Aibu to ask about your childhood sweetheart?

[SweetDreaming]

I know iabu to post here, but can we have a nice light-hearted thread to cheer some people up?

My childhood best friend/"boyfriend" from the age of 3, moved away at the age of 9. We reconnected on Facebook as teenagers, and now as adults catch up every couple of months since. Only over messenger, haven't seen him in person since we were 9.

He's still a sweetie so of course I like to day dream that we'll meet, fall deeply in love and live happily ever after as we're clearly destined to.

What about you? Did anyone actually marry their sweetheart? Or did they turn out to be a prick? Make me smile please

My childhood sweetheart is the love of my life.
We first met when my mother was his teacher in primary school.
We dated from age 14 at school until mid-20s, grew apart, married someone else, met back up 3yrs ago and now we're very happily married with a gorgeous little 2yr old DS (who is the only child for both of us). We were apart and didn't see each other for almost 15yrs.

Oh how lovely! Thank you for sharing, I wish you both lots of happiness for the future.

Yep. Been together since we were 15. Now 32. Have a 5 month old baby.

@LouiseTrees Aw sweet!

Went out with child hood sweet heart (for some reason, the expression makes me cringe) from age 15 to 21. We had pretty much had it up to the back teeth with each other when we split.

We went on to marry other people and haven't spoken to each other since the day we went our separate ways.

Their spouse died recently.

Met mine when I was 16, fell head over heels and here we are 14 years later with a gorgeous six year old

I had my first boyfriend at 17 but we only dated for a year so I suppose that doesn't really count 🤣🙈

Well, I had a childhood sweetheart between 3 and 5yo. He broke up with me for another girl who liked football.

Had another boyfriend between 15 and 18. Wanted to kill him by the end! I’m now happily married to DH who I met at 18 only a couple of weeks after breaking up with my first boyfriend. We didn’t go out until a couple of months later but now have a wonderful 6yo DD and are expecting another DD in September.

I met mine in P1 at school. He always had a line of green snot that ran down his nose that he would lick away. I loved him anyway. Alas our love didn't last. No idea what happened to him after primary school

He wasn't exactly a childhood sweetheart but as close as I got -

We met when I was about 13 and he was 15. Became good friends. I was completely besotted with him. Stayed best friends even after he moved to a different country. Both now settled down and married with children- me and DH visit them once a year and vice versa. Currently planning a mega road trip togther for 2021.

@ludothedog I laughed out loud at yours

Thanks everyone these are great

We met properly at secondary school, but our families knew each a little before. Started 'going out' (not really going anywhere 😂) at 15. We're married with three children...37 now.

I met him at school. We knew of each other and was in the same classes but never spoke to each other or anything.
Then in year 11 I kept catching his eye and he added me to MSN around the same time. We got chatting and he invited me to the cinema, and that’s when we became boyfriend and girlfriend.

Things we great for a few months and I felt like I was in love. Then he just started becoming a bit off, especially when we started college. Eventually he sent me a message the day before I had an exam telling me he things we should’ve on a break.

I waited for him and accepted him back when he was ready. Looking back now I think what a shit and how stupid was I?

Then I spent the next two years feeling like I was always doing something wrong because he kept blowing hot and cold at me. He was very intense and got really moody with me a lot.

On the flip side he could be really lovely and wonderful. We had some lovely times together. Eventually I realised the relationship was going nowhere and I told him enough is enough.

Mine was a bit of a bad boy, met when I was 15, he was 17, no one approved, all sorts of drama, climbing out of windows, speeding off on the back of his motorbike, gossip. And he was a bad boy and he broke my heart more than once, until I moved on to someone worse! But at three truly awful moments in my life, actual moments not just periods of time, over the next 20 years he magically turned up on my doorstep out of the blue, each time with me not having seen or heard from him in the intervening years. And each time he stuck me back together again. We both know where the other is these days (he's been married four times!), that's enough for us both, but I'll always carry a piece of him in my heart.

We were together 16-21 but separated when he went through with an arranged marriage. We were both devastated. Both married and had children, he’s now divorced. Didn’t speak for about 5 years but since then have spoken pretty much every week and meet up every year with partners and children.

He's lying next to me right now. In fact I've just elbowed him for breathing..........we met 25 years ago when I was 13 and he's still here. Annoying me.

I don't really remember any early 'boyfriends' much.

But I met Dh at school when we were 16. Been together since. We went to different universities but stayed together. Moved in together after university. Been together 30 years now. Been married for 22 years and have a dd who just turned 18.

We went to secondary school together so met aged 11-12, started to properly get to know each other and become friends aged 16, started dating when we were both 17, we we’ll have been together 15 years this year and married for 4 lots of ups and downs in those times including illness and having to be long distance for a while and now dealing with infertility but we have always been a team and worked through things together.

We were neighbours, he moved away when we were both 10. Reconnected on social media when we were 17 and met up a few times, found out later that he had a long term girlfriend but he promised he was ending it. After a year, I told him that I wasnt putting myself in that position anymore and blocked him. Shortly after I met my DH, married 5 years now with 2 children.
His mum met my mum just before our wedding and was saying "aww I always thought X and Pasqual would have ended up together" my mum had to bite her tongue because she knew everything he had put me through. He messaged me through FB on my wedding day to say congratulations and to apologise!!

I was besotted with a boy for years. We started dating when was 14 and a few weeks later it ended because we moved away. It was a sudden move in that I only knew for 3 weeks before the date and it was 200 miles away. I spent the next fortnight absolutely distraught, ended up taking a bus to visit him and found he had already moved on. Harsh lesson.

I met mine aged 9 and was at school with him for 2 years. We spent every spare minute together. He had dark floppy hair, dark eyes and a lovely tan. He was quite skinny. We lost touch when I moved to a different school but are friends on Facebook. He's in the Marines now and is built like a tank!

I went out with mine very briefly at age 16. He was 18 and absolutely the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I couldn't believe he liked me and I actually got a lot of stick at school for going out with him ("what's he doing going out with her" etc). He was my first boyfriend and I was way too inexperienced for him - he eventually dumped me for his ex who was 20 something. Don't blame him, I was so in awe of him, I could barely speak to him (cringe!) so I must have come across really boring!! In hindsight, we would never have lasted long, we were too different. But i still think about him 20 years later. Going out with him so young sort of ruined relationships for me. No one has ever made me feel the way he did - it was like Tom Hardy being your first boyfriend.

He was my best friend in the entire world, we were inseparable, finished each other’s sentences, had weird little in-jokes that nobody would understand. We had a party the weekend before he went to uni and I realised I’d fallen for him. We kissed that night and pretty quickly fell into a long distance relationship. It was great for a while, until he dropped out after the first year and it all became a bit claustrophobic and I broke up with him. We remained best friends, although looking back there were clearly underlying tensions there. A couple of times the waters got muddied on nights out and we’d end up going home together. It all came crashing down one year on his birthday after drunkenly watching him kiss someone else. I got upset, he offered me the world and I freaked out and told him we shouldn’t get back together, our friendship never really recovered. We talk maybe once, or twice a year these days but it’s more polite chit chat.

I’m happily married now, but I have wondered over the years whether we’d have worked out if I’d given it another try.

Started going out on a school trip to Paris when we were 15 - now both 37 with 2 kids happier than ever married for 20 odd (have actually lost count) he was literally my first boyfriend. It’s funny when we run into old teachers and school friends and we are ‘still’ together!

I was with mine aged 13, I was so besotted with him and smothered him for a year.
We went our separate ways but always kept in touch, he moved away and I got married.
He always visited his parents at Christmas and we would try to have a catch up. One Christmas I left my abusive Xdh and my first love was around. He was my shoulder to cry on. We married 2 years later.

My mum always warned me though “never go back to an ex, there is a reason they are an ex”