Couples who got together from uni

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If you know of a couple (or perhaps you) who have met their other halves at uni, are they still together? Happily?

I got together with my DH at 18. I'm now in 30s and I sometimes wonder how things might have turned out otherwise.

My sister met her DH at uni and they seem very happy, they are in their 40s now.

By the way, they don't have to have gone to uni i just mean it as a shorthand for 18 to 21-22, because i think younger than 18 is too young and older than 22 is still sort of ok in my view to start a serious relationship

I met now-DH at 19 just before I went to Uni. We've been together 10 years and married 5. Now have DS. Very happy.

Met at uni, I was 19, DH was 24.

We’re still together after 32 years and several children.

I know a couple who got together at about 14 and 15 at school, having known each other since about age 7 or 8. Married after she graduated at 21, still together at 48 & 49.

I know a couple who met in the queue for registration at uni, still together, and at least two other couples who got together at uni. For some people it works, others it doesn't.

I met DH at uni and so did my own parents. Both still together and I feel pretty lucky as I know I would have struggled to meet a partner after uni. I don't think I'd be any good at OLD and most of the groups I debated joining were mainly women in their 30s and 40s. I like being with someone I've spent some formative years with and I don't know if you'd get that with someone you met later in life.

That said we didn't get married and settle down for a few years after uni as we were long distance and still had a lot of growing up to do. I think if we'd married at 22 we'd have divorced pretty quickly.

Me and DH met at Uni but were never in a relationship, in fact we met as he was going out with a friend of mine and I ended up going out with a friend of his and we all hung out in the same group.
We kept in touch and met up as a group occasionally, he broke up with his GF and I eventually broke up with mine. I happened to be working near where he was temporarily living around 4 years after we left Uni and we arranged to meet. It was very odd to see him (hadn’t seen him for around a year) and it felt very different. Turns out he felt the same and we have been married for 20 years now, very happily.
We both say we are glad we didn’t get together at Uni, we were very different people and it probably would just have been a fling and we wouldn’t be together now

Met my DH when I was 17, married him at 19. Been together 33 years.

I read/heard somewhere (probably a magazine tbh!) that 50% of people that go to uni, meet their husbands/wives/partners there.
I met DH at uni, as did a few of my friends, lots of couples we know from uni are still together and have got married (we're 31-33ish)

He's annoying me atm, but that's just from being stuck in the house all the time, usually we are very happy together.

We met on the second day of university and I fancied him immediately.

We got together two weeks in - neither had been in a serious relationship before, and both of us were anticipating having a lot of fun at university - in fact we went in feet first with the fun before we started dating.

But we loved each other. From the very start of dating. He actually proposed a year in when were just 20. I accepted, but we didn't really do anything about it for years. We got married a few years ago.

There were a couple of times, and a couple of very specific people (including one man who was simply bloody gorgeous and I had a great rapport with), who made us think, 'ooh, what if'...

But we're very happy.

Met when we were 13 at school

I know many couples who are seemingly very happy after 25+ years marriage having married in their very early twenties.

I've also known a fair amount of couples who've got divorced before 30.

There's no rule OP.

Yep, I met DP when we were first years on the same uni course - we were studying architecture so a very different vibe to a normal course - always in the studio, more of a close group than other courses. We were 18 at the time.

We're still very happily together now, aged 31.

I think over half of couples I know from uni are still together (I did undergrad then further study). Most of those who split hadn’t got to the stage of getting married though. I met DH at uni, v happy and relieved as I think I would have found it hard to date after uni as I’m quite introverted and don’t do lots of activities.

Yup. Met (now) DH in the halls' TV room a few weeks into our 1st year. 2 weeks later we got together. 10 years to the day after that we got married. We had our daughter a few months before our 5th anniversary. Coming up to our 6th anniversary together now.

We would have never met if it hadn't been for that chance encounter. I regret a lot of things about my time at university, but not that.

I'm the only one in my friendship group at university who 'married out' of the circle! All the others that I can think of are still happily together 30 years on. Most of them got together at or shortly after university when we all moved to London for jobs.

Yes we met at Uni. Were close friends for a year before sleeping together (we'd both wanted to for a while but took us ages to be brave enough)

And then we were pretty inseparable.

Been together 16 years, married 10, very very happy.

I'm in my 60's and when I went to university meeting your future spouse was already a thing of the past for most people. My cousins, who are mainly 20 or so years older than me did meet their partners this way and are on the whole still together. At uni I lived in hall the first two years, but the hall was made up of a former small hotel and a few large victorian houses along the same road. I met my uni "best friend" (female) in the house and she married the person (male) who had the room next door to mine, the have been married over 30 years now. Her room mate married one of the two boys who had the room next to me on the other side, they re still married too. I had a series of doomed relationships at uni, and didn't meet my husband for another 9 years.

Met before uni when I was 16 and he was 18. Now 40 and 42, still very happy.

Yes, 19 & 21. Now, 48 & 51 with 2 teens. No LTR is plain sailing but we’ve persevered. Looking forward to when the DC leave home and we gain independence!

Yes, I was at uni my husband not as he’s three years older. I was twenty. I’m now fifty one. So we’ve been together 31 years.

yes at 19 and 21 and still together more than 25 years later

Met my ex wife at uni in late 90s. Together for 17 years, 2 kids. Solit up in 2015. Now remarried.

Met DH at uni but I was going out with someone else so we didn’t get together until the year after I graduated, when we were 22. Got married at 29. Now have a toddler and another on the way. Love him more than anything.

I met my DH before I went to uni in my home town. He was 4 yrs older so already working and had not been to uni.

We moved in together in my second year and been together ever since.

Like other people say, we have grown up together. We have been together now for 22 years. It's not been easy and about 7 years ago I wanted to separate. But we decided to make it work as we still love each other. We did and we ended up with another child which to be honest has really made our relationship stronger.

My regrets as he was my first proper boy friend was I never gave myself a chance to really meet anyone else. But we have been a partnership from the beginning. When I went to uni we had absolutely no money and when I left I had tons of debt. He had very little too but we paid of my loans together, paid for our own wedding, bought a house etc. All these things have been us working together. We have worked so hard to achieve everything as a couple. We are a partnership at home, in chores , in how we raise the children. I don't feel I have to tell him what to do. I'm really lucky that I have a great life partner. The negative is we probably don't prioritise our relationship much as we are always so busy with work or children. But he is definitely my best friend.

I know of a few.
One couple got divorced a few years ago- they both changed dramatically as they matured (which is totally normal and to be expected). They had 3 kids. Both with other people now.

Another couple are still together, have kids, but from what Ive seen dont appear to be massively happy (she had a brief affair) but I think due to finances they will probably stay together.

Another couple split a few years after Uni ended- now with different people.

In fact, thinking about it, most of the people I know who are still together now got together later in life, not in their teens. I suppose now I'm in my late 30s I'm seeing alot of first marriages crash and burn as lots of people who I went to school with on facebook are now on their second marriages.

Thats not to say it cant work out, it absolutely can. But I think the changes you go through from age 19 to mid thirties are so significant and you start to want different things that its not really shocking alot of couples dont make it.

i met my DH in the last term of the last year. so technically he is my university boyfriend, but although I love him dearly I am very glad to have experienced my university days without being in a LTR.

We also spend much of the first 4 years of our relationship living separately - separate cities at various times, and him working away M-F for quite a while, so perhaps not as full-on as soon as many people who got together at university.