childhood sweethearts
Grade-school romance partners
Childhood sweethearts are two people who formed a romantic attachment when they were young and have maintained it into adulthood: They were childhood sweethearts who married right after high school.
The phrase carries nostalgic connotations of innocent first love that endured.
- first loveEarliest romantic attachment
- first kissInitial romantic contact
- puppy loveImmature romantic attraction
- young loveAdolescent romantic attachment
- innocenceFreedom from wrongdoing
playground · crush · boy next door · holding hands · notes · love letters · forever · happily ever after · promise · promise ring · marry me · best friends · neighbors · small town romance · hometown · reunion · nostalgia · prom
- couplescouple, married couple, married couples, pair, twosome
- rom-comrom-com, romantic comedy, meet cute, meet-cute, love triangle
- romance fictionlove stories, romance novel, romance novels, contemporary romance, romantic fiction
- Asian DramasK-drama, J-drama, Korean drama, Japanese drama, Chinese drama
- romancelove story, amor, love, boyfriend, courting
- wedding tropesarranged marriage, elopement, runaway bride, shotgun wedding, marriage of convenience
childhood sweetheartssecond marriage
Union after prior dissolution
late bloomers · autumn romance · arranged marriage · whirlwind romance · mail-order bride
childhood, sweethearts, child, children, childish, childlike, childless, childlessness, childishly