How Did You Meet Your Spouse
04-15-2010, 03:46 AM
#61
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I met my husband by going with a friend to pick up her fiance at the base(Fort Lewis, Wa)where he was stationed at. He was with him & had found out he had just broken up with his fiance. Was not interested at all.We kept running into each other & started dating 13 months later we were married. We moved to Tn. Been married almost 48yrs.
04-15-2010, 05:02 AM
#63
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His Mother and I worked together. She say her son was coming home on leave from the air force and wanted a date to go to the fair. My boyfriend was working night so I said I would go. we met Aug 23 married Sept 4th a week and a half later. 52 years 3 kid 3 grands 3 great grands and are still in LOVE
04-15-2010, 06:09 AM
#65
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Location: Idaho
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I was married twice before, the first couldn't seem to keep his pants on when I wasn't around, and the second one was extremely controlling. Wasn't interested in even dating, let alone getting married. Working as a manager trainee at Lucky Lil's casino in Three Forks, Montana...combination truck stop and casino. Was a slow night, no one in the casino except my friend Becky, sitting at the bar and we were talking. (these are really small "mini" casinos....maximum 20 machines) This guy walked in, just traveling thru the casino to get to the C-store. I told Becky, "See that one? He wants me...he just doesn't know it yet!" It was our "line" to tell each other that we thought guys were cute...
Fast forward a bit, and Becky had gone home for awhile, the casino was empty, and "that one" came back in. He was a trucker, was stuck in Three Forks because the plant that he was loading at overloaded his truck and he couldn't reload until the next day at the earliest. I waited on him, he drank a soda and played a five in one of the machines, then came and sat at the bar and talked to me for awhile....flirting like mad! The conversation progressed, I found out that he was 10 and a half years younger than I am, and tried to send him packing! He wasn't having any part of it. I let him know on no uncertain terms that I wasn't having any part of a "steady boyfriend" and I most certainly was NOT going to marry again, that I would NEVER answer to another man for as long as I lived!!
Persistant and determined man that he is, he won my heart when he called me from New Mexico and as we were talking, told me to look out the window, asking if I saw the full moon. He told me then that we'd never be far apart, because we were under the same moon!
We got married six months later...on Memorial Day, he chose the date saying that he couldn't think of a more memorable way to spend it!
He still looks at me with a sparkle in his eyes...almost 11 years after I did the very thing I swore I'd never do again! :)
Fast forward a bit, and Becky had gone home for awhile, the casino was empty, and "that one" came back in. He was a trucker, was stuck in Three Forks because the plant that he was loading at overloaded his truck and he couldn't reload until the next day at the earliest. I waited on him, he drank a soda and played a five in one of the machines, then came and sat at the bar and talked to me for awhile....flirting like mad! The conversation progressed, I found out that he was 10 and a half years younger than I am, and tried to send him packing! He wasn't having any part of it. I let him know on no uncertain terms that I wasn't having any part of a "steady boyfriend" and I most certainly was NOT going to marry again, that I would NEVER answer to another man for as long as I lived!!
Persistant and determined man that he is, he won my heart when he called me from New Mexico and as we were talking, told me to look out the window, asking if I saw the full moon. He told me then that we'd never be far apart, because we were under the same moon!
We got married six months later...on Memorial Day, he chose the date saying that he couldn't think of a more memorable way to spend it!
He still looks at me with a sparkle in his eyes...almost 11 years after I did the very thing I swore I'd never do again! :)
04-15-2010, 06:17 AM
#66
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: New York
Posts: 4,532
Originally Posted by Charlee
I was married twice before, the first couldn't seem to keep his pants on when I wasn't around, and the second one was extremely controlling. Wasn't interested in even dating, let alone getting married. Working as a manager trainee at Lucky Lil's casino in Three Forks, Montana...combination truck stop and casino. Was a slow night, no one in the casino except my friend Becky, sitting at the bar and we were talking. (these are really small "mini" casinos....maximum 20 machines) This guy walked in, just traveling thru the casino to get to the C-store. I told Becky, "See that one? He wants me...he just doesn't know it yet!" It was our "line" to tell each other that we thought guys were cute...
Fast forward a bit, and Becky had gone home for awhile, the casino was empty, and "that one" came back in. He was a trucker, was stuck in Three Forks because the plant that he was loading at overloaded his truck and he couldn't reload until the next day at the earliest. I waited on him, he drank a soda and played a five in one of the machines, then came and sat at the bar and talked to me for awhile....flirting like mad! The conversation progressed, I found out that he was 10 and a half years younger than I am, and tried to send him packing! He wasn't having any part of it. I let him know on no uncertain terms that I wasn't having any part of a "steady boyfriend" and I most certainly was NOT going to marry again, that I would NEVER answer to another man for as long as I lived!!
Persistant and determined man that he is, he won my heart when he called me from New Mexico and as we were talking, told me to look out the window, asking if I saw the full moon. He told me then that we'd never be far apart, because we were under the same moon!
We got married six months later...on Memorial Day, he chose the date saying that he couldn't think of a more memorable way to spend it!
He still looks at me with a sparkle in his eyes...almost 11 years after I did the very thing I swore I'd never do again! :)
Fast forward a bit, and Becky had gone home for awhile, the casino was empty, and "that one" came back in. He was a trucker, was stuck in Three Forks because the plant that he was loading at overloaded his truck and he couldn't reload until the next day at the earliest. I waited on him, he drank a soda and played a five in one of the machines, then came and sat at the bar and talked to me for awhile....flirting like mad! The conversation progressed, I found out that he was 10 and a half years younger than I am, and tried to send him packing! He wasn't having any part of it. I let him know on no uncertain terms that I wasn't having any part of a "steady boyfriend" and I most certainly was NOT going to marry again, that I would NEVER answer to another man for as long as I lived!!
Persistant and determined man that he is, he won my heart when he called me from New Mexico and as we were talking, told me to look out the window, asking if I saw the full moon. He told me then that we'd never be far apart, because we were under the same moon!
We got married six months later...on Memorial Day, he chose the date saying that he couldn't think of a more memorable way to spend it!
He still looks at me with a sparkle in his eyes...almost 11 years after I did the very thing I swore I'd never do again! :)
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April
04-15-2010, 06:49 AM
#67
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ireland
Posts: 786
Originally Posted by grannym37
His Mother and I worked together. She say her son was coming home on leave from the air force and wanted a date to go to the fair. My boyfriend was working night so I said I would go. we met Aug 23 married Sept 4th a week and a half later. 52 years 3 kid 3 grands 3 great grands and are still in LOVE
04-15-2010, 07:11 AM
#68
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: NY
Posts: 5,337
I also was married twice before, my first Hubby passed when April was 11 months and Tara was 5yrs. I married on a rebound and he was a jerk for sure, thank I met the man who won my heart forever, Richard, we met at Dunkin- he has been a wonderful father to his, mine & ours, he has three kids, I had two and we have a almost 23 year old son together, spoiled rotten, just ask Ape!!! We've been together for 24 years.
04-15-2010, 07:15 AM
#69
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In 1976 my father had a car for sale..and this guy with long hair and a beard came to look at it. My father wasn't home at the time so I showed the car to him. After a few minutes..he left..and I went back in the house. My mother looked at me and said..."don't think you are going out with him" LOL..funny..but I didn't even mention that I wanted to. A year passed..never saw him around. One day out of the blue..he called me and asked me out. He said "by the way..I got my hair cut" I don't know how he knew..he just did. So..we went out..and three years later we got married. We have been married for 31 years..2 wonderful semi adult children and one granddaughter. We are best friends..we finish each others sentences..and always know what the other is thinking. He was ill for a year..and recovered..and now I have breast cancer..and he has been by my side for everything. This has brought us even closer to each other. I could never have wished for someone so wonderful..he is one of a kind.
04-15-2010, 07:21 AM
#70
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 879
met online right at the end of valentines day last year. he came upstate march 4th to meet; took our profiles off together that night and never looked back. he proposed july 5th, we were married jan 9th. so within 10 months i went from single to met, married and moved to the island. :)
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