Are officers and enlisted with prior relationship with each other really allowed to continue the relationship?

well I guess the other gold rank is coming out. If you are really in the Army you know that in 1999 or 2000 a relation between commission and non-commission was nixed.
There are no grand father clauses
One up or down and couples married or not can not be in the same section and if I had a command married or couple would not be in the same unit.
It makes me sad that the Army I love has taken such a turn that I am glad I am retired

Sounds like we’re all glad you’re retired.

My bro is not in my chain.

We’re both professional: we don’t hang out in uniform together, he refers to me in the third person as “Rank, Last-Name”, and when we happen to cross paths he salutes sharply and gives the greeting of the day, “Sir!”
Fokker even calls me Sir on the phone when we talk off-line.

And don’t y’all even think I’m weak on good order and discipline.

The other day my protege who’s (P) to my rank said he was confused what to call me (in an .mil email) because I don’t go by given name. I told him it was an easy multiple choice test: Sir or Major. Same as I give y’all the respect of your “Rank, Last-Name”. You earned your title, and I won’t take that away from you with this Air-Force corporate culture BS of, IF I outrank YOU I get to call you by your first name

Thank you sir! So when I eventually commission or one of my friends commissions, we just kind of have to drop contact?

The funny parts about the Regs is that as enlisted you cannot date an officer but it’s ok to marry one.

This is not exactly what we are discussing here - but I had a friend that was in the reserves- his company commander worked for him in civilian life, he on the other hand was his company clerk …! My friend said they never had a problem- kind of weird though……