childhood sweetheart
Young romance partner
A childhood sweetheart is someone you had a romantic relationship with when you were young, especially one you later married or reunited with: They were childhood sweethearts who lost touch for twenty years before finding each other again.
The term carries nostalgic connotations of innocent first love and enduring connection.
- first loveEarliest romantic attachment
- puppy loveImmature romantic attraction
- crushCompress with force
- infatuationShort-lived intense attraction
- first kissInitial romantic contact
innocent · nostalgia · playground · school dance · schoolyard · prom · holding hands · blushing · notes · locker · hometown · reunion · meant to be · memory · old flame · young love · tender · summer romance
- childhood connectionsbest friend, playmate, sibling, classmate, school friend
- romantic tropeslove interest, heartthrob, soulmate, Romeo, Juliet
- romancelove story, amor, love, boyfriend, courting
childhood sweetheartautumn romance
Love during harvest season
second marriage · rebound relationship · second chance romance
childhood sweetheartstranger
Person not yet known
one-night stand · blind date · whirlwind romance · mail-order bride · love at first sight
childhood sweethearttrophy wife
Spouse chosen for appearance
sugar daddy · affair partner · mistress · kept woman · marriage of convenience
childhood, sweetheart, child, sweet, heart, children, childish, childlike, childless