Married my husband a few months after my 18th b-day.
Things are good
Getting ready to have that anniversary to celebrate that we have been a married couple longer than we weren’t.
Creepy.
Who’d a thunk?
The spousal unit and I have been married 17 years last may. Who, of the still married people got married the youngest? My wife was 17 when we got married… I was 20.
Enright3
Dale (PUNdit/PUNditOK) & I:
Have been married 20 ½ years
Celebrate this Valentine’s Day as the 25th anniversary of our first date.
Have 2 kids - 1 a college freshman, 1 a HS senior
Have one dog Pekinese-sized Beagle
Have had 1 K-car, followed by a steady progression of Caravans, Voyagers, & currently a Town&Country.
Survived a concerted attempt by my folks to end things, elections where we stayed at opposite ends of the political spectrum, discussions about how to raise kids in a mixed Roman Catholic/atheist household, 7 moves, 1 2-month separation (for me to go to a class I needed), 1 5-month separation for a deployment, and countless nights of me at the hospital.
Are still in love & hoping to have more “couple time” next year once both kids are launched 
Sue from El Paso
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
Mrs. ConMan and I have been married for 8 yrs, 4 mos and 3 days. Someone posted an earlier thread on who they would like to be with on a deserted island. I said it then and I’ll say it now, “My wife.”
“Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
E A Poe
Ann was 17, she was a senior in high school, I was 26. 21 yrs, 3 kids later, no k-car, we did own a vega once (does that count?) We are still going strong.
Not to say we haven’t had rough times, but if a couple says they never have them, someone is not telling the truth.
If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman
Some time this summer will mark the 12th year since I’ve met my husband.( Our official anniversary is in October, to mark our first date.) Married seven years since this spring. 1.8 children and a dog that runs our lives. He is a wonderful and remarkably patient husband, spectacular father and a just a nice all around guy. Why he settled for me is anyone’s guess.
Respect and a sense of humor to keep things in perspective are key. Oh, and two bathrooms.
I was 19, he was 21… 8.5 years, 1 child later we’re going strong
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“Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat
O p a l C a t
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I’m not sure I belong in this thread, as the hubby and I will only be celebrating our first anniversary this May, but we have been living together for six years and two children. Our friends can’t stand being around us because we’re “too damn happy for our own good”. We can’t help it that we are so right for each other.
If you want to talk about longevity, my stepfather’s parents have been married for almost 50 years.
Shadowfox
“We are what we pretend to be.”
- Kurt Vonnegut
I’ve been with my husband for our entire adult lives, seven years. We’ve been married for 4 1/2 years and oddly enough have a son that’s 4 1/2.
We’ve had a lot of rough times, mostly adjusting to being married with a child at such young ages. Now, things are great and we wouldn’t even consider having it any other way. People think we’re so funny together because we’re complete opposites and love to bicker. We’re both headstrong and opinionated and disagree about a lot of things, but we’ve never let that get in the way of our l-o-v-e.
I was a few months shy of my 27th birthday, she was a few months shy of her 23rd.
2 years, 8 months, 20 days, and counting. No kids, but 2 cats.
I have a home page!
It has pictures!
http://members.xoom.com/rastahomie/index.htm
Ok, I guess I’ll join in now .
Lion and I have been married for 22 years this coming may, we have been together for 23
since I was 18 and he was 20.
There have been ups and there have been downs, we have raised our own son (19), buried our first child a girl who was still born(she would have been 21 the 29th of this month). We have disagreed and have seperated a few times. But all in all we are happier together than apart. At least I am. I still love him, maybe too much for my own good.
Ayesha
Maybe I just don’t pay attention that much but Ayesha, I swear I thought you were quite a bit younger than that! Oh well, consider that a compliment from my unobserving self!
Hubby and I have been married for almost 2 1/2 years. (The 1/2 is just as important as it was when I was younger—there’s a whole lot of experience packed into that 1/2!!) I could not fathom being any happier than we are! It’s unlike anything I ever imagined and yet, it is everything I dreamed.
Longevity is something of a rarity these days. My grandparents were married 63 years before my Grandma died at the age of 94. (And she married “late” in life, at 30…to a younger (25) man. The shock of shocks back then.
If my father were alive, my parents would have been married 53 years this spring. Mom’s brother just celebrated his 51st. Her sister her 43rd. Another brother 49 years. So just in my family, that’s 249 years of stickin’ to it. No divorces in our immediate family either.
We like being in a rut here.
Nice rut to be in, Shirl.
8-1/2 years for Mr. and I. Very happy. Lots of time apart when he was in music-no probs there. He was 19 and I was 23 when we were married. I got me a yungun but he was great. No kids, 2 cats and 3 cars later, things going great.
My parents divorced but his parents have been married for over 25 yrs, both sets of my grandparents have been married well over 50.
My parents were married 45 years, until my mother died. One time during an argument, my father asked “Do you want a divorce?” and my mother answered “NO! I’m going to stay here and make life hell for you!”
It’s that kind of commitment that today’s marriages lack.
By the way, Mrs. Kunilou and I were engaged 6 weeks after we met, and have been married for 19 years.
I first met Mrs. Chef when I was 12 and she was 13. I was in my first year of military school and she was in the Girl Scouts, which is a big deal in the Midwest. My school and the regional Girl Scouts group had a dance, and Mrs. Chef came along with several of her friends. I didn’t really form an opinion of her one way or the other; she disliked me (not surprising since I was an obnoxious little shit when I was twelve). One of her friends was chasing me; unfortunately, I was too young, shy and stupid to realize it. (My inability to tell when a woman is flirting with me has remained with me to this day.)
The following year they had another dance, Mrs. Chef came back, the friend didn’t, I was less obnoxious, and that was that. We maintained basically a pen-pal relationship until she learned to drive.
She used to tell her dad she was driving into town (she lived 40 miles from my school). She’d drive into town, have a friend of hers disconnect the odometer cable, drive down to see me, and then reverse the procedure on the way home. Her dad would check the milage and see she drove only a couple of miles, and be content.
Mrs. Chef was patient with me when I got to college and was magically transformed into an asshole for a semester or so, and took me back when I came to my senses. We were married in 1991 and haven’t had more than minor difficulties since. I’m a lucky guy.
Live a Lush Life
Da Chef
Mrs. Pluto and I are pleased to be in the running for elder spokespersons for marriage on this board, narrowly edging out Ayesha and Lion.
FWIW, she was 19 I was 22. We met in October, got engaged in January and married in February.
“To do her justice, I can’t see that she could have found anything nastier to say if she’d thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.”
Dorothy L. Sayers
Busman’s Honeymoon
From one of the UnMarried (yes, we exist):
It is good and deeply encouraging to see that marriages can work. I think we hear too much of the ones that don’t.
Good luck!
Rigardu, kaj vi ekvidos.
I guess I take the prize for being the newest at this, then. . . it’ll be 5 months on the 21st of this month. Loving every minute of it, and it is great to see that there are people out there who have GOOD things to say about being married. It’s the best thing that ever happened to us!
Uhh…I think I’m supposed to post here. I’ve been married for 14.5 years.
Happily ?? Off and On.
-Katy