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Ok so i see the boards for 20 somethings, but lets face it, us under 21s are in a totally different place to someone whos 29 or even 25. So tell me about yourselves! Im kinda new here but im really enjoying getting to know everyone :)
I agree. I never reply on the 20 something boards, even though thats closest to my age. FI is 20, but I'm 19. However, I do feel like I'm in the mindset of about a 25 year old. lol. Hmmm.... lets see i live in Missouri. FI and I have been together for 3 years in 9 days. EEK. He proposed after only 2 months of dating, so yes i was engaged at 17. I'm a nanny for 3 kids. I want to live in all over the world. And I'm a fashion snob. lol. I HATE watching movies more than once. But I could watch P.S. I Love You, I Love You Man, and Talladega Nights everyday of my life. My favorite shows are HIMYM, Glee, Reba, and Castle.
One thing I've never said on here, out of fear of ppl looking down on me, FI and I dropped out of HS after I got pregnant (after we got engaged, we didnt get engaged do to pregnancy), but i ended up losing the baby. It was also to help my newly single, and struggling mom. So, right now I'm studying to get my GED. and FI just got his. But thats pretty important to who I am, it has shaped who I am today.
Well seeing as i made this post i better tell my story!
Im 19 and fiance is 20, we are getting married in september! eek only 5 months away! i will be 20 in july and he will be 21 in october :) we live in a small beachy coastal town with a population of about 4000, oh and its in Australia btw. Im a hairdresser after i dropped out of school in year 10 and done my cert 3 but i cant get much work here so i mainly do family and friends and work at a boring retail job through the days *yawn*, Fiance works for a company that looks after and takes disabled people and children out on day trips and camps ( he finally got his traineeship in it) it doesnt pay much but it makes us happy! we have a perfect little flat we have lived in for 1 year now 5 min walk to the beach :)
my favourite shows are GLEE! ofcorse who doesnt love glee? ( haha sarcasm much?) and my favourite movies are : diary of a whimpy kid, JUNO!, zombieland and heaps more. I have a weird sence of humour which people dont seem to get and kind of look at me trying to figure out if im a freak or im joking and most of the time they dont get that im actually JOKING!
We met in school but i thought he was a little chubby loser and he payed no attention to me, 2 years later we talked on msn through a friend and recognised his face (only alot skinnier) haha from his DP, he on the other hand did not remember me but we met up as friends the next week and have been inseperable for 3 years on our wedding day!
You are so brave telling that! im so sorry for your loss you must be one strong woman. We have alot in common too! :) we were engaged at 17 too! and my dream job is to be a nanny or a pre-school teacher thats why im doing my cert 3 in child studies next month :)
p.s Glee is THE BEST SHOW EVER!
My man and I are not officially engaged yet, but we are in the "pre-engagement" planning stage where we know we will get married, it's just a matter of when. SO and I are 19, both students. We are preparing for a move to the east coast, the first time for both of us, to go to college so I know we will do a lot more growing up being so away from our families.
Hello fellow Bees! First of all, I just wanted to say that have thoroughly enjoyed reading all about each of you and truly applaud you for being such strong-willed, kind, and mature people. I don't exactly fit the criteria for this thread as I am currently 21, but I thought I would introduce myself regardless.
Both FI and I are 21. In fact, FI is exactly two weeks older than I am (his birthday is October 5th and mine is the 19th). We met and began dating during our freshman year of high school... Yes, that's right, we're the cliche high school sweethearts, and we have just recently celebrated our 6th (dating) anniversary in March.
Both of us have endured different struggles in our lives, and because of this we have always been very mature and unable to fully relate to our peers. FI and I knew way back in high school that we wanted to spend our lives together, and even spoke with our parents during our junior year of high school about our desire to get engaged.
During our senior year of high school, we decided we did not want to be apart during college, so I told FI to pick the school of his choice as my parents could not afford to send me to an expensive college, especially after we lost our home to foreclosure just a few months before FI and I graduated. He chose Purdue University where he currently studies Electrical Engineering, and I enrolled in courses at the local community college. We bought our own house, and moved from NJ to IN during the summer after graduation. It has been a hard, yet fulfilling journey, and one I am glad to say I have experienced, for it has given me a sense of self, a purpose, the experience to learn how to manage my life, and most importantly it has strengthened my relationship with FI.
FI proposed in February of 2009, and after having to cancel our wedding plans twice due to lack of finances, we are finally setting everything in motion to get married in September of this year (2011)! We are very excited and can't wait to be husband and wife!
As for further details, FI will be graduating from Purdue in May of 2012, and I am working hard to obtain two different degrees (Psychology and Early Childhood Education) from two different online degree programs. I am, however, working to transfer my credits to Purdue University to finish my schooling there. We also work to support each other(FI part-time and full-time for me), and spend a lot of time with our dog, Maggie. We enjoy listening to classic rock and going camping. FI is very focused on school and enjoys doing things that pertain to Electrical Engineering, while I enjoy spending time with family and the children I babysit for, as well as drawing, painting, writing, watching sports (my Philly teams), gardening, cooking and decorating. I feel our future is bright, as is all of yours, and look forward to having a family of my own very soon!
Best wishes to each of you in the wedding planning and marriage process!
Awww, I think I'm the oldest in this thread :/. I am 22 and my FI is 26. We got engaged a few months after we started dating. If all of our immigration paperwork *stays* on track, we should get married early fall >.<
I love all your stories! i finally have some stuff in common with Bees because you guys are my age!
Also i dont like how the 20 something posts turn into people letting us know that they would never dream of getting married under 21 blah blah blah! So none of that here plz! :)
FH and I got informally engaged on my 17th birthday (he was 16), and officially engaged when we were both 18 (on Valentine's Day). Currently, we're both 20 (I turn 21 at the end of this month). We are soooo ready to get married (ugh!), but we're waiting until we graduate University, so we'll both be 22. : p
Hi! I'm 19 and my husband is 21 and we've been together for 4 years as of today! We've been married for almost a year and we got engaged in High School. We started dating after we met during our school musical "West Side Story" when I was a freshman and he was a junior...I was a costume girl and he was a Jet! We had a long distance relationship for 2 years when he went to a university 6 hours away, but it made us even stronger! He's studying to get his master's dergree in civil (structural) engineering and he's half way done! He's the most intelligent person I know and I'm constantly in awe of him!
Hmmm...I love reading and being a housewife! I love to cook and clean (surprisingly) and I love dresses with poofy skirts:D I also love waking up to stormy weather. My DH and I have been ttc for 6 months and I'm struggling emotionally on and off with it.
It's so great to get to know some Bee's that I can relate to!
P.S. Glee is awesome! Darren Criss is really cute:)
I was a 21 yo bride, now 22. I wish I would have thought to have a thread like this when I was first planning 
This is so great!. I need your help though bees. Im trying to bring fun to our wedding without people thinking its childish or silly. We are young and we want to show it and celebrate it at the wedding by making everyone have a really good time and lots of quirky fun. We are having a homemade photobooth with props, a krispy kreme tower for deserts along with 1 cutting cake and chocolate fondue on each table but i still need more ideas??
I cant wait to be a housewife ( my friends dont see how it could be so appealing) but all my life ive known thats what i wanted to do and to be a mother will be the ultimate dream! just taking care of my family seems like the most important thing i could ever do. I hope you have some luck soon with TTC i know a few people who it took 1-2 years but they have 3 children and it did happen for them so just keep positive :)
Joey, this is a great idea!
I'm 19 (turning 20 in less than a month) and FI is 24 this year. We've been together for almost 10 months and engaged for 1 and a half. haha. We fell in love online and in one night and dating after two weeks. A month after we started talking he moved over to WA to be with me and we recently just moved to NSW together.
We've gone to hell and back since we met; we've gone through his depression and anxiety, moving across the country and just last night I recieved one of those phone calls you dread getting about my grandma. We're both stubborn and old fashioned. We argue and yell sometimes but we're always stronger afterwards and we never go to bed angry. :P
I'm studying to be a primary school teacher but taking a year off atm. FI is looking into studying to be a school counsellor and we're both looking for jobs atm. I love purple and reeces peanut butter cups (even at $2.90!) :P
I'm 19 and my wonderful fiance is 21 (will be 20 and 22 on our wedding day.) We've been together for one year this Saturday, and we got engaged after 9 months together.
Honestly, there's not much to tell. We're pretty boring, going back to college this fall, getting our own place in 3 weeks - right now we live with 4 roommates.
We're having a very untraditional wedding - a very casual backyard BBQ type affair. I'm not wearing white, there will be almost no flowers, everything except the cake is DIY (and I mean literally everything: music, decor, food).
@Joeydoodle: I'm the same. Since I was 6 all I wanted was to meet the man of my dreams and have a beautiful family.
I'm going to put it out there and say it... but FI and I ARE trying for a baby and stuff anyone who tells me I'm an idiot! My mother is my idol and she had 3 kids under the age of 4 by the time she was 21. If she and my father can do it and still have a beautiful loving relationship plus their own house then so can I! If I get halfway to where my parents are at their age I'll be happy.
*exhales*
AHHHH! so exciting! your trying for a baby! i wish we were too! theres nothing wrong with having a baby at 20 anyway aslong as you are stable and can give your baby love and a good life then go for it. FMIL had her first at 19 (fell pregnant on the honeymoon) and then another at 22 and then my fiance at 25, she is now they coolest mother EVER! her and FFIL can go out together and enjoy things without kids because they are all grown up now and they still have plenty of time to have fun and enjoy the rest of their lives together. We plan to try after the wedding for a baby and im so excited!
@Joeydoodle: Me too!! haha. I basically hide it from everyone because I know what they'll say and how they'll look down on me because i've gotten it all before. It doesnt help that I look and sometimes act younger than my age. Sometimes I'm just a huge kid. I still squeal when I'm excited and I still adore Disney films but my mother is exactly the same! It's just who I am.
@Gingersnap: Your wedding sounds AWESOME!! I'm DIY-ing most of mine too.
Oh and I forgot to post this again...
GLEE ROCKS!!!! :P
I act like a kid still but i dont think anyone can take that away from me even when im 60! i love hello kitty and i have a tat of her on my hip, i love bows and anything pink or punkish and its just me. I have my responsabilities and i have a job and pay my rent, bills, do my housework etc so i think i have the right to act like a bit of a kid if i want :D
Hey there fellow Bees!
I'm in the same boat as many of you, I'm twenty, but I feel like I have a much older mentality than many of my fellow twenty somethings. My best friend is getting married in September, my SO and I have lived together for as long as we've been dating (almost two years) and I work full time and am trying to scrape together the money to go back to school.
A little about me. I am obsessed with singing (I'm currently in the fourth hour of a Glee marethon!) which frequently gets me in trouble at work because I absentmindedly sing when I'm not taking care of customers. I mean, I'm the girl you see in the car totally singing into the air microphone and getting WAY too into it, lol.
I'm also a lover of body modification, more specifically, tattoos. I have three to date and when the SO (finally!) proposes I will get my fourth. I can spend hours just browsing photos of gorgeous ink and daydreaming about the full sleeve I will get some day when tattoos are accepted in the workplace.
I love the summer months and the fasion that goes along with it, but beyond that my life is all about family. My sister, mother, and I all live significant distances apart and we still call/text/see each other all the time. My friends are my family to me and I spend as much time talking to them as possible.
AND I'm so glad to meet all of you!
@callirome: Hi. I like tattoos but I could never get one. Needles are scary!! But I love them.
@Misfit: I am TERRIFIED of needles! lol, I had a panic attack when I got a flu shot a few years back. It's like a gun, you don't really see the needles, and it sounds worse than it is depending on where you get them done. The one I just got done (only two weeks old!) barely hurt at all.
If i see a needle i will scream and run. Iam soooo affraid of needles its not even funny, but i have 2 tats.. go figure? its not that deep pain like a needle its more a scratchy sensation thats annoying.
@Joeydoodle: Right, it's like a razor blade or something, like when you nick yourself shaving. I fell asleep when they did the piece on my back, lol.
Just thought I would introduce myself. I am 18 and my FI is 20. I wil be 19 exactly ten days before the wedding. We met online but he lived about two and a half hours away from me. I was a junior in high school and he was about to graduate. A few months later I drove up to meet him and we have been together ever since. He works as a salesperson and is about to go back to college after they somehow screwed up his transfer of credits. I work as a full time nanny and I also work at a daycare.
We are looking at buying a house a few months from now so thats what I am spending most of my time on. I want to try for a baby after the wedding and the house but my FI still wants to wait a few years to be more financially stable. I think I will go with his plan though. Its always good to be more stable.
My FI loves movies but I am more of a music kind of girl. I love hanging out and playing with kids. Right now I am just deciding what I want to go to college for.
My situation is kind of unique. I am actually a dutch citizen so we are working out a bunch of visa things which makes it a lot more complicated for both of us. The only reason I am not in college is because of those complications. Hopefully after 3 years of being married I will be accepted into college. I am interested in Hotel and Restaurant Management so that is what I am looking to do.
I gues thats it!
@miksje130: Wow, such a cute story. I had a close family friend who met her DH online, they lived on different continents and they made it work amazingly! I love hearing stories like this, lol.
I agree with your FI to wait for kids, not because of finances, because you'll never be stable enough for a kid, but because you'll want to spend some alone time together to enjoy being newlyweds!
Congrats on your engagement!
Ohh, I fit into this category for a few more months! I'm a WV bride and having a huge backyard wedding at my grandparents' house. It's going to be a mix of DIY, vintage and classical style. The FI & I have been together about three and a half years & still going strong. We've got about 17 months left until our wedding, but our theory is that little payments at a time will be bigger than trying to finance a wedding all at once.
The FI is majoring in Petroleum Engineering (too much math for me)! I'm a professional wedding photographer, so being on the opposite end of wedding planning is fun. I'm an artsy-fartsy type person and love all things creative. I'm a lover of tattoos and piercings, coloring my hair, Disney World (I was engaged there) and black and white pictures. The FI is a lover of video games, reading and sports. Somehow these interests blend wonderfully.
We have a fur-baby by the name of Henry. He's a Boston Terrier Pug mix that was given up my his first set of parents (shame on them, he's a doll)! We love to spoil him, and for now he's enough baby for us. However, in the future, we might have a couple dumplings of our own :)
I guess that's it, I'll leave you with a picture of Henry to brighten your day!
I've always wanteed to be a housewife/ stay at home mother...my dh and I are both old fashioned and when I had a job for a couple months after our wedding it just didn't work. I love being able to make our home look clean and pretty and to have a nice dinner on the stove when he comes home:) Thank you for the kind words about ttc. I just feel like it'll never happen and I went into panic mode. I decided to not go to college to live out my dream and I would be ruined if I wasn't able to have children! It's too scary to even think about!
@livhefnerphoto: another engineer's wifey! Are you able to understand half the stuff they say after coming home at night?
@livhefnerphoto: I have three fur babies, but kitty fur babies, lol. One of them has been snuggling with me all night, which is kinda strange because he's such a Daddy's kitty, lol. He only likes me when his Dad isn't around.
@JewishBride - Ha! No, math and science seem to activate a "shut off switch" in my brain. I guess there are quite a few perks to being an engineer's wife though :)
@callirome - Aww, cats have never seemed to like me, but they are so adorable. Henry plays favorites with whoever is eating at the time.
I feel your pain. I know if i found out i could not have children i would literally feel like my whole world was ripped apart and i could not cope. I wouldnt worry though if you have been on birth control that sometimes takes time to finish up and your body to adjust. Just stay positive and know it will happen soon :) If god forbid i could not conceive naturally i would go the china adoption route and adopt a little girl. I do have a job but it doesnt feel right ever, unless im with kids it feels like a waste :( i look after others children almost every weekend or whenever i can.
@JewishBride- I completely understand your fear. I have a lot of problems with my periods, etc. I think I might have Endometrosis, but I cant get it confirmed due to no insurance. But if it goes untreated it causes scarring which leads to no kids. Having kids is so important to me. Its soo scary to think something might be wrong. Just be strong and stay positive.
This is the best thread ever. I feel like I can finally identify and connect with some bees. I've always felt I dont really fit in here, but this is great. I identify with a lot of you. I want to be a stay at home wife then mom some day. FI's job will require him to be gone like 2 weeks at a time then home for 2. I want to be able to spend those 2 weeks with him.
@Misfit- I think there is nothing wrong with you trying to have a baby. I go through cycles, probably when im ovulating. lol. Somedays I beg FI to have a baby. lol then others, like today when i babysat, its like NOOO!!!! I love my freedom now.
@Joeydoodle: If I couldn't have kids I would feel miserable. I have always wanted to be a stay at home mom if we could afford it. Eventually I would go the adoption route but I think I would need some time to process the whole "you cant get pregnant thing." I am on birth control and I have heard it takes a while for your body to adjust again but it should be fine.
@callirome: Yeah, you are right, we would spend a while together just to get used to it.
We live together although his family dont love the idea as christians but they accept it ( i love my FMIL AND FFIL) they are the best people ive ever met. So i do feel like we are married already! we have lived together for about 19 months now but only 12 of those in our own home together. Its still hard so i do agree to wait for a while to get to know your husband well enough to know what makes him tick etc. Some days i beg him to let me get prego too! haha but in my heart i know it would put alot of stress on him and then it would put stress on me and the baby. So after the wedding we will try, it will work out nicely because if we did conceive on the honeymoon in september or abit after, baby would most likely be born in july and thats my 21st birthday!. Also it would be nice because me and my brother are 12 years apart and born on the same day so to have another july 28th birthday would be so cool :) if earlier in june thats our 2 neices and my sisters bday month! and later couldnt hurt because i want a winter baby so i can hide my jelly belly under warm clothes hehe
@livhefnerphoto: same here! My mind goes completely blank when he starts talking about some experiment. I agree, there are many perks of being married to an engineer! It's all worth it:)
@Joeydoodle: Thank you for the support:) My entire family has irregular cycles and I'm no exception. It's so hard hearing about women that get pregnant so quickly when we've been trying longer. I agree with you on the adoption route. We would do everything we possibly could (iui, clomid, ivf) and if that didn't work we would adopt:)
@truitjen:I know what you mean. I wish I had regular cycles, I would probably be pregnant right now! I understand the no insurance problem! I have a gigantic deductable I have to meet and so I don't want to go just to have the dr. tell me to come back in 6 months and charge me a couple hundred dollars. I know I have no room to talk, but please see the doctor. If you do have a problem you still have time to fix it and miss out on the heart break of infertility. I guess we should both tell ourselves that a baby is priceless and is worth the $ we'll spend in the dr's office. I'm going to take my own advice:)
@Misfit:Yay! Fellow ttcer! How long have you been trying? I feel the same way as you, I've only told a close friend and the Hive I'm ttc. I wish I could talk to my mother about the frustration, but I know she would tell me I'm stupid and too young. It's hard because I go to her for almost everything! Loads of baby dust to you!
I'm so happy that I can finally relate to someone on here! I think we should have our own section:)
Okay, well, I'm 19 currently, and my boyfriend is 27. When we get married I'll be 21 and he'll be 29. I go to the University of Utah currently, but soon I'll be transferring to the University of Washington to finish my BA in Psychology. Then I'm getting a Masters in School Counseling. My boyfriend is training to be a police officer. I currently work a minimum wage food service job full time to support myself, and I can't wait to be done with school so I can have a more fulfilling and better paying job. I'm almost more excited for this than getting married ;). Ahh, as far as interests, I like knitting and crafting in general, and I watch a lot of crime shows.
That's about it!
That sucks you have to pay for healthcare in other countries! We get it all for free unless we are earing a fair bit of money. You shouldnt have to worry about paying for hospital bills after you have a child!
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