Playing, echoing what everyone else has said really. I was diagnosed with CFS at about 15, completely messed up my exams and everything, by the time I came fully out of it, I had met and married DH. He was the making of me really. I have said many a time that some couples grow up together, but he was already grown, he has sort of brought me up. He has given me life values and the know how to be a responsible adult, not that my mum didn't but he just did it in a different way. I suppose that is why we get on so well now, I have spent the last 7 years being shown how to do life, whilst wearing his shoes (obviously not literally, I wouldn't wear them if someone paid me!). Makes it sound like he has brainwashed me or something, it isn't like that, he just did for me what I see him doing for the kids.
When I look back now at how I was when we first got together I do wonder how on earth he put up with me I was a fully loaded teenager, with all the attitude of one, with CFS to boot, and although I was always more mature, in general, than my friends at the time, I was still so young and immature.
The CFS seemed to just lift when I met DH, by the time we had been together for a year the illness was in the past, and although sometimes I think I go through very mild bouts of it, it has never returned full blown, touch wood
It kind of makes me sad to look back on it, whilst all my friends were off out to see which pub they could get served in next I was "resting up"... but then if I hadn't have been resting up, surfing the net, I'd have never found DH so it all happened for a reason Besides I'd done the pub and club scene at 14 (don't tell my mum!!!) and had kind of had enough by then anyway!