Would you have dated your partner in secondary school or university?

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I hear a lot of women say they would not have dated their partner when they were younger and that their current partner is very different from their previous ones. How true is this for you?

I don't think he would have been cool enough for me at school!

Nope, mostly because the age gap (6 years) would have felt too for me at that stage.

Yes, absolutely, but he wouldn’t have dated me.

I definitely would. i used to see him on the school bus & thought he was cute. Never really spoke though. We got together in our 20s. Didn't realise he was the same person until we'd been together a while.

I'm 5 years older than him, so no! He was still at school when I got married the first time.

Nope, because when I was 15 at school he'd have been 28 😂

Also we're so very different we would probably never have crossed paths in school. In fact, fuck knows how it works now but it just does ♥️

Nothing like previous partners either

I married mine from uni!

Lol, no way, he’d have been 10 when I was 20 so that would be a hard no!

No, because I liked very bad boys back then, and he's Me Sensible

Mr sensible!

I was 11 when he was 18 so no!

We first met shortly after leaving school as we had friends in common. We definitely weren't interested in each other at the time but I'm glad we met again many years later when we did.

No, I'm 5 years older!

Not in a million years, I was obsessed with being cool (despite being totally uncool myself) and would have found him mortifying.

No because he was a troublemaker and I was a goody two-shoes!

I met DH my first night at uni! We moved in together 3 days later and were happily married right up to his death at 36. He was my soulmate, I still love and miss him 30 years later.

I met my husband when we were both 17. He asked me out. I could not run away fast enough. 10 years later I asked him out. Been married 16 years now. Don't regret a thing, didn't fancy him then.

No I knew him then, it's taken a while for things to develop over 20 years

Nope, no way would I have found him attractive back then.

I've been with my DH since I was in uni, he'd only just graduated, 21 years together now. Quite like the fact we've been through so much together!

Definitely, but I doubt he ever noticed me! He was the year above me (and very attractive.) We eventually got together at 18 and 19 so not that long after school anyway.

Yes. At 15 or so I just wanted someone I fancied and who made me laugh. That's essentially the basis of our relationship now.

I would've dated him at Uni, don't think he would've looked at me though. We have commented before that I was too lacking in confidence at that age, he was too arrogant in his youth - we both improved with age and met at the right point for us.

This is a favourite topic of mine 🥰 I had an enormous crush on my DP from the age of 16 onwards…we didn’t get together until I was 44! So it’s a definite ‘yes’ from me 🥰

I first met DD at Uni but we were just friends and didn’t get together until 4 years after we left
He was a bit of a Dick to be honest