The first time you met...
How did you first meet your significant other? I realize for some it turned out not to be the best thing to happen to you........ susan |
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SheepieBoss wrote: No, not a sheepdog, but that's a good idea for another chat.....
How did you first meet your significant other? I realize for some it turned out not to be the best thing to happen to you........ susan so far: bowling classmate friend of a friend my boss a coworker those all failed. so, i've tried something new: (hopefully developing) a bar, but she was DD so it wasn't like a usual bar pickup. |
Well, I guess it depends on your definition of "met" ...like first time we made contact, physically saw each other, or spoke? 
We started talking on the internet. Lived a few hours apart (I was in college). One night on the phone, I asked where he lived. He said Springfield neighborhood. Me: Springfield? Are you spying on me? him: what? no......... me: uh... that's where my parents live. We exchanged addresses and turns out he lived down the street. So, in fear of meeting a toad, my dad went to scope him out while he was mowing the lawn. dad said he was a good-looking fellow. me: don't trust ya. So a few weeks later, my significant other happened to be going to where my mom worked. He introduced himself and my mom came home and said "he's the one for you." After all that, we finally agreed to meet in person. This was 6+ months later and after talking every single night and weekend til then. He wasn't a toad, and thankfully he didn't think I was... We believe it was fate that we met since it seemed to play out perfectly for us. |
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Bookstore. I wouldn't call any of them failed -we just settled back into friendship. |
isabella wrote: School.
Bookstore. I wouldn't call any of them failed -we just settled back into friendship. based on that statement, I will still say mine are failed....   |
| Park~ huge failure, married, had 3 kids, divorced
Friend's house~ not a failure, but didn't work out School, and many years later, again in a bar~ married, jury's still out    |
| didn't realize we were posting results...haha
so far: bowling (six months classmate (a week or so) friend of a friend (9 months) my boss (2 months) a coworker (3 years) |
| I met Billy in the bar I had been hanging out in when I was visiting CA.
I actually went there the first time after I was stood up on Valentines Day. I immediately met a bunch of people and became friends with them. When I met Billy the first time I was totally interested. He just looked so cute in his plumbing uniform and his sunglasses sitting on top of his head. I started talking to him...which is very rare for me. I guess the Jack & Coke helped. lol We hit it off right away. I talked to all of my friends....who ended up being his friends too. These people that were friends with him longer, but knew me told him they would kill him if he hurt me in anyway. lol Two week later I cooked him Dinner, then the next night he cooked me dinner and we were in love!!! I went home to NY. My next visit he took he on vacation to San Diego where we stayed on a yacht together for a week. After 6 months of a Long Distance Relationship I moved to California and we've been together even since. |
| Jason sent me an e-mail about his new baby ferret. A mutual friend of ours told him I had a ferret and gave him my e-mail. I was dating someone else at the time, so we just exchanged friendly e-mails about his ferret. Then, we started talking about how we were both playing softball, our churches, our lives, just carrying on the e-mails. Well, my boyfriend at the time, moved back to Missouri for the summer to be with his family. We decided we were better off as friends, so we left it at that.
I still didn't want to meet Jason, lol I was curious, but I heard all the stalker stories on the news and stuff. Our e-mails eventually led to phone calls, and we talked on the phone for a few months. Well, I actually had a stalker that summer term of college. He asked the teacher my name, the teacher told him, my last name at the time was very uncommon (well, still is, lol), so he called all those names in the phone book until he got my parents' number (I lived with them). He called, my mom gave me the phone, and she said loudly "Gail, why don't you invite him over for dinner?" I don't know what possessed her to do that, but she did and he said "That sounds great" even before I could say anything. Grrr... So, he came over that night, and he was weirder than weird. I had never talked to him in class or anything before, so I had no idea what he was like or who he was. After that he kept following me around - he found out where I worked, he became an umpire at the place I played softball, he followed me around campus, started going to my church. It was just creepy. Well, I told Jason about it in a phone call, and he offered to help me. I had to work alone one day, my bosses were both out of town, so I just felt uncomfortable being there alone. I usually worked alone on Saturdays and Sundays, but one of my bosses lived a minute away if I needed her (or her husband in this case - lol). It was probably a stupid move since I didn't really know him, but I told him he could come to my work and hang out. Our mutual friend gave him a good report (she used to date him), and I had been talking to him nearly a year by then, so I gave him a chance. Well, he stopped by and helped me (he pooper scooped the dog yard on our first meeting, lol). We went out after that, and we've been together ever since. He lived a little over a hour away, but we saw each other every weekend. He'd sleep over on weekends in the living room, so I knew that he got my parents' okay (until we started talking about getting married - then they said I was too young, 19, and he wasn't good enough for me). It was only 3 months until we were engaged, and another 3 months before we married. Honestly, I knew that day I'd marry him. So here we are all these years later.
Oh, and he did get the creepy guy to leave me alone too. |
I met my husband while we were in junior high in choir!  Never discount the young love you see!! |
| At work (he's still there...I left about 6 years ago).
We begam instant friends...I thought he was a nerd. Then I started to invite him to come out with my friends for a social ife. He didn't even hug me goodnight, so I thought he was gay  . Then I fell in LOVE and had to tell him!  |
SheepieBoss wrote: No, not a sheepdog, but that's a good idea for another chat.....
How did you first meet your significant other? I realize for some it turned out not to be the best thing to happen to you........ susan How about you, Susan??? |
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BTW Joahaeyo, nice new avatar! |
| Thanks! We went on a trip (denali, ak) and both of them unintentionally had that "tough guy" look. I think Mr. J was in mid speech telling me to hurry up and take a pic!!!!!!!!!! |
| Hee Hee this is a funny thread.. you guys are in general are very humorous.. I like it!
I know I'm new, and you don't know me very well, yet, but I thought this would be a good opportunity to introduce myself. My husband Alex and I've been married for a year and a half but We met Junior year in High School while studying for the SAT at the local SAT prep class... we went to college in the same city, and have been together since.. |
joanna21 wrote: ..you guys are in general are very humorous.. That's polite talk for "everyone but the SiteAdmin"
As long as I know where I stand.... |
Ron wrote: joanna21 wrote: ..you guys are in general are very humorous.. That's polite talk for "everyone but the SiteAdmin" As long as I know where I stand.... HAHAHAHA no way... You don't have to say a word and the sheepie face on your avatar makes me chuckle |
Ron wrote: That's polite talk for "everyone but the SiteAdmin"
As long as I know where I stand.... Actually, did you guys know that July 28th is Sysadmin Day? |
| 1st - I don't discuss other than to say we were married for 12 years had 2 boys and we speak to each other cordially and only when we have to about the boys.
2nd - I had cancer and was undergoing chemo & radiation and desperately needed to talk to adult humans that couldn't see that I was going bald, etc... Started talking to a guy on the internet that lived in New Jersey about his sheepie puppy he had just gotten, his job, my kids, etc... 7 months later that man and his sheepie pup pulled up at a gas station - cause I was to chicken to meet him at my house with all those psycho's out there and since he kept telling me on the phone we were soul mates (plus that British accent woowsers) and suprise he was nice looking. He didn't seem to mind that I was sick, bald and looked like a walking skeleton. 2 weeks of him staying at a hotel, we moved in together, he sold his business in New Jersey & his house.... and 11 years later here we are. (And yes I am now cancer free.) P.S. He was right, he is my soul mate and the love of my life. |
| I met Alex about a year ago at a party at his apartment. I was friends with all his friends/roommates, and one of my good friends kept going on about how cute he was. I thought he was cute but too young, and he thought i was cute but mean (haha we were both right). A few months later we were at a bar with a bunch of our friends and I had curled my hair, and I joked with him that I did it because I knew he was coming.. well he thought I was serious and that started the flirting. We finally gave in this New Years Eve after we got drunk together and danced all night... we've been together for about 6.5 months now. He just spent a week with me in Hawaii and we had the best time, and I can't wait to see him this week when I get back! Oh... and he passed the 'Walter test' with flying colors. |
We are coming up to 25 years of wedded bliss next year. 
I met my other half through a blind date, no we were not blind just a few cocktails to ease the nerves. He also had a sheepdog called Monty, who did I fall in love with first Ha Ha Ha let you all work that one out??????????????????????? I am so happy to of met my soul mate and after all these years of marriage we are still the best of friends and still very much in love  |
I met Doug over a TOILET  SERIOUSLY!!
It was a "fix up". I had been single for 7 years and hadn't had a single date (I refused all invitations). My girlfriend decided that I had been "alone" long enough. Doug had been casually dating her sister and it didn't work out. As I've mentioned before , Doug can FIX ANYTHING. My toilet was bfroken (the thingamajig in the back need replacing) and my BESTFRIEND called me up and told me she was sending a friend over to fix it for me. He came, he fixed. I tried to pay him and he wouldn't accept any money but said I could take him out for pizza. The rest is history |
| I met my husband in a bar, not just a bar but the dirtiest, grossest, roughest bar in the area. They were having swing nights every Wednesday and a friend of mine and I were going and swing dancing. Well, the dj ended up playing a very cool Christmas song and I needed cool Christmas music for the place I was deejaying so I went into the dj booth. I found 3 very surprised looking guys in the booth. I asked who the dj was and asked him about the song. He said it was a song by his band and it wasn't in stores but he gave me a copy of it. (Turned out to be the only copy, by the way. ) I gave him my number in case he wanted tickets to where I dj, as a thanks for the cd. He started calling me and talking about sound gear and I couldn't figure out what this guy wanted. Well, apparently he wasn't looking for a business partner!
We ended upgoing out on a date for dinner. We got interrupted 12, count them 12, times by people who recognized him from the band and it was a lovely evening. (Can you feel the sarcasm?) After that, he said he needed to go back to his place and check on his dogs. A likely line! I kept thinking how slimy he was after a night of no conversation and a line like that. Then we get to his house and what do I find but 2 sheepdogs bouncing up and down in opposition! What else is there to say? |
| Way back when in the small town I grew up in, a lot of kids passed the time away by cruising on "the strip." It was a main street that was four lanes (2 in each direction) that went through the whole city and ended up in our downtown area. So we would drive from 3rd Street around the circle, up to 14th or 15th street, turn around and drive back. And we would do this for HOURS! Everyone knew what everyone else drove, and if you liked someone, you would look for their car to see if they were "on" (the strip). If they were, you turned at the nearest cross street to try to catch up with them. Sometimes one car would get parked while the girl went cruising in the guy's car.
One night a friend and I went to the strip after the movies. My husband and his friend pulled up beside us at a stop light, looks were exchanged, windows opened for conversation and we agreed to stop at 14th St to talk. We exchanged names, addresses, phone numbers. He called me the next night, we started dating, were married 2 years later, and this October we will celebrate 31 years of marriage. My kids make fun of the way we met, but that's the way a lot of people met "back in the day." No worse than meeting in a bar. One way or another, you're picking someone up! |
Quote: How about you, Susan???
I was in forestry school and took the winter quarter off (back when schools were on quarters, not semesters) to "study winter sports administration" which is a polite term for being a ski bum. To keep a roof over my head I waited tables at a lodge and the Forest Service had a rangers meeting at the lodge. I already knew several of the rangers on the district, but not the head honcho. When I first met him I was not impressed, just curious. Later that night the "guys" started doing macho things like hanging from the rafters from their toes, climbing the rock fireplace (it was several stories high), etc. For a little cool down period I showed them how to climb to the loge's roof peak and dive into the snow banks below......yes, there was A LOT of snow. The head honcho thought I was nuts and worth investigating.......and I took the bait! susan |
| Here goes the family friendly rating....
Wow Chris, I didn't know you were a "stripper"! |
| Well, you know, what can I say? (Okay, quick! What 70's sitcom was that line from??) |
| I remodeled Brians kitchen...(in his condo, not the house we have now)....and like it and him sooo much I stayed! |
| I met Tim in a bar - we were both drunk off our butts and fell in love at first site. He managed to convince me to hang in there through his divorce (I met him one year into an ugly two year negotiation). We survived a long distance relationship for a year before I moved to Arizona. 6 years later I still love him madly and because of that I have the kids, dog and suburban house I never wanted And he loves me enough to put up with my globe-trotting job and urban high rise friends. We're totally Green Acres. |
Darcy wrote: I remodeled Brians kitchen...(in his condo, not the house we have now)....and like it and him sooo much I stayed!
hahahahahahaha!!!! |
The first time I saw my hubby, he walked into the office while I worked. He was coming to my office to bring a copy of the accident report from the wreck he had the day before(that was his fault). We both worked for the same Company at the time. He walks into my office (a nice office) wearing muddy boots, tracking mud all over the place, insulated coveralls, and a "Gabby Hayes" hat with a button that read ####forbrains (all one word). Love at first sight? I don't think so.
After a few months though I got to know him and we have been together since 1989. He still tracks mud on my floors, wears his coveralls, but I threw that awful hat and button away. |
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I LOVE these stories!!! Guess it is my time to share: (Note there is also an aww how great does THAT make you feel wonderfully religiously inspiring side to this story, but I'm leaving that part out... Mike hates that part!!! )
The How Karen Met and Wooed Mike Saga Back when I was in college I was working part time as an assistant manager for a video/dvd store. At the time, Mike had recently come back from overseas duty for the guard, and had started collecting videos. He started coming in to the store regularly, to buy anime (japanese animation) as we were one of the few stores that had a nice sized selection. The first time I saw him was when he came to buy some videos. I wasn't even paying any attention honestly... I just rang up the videos, asked the client for an id, and turned around to verify it against his check. I noticed that he had put down a military id, and a little bell went off in my head (Anybody else have the little bell when they met their S.O.?)... I looked up and here is this cute guy in a baseball cap and a black nubuck jacket. I smiled and thanked him for the purchase, and I just couldn't take my eyes off of him. I even kinda wandered off following him almost out of the store. Luckily for me, as I've said, Mike was collecting videos, so he came into the store often! I tried to schedule myself on days when I thought he might be coming in. Eventaully I figured out one of my co-workers had graduated high school wth him. I spent 6 months of weekly flirting and laying down AS MANY hints as I possibly could that I was single and interested. In the middle of that, I even had a casual dating stint with another guy... in which I felt as though I was cheating on the mysterious black jacketed stranger, even though I WASN'T! Strangest feeling ever. After 1/2 a year, I had finally HAD IT! Finally, in February of 2000 I'd decided that I was tired of waiting and I was just going to be a modern woman and ask the mysterious black jacketed stranger out. At that time, Star Wars Episode 1 was being released on video. We were having a promotion where the clients that pre-registerd for the video got a 10$ gift certificate for free when they signed up. Mike (the mysterious stranger) had never gotten his, he had signed up before the promotion started. So with a little emotional support from one of my co-workers, I called him up, and asked him if he wanted to come pick up his free gift certificate. He was in the store in about 1/2 an hour. When I handed over the card, I asked him if he would like to go out for dinner or a movie sometime. He said yes instantly. Our first date was at the Mall Of America, on leap day... the first thing we saw when we walke dinto the mall were a whole bunch of brides and grooms getting married in the rotunda. ( It was "take the leap on leap day" a promotion by a local radio station) I took that as a pretty obvious sign of good things to come! |
| This is fun! I've noticed that many of us (WOMEN) were the initiators in our relationship. I have time at the moment so I'll tell more...
Like Karen, I too followed Steve (see my initial post) around the office. His cube was near mine and I'd conveniently head towards the printer room when he did. I'd act interested in the Far Side calendar on his desk when in fact I didn't understand most of the jokes. I was the one who started asking him to come out with my friends and he acted like it was perfectly normal to drive 50 miles in the rain to go to the city to meet up with us. All during this time, I was dating other guys and would tell him what idiots they were. Secretly, I hoped he'd get jealous. No, he was cool as a cucumber. He's COMPLETELY different from EVERYONE I've ever dated (he's usually calm, reserved, spiritual, drinks only occasionally, never smoked a cigarette , doesn't do drugs, isn't possessive).
One day he was in my cube and I actually TOLD him to his face, "My type of guy is YOU". He stared at me like a deer into headlights and simply said, "I better get back to work". I just about died. He called me later that day to ask if I wanted to go to lunch the next day to "talk". By this time, I figured our relationship could stay either "close friends" or start dating. The next day I drove us to "Einstein Bagels" and he didn't say a word about it! On the way back to the office, I broke down and brought the whole thing up so I'd have some closure to the situation. He said he wanted an "OFFICIAL DATE" but he was going out of town to visit friends that weekend. During the next work week, we had our first kiss at a gas station (story for another day) after a work get together That same weekend we had the most wonderful date down in the city and for once it didn't rain on us.
We have now been friends for 9 yrs, dated for 4 yrs, married for 4 yrs. I married my best friend and rock. There are days when I wish things were as romantic as they used to be, but hey...I really couldn't ask for anyone better to spend the rest of my life with |
| Though this sounds much more scandalous than it is, I met James at work while I was with my ex. I met him for the first time at the first recognition event that I helped plan for our organization. I was still really new and didn't know very many people so I offered to sit outside at the reception table and greet people. All the computer people move in one collective pack where we work so the whole department showed up at once. One of the guys I knew already through a friend outside of work so they all hung out with me and talked for awhile before going in to get food. A little while later James and another guy came back and we started talking.
I don't even remember when his friend walked away and left us sitting there talking but we wound up sitting there for almost 2 hours until the event ended (I never even ended up going in!). One thing we still laugh about now: He talked a lot of about friends of his that were girls, but no girlfriends, that I wound up asking him if he was gay. Luckily, he wasn't offended but just laughed and said no. Now he gives me a hard time about it.
I liked him a lot then and even went home and told by boyfriend at the time that we should hang out with him sometime, because he was a really cool guy. I'd see James on occasion at work and we'd say and hi and talk but nothing more than friendly nicities. Things, at that time, with the ex were in the toilet. We were really only together at that time because his father was dying and I didn't want to leave him at that point. We'd been together for 11 years and we'd really gone our separate ways over the years. He resented any successes I had because he lacked ambition of his own. We were living in two different worlds and I got to the point where I was driving around the block at night waiting for the lights to go out so I wouldn't have to see him. Sad, huh? I had been ready for awhile but his father kept relapsing. Finally, I knew the relationship wasn't benefitting anyone. I was miserable so I finally broke it off. Word travels fast in our workplace when girls become single. About a week later, I started getting a lot of e-mails from James, just saying hi and talking. He started hanging around the office a lot, which he had no reason to be up there because he lives on the first floor and I'm on the third. He was always trying to help me with my computer and going out of his way to help me with things. He e-mailed me several times but we didn't actually talk face to face a lot. Now when we did, it was all shy and awkward. Finally after a month of this, I said, "Hey, you want to go see a movie or something?" He was like, "I'd love to, I'll pick you up Friday at 7." We both admitted later that we weren't sure if the other one thought it was a date so we weren't sure how to act. It took one more date to be sure. Four years later and we're getting married. We're so much alike, it's scary. Who would've thought I'd want another me? |
ButtersStotch wrote: Four years later and we're getting married. We're so much alike, it's scary. Who would've thought I'd want another me?
who woulda thunk??? |
| O my gosh this is hard. I was asked by my first to go on a canoe ride. I Was 15.We dated a rocky road.. His Mom died when he was 12 and then his dad died when we were together age 19 ( him) We still dated till he went into the Army 1960, He was 22 and I was 17. We got married Dec of 1960. I had just lost both My parents that summer. BAD MARRIAGE. Lasted 15 yrs.we had 4 children.
My husband as of now, Married 29 yrs. Hard to tell this but he had dated my oldest daughter. She lied and said she was 18 but realy 15. He lied and said he was 19 and was 22. Some how she started dateing others. He kept coming around, we had so much in that we we alike. My marrige had been bad for yrs. He had cheated at least 8 times. The final thing is a fight with my ex when he broke my ribs. I WAS GONE AS OF THEN. Divorce in August 1960, Richard and I married in 12/10/77. Yes I am 13 yrs younger than him but it workks for us. |
| forgot to add ,,,,, My ex dated a few yrs. Met a girl. Lived together for a few months and got married. The marriage lasted 6 weeks!! she left and got a divorce and left the state. Now he lives with a woman. Not married just freinds. I don't wish any bad on him. God will ask him.! |
OES Mommy wrote: Yes I am 13 yrs younger than him but it workks for us.
Wait, are you younger or older? I'm confused now. I thought he dated your daughter first? |
| I am 13 yrs younger than him |
OES Mommy wrote: I am 13 yrs younger than him
So if he was 22 when he dated your daughter and you're 13 years younger, wouldn't that make you 9 years old at the time then? Where am I getting confused? |
| okay, im confused too Richard dated your daughter who said she was 18 but was really 15...Richard lied about his age to her and said he was 19 but was really 22...how old were you at this time...because if he is 13 yrs older than you.. you would have been 9 when he was 22....
boy this would be a good math quiz.... |
| WRONG I am 13yrs older than him OOPs |
ROFLMAO At least none of you were bald when you met your hubby or significant other. Boy that one took guts.  |
| yes it was the hardest thing I think I have done. But it has worked for us. 13 yrs is a hard thing but for us it works. HE Makes me young!!!!!!! |
| lol, Jason just reminded me about the end of our first date. I try to forget it. My dad was at my work sitting in his truck with his pistol, because I hadn't called my parents for 2 hours They expected me to check-in every hour but my cell phone battery died, and we got dinner to go and went to the park and walked around/talked, so there wasn't a phone around. I did tell them I'd be home later than usual after I left work, I was going out with a friend. It was only 8:30, I was 19 years old...I'm REALLY surprised Jason asked me out again, lol
Still doesn't beat the time he drug me out of my ex-bf's frat house though. We were just sitting around playing cards and talking one Saturday afternoon, wasn't like a wild party was going on. Now, that was embarrassing, because I had to face a lot of the people there in my classes the rest of my time in college. If you can't tell, I have really, really strict parents! lol (I say have because they still are) |
| It's okay Deana, Bob is 11 years older than me. I always laugh when he talks about bands and shows that happened in the 80s and I have to remind him that I was in Elementary School!!! Can't go clubbing when you have arts and crafts the next day! |
| Brian is 9 yrs older than me and I like to say...when he was 18, I was 9...he wouldnt have looked at me....when I was 18, he was 27 and I wouldnt have looked at him....somewhere down the line it equaled out...well, except for music..... |
| In a pub I used to go there with my daughter, steve used to bring us a bag of sweeties, then a red rose. He asked me out that was that and here we still are together. |
| These stories are great!!!
Well lets see, i was 16, i had just moved to Texas from North Dakota. I was very depressed and ummm lets say my dieting methods had gotten out of control. My relationship with my family was non exsistent. We moved down there in November. I literally said nothing to my family until i asked if i could go out on a date with Chris, which was in Feb. I was actaully put in a cooking class, b/c i had nowhere else to go in high school. Chris was in there. My accent was soo bad alot of people could not understand what i was saying, si i didn't speak much. There was four other new people so she let the already establish cooking groups pick a new person. Well Chris was in one with an ex gf of 3 yrs and a nother girl he was crushing on and two other guys that had already asked me out, which i turned down. Chris later told me he practically begged them to pick me 
So after al ot of coaxing from him, which consisted of jokes mainly i started to loosen up a bit. I was so lost after i left my best friends behind. My 17th B-day came up and i sat and watched as a nervous, shaking Chris tried to ask me out on a date. I said i couldn't go out. I just wanted to be alone on my borthday, it was the first birthday i had EVER spent without my Besf friends. That entire weekend i could only think about him. I hadn't realized that i liked him like that. When Monday rolled around i askd him if his offer was stiil good. So we agreed to go out that weekend. But he had tow ork on Valentines day which was a Saturday, so he suggested Friday the 13th. SUre why not. We went out and had a blast, i don't think i smiled that much in months!!! My parents wanted him to be gone, they though ti was to "fragile" to be pursuing a relationship. Well that didn't happen and evetuallywe moved closer to where Chris lived and any chance we had we were together. NOw it is three and a half years later and we are planning our weeding, which if some of you picked up on, thats why our wedding date is Friday the 13th. We also have broken ground on our house and he graduates from college next May. I will evetually graduate 
God knew what he was doing Chris has saved me from myselfmore times than i can count. We balance each other perfectly. I can hardly wait to grow old with him, he is beyond anything i could have ever imangined for who i was gonna be able to spend the rest of my life with:hearts: Shannon |
| I can't believe how many young marriages there are on here! Especially since I think the national average age of marriage is now 24 and 27 (women, men). I just assumed most people were waiting longer to get married these day. |
| Mike and I married at 25.
I guess we rate average??? LOL! |
| I was 31...Brian was 40 |
| My first husband and I married when I was 16 and he was 30.
My husband and I married when I was 28 and he was 30. |
Willowsprite wrote: My first husband and I married when I was 16 and he was 30.
My husband and I married when I was 28 and he was 30. When you are 60 will you "rob the cradle" and marry someone who is 30? |
Willowsprite wrote: My first husband and I married when I was 16 and he was 30.
Wow. What's age of consent there? Did you need parental permission? |
| No I was pregnant.....
Ironically enough though, he cheated on me with a 16 yr old when he was 37 or so, and ended up with her after I left. He is almost 47 now, and she must be close to 26 by now so I'd guess he'll be trading her in soon |
Willowsprite wrote: No I was pregnant.....
Ironically enough though, he cheated on me with a 16 yr old when he was 37 or so, and ended up with her after I left. He is almost 47 now, and she must be close to 26 by now so I'd guess he'll be trading her in soon downgrading for next year's model? |
| They are great stories - had got to page 2, then missed a few days!
Todd and I met at dog training classes when we were both 21. I had just graduated from college and started a new job in a new town. Todd had just moved back in with his parents after being in the Army. We were in seperate clesses for beginners, but were together the next session for intermediate. We hadn't talked in beginners, but I had noticed him - we were about the only 2 young single people there! His mom helped out at the school - attendance, other paperwork. His younger brother and sister were there alot too. Apparently Todd was driving them crazy talking about "the girl at dog training", because unknown to me at the time, his mom gave him 3 weeks to ask me out, or she would for him! One night he got all red in the face and asked me to go to a movie. I later found out about the threat from his mom, and that he was on his last and 3rd week! We started dating in Feb. and were married by August. We knew it was the real thing - and we will be celebrating 23 years this august. |
Quote: Bob is 11 years older than me. I always laugh when he talks about bands and shows that happened in the 80s and I have to remind him that I was in Elementary School!!!
Paul is 15 years older than me, but my oldest brother is 10 years older than me, so at least I can remember the music.....back in those ancient times....before rock 'n roll.....yes there was a time before. |
| My husband lived above my floor in the dorms when we were freshmen. Our dorm was pretty small so everyone hung out a lot and pretty much knew each other. My husband had a girlfriend back home that first semester so he went home every weekend, so I didn't get to know him very well.
Then the next semester they broke up and my friend and I asked him to go see Star Wars with us (they had re-released the orginal one in theaters in anticipation of all the new ones) so we went. From then on we were inseparable. But he was too skinny for me. By the time we were juniors he had gained some weight (beer will do that for you) and on New Year's Eve our friends had an awesome party and I had kissed his roommate that night and he mentioned something about it and I said something like, Well, I kissed him because you wouldn't kiss me, which he then kissed me and we've been together ever since. We just had our one-year wedding anniversary 2 days ago |
| At 26 I was new in town, fresh from from Edmonton, Alberta, and met Don in a bar. He was trying to find someone to fix up with his friend, who was nice, but not my type. We all had a good laugh, and a good time.
He mentioned an outdoor country music festival that he was going to and I already had a date for. It was in another city so we mentioned that we may see each other there an that was it. Well, my date at the festival was a bore, and I met up with Don, dumped my date, and that was it. Don looked the rocker type, which I was trying to shake as "been there done that" so I told him I did not want to date him as in a new city I was trying to change my lifestyle. So he invited me to go for a "picnic" with him and that was it. We've been together almost 20 years, and 2 kids later, we are still surviving. I won't say we are best friends, or even soul mates, but we know each other so well now we kind of blend... |
| Oooh Nicole I love that saying "Now we Kind of Blend" never thought of it that way but it really is a lovely way of expressing a partnership together. |
| Willowsprite Wrote :
Quote: Ironically enough though, he cheated on me with a 16 yr old when he was 37 or so, and ended up with her after I left. He is almost 47 now, and she must be close to 26 by now so I'd guess he'll be trading her in soon
ROTFLMAO after I spit Tea all over my screen. I met Mike online, emailed and chatted on the phone for about 3 weeks, then met for dinner one Friday and the date lasted all weekend. Dinner was funny. We both were nervous, hardly eat anything either one of us but drank a bottle of wine between us. Halfway thru the meal and stops me mid conversation and asks if he could ask me a question. I said What? He asked if he could kiss me, I said yes and we've been inseperable ever since. We'll see where it lead too.... |
| After having a fall out with a roommate in another town...I was looking for a new place, and a new roommate, and a new start.
I called a long time friend (Mike), and he said his girlfriend could really use a roommate. So without knowing her, I agreed to move in with her. It brought me to Edmonton. The guy (Mike), lived with two guys...I was in LOVE for 3 yrs with one of his roommates (Doug), but it was a complicated relationship, and was more trouble then it was worth. The other roommate (Rob) was his brother...who at the time was in Ireland working for 1 month. So for 2 weeks I was getting to know Edmonton, figuring out what to do with these other guys I was seeing but not dating. Then Rob comes home, we clicked instantly. Then one night my roommate and I were out jogging in the rivervalley, and she trips and hurts her arm. Next day it was obvious it was more than bruise, and Rob helped us by driving her to the hospital. As she spent the day getting a cast on, he and I got to know each other. That night he made us supper, and movies, and as the night progressed, he too asked if he could kiss me. Dating him was so easy, it was not complicated, a complete opposite to (Doug). We've been together now for 9 yrs...and are still each other's best friend. What I find funny is that I kept walls up, and maintained a distance to these other guys...open to going out to a movie or dinner, but nothing else. When Rob and I met, it was totally different, I WANTED to be with him, and I was comfortable around him. I didn't have to try, we were both honest, and upfront, and we talked about everything. I believe our gut instincts does know...we just have to recognize it. Plus my family loved Rob instantly and he liked them...they all hated Doug. And before we got engaged he and I went and adopted a cat (Jake) from the spca, because I missed having a cat. Apparantly this was HUGE, because Rob was not a cat person, or a dog person. All his friends knew he was serious about me, and soon after he asked me to marry him. |
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