Silly me. They told me it wouldn't last and I told them ya right! I and my hubby are VERY stubborn and well, just don't give up easily. Not only did I marry my highschool sweetheart, but also the first guy I ever kissed. Yep, we have our big ups and downs, and sometimes I swear that maybe everyone was right, but really when push comes to shove, sometimes one has to look at what they have and truelly evaluate why they married that person in the first place. He is a good man overall, trust worthy, hardworking, and well, even though he forgot Valentine's Day this year, he does remember our aniversary every year. Laughs... I bought him a tent for Valentine's Day as he wanted one to use when he goes on his trip on his motorcycle this summer... Well.... I told him he could use it early this year since he forgot all about it! You should have seen it... 18 bucks for 1 tent, look on his face - priceless! Hee Hee
Anyway, we first met on Jan 24, 1986 when he took my sister out to see Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure at the little movie theater that was only a dollar to see it in. It was a bet and my sister won, so he took her out. Well, I opened the door when he arrived at our home, and BAM! that was it! I still remember the smell of his cologne and brown cowboy boats, blue dress shirt, brown leather jacket, and new blue jeans that were freshly ironed (no kidding! He liked them that way! Worst part is that he still wears those boots and that leather jacket!). Anyway, I wound up going along as well. He took pitty on me as he knew that we had just moved to that school and friends were scarce as it was a really small school, and with me moving in the middle of my senior year to a school that had a total of 300 students in it for freshmen through seniors, well, not many good freinds for me and a terrible way to spend a friday night. Anyway, he soon started dating a friend of mine that I made there. We sat next to each other during graduation, and his girlfriend left town and decided to permanently move to TX immediately after graduation. I went back east immediately after graduation and stayed the summer with my grandparents and we wrote to each other every other day. I knew to the exact time when the next letter would arrive. I then decided that I couldn't permanently move back to NJ as I hated my time there, and well, he was where I wanted to be. So I came back to Idaho.
Needless to say, that once I was back, he and I were together as much as possible for the rest of the late summer and fall. The following summer he asked me to marry him and then he went away for basic training three days later. That is another story, but he gave me a box of Cracker Jacks and I wasn't really interested in eating them that evening as he also dropped the news that he was leaving for basic training. But the next morning I was late for work and ate the Cracker Jacks for breakfast and almost threw the ring in the trash as the way it was wrapped it looked like one of those big plastic rings! But then I got the bright idea that I would wear the silly plastic ring and then jokingly tell him thanks for the engagement ring! Well, when I opened the suprise wrapper, the joke was on me! Hee Hee. You couldn't tell that he had tampered with that package in the least. And he said he worried about it all night long! But I got even with him! I told him to ask my father for approval, but told dad about it first and boy did my dad play that one up! (SHHHH!!!!! Don't tell my hubby that!)
Anyway, we were married the 2nd of Jan 1988 and have been together ever since.
As far as knowing others, yep, I know someone who was married when they were both sophmores and attending the same school that my hubby and I went to, and she wound up pregnant. They decided to marry while I was still in school there, and have been married ever since. And they went on to have 4 more kids.
So it can and sometimes does work out. But I will say that growing and maturing has changed us both, and sometimes our philosophies differ much more now than they did then and it makes things really rough at times.
Would I recommend this course of action to others who are right out of highschool? Probably not as it has been extremely challenging at times. But, on the other hand, most marrages have their issues at one point or another, and it is sometimes sheer determination and examining what brought one together in the first place that keeps a relationship together.
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: So unless you can answer ALL the questions, I guess it doesn't work! ugh. Sorry about that!!!
: Well, I guess you all can still share your stories with us, even if the poll isn't set up right!
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