Did you marry your university boyfriend?

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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.

DH and I met in the first week of uni (ex poly) and got married a few days before the graduation ceremony. Been together nealy 11 years now and married for 8.

my parents met at uni too, didn't get together at uni but got together shortly after graduating through mutual uni friends - red brick

IwishIwasinLondon - what year did you go to Cardiff ? I can see Garytankcommander is somewhat younger than me !

Yes. Not Oxbridge. Together 18 years [gulp] and married for 13. 4dc.

Yes, been together for 16 years, married for 8. Got together at the end of first year at Edinburgh. DH failed everything and changed uni.
Now have 2 DS and happily living just outside Edinburgh. if anyone knows me on here i've completely outed myself!

No I didn't, and I frequently thank my lucky stars for it because he was an utter twat.

Went to Oxford, though.

Yes, and it was Oxbridge.

Not Oxford, and didn't marry uni boyfriend. Thank God.

My DH was at the same VIth form as me but we hardly met. Met after uni and now married for 25 years.
DD1 and DD2 have both met lovely boys/students/men and I wonder?

Yep.

Been together for 14 years, married 11, and had DS about 2 years ago.

Oh my god no, and I am madly thankful that I finally got shot of him.

No, dated him for eight years but we broke up.

Yep, now ex H, not Oxbridge, we did end up in the S East but didn't go to Uni there. I know quite a few couples who met at uni (again not Oxbridge) who are still together. Met DH at work, know plenty of couples who met like that too

good lord there's a huge percentage of yes answers here!

I didn't go to uni, did old fashioned nurse training but did meet dh during my training

met at uni (midlands red brick) briefly, didn't like each other, met again through uni friends 5 years later, liked each other, and now 10 years later we have two kids together. Does that count?

dp and i met at uni in the first year, we had ds1 whilst we were both at uni and are still together now, 4 more dc's since then and ds1 turns 13 this weekend :) we arent married tho!

and not oxbridge uni.

Yes, Durham. There's some astonishing statistic about Durham that I can't quite remember but its something not far off 70% of Durham graduates meet their partner at Durham. So it's not confined to Oxbridge.

we met as students
still together

Yes, RG university, been together 20 years, married for 11.
He wasn't my first serious relationship though.

Yes, well married the last boyfriend.

Welsh university not Oxbridge.

MrTCW Yes, sounds like our getting together!

Good heavens no!

The first was sex on legs (sadly wildly unfaithful) with whom I had an on/off FWB-type relationship (before that term was ever invented) for years (including post-university for a while). Not one to marry, but enormous fun.

Second was for most of time there, it just ran its course.

Third was probably the one who was the most classically handsome; he dumped me just after graduation. Devastating at the time.

I am in occasional e-contact with the first, sometimes wonder about the second, and hear news of the third from mutual acquaintances sometimes.

Yes, but he was my boyfriend when I was at school too (just: I was 16, he 19 and working).
We married when I was graduated and so was he (he went to Uni as mature student and overlapped me).
Been together for 18 years (wow) and married for nearly 10.
Not Oxbridge.

Pandanot where did you find these stats? Isn't Durham another
collegiate university?

Yes, met in the third week of uni, together for 14 years, married for 6, our DS has just turned 1. God, I'm old