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Did you marry your university boyfriend?

210 replies

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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Viperidae · 18/08/2012 00:23

Yes, Manchester. Married 2 years after leaving and 30 years later we're still together.

bettythebuilder · 18/08/2012 00:26

Nope. Dated 'main' uni boyfriend twice (first year and also after graduating) but it just wasn't to be. Interwar university :)
Dh didn't go to university, he got a professional qualification and has a way better job than I could ever hope to get - I met him after graduating when I was working an an Air Hostess Grin so there you go! Married nearly 14 years, he is my soul mate, and I knew within days of meeting.

wildpoppy · 18/08/2012 07:08

All my friends ended up in se but only one pairing survived.

melliebobs · 18/08/2012 07:10

Although dh didn't go to uni I was with him before I started uni n we are married with dd now Grin

Trazzletoes · 18/08/2012 07:14

Met and got together with DH at uni. Not Oxbridge! We live a good 150-200 miles away from where we went to uni now do not necessarily an argument for staying in the same area either!

BettySuarez · 18/08/2012 07:16

Not me, I was 11 when future DH started Uni (I like to remind him of this frequently) Grin

Ephiny · 18/08/2012 07:18

Yes (but not Oxbridge), we met at the start of my second year undergrad, his first year of PhD. 10 years on and we're married and living/working in London.

louisianablue2000 · 18/08/2012 07:18

Oxbridge and I can only think of one of my college friends who married someone they met later. I was at a graduate college though so we were all a bit older which I think was the significant factor rather than the university we were at.

TalkinPeace2 · 18/08/2012 17:15

not oxbridge
met at end of first year - still together 28 years later
friend who introduced us still with his wife who he met at end of 2nd year
just had a lovely visit with them

breward · 18/08/2012 18:40

Met in the first week of uni, married the week after graduation.
Been together 22 years and married for 18 years, 2 children.

He dropped out of my uni after 6 weeks and promised to phone, write and visit So when we got married we had only ever lived in the same town for 6 weeks as he went on to graduate from a uni some 60 miles away!

We had never lived together and only spent holidays and the odd weekend under the same roof. But it worked out... he was my first ever boyfriend too. Colleagues can't imagine their children marrying at 22yrs and never living together.

Makinglists · 18/08/2012 18:44

Married second boyfriend at poly (now a uni) in the SW. Been married 11years an together 21 yrs - god feel old!!!

EndoplasmicReticulum · 18/08/2012 19:16

No - I married my school boyfriend. We went to different unis. Or rather, I went to uni and he went to art college.

CPtart · 18/08/2012 19:21

Yes, he met me in my home town at uni and never went home to Manchester again! I don't think we saw each other sober for the first year...

Lizcat · 18/08/2012 21:20

No I didn't. RG uni I' m now a single mum running my own business and he's a senior director at J P Morgan - hmm perhaps I should of done, but then I would have had to live through trading euro bonds in Japan so never seeing him. He's not and has never been married.

Indith · 18/08/2012 21:31

Yes. Another pair of Durham grads. As Panda said earlier in the thread there is some stat about Durham grads marrying each other, it is very high. Higher in the Bailey colleges I think too (the older ones in the old bit of Durham rather than the newer ones out on the hill. Except a lot of the hill colleges are just old original ones that moved out as they expanded. It all gets very snotty Grin). Castle is very inbred. Dh and I were in different colleges but we met in our first lecture of the first year of a shared subject and split up for a year the night before my first exam at the end of first year the bastard.

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IHeartKingThistle · 18/08/2012 21:34

Yep. Lancaster though.

lc200 · 18/08/2012 21:34

I met my dh at Oxford, and we have now been together for nearly thirteen years, married for eight. We didn't stay in the SE though; we live in the very much cheaper East Midlands.

Schlock · 18/08/2012 21:38

No, I married the boy I met in the pub. He has now got a BA hons (1st) but I still eschew such things and earn a pittance, lol. Couldn't be happier!

Funnily enough he is the first person from his family (forces) to get a degree, I'm the first woman from mine to not, since women were allowed. I'm emancipated from family expectations, hurrah!

blondieminx · 18/08/2012 21:42

I went to uni, he didn't - but he came to visit and we're still together 17 years later! Grin

We do live in the SE.

Lolaismyfavouriteandmybest · 18/08/2012 21:44

No, (i probably would have though if he hadn't dumped me because I was too young to know better) and even though things with DH aren't perfect I thank my lucky stars that I didn't stay with uni bf because he was a total nob Smile

firawla · 18/08/2012 21:47

we got married during first yr of uni. we werent exactly at the same university, it was 2 different ones within university of london and yes we stayed in london

BsshBossh · 18/08/2012 22:27

I met my DH at Oxford but we didn't actually start dating until years later - long after we had left.

BsshBossh · 18/08/2012 22:28

And we have settled in London after years of (separately) living in a variety of countries.

mashpot · 18/08/2012 22:37

Yes, been together 13 years but didn't meet at Oxbridge.

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