In 1988 I was happily separated from my abusive husband raising 3 young children and working for an answering service. My job for one of the companies that we answered for was to wake up the guys for very early jobs. One of the guys asked if I would go have coffee with him the next time it rained him out and I said I would knowing full well that I really would not be interested in doing anything of the kind. A few days later I woke him up but his job was rained out and he called me back to see if we could go have coffee and of course I told him I couldn't do it. This went on for 2 weeks and everytime I would say no. Finally he said if I didn't meet him he was never going to get to work and so I did. I found out that we had alot in common - both separated and each had 3 children. Now after 22 years we have 7 children together and 13 grandchildren and intend to keep living happily ever after.