How did you met the love of your life?

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I married the girl down the street. She was born and raised in the neighborhood. I had moved into the area about a year before. I had to walk past her house every day to go to work. She was 18 I was 21 and she had her sights set on me. We talked a few times and I went to the park with her and her gang of nieces and nephews a few times. Took them all to a drive in movie and to the State Fare that summer. Her family would invite me along on their camping trips. One of my best friends asked me to go along on a double date. He was going to take out an ex that he was considering getting back together with. He wanted me along to try and insure peace. I asked Kim out on our first official DATE! At the end of that night I kissed her for the first time. She still says it made her melt.The following winter I decided it was time to get out on my own. She lived in a household that was horrible, so we decided to get an apartment together. That was in January of 84. we where married on October 20th of that year. 27 years and 4 children later. The death of both of her parents and one of her sisters. The death of one of our own children. She is still the best life partner I could ever have hoped for. In oem ways we are extremely different. But i could not imagine life without her.
 
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I meet my wife to be(in the next year or two)about 13 years ago she was my sisters friend(nice to have a sister near your age,lol).This is the third time we have dated the other two didn't work to the positions in our lives,never from anything wrong/bad.She is something else and can't wait to be able to call her my wife/Smart/Beautiful/Kind/Puts uo with my saw dust/Just a great person,I'm lucky to have her love.Victor
 
Have been with the love of my life since 10th grade. She was a freashman and a cheerleader and yes I was a football player also. Married after highschool and she was with me for the 28 plus years of Army life and we have 3 fine Sons, 3 wonderful Daughter-inlaws, and I might add 7 grandkids. I think we are at the 35 year mark and still going strong. We have been around the world a couple of times and I think we will try it again soon. Need to visit the Land Down Under and over to Scottland.
 
Wifwe

I met my bride in 1960 in church. She and her family started attending the same congregation I attended. We dated a little during high school but didn't get to know each other well until I went to Viet Nam. We wrote letters and sent cassette tapes to each other during that year. I returned home in Dec. 1968 and we became serious soon after. We were married May of 1969. By the way we still worship together.
 
College band

My wife and I met in the FSU marching band. Sat together, unplanned, on the plane to a bowl game. Four days later, I knew she was the one. I proposed thirty days later. We eloped eight months later. My mother and two sisters said it would not last. Forty-three and a half years later our marriage is still better than either sister's. Now, my grandson has met the LOHL in band. Will history repeat itself? Wife spins her lathe as often as I do mine.
 
I was in church and she was winking at me from across the room in 1975. (that's my story and I am sticking with it, she says I was the one doing the winking but she is not here,,ha)
 
Babysitter

I was living in New Jersey, but dating a friend of mine from high school back in my hometown. She was divorced with a 1 1/2 year old daughter. I came to pick her up for our second date and a friend of hers was over to babysit her daughter. As we were walking out to the car, my girlfriend mentioned that Meg (the babysitter) and I would be a great couple (:confused:strange thing for my girlfriend to say...). Over the 4 months that we dated, I would see Meg once in a while and talk.

When my girlfriend and I stopped dating, we still had to go to a wedding for a friend of mine. We were in the hotel and I called Meg to see if she wanted to go out. Three weeks later we were engaged and four months after that, were married. 15 1/2 years later and having our ninth :eek: child in September, still falling in love more every day.

She told me later that the first night she saw me, she knew that I was the man she was going to marry. It took me a little while to see how I felt about her, but I'm glad she was there to make sure I didn't get away.
 
Believe it or not, but we met in "Accounting 101" and things just went right from there. Currently married for 27 years.
 
I met her at an engagement party for my cousin and her fiance. The got married. we got married 6 months after they did. They divorced within two years. Here we are almost 59 years later.
 

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I was friends with a girl, Mandy, that was in a relationship and she had a friend named Debbie. Mandy kept telling Debbie about me. Debbie finally came over one day to meet me ( unknown to me). This was in May of 1974. We were married Oct. 19th of that same year. 2 wonderful sons and 37 years later we are still together. She is the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The only thing I regret is that she did not get as good a deal out of it as I did.:eek: She is a pretty special person to have endured me for so long. So I count this as TWO marriages. My first and my last. I have been married since I was 19 and have never lived on my own. And I never want to. I only hope that some day I am actually worthy of he affections.

After meeting, we learned that at one point when we were kids, we lived within about a mile of each other. She went to the elementry school in the next district over and we went to the same Jr. High School for 1 year before she moved to Arkansas with her family.
 
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It's interesting! My Wife and I both grew up in small farming communities in Southeastern Idaho, about 50 miles apart. We went to the same university at the same time. But it wasn't until we both had moved 500 miles away for work that we met, at work! I was monitoring job training programs under a grant from the state, and she ran some of those programs working for the state. Our thirtieth anniversary is coming up this September.

Scott.
 
We were "setup" by a mutual friend. We were both recently divorced and a friend of mine worked with Vicky. She though we would be great for each other so she told us about each other and asked her if it would be OK for me to call her. I did, we went out a few days later. We have been together for 13 years now. After being together for 12 years we decided to "make it official" so 12 of our friends, including the person that "set us up", traveled to Vegas where we were married at a little while chapel on October 10th of last year ( 10-10-10 ).
 
We met in the library in college. I wasn't quite sure how to start the conversation with her until one day she came in with brace on her arm. I saw it as the perfect ice-breaker ("Rough weekend?"). We just celebrated our 5 year anniversary.
 
I met my wife in a small group Bible study thourgh our church. Ironically we were studing the book titled "40 Days of Love" from SaddleBack Church.

This was in Oct of 2003. I had recently fulfilled one of my lifetime dreams in buying my own home, and volunteered my house for our meetings. During the 2nd meeting, I invited all the members of the small group to help decorate for the upcoming holidays (I tend to go a little over board decorating for Christmas). How ever no one seemed interested, so i didn't mention it again. Then the night before I had mentioned for the get together for the decorating party Lisa called me to see if she could bring anything.

We we spent the next day putting up Christmas decorations and laughing and joking about my some of my more interesting holiday decorations. I also learned, that she was stuck in town over the upcoming Thanksgiving break, we live in a college town, so the place is deserted that weekend. I invited her to the movies Fri. evening. To which she agreed and we had a nice time.

However, now I had a problem. I didn't know if we were going on a "date" or if we were just two friends from Bible study hanging out. To make matters worse, we didn't see each other again till the week before Christmas, when once again we were stuck in a nearly deserted town. I called her and invited her to the movies again, and again we had a great time. She gave me a blown glass Pickle tree ornament as an early Christmas present. She explained her family tradition of which ever child found the ornament first on Christmas day, got an extra treat.

She invited me to her apartment for a New Years Eve Party. I already had plans, but told her I would try to make it any way.

Now I was feeling a bit more comfortable with our relationship, figuring it was more than just Bible study friends, but still not positive. I figured the New years party would clinch it for me, and it almost did for the wrong way!

When I arrived at Lisa's for the party, it was just Lisa and her room mate and a guy friend ( don't remember his name). Anyway, I automatically assumed this guy was Lisa's boyfriend, just by their actions and such. Any way I was a little let down, but I figured at least now I knew and I hadn't done anything to make us feel awkward around each other in the future.

Towards the end of the night, I mentioned that I would be spending the next day watching the College Bowl Games at home, when Lisa asked if she could come watch them with me. Of course I said sure, thinking we can still be good friends and how cool was it that I met a girl who liked football.

It wasn't until about halfway through the 1st quarter of the Rose Bowl that I realized, Lisa didn't know a thing about football. So now I'm back to wondering just why she wanted to come watch it with me. Not sure how I got around to asking but learned that the guy at the party the night before was not her boyfriend, and that she wasn't currently seeing anyone.

After the game, I asked her out again before everyone came back to town the following week. So we went out on Jan 8th 2004 and I had planed to ask her to be my girlfriend that evening at dinner. However before I got to that she mentioned that we were to meet another Bible Study friend for Dessert after dinner, and I lost my nerve.

It wasn't until after that dessert, while driving Lisa home that I felt like time was running out and finally said to her ( while Griping the steering wheel very tightly and Staring straight ahead) "I had a lot of fun hanging out with you, and I was wondering if your would like to keep hanging out together, but as more than just friends" To which she laughed and said yes! ( she asked if it was a hard thing to ask).

In Oct of that year I asked her to marry me (that is a different story all together) and we were married on July 9, 2005. 6 years( in 3 days) and 2 wonderful little boys later and I'm still in a bit of awe at this beautiful woman who is sharing my life with me.
 
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I was in the Air Force and a buddy and I had pulled in to a car hop (for those of you to young to know that's a drive in restaurant where they come out to the car get your order and then bring it to you.) She got in the car but was after my buddy. He introduced her as Sudsy, she corrected him with Vel. short for Velora, his comment was he knew it was some kind of soap. Ran into her again a month or so later at a restaurant where she was a waitress and our first date was halloween. Asked her to marry me a week later and the following March we were married. We celebrated 44 years last March.
 
At the USO

I met my wife of 42 years at the USO in Denver. I was a student at Lowry AFB. We met learning to square dance and did so for many years until she was no longer able due to medical problems. But we still have each other after all these years. Guess I'll keep her as Its way too late in life to train another.

chester
 
My sweetheart and I met on a blind date. I was dating a friend of hers. We were having a party and a friend of mine needed a date, so we set them up. 2 years later, after a mid-college hiatus, my friend and I were playing pool and he suggested that when I got back to school I should look up Eileen because he thought we would go well together. He was right, we will have been married 40 years in August, have 5 great kids, and 11 brilliant grandchildren.

Tomas
 
I met my wife on Yahoo dating site when it was free still. That was in 2001. I married her in 2002 and 9 years later we have been through a lot of stuff together, but I think we are stronger for it. I wouldn't trade her for anything! Well unless someone has some cool custom blanks they wanna trade. :tongue:
 
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I met my wife on Yahoo dating site when it was free still. That was in 2001. I married her in 2002 and 9 years later we have been through a lot of stuff together, but I think we are stronger for it. I wouldn't trade her for anything! Well unless someone has some cool custom blanks they wanna trade. :tongue:
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Stacie said:
ToddMR said:
I met my wife on Yahoo dating site when it was free still. That was in 2001. I married her in 2002 and 9 years later we have been through a lot of stuff together, but I think we are stronger for it. I wouldn't trade her for anything! Well unless someone has some cool custom blanks they wanna trade. :tongue:
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Todd may need to barter some of his pen stuff for a place to stay...lol
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He can't he no longer even has access to a computer:biggrin:
 
Met in an archaeology lab we were both working for in 93. She was in the back rooms cleaning artifacts and I was helping one of the profs with a study he was doing. She said hi, I said hi and putt my ear phones back on went back to work. That was it. Met each other again 6 months later in the field. I am so shy that I have to fight to NOT run away from new people. She looked at me one evening as we were watching the sun set and told me I was the dumbest SOB she ever met and was disappointed that she was going to have make the first move, and she did. I honestly never saw it coming. The rest is history. 5 years of long distance relationships, married in the summer of 99. Been real rough at times but we seem to pull through.
 
Anita lost her husband in June of 1999 when he was hit by a semi while driving a tractor down the road. I lost my first wife to cancer in October of 1999.

After losing my wife I found a bulletin board for widows and widowers (widownet.org) and there was/is(?) a section on the bulletin board for Christian widows and widowers. She had made a post that expressed interest in having a gathering of widows/widowers fairly close to where she lived. I had friends in that area so responded that I might be interested.

Well, the group gathering never happened, but one thing led to another and we started communicating regularly. On December 31, 1999 (the night the world was supposed to end) I drove down to where she lived ~300 miles and we met in person.

We were engaged on April 1, 2000 and married June 4, 2000. We both have children from our first marriages. It would be a lie to say it has all been smooth sailing, but by God's grace and guidance, we are still together after 11 years, and looking forward to many more. I could say many wonderful things about her and they would all be true, but for the purposes of this board, she is 1) extremely tolerant to woodchips and dust in the house, and 2) my best and toughest critic. I am extremely thankful that God put us together.
 
My wife and I met at the points of each others' swords. I was a member of a fencing club that met in the University gym, at the same time as the fencing class she was taking. At one point, the teacher had the students fence against the club members. After 6 months of stabbing each other, I finally asked her out. And next week we'll have been married 14 years.
 
azamiryou said:
My wife and I met at the points of each others' swords. I was a member of a fencing club that met in the University gym, at the same time as the fencing class she was taking. At one point, the teacher had the students fence against the club members. After 6 months of stabbing each other, I finally asked her out. And next week we'll have been married 14 years.
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so, your advances were not foiled, eh? Did you invite her to lunge?

I'll go back to my corner now.....
 
azamiryou said:
My wife and I met at the points of each others' swords. I was a member of a fencing club that met in the University gym, at the same time as the fencing class she was taking. At one point, the teacher had the students fence against the club members. After 6 months of stabbing each other, I finally asked her out. And next week we'll have been married 14 years.
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That would make for some great couples therapy sessions!

AK
 
Funny how things work out, I knew my wife from High School and we grew up in the same town, however, I was engaged to her next door neighbour for 4 years before splitting and a short time later started dating the girl who is now my wife of 21 years. lol
 
I ran an advertisement in the personal column in a local free paper. It was a year and a half after my divorce and the week between Christmas and New Years. I went to pick up the girl I was dating to take her to a Christmas party and walked in on her and her previous boyfriend in bed. That ended that relationship. I was scheduled to go to a New Years Eve party that I knew my ex and her new Husband were going to be at and I was not going alone. So I ran an advertisement. We talked twice before the party and had scheduled to meet once but she stood me up, so I was not planning on much. I walked in to where she was working to take her to the party saw her and said "Oh Oh this is gonna hurt". We have been together every day in the 22 years since.
 
I'm back in my home town, but in '67 I was shooting babies( traveling department store photographer) working out of Connecticut when my boss informed me that a 'new girl' had just driven in and needed help finding the shop. Did I want to go along? Hey, I am not very smart but of course I want to meet this new chick. Standing there in the sweltering heat on the lot of the Thomaston, CT, 'Texaco' station was this beautiful lady with her strawberry blond hair all in disarray from having driven from Louisville, KY, with no air conditioning in her car, was the most beautiful person I had ever seen, Christina Brown. She scared the tea total heck out of me, a hard core confirmed bachelor. That was in June, on October 22, 1967, we were married in a beautiful small church in Thomaston, CT. Two children, 1300 miles back to KY and 35 years later, she contracted an extremely virulent form of kidney cancer. As she lay in the local hospital where she had worked the past 25 years as CCU day charge nurse, she had this nurse on the midnight shift taking care of her that she continually asked questions of. Very nosey questions in my presence. Once we managed to get Chris home to pass in familiar surroundings and everything was finished and settled, all those questions and answers kept going around in my empty head so I gave Doris a call. We dated and have now been married seven years now as of April 24. On that date, when I saw her in her wedding dress for the first time, I discovered that it truly was possible to be completely in love with two women at the same time. The wonderful thing about that is there is no conflict about this.
There is no doubt that I am the luckiest man to ever live. It is so rare for any man to find a woman that truly loves him and cares for him. I have found two in a row.
Charles
 
I met the love of my life at a square dance the day after I was baptized. My hair was still wet when I said I would join the guys in a game of soft ball when I turned around and a young lady, the sister-in-law, of the man who had just ask me to come to the soft ball game, asked me to come to a square dance the very same night. What was I to do??? Meet the guys for softball or girls at a square dance. Sorry guys..... square dance it was. When I got there, there was only 8 people, enough for 1 square dance of people. There was a professional caller and he was very good. When a few more people came in, the caller wanted to make another square. We had 4 guys and 2 ladies. I was one without a lady to my side. Just as the music started, the door slammed shut, letting everyone know that someone had come in. Two young ladies had came in, a short one and a tall one. The short one came running up to me and the tall one went to the other guy who had no partner. By the looks of it, me and my partner, where the only ones that knew anything about square dancing and had to pull the rest of them along to get through it. Eight days after that, I asked her to marry me and 9 months to the day we were married. That was 37 years ago. 3 children, 7 Grandchildren and 1 step-great-grandchild. I consider myself to be a very blessed man.
 
High school library...she had been stalking me after a baseball game that I played in. That was 37 years ago...she remains my best friend and LOML (and SWMBO!)
Tom
 
As of this Aug.13th I will have had my wife ( or she has had me) for 50 years:party:.We met in the lunch line in high school, she was taking the money and is still getting mine:biggrin:.
 
I met my wife 25 years ago at my church's single's small group. This was amazing in and of itself because I've devoted my life to helping churches start and expand their small group ministry... makes for a great success story when I'm on the road training in churches.
 
I built mine in my living room. She had an 80" shovelhead motor, 8 over wide glide and a hardtail frame. But after riding her for many years my kidneys and back were beat and I had to part ways with her. I still miss her more than any of my ex wives.
 
Timebandit said:
Met mine in the Intensive Care Unit at Brakenridge Hospital. I was in a motorcycle accident(got hit by a car) and she was one of the first nurses that took care of me. She called me 2 days later while i was still in the hospital, but in the step down unit and here we are a little over 3 years later............. Kind of a fairy tail...............

Shes still my nurse:wink::tongue::biggrin:
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Wow! My story is almost the same! I totaled a patrol car in a chase, and broke my neck. That is the last thing I remember, then I came to (from a drug induced stupor) and I was engaged to my nurse. That was 20 years ago. I have asked my wife if in this stupor I ever really said, "would you marry me"...I have never really got a straight answer...you gotta wonder don't you? Anyway, couldn't be happier...I married up
 
This is really bazar! Met my beautiful wife first, while she worked as the coat check girl and I worked as a bus boy in a Synagogue. Funny thing we are both Catholic. Gave her a tray of food and drinks. About four years later, while we were both going to college we met again at Mount Sinai Hospital she worked part time as a TV girl and was the night watchman in the Old Hydro building next door. At the time we did not remember our prior encounter, until years later! I'm truly fortunate that she has been in my life, and this year will mark our 29 th.
 
My love and best friend I met when she came to England (where I was living) with her family on vacation. They were staying with my sister who my wife's mother knew from years ago. I came over to meet them and ask Lori if she wanted to go for a ride on my motorcycle. I was a bit of a biker but still wanted to impress her, so I put on my suit under my leather jacket c/w chains! I must have looked real silly. Her mom said OK as long as her brother came too! So there are the three of us on the bike going down to the pub. Lori and her brother were not of legal drinking age, so we had to sit in the part of the pub reserved for families (that's allowed in England). Anyway, in the two weeks she was there we went on many walks and we both knew we were meant for each other. I knew then that I would have to move to Canada, so we could be together, so I applied to immigrate during the time she was still in England. It was heartbreaking for us both when she had to return home. The immigration process took 5 months and many letters back and forth to my sweetie, I finally landed in Canada on November 11, 1972, and have never looked back!

Lin.
 
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It was the summer of 1974 and ...

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There she was just a-walkin' down the street
Singin' Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do
Snappin' her fingers and shufflin' her feet
Singin' Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do
She looked good (looked good), she looked fine (looked fine)
She looked good, she looked fine and I nearly lost my mind

Before I knew it she was walkin' next to me
Singin' Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do
Holdin' my hand just as natural as can be
Singin' Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do
We walked on (walked on) to my door (my door)
We walked on to my door, then we kissed a little more

Whoa-oh, I knew we was falling in love
Yes I did, and so I told her all the things I'd been dreamin' of

Now we're together nearly every single day
Singin' Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do
A-we're so happy and that's how we're gonna stay
Singin' Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do
Well I'm hers (I'm hers), she's mine (she's mine)
I'm hers, she's mine, wedding bells are gonna chime

Whoa-oh, I knew we was falling in love
Yes I did, and so I told her all the things I'd been dreamin' of

Now we're together nearly every single day
Singin' Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do
A-we're so happy and that's how we're gonna stay
Singin' Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do
Well I'm hers (I'm hers), she's mine (she's mine)
I'm hers, she's mine, wedding bells are gonna chime

Whoa-oh-oh-oh, oh yeah
Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do, we'll sing it
Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do, oh yeah, oh, oh yeah
Do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30p0PJrHrgE
Manfred Mann -- Do wah diddy
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And coming this August, it'll be 32 years of marriage.
 
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