How did you meet your spouse/partner?

[Anonymous]

College boyfriend but met on campus through friends in passing. Our majors/colleges were on opposite ends and neither of us did extracurricular clubs so meeting others happened walking around, at clubs or house parties. I hear kids don't socialize as much as we used to and I did a lot of socializing back then, for an introvert. Married 25+ years

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He was my brothers best friend forever and he was always around our house. I was four years younger so he always treated me like a little sister but in a really nice way. I didn’t see much of him once I went off to college but when I was 23 I ran into him at a bar in Chicago and he was quite surprised by how I had grown up. We got married two years later and my brother was his best man.

Your brother’s “best friend forever?” How old are you?

They have been best friends from ES. We are all in our in our 40s.

And you say best friend forever for your brother and husband? That is so bizarre.

NP
It has a clear meaning

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He was my brothers best friend forever and he was always around our house. I was four years younger so he always treated me like a little sister but in a really nice way. I didn’t see much of him once I went off to college but when I was 23 I ran into him at a bar in Chicago and he was quite surprised by how I had grown up. We got married two years later and my brother was his best man.

Your brother’s “best friend forever?” How old are you?

They have been best friends from ES. We are all in our in our 40s.

And you say best friend forever for your brother and husband? That is so bizarre.

NP
It has a clear meaning

It doesn’t need to be spelled out in that “clear meaning.” It is very strange and immature.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He was my brothers best friend forever and he was always around our house. I was four years younger so he always treated me like a little sister but in a really nice way. I didn’t see much of him once I went off to college but when I was 23 I ran into him at a bar in Chicago and he was quite surprised by how I had grown up. We got married two years later and my brother was his best man.

Your brother’s “best friend forever?” How old are you?

They have been best friends from ES. We are all in our in our 40s.

And you say best friend forever for your brother and husband? That is so bizarre.

NP
It has a clear meaning

Closest friend since childhood would get that across better and appropriately.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He was my brothers best friend forever and he was always around our house. I was four years younger so he always treated me like a little sister but in a really nice way. I didn’t see much of him once I went off to college but when I was 23 I ran into him at a bar in Chicago and he was quite surprised by how I had grown up. We got married two years later and my brother was his best man.

Your brother’s “best friend forever?” How old are you?

They have been best friends from ES. We are all in our in our 40s.

And you say best friend forever for your brother and husband? That is so bizarre.

NP
It has a clear meaning

It doesn’t need to be spelled out in that “clear meaning.” It is very strange and immature.

The posters criticizing the "best friends forever" are not very good at reading the context. The OP didn't mean "BFF" in the way girls use it. She should have written, "He HAD BEEN my brother's best friend FOR/SINCE forever," meaning "they had been best friends for a long time." That's perfectly reasonable.

[Anonymous]

I was 31, she was 20. I was a grad student, she was an undergrad. We met on the quad. A 31 y.o. male is about as mature as a 20 y.o. female, so things worked out for us ... we've been together 23 years, married 12, have 2 children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was 31, she was 20. I was a grad student, she was an undergrad. We met on the quad. A 31 y.o. male is about as mature as a 20 y.o. female, so things worked out for us ... we've been together 23 years, married 12, have 2 children.

11 years unmarried wow...I need a GF like that who is willing to.wait forever lol. Women are not exactly known to wait around forever

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was 31, she was 20. I was a grad student, she was an undergrad. We met on the quad. A 31 y.o. male is about as mature as a 20 y.o. female, so things worked out for us ... we've been together 23 years, married 12, have 2 children.

11 years unmarried wow...I need a GF like that who is willing to.wait forever lol. Women are not exactly known to wait around forever

Well he essentially dated a child so

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He was my brothers best friend forever and he was always around our house. I was four years younger so he always treated me like a little sister but in a really nice way. I didn’t see much of him once I went off to college but when I was 23 I ran into him at a bar in Chicago and he was quite surprised by how I had grown up. We got married two years later and my brother was his best man.

Your brother’s “best friend forever?” How old are you?

They have been best friends from ES. We are all in our in our 40s.

And you say best friend forever for your brother and husband? That is so bizarre.

Why so judgmental? What’s wrong with life long best friends? Unless of course you don’t have friends.

[Anonymous]

My DH is a close friend of a family member so we met through my family member. I was maybe 25 or 26, he was 30. We didn’t get together until I was 29, married him at 30. Married 14 years with 3 kids.

[Anonymous]

At work, we were peers. Married for 25 years now.

[Anonymous]

Like so many others we met at work. We were peers with similar educations and career aspirations so we had a lot in common. That led to a nice business friendship that evolved to a personal friendship that evolved to……..It took awhile to get there but once we did it was very easy. We met almost 35 years ago….yikes! I guess time flies when you are having a good time.

[Anonymous]

Great stories!

We met at an AA meeting. I had just moved to the area and he was a regular. After a few weeks, one of the people had a holiday party and while there he asked me out. He was 29, I was 28. We dated for a year and have been married 33 years. When people ask where we meet, I say, “at a party.”

[Anonymous]

Met when I was working at Fotomat in 1987 and he was a preferred customer. We've been together 37 years and married for 32 with 4 grown kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At work. We are both lawyers. I was 32 and he was 45.

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Too old for you.

Not at all. We've been very, very happy for 20 years. Guessing by your knee jerk reaction to the relationships of strangers that you have not been.

But you must know what people are wondering, because of the age difference and how you met. The assumption is that he was married.