~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.

[stand watie]

in my case i met "the love of my life" in a bookstore in 1967.

free dixie,sw

[lilycicero]

Pro Bowl in Hawaii......ho hum.

[lilycicero]

Imagine..love at first sight! C'mon now...I don't know dittle about you. Hee hee..where do you find this good stuff?

[thefactor]

www.myspace.com

she found me. i had writtten my ususal semi-sappy, kinda-bitter, self-depricating yet hopeful diatribe concerning the state of my love life. i guess she saw something in there. we wrote some emails and IM'd eachother a few times. then we discovered our shared love of late-night "Frasier" reruns. we would watch them "together" over the computer.

turns out we lived about a mile from eachother. one night at about 4am she invited me over for pancakes. she felt safe knowing i was a cop. we ate our first meal together and i helped her pack for a trip to california later that morning.

she came back a week later and we picked up where we left off. we had both been dating other people, but the need for that soon faded. we moved in together 3 months later. last night we celebrated out first year of being an exclusive couple. we are not married...yet.

we never would have met but for the internet. she is latin. full of vim and vigor as opposed to my off-duty, shy demeanor. she loves to cook, i love to wash dishes. she loves to clean, i love to make a mess. we have 2 "kids"...a chihuahua and a mini-yorkie. i'm 9 years older than her. everyday is a new experience to say the least. we both knew early on that we were done looking but we were too shy to say it first. now we say it everyday.

she is the reason i can sleep at night and the reason i wake up in the morning. i'm an agnostic so i guess i should thank Darwin for her?

[RedRover]

* Sigh *

[lilycicero]

Way to go Paula, Way to go!!!!

[#1CTYankee]

"You are bad.You had me hook,line and sinker:)Thanks for posting #1CTYankee."

Sorry about that, I couldn't resist.

BTW met her at work. ;-D

[fatima]

:)

[GYPSY286]

Havent met the "Last" love of my life yet. Bummer

[elder5]

On a softball field at Ft. Ritchie MD.

[mgist]

Love these stories.

I feel like mine is a cinderalla story. I was 26, cute, and engaged to a young engineer from PA. He was always sort of confused and brooding. I never let it bother me because I thought he was "the one".

One day he broke my heart and said he was leaving to another state and "it was over". I cried so much that my dreams of love and plans for a wedding were over, asking God how these things could happen, and for help.

Shortly after, a friend from college called me out of the blue one day, and we laughed and joked for hours. He was always super friendly with me, but I didn't pay any attention to him, since I was engaged. He asked me out on a date and we were married months later. Everyone thought I was crazy because he didn't have a job. I supported the family while he was in law school.

Twelve years later, we have four gorgeous kids and God has been VERY good to us. I'm the one without the job now, and can afford more than any of those who criticized us ever dreamed of. More importantly, I adore him. He is the love of my life, besides God, and we are both positive people with strong family values. God always knew what he was doing, even if I didn't. Thanks again God!

[Gamecock]

I was a 2LT. My boss, an LTC, made me attend the unit's Christmas Ball. My wife was a 2lt, her boss made her attend. My roommate was behind my future wife and her friend as they were selecting which table they wanted to sit at, he asked for two seats at the same table.

We meet, had a brief intense courtship. The Army was going to move her and we didn't see the sense of trying to have a long distance relationship. We married 6 months after we meet, so the Army would keep us together. That was 18.5 years ago.

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

Lol...me too post divorce....match worked but boy you do have to weed through some duds...

[buccaneer81]

but boy you do have to weed through some duds...

I'll say! Plus, I was amazed at how some people saw it as "Hook Up.com"...I never knew there were so many ladies out there who had one thing on their minds...true equlity of the genders! LOL!

[fatima]

18.5 years ,Sweet Gamecock.

[fatima]

Thanks hilaryrhymeswithrich,like your name.

[fatima]

So Blessed,Thank you mgist.

[fatima]

Thanks elder5:)

[fatima]

Try putting some pics on your home page and check out chat they have a singles thing(((Hugs)))Many matchups on FR.

[fatima]

:) thank love and Thank You thefactor.