Husband is a trucker. I actually talked to him via CB for a few months before we ran into each other in person on the highway. To our surprise, we already knew each other! We had gone to high school together, and he had dated one of my high school acquaintances! We dated for 2 years before we married in March 1995 .
Met my husband at my parents hotel-restraunt-lounge. I knew he was the one right away. I lived in Calif. and was visiting my parents and helping them with their business. We met in 87, married in 88, had Evan in 89' and Christian in 91'. I moved here and have been happy ever since. He is 53 and I am 41, kind of a gap there but he is wonderful!
Get ready...this may be long!!! When I was a kid, there was a church at the end of my street that had a playground. It had a slide that had a roof on it, and we would often climb up onto this roof area. The only way to get down was to either jump (from a good height!) or dangle your legs down over nothing and try to swing them into the "house", another difficult feat. Well, when I was about 13, I would go there to read sometimes. One evening, there was some kid who had climbed out onto the roof and was having trouble getting down (no, not Carl!). I was trying to coax him down, when the Boy Scouts who met at the church dismissed. I saw yelled at some of the boy scouts and asked if they knew first aid. "If he land wrong and breaks his leg, will you be able to take care of it?" Two of the scouts had walked over, and one of them was (to a young teen) SO CUTE!!! We talked, and that was that. A few months later, I was there again, also on a Boy Scout night, and got talking to a young guy whose older brother was inside. I found out that his dad was in charge of an Explorer post. That's a co-ed branch of the boyscouts. So I got talking with his dad and older brother, and ended up going to the meeting with a friend. The first thing I noticed on arriving at the meeting was: THAT CUTE GUY FROM THE CHURCH IS HERE!!!! Of course, I had the biggest crush possible then! But NOTHING could get him to really notice me (not even chasing him way out into the field on our hayride and trying to put hay down his back...how obvious does a 13YO need to get? Geesh!!!) He started dating another girl in our post, and when they broke up began to date a friend. I felt he treated this friend like dirt, so by the time he got around to asking me out (at a much older and wiser 16 ) I wouldn't give him the time of day. We eventually went our seperate ways. I heard later he had gotten married (my mom ran into his on his wedding day!) He joined the service, and YEARS later, eventually moved back to his parents', divorced with two young boys. Trouble with his older boy forced him to seek Christian counseling, so he came to know the Lord. Then he remembered me, knowing that I had claimed to be a Christian way back in high school, and drove by my parents' place. I just happened to be out, though I wasn't living there. We went out, and he told me that God had told him we were going to get married. BIG MISTAKE!!! I was a good Baptist girl, and good Baptist girls don't married guys that are divorced with two kids!!! And I told him so. But he was a friend from my past, and we did go out as friends (most of the guys I went out with was simply as friends back then!). I even babysat for him while he would go out on a date on occasion!!! After a while, he'd get upset and not be able to deal with us just being friends, so we'd go our seperate ways. Then he'd call out of the blue after several months and we'd go out again. After 9 years of this, he proposed again. He said that if I answered no, he didn't think he'd be able for us to go on being friends this time. After nine years, I was just knew that is was for good this time, and the idea of losing his friendship was so upsetting! So I sat down and had a heart-to-heart with a couple from my church (he reminded me of my dad!), and by the time I finished talking with Mike and Carol, I was comfortable with us "dating". After "dating" about one week, we were engaged! (And, would you believe, that's the condensed version?)
I can definitely relate to the divorce issue... wrestled with that here to. Husband was divorced with a 6 year old daughter when I met him. Now, that 6 year old will be turning 18! Where does the time go?
Tracy and I met when he was taking me to my ex-boyfriends Christmas party (he was a taxi driver at the time). I sat in the front seat while the other (dork) sat in the back seat. Although we were only acquaintances at that point. We were engaged within three weeks of dating and married within 9 months of having met and we're about to celebrate anniversary number 11 this fall Brenda
Jackie - where's the smilie that cries - that is so sweet (and you played so hard to get - you meanie So in hind sight, I guess God was telling him that you would be married... I love those happy endings... Brenda
Well, I had just turned 21 and was feeling like an old maid! So, my best friend (at the time) and I decided to give in and go to a singles' weekend retreat. We got there, and let's just say that the selection of single men was enough to make me want to remain single forever! LOL :roll: Anyway, we snuck out early (didn't even say good-bye- literally snuck out a back door!) It was Easter weekend, so I decided to go to a friend's church (she was actually my piano teacher). She kept telling me there was this guy at her church that she thought I should meet. I thought on Easter we wouldn't be noticed as much, since there's always guests at church for Easter. Well, she introduced us. Funny thing is, I went back for 4 weeks (I told myself I'd give it a month!) and his friend was madly in love with me- walking me to my car, sitting with me at church, etc. Finally, the last Sunday, Brian came and asked for my phone number. I said "you're lucky, because this was your last chance!" We were engaged that September and got married the following February. We've only had 3 anniversaries, but we've been married for 13 years! :?
I met my husband 12 years ago. He was dating my neighbor when I met him. I switched over to a private school due to a bad public school and found out that he went there too. He broke up with my neighbor and I waited two weeks to ask him out! I asked him out to a hockey game with a group of mutual friends. He said well, I don't know I think I have to ask my mom. Instead he went and asked his best friend (who was also my friend and like a big brother to me) what he thought of me and well we have been together ever since. We started dating at 16 and 17. Got married at 18 and 19. Today is our ninth wedding anniversary!
Mine's long too... I was in my senior year of high school and was "everybody's little sister" (into athletics and a "good girl" so no one wanted to DATE me....). There was one guy who kept asking me out and I finally accepted over Christmas break, but I didn't feel THAT WAY about him, but I was tired of sitting home on Saturday night! The date was OK, but definitely no sparks, KWIM? The next week, a girl friend asked me to stay the night with her for New Year's Eve. We went to dinner with her folks and then went back to her house for a sleep over. Next thing I know, her old boyfriend shows up with a friend...my future husband, Ken. (Later I found out that she had set this up ahead of time) We hit it off immediately!! We went out a couple of times before school went back in session and I was swept off my feet! The first day back at school, I walked up to my locker to find Steve (the guy I went out with before New Year's) at my locker with flowers, telling me what a great time he had and wanted to go out, again. I had to tell him that I was already "seeing" someone. I'll never forget the look on his face when he said, "But we just went out last week?" Ken and I dated a long time, but we both recognized that 3 months into the relationship we were already discussing our future. I went to college and we continued to date exclusively, he moved to another town to work, ....through it all we stayed together. Two years later (on New Year's Eve) he proposed and we married two year's later (when I graduated college). We've been married almost 11 years, now but when you add it up, we've been together for 15 years (half of my life--I'm 31). **I saw "Steve" at my high school reunion and he said there was some consolation that the guy I "dumped" him for was the one I was still with, today!!
I met my dh in high school too. I was 15 and he was 17. We dated 9 years as we finished school and college and got jobs. We married 12 years ago!
I was a bank teller and he worked in the courthouse next door. I would always see him in the parking lot, but didn't know anything about him. He had a friend who was friends with another girl that I worked with and they decided we would make a good couple. So then he started coming into the bank and getting in my line. The head teller teased me that he was putting his check in then withdrawing it $1 at a time. :lol: After a couple of weeks, he asked me out. We started dating in March, he bought my engagement ring in May(he had to wait for his tax refund ), and we were married in August. He was 23 and I was 20. We will celebrate our 22nd anniversary the 27th of this month.
Get ready for a long read... I had been in a serious relationship that fell apart as we both headed to different colleges. I told God that after that I was handing over my love life to Him.....welllllll....easier said than done! Every time I would take back that part of my life and head out into the dating world on my own I'd stumble spiritually and than need picked back up again and saying that I was through doing it without God's help. Then I tried again....(I don't know how to get the eye rolling thing on here or I would have put about a dozen in the past few sentences ) I had prayed and prayed, and repented and prayed...and then I felt like I was supposed to go across a couple states to visit an old friend from my youth group days. He was still single and I used to have a crush on him, but this time it seemed like he might be my match. I stayed a couple days at his parents house and while I was there we discussed our futures in light of God's plans and we both came to the conclusion that we were not to be together (so practical of us..lol). Meanwhile is older brother had been coming on to me and my thoughts went from righteousness to sin in a hurry . I didn't act on those thoughts, but what I did do on that last night there was really, truly give my lonliness and lust to the Lord. I bawled and prayed and bawled some more. That was Saturday night...after church Sunday morning I left to go back home completely confused by why I had even gone away that weekend to begin with....I was tired and stressed and I had to start a new job that I knew I would hate the next morning..... On Monday morning I headed to the factory (one of those in between jobs you do just to get a paycheck) dreading it the whole way. My only consolation was my cousin worked there and I had requested to be on her floor. I walk in and they tell me she quick the Friday before!!!! :O....They put my to work tagging baskets and I emersed myself in that for a while. Then I heard a couple guys behind me talking....and I swear it was preminition....one was talking about his ex-girlfriend and how he had not seen or heard from her since his birthday at the end of March....I turned around and said "when's your birthday?"...he said "March 28" and I said "Mine, too!"....we spent the rest of that day talking, and talking, and talking some more (we were both not living in a way becoming a Christian, though) and we decided to get together that evening..... I went to the place we were to meet and he didn't show up!....I looked in the phone book and managed to call th right house and spoke to his sister who told me he was out with some friends...grrrrr.....so I went out without him......(details left out).... The next morning he walked into work and as he went past me he mouthed the words "I have to talk to you"....I said "Yeah, you do!".....so he appologized and gave me a lame excuse and then talked about how he had plans to go to Vegas in a couple weeks after he saved up some money for the ticket there....(he was 24 and had been traveling for several years across the US on one-way bus tickets..)....anyway, we left for lunch and didn't return the rest of the day....we went to a lake and talked about life and goals and our faith, which was not evidenced in our lives at the time....then we decided to go to my house and he could meet my family....on the way there, he said that he would love for me to go to Vegas with him...."I won't live with someone unless I'm married" I told him, "but I'd marry you today."...he said, "You would???!!!"...I said "Yes."....then he tells me his dad is a pastor and he married us that Saturday. I'd write more but I'm on my way out the door to work....we'll have our 10th anniversary August 12th.
Oh, I forgot to mention we never went to Vegas...instead we drove my truck to Montana and camped for a couple weeks...oh, to be that young and impetuous again! lol
My hubby and I met while we were both in college up in Eau Claire Wisconsin at the university. They had too many people booked for housing so they had to use the local Holiday Inn for overflow dorms. We got to live in a Holiday Inn for the first year and a half. My hubby lived 4 doors down from me and my roommate. We decided to go down to the hottub and that is where we met my hubby and his roommate. May I add, living in a hotel in college was awesome!!! At the time I was actually engaged to someone else (shame on me), but he lived in Minneapolis. My hubby and I became close, and to say the least, 8 months later, I made the decision to dump my ex (who was a jerk by the way) and officially date my hubby. We were together about 2 years before we got married (if you count the 8 months before we were official) and this Friday (Aug. 5th) will be our 5 year anniversary.
Kind of a tacked on thought here... how many of us were engaged or married before we met our spouse? *I was engaged to another man when I was younger... glad it didn't work out... lol!*
Engaged, no. But I had been dating a guy off-and-on for 11 years! Mom accused me once of being "in love". Well, DUH!!! Then she asked what I would do if he asked me to marry him. I told her I hoped I'd have enough sense to say no. Fortunately, he never did!
I was engaged when I met him, and he was also engaged to someone else and broke it off before we met.
