Posted on 01/07/2010 5:30:28 PM PST by Badabing Badablonde
Myself and another poster who wishes to remain anonymous have opposing theories about conservatives, and the staying power of their relationships. I won't explain our theories, except to say that we both believe there exists a typical profile of conservative marriages/relationships, how they met, when they met, and how long they have remained together to this day, but our opinions decidedly differ.
We know this isn't scientific by any means but it would be intereting to see if there is a pattern. And where else does a person go to get responses from committed conservatives?
So if you have time, tell us:
1. where you met
2. what year
3. how long have you been together
4. if you consider it a successful relationship (its up to you to determine what that means)
5. and the interesting facts about how you met, including if your meeting was arranged by others, or did you meet by chance
Thanks.
Met my wife on a blind date...and to this day, I’m glad she was blind! ba-da-bing!
I mean no offense to any blind folks out there, either!
Police line up downtown
:)))) trend emerging in two posts.......
Married 9 yrs. Met in Fremont CA at California Republican Assembly meeting. Love him! We didn’t leave the CRA; it left us. We are tea party people. He bought me a bullhorn for my birthday. Conservative to the max. A great marriage!
I worked for her and her husband.
Free Republic two years ago at The Canteen.
What a guy!....does he have a brother?
Met my wife at the Santa Barbara SCCA road race in 1957 which we won with our 57 Corvette.
We’ve been married since June 21st 1958 so I guess it’s successful.
- Met in college.
- 1998.
- Dating since Feb 1999, married since Dec 2002.
- We can’t complain.
- Nothing particularly interesting — she was a music major, future music teacher — I was a hack trumpet player and pre-law student only involved in music because of a scholarship.
SnakeDoc
At Sex Addicts Anonymous.
My wife and I met in church. I ask her to marry me three weeks after we met. That was 17 1/2 years ago! We remain happily married, still in church, and serving God’s people under his direction.
2. what year: 1972 - I was 15, he was 17.
3. how long have you been together: 37 years.
4. if you consider it a successful relationship (its up to you to determine what that means): What do you think? Yes!
5. and the interesting facts about how you met, including if your meeting was arranged by others, or did you meet by chance:
I guess the most interesting thing is that we were so young and are still together - with all the struggles that committing at such a young age entails. We didn't marry until he was in the military and I had graduated from high school and had a semester of college behind me, but we've been very happy.
He works harder at the marriage than most men, he studies people, and has studied me for a long time, and he's really good at being married. He's a great husband, father, provider, grandfather, and friend. I am very blessed. I got the better end of the deal, if you ask me.
Was an attempted set up that I refused for months. He was the landlord and neighbor of my cousins and they wanted me to meet him. As I said, I refused but ended up spending the weekend with them (they lived over an hour away and a nice escape into the country) and he had to come over to fix something. I now live in the country (bought my own home down here when we were dating, he now rents out his former home as well) and we’ve had 10 good years together so far.
Met my wife in a beer joint in West TX 37 years ago.
Met in Sacramento CA in 1993. Got married two years later. Been together ever since. We were set up on a blind date by co-workers.
Very successful relationship—don’t know what I’d do if he were a lib (he converted me early on, but I like to think I’m smart enough to have grown out of it on my own). :-)
1. Met at a bowling alley on an Air Force base- I kid you not. Husband still teases me with that line from the movie, Arthur. One would meet a woman of your caliber in a bowling alley.
2. 1979
3. Married for 27 years
4. Successful :-)
5. I was sent to spend the summer with my sister and brother-in-law and met my future husband. We dated for 6 weeks and didn’t see each other again for 2 years. The day after he arrived at my home ( 2 years later), he asked me to marry him. We married a year later. Pretty darn happy ever since. We both love to laugh and joke around. A BUNCH!
Wife of a friend gave me her number. We talked three hours a day for four days. Then we met, which was almost anticlimactic. Engaged 14 months later, been married two years.
This one is a good one for your collection of stories.. lol
Ok so I was in NYC, and my future wife was in California.. we did not know each other.. yet
Seems she hung out on the same chat server that the company I worked for used to talk to other offices (This was around 1995 when IRC chat was big)
She had some hackers from a Brazilian channel trying to take over her channel “American” so since there was no real admins on the server.. and I did most of the “idiot disposal” on the server (thanks to having all the toys at an ISP) she found me and asked if I could help.
We talked for a few hours online after I helped her, she sent me to her website, so I knew what she looked like before hand.. then we talked on the phone all next week when we were not working, then the week after that I came to visit when I had vacation time. We hit it off from the first phone calls.
14ish years later.. we are still here. We got married in 1998 :)
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