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----► •Engaged&Underage•
[a support thread]



(to specify, this pertains to being engaged to be married at an age below twenty)
(DO NOT POST ANYTHING NEGATIVE IN THIS THREAD. IF YOU HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN SPAM A SUPPORT THREAD, YOU ARE A SAD LITTLE PERSON. D:< )

While still uncommon, underage engagement has seen a rise in recent years. This thread has been set up to support those engaged at a young age. You are welcome here if . . .
-You are under twenty and engaged
-You are under twenty and married
-You were engaged or married while you were under twenty
-If you wish to offer support to people who are engaged young

You are NOT welcome if . . .
-You are just expressing a negative opinion, this is not a discussion thread.
-You can't act maturely
-You do not relate to any of the above mentioned "welcome" folks.



----► •Rules•


o1. I can't stress this enough, this is not a discussion thread, it is a support thread. If you feel differently, make yourself a discussion thread, I don't want it here.
o2. I expect some level of maturity. Don't pick fights or instigate. This should be an open enviroment.
o3. Be Supportive!
o4. Try to stay on topic, I don't want this thread to get Chatterbox'd, it's a fate worse than death. D:
o5. Follow all ToS.
o6. No bumping, spamming, or otherwise undesirable posts.



----► •Information•



Information has been snipped, and can now be viewed here, in my journal.

I sincerely hope you will take the time to read some of it, it's very helpful for a young couple that's engaged/married/thinking on it.



----► •Our Stories•


Gorrific
When I was a freshmen in high school I had already had about three boyfriends. All were total failures and I wasn't really taking anything seriously. Then I started dating a new guy. I couldn't see how things should be any different. But, after a few months it became quite apparent that this relationship was VERY different. We were so much alike it was almost eerie. With him I was always laughing. How lucky! Anyway about a year and half later, after having alot of firsts together [yes, including sex], he proposed to me on September 19th, 2008. Ever since we've been planning alot of general details of our wedding, but not buying anything yet. We plan to marry on Halloween in 2010, when I am eighteen and he is nineteen. I am seventeen and he is eighteen. We live together with my dad and step mom, for another two years, then we're moving for college. We both want to be Morticians. I'm glad we have a common dream, it'll make things a bit easier in the future. We have been together for two years and some change, and I can say without a doubt that this is the man i want to spend my life with. Age is just a number, love is what counts.



Sweet Melodieux

Our story: We have been together for over 2 and half years at this point, and I can honestly say that he is the man I am going to spend the rest of my life with. He is 18 (turning 19 in July) and a sophomore in college, and I just turned 17 two days ago and am a senior in high school (graduating a semester early, and starting college in January 2009). As of this school year, we have been in a LDR (he is attending Northern Arizona University which is about 200 miles and 2 hours away from where I live; I am going to NAU after I graduate) but he is currently home for the summer. We have known each other for over 6 years, and first met when I was in 6th grade and he was in 8th grade because he is my best friend's older brother. Although we've known each other for so long, we didn't actually start talking until I was a freshman in high school and he was a junior; we were both in marching band, so we spent a lot of time together because of that. We started dating in December of my freshman year and he has been my first everything (minus sex, we're waiting until marriage): first kiss, first boyfriend, first love, etc. <3



Blackrose_Knight

My Story:
I met my fiancé, I will call him Chryos, that is his gaia name, while I was attending my second year at the local community college. I was 19 at the time, he was 23. We met by him playing Magic the Gathering, and me hanging with that crowd. We started off friends, as we both had significant others over the internet. However, I steadily found myself trying to ignore my growing feelings for him. One night, after a DnD session, I volunteered to take him home; he lived within walking distance of the college but a winter storm had set in, and it was pouring the rain. I don’t know why I did it, I just did. I didn’t want to see him get drenched. I came in side for a bit, his father was out for a few days in a different state. We sat down, and started watching my favorite Firefly episode (he had it saved to his computer). Then, his hand brushed mine, and I was bold enough to hold his. I knew then I should give in to the feelings I had been harboring for him. Once the episode had finished, we looked at each other, and we both just knew that there was a large spark. I was running late, so I had to get home, but before I left we hugged and it lasted at least a minute. That night was the start of our relationship.
About four months into us dating we were toying with the idea of moving Chryos out of his father’s house (he is a nutter). We were contemplating whether a “marriage for financial aid purposes only” would do us both good. Of course I would have a good prenup agreement. As we were walking and thinking, I started toying with a real marriage (honestly we were both thinking about becoming engaged but neither of us wanted to bring it up) and I asked for a sign to see if I was following the right path. We walked in front of a second hand shop, with a box of books in front. The first book was called “A Sailor’s Wife” It hit me hard, yes, that was my sign. I looked at him, pointed to the book, and he understood. I was proposed to about a month afterward.
We now live together, renting a house with my friend and her fiancé, and I set the handfasting for summer of 2011, I wanted to be 21 for my handfasting so I can legally drink my honey mead; also, I want to be really sure he is the one. I can always hand back a ring, but getting a divorce is messy. My parents support my decision, and love Chryos, so does his mom, however until November of 2009 his father will not know of our engagement.


Vacuum Tubes

I'm currently 19 and my boyfriend is 20 and we have been dating for about 2 and a half years. We started dating two weeks after we met; I was a Junior in high school and he was a Senior. Then he graduated and went to college, and then I graduated and went to a different college. So far we've survived those transitions pretty well (though it definitely took effort to make the arrangement work), so I think there's hope for us. We do intend to get married but we're not engaged yet. My boyfriend will graduate college a year before me, so at that point we plan to move in together, get a cat, and (aside from my parents paying for the last year of school) be completely on our own. After I've graduated we'll probably get married that Fall (2012). By the time we get married, we will have been together for over 5 and a half years, living together for about a year and a half and engaged for 1ish years (probably).


Akiitsu

It began just over two years ago now, starting out on a game called Kal Online. I had been newer to the server and already had a few friends...and a few guys with the hots for me. Eventually I met one named Jay, and he happened to be drunk, but he was pretty funny either way and still able to talk to me. So we hung out everyday after that, my first impression being "crazy drunk guy" which just led to being an inside joke between us after that. He had to pretty much fight to be able to play the game with me first before the other guys got me into their party(squad), everyday. (Even though I was a lot lower level then all of them).
Long story short, we just got closer and closer, eventually him pushing all those other guys out of the way and sort of "claiming" me in a way by always saying "MY AKI!!!" All the time, and just cute little things like that. Eventually leading to me figuring out he was from ENGLAND and I lived in Colorado! I had already grown too attached to him by now to care, so when he asked me out I couldn't say no.
A year and a half later....We arrange our first meeting in person. Nervous and scared, I picked him up at the airport, but the minute we hugged, I knew it was meant to be. He stayed for a little over a month with me and my parents, and we traveled to Las Vegas, and California for my familys yearly trip over there. Total blast and only made me realize HOW in love I was. Departing was one of the worst experiences of my life, and I wont discuss details on here unless you really wanna know, but they aren't pretty. xD
6 Months Later, unable to wait any longer to be back with him, he comes back. (I paid for it because I didnt want to wait any longer). Spending yet another month with me, it was 5 times better then the first time, and towards the end he asked my dad if he could marry me, and proposed! (Then another gruesome departure)
So since then we've been together for over 2 years now.
Noting: That neither of us were at all interested in 'online dating' whatsoever before we met. In fact I was COMPLETELY against it the entire time; and he hardly knew it was possible or how it would even work. Last thing on our minds. So I dont know what happened there. xD


That's the shortened up version of it, but like I said, complicated.(Extra Long distance AND underaged and engaged. sweatdrop ) Im 17 and he's 20 right now; and we're currently working on a Fiance Visa to bring him here; hoping to be married in October 2010. He'll hopefully come for his last visit in the end of August....then he'll no longer be able to come to America while the process is happening thanks to dumb american laws. cry


Mr Ransom 2

here is my story, My name is Tyler, I am 21 years old and I have been married to a beautiful woman named Sarah for, it will be 3 years on July 15th and we have a beautiful son. Back in high school I slept around a lot, no I am not proud of that, its a wonder I did not get something I did not want from that, but I met her an we dated for 5 months and were in love, so we married, we have a healthy marriage and I would not trade her for any woman in the world, though Carrie Underwood temps me sometimes, lol, i'm kidding


Scubas_girl
Me and my boyfriend are engaged, I am 16 and he is 19.

He proposed to me when i was 15 and he was 18.

Ours is kinda sad, i guess. My family life isn't that great.

One day, i felt like i couldn't take it anymore. I dumped out my purse and packed food, money, and some spare clothes (I have a big purse). My boyfriend was coming over for a surprise visit. I had packed my purse and an extra bag and wrote a note for my mom to find in my room. I jumped out my window and left. Right when i did my boyfriend pulled up (window and drive way are on different sides of the house.) I was planning on stopping by his house and putting a note in his mail-box. He went in my room and read my note, Leapt out my window and ran down the 3 blocks that i had already walked. He tackled me down to the ground. He was crying his eyes out. He picked me up and just held me. I started crying too.

Right then and there, he got on his knee and proposed. He said he never wanted to lose me, and that he would die on the inside if I did. My mom doesn't know, but she knows that we are in love.

He bought me a promise ring for christmas. No one knows besides us.

He has this huge thing planned out for the family.
I cant wait for that day.
I'll be a junior this year. So i've been engages for almost a year.


Sephiroths samurai girl

Back at the start of 2007 I decided to go to my first convention. I joined the forum and met some great girls on there who lived in the same town as me! We met up and became good friends, and soon found an expo that was before the convention and right where we lived! We all went and one of the girls, Amy, brought a friend too; Jack. He was very quiet and pretty shy so we didn't get to talk a lot but when we did he was very funny and very good looking. We got to talk about uni (as I was going to start my first year after that summer) and he and Amy went to the same one I'd be starting. Unfortunately he had to leave early and I didn't get to see him again for some time apart from talking to him on the phone briefly when talking to Amy.
The girls and I went to the convention and had a great time. When September 27th came we had a freshers fair at uni where all the clubs put up stalls and you can join. Amy lived closer so I stayed at her house where Jack also lived (it was a student house). In the morning she didn't want to get up so asked Jack if he could take me instead as I'd never been on campus before. We got a taxi there and he gave me his number so I could call him when I was done in my meeting. I met him at the fair after that and had a great day. That weekend Amy had a birthday party at the house and I met Jack again.
We got on really well and after flirting and playing with climbing chalk for most of the night we ended up snuggled up on the sofa, him feeding me popcorn. On Monday it was the first club meeting and we got on even better. He was still very shy though and it took him a while to voice how he felt. By Monday 15th we'd had our first kiss as I got in the taxi to go home and by the 17th I mentioned that he'd not asked me out yet so he did.
I gradually spent more and more time staying over his house, by xmas I had pretty much moved in with him and the others and we decided that we'd find a place on our own for next year. We stayed with my mum over the summer while we waited to move into our new apartment and moved in at the start of September last year. We got my ring for xmas and he proposed on New Years Day after we'd watched The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
Everyone pretty much accepted and knew it was coming and were very happy for us. My mum asked us once to wait for a while but after we said we wanted to do it when we wanted she dropped it and has now been the biggest help out of everyone (not that I would have expected anything less from my wonderful mum). His parents have been nothing but trouble tbh, they wanted us to wait so they could pay for the wedding (though we had no problem funding it ourselves and didn't ask them to help). When we booked the registry office they continued to bring pamphlets for other places closer to them. They've not liked anything we've done, they've cancelled so many meetings to talk about the wedding then claim we're leaving them out when we have to do it without them, best of all they've been rude to my mum when they do actually bother coming down.
Nothing is going to ruin our day though and we're doing it just the way we want. Jack is the most wonderful person I've ever met. We do everything together, we even do couple cosplays (that I make) which people always make wonderful comments on. :3


T W I N K L E inc

Batman and I have a really strange, confusing, and pretty silly story, but here it goes:

In the sixth grade I got a full scholarship to this really nice private school. I quickly made some friends, and we were so proud of our "grownupyness" and we hung out in the cafeteria a lot. That's when one of my strange strange strange friends noticed this guy. He looked like her dream guy and she decided we were going to follow him. We followed him to the computer lab in the high school, where she found out his name was Aaron and he was a ninth grader. I got out of there pretty quickly after that, but we had to make a few more computer lab visits so she could drool over him. I liked to pretend I wasn't there and we never spoke to him or got close to him.

Fast forward to the ninth grade and most of my friends are even stranger. That weird friend notices him again, but this time he's a senior and in her mind he's gotten 200x hotter. I was dating my close friend Ryan at the time. They decide to start a fanclub for him and stalk him. I just keep out of it and leave them to their weird stuff. A month into the school year and he's already figured out who they all are and that I'm their friend. Unfortunately I love the computer lab and I usually hung out in the same places he was hanging out. His first words to me were "STOP STALKING ME. IT'S NOT CUTE!" I told him that I had no clue what he was talking about. Haha. He started calling me his stalker and we quickly became close friends. In May I realized I was pregnant (still dating my boyfriend Ryan) and I could not go to prom with Batman as a friend like we had planned since I was on bed rest. He skipped prom to come hang out with me and we got dressed up and had fun watching TV.
After Ryan and I hit a year in June I found out that he had been cheating on me for months and I realized how controlling he was. We broke up and Batman was there to help me out and take care of me since I was still on bed rest.
We started dating shortly after and he proposed on the fourth of July when we were in Manhattan watching the fireworks show. We're trying to find somewhere to live and he is as excited about the twins as I am.

I know we've rushed into things and I have my own doubts and worries, but I can't picture myself with someone else and I just know he's the right one for me.

/end of dumbstorytelling.



MayIHelpYou22102
"My Story

Both me and my fiance have come from horrible backgrounds. We both were the outcasts in every aspect of our lives and have had our reputations viciously destroyed by rumors made by jealous exes. In August 2006, I was newly over a horrible breakup. My fiance was just dumped by a person he was dating (that later turned stalker). On August 11th, he put up a post on Sconex that he wanted to harmlessly date anyone and everyone with no real strings attached. Sort of-- shopping. I thought it was pretty cool to actually date someone without being in an actual commited relationship with them. It was something I'd never done before. So I replied. There were a few others that replied to. I called him that night and we talked until the early morning. At about 3am, August 12th, we started dating.
A month into our "relationship" all hell broke lose. His "girlfriends" all accused him of cheating. One even sent girls to hurt him in her defense. I was the only one to believe he would never do such a thing. He didn't.
As a result of all the drama, he decided to break up with everyone. He saw that the "dating" wasn't working. But his eyes never left me. He never forgot that I was the only one that had faith in him, even when there was overwhelming gossips on the subject. He talked to me as if nothing ever changed. And nothing did. Later he said, in his heart, he never let go of me. Two weeks later, we got back together. This time, it was the start of our committed wonderful relationship.
For the first six months, all his exes and all of mine did everything they possibly could to destroy our lives. They spread rumors, hacked into our accounts online, and even recruited about a hundred people for their efforts by crying and lying on what really happened.
On our three month anniversary, we'd gone through hell, and it seemed so bad. I started getting sick, and so did he. We both have things that are potentially fatal. If I remember right, he had just come back from the hospital from a heart attack. He was 18, I was 17. We had the best talk of our lives. We'd been through more things together than most have in three years of relationships. That night, at 3am, he proposed. And I accepted.
Since we were so young and our parents didn't approve (yet) of our relationship, we have kept it secret. We have a deal. When I graduate college, he will propose in the most surprising and traditional way. (To this day, he refuses to tell me what he's planning). And we will get married soon after. But he made me promise to wait until college is over. So we can truly say we didn't rush.
Next month is our three year anniversary. We have been faithfully and happily together ever since. More and more people are trying to break us up every day, but most have retreated: seeing that we are the real deal. We are in love, and happily have been engaged for over two years. And I hope every good woman on earth finds as great of a man as my fiance is to me. I end this as I kiss him (right now) and officially say I'm engaged. heart
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GlowInTheDarkCondom

Our Story:In my freshman year of high school I was a smart, loner kid and I was having a really hard time making friends and finding a place to belong when I came across an old friend She introduced me to a junior that had ‘adopted’ her as his freshman because he was creating a collection of us. Needless to say, he also adopted me. Well, I’m a bit of a spaz, I used to hop around aimlessly like a big dork and that amused the junior who adopted me so he introduced me to his best friend, Derek. I fell pretty hard then and there and I watched him in the cafeteria and in the halls during passing all the time. I even got butterflies when we made eye contact.

It came time for clubs to start and I joined the drama club to find that Derek was a part of it. There was an ice cream social the first day and I spent most of the time watching him as apposed to talking to anyone. Finally, I went to say hello to him and all he did was nod at me. I thought he hated me D : .

Needless to say, we had mutual friends and were sort of forced to spend time together even though I tried to ignore him and pretend he didn’t exist. Sometimes I would catch him looking at me but I thought it was just because he thought I was crazy. Eventually we started talking, mostly via msn because we’re both shyer than we seem. One night I had broken up with my boyfriend and was talking to Derek and a mutual friend, Quinn, and I confessed to her that I had a huge crush on Derek. Well, she told him. He indirectly asked me out in a way that made NO sense and then did it bluntly, I said yes.

We only dated for a little while before he broke up with me and stated that he’d been pressured into asking me out by his best friend and that he didn’t really like me. I later found out he was dating Quinn who had been his ex-girlfriend. Quinn had broken up with Derek’s best friend to be with him then, too. Things were painful between Derek and I but Quinn broke up with him (she was only with him because she was jealous of he and I) and got back together with Derek’s besty and Derek and I started to talk again. He confessed that he was in love with me and he regretted breaking up with me more than anything but I was already dating his worst enemy (purely by accident) and wasn’t about to pull the same stunt he had. We flirted on and off for a few months, fought about my boyfriend and finally I gave up. I told him I was his, I loved him and that I would ditch and go to his place in the morning so we could talk.

XD We ended up having sex (can you say ‘mutual virginity loss) and I broke up with my boyfriend. Derek and I have been together since. He proposed once but didn’t have a ring.

In September of 2009 we found out I was pregnant. On Thanksgiving 2009 he proposed in front of his entire family and mine, this time he had a ring.

We now live with my mother (as of March 2009) with out son, Jude (May 2009).

Derek and I refuse to get married until we have been together for at least five years, longer if we haven’t gotten out own place in the next two.

I am seventeen years old. Derek is twenty.

WHOO, long story!


rabid rabit 260
So two years ago I ended up moving with my family to South Carolina because my step-dad had found a new and "better paying" job there. So for the entire summer I had nothing to do. I spent what ever chance i had on here talking to my friends from back up in Indiana. (which is where i'm back at now) Right before the school year started I met a girl on here and her and I fell for eachother almost right off. We were together for a month then unforseen circumstances came up and we had to break up. (we had talked on the phone alot, and made attempts to get to see eachother on a web-cam or something.) but so about a month goes by of me being single yet again. Then some time in october of the same year I meet my fiancee in a form here. I was still down from my recent break up and needed someone to talk to that wasn't one of my guy friends. We became friends fairly quickly, and I wanted to try and keep it that way. but then about a month later of us talking just about every day I asked her to be with me. And she said yes.

So for a month we were very happy together, hadn't talked on the phone or anything yet. But then my ex came to me and said she wanted me back and I said okay and broke up with my fiancee. Then my ex broke up with me on christmas. On January 3rd of the next year I had the guts to ask my fiancee for forgiveness. And she forgave me.

We were a very happy couple, we moved to talking on the phone as soon as we got the chance and our relationship was amazing. I proposed to her after only being together for 5 months. When I did it I was just so absolutely in love with her. But then time went by and we started to have problem a long distance relationship would have. (she only lives two states away from me now) Arround april of this year she broke up with me. I was extreamily hurt and heartbroken. I moved on though and actually met someone that i was going to try to be with. But then last month my fiancee came back to me and asked me to forgive her. and i did.

So here we are. We've not yet gotten the chance to meet since things have been thrown in our way so many times. Shes getting ready to start college here next month, i'm still trying to find a job. we're hoping to get a chance to meet here in a couple months.

Yep, lots of stuff there, but i feel most of the detail was important. Sorry if it's too much, being a writer and tryin to not focus on details is hard.


5uicide_bunny
I met my husband (common law marriage) online at plentyoffish.com sweatdrop

I wasn't really looking for a serious relationship, I had just gotten out of a bad long-term one and just wanted to have fun and forget about it, so I hooked up with a bunch of different ppl and then I met him and he asked me for a serious relationship and I accepted.

He had been recalled back by the marines, I was in the last week of my senior year and from the time we first met in June of 2008 I've seen him every day. He is now out of the marines do to injuries he had gotten from a motorcycle accident before he was recalled and we now have a house of our own in his hometown of Houston TX . Our birthdays are both in march, he turned 25 and I turned 19 this year,and 4 days after my birthday we had our son (planned).

We do have our arguments and insecurities (mostly me), but I always get him to talk things out... Maybe not very well but i'm working on it. We've chosen the "swingers" lifestyle, which is extremely tricky, but its fun and it spices up our sex life. Every argument brings us closer.


Mr. Pink Fluff
Oh, yes, I forgot to add my story. Silly me.

My wife and I met on Gaia. In the GD, no less. We started talking in PMs and then on the phone and then one thing just led to another. Once I got out of school, I hopped on a bus and rode to Modesto, where she was. We spent three months there, just loving life and being able to be next to each other.

However, her mother became a severe problem. Dont get me wrong, she's a really sweet woman... when she's sober. When drunk, she was a NASTY woman. She would say things to my wife that were just unspeakable. Finally, I couldn't handle it anymore. I wanted to go back home and she was coming with me.

My parents were incredibly supportive of this, but told us that she either needed to be emancipated or we get married. So we decided to get married.

My parents drove us to Reno to do it. We did it at one of those cheap-o places you see made fun of a lot, but I was very surprised with it. The ceremony was beautiful, despite the fact that her mother came drunk.

From there, we drove her mother back to her house, and drove off to where I grew up to start our life together.

And here we are, a year and nine months later, in our own apartment, happily married.

Urgh-a, I know this is poorly written, but bear with me, I'm having a rough morning.


Satil

I was so angry in high school. I had a poor home life and some mental health issues that were really steam rolling me. I was bullied mercilessly in middle school and early high school and decided to reject everyone else before they did me by being as weird and strange as I possibly could be. My husband was one of those "floaters" who had many different groups of friends, but wasn't in the "inner circle" of any and didn't really want to be.

We were in the same English Lit class our Senior year and we had never really noticed each other except to think the other was cute. He was already in the military and a sort of "normal" looking guy- totally not the kind I usually go for. I was browsing in the library for my senior research project and he came up behind me, and on a whim decided to hug me and tell me he loved me to see what I would do. I was stunned, and intrigued- so we shared a table and started talking. I gave him my number. Two weeks later we started dating. That was nearly 8 years ago.

We moved in together right after Graduation (and after he had finished 4 months of military training) at my mother's house. He went to a different college than me for one semester, then transferred to my college.

Then we got quite possibly the worst news we could have ever gotten. He was to be deployed. We had been together roughly 3 years at this point. I was heartbroken and dreaded the day he left. A ton of people thought we wouldn't make it, but it never even crossed our minds. He was gone for 18 months. I took care of everything while he was gone. His finances, legal documents, bill payments, and school stuff. I got to know his family really well and we all got really close. He came back and we moved into the apartment we live in now. We've lived here for almost 3 and a half years now.

We were married May 9th, 2009. Right after I finished my Master's degree at the ages of 25 each. I feel like we've grown so much over the years, both as people and as a couple. I look forward to the changes we will make in the future. Growing in our careers, expanding our family, and just enjoying life together.


B~lood~S~hed

Well my fiancé and I met on Gaia actually. I was getting out of a bad relationship at the time and in my heart break I was transitioning into another potential harmful relationship. I was posting in the thread about the relationship and I was so clueless to how harmful it had become. He saw my posts and decided to message me to tell me that if I ever needed anyone to talk to he was there for me. We talked off and on for awhile and finally after getting me over my shyness he had me call him. From then on we talked on the phone almost everyday. It then went from a friendship into a relationship. We started dating September 24th 2008. We had only been together for about two and a half months when things started getting really bad with my family. We thought things through and I moved up from my home town to a state that was ten hours away from anyone I knew. We were instantly comfortable with each other and couldn't have been happier. When we had been together for six months he asked me to marry him. We were laying in bed one night joking around like we usually do before bed and he said something and I said "Nope. Not until we're married." Just goofing around. He got quiet and a few moments later he asked me if I would. I asked what and he said "Will you marry me?" I got quiet for awhile and giggled but evetually said yes. We don't have a date set yet...but we know it'll be in september sometime. We've been together for ten months now and things are going strong.


TheTrueGothPrincess
Well here's my story! *inhales* Well it was the start of my 11th grade year and the start his 12th. He had just transfered to my zoology class and at the time I was dating and engaged to this guy who was living with my mother and I. That is another can of worms I wish not to get into. Well I guess I wasn't truly in love because I had that wandering eye ya know! Anywho, I saw this guy who always slept in class and had this sad look on his face and never payed attention in school. Well my friend and I were talking about him and I was talking about how I so wanted to talk to him! Well apparently I was psyhic about this because the next day on the way home he sat in my bus seat. Normally I kick others out because that is my friend's and I seat but this was my dream come true. I said, "are you going to sit there?" and he got this oh ******** look on his face I giggled and said "oh no I want to sit by the window!" and he smiled slightly and sat down. He was listening to music on his lil Ipod thingy. I was thinking about what to say and I noticed these amazing blue eyes and I tugged on his jacket and made him take his ear-phones out and I told him he had pretty eyes he smiled and put them back in. I sighed and tugged again asking him if he was in my zoology class and he nodded once again and I told him my hobbies and we had writing in common. Score I thought! So anyways there was a zoology trip coming up that Tuesday it was currently like the Thursday before. Flash forward we were at the zoo talking and what not and I got his number forgetting about my fiance at home. We got close and that Saturday the ACT was coming up. We were going on the same day weird huh? Well I asked him if he needed a ride home and he said yes. The Friday before the ACT we hung out at his house since my fiance was at his brother's. We talked and shared our first kiss. I was already in love and head over heels. He told me things that would make a person's head explode. He had a dark past not with cheating or anything but with serious issues (cutting and an abusive stepdad). Flashfoward to the next week I confessed to him that I was engaged and that he was living with me. We had made out and all that nice jazz and he was pissed, upset and hurt. I was the only person he was close to in so many years and I left out this HUGE detail about me. I left my fiance that day from him and now we have our place and the date set and everything. I still get butterflies being so close to him! There are way more details and goes WAY deeper than that. But I would take up the whole page lol!


Am_I_God
~My Story~
Tim and I met in early March 2006 (my freshman and his junior year of high school) through a theatre class. I had just started dating another guy, Andy, a week eariler. Tim started obviously flirting with me. For the next year, he steadily flirted with me, and I flirted back when I was single.
April 2007, the thearte took a 48 hour field trip to the Shakesphere Festival, and Tim and I both went. We had to be at the school by 6 AM for the 5 hour bus drive. About 15 minuets in, Tim came and sat with me and my friend Tina. We talked for the whole drive. I admitted that I used to have a crush on him. We spent the rest of the day getting to know each other. That night, we went to the first play, Tracy's Tiger. Part way through the second act we ended up holding hands. He asked me out after the play was over.
After that, things started moving really fast. Withing the first day, I told him things that I'd only told my closest friends; withing the first week, I knew I was falling in love with him; within the first month, I told him something that I had never told anyone else, and never will. That December, he told me he wanted to enlist in the Marines and he left for bootcamp January 14th, 2008. He was on leave for our 1 year anniversary and gave me a promise ring promising to be faithful while we were apart.
He got stationed in North Carolina, and I was finishing high school in Oregon, so we spent the next year 3000 miles apart and only seeing eachother 3 times. He came back for my high school graduation this past June. He told me his flight would get in Thrusday moring, but he really got in Tuesday night and asked my parents for my hand in marrige Wednesday. When I went over to his grandpa's to go to the airport, he came out of the house and proposed. I was 17 at the time. We will be getting married next summer, I will be 18 and he will be 21.





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I proposed to my 15-year old GF a while ago. I'm 17.
she said yes.
     

fourth generation CB ninja, here to fxck up your GD.
Congratulations! I'd love to hear your story. c:
 
     
 
I guess that's what my boyfriend and I are. We're not exactly "engaged" but we are more than just boyfriend and girlfriend. I live with him right now and we are planning on getting married as soon as it seems like a reasonable time. We're both 19, but he'll be 20 in September. We see ourselves as being married without the paper work and tax break.

I'm supportive of younger couples, as long as they understand that engagement isn't just a term to throw around. It's an actual commitment, not just something to make you look cool.
     
The Mello
I guess that's what my boyfriend and I are. We're not exactly "engaged" but we are more than just boyfriend and girlfriend. I live with him right now and we are planning on getting married as soon as it seems like a reasonable time. We're both 19, but he'll be 20 in September. We see ourselves as being married without the paper work and tax break.

I'm supportive of younger couples, as long as they understand that engagement isn't just a term to throw around. It's an actual commitment, not just something to make you look cool.

Makes sense. I heard something once about how if you're dating and cohabitating long enough, it counts as like... being technically married? I have no idea on the laws or truth of it or anything. Just something I heard. >.>'

Yeah, I really don't get people like that. There was one girl at my school who was "engaged" like three times in one year. I wanted to hit her. D: But then, I'm sure there are older people who do the same.
 
     
 
my story is typical: Got married before I was 19. and I'm three months from 21 and in the process of a divorce.
     
Well I am 17 and my fiance is 18 but by time we get married I will be 19 and he will be 20. I got my ring today actually. We got engaged before a ring, he had told me about a certain event that happened in his life and when I still loved him and wanted to be with me he said he just knew I was the one and he had to be with me. BUT I GOT MY RING TODAY AFTER WAITING SO LONG =]


Edit: I support anyone willing to get engaged and married young and long as the couple are mature and unstand that divorce is always a possiblitity. Doesn't mean it will happen but it could happen. As long as the people know that communication goes along way than go ahead and more luck to ya!
 
     
 
atomic_energy
my story is typical: Got married before I was 19. and I'm three months from 21 and in the process of a divorce.


I searched desperately for statistics on that, but I couldn't find any. Sorry you're getting divorced, anyway.
     
TheTrueGothPrincess
Well I am 17 and my fiance is 18 but by time we get married I will be 19 and he will be 20. I got my ring today actually. We got engaged before a ring, he had told me about a certain event that happened in his life and when I still loved him and wanted to be with me he said he just knew I was the one and he had to be with me. BUT I GOT MY RING TODAY AFTER WAITING SO LONG =]

Aw, that's sweet. c: Congratulations. My fiance proposed in the SEARS parking lot. xD It was kind of funny, now everytime we pass it while driving, we both laugh a little.
 
     
 
Gorrific
atomic_energy
my story is typical: Got married before I was 19. and I'm three months from 21 and in the process of a divorce.


I searched desperately for statistics on that, but I couldn't find any. Sorry you're getting divorced, anyway.

eh, it happens.
     

who are you talkin' to?
Gorrific
The Mello
I guess that's what my boyfriend and I are. We're not exactly "engaged" but we are more than just boyfriend and girlfriend. I live with him right now and we are planning on getting married as soon as it seems like a reasonable time. We're both 19, but he'll be 20 in September. We see ourselves as being married without the paper work and tax break.

I'm supportive of younger couples, as long as they understand that engagement isn't just a term to throw around. It's an actual commitment, not just something to make you look cool.

Makes sense. I heard something once about how if you're dating and cohabitating long enough, it counts as like... being technically married? I have no idea on the laws or truth of it or anything. Just something I heard. >.>'

Yeah, I really don't get people like that. There was one girl at my school who was "engaged" like three times in one year. I wanted to hit her. D: But then, I'm sure there are older people who do the same.


It's a commonlaw marriage, but I'm not sure on the rules of it. We've been living together for about a year now, and all of our friends even consider us married. If you invite one, you have to invite the other. It takes a lot of patience and a lot of trust, but living together is really awesome if you're with someone you really love.

He and I started dating the day after we met, and knew we were right for each other a week later. It's one of those rare circumstances where we just clicked.

As for the wedding, we already know approximately when we'd like to get married, which is most likely in 2011 or 2012. I've been dreaming of wedding dresses and locations and who to invite and silly other things, but we know we want it to happen.

The best thing is that our families are totally behind us. His mom calls me her "future daughter-in-law" and his brother calls me "Eric's wife". They all are just waiting for the invitation.
 
     

"What does a scanner see? Into the head? Into the heart? Does it see into me? Clearly? Or darkly?"
 
Gorrific
TheTrueGothPrincess
Well I am 17 and my fiance is 18 but by time we get married I will be 19 and he will be 20. I got my ring today actually. We got engaged before a ring, he had told me about a certain event that happened in his life and when I still loved him and wanted to be with me he said he just knew I was the one and he had to be with me. BUT I GOT MY RING TODAY AFTER WAITING SO LONG =]

Aw, that's sweet. c: Congratulations. My fiance proposed in the SEARS parking lot. xD It was kind of funny, now everytime we pass it while driving, we both laugh a little.

Aw, that is cute. He proposed to me in the bed after a heart to heart about that event. His exact words were, "if I don't ask you this now I will explode, Lauren you are the most understanding person I have met. I love you so much will you marry me?" We were both crying a river. smile

Edit:My mom's wedding gift to us is giving us the wedding she never had. We have the place and date and everything.
     
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The Mello
Gorrific
The Mello
I guess that's what my boyfriend and I are. We're not exactly "engaged" but we are more than just boyfriend and girlfriend. I live with him right now and we are planning on getting married as soon as it seems like a reasonable time. We're both 19, but he'll be 20 in September. We see ourselves as being married without the paper work and tax break.

I'm supportive of younger couples, as long as they understand that engagement isn't just a term to throw around. It's an actual commitment, not just something to make you look cool.

Makes sense. I heard something once about how if you're dating and cohabitating long enough, it counts as like... being technically married? I have no idea on the laws or truth of it or anything. Just something I heard. >.>'

Yeah, I really don't get people like that. There was one girl at my school who was "engaged" like three times in one year. I wanted to hit her. D: But then, I'm sure there are older people who do the same.


It's a commonlaw marriage, but I'm not sure on the rules of it. We've been living together for about a year now, and all of our friends even consider us married. If you invite one, you have to invite the other. It takes a lot of patience and a lot of trust, but living together is really awesome if you're with someone you really love.

He and I started dating the day after we met, and knew we were right for each other a week later. It's one of those rare circumstances where we just clicked.

As for the wedding, we already know approximately when we'd like to get married, which is most likely in 2011 or 2012. I've been dreaming of wedding dresses and locations and who to invite and silly other things, but we know we want it to happen.

The best thing is that our families are totally behind us. His mom calls me her "future daughter-in-law" and his brother calls me "Eric's wife". They all are just waiting for the invitation.

Aw, that's really great! It's good that your families are so supportive, I don't know what I'd do if my parents weren't behind me, it'd be a real downer. =/
My mom already calls my fiance her son, and my dad let him move in here, so he's obviously supportive. I dunno, things always just seem easier with the ones you love supporting you. [/cheesy-ness]
 
     
 
I have a hard time believing teenagers that get engaged will actually get married. It's just from personal experience and my views on marriage.

Personally, I don't think anyone should get married unless they have spent at least a year living together under the same roof. Going to their place and sleeping over does not count. For instance, I had a pretty happy relationship with my first boyfriend. Around 8 months into the relationship he moved in with me due to family issues. I can say for sure this revealed how incompatible we were. We had different views on what housework needed to be done, schedule for the day etc. Living together allows you to find out the best and worst of your partner. And if you can get used to them being around all the time then kudos.

The actual wedding itself isn't the problem but what kind of life are you going to have with your partner is. It takes a lot of contemplating and essentially a big leap of faith that everything will work out for the best.

But it is good you feel so strongly. I do wish you two luck in the future : )
     
TheTrueGothPrincess
Gorrific
TheTrueGothPrincess
Well I am 17 and my fiance is 18 but by time we get married I will be 19 and he will be 20. I got my ring today actually. We got engaged before a ring, he had told me about a certain event that happened in his life and when I still loved him and wanted to be with me he said he just knew I was the one and he had to be with me. BUT I GOT MY RING TODAY AFTER WAITING SO LONG =]

Aw, that's sweet. c: Congratulations. My fiance proposed in the SEARS parking lot. xD It was kind of funny, now everytime we pass it while driving, we both laugh a little.

Aw, that is cute. He proposed to me in the bed after a heart to heart about that event. His exact words were, "if I don't ask you this now I will explode, Lauren you are the most understanding person I have met. I love you so much will you marry me?" We were both crying a river. smile


It's good that you'll always have that emotional memory. It's also good that he's not afraid to cry. I've only seen Michael cry once. Damn men! D:<
 
     

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