlike, but he looks like a different person! I asked MIL if he'd been replaced at about the age of 10 - 13!

SoyDora · 22/11/2018 07:37

We met at 24 (10 years ago) so he doesn’t look much different on old photos! Sometimes look at photos of us both in the early days of being together and can’t believe how young we look though.

echt · 22/11/2018 07:42

I met my late DH in our late 30s. Gawd he was hot; not so much in the 20s. I totally lucked in.

MrsCatE · 22/11/2018 07:49

DH was in his early 40's when I met him (10 year's older than me) and gave me fanny gallops. Bloody hell, pics of when he was younger!!! He looks like a dodgy geography teacher (no offence intended re any educators out there). He was really skinny, wore massive Dierdre Barlow style glasses, had pale gingerish hair, and a huge moustache - which looked like a massive was attached to his top lip.

GinIsIn · 22/11/2018 07:50

My DH looked like a skinny, gawky teenager until he was about 26. We’ve been together since we were 28. Definitely wouldn’t have fancied him before - he looked about 12!

MrsCatE · 22/11/2018 07:50

'slug' was attached to his top lip.

GoneWishing · 22/11/2018 08:03

His late teenage phase of long hair looked a bit unfortunate, as did the bleached hair phase.

He was a cute kid, though!

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