How many of you are still with your first boyfriend from school or Uni? How common is it?

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Just wondering, no one of my friends pulled it off.

I love this story 😍

I am, DH and I have been together since we were 18 (now late 30s) but thinking of my closest female friends:

1 single, always been single
1 with her DH since early 20s, second serious relationship
5 happily married to men they met in their teens and have been with ever since.

I met dh at sixth form and we got together in the February of lower sixth. Went to different universities but stayed together throughout, moving in together when we had both qualified.

Got together age 16, in 1990
Move in together in 1996
Married in 1998
Child in 2002
Been together for nearly 33 years now and will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary next summer.

3 other couples who are close friends all met around 17/18 and are still together now. Others we know met at university and have stayed together since.

He wasn't my first boyfriend but I have been with DH since I was 14. Golden wedding next year.

Dh and I met at Uni but he wasn’t my first boyfriend. We’ve been together over 10 years

Several of my friends are still with a partner they met when they were both at University (we're now nearly 30 years on!). However, almost all of my friends from Uni had a serious partner from home when they started their studies but none of them lasted to the end of University (most broke up in the first year). This is despite most of these teenage couples choosing the location of their university/job so they were close enough to see each other a lot, having a long term relationship plan (ie. plans to buy a house together, have children, ideas of when/where etc) and seeming totally besotted with each other when I met them.

Met at university , started going out in second year , now married with three grown up dc , been together 38 years . Youngest is at the university we met at .

Why can't you enjoy being young if you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?

I had a great time at sixth form and university, and afterwards too.
Yes, both me and dh have changed, but we changed and grew up together together and fortunately still liked the other person as they did do. If we hadn't we'd have split no doubt as there was no pressure to remain together.

When we met i doubt either of us expected to be together long term, not at that age. But for whatever reasons it happened that the person I fell in love with when young was the one I decided to be with long term too. Guess no one knows when the right person will appear.

Yes me and DH met in high school. Got together last year of sixth form and still happily together 16 years, 8 years of marriage and two kids later. My parents have been together since they were 16 and are now in their 60s.

I know lots of people who met young. Many from school. Most of my friends and coworkers myself included met their long term partners at university. It always seemed to me harder to meet someone as you got older.

That said most people had boyfriend and girlfriends before their university partner. There are 4 people I know who are still on their first relationship 25 30 or 40 years on.

Actually when you think about it the number of people who met at school or very young and then stuck is amazing.

Yes, I am. Met at the start of university, started relationship at the end of university, married 6 years later and still together (with 4 kids!) 20 years later.

I met my husband when I was 17. We've been together 36 years now

My mum and dad were each others first boyfriend/girlfriend when they met at university. They’re in their 70s now and celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this year 😊

My BIL and SIL are happy and thriving, really enjoying life together, having been married for 40 years. Got together in sixth form.

I met DH in 1978 when I was 20. I had had plenty of boyfriends before I met him, so I knew he was "the one".

So we have been together for 44 years and married for 41. One DD.

My parents met when they were 15 and 17. Married at 21 and 23 and still happily married now. Different generation obviously.

i’ve been with my partner since we were fourteen and we met at a roller disco. i was pregnant at fifteen and everyone said it wouldn’t last. we’re still together now aged thirty one with four children and living a life we couldn’t even have dreamed of as teen parents. my parents have also been together since they were fifteen and are still very much in love.

Great thread, although it has just got me wondering what my high school bf is up to now! Obviously we didn’t make it.

None of my friends ended up with their high school boyfriends. I do know of a few couples from our year group who did end up marrying though. I know quite a few uni couples who still together 20yrs later, 2/4 from my uni house are.

Met in college at 16 and together 30 years this year married for 19

I am still with my first proper boyfriend. We met at uni and have been together 14 years now! He’s my favourite person and I feel really lucky.

I know a few other couples in similar situations too.

Thankfully not still with my first boyfriend, no. DSis is though, she and BIL have been together since school and they managed to do a long-distance relationship for 4 years during uni.
I met DH at university, which some people will probably still consider to be an early start for a relationship. Frankly I wish he had been my first boyfriend, would have saved me a lot of difficulty.

Not my first boyfriend as such, but DH and I met at University 50 years ago and are still together

Am married to my 2nd boyfriend from uni (1980s). Two of our friend couples are still married to their first partners, 39 years & counting!