Yep, at Hebrew University. I was just starting my masters, and she was a new immigrant who was starting her undergraduate. We met because she knew my best friend’s father’s research assistant.
Yep. We met in a gym and our first date was bar hopping. First thing I told my roommates about him was “he’s cute, but he’s old.” He was 23! Lol. I was 19. Neither of us wanted anything serious. 2 years later we got married on campus. 27 years later and our youngest kid graduated HS last night. So much for that.
@ClassicMom98 My wife was a lot younger than I realized when we just started dating. Most Israelis start university in their 20s, and many of the immigrants who were starting their undergraduates were also in their 20s. One of the first times we spoke, I told her that I was 26, and she said that her older sister was 27, and that she hung out wither her sister’s friends, so I figured that she was 22-23, and I wasn’t, of course, going to ask her how old she was.
Well, it turned out that her older sister was 8 years older, and that she was 19, which I discovered after we’d been dating for three weeks… Since we a had cultural differences, the normal cues for age differences weren’t there (like how old a person was during this or that event in Israel). We’ve been married, like you, for 27+ years (together for 29). We only have one kid, though (also graduating on Sunday).
Nope. We met at work a few months after I graduated.
Freshman Year is college.
Met my H during my freshmen orientation. He was two years ahead, but one of my new friends’ older cousin was in his friend group. We ended up at the same social events and ate dinner together almost every night. We were the only punctual people in our group and ended up with lots of alone time to get to know each other. We joke that we would never have gotten together now with being able to send “I’m running late” texts.
We started officially dating second semester of my freshman year. He proposed at the end of my last semester senior year, and we married after grad school.
Going on 26 years of marriage.
@doschicos I suppose the life lessons I teach at school naturally also got taught to a college student - even back then! He does give me credit… I just typed out a post about how most kids need to be taught life lessons - by someone they respect. I guess I also need to add they can come from someone you’re madly in love with?
Adding to stats… my oldest met his now wife at college. She was a year ahead of him - both still happily married. I think it’s coming up on 4 years? Maybe 5? Either way, time flies.
Youngest met his soon to be wife due to college, but not at his school. They met on his Study Abroad in Jordan - both were in the same program. She’s a year behind him in school and just graduated from Georgetown.
Middle son needs to find someone. He’s really feeling left out. His GF from college broke up with him after she moved states away and started her life elsewhere.
Well, we went to the same HS, but didn’t meet there (huge school, he was a year behind me). Met the summer after I graduated. He went to a different college than the one I was at, but then I transferred to his (very good decision.) So in the end we went to same HS, and college, but didn’t meet at either.
Actually we met at a wake.
We were teaching in two different schools. His department chair lost his dad.
I knew the department chair through extra curricular activities, so I went to the wake. My husband went as well. All the teachers were talking, and we planned to go out for a drink afterwards-- it was a Friday night. Eventually everyone else went home, so just the 2 of us went out for that drink.
Next month, we’ll be married 30 years.
We did not meet in college, but our college choices were significant in how we met.
In 1993, we each noticed an ad in New York Magazine in the personal ads section for a personal ad organization called The Right Stuff, which was limited to graduates of a short list of elite colleges.
I had chosen to teach elementary school, a female dominated field, and I saw how few men I would meet on the job. I have the wrong personality to meet people in public places. Too determined and organized to leave it to chance, I had begun an extensive search during graduate school. Almost a year later, now in my first teaching job, I already had been on about 100 personal ad dates. I hoped this organization would help narrow the field at least to people who both were intelligent and valued learning and thinking.
It worked! My husband was only my second date through that organization.
In July, we will celebrate our 24th anniversary.
Nope. Met my husband through a mutual friend several years before we started dating. I was 30. Well past college.
I’d be interested to know how many people married their first boyfriend or girlfriend, if anyone cares to share.
Yes, we met at college, he was a junior, I was a freshman, though we didn’t date until the next year. We’ve been married 38 years this summer.
Met DH freshman year in college, lived in the same dorm but met because we had some mutual friends/acquaintances. Married after he finished grad school. Married for 34 years when he died.
DS met his wife while visiting a friend at another college, but they didn’t really start dating until after she graduated and both were living in the same area. Dated for about 4 years, married now over 5.
DD met her husband through a friend, a random encounter in a store, while both were living in the same city - a few years after college for her, several for him. Dated for about 2.5 years, married for 4.
I did go to the same college as my husband but I didn’t date him or even meet him there. I already had met him.
I “ met” him the first time when I was eighteen days old. (He was about 18 months old). Our mothers went to college together and had been friends since then. And his mother took him to meet the new baby her friend, my mother, had just had. We saw each other regularly over the years. Parties, holidays, family dinners. We even vacationed together.
He was the first boy I kissed. But that was a young teenage dalliance. He was not the only. He will be the last. Lol.
We did not start dating until several years after college.
Our children find our history “ so weird”.
Yep. First week of freshman year. He was a (gorgeous) junior who lived on my hall. It was love at first sight for both of us. We’ve been together 42 years now.
@MWolf It is funny how big age differences seem when you’re that age. Now, it’s not that big of a deal.
We have been together for 27 years. We will hit 25 in June - in Rome. Our 20th we spent at Alcatraz. I threatened to leave him there. 
My husband was the new boy in my 11th grade homeroom in high school. Back then, homeroom assignments were alphabetical and our last names started with the same letter. He’d just moved into our area that summer. He was 16 and I was not quite 16. We started dating that month and married shortly after graduating college. It will be 34 years of marriage next month.
I think it’s worked out pretty well for us. 
@LilacSoul Probably not one of the cutest stories you’ll read but: good news: we met at work; bad news: we were both married at the time; good news: we’ve been married 40 years.
We met 1st day of graduate school, same program. He was a recovering frat boy, and I actually liked one of our other classmates at first. The whole class was close, and we traveled in a pack, both socially and with study groups. By the end of first year, DH and I went to lunch together a lot, but were “just friends.” Everyone else in the class thought we were dating, but we didn’t think so… until we were… He finished his Masters and moved a few hours away. I was working on my PhD, but we visited each other almost every weekend. We decided that since we were surviving the long distance relationship, we could make it work and got married. And lived apart for the 1st 6 months of marriage before I defended my dissertation. We’ve been married almost 26 years now.
I’m a member of the ‘met my DH as a freshman’ club. He was a grade above me and lived on the same dorm floor. I believe I called him by the wrong name for the first couple of months. But after returning from Thanksgiving Break and getting his hair cut, I noticed him and learned his name…lol. We got married after he got his MBA and I had worked a year.
It kind of freaks me out that I got married at 23. Our kids are 24 and 22 and pretty mature for their ages, but I quite frankly have trouble imagining them being married. They seem so young!