Did you marry the man that you thought was the perfect man when you were 18?

yes I did, six days after I turned 18..:D

No, thank God!

yes I did, six days after I turned 18..:D
I forgot to add in my origional post that there is a poll coming, please vote accordingly.

I met him at 18 and married him a few months after I turned 19. :wub

I was already married at 18, divorcing him when I was 19 and met my husband when i was 19, married him when I was 20.

I started dating my ex husband when I was 18 and we are now divorced. Let's just say I didn't have the best taste in guys then.

I met DB when I was 18, but we didn't start dating until I was 19...however I knew from the minute we met that he was something special :D

God no! I had that poor boy wrapped around all of my fingers. He knew it. I knew it. His parents hated me. He was just such a wussy! I know that is totally mean but its true. And he loved me too much to leave, and I was too sad to break his heart. Then I met bf #2 and decided I wouldn't spend the rest of my life feeling badly about breaking a heart I wasn't meant to love. :shrug Sad. But true.

yep. We got married 1 week before I turned 19... 7 years later we're still happily in love :wub

I am SO HAPPY I did not end up with my "perfect man", my "meant to be" at age 18. He is a DOUCHE :rofl

This is inspired by peachesmarine's thread about marriage. I know I wasn't ready to be married at 18 even though I thought I was in love. I thought he was the man I wanted to spend forever with. I was wrong. We broke up when I was 19. Though we are fiends now, both married with kids, I am glad we didn't get married. We are two very different people.
I'm also glad I didn't marry any of the other guys I dated. We broke up for good reasons. of course it was impossible to tell me that then when I was "in love".

yep...we have been married for a little over 2 years now

Yes, & we will celebrate 19 yrs this yr(L)(L)(L):cloud9:cloud9:cloud9

I married my 'true love' when I was 23 after dating for 6.5 years & all I can say is thank goodness we are divorced. 99% of the time you don't know :censored at 18 and that love means nothing- not always but usually. My grandmother has a magnet I (L) that says "Hire a teenager now while they still know everything." It is sooo true!

nope, the guys I was dating when i was 18... hahahaha we are not even going to touch that one... Someone upstairs had different plans for me.... And sent me to the man of my dreams a year and a half later!!

ohhhh no no no...def. a part of my past and he's staying there. i met my hubby when i was 19 though. :D

Yes and we were divorced less than a year later.

I met DH at 16 got married at 18 and he's still my main man after 10 years!! Love him!!

met him at 14, dated at 18, engaged at 19, married at 20. & still so in love. :]

Yep! Married him now I am 30.

Well...I am 18, just about to turn 19. The guy I was engaged to was the love of my 'life' but he was also my first love...we're not currently together nor do I plan to get back with him BUT he is also forever b/c I am having his son!!! SO, I voted other! :D

No, thank GOD!! :rofl

I'm an other.

My high school sweetheart and I stopped seeing each other but we still are very close friends 10 years later.

DF currently is the man of my dreams.......so I'm dating him now lol

At 18 I had met him, but didn't know he was the one til I was 20 or 21. i cant remember. I was dating another guy when I met him though (when I was 18). i actually thought it would work, but....you know.

I'm an other...i didn't marry him but he is not just part of my past. we are still pretty good friends and since i don't live in the same place anymore, i really REALLY miss my friend!

i need an option that says
HELL NO!

:lol

I met DB at 18.. we broke up after about 6 months because we fought way too much.. then while he was in basic we started talking again and writing letters everyday. We officially got back together when he came home and now at 20 we are still together and we've both grown A LOT which I think is a huge part of why we're doing so great right now. We're both different, much more mature people than we were when we first met and I think we will last, especially if we make it through this deployment.

nope.
dated for three years (until a was 19ish) and am very greatful we aren't together now. iin the end, it was a relationship based on lust, which is why we were either having sex, or fighting like crazy. pretty sure we would have beat each other up if we had stayed together.

Almost married my high school sweetheart when i was 21 but thanks God i didn't!! Now I married my DH at 23.

No, I thought he was the one but then he joined the Navy and changed for the worse. But thanks to him I met hubby.

I voted other b/c I started dating dh when I was 19, not 18. Actually, I was pretty close to 20. But 10+ years later, we're happily married!

No, thank God!

Ditto! I was pretty close, too.

:yes We've been married 8 wonderful years.. started dating when I was 18 and got married when I was 19. I know he's not perfect, I wouldn't want him to be, but we're "perfect" for one another.

No thank God!!!!!

Met him at 15, married at 18. We have just celebrated our 10 year anniversary and we are more in love now then we were back then. We have grown together.

Married right after I turned 18. Still happily married 7 years later!

No thank God!!!!!

exactly!

I met DH at 16 (almost 17), engaged at 17 and married at 18. We have been married for almost 7 years now. He irritates the hell out of me, but I still love him very much.

We got engaged 2 weeks before I turned 17 and got married 2 days after I turned 18. =)

We've been happily married for 4 years now!

thank god NO....we were high school sweethearts and then broke up because of the distance..we are still friends but we both knew that it would never work between us as a couple...

7 years later I met Dh....

We were dating and now we're married

I actually have been with him since I was 14 yrs old and we are still together, married with 2 boys.

I met DH when I was 16, started dating at 17, got married when i was 19 1/2, and two years later we're still happy, still married & expecting :D DH is pretty ecstatic about that last one, he's already trying to buy clothes!

Nope! I didn't meet dh until I was 19.

Yep, been best friends since we were 15, in love since we were 17, married at 22 and celebrating our 4 year anniversary on Wed.

It is a big YES!!!!

nope at 18 i was getting the crap beat out of em and thought it was love...

met at 18, married at 19 and been together ever since.

I started dating my ex at 16 and we where engaged but i broke it off when i was 19. I was just to young and we where not ment to be!

I'm 18 and I'm about to marry him in November! :D :D

i love the ones that say 18/19 year olds dont know anything about love.. when OBVIOUSLY thats not ALWAYS true... Your saying all these successful marriages are just dumb luck - that they didnt know what true love was when they got married ? :shrug

I am happily married, but dont want to be part of this statistic until we have some years behind us to back it up.. which we will :yes

No way, I was getting made fun of and treated like crap. He was all ready to join the Marines and we were going to get married. THANK GOD I didn't make that horrible mistake.

But my mom was married at 17 and her and my father just celebrated 35 years together a few weeks ago.

No, thank goodness. He was a LOOOSSEEERRRRR

I started dating DH when I was 18 and married him just a few months later at 18 and became pregnant about a month and a half after our wedding. :) We've been married for almost five years now and have known eachother for more than 10 years. I couldn't be happier or more in love.

Aw, poo! There was no "HELL NO!" option! :sadeyes

Yep.. met him at 17 married him at 18 a year and 4 months after we started dating. 10 yrs together the 28th (9 yrs married in Sept) Very happily married :D

Nope, he's a goner thank goodness, lol. I met my husband when I was 19 :)

yes:D
df and i started dating when i was 17

hopefully in a few years..

Yup! Still together and hoping to be engaged this fall! :wub
He is an incredible man.

Yup. Married five years this year, too.

Hell no, thank god.

No..thank god. At the time I really thought he was who I was meant to be with...and then a few years later I saw what he was really like.
Now 8 years later..I am very happily married to someone else.

The guy I dated when I was 18, I knew wasn't for me and that ended. I had just turned 19 when I met DH and I knew he was the one. We've been married 21 years now.

I was actually 17 when we married and left him when I was 20. Looking back, it amazes me to see how blind I was when it came to him. :no

Well, I didn't love him yet at 18 because I met him right before my 19th birthday but I did marry him(2 years after dating) and we've been married 12+ years.

Haha Yes I did!

haha at 18 there is NO way I would have been ready to get married. I was wild.....I didn't really even like to have a boyfriend for very long.....I was really into hanging out with friends, partying, working, school.....typical teenager things.

No, considering until I met DH at 20 I didn't ever wnat to have kids or get married.

luckily the boyfriend i had at 18 is long gone.

i knew db then, but we weren't a couple for 6 more years after that... which is probably for the best, i was a disaster back then.

Yes, I met my dh when I was 17. We have been together for 12 and 1/2 years now and will be celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary in June! :D

I wanted to say, that doesn't mean it has been all romance and roses. No-no, we have had our highs and lows and have fought like hell to stay together. :)

I didnt really start dating until after high school..I thought focusing on school was more important then guys

Unfortunately married the jerk when I was 19. we were married for six years and he left me for his 18-year-old GF six months ago when I was eight months pregnant with his baby!!!!!!

I can safely say NO WAY!

I met the man I love and will love forever about a month before I turned 21.

nope, were enganged twice though. As much as he loved me, I just wasnt attrated to him and I broke i off 2 weeks before the wedding.

No, thank God!!!! :teehee

:yes We met at 14 years old, married at 19 years old we'll hit 8 years of being married tomorrow :wub

We met when I was 16, started dating when I was 17, got married when I was 19. We've been together now for 8 years.

Uhhh... The guy I dated when I was 18... will be a poor, starving musician. He didn't treat me ANYWHERE as well as DB does. Not to mention the ex is engaged to some chick... after like 4 months of dating and 4 months after we split. He said he was "in love with me" HA.

Life is much better without him.

I'm sooooo grateful I did not marry him!!! My life would've been miserable and I would be a widow now.

Yes, we have been married for 4 years now. :)

no, thank god. the "perfect man" when i was 18 was a ass, and never would commit to me. we did talk about it and plan on it but no actions were taken. i am so happy that we broke up the way we did because i don't need a jerk like that in my life.

i did meet my DF when i was 18. we were just friends but everyone around us thought that we were a couple.:lol

I met my man shortly after my 18th birthday in 2004. Here it is 2008 and we're still together but waiting to get married until I finish my degree and possibly him finish his college before going to OCS.

i put other, im 18 now: we been together since i was 14 you know the middle school boyfriend thing, weve been together happily since then he proposed before he left on his first tour and we have a date in august..

started dating my dh when I was 16, he was 21...

we got married at 19/24 :)


he is FOR SURE the most incredible man i could have ever possibly married :D

no but i met the perfect man(DH) a week before I turned 19.

Kenny and I met when I was 18 but I was 19 when we started datting

Yes ma'am. Happily married now.

Yep! we got married when i was 19 :yes

I've been married for about 5 months now, and am less than a month shy of my 19th birthday.

Nope, the guy I was with then is long in my past, he broke up with me after 1 and a bit years and then 2 weeks later wanted to get back together, but I was too angry and upset. I didn't meet my DH till I was 21.

We started dating when we were 18 and we were engaged 6 months later. We've been engaged for 2.5 years (L), together for 3 :) Love him with all my heart and soul. We have known eachother since I was born (he's 9 months older :) )

im 18 and engaged. he is 19. i know he is the right one:)

Other. I was single. :)

Other

I never was "in love" or "thought" I was in love until well into my 20's so no way.

i married him when i was 17 :)

I married DH when we were 18 almost 19...and we are happily married! :D It was just 2 years in April.

my high school sweetheart is now happily married to the girl he started dating right after we broke up. He's a great guy, just wasn't the right one for me.

yes Db and i have been together since we were 17 :smitten

yes we got married when I was 18 we are almost at 5 years

Yup, married him at 19. Although we've had a crazy start to our marriage, it's finally right on track.

most certainly not. I got married in my mid to late 20's. I personally couldn't imagine for myself personally getting married any sooner, between college and career, that wasn't something on my mind. I met DH in my 20's and we've been together years, most certainly after 18 though. We dated for a while, got engaged for a while, than got married, been married a while. :giggle, there was no rush. We knew we should be together and accomplished other goals in the process.

I think your question is very person specific.

DH & I met and starting dating when I was 17 and a senior in high school. Married 12 days after my 18th Birthday. 12 years and 3 kids later we are still going strong and happy!!!

I married him, but I didn't think he was perfect by any means.:rofl

Oh- and we are still married, four years later.

yes...we dated in highschool...got married and we are still married...16 years later! Actually 19 if you count our dating in highschool.

nope, i never thought of the guys i dated at 18 as the love of my life, they were just distractions. i only loved two guys in HS and i'm very glad i didn't stay with them, it wouldn't have ended well for me. my little ole HS didn't have much to offer, so i was just biding my time until bigger and better things came along :lol

Yep, happily married.

I met Matt when I was 16. We had mutual friends and I had heard some negative things about him. We ended up dating after a party one year when I was 17. It was such a whirlwind courtship. He said I love you way too early. I had just gotten out of a long relationship, and just by the look in his eyes I knew he meant it when he said it. Which scared me. We married in December, and our marriage, much like our courtship was a whirlwind of ups and downs. Love and Loss. I was too young for the love he was giving me. And his devotion was a bit unsettling. We are no longer together. And we are different people now. But we still owe a lot to the other. And we still have a place in our hearts for the other.

Met DH at 17, got engaged at 18, married at 19, and we're very happily married. We fight like cats and dogs, but we enjoy it, lol

Started dating DB when we were 17, and after high school I knew he was the one for me. A few unfortunate things happened and we broke up for a while. But now we are back together and soon to be engaged.. (I'm not "supposed" to know.. but puhleese, he can't even keep himself from hinting around about it.. not to mention my family and best friends are all abuzz with wedding ideas.. lol)

I didn't marry that guy. He's still not really my past though since I'm still raising our 15 year old daughter. Definitely not with him though!

at 18... oh thank GOD I didn't marry that guy. LOL

I misundesood the question. I did marry at 18 but we divorceed 2 years later. No kids thank god and he is buried in the past and gone forever. My kids don't even know I was divorced.

Seeing as how I married my current dh 11 days after my 16th b-day....I would say yes.

Actually though we just lucked out to be so perfect together. The first 3-4 years of our marriage were not at all perfect. Our love grew over the years into what it is now. From 16-18 I don't feel I grew that much but from 18-37...well I'm just a COMPLETELY different person.

I'll probably rub more than a few people the wrong way but I personally no longer feel that anyone can know what they want for LIFE at 18 years old :P

be got married 5 months ago but i knew he was the one for me when i was 18

A good thing I didn't, cause my life would've been a total nitemare of a living hell if I would've!
Lol.
And he was never the love of my life either!
Regards and much love!

Nope I wasn't dating anyone at 18.

Yup. I was so in love and knew we were ment to be. Now we are divorced.

Nope, he was the last BF I had before I started dating / married my DH.

Oh heck no! I was 28 when I married my dh.

Oh my goodness, if I had married the guy I was dating at 18 we would have killed each other. :hehe

I settled even though I knew that we were no good together. We are now divorced.

Nope, thank god !

No and thank GOD! He was nuts.

We met when I was 15 and he asked me to a Homecoming Dance. For no particular reason we drifted apart and remained completely without contact for the next 25 years. Today, I am helping to welcome him back at the Homecoming pier.

LOL, 'Homecomings' seem to play a big role in our lives. :blush

Yeppers!!! DH and I starting dating 2 months before I turned 18! Four years later we are still happily together.

I put other cause didn't marry him but did have a child with him and hes not active in our life thank God!!

Well i thought at the time he was. Now a divorce and 2 kids later. I am waiting for my forever man to come back from overseas.. :D;):kissy I miss u baby.

Yep I got married when I was 18 and divorced abouit 3 yrs later... he wasn't in love with me anymore and found someone else. They are still together. We maintain a decent relationship for our son.
I remarried when I was 23/almost 24

Not married yet... but we've been together for five years... :) And hopefully soon we can make things more official :)

Nope! I wasn't mature enough at 18 to really experience that.

NOpe, was going to but luckly i wised up before he would have beat the crap out of me