Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 22:22     Subject: How did you meet your spouse/partner?
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
Post 04/08/2024 22:16     Subject: Re:How did you meet your spouse/partner?
Anonymous wrote:
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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.


Why so judgmental? What’s wrong with life long best friends? Unless of course you don’t have friends.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 21:55     Subject: How did you meet your spouse/partner?
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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
Post 04/08/2024 21:54     Subject: How did you meet your spouse/partner?
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
Post 04/08/2024 21:44     Subject: How did you meet your spouse/partner?
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
Post 04/08/2024 20:51     Subject: Re:How did you meet your spouse/partner?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.

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
Post 04/08/2024 20:46     Subject: Re:How did you meet your spouse/partner?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.

NP
It has a clear meaning

Closest friend since childhood would get that across better and appropriately.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 20:45     Subject: Re:How did you meet your spouse/partner?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.

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
Post 04/08/2024 20:43     Subject: Re:How did you meet your spouse/partner?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.

NP
It has a clear meaning
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 20:38     Subject: How did you meet your spouse/partner?
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
Post 04/08/2024 20:38     Subject: Re:How did you meet your spouse/partner?
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 20:37     Subject: Re:How did you meet your spouse/partner?
Anonymous wrote:
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.


No grown men call someone their best friend forever. Neither should grown women.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 20:27     Subject: How did you meet your spouse/partner?
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Anonymous wrote:A friend of mine, met her husband on wedding day. It was arranged and though both had full say, they left it on their families. He was working in US after his masters while she was working in India after her bachelors, both attended same engineering school but didn't overlap as they were 4 years apart. It's been 27 years and they've a really solid and happy marriage. A miracle.

That is not okay.


I know. I'm from same culture but never would've agreed to such arrangement. I don't have any issues with arranged marriage as its similar as friends/app/matchmaker setting you up on a blind date, after that take enough time to date to get to know each other before you agree to get engaged and then live together and plan for marriage. However, my friend was very focused on career and just wanted a prevetted partner with similar experiences and goals. They just got lucky it worked so well.

I don’t think it worked so well as much as she just gave in and won’t leave marriage because of cultural perception.


She is truly happy, definitely not in it for cultural perception.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 20:25     Subject: How did you meet your spouse/partner?
Met at a fundraiser party in 1992. I was 24, he was 30. Married 4 years later. Still married.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2024 20:24     Subject: How did you meet your spouse/partner?
Met on the beach.🏖️