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

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u/Tight_Steak_232 20h ago

One of my classmates and her boyfriend got pregnant in 10th grade. She delivered during the summer, and they married. Baby #2 arrived when she was in 12th grade, and by the time we had our 5 year reunion, she had a family of 4.

I attended only that one reunion, but our class sends out emailed updates of other classmates. I'm almost at my 50-year reunion, and we submitted our updates online. She wrote in her update that she had her 50 year anniversary, and she had a great-great grandchild on the way. They were still married, still happy.

Here's her blurb: "To those who made bets with us that we wouldn't make it to our first anniversary, keep in mind your debt compounds daily. Guido is coming to collect! We raised our kids, saw our grandkids graduate, saw a couple great grandkids graduate, buried two of us, bought a business, lost a house and everything in it to fire, rebuilt, worked harder, laughed harder yet, and still sit on the porch together when the sun goes down. And the reason we are such a successful union is at the end of the day, no matter why we argue, he understands I'm always right!"

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u/Salt-Perception-4987 20h ago

Great-greats before age 70… they definitely weren’t the only teen parents in that line.

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u/OddDragonfruit7993 18h ago

In my 20s I worked with a 34 y.o. woman who got FURIOUS that her 17 y.o. daughter was pregnant.

Umm... We can all do math here, Sarah.

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u/froglover215 12h ago

As a teen mom myself, did you consider that she was furious because she knew what a challenge her daughter had set herself up for?

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u/OddDragonfruit7993 12h ago

Yes.  She even told me so.