How old were you when you began to date your spouse/spouse-to-be?

Question

How long did you date before you got married? How long in total have you known your significant other? Did you ever break up and then get back together? Any sweet stories on how you met? Or why you knew they were the one?

Answer 1

My fiance and I met in the 7th grade (12 years old). We were both in band together - he played alto saxophone and I played bari sax. I wasn't really interested in boys or dating, but soon everyone was telling me that he liked me. And everyone told him that I liked him. Neither one of us had ever even thought of the other one in any such way - we didn't really know each other at all and barely ever spoke.

I don't know why people told us what they did, but it seems the universe was somehow bringing us together. Somehow we became best friends after that and we had our first date in the summer between 7th and 8th grade. In the 8th grade we knew we would get married someday, so we betrothed ourselves to each other.

We have always been the greatest team and never broke up. We're getting married this fall - and we will have been dating for 17 years and known each other for 17 1/2 - 18 years. We've been betrothed since the 8th grade, but "officially" engaged since last April. We've been together for more of our lives than we have been apart.

During our time together, we have been through a lot of things - cancer, a serious knee injury - reconstructive surgery - and learning how to walk again, deaths in the family, being in and out of college because of health reasons, a tree falling on our apartment etc. - and of course there's also all of the crazy good stuff we've done together - playing music, writing plays that have been produced and designing the music for them, going to London because our dogs won us a trip doing dog tricks on national tv, getting to go to the international toy fair, buying our first house recently, etc. - we've had tons of adventure together - and will always have adventures together.

We've never faught, almost never argue, and rarely get snippy with each other.

Answer 2

I was 17 when we first began dating. We are getting married this August. A week after we get married we will have been together for 4 years. I've know him about 7-8 years. No, we never broke up and got back together. We had already known each other, then kind of lost touch. Then I got into an accident, and he responded to the call(he's an EMT). He didn't take me to the hospital, I wasn't really hurt, but he came to see how I was later that night. We began dating about 3 months after that. I knew he was the one after a couple weeks of dating.

Answer 3

I was 15, and he was 17 when we started dating in high school.
We got engaged 6 years later on Christmas Day. We've been engaged 1 1/2 years. And we are getting married in 2 weeks on the 16th. I am 23, and he is 24 now.
We met at our first jobs. We went to different high schools, so there was no other way to meet. Even though we lived 5 minutes away from each other. I asked him to my home coming dance. The rest is history, but yeah we did break up several times for very short times along the way. We've done A LOT of growing up since then!

Answer 4

We've been together for about eight years - met at work and liked each other on sight! I would have been 27 and he would have been 28. Got serious quite quickly and moved in together after about 12-18 months. Engaged for five monhts and have been married nearly five years now. Been together the whole time and the most we've been apart is a week when one or the other has been away with work. We've had lots of happy times and I'm sure there are plenty more to come.

Answer 5

We started dating at 25. We moved in together after a year and a half of dating and got engaged shortly after that. We'll have been together just over 2.5 years this September when we marry. I knew my fiance for a year before we started dating. We were both dating other people on and off during that year. We've never broken up. I knew he was the one pretty early on when I just couldn't imagine sharing my life with anyone else!

Answer 6

I met him on the 1st day of school in 10th grade, I was a new kid and I sat behind him in 1st period, he was my first friend. We were friends throughout highschool and began dating at the end of our Senior year, we went to prom together and everything. We for about 2 years then were engaged at Christmas time, we married 2 years later also at Christmas time, we are no in the midst of planning our 10th anniversary party. At the time of our party we will have known each other for 17 years, longer than half of our lives!

I knew he was the one because he was the first boy I ever kissed where it send an electric shock all through my body and we werent even making out. It was just a peck on the lips, but I walked away from that kiss knowing that this was the boy I would marry.

ETA: I missed the breakup question. Yes, we broke up for about 3 months in college, we were at separate schools and we wanted to experience "college" so we decided to call it off. When we came home for Thanksgiving break our friends arranged it so we would meet up at a movie, he wound up driving me home after and that was the night he gave me that kiss.

Answer 7

I was 23 when we started dating and he was 24. We met through some of his family members. We dated two years before we'll get married this June 16. I've known him for three years. We were friends for a year first. I knew he was the one because we share the same values, interest and goals. Our friendship really flourished so it was pretty easy to transition into a relationship. I've threaten to break-up, but it's never laste more than a few hours =).

Answer 8

We started dating when I was 28, I knew him for about 3 months before that and we were dating for 2 and a half years before we got engaged. In total I have now known him for almost 3 years.

Answer 9

I was a twenty year old college senior who liked to party and live it up when I met my then 25 year old youth pastor b/f. We were set up on a blind date by a childhood friend of mine. I thought there was no way it would work (and neither did my friends) but I liked him. I began to see though that we weren't so different. I was not the party girl I thought I was and he was not as serious and holier than though as I thought he was. (He is now a therapist, he felt his calling was not in ministry btw.)
He proposed 4 months after we met and I thought he was crazy. He did it by giving me a Lord of the Rings fake gold ring. I just laughed and said oh its cute (he got it from the bookstore he worked at part time), then he said that he had another ring for me and I thought he meant from the bookstore again. He then pulled out a beautiful marquis cut ring. I thought he was crazy but I knew I couldn't live without him. We got married nine months later and have are coming up on our two year anniversary. We have been together over three years. I am now 23 and he is 28.

We broke up once for a total of 3 hours, I broke up with him bc I thought we were getting too serious too fast. Then i realized it was a mistake.

Answer 10

I was 20 when i met my partner and he was 21. How we met sounds so cheesy but I first saw him at the mall. I caught him looking at me so I smiled and then walked away. The next week we saw each other again, at the same mall, and we both smiled at each other. Two days later, I was at a pub with some girlfriends, when I saw him again. This time he introduced himself to me, bought me a drink and asked for my phone number. He called me the next day and we were pretty much inseparable from the start. We've been together 7 years, engaged for two and now we have a 2 month old baby boy. We're planning to get married at the end of next year. I knew he was "the one" from the beginning and I'm so grateful and happy to have him in my life.