~Love Stories~ How did you meet the love of your life?FReeper Canteen 1-11-07

[fatima]

~Love Stories~ How did you meet the love of your life?

At Last My Love Has Come Along Dedicated to To My Dear Husband, Peter by Anonymous My husband is currently serving in Iraq, and I dedicate our love story to all the soldiers whose love crosses the world this Valentine's Day. At the end of my first date with a man named Peter, I heard a perfect stranger telling him "he had better marry that girl".

The story goes like this.... I was asked out on during summer break by a man with whom I attended college. I was a nervous woman, but we had a fabulous time together in downtown Houston, Texas. Our night ranged from a Chinese restaurant for dinner, to St. Petes Dancing Marlin for strawberry cheesecake, until we arrived at a jazz cafe named the Red Cat Lounge. Peter had been a perfect gentleman all night, and I let him know I was ready to leave the jazz cafe as the night wore on. He kept stalling and saying that we would leave soon. After our agreed upon thirty minutes, I stood up and told Peter "Let's go". Well, that's when the lead singer of the band looked at me and said "You can't leave yet". At that moment, the lead singer looked at me and said "This is for the woman with the beautiful green eyes" and began playing the song "At Last" by Etta James.

Peter knew that was my favorite song and had apparently secretly requested it be played for me. He had never heard the song before, and did not even know it was a love song until he heard the chorus that night. "At Last My Love Has Come Along, My Lonely Days Are Over, and Life is Like a Song" is the chorus, and little did we both know that night the song actually had come true in the beginning of our love relationship. At the end of the song, the lead singer turned to Peter and said "you better marry that girl".

How pleased would that perfect stranger be to know that "At Last" was the first song that Peter and I danced to as a newlywed couple exactly two years later on May 29, 2005. Since we have married, Peter and I have longed to visit Hawaii to celebrate our love and our marriage. The thought of lying on the beach at night, sipping margaritas while lying in a hammock, while feeling the ocean breeze on our faces is a dream. To walk along the beach at night, explore the lushness and the vegetation, and to experience the mystery of the island would be a priceless experience.

I am planning on surprising my husband with a trip to Hawaii when he returns from his tour in Iraq. After being apart, I can't even envision the joy it would bring to be together in a fantasy land "at last".

I used to work as a probation officer in western Washington State. I had one difficult parolee who kept reoffending. I was forever convincing him to go to the eastern side of the state—out of my jurisdiction. Once there, he'd reoffend and another parole officer would get him to move back west! Finally, this other officer and I decided to meet to discuss the problem. "This other officer" is now my wife. We didn't invite the probationer to the wedding. —Bill O'Connor, Anchorage, Alaska

Late one night I heard someone banging around in the hallway outside my apartment door. It was so loud, I finally got up to investigate. When I opened my door, a man fell into my kitchen—passed-out drunk. I tried to shove him back into the hall, but he was too heavy. Instead, I left him on the floor, went to my bedroom, pushed the dresser in front of my door, and went back to sleep. Not long after, I married the lug.

[fatima]

That's so nice-thank for the story Grizzled Bear:)

[MissP-38]

I married the "milk man".I met my husband when he worked weekends while in college as a milk man! He delivered milk to our house for 3 years weekends and Summers.
We have been married 44 years and our son who is 42 today looks "just like the milkman".

[HiJinx]

Hey, even the desert gets cold at night in December!

That next year her Dad paid for two weddings, and he insisted we wait for a couple more years.

We did, and have never regretted it.

[fatima]

Happy 82nd birthday Sandrat's Mom & happy 26th birthday Sandrat's D-I-L! Many happy returns of the day!

[fieldmarshaldj]

My grandfather, a WW1 vet, had 2 wives die on him (his first in her 30s after only a few years of marriage, his second, my grandmother, in her 40s, after 18 years of marriage) both of similar cancers. Though he continued to live his life by going to work, he pretty much spent the last 20 years of his life drinking himself to death, holding on just long enough for the birth of his only grandson (me). He never dated again.

[trussell]

Thank you TAS
Hugs!!

[fatima]

Thank you MeekMom:)

[trussell]

Thank yo MeekMom
hugs!

[fatima]

Hi TASMANIANRED.

[trussell]

The birthday will be celebrated on Saturday, so she's got a few days to wait :)

We did bake a cake tonight though :)

[LowOiL]

Lovely story... great punchline

[HiJinx]

One of these days you'll have to tell the story...

OBTW, we took a birthday present to Phoenix with us yesterday. Our son hid it from Piper's mommy in Piper's closet.

Well, Piper spotted it this evening, and started climbing shelves to get to it! Daddy caught her, rescued her, and in the process Mommy found the box. She really loves her earrings. Daddy said she'd never find it there - he wasn't counting on his daughter's powers of observation!

[Trillian]

I met the love of my life at an airport.. a mutual friend introduced us.
Although we started out states apart (500 miles) he flew back and forth to come see me. There wasn't a day that went by in that first year that we didn't talk for hours on the phone. It was unbearable to be so far away from him and it was the same for him. Never in my life have I felt so much love for someone. We made plans to marry, talked of having children together and I moved up to be with him. Marriage and 3 children later and I feel our love grows stronger for each other day by day. I thank God for bringing him into my life in a time I needed someone the most. He literally saved my life and for that I am forever thankful. I pray that life continues to get better and even more amazing and that we are blessed with more children.

[Boxsford]

She is my heart, She has my heart. I would rather die, than live without Her.

That is one lucky woman.

[fatima]

a communist-Whoo-Hang in there Jack(((Hugs)))

[The Coopster]

Thank YOU for prompting all of us to remember/think about the first wonderful moment of our relationships.

:-)

[fatima]

:)I got it,I just thought it was fun the way you said it:)

[chesty_puller]

other than you being a Marine, I rather like you!

Since I was also a Soldier, I might get along with you too. We found some dam fine women didn't we? Congrats to boffus.

[KoRn]

I met her in the music section of the electronics department in Wal-Mart. She was playing around with a friend using a French accent because she was taking French classes in high school at the time. I heard it, and made of of her. She claimed to be a French model here as an exchange student. I bought it hook, line, and sinker lol. After all, she seemed to speak the language fluently, and very much looked the part. She kept it going for three days before she told me she was really from around here haha.

It's been over 12 years since, and we haven't been apart, not even a day.

[TASMANIANRED]

I'm very sorry.

It is very hard to go on sometimes.

Don't loose hope.