Are You Married to Your High School Sweetheart Like Sarah Palin?
Affair? No affair? Who knows... Regardless, Sarah Palin's 20-year marriage to her husband Todd has people talking about high school sweethearts. In fact, About.com even built a whole page dedicated specifically to their marriage:
How Sarah and Todd Met: Todd and Sarah met at a high school basketball game.Personally I don't know any married couples who met in high school. Do you? Or, better yet...
Wedding Date: Todd and Sarah eloped on August 29, 1988, to avoid the cost of a wedding.... According to Time.com, Sarah and Todd "dated since high school, and reportedly used two residents of a nearby nursing home as witnesses to their nuptials at the Palmer, Alaska, courthouse."
PLUS: The rekindled-flame phenomenon >>
Update: So far I'm actually surprised at how many of you are married to your high school sweetheart! If there's a story—and there's always a story—please share! (Thanks for yours, Ginny!)



My sister and her husband are highschool sweethearts!! They've dated since they were sophomores and married after graduation from college. They've been happily married for three years.
My boyfriend has been one of my best friends since high school, too. We didn't start dating until a few months ago but we've always stayed close since I was actually in 7th grade. I guess it might be the small town in us - though we all live in big cities now.
That's my sister, Ginny, up there. Yes, I married my high school sweetheart. This next April, we will have been together for 10 years (married for 3). It hasn't always been easy, but through really honest communication we are somehow managing to make it work.
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And I chronicle our daily married life as a young married couple in my blog, Confessions of a Young, Married Couple. www.marriageconfessions.wordpress.com
Yes, I too am married to my high school sweetheart, but we didn't get married out of high school.
We broke up, met new people, both got married & divorced, both had 2 sons (our oldest sons both even have the same name). We ran into each other almost 13 years ago in a bar, and have been together ever since. We are 35 & 37.
We just renewed our vows for our 10th anniversary, and are happier and stronger then ever!
No, but I'm married to my college sweetheart and celebrated 9 years together on 9/24. :)
I'm not, but I know a couple who are in that situation.
Married for 8 years, I think, and still going.
Love it, yet it doesn't matter if he's was your HS sweetie.
Just that today he's your sweetie today. Remember to share how you feel, communication is key to having a great relationship. Talking,Touch,Tenderness.
Keep Mom and Dad happy
and everyone's happy.
All the best Eileen
My husband is not my HSSH but we have been together since I graduated from highschool. Had he been around he would have been just as perfect for me as he is now. We have been married 7 years and together for a total of 10 years. We have found that the reason it is easy for us is that we live by our own rules. Though people jusdge us as over protective and sometimes crazy, it is what we believe has kept us together and why their relationships have failed. I still ove him the way i did 10 years ago only more because I can appreciate all he has done for our family.
Good luck to all with their marriages.
I married my high school sweetheart, but 40 years later! After going steady for 1 year and applying to and being accepted at same college, we broke at end of our sr. year. Saw each other the next yr but didn't date; then I moved to Florida and he moved to California. We both married other people, raised children, got divorced. Through the miracle of the Internet got back together 3 years ago, got married 2 years ago, and are totally in love. It's as if we were never apart, and feel we were meant to be together but were too immature to realize how lucky we were the first time around. Sometimes life does give us a second chance.
I've been with my high school sweetheart for eleven years now. We just went to our 10 year high school reunion, and people are still saying we're cute together and they're happy we're still together. We got married long after graduating college, since we had other priorities, but we knew early on that we were meant to be.
I'm 23 years old and have been with my high school sweetheart for almost 8 years (February 2009)!!! And I am so thrilled to report that we are still madly in love! We're actually going to be moving in together (Finally!!!) in the summer of 2009 after I graduate from college and then get married the following year! I'm so excited!!!
I myself am married to my high school sweetheart. We eloped at the age of 18 and 14 years later we are still happily and madly in love ..And they said it wouldn't last... well HA!!. We will be renewing our vows for our 15th anniversary.
I am 33yrs old and married to my high school sweetheart, actually i was 13yrs old and just finished the 8th grade, when he moved next door to me. I knew he would be the one from the moment I saw him. We got married right before I graduated high school, have 4 beautiful children, and still very much in love with each other.
I am married to my highschool sweetheart. We've been together for ten years and have been married for more than two. Everyone said it wouldn't last, but with open and completely honest communication we are very happy.
He was actually my first real boyfriend, and my first date! We also didn't move in together until we got married. We are very traditional, and I think that helps. We both are honest about our needs and wants, no one runs over the other, and both of our 'big' personalities manage to work together.
My mom and dad are highschool sweethearts! Actually, they lived two houses down from each other their whole lives. They were life-long friends and used to go to each other's houses to play. My dad is nine years older than my mom, so my mom never thought she would marry him. She ACTUALLY had a crush on his younger brother!
My dad knew that my mom was the one for as long as he could remember, but he thought she was too young to make it work. He even married another woman. Unfortunately the marriage didn't work, so my dad and his previous wife separated. The day he broke things off with Chris (his previous wife), he walked up to my mom's door and asked her out. She said no, but he didn't give up. For two months straight he asked my mom out every day until finally she said yes. This was in '84, I think. They ended up marrying on August 8, 1988 and the next year they had my older sister. 20 years later they're still head over heels with five girls, myself included.
I am LOVING these stories, you guys!
My husband and I met in the 7th grade and began dating (he was in the 8th) We dated through high school, then had a break up. He droped out of school and joined the Marine Corps a little after 9/11. We continued to keep in touch and got engaged in my senior year of high school. we were married a week after he came back from his second tour in Iraq and it is going on four years now. It has had its ups and downs like all relationships, but I think knowing him as he grew up has given me a great tool to use whenever I am frustrted with things going on (PTSD and TBI)He is my soul mate and we have known this since we stared dating. No one else compares or understands us on such a deep level. I know people don't think that at such a young age a marriage can work, but for us it does.
We actually went to different high schools and met through mutual friends a month or two after graduation. Two weeks later we were dating, and a little more than a month after that we talked about getting married - we felt like complete losers!
It's been 3 years now and, while he hasn't popped the question, I don't have to feel like CrazyGirl for planning aspects of my wedding (or how we're going to decorate our home, or what we're going to name our kids, etc.) in my head.
I am also married to my high school sweetheart. In fact we've ben together for 14 years. We had a class together my freshman year (he had a crush, but thought i was a bi*ch. We had a mutal friend my sophmore year and he asked me out on a bet... WE never looked back. Married for ten years with 3 children, and again THEY said we would never make it. HA still going strong! More in love today than we were back then for sure.
I'm not quite married to my high school sweetheart, but we're engaged. We've dated since my senior year in hs, his freshman in college, but have known each other since 6th grade. We're 25 now, dated on/off for 7 years, and have dated other people seriously in the the "off" time so we're sure that we want to marry each other.
It's refreshing that he knows my background so well (and I, his), although communication is definitely the key to keeping our relationship strong. I am so excited about our future together!
Im 24 years old and I have been with my hssh for 9years and going strong. We own our home and recently had our first child(blaze,6months old!) & we love each other like the first day we kissed! my family is my heart and soul i woudlnt change a thing. And after we met we found out that our mothers were pregnant w/us together at the same job! I remeber those doubters saying it was just puppy luv, but as long as we knew wat we meant to each other thats all that mattered...cant go through life always trying to prove to other peopl that ur the real thing...jus live life and let it take you through its course and let the rest go.
My husband and I were best friends from my junior year in high school and we stayed friends for the year after I graduated (his senior year) and didn't start dating until after he graduated high school. We dated for about 2 1/2 years before getting married and have been married 2 years come December. We have such a good relationship- because we were friends first and for so long, I think that brings an even stronger connection and foundation to our marriage. We may have our ups and downs, like everyone else and try to follow basic principles of marriage and healthy relationships, but really think that friendship and history make for a positive bond in our marriage- and if nothing else, it certainly makes for fun stories down memory lane! LOL ;)