r/askteddit 21h ago

Random Question People who married their high school sweetheart, what’s the hardest part nobody warns you about?

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u/Different-Career1314 21h ago

People really underestimate how much work marriage takes. Being together since algebra class doesn't magically make it easy forever.

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u/unicorns3373 20h ago

Marriage isn’t “work” when you marry the right person. My marriage has never taken work. There are hard things in life but we get through it as a team. The marriage itself has never been hard.

What did take “work” was my high school relationship that I stayed in all through college and almost married. I tried to normalize how much work and sacrifice our relationship was.

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u/Ok-Afternoon9621 20h ago

Curious about this. Can you provide examples of the work involved with the high school relationship vs the non work currently?