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Who did teen you think adult you would marry?

73 replies

ThisWittyCyanBalonz · 26/09/2026 18:52

Someone famous

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Epoisses · 26/09/2026 18:53

David Cassidy

PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 26/09/2026 18:56

Joey from NKOTB. I actually fancied Jordan more, but I thought I stood a better chance with Joey.

twinkletoesimnot · 26/09/2026 18:59

My dh!
we started going out when I was 13, we married when I was 16, 6 dc and 3 gc and still going 28 years later

Slumgullion · 26/09/2026 19:00

I didn’t think I would ever marry!

twinkletoesimnot · 26/09/2026 19:00

PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 26/09/2026 18:56

Joey from NKOTB. I actually fancied Jordan more, but I thought I stood a better chance with Joey.

i loved Jordan too 😂

AvengingAngle · 26/09/2026 19:01

Even as a teenager, I was realistic enough to know that the chances of someone like me (not objectively attractive) marrying anyone famous were virtually nil. In any case, most of the people I had crushes on were either fictional or long dead 😃

spencerishot · 26/09/2026 19:06

It honestly never even crossed my mind as a teenager. Marriage was for “old” people.

Littletreefrog · 26/09/2026 19:08

No one. I was going to live on a tiny island or in a lighthouse or something and have about 5 dogs and several cats.

EBearhug · 26/09/2026 19:10

No one in particular, but I did think I'd have met someone and be married with kids by 30 (because that was so ancient, what else woukd there be to achieve?)

Turns out I'm not actually that loveable.

ToadRage · 26/09/2026 19:10

In my early teens I rarely speculated, didn't really have a celebrity crush though many of my classmates were convinced they were going to marry Leonardo DiCaprio. At 17 I got my first serious boyfriend and I honestly thought I would marry him. My Mum probably still wishes I had. My husband is the polar opposite of my ex and I love him that way. Looking back I wouldn't have been happy marrird to my ex and I definitely wouldn't be where I am now. I did get married a lot later than I expected, I wanted to be a young bride like my Mum but it wasn't to be.

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 26/09/2026 19:11

Liam Gallagher. I was determined to go to Manchester and find him and he’d fall in love with me. My mum was unfazed 🤣

MasterGland · 26/09/2026 19:12

Littletreefrog · 26/09/2026 19:08

No one. I was going to live on a tiny island or in a lighthouse or something and have about 5 dogs and several cats.

Me too! I did eventually get there, but with husband and kids in tow (I have 3 cats, 1 dog and 17 hens).

ThunderThunderThunderThunderCats · 26/09/2026 19:13

As young teenager, Mark Owen. At 16, my DH. (Who does look like Mark Owen 😂).

MrsFionaCharming · 26/09/2026 19:13

I was convinced I’d have a passionate secret love affair with a colleague and end up marrying them and continuing to work together. I think I watched too many work place dramas.

NooNakedJacuzziness · 26/09/2026 19:15

George Michael - deluded in sooo many ways

Littletreefrog · 26/09/2026 19:15

MasterGland · 26/09/2026 19:12

Me too! I did eventually get there, but with husband and kids in tow (I have 3 cats, 1 dog and 17 hens).

Ooh well done you for living the dream. My pets to husband ratio isn't what I imagined and I am not surrounded by water but it will do for now.

PurpleFlower1983 · 26/09/2026 19:25

David Duchovny 🤣

forceofhabitandnotneed · 26/09/2026 19:26

Kylie. 12 year old me somehow imagined we'd meet and that she'd fall madly for me. I genuinely thought that I'd marry her as soon as I turned 16!!

Mind you, both of us are still unattached, so there's time yet... 🤣

DewDropsAndCobWebs · 26/09/2026 19:28

I'm boring, my teen crush has been my husband nearly thirty years

BatshitCrazyWoman · 26/09/2026 19:33

My boyfriend at the time. We split up when I was 19, and eventually married other people. Then divorced those people. We did get together again and I ended it because he was very possessive and jealous.

I never imagined I'd marry anyone famous, I don't think I really had any crushes, either.

bozzabollix · 26/09/2026 19:35

Nobody would probably know of him but a singer called Mark Gardener from the band Ride. Had the whole thing sorted. Did meet him and he is a very decent bloke.

foxinasnowstorm · 26/09/2026 19:37

Ewan McGregor or Brett Anderson 🤣🤣🤣

OriginalSkang · 26/09/2026 19:38

I can't actually remember who. I definitely remember thinking in infant school that I would never be queen because prince William was too young for me at three years younger 🥲

foxinasnowstorm · 26/09/2026 19:39

bozzabollix · 26/09/2026 19:35

Nobody would probably know of him but a singer called Mark Gardener from the band Ride. Had the whole thing sorted. Did meet him and he is a very decent bloke.

Andy Bell is my absolute favourite guitarist. They were a lovely looking band!

RosesAndHellebores · 26/09/2026 19:42

I was going to marry a doctor or a bank manager. I was desperate for stability. We would have two girls and live in a four bed house, on the seafront and I'd have my own little car. I was not going to be a working mother.