Post by fortmyersbride on Dec 29, 2012 15:41:58 GMT -5
Oh, and I'm a bad cliche. I was a med student and Dh was a surgery resident when we met. We didn't meet at the hospital, rather at a mutual friend's house party. We chatted back and forth by email before our first date, and when it came up that he was a resident I almost stopped talking to him--I didn't want to be another female med student sleeping with a surgery resident.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure I was a beebee bride. I turned 25 the week before my wedding.
Is 25 a beebee bride? I'm not sure it is--I too, married at 25--but I had already graduated law school and was working by then...
I'm honestly not sure that it is. It was the right decision for us and we don't fit the beebee profile in many (any?) other ways. We were established, had lived together 14 months, both had good jobs and savings, etc. when we married. But I know that on paper some would call me a beebee. (shrug)
I lost my virginity on prom night. (And totally planned it that way.)
My now H and I moved in together after only 9 months together. I was 21 and he was 28. It was WAY too fast, but luckily it's worked out for us because we just passed 7 years together and are now married and expecting a little one!
I'm a high school drop out (which was met with severe judgement from everyone in my home town of 1000 people), met DH when I was 18 and he was 26, bought a house together before marriage, married at 23.
I lost my virginity to my boss. I was 17. He was 24 (I think) and engaged.
H and I had our first date July 4. Six weeks later we were talking about getting married on Halloween...that same year (yes, that would have been not quite 4 months after our first date. And I had only met him about a week before our first date.) We ended up deciding to wait until the following June but then I got pregnant, so we got married in March. So, I got married at 22 to a divorced 24 year old that I had only known for 8.5 months. Plus, he had one child already, AND I was pregnant.
We'll have our 11th wedding anniversary in 3 months.
I had sex with H on our first date. He was supposed to be just the rebound guy.
I bought my condo with an ARM and 0% down.
Both of these except we did put down 10%. We took out a second mortgage at 7% for the other 10%. But the ARM part, yes. And thank goodness we did, or we'd have a high interest rate AND not be able to refinance bc we have almost no equity. The ARM is now at 3%.
And not only was H a one night stand, more than two people were involved. (That's all I'm saying...)
When I was 17 I "met" a guy on AOL chat that I IM with for a month or so before he wanted to meet. Luckily I was somewhat smart and we met at the mall. I was also smart in that I realized that he creeped me out and so I blocked him and never talked to him again. It could have been bad though. I got married at 23. I was a young bride but I don't consider myself a beebee bride. We had been dating for 4 years and had an 18 month engagement. We (mostly) had our shit together.
I met my first serious guy when I was 17 (he was 18). He lived in NC and I was leaving for college in VA. After one semester I transferred to a school in NC to be closer to him. We lasted 2 years and while I would never do something that stupid again, I did meet my now H and so I don't regret it.
Post by Rachael070707 on Dec 30, 2012 13:53:39 GMT -5
I have a few I can add....
1) I was a beebee bride at 22 yrs 11 mos. 2) DH was only supposed to be a 1 night stand 3) I was the trailing spouse 5 years ago and I am about to repeat that in 3 weeks (although I'm staying behind to sell the house while he moves ahead of me)
I would have been a starter bride except I got pregnant on our "honeymoon" (aka the two nights we had together before he left for thirty days). Getting knocked up moves me to beebee bride status instead. Married within six months of meeting in a civil union for the per diem ( military pays food and rent allowance for spouses) so we would have extra money saved for the church wedding - by which time I was five months pregnant. I was twenty and he was the third guy I ever dated. We were together less than three months the first year we were married and I was pregnant with our second child within two months of him getting back; our first child was only seven months old. We had the third because the first two were girls and he wanted a boy. Had another because I didn't want three kids (I was raised one of three and always felt either left out or picked on) and he was technically an anchor baby because we were already having problems and had split up once.) All this by 25.
I moved in with DH shortly after we started dating. I wa technically still married to ex. And living with him because he "forgot" to pay the mortgage on the house we co-owned and landed it in foreclosure. I had moved out but he lived there with the kids since he was the stay at home parent after he was disabled. I moved back in because I couldn't afford my rent and our mortgage and the equity in the house was the only thing I was taking from the marriage so I couldn't lose the house (and he needed the roof over his head for the kids too.) I slept on the sofa but it wasn't a good choice in hindsight because it gave the kids hope that we were getting back together.
Despite my dumb choices then DH and I have been together 18 years now.