I love the stories ... and yours is a sweet one ... and you two make a beautiful couple :)

Friends talked me into going to a Notre Dame football game on the train specially chartered for this trip from our home town. We walked through the cars. One car was labeled the "bar car"....a place to get only cokes (of course!). My friend knew one of the guys. My hubby was standing next to him. We talked. He asked if he could take me home from the train station. I had fallen in love with him. Been with him since January 1965.

Well you've heard or read the stories about going home with the roommate and meeting the roommate's brother...well that's what happened with us. My mom wasn't too keen on us getting married (she had someone else picked out for me...BTW no way did I want that one...) We'd been married about 10 years and had the 5 boys (daughter wasn't even a twinkle yet) and my mom said, 'Well, maybe he was the right one after all!' must have been...we'll celebrate 40 years of marriage in January.

my hubby was a helicopter pilot during that time what unit - his was the 174th yup, we're still together after 40 yrs this Feb.

I love to tell this story, I picked him up as a hitchhiker!
not as bad as it sounds. He was on his class trip at a local state park and I was there with my sis. We went for ice cream at the closest town and on the way back to the lake - some were wanting a ride back down to the lake - about 2 miles. Short story - I picked 3 up - mine was one. After discussion, we were going to the same college and had three classes together out of 5 the following fall. we were married 2 yrs later and have been for 40 yrs.

Thanks Robin.... I like them too. Real stories about real people.
Always make you smile. Have a great day!

Mine is confusing lol, but here it goes.
We first met when we were 13 yrs old. He (Corey) was dating Dorenda. I was dating Robert (my oldest daughters father). Then Corey was dating her sister (Tammy). Me and Robert had a child together ( I was 14 and he was 17). Then Corey and Tammy had a child (together they were 15). Everyone broke up at different times. Our oldest children are cousins. I moved back to Texas. Robert had no interest in Chelsea (my daughter) but she wanted to see him. I would use my vacation time to drive her to VA so she could see her dad. Then I would drive her to GA so she could see the other people in her family. Her dad wasn't so good, so I wanted her to see that she did have good people in her family. We would stay with his sister which was coreys daughters grandma. Well one year Tammy (who was married by this time) was talking to me and asked me to not be with Corey. I said ok and laughed because I didn't think of him that way. He was just my friend. Well the next year it was different, you couldn't separate us. Tammy was fine with it that year lol. He told me he had liked me for the last 10 years and wanted to be with me. I told him I didn't know how that would work because I lived in Texas and him in Georgia. He told me he would move. So after vacation was over I drove home crying like a baby cause I didn't want to leave him. He moved in 2 months later. We didn't date or anything. We had Jonathan got married and then had Makayla. We have been together 7 years this July, and married for 4 years. He never asked me to marry him. We just started talking about it then planning and then did it. I still want him to lol, we talked about it awhile back ago and he said he didn't know that it was important to me and that he will make it up to me lol. I just turned 31 in Jan and he will be 31 in Aug. Well that's my story.

That's just like us, except for the grandaughter. We were married 39 years in January and have a 38 year old daughter and 36 year old son. We were high school sweethearts too

I met my hubby when I was 19 and he was 20. We were both married to other people. Here's where it gets confusing so try to stay with me...my ex (K) and my hubby (A) have the same cousins...K's uncle was married to A's aunt. Anyway the 4 of us were friends then A's wife left him. He moved back to their hometown and we followed a few years later. By that time A had remarried and we were friends w/them...they split up...I was still married. A went in and out of relationships and trouble for a good number of years then after 21 yrs of marriage K cheated on my with an online romance. We split up and A heard about it through his family. He called to check on me and after several months we started seeing each other...talk about wierd! We dated for 3 yrs and then got engaged for almost 1 yr. We will be married 6 yrs on May 1st. He is the best thing that I could ever dream of. When I was going through my divorce I prayed a lot about dating and being nervous about it since I'd gotten married the 1st time at 18...well God took care of that by giving me A! I have 2 sons and he has 1 son in heaven and 1 daughter. Together we have 4 granddaughters and 1 grandson. We also have 1 granddaughter by love rather than blood...we have been truly blessed.

Husband and I met Jan. 5, 1980 at a home bible study group. Married Jan 25, 1980. Turned out he was the Baptist minister. Been married 31 years and there are 13 years between us.

I met Hubby-To-Be in 7th grade, in junior high school. We actually had gone to elementary school together, but I didn't know him then, because we were a year apart. Going further back, we were even born at the same hospital. :mrgreen:

In junior high, he lived across the street from my parents' business, and we rode the bus together in the afternoons. I had the hots for him since Day #1. :lol:

I wasn't allowed to go on a real date until I was 16, but we went to church together and went to a lot of school activities together until then. We dated all through high school, went to the same college, and 3 weeks after I graduated (my courses took longer than his), we got married. Huge church ceremony with 300+ guests. My parents had tons of friends, and he has a huge family, so there were people there that we didn't really even know! But they all brought gifts! LOL! :lol: I was 20 years old; he was 21.

That was 22 years ago, and we're still on our honeymoon. :mrgreen:

We went together and picked out my engagement ring before he actually proposed. He really didn't need to ask. We both already knew the answer. But he asked anyway. I couldn't say yes fast enough! :-)

No kids, partly by choice and partly by fate (medical problems on my end), but we've got oodles of fur-, fin-, and feather-kids. :wink:

My dad didn't like him at first ... but then again, he didn't like ANY boy who might be "stealing" his daughter. :wink: They're big buddies now, and DH has definitely earned my dad's respect over the years, which isn't something easy to do. My dad's a good man; he's just picky when it comes to his daughters! he he My mom liked him from the very beginning. :-)

He's definitely a keeper. One couldn't ask for a better husband or best friend!

And he fully supports and funds my quilting/crafting "habit"! :thumbup:

During the summer of 1963 my family moved to a small NH town from a large MA city. My sister and I decided to take a break from unpacking and spend the hot day at the State Park beach in the town. There I met a local resident named Karl, who was working at the park for the summer before going back to college. Within a week we began dating, and a year and half later we married and have been married for 46 years. Corny as this sounds, he truly is my best friend, my love... yes my soulmate.
We have two sons and a daughter, two granddaughters and yes, three great grandchildren, one girl and two boys.

I met my hubby in my own home when he came to show mum and dad the sights of perth. (we had only been in australia for a few months) and he worked with my dad. the first words he heard me say was "MUM MY DRESS DOESN'T FIT" she had washed my new dress and it had shrunk I was going to wear it to a ball I had been invited to.
the next day he asked me out a week later he gave me a friendship ring a month later we got engaged and a year later we tied the knot that was nearly 46 years ago.

I met my DH through a personal ad my girlfriend talked me into doing. It started out as kind of a joke, but when I met Ken, it became serious fast. We were married two months later....That was twenty years ago. It is hard to remember life before him. He makes me laugh every day.We are happily growing old together.

My BFF and I went to a lot of country/western dances when we were in high school. She began dating a boy she met, I got stuck with his friend (Justin). We double-dated all summer, then went our separate ways. I thought that was it, but one night I got a phone call from Justin asking me out on a "real" date. We dated for three years, were engaged for three (I wanted to finish college) and we have been married now for sixteen years! He is my best friend and the love of my life!!!

Another Match.com made in heaven match......I was leary about attempting it again, fore I had melt a couple read duds.

But after 5 years I gave it another try. He winked at me, we talked for 2 months online and after the 2nd week online, I allowed him to call me (we would talk upto 4 hours on the phone each night.) We had over 500+ miles between us, so I thought I was pretty safe. Then he went on a snowmobile trip with late wifes' brother's in Montana and decide to (this happened during the week of Valentines - the most beautiful dozen red roses were delivered at daughters house) cut it short and came to South Dakota to meet me in person.

Very much a christian gentleman. Sang in a Country Gospel group in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota.

The next day he wanted to meet my parents and my oldest daughter, so we drove 180 miles to their houses. A week later we met halfway between each others homes, and he asked me to marry him. Two weeks later, I met his two boys and families. A month later he asked my dad for my hand in marriage. We had planned on waiting a year, but about the end of August, he wanted me in the North Dakota. So we planned a small wedding for Sept 15th at a little country church that he grewup in. This coming September it will be 3 years, but it seems like way more.

He lost his first wife of 28 years (childhood sweethearts) to her 3rd bout of Cancer in 2006, I lost my husband in 1994. And if his wife could of chose anyone for him, I was told it "would of been me". When you fill out the online questions, we matched on everyone of them. He makes my heart melt when he looks at me and he takes my breath away. I have 3 grown children with 5 grandbabies and one on the way this November 2010. He has 2 grown sons with one granddaughter.

And he knew I quilted and did sewing all the time. When he came to visit the first time, I had made him a plaid flannel western shirt. He was floored.......course after that I had to promise to make him one a month (just a few behind). But he understands, cause I have to keep up with all the sewing I do for 6 grandchildren (5 adopted him as grandpa right away). His granddaughter got the first grandchild full bed quilt I made, other then babyquilts that I had done for my own.

Just two people meant to have a 2nd chance at love...........and the story goes on.

My sister introduced us at a local pancake breakfast. I looked at him and just knew. However, we were both married to other people at the time. Both really bad marriages. But, both of us were committed to making our respective marriages work. I was living in a different state at the time, just visiting my sister for a weekend. Went back home and proceeded along with my life and my marriage, raising my son. 18 months later my husband at the time lost yet another job due to his drinking, etc. and we moved to California where my sister had found him a job closer to her. One day my son, 4 at the time, saw his dad push me down and try to choke me and I realized that I couldn't let him grow up thinking that this was okay. It took me several months to save enough to move out and start my divorce,but move I did. About two weeks before my divorce was final, my sister told me that Karl's (my current and last husband) wife had left him for her high school boyfriend for the second time. I ran into him a few weeks later and I asked him out for lunch. We've been married 19 and a half years, raised his kids, my son and now have a 13 year old daughter of our own...He is my best friend and I am so blessed to have such a wonderful marriage.

DH was my neighbor's boyfriend. She ask him to take me to dinner bc I was newly divorced. The rest is history. We've been married 40 years

He was my boss and it was Christmas and the group decided we
were elected to go out and buy the big boss's gift. We did and walked around Georgetown in the snow for hours window shopping. When we got back to the car he didn't propose he just said "I am going to marry you!" A week later he gave me an engagement ring and a year later we were married and that was 43 years ago.

Mutual friend told each of us about the other. I gave friend my # to give to my huby and he called. Talked for two weeks off and on and then went out on a blind date. Ask me to marry him two months later, married two months after that. Married for 13 years next month.

mine was a Big Brother to my son in Houston. when my son was 10 yrs old. after a year my son kept asking him to invite me bowling or baseball game with them. so... when he was 12, i married his Big Brother.
boy, that sounds weird!

The company I worked for did business with the company he owned. We have known each other for 25 years, but will be married 5 years in October. He is the love of my life!

I met DH when I got a job at the local sandwhich shop while a Freshman in college. I got the job just to pay for gas. Started working there in November of 2007. I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to DH at first - we worked opposite shifts and didn't really start talking until January of 2008. We started dating (although I wouldn't call it dating!) in February.

DH was very dedicated to his pursuit of me, and he was my first boyfriend so I was very hesitant and scared about everything. But he was patient and determined, and on our one year anniversary in 2009 he proposed and I said yes! :) We were married three months later and have been married for about a year and a half now. What constantly amazes me is how he never gave up on me, because I sure gave him a lot of reasons to. It gives me confidence that we can face whatever comes our way - as long as we just never let go of each other.

I was 16, he was 15 when he moved into his Mom's house 2 doors down. He was friends with my brother, they hunted together. After graduation, he would come home on leave from the Army and pick me up because he didn't know anyone else.. One thing lead to another, and we fell in love.. we were married July 3, 1981. We just celebrated our 29th anniversary.

Mary Ellen you made me cry. Reminded me of that story The Notebook where the husband was so dedicated to his wife. God Bless!

Some great, great stories.

We actually met four times before I asked him out.

First time, we didnt actually meet but the newspaper had a big article on me with a really nice headshot. My hubby yanked it out of the paper but then as he read it realized I was married and just threw it out.

Second time, my Mom and I were at a charity event and his was our black jack "dealer" for the nite. We had a great time and my Mom said how nice he was. But I was still married so I just chalked it up to meeting a nice person in this town I had only lived in for a year.

Third time, involved me writing a note taking a student out of a wrestling meet. He was the wrestling coach. He took my note, said he wasnt doing anything a quack chiropractor said, wadded it up and threw it out. The kid's mother called me frantically. I told her either the coach honored my note or I would come in with a lawyer and get him fired for ignoring a doctor's specific orders. He backed down.


Fourth time, we were both at a school board meeting for different reasons. It pays to be involved in your community I guess. Anyway, the community was angry at the school board and there were like 200 people there and they decided to go out and have a drink afterward. By this time, I was newly divorced and thought I needed to meet more people. I sat next to him and introduced myself, I really did not know who he was. As you can imagine, that conversation was really really heated.

A few days later, I thought he was interesting and called to asked him for a date. He just kept hanging around.

It will be 25 years we have been married this Christmas. Yes he works with me in one of those "quack" chiropractic offices as a massage therapist. Funny how the worm turns in life!

I met my husband while I was a student at the local community college and he was an instructor. He was chaperoning a school function that I attended. My date introduced him to me as his "math teacher". We met again a couple weeks later at a bowling function and he asked me out. I was 19 and he was 24. We dated for the remainder of the school year. It raised quite a stir with some folks, but I was never in any of his classes, so no one could really say anything. He got a job about 500 miles away the next year, but we continued dating while I finished school and married when I graduated...we just celebrated our 41st anniversary.

We met my first weekend in college - 20 years ago this week. He was a sophomore and we lived in the same dorm. A week later, the dorm held a fundraiser by auctioning off the freshmen to the upperclassmen as "slaves". Steve bought me for a whopping 21 cents and while other freshmen were put to work painting rooms, doing laundry, and assembling bunk beds, I got taken out for ice cream. We dated all through college and will celebrate our 16th wedding anniversary in December. We've been blessed with two amazing sons, ages 6 and 4. For 20 years now, without missing a single day, Steve has said to me, "Is there anything I can do for you today?". Amazing.

nunya.

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Hi
I love your picture of the dog! Is he yours? :thumbup:

Just wanted to say how gorgeous your photo is! Congratulations and all the very best for a super long future! I had been married 33 years and love my husband so much - I think it gets better every year that passes :)

Hi Everyone!

What a great topic :"):

I have been married 33 years to the best man in the world for me !
I had been going out with my girlfriend to discos and dances and had met some interesting people through this time
The night I met my husband, Elizabeth (my close friend from work) and I went to a disco called Chequers in Sydney. ( Capital of NSW in Australia) Elizabeth and I had been to this disco/dinner party establishment before - once to a work dinner party with her Mum. We were her "guardians" for that night LOL and were told about the disco nights and decided to go there again for that.

The following weekend - 1st August 1975 Elizabeth and I were dancing our normal routine on the floor. We always had others join us - this was the era of great dance routines and danced and danced and danced -where did we find our energy! We sat down for a sip of our drinks ( you could leave on your table in total safety those days) when two young men introduced themselves and asked if they could sit down and chat. We agreed and chatted for a bit, then got up to dance. Had a great time and about 1am the next morning we went to a local cafe for coffee (in a group). These two young men followed us back to Elizabeths home which was not far from the city to make sure we got home ok! awww :)
PW said goodbye to Elizabeth and I said goodbye to SH. He gave me a gentle kiss goodnight and said he would ring to make a date to go out sometime.
Well short story is we ended up as a great twosome.
He proposed in December 1975 and we were married on my Mum and Dad's 23rd Wedding anniversary the following March.
Our children are 26,29 and 31 and we have one grandson who is almost 5 years old.
Our love grows stronger with every year.

Lovely story - so great to head people find each pother eventually ......