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Did you marry your university boyfriend?

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harbingerofdoom · 17/08/2012 20:02

I have just been looking at the Oxbridge thread and noticed that a lot of relationships survived. Is this peculiar to these universities?
I'm thinking that on graduating they all stayed in the SE or London.

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LackingNameChangeInspiration · 17/08/2012 20:03

me, not oxbridge though, ex-poly

MrsMiniversCharlady · 17/08/2012 20:04

Dh and I were at Bristol together. I know quite a few other couples who met at university (lots of different ones)

MissPricklePants · 17/08/2012 20:04

not me, I did have a child with him though but we are no longer together.

MaeMobley · 17/08/2012 20:05

Yes. DH and I were at Cambridge together - same college.

LemarchandsBox · 17/08/2012 20:06

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Cynner · 17/08/2012 20:06

Yes...married..two children...sadly divorced..

bran · 17/08/2012 20:08

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DancesWithWoolsEnPointe · 17/08/2012 20:08

I did - although it was in South Africa, not Oxbridge.

FermezLaBouche · 17/08/2012 20:08

I'm not married but I began university in 2002. I met a very good male friend, dated him for a few months until he announced he was gay! Despite this, and me moving away, we maintained a good friendship over the phone.

Ten years later I've moved back to out old city and we've picked up the friendship like I never left and I know we'll be lifelong friends.

sybilvimes · 17/08/2012 20:08

yes, married 14 years, 3dc. Still very happy, we moved away from uni for jobs.

Chubfuddler · 17/08/2012 20:08

He wasn't at university but I met him when I was. Very town meets gown.

CMOTDibbler · 17/08/2012 20:09

Met dh at uni (didn't go out with him during the course), in Cardiff

Yeahthatsnotgonnahappen · 17/08/2012 20:09

DH Oxbridge, me London - although started going out during A-levels

TheFallenMadonna · 17/08/2012 20:11

DH and I. Imperial. Followed by Edinburgh, then Leeds, so didn't stay in SE. Have steadily moved further south though...

nearlythereyet · 17/08/2012 20:11

No, I met my husband 24 hours after completing my final uni exam

LadyPeterWimsey · 17/08/2012 20:12

Technically, no, in that we didn't get together until the week after term ended. Grin

And, yes, it was Oxbridge.

Zara1984 · 17/08/2012 20:12

Yes I did - I met DH halfway through my first year at uni, at a pubquiz at the student bar. But it definitely wasn't Oxbridge though - it was uni in New Zealand! Grin

We celebrated our ten year anniversary this week!

WeAreSix · 17/08/2012 20:12

Met at uni... still together 14 years later, married for 10yrs and 4 DCs. Not Oxbridge though!

IwishIwasinLondon · 17/08/2012 20:13

CMOTDibbler - are you me?!

BunnyLebowski · 17/08/2012 20:13

Not married but I met DP in Freshers Week at Leeds Uni.

11 years and 1xDd ago this month!

GaryTankCommander · 17/08/2012 20:13

Met my DH in first lecture on our course at Cardiff, been together 17 years this year.

EdgarOlymPic · 17/08/2012 20:14

Durham - he dropped out.

four years so far, four children...

RuthlessBaggage · 17/08/2012 20:15

Yes, and we got married in (his) college within weeks of his finals.

He wasn't my only university boyfriend though. The first one was, I realise now, a bit of a twat.

GaryTankCommander · 17/08/2012 20:15

It weird actually to see that written down we were 18 when we started going out and now 35... I've been with him almost half my life! Smile

OrangeLily · 17/08/2012 20:15

Yes I did. Well very recently after six years together.