How did you and significant other meet?

Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed

Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
Location
Central NY
Year 1979, I was running with a questionable crowd of people, the type that parents tell you to avoid? Anyway, my brother and I were at one of his friends house, who so happened was a co-worker to my future wife. I didn’t know my wife at the time but the co-worker mockingly said she was a goody-two-shoes who didn’t smoke or drink.

Without another word I knew she was my one and only. Next day I needed a refill of medication which happened to be where she worked. Are you taking notes? She was on a ladder stocking cigarettes, my big line was “be careful, don’t fall. I stopped by the pharmacy that afternoon and asked if I could drive her home.

We eloped from Georgia to New York, stayed with her parents. Becoming restless my best friend and traveled to Salt Lake City, back to Georgia, two kids later moved back to New York State and here we are. 42 years together.
 

We had both lost our spouses at almost the sane time. There was a great grief recovery site that we both went to on those long lonely nights. Many months later, I was asked where I lived, and it turned out we lived 40 miles apart. I suggested we meet half way for lunch, and we did. We were married on the Island of Santorini a year and a half later.
 
I met my husband at an AA meeting...we were both newly sober. I guess we broke the rules, they say in AA you shouldn't get into a serious relationship until you're sober at least a year. By the time a year rolled around, we were living together and talking about getting married. Breaking the rules didn't hurt us any, at the time of his death last March we had both been sober 28 years and married for 26..
 

We'd both been married twice before meeting. Thing is, both of my previous marriages was to the same woman. First marriage lasted less than a year and was annulled and the second time was about 2 years and ended in divorce. I was single/divorced for 22 years and absolutely hated it........being single. But, during those 22 years, just couldn't find a lady that liked what I did. Then, came my wife.

I had placed a Personal Ad in a local magazine in March 2000, she answered it and one year later we were married in a Cowboy type wedding/reception. This coming March will be 20 years. Absolutely love our marriage and my wife! She looks great in either a baseball cap or cowboy hat, her Wrangler brand jeans, a western top and her Ariat brand Lace-Up Roper boots. She can shoot either her S & W 9mm handgun or her Ruger 10/22 rifle, loves fishing/powerboating, professional rodeo, loves mountain wildlife and farm/ranch livestock.

She introduced me to Motown music and I introduced her to Classic Rock.
 
When I was a Sophomore in High School I became friends with a girl in one of my classes.
One day she asked me if I wanted to go out with her and her friends. I said yes.
When I got to her house we got in the car where there were 5 of us.
She said we had to wait for one other friend. So another guy came,got in the car, and sat beside me. We were going to Bristol Pa. which was 30 minutes away.
When we got there the guy sitting beside me broke up with his girlfriend who lived in Bristol. After she left another guy started to play songs,
The guy who was sitting beside me asked me to dance. "Running Scared" by
Roy Orbison was playing. As soon as we started to dance he said to me
"You fit perfectly in my arms." 5yrs later in 1966 we got married.
He was a keeper then and he still is a Keeper.
 
Through absolute lies....
I was working on a ladder repoint brick on the building I lived in.
Boss and co worker standing on the ground...
3 young ladies come walking down the street and these 2 invite them in to Party....
The wife is skeptical but her friends tell her " We party with these guys all the time"
The second lie was " I'm 18".... Fact was she had just turned 16 the week before.
5 months later we moved in together, Hard to believe 37 years have flown by
 
DaveA said:
We met on a blind date in the summer of 1953. She had just turned 17 and was a junior in High School, I was in the first year of a 4 year hitch in the Coast Guard at the much more mature age of 20. :)

We dated for 2 years, were then engaged for 6 months and married in 1956. This coming February will be our 65th wedding anniversary. Happy, happy, years!!
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you must have got married around the same time as my parents...:)
 
My current husband is my 2nd... we met in a pub lounge , 30 years ago he was just one of the crowd.., I was married.. he was in a relationship.

He was just a friend nothing more, not my type IMO... my husband and previous boyfriends were all very outgoing ..

I got divorced after 8 years .. and moved away from that group of friends, and raised my daughter alone .. got into another reltaionship, which wasn't going too well.. about 9 years had passed, and I saw an article about my friend in the media .... I still had his number so I called to congratulate him.. and by then he was single so he asked me out ..and the rest is history. We celebrate our 20 th anniversary in January
 
My boyfriend and I were in kindergarten through 4th grade together. My family moved away in 1962 and moved back in 1969. He was friends with my brother but I really had no contact with him. I accepted his friend request on FB but did not know he was that person from my class for about three years. Then I put our kindergarten class photo up on FB. That started us talking. We are not getting married but in a pretty solid relationship now.
 
After graduating from eight weeks training class, she was assigned to our unit. New arrivals are mentored until management is confident that the new person can handle assigned duties. We were both single and our supervisor openly admitted that he played Cupid in choosing me as mentor.

I must've been a good mentor because within five years, she passed me until I ultimately caught up and went ahead of her. After 30 years, we both took early retirement.

We were together 47 years, married for 40 until death parted us.
 
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