to think the man you love at 18 is rarely the man you'd love at 32

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Just that really!

Met my now DH at 15 still together and very happy 24 years later, I guess it's different for everyone.

I got together with DH at 17 before I went to uni. Now nearly 40. Not always been easy but still in love and happily married.

I met Dh at 18. We're 35 now with kids and still going strong!

The man I loved at 18 is still the man I love at 56

But I think that is quite unusual...........

The man I loved at 18 I still love now (age 30) but circumstances and poor decision making on both sides (but mostly mine) mean that we are not together and haven't been for many years now, but still very good friends and he'll always be "the one that got away"

I met DH when I was 16. Still together 42 years later!

If you're lucky it works but that's what it mostly is: luck.

I met my now DH at 20 and I'm now 35 as is my sil who met her DH at 14.

I loved my dp at 17 and still love him now at 42. I wouldn't give up our relationship for anything but I do sometimes wish I had met him a bit later in life and had some time being single, dating, living with mates, travelling etc when I was younger.

Fell in love at 16 (both) and we're now 27. Still got awhile to go, but definitely not true for DH and me!

The few couples I know who met early should have split up but didn't have the nerve - they just sort of clung to their first boyfriend / girlfriend with not great results.

I kissed a few frogs and glad I did makes me properly appreciate Dh ((met late twenties)). I was going out with an utter twat at 18 - sad thing is so was a friend but she married hers and he's still a twat.

My heart was broken when I was 17 by my first proper boyfriend. He got back in touch through the dreaded Friends Reunited when I was about 30 and I started to fall in love all over again. However he neglected to tell me that he had a partner and a child on the way; luckily I hadn't got in too deep when I found out, but I was hurt all over again. But we are still friends and tbh if he was single I would have loved to have got together with him if he wasn't such a love rat.

But my other boyfriends from that age...No way!!

I got with DH at 18 and I am now aged 32 and I am still with him. I loved him then and I love him now but we are different people now than we were at 18, different priorities, different likes and dislikes, different tolerance to bullshit (that ones me) so yes I could see how it would be possible to fall out of love with someone overtime but I don't think it is always the case at all.

This has been the case for me.
I wish we had grown together, stronger, instead of living like friends or housemates. I so wish I could feel the way others do. Happy for them but it makes me .

I met DH at 18 i am now 39 we are still together and very much in love, and we've just had our first baby

I was 18 when I met DH, I'm not quite 32 yet but not far off and we are still together, very happy, with 2 DC

For some people it really does work

DH and I were 19 when we met. Have been together ever since and now both around 40. He was always a bit of an old head on young shoulders. I, on the other hand, have changed a lot. We've grown up together and its works for us.

I'm also surprised to read that so many stories of meeting young and staying together happily. It's really sweet. I only know one such couple; got together at 15 and still going strong at 47.

Totally swooned when I met someone at 17 love him still. Unfortunately he died of health complications about 2 years ago. I cant take it in.

I think I'm much the same person really. Still have the same likes and dislikes, hobbies etc. Same sorts if things matter to me. And I'm still hopeless at parking!

Met at 18, still madly in love at 32, by 47 I could barely tolerate him.

I met Dh when I was 16...still together now and I'm 35. But not easy to sustain and it sometimes feels like I missed out on a bit of wild living in my youth. We fit together now, we fit together 19 years ago. ..but there were some ropier bits in the middle

I was 18 when I met my DH. We have been together 18 1/2 years.

Met my DH at 17, still together at age 32. We are very much in love; and have grown to love each other more over the years, even though we didn't think it possible when we first fell for each other.

YABU I'm in my 12th year with my high school sweetheart and we now have a daughter. He is every bit the same as when I met him .