The stories are an emotional rollercoaster, to say the least.
Here’s what people revealed:
1.
It sounds much worse than it was!
“While I still love him, I doubt we would choose to marry each other if we met today."
I told him that I loved him like a brother…LOL.”
Weve been together ever since, and weve never kissed anyone but each other.
OH, and his middle school best friend is fine, by the way.
He got married, and we went to the wedding and everything.
jessicagerardhedlund
2.
“It was the winter of 1995, and my senior prom date canceled at the last minute.
My friend said, ‘Take my cousin.
He’s about our age.’
He went to the rival high school and was a sophomore while I was a senior.
He’s my best friend.
I think we stay together because we grew up together.
All of our memories are of each other.
catschelin78
3.
“Started dating when he was 17 and I was 16.
Got married two years out of high school.
Dont marry your high school sweetheart.”
kitkay316
4.
“My now-husband and I have been close friends since middle school.
We started dating when he asked me to go to prom with him when we were 16.
I had no idea at the beginning of our relationship that he was the one for me.
It’s like we just grew up together and grew in our love for one another.
We got married at 26 and have been married for seven years now.
Anonymous
5.
We were friends all throughout school.
We started dating a month later and stayed together all during high school.
My freshman year of college, he visited me almost every other week.
Afterwards, we would alternate between him visiting me and me coming home.
I was 24, and he was 25.
Weve been married for four years now and together for 12 with a perfect almost 3-year-old.
He is my best friend.
We were able to figure out who we were separately to come together as one.
Weve built on that foundation, and even when times are tough, we have remained friends first.
bigmoney2214
6.
“We started dating when I was 16.
Did the long distance thing for college, then married in our mid-20s.
There was no rush or pressure to pursue marriage; it felt like the natural next step.
I’ve married my best friend.
He makes me laugh, is my biggest supporter, and I look forward to every adventure together.
I am so lucky and couldn’t imagine life without him.”
“We met on my husband’s 15th birthday.
He will be 40 this year.
I crushed on him so hard when we first met, and he was so quiet.
But, a friendship bloomed from that first initial meeting.
Our friend groups started hanging out more and more, so we were together a lot.
We decided to try dating.
We didnt date long, but we did love each other and knew it.
It just didnt work.
We still always remained best friends.
But, again, we still remained best friends.
I got into a long-term relationship, as did he.
He ended up having a child and getting married (I was at the wedding).”
“Six months later, both our relationships fell apart.
I moved back home with my parents, and his ex-wife left him.
We supported each other through heartache, and one night, it just happened.
We hooked up and decided to give it a shot.
And, here we are 10 years later, married for seven, with our family of four boys.
Oh, and the ex-wife?
She and I are best friends, and our kids are best friends.
We have both of our families together all the time.
Truly the definition of ‘everything happens for a reason.'”
jdimichele85
8.
“My husband and I started ‘dating’ at 12 and 13.
Things were on-again, off-again until we were 13 and 14.
Weve been together ever since.
We have successful careers, a house, and no kids.
The hardest part was/still is communicating.
We grew up as teenagers, arguing as teenagers.
Weve had to learn how to express ourselves, argue, and communicate together.”
samanthabinning
9.
“I was 15 when I started dating my now-husband.
He was 17 and one month away from leaving for basic training with the Army.
We started long distance and lived 360 miles from each other.
Everyone said it wouldnt last.
We had our first official date three days before his flight.
He was gone for training for six months.
I wrote him a letter every day, and he wrote back when he could.
Then, he made it to AIT and was able to have electronics back.
He bought a laptop, and we would Skype.
We watched Netflix movies together once a week.
Even with the 2,000+-mile distance, we made it work.
We got married in 2020 at the height of COVID after being together for five years.
There were 10 people at our wedding!”
“We are celebrating our nine-year anniversary together this year, and we are happier than ever.
We have a 5-year-old little boy and our second baby on the way.
I have always felt that he is my soulmate.
He is the person I was meant to build a life with.
I am so in love with him, and I am reminded every day how blessed I am.”
xsmexifiedx
10.
“I actually met my current wife around my junior year during the summer.
It was at my recent ex’s birthday party, and we just hit it off.
So glad I went to that birthday party!”
puertorican
11.
Were 30 and still together, but we had some rough years.
The hardest part at the beginning was having no married friends or siblings.
There was no place for us socially.”
abigailmorrow
12.
“We met when he moved into the neighborhood in 1997.
I was 12, and he was 15.
We had a shared group of friends and were always together.
When I turned 15, we both started working at our local grocery store.
I had my first heartbreak from someone at my high school, and I came into work upset.
He took me out to cheer me up, and we’ve been together ever since.
We got married in 2009 and just had our first child last year.
Starting as friends has carried us through so many rough times.
I couldn’t imagine life with anyone else.
jessicah48dd85b63
13.
“He was four years older than me, which, looking back now, feels so incredibly unsettling.
We dated for two years while I was in high school and then throughout college.
During college, the cracks started to show, but I was too committed.
He was never a supportive partner, and I felt like a single mom 95% of the time.
I knew I couldnt continue to raise our daughter with someone with those ideals.
“Our divorce was finalized the following year.
We are both in committed relationships, and coparenting is difficult, but we have found a good equilibrium.
Hes my best friend, and I wouldnt change a thing about our lives.
Were trying to start a family and will be beginning fertility treatments in March.
Fingers crossed it works for us!”
juliepawlikowski
15.
We started dating senior year and never stopped.
We got married at 25 and had our first kid in 2020 and our second in 2022. emilyhkleeman
16.
“We met when I was in 10th grade and she was in 11th.
Boy was that dumb.
We were back together and engaged by December of that year.
We have had good days and not so good days.
We have been together and apart.
My jobs have taken me away anywhere from a few days, to over two years.
We are still going.
This past December, we celebrated being together for 40 years and married for 37.
I wouldnt change a thing.
I love her with all my heart.
Hoping for another 40.”
maskedglue85
17.
“We started dating in high school and married shortly after college.
Two kids later and a few decades together, COVID hit, and our relationship has never recovered.
He has become very different new hobbies, new friends, new job.
We fight over everything how to raise the kids, his family, splitting household chores.
I feel trapped in a marriage, and I know I’ll never recover.”
“My husband and I have been together for 18 years, married for 8.
We are both in our early 30s.
We truly are each other’s best friend and favorite person.
rebeccaw4c10dc80f
19.
“Got married at 19.
Then, he decided he wanted to sleep around.
Yeah, we’re divorced now.”
jessethecowgirl
20.
“We met in ninth grade.
We started chatting as the year went and exchanged MSN messenger usernames (it was the early 2000s).
He eventually asked me out on a date halfway through the school year.
That was 20 years ago this year.
Four kids and two careers later, I can’t imagine doing life with anyone else.”
allisonw4def01c34
21.
“We found out later that we had been buddies in preschool together.
We never went to the same school besides that, but met around junior high through my cousin.
rlmarlatt32
22.
“My husband and I met when we were 15 in a summer theater program.
We dated all through high school and got engaged when I was in college.
We waited until after I graduated to get married, which was eight years of dating by that time.
We’re now at 26 years of marriage and going strong.
I was vulnerable because I had been neglected and abused my whole life.
The answer was always: leave.”
aprilcarothers
24.
“I was new to a high school in Southern California and met a lot of new people.
I couldn’t find out his name because none of my other friends knew him.
They greeted him like a best friend.
He was the guy they’d been trying to introduce me to.
Long story short, we’ve been together since 1982 and married since 1989.
He is my best friend.
tdgregorich
25.
“We met junior year of high school and went to college together.
Overall, we’ve had a great relationship.
However, I do sometimes regret getting married so young (23).
“Not me, but my parents.
They are the only people they ever dated.
They went to college together and got married in college as well.
I don’t recommend dating your best friend in high school.
Divorced messily and did not stay friends or even that good of coparents.
0% recommend.”
kerfuffleflower
28.
“We met while working in a mall cinema when I was 16 and he was 19.
I knew immediately that he was the one.
We dated for two years, then married a few months after I graduated high school.
Three daughters quickly followed.
The first 10 years were rough, mostly due to power struggles from immaturity on both our parts.
We should have both gone to college and started our careers first.
While I don’t recommend marrying young to anyone, it has worked out for us.
We’ve carried each other through life’s various ups and downs.
We’re the only people we really trust.
Open and honest communication will solve every problem.
It’s always brought us closer to each other.
Recently, he was my caregiver after a stroke and brain surgery.
Could not have created a better partner if I tried.
“My husband and I started dating our senior year in high school.
I finally really saw him at a party the beginning of our senior year.
He was dating a friend of mine at the time.
They broke up, and we started dating.
We went to college across the country from each other.
We broke up a few times, and it was rough.
He ended up joining the US Coast Guard, and I went to vet school in a different country.
We had a long-distance marriage our first two years.”
“We were together for seven years before we got married.
We will be celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary this July.
I still love him like crazy!”
quincykahn
30.
“We met working at a summer camp together when I was 17 and he was 16.
We got married after dating for four years.
We have been through many years of long distance and a couple military deployments.
elizabethm458d5ac71
31.
We attended prom together and were sort of painfully awkward, in retrospect.
We attended senior prom together once again, this time less awkwardly.
“We’ve been together ever since and just had our first baby.
For example, my sister was 11 years old when my now-husband and I first started dating.
My husband has more or less watched her grow up.
We’ll be celebrating our fifth wedding anniversary this year, but it feels more like 50.”
Hannah Loewentheil
32.
No warning or indication.
Then, both coworkers married the fiances they were already involved with.
He lost it and became abusive.
He blew up our marriage because he felt like he ‘missed out on life’ by marrying young.
“We went to our formal together just as friends since I was moving for university after high school.
But, somehow, we fell into a relationship, and we figured we would do long distance.
We made it work (Im certain long distance only works if you have an end date).
We are now 29 with two children and own a house and love doing life with each other.
Best happy accident ever!”
spiritedkitten65
34.
After graduation, we moved in together.
I went to law school, and we got married after I graduated.
“My husband and I first ‘met’ in preschool.
We grew up in the same town from around 2 years old through senior year of high school.
We were always close friends growing up, but never dated romantically.
We went to separate colleges both in Pennsylvania.
We visited each other in college often, and on occasion, finally had intimate moments.
As soon as we graduated from college, he asked me to be his girlfriend.
We’ve been married for seven years now, with two daughters.”
“I met my husband when I was 15 and he was 16.
We saw each other again at a ballroom dance class at the school.
We both sucked at it and eventually decided to ditch and hang out at Barnes & Noble instead.
While there, he bought me the first present he ever gave me: a stuffed puppy.
We continued to date all through high school and college and into our careers without ever separating.”
I can easily say he’s the best friend I’ve ever had.
37.And: “We met through a mutual friend when I was 14 and he was 15.
That mutual friend was my first boyfriend and one of his best friends (I know, scandalous).
I was heartbroken, but knew that high school relationships never last anyway.
A few months later, he begged for me back, and weve been together since.
We got married on the day of our dating anniversary 17 years after we started dating.
Hes still close with my first boyfriend.”
I really had no idea so many high school sweethearts are still together.
A lot of unique perspectives!
Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
