How and When did you meet your mate?

[Karenluvs6]

C'mon gang, I'd like to hear how you all met your significant other.

I met Beezwax when I was 13 years old. My sister was dating his brother, so we met through them. They had just moved to Philly from Charlotte NC...We hung out together a few times. the few times my sister didn't mind me tagging along
I was too young to date, but I fell in love with him instantly!! I had never met anyone as handsome or as cool as he was...he still is!! Boy did I fall hard!!
We lost touch for a while, here and there. He went back and forth from Philly to NC from time to time..but I patiently waited.
Geesh, I waited an awful long time!!!
We went about our own lives, but stayed friends for years...It wasn't until 1997, I went to a Christmas party at my sister's house....and guess what? He was there!! Playing Santa Claus...LOL...It was very nice of him, my kids' loved it!!
We talked that day, and started dating shortly after.
We've been together since....and I have never been happier a day in my life!
I still feel like I did when I was 13, about him. I could never love any man like I love him!!!

So, let's hear your love stories!!!!

[cool chic]

My hasband and I met through mutal friends. Our friends kept trying to put the bug in his ear...he was really interested. At the same time I got a job at a grocery store, where I still work today, he would come in after he got off work and buy hot chocolate, and rent a romantic comedy. This happened for about a week, until he got up the courage to phone me up and ask me out!

Our first date was exciting, to say the least! He picked me up and we went out for lunch. Then he wanted to go for a drive...in his 4x4 truck. There was a new highway being built just outside of town, and he wanted to show me the scenery. Little did he know, my father belonged to the highway department, and had the keys to the gate (They kept it locked so people wouldn't go and chew up the freshly graveled road!) I had been on the new "highway" several times with my dad, but didn't let on!
Since he had a 4x4 he decided that he could go around the gate. There was alot of snow on the ground, I tightened my seat belt!! We started up a hill and all of a sudden he started slipping, I looked out the window on the passanger side and saw a big hole (a little bigger than his truck)and we were heading straight for it! Just then he opened his door and escorted me to safety! He got out the shovel and cleared a path for the truck...He ended up backing up and making it back to where we had started...We then decided that it was wise to stick to paved roads! I didn't tell him that my dad had the key at home all along...and we could have probably asked for it! To this day he loves a challange, and keeps life interesting!!!

[Karenluvs6]

That is sweet Coolchic. Your hubby sounds like a lot of fun.
I often wonder, when my hubby and I are together, if anyone else, anywhere in the world is as happy as we are, or if anyone else has as much fun...Hearing your story confirms that for me.
I hope there are many ppl out there who are in love as much as we are! {love}

thank you for sharing your story!

[jamesglewisf]

I met my bride at church. Our SS class was so large (50 attended regularly) that we broke it down into care groups. Each care group leader was assigned 5-6 members and was responsible for calling them weekly and keeping in touch.

Amy was my care group leader. Apparently, she cared too much! We were best friends for a couple of years, dated for about 1 month, were engaged for 11 months, and will celebrate 6 years next Sunday.

[Rhonda]

Well, mine was a whirlwind marriage. I met my wonderful husband on the internet, April 12th of this year. We met in person Memorial Day Weekend. I knew long before then that he was the love of my life. After several trips for both of us (he lived in Oklahoma City and I live in Roswell, New Mexico) we both decided that God had intended for us to be together. He moved out here, and we got married October 1st of this year.

[Karenluvs6]

WOW...Congratulations Rhonda!


That is sweet Jim.....I'll bet she is as wonderful as you are! {lovesick}

[roldfiel]

Well, I met kdo09 when I was 15. We both worked at the local McDonalds and I knew he was my fry guy from the start. We started out as just real good friends as I was dating his best friend. It didn't take long for us to realize we were molded for eachother. Our love and relationship gets stronger EVERY day. To this day I can't go into a McDonalds without seeing him behind the counter. I had a lot of problems in my family and he was always there to give me a ride or a shoulder to cry on. They don't come better than him.

[roldfiel]

I guess I should add that we met 8 years ago, dated for three and have been happily married since August 7, 1995.

[4everHis]

I met my bride of 12 years, Sandee, while in the Air Force. I am from Maryland, she is from West Virginia, but we met in California at Beale AFB (about 40 miles north of Sacramento). {dude2}

The base had an 'all-ranks' choir, which was the only all-ranks choir in the military, since they do not go for fraternization between officers and enlisted. I joined the choir my first week on base, and I saw a really cute gal across from me during choir practice. After practice, she came up to me to welcome me to the choir. It was at that moment when I realized that she was an officer (I was enlisted)!

We only saw each other while in the choir until the Deputy Base Commander (who was a choir member) had a party at his place for the whole choir. this was the first time that Sandee and I were together outside of uniform. It was a lot easier to talk without 'politics' getting in the way. Everyone in the choir was very friendly, so nobody suspected anything between Sandee and I. We ended up having our first date (secretively) a few weeks following that party. Unfortunately, I left the next day for 9 months. I toured with the Air Force's Tops In Blue entertainment showcase, and I called her every night when our show was over (sometimes 1:00, 2:00, or 3:00 in the morning). She loved it. So she said.

Anyway, when my tour came through Beale AFB, she told me that we needed to end our relationship (she would face a courtmarshall if caught). I was heart-broke.

At the end of my tour, 2 months later, I sent her a HUGE flower arrangement for Christmas and just said, "Merry Christmas". Nothing more. A month later, after taking some 'leave', I came back to base, back to choir practice. She couldn't resist. {king} We dated for 4 months (in hiding |B) ), engaged for only 1 month, and married July 3, 1988. Love endured! {love} She is still my best friend, and I thank God for bringing her into my life!

BTW: The 'all-ranks' choir was disbanded soon after we were married! {look}

[In_His_Shadow]

This is a neat thread. My story happened on June 28, 1976. I was driving down the drag (our main road in town where everyone road up and down and met on weekends) on my way home one night I saw my brother-in-law standing outside a Burger Chef talking with a really good looking guy. I turned in and he introduced us. My dh asked me if I wanted to go to the beach the next day. We went and have never been apart since that day. We were engaged in August of 76' and married January 21,1977. It was a whirlwind courtship, but it took. He is my best friend, lover and soul mate. I thank God for him daily.

CJ

[blinc]

This is a loooong story. I met my hubby when we were on a flight. The plane crashed, but the pilots were able to land it fairly smoothly on the water near a small remote island. We were there for 32 days before being rescued. (The emergency radio was busted in the crash). Finally, a small private plane flew near enough to us, to see the giant SOS we made of logs on the beach. During the 32 days, some of the other passengers went a little "native". Think the isolation and fear of never being found sent them over the edge. They refused to leave the island when the coast guard came to pick us up. Two of them had to be captured and sedated before they could be rescued. They were taken by helicopter to a hospital.

The rest of us were put on a ship and we almost made it back to the mainland. A huge storm came up when we were about 90 miles offshore. The Coast Guard rescue boat began taking on water, they radioed in a SOS. The weather was so bad that nothing could be sent out to us to help. The boat ended up sinking just before dawn and we were all put into small rubber life rafts. We were in the water for 9 hours before the weather cleared enough so rescue helicopters could be sent to us. Of course, this whole story is being made up out of whole cloth.

Actually, we met while on a safari in Africa. There we were, in the middle of this open plain when a herd of stampeding elephants started barreling right towards us!

Ok, OK!! Geesh, we met through mutual friends. *blink*

[Karenluvs6]

BLINC!
I thought you were serious at first!

ain't I the bonehead?!?

[blinc]

Sorry, but we didn't have a heck of a meeting like you and your hubby did. Had ya going huh? Bad blinc, bad! *cackle*

Hey, do you want to hear about the time we almost drowned in a melting igloo?

[Austruck]

My husband and I met through a Christian website where you could search for penpals based upon profiles they entered. He was searching for people in a 50-mile radius. I came in just under that at 30+ miles (if he had typed in "30 miles," I probably wouldn't have shown up on the list of possible penpals).

For a month, W and I emailed and IMed back and forth before he got up the guts to call me on the phone. Actually, he had been meaning to call when I was not home in order to leave a cryptic message on my machine, but I was running late that day and was still home when he called, which really threw him off. I figured out who it was and laughed my head off at him.

We met after a month of this weirdness, trying to make a dinner date in public at a local restaurant chain. That afternoon we had a gusty rainstorm that knocked power out to the entire town, and he had to call me and rearrange things to a different restaurant at the last minute. (I thought this was a bad sign and really didn't want to go.)

It was the single worst date of my LIFE! He sported this weird mustache at the time (too long on the sides, IMHO), was 14 inches taller than I am (okay, he still is), and barely even cracked a smile the entire evening. Little did I know he has the most subtly DRY sense of humor.

It seems all he could talk about was his car, his CB antenna, how he gets out of traffic tickets, and tweaking his computer.

After the date, standing outside the restaurant, I wondered what would happen next. We were parked on opposite sides of the restaurant. It was 10:30 at night. To be gracious, I said, "Thank you for dinner. Next time it'll have to be on me."

He very dryly and stoically said, "IF there IS a next time."

Needless to say I thought he was serious, and I barely held back tears when he said that. I had been witty, charming, humorous, and gracious, nodding at all his stupid stories. And here he was hinting that HE might not want to see ME again!! Da noive!

Did he walk me to my car? Nope. He just said a blunt "Goodbye" and walked to his car and let me find my way to mine around the side of the restaurant.

I spent the whole car ride home sobbing and swearing I wasn't going to date ever again.

But, since I had very few Christian friends who had kids AND free time, W and I managed to do social things together whenever neither of us had our kids. Movies, rib festivals, more movies (where I'd be sure to sit as far away from him in the seat as I could so I wouldn't accidentally touch him or anything).

I have no idea how my feelings for him changed. We did so many weird things together -- going to his company picnic, which included a Univ. of Pitt. football game, in the pouring-down rain, with neither of us talking to each other but rather just sitting there getting drenched and cold. Going to the local amusement park with our teenagers, who disliked each other, trying NOT to touch him when the workers jammed us into the Log Jammer with one person too many, UGH! So many oddly mixed memories.

But somehow things changed. I think I just began to figure out that his quietness didn't mean he was boring, just that he didn't ever feel he needed to prove anything to anyone. He never tried to impress me, just to be my friend. He never tried hard to make me laugh, but after a bunch of months I began to figure out his sense of humor and realized he'd probably been having a whole slew of good laughs at my expense (and I'm the one known for a sense of humor).

Around Valentine's Day (my least favorite holiday up till that point, having never gotten ANYTHING for that Day, even amid a previous 13-yr marriage), we went to the movies to see the newest Jeff Daniels movie (W looks like the adorable love-child of Jeff Daniels and Baby Huey). Just before the date I began to realize that, despite everything, he'd been so good to me over the past 8 months (and saved me a ton of money in ticket prices and popcorn). So I traipsed down the block in the whipping snow to buy him a small bouquet of wildflowers and a card to say "thanks." (Just a "friends only" Valentine's card.)

I got into his car when he arrived and presented him with the flowers -- after nearly sitting on the big box of gorgeous locally-made chocolates in a red velvet heart-shaped box that he'd gotten for me. He didn't say a thing about the chocolates, just let me open them. He asked why the flowers, and I said, "Because you've been so kind to me." He said, "No one's ever given me flowers before."

I said, "Well, no one's ever gotten me anything for Valentine's Day before."

He stared at the steering wheel, smiled slightly (HE SMILED!), and said, "Then I'm very glad that I was the first."

And off we went to the movies, both of us trying to suppress childish smiles all night long.

Somehow that changed everything. By March 1, we were officially dating. When my parents visited me at the end of June, he asked my father's permission to marry me (unbeknownst to me, except when my mom told me a few days later). I thought this was the sweetest thing anyone's ever done for me -- we were both 38 years old, and had kids from previous marriages, and he was asking my dad's permission! My dad laughed and said, "She's 38 -- you don't need my permission ... but YES!"

On the 4th of July, he proposed to me. On Aug. 12, 1999, we were married, with just our six kids and two best friends present, in a small outdoor gazebo in a nearby town.

Best decision I ever made. :)

Oh, except for that sense of humor thing. I still haven't figured that out. But, that's part of his charm. That, and trying to kiss him by standing on the couch so I can reach him! My littlest kids always squawk, "I thought we weren't allowed to stand on the furniture!"

[RoadRunner]

Linda,

That's a really great story.

[blinc]

Austruck that's such a great way to meet! I'm so impressed that both of you stuck it out to begin with.. it sounds like there weren't a whole lot of sparks in the beginning, but how wonderful there was something there to keep you seeing each other. That is so romantic! I love a dry sense of humor too. One of those jokes that hits you after awhile and you want to smack yourself on the forehead for not getting it sooner. hee hee! I bet you two are hilarious to be around with those senses of humor! {toothy}

[Austruck]

Road Runner, it's also a really LONG story. Sheesh, didn't notice that till I posted it. How embarrassing... :)

blinc, I highly recommend the "friends first" method of courtship. I've never doubted the decision because of that.

Now, the *less* romantic side is that we spent many "dates" at Walmart, Sam's Club, and Home Depot during that time. We tried to spend Memorial Day together but his water heater broke, so we spent it at Home Depot and then installing the water heater. We tried to spend Easter together with me cooking a big dinner for us and our kids (our first time with all 8 together), but he ended up fixing my car radiator in a torrential downpour and running out to the auto parts store, only to get a flat tire on *his* car -- we all had to bunk out in his house overnight because we had no way to get home!

We even bought our wedding bands at Walmart. By the time we actually got married, we'd spent so much time doing boring, everyday stuff that we knew the marriage would be a piece of cake. :)

The only embarrassing part is telling, like, older family members who ask, "How did you two meet?", "Umm, we met on the Internet." That still has a stigma. Oh well.

[KatCo]

OK, I've been on the forum long enough now that I guess I'm safe to give out a little bit of inside info regarding personal stuff, he he he.....

Weird as it may sound I met my husband on a blind date{eek2}, so I guess that they sometimes do work!

I had returned back to college, pretty much swearing off of guys for awhile as I had been recently burned in a relationship and previous ones were not good ones. I had returned to college to focus on me and to better myself. I had enrolled in some "heavier" classes that required "lab" partners.

Throughout the semester my lab partner and I were required to spend a lot of time together and she and I found that we had much in common with one another. She started to become my closest friend.

While spending so much time with our noses in our books, we would of course talk and she started asking me questions like; why I was returning such a "cold shoulder" to the guys that were paying attention to me.

I explained to her that I was pretty much giving up on guys for the moment, as they were *all* scum...(I know, I know, that all enclusive *all* is extreme, but give me a break here, I was young (20) and the guy that I was so in love with cheated on me, leaving me to believe that guys were after "just one thing").

After telling my story, my lab partner told me that she knows this "perfect" guy that I just "have" to meet. She told me he was "different" and wouldn't press me for more than what I wanted to give. Needless to say I was not convinced, but tagged along with her when she went to hang out with him one day.

We met at his townhome (that was nice, all the other guys I had dated were still with Mom or Dad, or living with a bunch of guys in "bachelor" mode). At one point I noticed a rather interesting calendar hanging on his wall and I went over to look at the pictures on it. The calendar was an "oil rig/producing/production" one AND it was in a foreign language like Norweigan. At the bottom of the months were these sub-titles; obviously telling about the picture above. My husband to be was working for Chevron Oil at the time.

He came over and said something in the manner of "I don't know why you are bothering looking at that, you can't *read* it".

Well anyone that knows me for any lenght of time knows that THAT is NOT something you tell me! Needless to say a heated debate was underway. I mean, for goodness sake, it's a calendar, you can deduce that the writing on the top is the month, the writing over the numbers are the days of the week, etc...We were basically arguing over the "semantics" of it.

By this time, my poor girlfriend thought that I "hated" him and kept apologizing all the way home to me.

I guess to make a long story shorter, my husband "liked" that I stood up for myself and didn't roll over on an issue. (He was tired of dating girls that didn't seem to have much of an opinion on anything). And I saw a guy that appeared to have it much more together than the "type" of guy I was use to.

Needless to say my lab partner was dismayed to find out that he had called me to ask for a date, and was downright dumbfounded when I told her I was going to go.

We actually got along very well, and he was the perfect gentleman. We started out being the best of friends first, so like many of you, I totally agree, that is the best place to start.

Well, here I am, we celebrated our 21 wedding anniversary in December (oh my, I am really dating myself here), and while we have most definitely had our ups and downs, we have somehow always made it back to the friends part to start rebuilding. The downs have made our marriage stronger, and I can honestly say I still love my husband very much.

I have been truly blessed. I have two wonderful boys aged 18 and 20 (James, posts here a lot under the riddle site). My wonderful husband supported me by letting me stay home and raise them, even when money was tight. I am very proud of my boys and I am proud to say that I home-schooled them both.

James is a Junior in college now, has been on a full-ride scholarship, and has been accepted into the pre-med program at USC. He was recently listed in the 2000 edition of the Deans List of Honor Students and is planning on attending Medical school in our home state.

My younger son, will be starting college this next semester and moralisticly is an outstanding teenager in his own right. He too, is very bright, and I think the main reason for their "smarts" is due to the fact that learning never became "boring" for them.

Well, I am getting off onto another subject that I am so feverent about - children and homeschooling. Should any of you have any questions about homeschooling, please do not hesitate to talk to me....

I apologize for the LONG post....

[blinc]

Katco, that was a wonderful description of how you two met and have worked to make a great marriage. It sounds like you two were made for each other! It sure is nice to meet people who have long-term marriages. It seems such a hard thing to accomplish, what with the divorce rate being so high. I'm happy for you! :)

There was a thread started in the Parenting 101 area of the forum, discussing home-schooling. I'd love to hear your input on the subject! Afraid I pestered people quite a bit with all the questions I had. Here's a link to it:
http://frappydoo.com/forum/showthread.php3?threadid=81&pagenumber=1

[La La La]

My husband and I met in a comparative vertebrate anatomy class. He became my lab partner. He was the friendliest, sincerest, most generous, fun, intelligent, and supportive person I'd ever met; other than my parents, of course!

He worked at a GNC and I was interested in doing that Bill Phillips EAS Body for Life contest. I went to GNC to ask him what supplements to buy. (You had to buy supplements to enter the contest.) He asked me out on one of those trips in and we hit it off. I'd actually seen him across the room in a genetics class lab the previous summer. We never spoke then. He said he remembers my legs. I remember his curly ink black hair - it's the most beautiful hair you could ever imagine.

Anyway, I got a D in the anatomy class and he failed it. I graduated but we kept in touch. He took the class over and made Dean's List and graduated later. Fast forward and we got married in a small ceremony in Gatlinburg. My friend and parents attended. (We had a typical wedding planned but a bunch of technicalities came up and we said what the heck.) Anyway, that's it. He treated me like a queen before we got married and then turned on me after he said "I do". Our anniversary is in a month and it feels like 35 years have already passed.

[jamesglewisf]

La La La,

That's sad. I hope he turns around and goes back to being that guy you met.

[momofmany38]

I met my husband on the internet......Gosh was i scared when it came time to actually MEET him in person.....we had no clue what the other looked like......he lived in Pittsburgh and me in Altoona......he drove the WHOLE way in here to get me and take me back to the "burgh" so he could take me to the zoo......{blush}......we had a wonderful time together......and it became weekend thing that he drove in EVERY weekend and took me over there......a few months later....i took the dive and moved over there....well, the rest is history......married and 3 MORE children....including our beautiful twins..... {love} that made 9 total children for both of us.....thus, you now also have the meaning behind my name {popworm}

[Ziggyzaazaa]

momofmany38.

wow.....thats very interesting, what was it like when you met your husband for the first time after a internet reationship, It is so weird to not know what one another looks like, did you feel like you knew him. Please share your story, it seems really special :) Thanks.

[missmeliss21]

Me and my hubby met online at a site called "hot or not'...it's a picture rating site and when it asks you if the pic is "hot or not" i clicked yes to my hubby's..well then that put him on my "friends" list...i couldnt really talk to him yet..i could only send "notes" that the website lets you choose....i could send actual email to him if i was a member..i wasn't a member..so we sent notes back and forth for a while and in one of his notes it said he will soon be a member and we'll be talking soon....it was real soon when we finally were actually talking to each other...that went on for about a month...then we decided to meet up and Barnes and Nobles, when i pulled up i thought i saw the truck that he said he had...i wasnt sure, so i got out and this guy was looking at me..i had only seen pics of Chris and they weren't the best of quality, but anyways..i ignored the staring that this guy was giving me and i kept walking...i walked a little more and then pulled out my phone to call him, but i had a strange feeling that someone was behind me, and that feeling i had was thinking that he was behind me, so i turned around and guess what...he was behind me, we both had huge smiles on our face and hurried to give each other a hug, then we decided what we were going to do and it all went great! He is in the Coast Guard so we decided to go on base and play a few games of pool....then we went back to his barrack on base and watched a movie and got to know each other a little bit. He took me back to my car at B&N and kissed me on the cheek..so sweet! The next day we decided to hang out again..we went to his barrack and had fun...and everything has gone great from there. We are happily married and we look forward to spending the rest of our lives with each other :)

[missmeliss21]

Me and my hubby met online at a site called "hot or not'...it's a picture rating site and when it asks you if the pic is "hot or not" i clicked yes to my hubby's..well then that put him on my "friends" list...i couldnt really talk to him yet..i could only send "notes" that the website lets you choose....i could send actual email to him if i was a member..i wasn't a member..so we sent notes back and forth for a while and in one of his notes it said he will soon be a member and we'll be talking soon....it was real soon when we finally were actually talking to each other...that went on for about a month...then we decided to meet up at Barnes and Nobles, when i pulled up i thought i saw the truck that he said he had...i wasnt sure, so i got out and this guy was looking at me..i had only seen pics of Chris and they weren't the best of quality, but anyways..i ignored the staring that this guy was giving me and i kept walking...i walked a little more and then pulled out my phone to call him, but i had a strange feeling that someone was behind me, and that feeling i had was thinking that he was behind me, so i turned around and guess what...he was behind me, we both had huge smiles on our face and hurried to give each other a hug, then we decided what we were going to do and it all went great! He is in the Coast Guard so we decided to go on base and play a few games of pool....then we went back to his barrack on base and watched a movie and got to know each other a little bit. He took me back to my car at B&N and he kissed me on the cheek..so sweet! The next day we decided to hang out again..we went to his barrack and had fun...and everything has gone great from there. We are happily married and we look forward to spending the rest of our lives with each other

[raybeck]

Ray, was my best friend's boyfriend in High School. I was a Jr. and he was a Sr. Another guy and I double dated with Ray and Rhonda....we clicked, Rhonda was history and we were married 11 months later when I got out of HS, and Ray was already in college!!! Needless to say, my friend still comes up to me at HS reunions and tells me she is STILL mad at me for stealing Ray from her...she's a hoot!!! (and happily married, herself, I might add...)

[Justawoman]

We met here in Muleshoe. Brandon was here working on his grandfathers farm and working at the Tolk Station too. He came to the drive-in with his cousin, who I was good friends with, and I walked over and introduced myself. He was standing there all alone with a welder's cap on and in levi's, t-shirt. He had the prettiest blue eyes. We dated for 4 years. Got married a year after I graduated and it has been 20 years.

[Gourmetmisse]

My hubby and I met on a blind date. My uncle kept talking to me about this guy he knew that he wanted me to meet. The son of a friend of his. I asked him how old this guy was... and he was only 20 or 21 {eek} ?
I said Forget it! being four years older I thought all guys that age were not remotely ready to date. This prompting from my uncle went on for almost 2 years.

Finally one day my uncle called me on the phone and started talking to me about this guy and it was such a strange phonecall. He was saying things like "I haven't told him about your big butt yet, or your criminal record..." and worse things of that nature. And I'm thinking...What on earth!!? Then he puts the poor guy on the phone with me--poor guy was about to die of embarrassment. I felt sorry for this young guy because I know my uncle had instigated this situation. I gave him my phone number and he called me the next day.

We talked a longtime, found out we had alot in common. Both of us went to the same college, same middle school, both were first-time home owners for exactly 4 months. Our moms were born on the exact same day of the exact same year. We made a lunch date at a Mexican restaurant we both knew loved midway between where we both worked.

We dated exclusively from that point and found out so many more things and people we knew in common. We were even in the same guys wedding, me in the first as a bridesmaid, he in the second marriage of this guy as a groomsman! That was funny. He told me where he used to work and I asked him if he knew this guy and he said yes...I was in his wedding. "Really I was in his wedding & I don't remember you...he married my best friend "My husband was excited "Oh so you know Susie!", then a debate followed..."No he didn't marry Susie..he married Lisa!"
Anyhow....We are going on 13 years of marriage...and my husband is and always has been an old conservative. Most mature person I ever dated...even at 4 years younger.

{dizzy} He still turns my head all the time! Wow! {glow}

[DataJack]

wow.no...make that W O W !!! All the stories here are awesome. So many of you have a higher education than most people do too, but thats a whole different thread. I met my wife 11 years ago. I had about 2 years sobriety and was doing the only job i could get due to my previous history of drinking and that was a cab driver....lol...beats me why i could drive cab with the possibility of a relapse, but could not work in a studio. anyways...in the week prior to meeting her i had buried a very good family friend who was like a second mom to us and my best friend...they did not know each other. i had no slept much that week and on thursday night i was waiting for a radio call for a trip and kept nodding off. a fellow driver kept honking his horn for no good reason other than to wake me up and i would grab the mic and say...112 (my call # )and dispatch would say...yes?...and i would say.....you called...and they would say.....no.....lol..anyways...after about the 5th time he did this i started to drive away.....i was soooooo mad that he had made me look like an idiot 4 or 5 times. i can do that on my own very well thankyou...i don't need help....i was going to get out of the cab and get "into it" with him but drove away instead....the next night i saw his cab with a driver in it and said...i am going to park behind him and give him heck...i walked up to the passenger side of the car and pounded on the window, opened the door to give him a yell and said " You are not Lee "...i scared her so bad she was crunched up in the corner of the cab as far away as she could get without leaving the cab. she YELLED at me " no i am not lee who the f are you? "...well...you should have seen me doing verbal somersaults and trying to say sorry.....lol...i ended up giving her a free cab ride home after her shift as a way of saying sorry. The next night she ran into me so to speak and i offered her a ride home on my motor bike and she said sure. Over the next few months we became very good friends...and thats all it was..we never even kissed or held hands...just hung out together...a friendship...then i met a guy she had known for a long time...years...and he told me she was gay...when he told me that my heart fell to the floor because i realized i was in love with her...i called her up and told her i had to see her now and we met up. i told her what her pal had said i told her she had to tell me the truth and that we would remain friends if she was. she laffed and said that guy had been chasing her for years. well.....i told her that i would like to move our relationship to a dating one and i ASKED her if i could kiss her...her reply was....what took you so long?...she too was in a bad spot from a previous relationship and was black listed in her profession to boot...she is an artist and graphic designer...so here was two edu-mac-cated people meeting as cab drivers...was it divine?....i think so because of all the pain we were both going through at the time.anyways....its been ten years now and we both feel like its only been a couple of months that we have been together. Like i have said in other posts...i don't know why she loves me but i stand in awe of that love..she really does make me a better person and i am so happy we are together...my only regret is that we did not meet 30 years ago...but thats not a biggy as we both agree the last ten years have been the best of our lives...sorry about the length of the post but i did want to give as much detail as possible.

[Justawoman]

Sounds like a romance movie Lino. Sweet. Thanks for sharing.

Why do we love the person we do? If you ever figure that out let me. I can't imagine not loving my husband.

[raybeck]

Sounds like a romance movie Lino. Sweet. Thanks for sharing.

Why do we love the person we do? If you ever figure that out let me. I can't imagine not loving my husband.

Me either, JAW, seems like he has always been in my life and for the most part, considering we started dating a few days after my 17th b'day, he has been with me most of my life, wouldn't want it any other way!!!

[raybeck]

Okay, JAW, it's your turn...where is Lino's post???? lol I'm not seeing it...

[healingtherapy]

The story of how we met. I was in college, 19, and had just started donating at the plasma center the week before we met in Nov of 2000. It was a Monday around 4 pm and standing room only in the waiting room. We ended up next to each other by the soda machine. After signing in they call you up and weigh you every time you donate. He was called up first, then me. I happened to be wearing sweatpants and a t-shirt with alot of signatures on it. When I came back to the soda machine he asked me, "if someone had gone pen crazy on me?" That started a long conversation. We ended up on donation beds across from each other, he was stuck first, then me. We talked the entire time getting to know each other, where we grew up him in CA and me in WI, I'm 10 yrs younger than him, ect. He learned that I walked every where and as it was snowing, windy and cold he offered me a ride home since he lived across the street. So since I finished donating first I waited around for him. He didn't think I would so was pleasantly surprised when I did wait. As he's driving me home I ask him to stay for supper- spaghetti and meatballs- his favorite meal! He asked if I had garlic bread to go with it? I said no so we detoured to the grocery store so he could get some to go with supper. We talked all through our meal and I almost made him late to work for his night shift job! He left around 10 pm that night. And to think that if he hadn't needed gas money for work that night he wouldn't have been in at the same time as me and we wouldn't have met.
We dated for 2yrs and 2 days before we got married on Nov. 30, 2002. We just celebrated our 6 yr wedding anniversary this past Nov. It's been wedded bliss. He's wonderful.

[healingtherapy]

We married medieval style at the local Catholic church for me at the time. Our wedding was so cool. We honeymooned in CA so I got to know a bit more about him and where he grew up.
Tony has a witty sense of humor and can almost always make me laugh, he's there for me when I need emotional support, he's a gentleman with manners, my very best friend! We started out at friends before getting married. We have a saying "Great minds think alike as do friends, lovers, husbands and wives." It's very appropriate for us as we finish each others thoughts and seem to be able to read each others minds. I just love him and can't imagine life without him and he feels the same, isn't that wonderful ladies?

[Sophialiu]

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