Posted on 01/07/2010 5:30:28 PM PST by Badabing Badablonde
1. We met at a volunteer event through a group at work
2. Met in 2007
3. Been together 3 years, married for 1 year
4. Yes! We’re still happy, we’re newlyweds!
5. We met completely by chance. One interesting thing is that he asked me to marry him while we were working late one Sunday night in his cubicle...hooray for cubicle proposals! :)
I DON’T have a significant other which is a term resulting from too many years of liberalism and support of homosexuality.
I married “the woman I love” in 1960 and in May we will celebrate our 50th anniversary!
Met in Monterey CA 1967 when I was in grad school. A friend had a party and another girl invited her boyfriend, who was my husband’s room mate and invited him. (FT Ord). The next day he called me, after downing several scotch/waters. We talked for hours. Two years later, after another tour in Vietnam, we were married, and still are.
Outside of building an aluminum Cobra for Dennis Wilson to go drag racing in 1970, after we won the Guadalahara State Fair Road Race in April of 58 with Porter Chevrolets 58 Corvette I have been out of racing since i made a promise to the wife to quit when we got married.
Well, I suppose I might change the number of years, but that is in God’s hands. I’d love to make it to 50—but who knows what the future holds?
Well the first time I met my hubby he was helping me to put on ice skates that belonged to someone else and I was having a problem with when I was 9yo (he was 12). A boy was picking on me and he didn’t like it. Then we kind of kept running onto each other every year or so for the next 9 years before we started dating the first time. He wasn’t ready for what I thought I wanted and I met someone else that I married instead. We both had very early first marriages that were very short lived( his less than a year and mine which went about 3 years). When I left and moved home my Mom kept bugging me to give him a call because he had asked about me several times over the years so eventually I did and we’ve been together ever since then will be 26 years this coming May.
guess i should post mine as well ....
my wife was going to The Ohio State University and working at a carryout near my apt. I’d be up half the night working on a race car and crawl thru her place on my way to my “real job” to get caffeine and cigarettes... that was 16 years ago... were both still alive and nobody’s been to jail ....must be marital bliss.
Significant other? The wife and I found him on a farm east of here. There were several, some yellow, some black. But he found us, fat, black and loveable.
Now, when I met my WIFE 20 years ago is a better story, and none ya.
OPPPSSS guess I missed a few details, this goes along with my longer post:
1. where you met: at the old winter skating spot here in our neighborhood that was finally filled in and now has a garage on it (it’s across the street)
2. what year : winter of 69-70 not sure?
3. how long have you been together: summer of 1984 this time
4. if you consider it a successful relationship (its up to you to determine what that means) Yes I can’t imagine life without him I hope I never have to find out.
5. and the interesting facts about how you met, including if your meeting was arranged by others, or did you meet by chance: see prior post
Blind date set up by my future-sister-in-law. Seems just like yesterday but it’s been 20 years.
I met my husband when I was 4 years old and he was 7. He was my brother’s friend. I fell madly in love, he not so much.
We never dated or saw each other socially in high school.
About one year after I graduated college he came by our house looking for my brother. We ended up chatting. He asked me out one week later. We were married about one year after that. We had our 18th anniversary last October.
A neighbor and brother of a C.P.A. who worked with me introduced me to my husband 32 years ago this past December 4,2009. Today is the 32nd Anniversary of his marriage proposal which was slightly a month after our first date. We were married 5-6-78, May 6, 1978 on Kentucky Derby Day. Affirmed won and has been the only Triple Crown Winner since. This May 6, 2010 will be our 32nd Anniversary and we are more in love than ever!
How very pious of you......
I used that term because not everyone has yet married to the person whom he or she loves...they are still engaged, or in love but not yet afianced.
Thanks for sharing, and relax.
“Outside of building an aluminum Cobra for Dennis Wilson to go drag racing in 1970, after we won the Guadalahara State Fair Road Race in April of 58 with Porter Chevrolets 58 Corvette I have been out of racing since i made a promise to the wife to quit when we got married.”
your a good man, if your not familiar with a writer named burt levy, he has a book called “the last open road” you’d probably enjoy it and the follow ups. (historical road racing fiction)
P.S.
Neither me nor my husband would have identified ourselves as conservative before we were married.
Ok, the theory is this.....
We were not concerned so much with how typical conservatives met, fell in love, married, and stayed in love. But rather, the theory is in the telling.
My theory is that libs tend to paint deep, significant, experiences of meeting and falling in love, with spiritual overtones, almost as though they are not only trying to convince the world that they are in a meaningful relationship. They almost sound as though they are attempting to convince themselves they are in love, and its working.
I also believe that conservatives, fall in love and marry, work at it, stay grounded in reality, don’t feel the need to paint these illustrious portraits of relationships that make the world go round. Love is work, marriage is work, life is work, and all of the anecdotes posted here would be positive, with edges of humor. I also predicted that many of the posters would describe him or her as “best friend.” There would also not be any phrases like “headlights” “hooters” “nice butt” “good in the sack”....etc. that first attracted him or her. But its highly possible that I broke in too soon. ;-)
Nope, I think that with the cons, its all about the love, the joy, the personhood, and commitment.
Fast forward to January--yes January, long past Homecoming! I had grown tired of the boyfriend but had not officially broken things off. MGD had caught my eye by then, but I figured he wasn't interested - I could barely get more than a few words out of him whenever we met. In the meantime, he was still talking to his buddies about me, but not to ME! Now he claimed he wanted to ask me out before the end of January.
On January 30, they locked him out of his room and said, "don't come back until you call that girl"
Long story short - we had our first date on January 31, 1980, and will be celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary this April.
Every January 31, with the exception of the year our twins were born, we have dinner at the restaurant where we had our first date. Sadly, I just heard the place is closing this month, so it will be our last.
Successful? COnsidering what "blank slates" we were at the age we met, it could really have gone either way. But I have three wonderful daughters and the very best husband a girl could ever ask for. I'd say Yes!
Hotel Street, Honolulu.
I had a wad of bills big enough to choke a horse and she needed the next month’s rent.
Three years of happiness so far and after only 28 years of marriage.
Last Saturday we celebrated our wedding anniversary.
Or as I like to call it, “The kids really aren’t bastards day.”
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