~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.

[TASMANIANRED]

There is no easy escape from it.

There is only going through it.

I'm sorry that you hurt.

I can feel your grief.

[Don Carlos]

My best friend introduced us.

We remain friends, nevertheless.

[fatima]

This matches so many stories on this thread,Thanks Soaring Feather.

[AZamericonnie]

How could we forget something as romantic as that!?

Exactly! So sweet & charming.....

[fatima]

Cute story,I didn't know you were bad:)Thanks LUV W.

[paulat]

Tough love, here, fieldmarshaldj....

You're gonna get a lot farther with the ladies if you don't post soft porn on your personal page....

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Thanks for tonites thread Tima!
Good evening Ma!
Good evening Canteeners and Troops!
How's everybody tonite?
How did we meet?
I was dating a drummer in a band..he asked if I wanted to go to rehersal..
This relationship was "On again/off again", you see.
He introduced me to Mr B, who stood up and leaned over the keyboards to take my hand..
I looked up into his beautiful gray eyes and thought..
"THERE you are, there you are at last"..
Twenty three years later, I couldn't love him more, and YES, he is every other beat of my heart..
Ms.B

[fatima]

That's 50 years you have been married(((Hugs)))Fatima-You beat me -I am 45 years.

[luvie]

Yummy....cake!!!

[poindexter]

We made small talk for awhile. Soon, the conversation turned to sex....

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Thank you!
He truely IS!
Ms.B

[magslinger]

Believe it or not, a blind date.

It was a kind of blind date for my wife and I, too. My wife's then coworker is a friend of mine and had invited her to a Labor Day festival to meet his friend. The fact that I was not the friend he intended to have her meet didn't stop us from starting to date and marrying six months later. Over 21 years ago that was.

[fatima]

So fun you saved the albums.Great story MelonFarmerJ.

[TASMANIANRED]

Lotta long lived marriages posting.

[trussell]

It's a german chocolate cake...she chose it herself :)

[jerry639]

Met her in typing class back in 1956. She was a Sophomore and I a Junior. She was one beautiful and sweet young lady.

I had never been too interested in girls during high school. My father had died when I was 15 years old and I spent my summers working so I could get back into school the next year. Times were difficult. Did not have money, clothing for dating, nor a car. Didn't have much to offer any girl.

During my Senior year (her Junior) we starting walking home together along with my younger brother and one of her female friends.

After I graduated from High School I managed to get a job and a used car. After that we started dating. Nothing major, just a picnic or we would ride over to a nearby State park to be alone and talk. Next thing you know we were talking of getting married after she graduated.

She graduated mid May of 1958 and we were married in our church June 1, 1958. Six children, 12 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren later we are still married. Will be 49 years this coming June.

She is still a beautiful and sweet lady. Will admit that she is my only love in life and the only woman with enough patience to put up with me.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Um, soft porn ? I've never used my page to meet females, nor have I intended it to, it's just a mishmosh of things (on the page, but removed for brevity, was a history of Black Republican officials, the most comprehensive one on the internet, I found out). I haven't updated the page much in quite some time, as many of the pics have gone to red x's. I surely wouldn't call those pics soft porn, not unless they were nude (a definite no-no on FR !). Aside from a couple bikini or lingerie pics, you'll note most of them are quite fully clothed. Nothing wrong with admiring the female form ! We're Conservatives, not Puritans ! ;-)

[fatima]

Wow,I felt like I was there,thanks for the story RightOnline.

[macmedic892]

We met in the
EMERGENCY ROOM
of all places . . .

I am a paramedic, and she (at the time) was the ER clerk. We had been at the arcade in the mall when we got call came in, and while writing my report at the counter in front of her work desk, I bemoaned the loss of the 50 cents I had just deposited. She called me a "Medic Wanna-Be" (my service was formerly called Medic One) and asked me when I was going to get a real job.

Before I left, she asked me what I was doing next month. I asked her to narrow that down a little. Well, she was moving, and needed a big strong guy like me to help her out. She had no idea I owned a truck.

On the first date, I was hooked. Sure, I helped her move. I moved in too. I stayed. Almost 10 years (and 2 kids) now.

[fatima]

That so nice ,thanks for the story AUsome Joy.