# Evidence (hard or anecdotal) for/against childhood sweetheart relationships?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 21, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-hard-or-anecdotal-for-against-childhood-sweetheart-relationships/701990 "2014-10-21T05:04:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-hard-or-anecdotal-for-against-childhood-sweetheart-relationships/701990/21 "2014-10-24T21:11:10Z")

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I was 15 and my wife was 16 when we started dating. (We had known each other as acquaintances for a few years before that.) We got married when I was 18 and she was 20. Still going strong at the age of 32/33, going on 14 years married and over half our lives together.

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