Anyone Marry Their High School Sweetheart - and Are Still Together???

Yes!! I was 15 when we started dating, married 20 years now. We dated 8 years before we got married!! Since everyone is talking about their families...my parents got married at 17, and 23. They got married 2 weeks after they MET!!! They were married for 43 years, till my dad passed away.

I married my college sweetheart (I was 18 when I met him, 20 when we started dating). And we're still together.

My parents DID marry their highschool sweethearts (each other!), actually they were JUNIOR high sweethearts. And THEY'RE also still together after 7 years of dating and 41 years of marriage. As far as role models go, they're about as good as it gets.

Yes! Im still with him today and we have 6 kids! I was cheerleader and he was my football player. Now we live on a farm and doing great, and have amazing kids! <3

Married my Middle School sweetheart. Met him at 13. We just celebrated our 30th anniversary last month.

My husbands grandparents met when they were 2 and 3. Their families were neighbors. They each lived on farms.

They did not like each other till they got older.. They were married over 70 years, but she died first at 92, he died at 101..

They eloped.. quite scandalous!

NOT ME! But I have a friend who married her first date, kiss, etc. They were joined at the hips and "gross" with their mushy lovey-dovey stuff back when they were in TENTH GRADE. Now they are 37 and 38 years old, and still just as "gross" as they were then, lol. It's actually kinda sweet, and neat...but they are very different. EVERYONE else in our highschool class that got married right out of highschool are divorced (were actually divorced by age 24). My great aunt married her high school sweetheart and they've been married 54 years now. My grandma started going with my grandpa (who was 3 years older than her) when she was a senior in high school. They got married after the war (she'd graduated by then) and they were happily married for almost 56 years, until she passed away. There's an older couple who are doing GREAT on this season's Amazing Race and they're awesome, and putting the younger couples to shame on a lot of things.....but he said on last week's show that they met and started "going together" when they were ages 12 and 13, and are going on 50 years of marriage now! Crazy. It happens, but it's so rare (especially these days when divorce is more socially acceptable).

Um.. no. I actually married my best friend's high school sweetheart. :)
She set us up.

ETA: We will celebrate our 15th anniversary next month.

I have been with my husband since I was 15, he was 18. We have been together over 12 years, married 4 1/2, have 2 beautiful boys, and living our own little fairy tale. Not a day goes by that I am not thankful to God for giving me the chance to experience TRUE love, and being able to share my life with my man in the moon. I am 28 he is 30, Each day may not always be easy and I can be a hot head, but his mild manner keeps me in check and I know we will never give up on each other! :)

I am married to my high school sweetheart. We started dating on his 18th birthday. We married shortly after I finished my first year of college. We have been together for 19 years and married for almost 17 (we celebrate our anniversary in May). We have had 7 children together and I know it hasn't always been a bed of roses, but we love and respect each other and that is what counts most of all.

We were best friends through high school, started dating the end of our first year in college (he lived downstairs from me in the dorms) and got married during our senior year of college.

We are coming up on being married 5 years with 2 kids under 3, and are in the middle of a move (I should be packing or unpacking something this very minute). We are stressed, worried, and there for each other. Right now is probably a downpoint in our marriage, but I know the good is just around the corner. We have been through a lot in the last 11 years, and I know we will always come out on top. :) Ask this question in a couple months and I'll get a lot more lovey dovey on you. :)

I married my elementary school sweetheart. In 5th grade we took a school trip to Washignton, D.C. where were held hands and listened to music on his headphones. It lasted a week or two. We were friends in HS, and married at 25. Our 9 year anniversary is next month.

*raises hand* I've been with my husband for about 14 years now. We've been married just shy of 4. We have 2 beautiful children and are happier now than we have ever been. In case you were curious we're 28.

My parents were high school sweethearts. Married 35 yrs!

We've been dating since I was 15. 10 years tomorrow!! Married 3 years.

I am married to my high school sweetheart! We've been together for 15 years and married for 7 years, and still going strong! I'm 31 and he is 34 :)

No, but I love those high school sweetheart stories. Congratulations to you :)

One of my best friends is still with her hs sweetheart, but they married out of high school and are struggling to survive. They both wish they had gotten an education before having kids as they are stuck in the paycheck to paycheck cycle and it is soooo hard.

Not high school sweethearts but college sweethearts. We dated for four years and got married when we were 24. We have now been married for 27 years and we both are now 50. I'm guessing that it's going to work out! :) Great question!

I love questions like this. My husband and I started dating when I was 15 and he was 20. We got married 6 years later and have been married for almost 9 years. He is such a wonderful husband, but and even better father. We laugh everyday and snuggle everyday and I couldn't imagine my life or childrens lives with out him. I am a blessed M..

Met when we were 17 - been together for 12 years now :)

Yes! He's my one and only. We've had our up's and down's but I honestly cant imagine myself or want to be with anyone else! He's my best friend, and a wonderful husband and father. I sure love that man! <3

2 of my really good friends married their high school sweethearts! We graduated in 96, and they both got with their guys in 94.... So that's 17 years for them :0)

What great stories...loved reading them all.

I am however thankful that I decided that running away with him to get married at 18 was not a good choice.

Started dating junior year of high school, went to college together, engaged at 23, married at 24. Just celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary.

We started dating at 16, moved in together at 18 and got married at 20. We celebrated our 11 year wedding anniversary this year.

Me! We met when we were 16 and married when we were 20. Three kids and ten years later, still the beat choice I could've made.

Married my high school sweetheart and we are still married, ten years and two children later. Marriage has it's ups and downs...got to work at it.

We started dating when I was almost 17 and we have been together for 11 and a half years and married for 7 now

I started dating my husband when we were 17. We were together for 11 years before we married and have been married for 12 years. Hard to believe we've been together for 23 years. I can't be that old!

As a matter of fact yes. Well i had two high school sweethearts one for my first 2 years 1 for my last 2 years. I married my 2nd one. We broke up a few times during my late teens (his early 20s) but always remained friends. I married him when i was 21 and we are quite happy! (almost 9 years now)

I met my husband my freshman year of high school. We became friends - even tried to set each other up with our friends. Come my senior year and I needed a date for prom and thought it would be good to have a friend go with me - he was that friend. We have been together ever since - over 16 years with 13 years married. I am very grateful that I married my best friend. I'm sure our kids are grateful too. : )

We met when I was 17 and he was 23 - does that count? :)
We got married when I was 21 and just celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary. So it's been a total of 14 years about.

Yup! Started going out when I was 15, he was 16... Broke up a few times during college, etc. but always ended up calling eachother to get back together. Married at 25/26 and going strong, one kid and 15 years later.

My 16th birthday party was our first date, 21 years later I can not imagine life without him.

Mine is not my high school sweetheart...but we started dating right after high school....and been together sense. Does that count? :)

My husband and I met the summer before our senior year of high school (he was 17, I was 16) - dated 4 years, engaged for 2-1/2 years and married for 11 years as of last month! We never 'broke' up - we've had our fair share of fights but never called it quits at any time! I couldn't imagine my life without him =)

We met in high school on my first day of my junior year. We started dating shortly AFTER I graduated and we've been together for 25 years and married for over 19. LOVE THAT MAN!

It's fun because we have all the same friends and same history as each other.

My best friend met her husband when she was 15 and married at 17; they are still happily married! They actually just celebrated their 28th wedding anniversary!

met my DH when I was 15....thru mutual friends & their families.

started dating 3 months before my 16th bd....my parents allowed it only because our families "hung" together. The issue was that my DH is 8 years older.....so 15 & 23...woohoo!

I was always "older" & he's always been "young". :)

Just celebrated our 30th anniversary.

Not high school, but we were 20 when we met. Within the next few months we'll both be 35. Ups & downs are the name of the game, but it's worth it. This coming January will be our 13th wedding anniversary.

My aunt and uncle met in high school and have been married since 1978.

Several of my friends (at least 7 couples) married their high school sweethearts about 10 years ago, and all except 1 are still married.

We started dating when I was 15 and were off and on for a few years until I was 17 and realized I wanted to marry my best friend. We got married just before my 20th & his 21st birthday and celebrated our 14 year anniversary in May. He is still my best friend and I couldn't imagine my life without him and our 3 precious boys.

Yes!
When we first met, my husband was 14 and I was 17.
We dated 10 years (finished school, got our degrees at different colleges, got jobs) before we married.
We just celebrated out 22nd anniversary last summer.

I didn't, and it's a good thing considering the guy in question, but two of the happiest couples I've ever known (one late 30s / early 40s, one mid-60s) were high-school sweethearts.

My parents were high school sweethearts. They met when they were 17, married at 19, and have been happily married for 38 years!

I met my husband the first day of seventh grade. We ran around in the same group of friends and started dating the winter of our senior year of high school. We went off and on for seven and a half years, growing up and becoming the people we wanted to be.
To this day, he is still my favorite person and the kindest man I have ever known. He is the love of my life.
Every year, we celebrate the anniversary of our first date. (He told me that he loved me and wanted to marry me someday before he ever gave me my first kiss all on that same night) The girls wear pink and the boys wear red and we tell all of our funny stories. This year will mark the 26th anniversary of our first date..and I cannot tell you how thankful I am to go through life with and be raising a family with him.

We had our first date at 17. We got married 5 years later (the day after he graduated college). We've been married for over 22 years.

My nextdoor neighbor and her hubby. They are celebrating 10 years this year and from what i have seen are perfectly happy!

If I married my HS sweetheart I am fairly certain I would NOT be in a good place right now, judging on where/what his life is like now. Of course circumstances are always different depending on what happens to lead you there so who knows?!

My parents are childhood (jr high) sweethearts who eloped when they were respectively 17 and 18 years old. They are still happily married 60 years later, for which their five daughters are very grateful.

Heck no I'm not and I truly thank God for that. I was so needy, clingy and flighty in highschool. None of those relationship should have lasted.

I am married to my second college sweetheart. We have only been married two years but we have loved each other for over 20 years.

Yes love does conquer all.

one more happy ending - we met when I was 15 and he was 17, started dating exclusively a year later, and just celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary and 36 years of being together. We were in different states for college for 3 years, but only broke up for 6 months before realizing we needed to be together - so we don't count that anymore!!

Yes, met him my Junior year of HS and married him a year after we graduated, we have been together for 25 yrs and married for 22 yrs. I would do it all over again given the chance, he is the love of my life.

Not me, but my younger brother and his wife were high school sweethearts, they first met at 14 and dated on and off through high school. They got married shortly after graduation, had three kids, went to college, got good jobs, and now ten years later are still together, happy, and doing well financially! People can be so dismisive of couples that marry young but they are doign better than a lot of couples that don't get married til their 30s or 40s.

We started dating in our junior year of highschool. That was almost 17 years ago :) We have been married for 15 years and have 4 daughters.

Here's my story. We met in middle school, and did the whole "going out" thing, boyfriend/girlfriend. Then we went to separate highschools, and he would show up on my doorstep from time to time. Just enough to keep him in my mind. You see, he knew he was going to marry me the first moment he saw me when we were 13. The summer before my junior year my family and I moved and changed our phone number. I then realized the summer before senior year, I hadn't heard from him or seen him in a year. So, I made a phone call, and we have been together ever since. It's been 15 years now and we have a wonderful daughter and in love as ever.