How Did You Meet Your Spouse?

ClassicRockr

ClassicRockr

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Met mine thru a Personal Ad I placed in a local magazine. I told the truth about my age, looks and interests. After meeting my "now" wife, she told me that she loved it that I had no tattoo's or body piercings. Lucky for me, I didn't get the two Eagle tattoo's that I had thought about getting 6 months earlier. Our ages were a year and a half apart, which was great (for us, anyway).

Our interests were do closely related, it was darn near scary! When I met her, I was involved w/pro-rodeo, along w/a full-time job, and she loved Country music and dancing. Had been to a couple of rodeo's before, but I changed that after we met. She was wearing a nice Resistol cowboy hat, Roper brand jeans and pointed cowboy boots. I was wearing the same attire I'd wear in the rodeo arena..........everything Western, except I had on a pair of Roper boots (designed for "ropers" in rodeo). Well, we got rid of her "pointed" boots and got her, and myself, a pair of Ariat Lace-Up Roper boots. She loved them.

So. after meeting, it was an every weekend rodeo for a few months and she loved it. Got in some 2-step and Texas Swing dancing as well. She liked Line Dancing also, but not for me.

Come to find out, she had placed an ad in a local magazine looking for a "cowboy w/a boat". I didn't see her ad, but I was a "cowboy", (rodeo type one, that is) and I knew about "boats", but didn't have one.

What about you?
 

I was 15 and lived way across town from school. It was a pouring rain November day. Boyfriend borrowed his grandma`s car and picked me up and dropped me at school,then took his grandma`s car home and ran to school in the rain. While I was sitting on the floor in the hallway under my locker,this guy walked up and opened the locker right next to mine. I had never seen/notice him before but he started talking to me and I gotta say,it was love at first sight-and,at that point,I didn't even know that he had a hot `57 Chevy lol! Anyway,we just sat there talking,totally unaware of anything around us-til I looked up and saw my boyfriend standing across the hall leaning on the lockers with his arms crossed,just staring at us. But he knew. And he ultimately ended up marrying one of my good friends-although that only lasted a few years. I heard he ended up with an alcohol and drug problem. Pretty sure I chose the right guy...;)
 

Through a friend in the Marines. She was his sister. We wrote while I was at Lejeune and Quantico and also in Vietnam. After I got out, which to this day I still regret leaving my beloved Corps, we continued dating for 11 months and then got married. Forty-seven years later and still going strong.
 
Wow......some nice/long marriages! Wife and I been married for 13 years, which is short compared to you folks. But, then again, we got married when I was 49 and she was 50. Compared to the long marriages of our Generation (Baby Boomers), marriages of today are REALLY short lived!

I'm just very, very glad that I returned to So California, where I met my wife, after trying to relocated a couple of times to somewhere else.
 
I met my present hubby in an outing with the mother of my sisters boyfriend.. I had been a young widow.with two young children, .not been going out meeting people . well !
Nan her name was invited me to go on a picnic with her club .. she said plenty of folks with young children so I wouldn`t be with oldies..
It was a nice day, we went on a cruise up the bay near where I live now.. and one thing led to another and met my hubby he was a divorcee with
2 young boys.. we chatted all day and kids got on well together .. my youngest was just a baby 18 mths old, Karen was 3 .. his children were
10 and 8.. we sort of drifted together and set up a home for the children after getting married.. we have been married for 40 yrs.. not all has been
rosy and easy .lots of ups n downs. but we made it .. and still together ..and we have ,, yours mine and ours.. .. first hubby died of cancer he was 23 so only had 3 yrs with him.. ..
 
Rainee said:
I met my present hubby in an outing with the mother of my sisters boyfriend.. I had been a young widow.with two young children, .not been going out meeting people . well !
Nan her name was invited me to go on a picnic with her club .. she said plenty of folks with young children so I wouldn`t be with oldies..
It was a nice day, we went on a cruise up the bay near where I live now.. and one thing led to another and met my hubby he was a divorcee with
2 young boys.. we chatted all day and kids got on well together .. my youngest was just a baby 18 mths old, Karen was 3 .. his children were
10 and 8.. we sort of drifted together and set up a home for the children after getting married.. we have been married for 40 yrs.. not all has been
rosy and easy .lots of ups n downs. but we made it .. and still together ..and we have ,, yours mine and ours.. .. first hubby died of cancer he was 23 so only had 3 yrs with him.. ..
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That's a lovely post Rainee, but sometimes you have to kiss an awful lot of frogs before your prince arrives..

Years ago, recently divorced, one of my friends said ''hey..there's a guy named Angelo who likes you..he is Italian, he asked me to ask you if you would like to go for a drink with him?''

I said why not?

Angelo appeared..met me from the train..and appeared to be the perfect gentleman..but as we were walking I could see him checking himself out in every shop window..when we got to the bar..he was checking out every female with a pulse..

Towards the end of the evening I said ''I must go and catch the last train''..

Now this was obviously not part of his plan...He said ''why go..my house is only 5 mins walk away'' but by that time I had realised that perhaps he wasn't the man for me..

We arrived at the station..10 mins till the train arrived...and he started snivelling and crying because I was going home..after 5 mins his lamentations turned into the loud Waah Waah variety..everyone was looking at us..

I was rather hoping a freight train would go past so I could jump it..:praying:
 
I met my husband where I worked. It was a large electrical company that made computers . I was in charge of quality control and he was in charge of production. Nothing could get shipped out without it going through QC and we disagreed all the time. Thirty years later we still do but get along very well.

I cant believe you both met each other through personal ads in the paper and that just before you met your wife you were seriously thinking of getting a tattoo. Do you think if you would have had one that she would have just passed on you , knowing how much you dislike them CR?

Its interesting going through these old threads.
 
We both worked for a mega-corporation, and he came to a meeting from another research facility across town. He stopped by my office looking for another research chemist. I was wowed by his blonde hair and green eyes. A few days later he asked me out and we went to the Spindletop Restaurant, which is revolving dining room at the top of the downtown Hyatt Regency. Gorgeous views above the city and very romantic.

I excused myself to go to the ladies' room, and when I walked back out into the dining room I couldn't find him or our table. I forgot that the entire room was revolving, and he had "revolved" to the other side of the building. I thought he had ditched me and left. ;) That was in 1986 and we married in 1987.
 
C'est Moi said:
We both worked for a mega-corporation, and he came to a meeting from another research facility across town. He stopped by my office looking for another research chemist. I was wowed by his blonde hair and green eyes. A few days later he asked me out and we went to the Spindletop Restaurant, which is revolving dining room at the top of the downtown Hyatt Regency. Gorgeous views above the city and very romantic.

I excused myself to go to the ladies' room, and when I walked back out into the dining room I couldn't find him or our table. I forgot that the entire room was revolving, and he had "revolved" to the other side of the building. I thought he had ditched me and left. ;) That was in 1986 and we married in 1987.
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Hahaha...I laughed out loud at that!!!:rofl:
 
I was living in a huge Apartment complex with 5 buildings, had long brown straight hair, and drove a white convertible Triumph sports car with a bumper sticker that said "Think Snow". I wasn't much of a skier but the bumper sticker was on there when I bought the car (trust me, these are important details lol).

My not-yet-husband lived in the building next to me, had a sister the same age and size as me with the same long brown straight hair....and driving the exact same convertible Triumph I drove and even the same color!!! When he saw me pull into the parking lot he took a double-take thinking I was his sister and then noticed "I was a skier" (cough cough) due to the "Think Snow" bumper sticker. He was a good skier himself.

He followed me until I parked, came over to my car, and offered to carry my groceries up to the 14th floor. I said no thank you. He asked what I was doing that night and I said making dinner for my friends. He gave me his number and said to call him sometime if I ever need him to carry my groceries upstairs lol.

Shortly after I got upstairs, I thought I should have been more friendly so I called him to ask him to join us for dinner (plus he was cute and a gentleman and my friends could chaperone). But a woman my age answered the phone and said he wasn't there. I thought, "that creep, cheating on his wife like that". Shortly after I hung up he called me back and told me that was his sister. I said "uh huh". He explained why he was using her apartment while he transitioned from their home state. I said hmmm. He finally convinced me and he came to the casual dinner party.

We played a lot of tennis and hiked a lot but eventually he asked me to go with him to a ski resort in Canada for a week...eek! Luckily, he arranged for both of us to have ski lessons everyday. We were grouped according to our level of expertise so we were obviously in different groups but by the end of the week I was pretty darn good if I don't say so myself!

We were married for 12 years and is was wonderful. We were soulmates.
 
I met my Hubby when I was 15yrs old. A school friend of mine invited me to go out with her and her friends. I was mad at my boyfriend so I took her up on her offer. When I got to her house a group of her friends were there and I fell instantly in love with one of the boys. We started dating that day and now we have celebrated 52 yrs of marriage.
 

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