By relationship I assume you mean a committed one, where you are dating (or more) exclusively, and not crushes or friend zone relationships. That would be 27. We were married for 43 years until cancer took her. Best 43 years of my life.
I wasnt really interested in a real relationship until I got older. I had dated a few people but most of them were friends that I liked hanging out with untill things got too complicated.
Odd situation that was close to a relationship over many years. On and off from grade school to sophomore year of highschool. It was odd because we periodically left and then back again for various reasons.
me n my current BF have been dating since about 16..... i get a lot of weird looks when i say weve been together for a decade and we still look so young XD
Well, as you can tell from the varied responses you needed to define relationship. I would say all of us had our first relationship with our mother; it is just biological reality. But assuming you meant a significant reciprocal romantic relationship with a non-family member, I would have to say 28. I was a late bloomer. Not to say I didn't have crushes and infatuations with others going back to third grade, but none I could say were reciprocated.
Romantic relationship?? I was 20... I was young then and fancied myself to be in love with someone else ... we split or i did when i didn't deem him the commitment type (he seemed to fancy other women and i had no tolerance for that ironically)
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Difficult to say.
I had been in a two year relationship by twenty two, and engaged. Does that count?
My first real relationship started when I was 24 and we have been together ever since. I did date before that but I usually didn’t get past the first or second date.
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held my girl's hand walking to kindergarten every morning with the moms following a discreet distance behind. god i loved her.
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I was 17. I look back on it fondly even though I was very inexperienced and it didn’t last long. 😅
I grew up with a total prohibition on relationships and dating. My boarding school had a no affection rule. You could be expelled for holding hands with a person. But we all got birth control from the school and the teachers were boffing us. I can't sleep or relax around anyone, ever.
I was 14, she was 13. Early 70’s so pretty tame, some kissing, light petting, as she remembers. Band bus rides. As adults we finished what we had started.