How did you meet your partner?

[hollydolly]

I've had people saying how much they admire the way we seem so compatible and happy . My reply is always... " you should have been around the first 10 years". That was the adjustment period.

I'm sure... it must been quite hard trying to learn and live with each others' ways

 

[squatting dog]

I'm sure... it must been quite hard trying to learn and live with each others' ways

I'm pretty sure our common interest's... rescue dogs, fast cars and feet that were made of sand, ( like moving cross country on a whim), was the glue that held us together.

 

[dusty]

Met my ex hb at work when he introducd himself. We went out for several weeks and both decided it could work. We were married 30 yrs, no kids as he had had a vasectomy before he met me. His presence in my ife enabled me to do what I wanted with my life, making me able to rescue dogs and cats, earn my Paramedic license and run rescue, and other volunteer things.

Only later did I discover by bits and pieces that he was an agent and I enabled him to remain one. They wanted him to marry and settle down and so he did. Symbiotic relationship totally. If you want to know more you'll have to read the book.

 

[C50]

I've had people saying how much they admire the way we seem so compatible and happy . My reply is always... " you should have been around the first 10 years". That was the adjustment period.

Who spent those first ten years training who???

 

[JustDave]

The current one, the Spousal Equivalent? We met the old-fashioned way...LOL...a dating app.

Gee Wizz. Dating apps are now old fashioned? This should have gone in the Time Flies Thread.

 

[CaliS]

I met my husband on Match.com

 

[OregonGuy]

Back in 1966, before personal computers and dating aps, I used ibm punch cards to join Operation Match which was a computer program run by U C Berkeley students for free with the objective oh matching up people for dates. It found me my first wife! I wonder if that was the first such program and if the founder went on to be a millionaire.

 

[CaliS]

Back in 1966, before personal computers and dating aps, I used ibm punch cards to join Operation Match which was a computer program run by U C Berkeley students for free with the objective oh matching up people for dates. It found me my first wife! I wonder if that was the first such program and if the founder went on to be a millionaire.

Very cool !!!!

 

[MACKTEXAS]

In my experience, there in fact is no such thing as unconditional love. Even a vow made in earnest holds little sway when one or both partners become miserable.

Other than my children, I love nobody unconditionally. And even with them, if the relationship became toxic I would distance myself from them.

Toxic. I feel the same because that's how it became with my only child. Part of me still cares for what used to be or could have been, but I'm not sure it's love. She did the distancing herself by moving 1500 miles away. My wife I went to see her once some years ago. It did not go well, and I knew when we left I would never go back. Unconditional love? No, I wouldn't even feel safe going to sleep in the same house with her.