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Getting to know the 20 something's

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    sit1010    June 18, 2011   Living in Raleigh, NC, Getting Married in Rochester, NY

    All right bees, we've discussed revamping this board (ok I just lurked, I didn't participate in the discussion) so let's start with who we all are. Tell us where you are in your life and what brought you there. Let's discuss what it is that makes us 20 something's.

    I'm 28 and I'll be honest...I didn't start maturing until I met my FI at around age 25. It took meeting him to finally realize what I wanted, and what I needed to do to be that person. I'm still working on it. I've done a lot of things, I started college, I quit college (which was the last thing anybody expected of this little book worm) I went through basic training in the Army, after finishing I found out my dad was diagnosed with leukemia so I had to get a hardship discharge so I could spend time with him, I worked retail, I worked at a law firm, I went back to college and got my associates in accounting. I got a job in my field, hated it, got another job in my field, quit and moved from NY to NC with just my Ford Escape full of stuff, no permanent place to live and no job. 3 weeks later I had a nice room in a house with two roommates, a fantastic but anxiety inducing relationship (FI and I met when I answered an ad to become a roommate, stupid but hey it works, but dating your roommate, especially with a jealous female roommate is not recommended at all) and a job that I've been at for the last 2 1/2 years. It didn't matter where I was in my life, it wasn't where I wanted to be. I was in a relationship when I was young, would have been married at 24 and divorced by now I'm sure. I'm not saying that if you get married young you'll get a divorce but I can say it would not have worked out for me. I thought I was ready and I wasn't. So now I am finally ready. I've surrounded myself with the people I love and care about, cut off the people that only loved the drunken party girl side of me (the people I thought loved and cared about me) and threw myself into my new life. I am truly happy and hope you're all experiencing the same pre-wedding euphoria that I have.

     
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    Running Elley    June 19, 2011   Fresno, CA

    @sit1010:Your wedding is the day before mine! We're getting close :)


     

    I'm 21, FI is 25. We are getting married a few weeks after our 2 year anniversary. I'm a complete girly girl, love to read, run for fun (and exercise) and I really enjoy living in California! I'm an administrative assistant, taking classes to get a degree to teach English at the high school level. FI played Baseball in college for 4 years as a pitcher and still enjoys playing for fun, is a Coors Light salesman and loves peanut butter and honey sandwiches. We love to travel (especially around our state), hike, go camping and to cook together.

     
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    LeahP    September 10, 2011   San Diego, CA/Vermont

    Hi girls!  I'm 24 years old, and my partner is 25.  We are getting married this September!  I am graduating from law school in less than 3 weeks (holy cow) and am taking the bar exam in July.  I don't have a job lined up, which is freaking me out a bit, but I'm just going to get through with the wedding and then figure it all out afterwards. 

    I live in San Diego and love spending time with my adorable little dogs!  Yay for the 20 somethings!

     
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    sit1010    June 18, 2011   Living in Raleigh, NC, Getting Married in Rochester, NY

    @Running Elley: Where in California, the same town you're getting married in? My FI is 32 and grew up in LA. His little sister is 18 and currently goes to USC. We are hoping to move out there in a couple of years. His family still lives in LA and my brother lives in Simi Valley with his family.

    I love love love to read. FI is afraid to buy me a nook because he's afraid he'd never see me again! My favorites are historical fiction, particularly the period Phillipa Gregory spends most of her time writing about...although she isn't my favorite author. My favorite book of all time is The Borgia Bride.

    I'm an accountant for an electrical contracting firm. It's great but can be very frustrating working with all men at times. My FI is a manager at a truck parts company. We travel all the time, and especially love camping and hiking. We registered for a new tent and some other camping accessories lol. I'm not great at cooking but FI is. I try to do more of it but he gets frustrated with me in the kitchen so if he isn't distracted I try not to cook lol.

     
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    soontobmrsc    September 17, 2011   Indiana

    I'm 23 (ok I'm actually 22 but my birthday is coming up so I'm adjusting to the new number now) FI is 24.  I'm a complete type A, OCD, control freak.  (sad but true) I am currently taking a break from school because I am stuck between two majors that I want to pursue so I am taking some time to figure that out.  FI and I are homebodies and don't like to go out a lot like some of our friends.  We see no sense in shouting over bar music when the beer at home is cheaper and we can actually talk to the people with us!  We love our dog and our families and can't wait to continue to grow together!  FI and I love to watch crime shows together and be outside!  There probably a bunch more I could talk about but that is the gist!

     
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    Running Elley    June 19, 2011   Fresno, CA

    @sit1010:We live in Central California, the town we live in is about 2 hours from San Francisco. We're actually getting married in a town that's located in the mountains right before you enter into Yosemite National Park. I like the variety of living here, we're about the same distance from the beach, the mountains or the city!

     
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    HappilyEverAfter54    June 23, 2012   Central Pennsylvania

    I'm 25 I have a 6 year old son, his dad is 23 and we have split custody we were a high school relationship, he got shot in a robbery last year and will never walk again. I dropped out of high school but got my GED I went to college but got bored and quit after a year, I worked for 5 years at a daycare and hated it, I was done this past August actually, I haven't worked since and I really hope I won't have to,. I moved into my own place when I turned 21 and then I met my ex FI we were together for a few years he was my world, he cheated on me, I found out at a carnival in front of 500 people. We tried to work it out, he started randomly taking off with his friends he was 21, I knew it wasn't going to work... I packed his stuff and left it at his work, a month later I met my FI at a cabin birthday party on an island we started dating and this month makes it officially a year! He's going to be a police officer... =/ I'm learning to deal with this a little more everyday. lol 

     
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    sdrury89    March 10, 2012   Houston, TX

    Hi Ladies! FI and I are both 21 and we're getting married next year, we'll both be 22 and we'll have been together for 6.5 years. We're high school sweethearts who have been through a lot together. We just moved from Orlando to Houston and we're (read: I'm) slowly getting adjusted (read: I hate it and he loves it). I worked at a pet boarding facility for 2 years and just recently quit and now I work at home. I'm going back to school in the fall for sociology, I think. I love to read and play with my dogs. I can thank them for getting me back into shape a little bit at least. FI and I both love cars and drag racing and may or may not have planned our wedding to fall on the weekend of the major race we go to in Florida every year so we can plan it as our ann. trip. :)

     
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    jen24au    June 9, 2012  

    Hi all!  I am 24 and my FI is 26.  We will be 25 and 28 when we get married.  I am currently in law school, set to finish in December.  We are getting married the following June!  So right now, I am in school and working at a local law firm as a clerk.  He is a teacher/coach.  We live in Alabama (yes we have running water, electricity and even internet! hehe) and will stay here after we get married.  We have been trying to go to the gym together more recently and have started a new Friday night RedBox movie tradition.

    @LeahP:Not having a job is so scary!!!  I wanted to wait until I was totally done with the bar and all that to get married because I would not be fun to live with! hehe.

     
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    Ms. Polar Bear    December 12, 2011  

    @sit1010: Absolutely fantastic idea. Don't know why I didn't think about it. Perhaps you should ask a moderator to sticky it to the top of the board.

     

    Hi everyone! I am Ms. Polar Bear: I am 23 years old, have a bachelor's in sociology and am starting my master's program Fall 2011. It took an abusive relationship when I was young to snap me out of what little immaturity I had left at 19 (mom calls me an 'old soul'). I enjoy things like Dr. Who, World of Warcraft, reading/writing.

    Mr. Polar Bear is 22 years old, is going to graduate this May (woot!) and will be going into teaching. He also enjoys Dr. Who, World of Warcraft, cooking, and is a huuuge comic book nerd. Oh and polar bears...obviously.

    We met in a fiction writing class and four months into the relationship we knew that we wanted to be together for the rest of our lives. He has been with me for all the good times, for the bad times (I found out that I have a predisposition to cancer and will have to remove my ovaries at or before 35), and all the times in-between.

    It is now two years later, and we have officially signed the contract to our wedding venue (we're having a Disney World Wedding).

    That's us!

     
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    KatNYC2011    September 24, 2011   London, UK (american expat)

    Hey everyone. I'm 26 (will be 27 later this month) and FI is 28.

    We met 7 years ago when I was 19 (he was 20) while in college.

    I grew up in Southern CA and came east for school. Fell in love with the east coast and moved to NYC after graduating.

    I work as Business Analyst/Project manager in NYC.

    FI is currently running his company's London office and we are discussing moving to London for 2-3 years after the wedding.

    We have a cat named Tommy who we adopted from the ASPCA 2 1/2 years ago. He's looking forward to wearing a monocle and becoming a British kitty.

    I love that FI and I have already been together so long/know each other so well and we are only starting on our life together. Getting married and moving abroad will be an amazing new chapter to our lives.

     
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    Riot    October 16, 2011   Hinckley, IL

    Hi Girls,

    I am 23, FI 24(almost 25). We are getting married in October, about 3 months before our 4 year anniversary.  I am graduating from school in May with an associates in Administrative Assisting and don't have a job lined up either. We live in a small town (less than 2,000 ppl) in IL and love it.  We are hoping to eventually move to a farm in Iowa because we love it over there.  FI is a diesel mechanic and also loves pb&h sandwiches lol.  We are both tattoo addicts and that is going to be part of our ceremony. :)

     
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    cyndistar3    September 3, 2011   Post Falls ID

    Can I pretend like I am 20 something? lol

     
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    linguo42    February 27, 2011   Vancouver, B.C.

    I'm 27, 28 in three weeks. A lot of my life used to be about waiting. Waiting to switch to another school where I wouldn't be bullied, waiting to graduate high school, to get out of my parents' house and live on my own, go to university, get a job...all of which I did. But getting married was never really on that list. I guess I just assumed it would happen eventually, but it wasn't on my agenda.

    I had my fair share of boyfriends along the way, and while a couple of them seemed to think I was the one for them, I just couldn't envision spending my life with anyone. When I was in my last year of my undergrad I met a guy I briefly thought might be the one, but after almost two years, it just wasn't happening. I decided that no matter what, I didn't want to get married. If I loved someone enough to spend my life with them, that's what I'd do...I just wouldn't say "I Do".

    That ex had a roommate, who I'd always gotten along with well. Roommate and I started hanging out casually, but although I developed a huge crush on him I didn't think he felt the same way. Besides, I had applied to five grad schools in the UK and was likely going to be moving there for a year to do a Master's degree.

    But after almost two months, I couldn't ignore how much he made my heart flutter, and after a gruelling self-debate over whether I wanted to put myself out there to be rejected, I told him how I felt, and he said he felt the same.

    I knew this was it on our first date, and he knew it too. A few months later, on a summer evening walk, he simply said, "Marry me", and I said yes.

    Then I ditched him for grad school on another continent, lol. But we visited each other when we could, and spent my Easter vacation in Italy together, and in September of 2009, I came home to the man who proved me wrong, and married him on our three year anniversary this past February.

    I wish this kind of happiness on everyone.

     
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    deathbydesign    February 18, 2012   Lives in Ontario, married in Quebec

    I just recently turned 24. I have been dating my FI for three years, we got engaged right near our three year anniversary! We will be getting married exactly a year to the day he proposed. :)

    I work as a professional graphic designer and programmer, specializing in web design. My FI actually owns the business I currently work for lol, but we very much built this business together. When he met me he had just started up a small website business (just him by himself) and when he found out I was a graphic designer with tons of web experience we started working together. The business has grown so much since then!

    I am also a professional classical singer. I perform for the occasional wedding and I just finished recording my first little album! My other hobbies are baking and cooking.

    My FI is a little over one month older than me. He is very clever and very business savvy. He started his very first business when he was just 14 years old. He bought a plotter for $1500 (which was a LOT of money for a 14 year old) using saved up birthday money and a loan from his dad and started his own sign making business. He kept at the sign business until just before he met me. He's never worked for anyone but himself his whole life.

    We met through friends. At first we were long distance (He's from Ontario, I was living near Montreal), but it wasn't too bad because we would both visit each other for weeks at a time anyway. We moved in together about 6 months ago. :)

     
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    vanilla frosting    September 23, 2011   Philadelphia, PA

    Hey Everyone! 

    I am 25 and FI is 27.  We are getting married this fall in a Pocono wedding (my hometown).  We both live in Philly (his hometown) with our furbaby- which you can see on the doggie post that is going rampant with adorbs right now!

    I work with infants and toddlers and LOVE my job  :-) FI is a real estate agent!  We met when we were both working in retail at a really large mall outside of Philly.  We have always talked about marriage... and after 6 years together, we are finally tying the knot!

     
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    Gingersnap    August 2000   Ontario, Canada

    @cyndistar3: That's what I was wondering... I'll be one very soon!

     
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    vanilla frosting    September 23, 2011   Philadelphia, PA

    @cindistar3- i encourage everyone to look into their inner 20-something selves! Do it!

     
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    totheislnds    February 12, 2011   NC

    @sit1010: NC Represent!

    Hey Ladies!

    Im 24 years old (ill be 25 in May) woo hoo Gemini - i feel like i fit it too. I got married almost 2 months ago to a wonderful man. He turned 26 on our honeymoon! I am one of 5 children and he is one of 13 so we have a pretty big family and it keeps growing - babies left at right (stop looking at me, im not next.) I had been in several long term relationships but never felt quite ready for marriage until i met my husband. I had a few good years of running around town and causing trouble, i regret nothing. My sister - who is my best friend - got a job with a company where she met my husband! i was actually dating someone else and our 2+ year relationship had been coming to an end for sometime and i kept holding on. he ultimately broke it off with me, and thank god he did! perfect timing too!

    i had already met my husband and he was very easy on the eyes, but im a good girlfriend and never thought much of him other than some eye candy. He had recently moved to charlotte to work for his dads company (where my sister worked) and i had just gotten out of a relationship and needed to just be out and about to keep my mind from going crazy so i invited him over to hang out and the rest is really history we never stopped seeing each other!

    I work for an IT company - on the sales side so the technical stuff is over my head! its not my dream job, but i like working here. My husband is in financial services which is great for me because im great at paying bills but terrible at budgeting and investing!

    i love reading, taking road trips and have wayyy too many shows recorded on DVR. i love love love the beach and jimmy buffett (can ya tell by the screen name?). i was raised in the south and have a thing for country music and anything southern. The money would have to be really really good to get me out of the south.

    i love weddings! and the bee! i cant get enough

     

     

     
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    JenniMichele    May 22, 2011   Huntington Beach, CA

    Hey all! I'm 22 and FH is 23. I'm a nanny to three boys (4 yr, 2.5 yr, 10 mos) and I'm a full time student, getting my BA in English Education with an Emphasis in World Lit, and then going on to get my credential to teach high school. :)

    Being in school makes things so much harder, but FH is not in school, so he provides for us (for now-- I'll help when I'm finally done).

    Anyway, we love watching hockey and FH plays. And we're excited to finally be getting married in FORTY-SEVEN DAYS! :) On Valentine's Day, it was two years since we got engaged, so this wedding has been a long time coming.

     
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    Ms. Polar Bear    December 12, 2011  

    We should consider this the 20s and under board. Would give a place to those not quite 20 yet.

     
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    RayRayFurious    May 2013   NJ

    Great thread!

    I'm 25 and so is FI. We met our senior year of college and have been dating for 3 years at this point. We got engaged in Paris last year, which was the most exciting point of my life!!! We're both graduate students. I graduate next year in 2012, and he in 2013. We're both studying the same thing, but at schools 3.5 hours apart. We're a LDR couple and have been for the past 3 years. First, it was 1.5 hours, then 9 hours last year, and now 3.5 hours. I can't wait to be married and finally live together next year.

    We are planning an urban vintage wedding, inspired in part by our travels (or lust to travel) in Philadelphia in summer of 2012. We're still pretty early in the planning process, but our colors are purple and green (my fave and his fave color, respectively) and are thinking of a classy Sunday brunch reception to cut down costs.

     
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    sdrury89    March 10, 2012   Houston, TX

    @cyndistar3: yes :)

    @Gingersnap: and yes :)

     
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    SweetVanity    September 22, 2012  

    Hi everybody!

    I'm 25, FI is 30. We met at work and started dating about a year later. We got engaged this past Thanksgiving in Las Vegas and we'll get married just after our 3 year anniversary.

    I love to read. I'll read pretty much anything, and if I like it, I'll read it till the spine breaks. We're talking at least 4 complete run throughs of ALL SEVEN Harry Potter books, some more than 4 times. I love to watch gory horror movies, and my FI thinks I'm crazy for it! He loves the outdoors and we enjoy biking together, camping (I'm learning to like it) and fourwheeling in the winter. We have a great time together and there's still things I learn about him all the time. He's my best friend.

    I have a beautiful little girl from a previous relationship, and as such grew up too young. I learned alot, lived through too much for someone so young, and only grew to be a better person because of it.

    Yay for the 20-somethings!

     
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    Shooozy    August 20, 2011   Renton, WA

    Hi Everyone!  I'm 27 and so is my FI, we will both be 28 when we get married this coming August.  FI and I met a little over two years ago on Match.com, I was his first online date and he was my one millionth (it seemed like).  I think we both knew right away that it could work out so we stuck with it and it has been perfect ever since.  We moved in with eachother after only about 6 months and got a puppy, Abby, our Goldendoodle.  We love to travel together, golf, workout, go out to eat and try various new types of food.  We also enjoy wine tasting and visiting new breweries.  I work in the finance world and my FI works for an airline.  We got engaged on my 27th birthday and we have been planning what should turn out to be a fun and fabulous wedding this August with 250 of our closest family and friends!  Cheers!

     
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    Gingersnap    August 2000   Ontario, Canada

    Okay! I'm 19 (20 in 4 months, if that counts for anything..) and Ginger is 21. We will be 20 and 22 at our wedding next June. He works for a tech support company and is going back to college this fall for computers/animation. I am still undecided, but hoping to take a PSW course. We've been together a year and 2 months, although we're nerds and will celebrate our anniversary the date we became "facebook-official" - April 16.

    We live together in a house with 4 other friends but we're moving in 20 days (!!!!) and I am so excited. We're moving back to my hometown, I'll be close to all my friends and family again - I know practically no one where we're living now. It's depressing.

    Our favourite things to do: watch scary movies, have Supernatural marathons, and go on Starbucks/Chapters dates. We order our favourite drinks and then wander around the bookstore for hours looking at books and talking.

    Our wedding is going to be very non-traditional. It's in my dad's backyard, BBQ-style, I'm wearing grey, there will be no speeches or dancing (aside from our first dance). Everything but the cake is DIY and I can't wait to get started.

     
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    Rosie Girl    September 18, 2010   Montana

    Hey girls! I am 23, will be 24 in 2 wks, and have been married going on 7 months. My DH is 26 and works as a mechanic. I work at a mental health clinic. I have a 3-yr-old son from a previous relationship. My DH and I were only together a little over a month before moving in together, and about 4 months when we were engaged! We live in a house we bought last year in Montana. We love watching movies and going on bike rides. We hunt and fish and camp a lot. Ride dirt bikes and 4-wheelers and are working on a hot rod truck right now. We love watching drag races and have a couple projects cars :) I think that is about it!

     
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    micahg    July 14, 2012   Boston, MA

    Hi Hive!

    I am 22 and my FI is 26. He is a composer and I am an actress, we're both trying to make it in an artist's world :P We live in Somerville, outside of Boston with our HUGE cat (appropriately named) Peanut. We met about three years ago participating in a musical that neither of us wanted to do. (He had just come home from a visit to Nepal, and I needed to work that summer, so rehearsing and not working for a summer was kind of out of the question, I am glad I did it anyway!)

    I love acting, singing and dancing. Basically, any performance art and my FI is an AMAZING singer (he was director of his a cappella group in college, SWOON). I am happiest on the stage or blogging (which is a new obsession, ahem I mean hobby of mine). We love going on random adventures on a whim, and walking along our favorite beach, singing loudly and out-doing each other, listening to music/radioshows together!

    I am currently working as a temp, well I've been working as an assistant to the recruiting team for a major consulting firm since May of 2010 when I first moved up to Beantown with FI. We are both hopeless romantics, and extremely passionate people. We try to live our lives to the fullest each day. I am truly marrying my soulmate and I cannot wait!

    Yay for 20-somethings!

     
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    Ms. Polar Bear    December 12, 2011  

    @SweetVanity:O.M.G...I too LOVE the Harry Potter books. I still write/read fanfiction. Which I'm not ashamed to admit because plenty of 30-40 year old women do also >.>

     
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    totheislnds    February 12, 2011   NC

    @Ms. Polar Bear: I Love HP! ever heard of "House of Night?" another great series to read! i just finished the newest one. And i started "the hunger games" last night

    sorry ! not trying to hijack the thread! but had to comment

     
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    Beluga    July 16, 2011  

    I'm a 25 year old PhD student, he's a 26 year old law student. We've been together since we were children. Gross. We love food and drinking and sports and movies and comics and zombies and teh internets.

     
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    finnaroo    August 7, 2010   DC (living in nyc now)

    hiii! I'm 27 and my hubby's 28. we've been married now for about 8 months, and together almost 5 years. we met right after I graduated from college; I moved to DC where I didn't know anyone for a job, and met hubs 2 weeks later! a few months after that, he moved to the UK for about a year for grad school, so we were long distance pretty early on in our relationship but somehow made it through okay! then he came home and lived with a roommate (our best man) 3 blocks away from me. we moved in together right around our 2 year anniversary, and started raising our furbaby. then we got engaged about a year and a half after that. now I'm in grad school, getting a phd, so we moved last summer to NYC. I've been on the boards now for about 2 years--I had a different name as a waiting bee for awhile before we got engaged because I was embarrassed for my hubby to find out about how impatient I was, lol, so he only knows about this username ;) (though I don't think he reads WB much...)

     
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    SouthernGirl    October 2013   Alabama

    FH and I are both 21, although he's 5 months older than me. We're getting married next August. He's in school for welding and I'm majoring in Molecular Biology (1.5 years to go!). FH is quite the handy man and I am the book nerd. I love books of all kinds (LOVE Harry Potter!!). FH and I love camping and spending time at the lake or the river. I'm currently unemployed although I've been desperately searching for the last 2 years. FH is working at Walmart until he graduates (hey, gotta pay the bills right?) and then he'll be the sole provider until I finish up in May 2013. After that we plan to move and start saving up to buy a house. People tell me that I'm an old soul, and I never really has the chance to be that immature as my father passed away when I was 8 years old and family relationships fell apart, so I make up for it now by being in love with slightly "immature" things, like Harry Potter and zombies. I have a dog and cat and am patiently awaiting the day I have a large yard and can expand my furry family.

    I absolutely LOVE to cook and bake. FH loves to eat whatever I cook or bake, haha.

     
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    sit1010    June 18, 2011   Living in Raleigh, NC, Getting Married in Rochester, NY

    @Ms. Polar Bear: Hmm not sure how to get it posted at the top lol. I swear I'm not computer illiterate.

    So great to see such a diverse group here and to hear all of your stories. I like seeing where different people are in their lives and the different paths people had to take. I wish I was as well prepared a few years ago as a lot of you seem to be today. I'm glad everything that has happened in my life did though because it brought me to NC and to the love of my life. I love him and he makes me so happy, no matter where we are or what we're doing, we're exactly where we're supposed to be, doing what we're supposed to be doing.

     
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    JennBug89    June 11, 2011   North Carolina

    I'm 21 and FI is 22.  We have been together for 5 years (since the end of 11th grade).  We both have elementary education degrees- I graduated a year early last May and I'm currently teaching preschool.  I am also applying to Grad School right now (literally, the application is in another tab lol).  FI is graduating in a few weeks and will hopefully get his first teaching job in the fall.

    I am a complete girly girl and I take pride in the fact that I'm from the south.  I LOVE sweet tea, pork bbq, the beach, sundresses/flip flops, and front porches with rocking chairs :)  I love children, but I don't want to have my own for a few years. FI is a major history dork (he went into college thinking he was going to be a high school history teacher).  We are opposites in a lot of ways, but in other ways, we are very similar.  I love his family like my own and I am super excited to be getting married in 2 months!

     
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    cyndistar3    September 3, 2011   Post Falls ID

    Well now that I have been given the okay to pretend to be 20 something....

    I am actually 17, but I feel much older than that. I spent the first 14 years of my like in California then my dad's job moved him to Rathdrum Idaho. Even though I haven't lived with him since I was a wee little girl I decided to move with him. I was dating a guy and he went into a deep depression when I left, he even dropped out of high scool.

    In the beginning of my sophmore year of high school I met my now FI and I knew he was the one from the moment I saw him. We became inseperable and naturally that lead to other things. I broke up with the other guy and he cried... FI and I started dating about 3 months after we met. Then a little over 2 months after that I got pregnant...oooops. I don't know why but I contacted my ex and we were good friends (over the phone) for quite a while. Then he went crazy again and tried to kill himself while I was on the phone with him. I talked to him a couple times after that but then cut all contact with him after I knew he was somewhat stable. Well after a lot of hell and depression, 9 months later I had my beautiful baby girl. That is when FI started looking into the military. That is also when he proposed. Then the last time I was here in California my ex went psycho again and went around telling everyone that Caidence was his daughter... that caused one big problem between me and FI even though there is no way that could ever be possible. 

    Now after more hell and more depression FI is in boot camp and we are better off than we ever have been, I am not so depressed anymore and I wouldn't trade my little girl for the world. I cannot wait to be married to such an amazing man and have more little crib midgets :)

     
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    KatNYC2011    September 24, 2011   London, UK (american expat)

    @SouthernGirl: I was a bio major (not molec bio, just regular bio)... sadly didn't do anything related to my degree but I'm still really interested in bio, biotech, and genetics.

     
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    futuremrshc    June 25, 2011  

    Hello ladies!

    I'm 26, FI is 35. We met on PlentyOfFish.com and then OkCupid.com (long story) before we finally met in person. We're getting married 5 days before our three year anniversary. He's lived in WA most of his life, with the exception of a few years in Japan while his Dad was in the service. I only moved here in 2006, from Texas. I'm the baby of the family, my brother is 11 years older than I am. He's the oldest in his family with two younger siblings. 

    I have a 5 y.o. little boy from a previous relationship. FI raises him as his own. We are going to start TTC on our honeymoon. I'm currently a SAHM but I am in the process of starting my own mobile photography business, I just need to build my portfolio a little more and get a few more props.

    FI is a regional sales representative for professional recording studio equipment. He travles quite a bit, but it's usually local; within a few hours of the house. He was in a group with his bestie when he was younger, they cut a few CD's but it didn't go anywhere.

    We're True Blood and The Office junkies. We never miss an episode. We're also really into Scrabble and have one night a week where his Mom and Brother come over and we all play.

     
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    rosegirl    August 22, 2012  

    Hi girls! I'll be 22 in a month and my SO is 24, we have been together for over 3 years and friends for about 2 years before that.  We recently moved to Chicago after he got a job here, so that meant I had to transfer schools, and oh boy am I glad I did! I love my new university and am majoring in early childhood education.  I'm an animal lover, a beach bum (I grew up in San Diego) and I can't wait to be a teacher!  I am a waiting bee, I know its going to happen soon it's just a matter of when! Which can be very annoying sometimes but hey i'm trying to enjoy every minute of it! :)

     
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    Mrs.tobe    September 30, 2011   the middle of there

    Hey ladies. I'm 27, but will be turning 28 TOMORROW! (See how I still cling to 27??)

    I thought I was going to have a break down when I turned 25, because the I was officially "mid-twenties". I've always been what people call an "old soul". I never really knew if that was a good or bad thing. I met FI when I was 22 and he had just turned 30. He's the best man I've ever known aside from my dad. Before FI I seriously dated a few jack wagons with a lot of issues. It was not a good place for me.One was extremely abusive (mentally more than physically-but it was there) and the other had substance abuse issues. From age 16 until age 21 I had no idea such good men like FI actually existed.

    Also I didn't go to college right away when I got out of high school. But after a little over a year I decided to go. Went in for elementary ed and got through all my pr-req's and eventually got into the teaching program. Only to find out it wasn't what I wanted to do. So I switched to Radiography. BIG switch. I love it. But I hate the hours I'm working (thirds four nights a week).

    FI and I see each other every day, just long enough to have some dinner, and cuddle. Then I'm off to work and he's gone int he morning already by the time I make it home. It's different, but we've made it through a lot worse.I love him and miss sleeping with him SOOOOO freakin' much. We love spending time with family, and doing as much together as humanly possible whenever we can!

    All that being said.... despite being called an old soul, I still feel like a young 'un at heart. :P

     
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