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Old 01-26-2007, 02:18 PM
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Whats your love story?

My mom and DH's mom were best friends in high school. DH parents lived and worked at a Christian Ranch. Summer before my Senior year in HS, my Mom sent me out there to work, she said I had a friend in HS that has a son your age, you should look him up. I went to the Ranch, was miserable there, it was in MD, I lived in AZ. I had seen DH, but he had a girlfriend at the time, so I stayed away. They broke up (he told me later, he was actually interested in someone else, thats why they broke up and then he met me ) and within a couple of days, him and I were talking, started dating, I went back to AZ and he went to college in VA. We kept in touch, I saw him at Christmas and we've been together ever since! We were married in 1999 when we were 20. Our Moms saw each other for the first time in 20 years when he took me to Prom. Were were featured with his family in the Ranch newsletter that explained our story, we can't wait until our kids can go to the camp there.

So..whats your story, love at first sight? High school sweethearts?
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Old 01-26-2007, 03:07 PM
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He saw sucker written on my forehead and I fell for it.... He saw the same sign that my ex husband saw...
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Old 01-26-2007, 03:08 PM
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I got offered two jobs on the same day. Took job #1...no real reason. I met DH there. He was a shy nerd who wore shorts with 2 feet of snow on the ground and I had all the single guys hitting on me but I really didn't want a relationship. I just wanted to date. This one dorky guy told DH to ask me out. So he sent me and email about 2 weeks later (it took that long to get the nerve). We went out on our first date and we literally got kicked out the restaurant. We didn't realize they were closing. We talked all night! We went out every night for a week and I KNEW I was going to marry him. 3 months later he proposed and once we were married, the guy who told him to ask me out left the company. It was like he was there just to get us together! It's been 10 wonderful years and 2 most-of-the-time wonderful kids
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Old 01-26-2007, 03:10 PM
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He saw sucker written on my forehead and I fell for it.... He saw the same sign that my ex husband saw...

MINE TOO!!!! WOW!!!
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Old 01-26-2007, 03:34 PM
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Old 01-26-2007, 03:36 PM
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I was working at a Wendy's inside a mall and my DH used to be a regular. I would see him coming and take my break with him. We were great friends. We were both dating other people and neither really thought of the other as dating material. Then, he changed his mind and asked me out several times and he just was not my "type" to date.

I started dating a guy I worked with who proceded to dump me, very badly. He was a complete jerk about it and acted like he thought he was the best the thing that ever happened to me. He told me one afternoon that I was not over him and he knew I still wanted him especially since I had not dated since he dumped me (which had been just a few days before). My DH walks in, having no idea this guy had just said this and asked me out again. I said yes..ONLY because I wanted to show this jerk that I had moved on. DH and I went out that night and then talked until 3 AM. I KNEW that night that I was going to marry him. We got married a year and a half later and have been married for 18 years.

Thanks for starting this thread I love hearing couple's meeting stories!
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Old 01-26-2007, 04:02 PM
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I had broken up with my long term boyfriend on Wednesday night, and finally by Saturday night, I was ready to eat something. It was 9:30PM, so I pulled on sweats, washed my face, and ran to the corner grocery store. I was standing in the cereal aisle trying to decide which cereal would provide the MOST sugar buzz- when a guy standing next to me said hi. I said hi back, but very flippantly. He said " Glad I am not the only one eating cereal for dinner on a Saturday night." I chuckled, and continued looking... he would not let up, and started making small talk about cereal, and the town we lived in. I still had not said more than " mmhmm and yeah" and he flat out said " If you are available, how about NEXT Saturday night you eat dinner with me, instead of with Tony the Tiger." I reluctantly agreed, because he scared me.

I gave him my e-mail address, I had never been picked up in a grocery store before. Especially with NO make-up and after I had just spent 3 days crying.

Well, he emailed me on Sunday morning, and apologized for being so forward, but that he would really like to take me for dinner. We emailed for a week, and went to a movie and dinner on Saturday night. When I got home from our date, I called my friend, Karyn and said " Do you have a pen and paper?" she said
" Yes, why?" I said.." Write this down. I am going to marry him." She told me I was crazy, it was a date. I insisted..I said " Write it down, and put the date." - 8/6/98. She said " Ok! fine! I wrote it down."

We were married in June of 2000. In the card that Karyn gave us for our wedding was a Hello Kitty sticky note.. it said " Cici is going to marry Joey" it was dated Aug. 6, 1998. We have that sticky note framed with a copy of our wedding invitation.

It's been almost 7 years, and 2 beautiful babies since.
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Old 01-26-2007, 04:16 PM
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my husband was my boyfriends roomate. i moved in with my boyfriend, and his roomate and I booted him out after not paying the bills..hehe... 5 years of marriage and 2 kids later.. that was the best choice I could of made!
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Old 01-26-2007, 04:33 PM
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Ah-h-h I love reading your stories!

I met my husband at work. He saved me from a guy I was dating who thought he was going to marry me...this guy had asked my Dad if he could marry me, sounds nice huh? Well, he forgot to run it by me first. He'd bought me a ring and everything, only problem was I really wasn't interested in him for forever. After my Dad let me know what had happened, I dropped him cold...I was young, so definitely not in the smoothest way possible.

My now hubbie got hired about a month before all of this happened, we'd been chatting casually, had lunch a bunch of times. He invited me out for ice cream and gave me a dozen yellow roses thanking me for our friendship. I called my now hubbie and told him what had happened, he asked me out formally for the first time...we started dating the day after Christmas, got engaged the the next Christmas Eve and got married ten months after that...14 years, 4 kids and many more dozens of roses ago.
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Old 01-26-2007, 05:11 PM
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My best friend set me up on a blind date with her boyfriend's best friend. I was 16 years old, he was 18 years old. The night we met, I had just had a mole removed from my nose and had a huge round bandaid on it. We dated for 2 years and then went to different colleges. He joined the Army and I stayed in school. We both dated lots of other people. He came back into my life when I was 25 years old, but he was a hooah Ranger and just didn't fit into my corporate world. We dated a few weeks and that was it. We dated other people. Then when I was 30 years old and dating someone else, he called me up when he was home on leave. We went out to dinner and every night he was home on leave. The day before he left, we decided we should get married. He flew back overseas, called to let me know he could return in 6 weeks to get married and we did just that. That was 13 years ago and both of our best friends (who had already married each other) from our teenage days who set us up were in the wedding.
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Old 01-26-2007, 05:16 PM
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I met my Husband in a bar me & my best friend went to a hockey game that night probably looking for a man I have no idea well I was laughing saying I would be single forever well after that we went back to my house checked on my dad & went out to the bar right after we went to a bar to see my ex BF from along long time ago I had ran into again & he told me he worked in this bar so we stopped in it to see him well the first guy to talk to me that night was my DH from the time he introduced himself I knew I was gonna marry him. And before that I was pretty sure I was destined to be SINGLE FOREVER!!!
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Old 01-26-2007, 05:22 PM
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We were both in college and met at a bus stop. We had mutual friends, but had never met each other. One of my good friends had a huge crush on him and I was trying to set her up with him. He resisted and resisted and finally told another friend that he liked me. After a while I realized he wasn't interested in my friend, so we went out. We dated for almost 4 years and have been married 17 years. We have 2 beautiful daughters.

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Old 01-26-2007, 05:51 PM
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Let go back to March of 1990. My sister is 8 years younger than me and from the time I graduated on I always waited for the bus to drop her off in the afternoon. For about 2 weeks she kept coming home telling me George and Martin (boys on the bus) were telling her to tell me to call their uncle. I had no idea who in the heck there uncle even was so I kept blowing them all off. Finally one day George hung out the bus window asking me to come down to their house to met his uncle, I told him to tell him to come down to my house if he wanted to meet me. On a side note George ended up in trouble for hanging out and yelling out of the window. Anyways, I didn't figure he would come.

Sure enough just long enough for the bus to get to their house and drop them off they were right back to my house. Come to find out Martin had a crush on me. So they cooked up if Steve and I dated he could see me more often. We met and talked for a few minutes and decided to spend the next day together.

He was only in visiting at the time. I was spending my year after graduation "relaxing" before starting college the next year.

Sure enough we spent the next day together. Had the time of our lives!! We spent pretty much every waking minute together. We dated from March til July 28 which is the day we married. That's right we only knew each other a little over 4 1/2 months. (We were going to be married in May but I chickened out at the last minute.) He only went back to his home (remember he was vacationing) to quit his job and get his things. That was 16 1/2 years ago and 2 kids ago. I wouldn't change a thing for anything in the world.
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Old 01-26-2007, 06:46 PM
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I met my DH in a dance club/bar in 1999. He was so quiet and shy and 5 years younger than me and I of course was very forward and he later told me that he told his friends that "That girl's crazy" LOL I was very persistent and would not give up trying to get him to talk to me and even though I hated that club I kept going every weekend just hoping to see him. He finally asked for my number and we started hanging out as friends and about three months later I went to watch him race his dirt bike and he all of a sudden came up behind me and put his arms around me and I realized then that I really really liked this guy. We dated on and off for about a year and a half until we decided we needed a break so we split in May 2001. The whole time we were apart I was miserable so finally in January 2002 I got up the nerve just to call and say "Hi". Well it was my lucky day because he was actually home and we talked for a long time and he said he would call me some other time. I never expected him to call again but he called me the very next day and we went out that weekend and have been inseperable since. We got engaged in December 2003 and married July 2004. He's the best thing that ever happened to me and I wouldn't trade him for anything even though he did think I was "Crazy" to start with.
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Old 01-26-2007, 09:28 PM
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we ment on a blind date (the only one I ever agreed to) I was 16 he was 19, 3 months and one day later we got married and this april we will be married 39 years! He is and always will be the love of my life and my best friend! heck we just enjoy each other! he even wants to go shopping with me just so we can be together!
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Old 01-26-2007, 09:39 PM
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Our grandparents worked for the same company, so we first met when I was about 8-9 and he was 9-10 at a 4th of July party. I thought he was a jerk because he kept throwing fireworks towards me and scaring me.

Fast forward to middle school (not remembering we had met before) and I kept seeing him at school and thinking he was the cutest thing ever (and he didn't know I was alive).

Then my freshman year of HS, my best friend at the time, and his best friend at the time were brother and sister, so we hung out together all the time.

A year later, we had both gotten out of long term puppy love type relationships, and we became really good friends. I started teasing him about us dating and going to prom together (he was soooooo shy then). We started dating 10 years ago next month. When he joined the ARMY people said we would never last. We got married two weeks after I graduated HS, and that was 8 years ago this summer.

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Old 01-26-2007, 09:50 PM
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Believe it or not, after a terrible break up in the spring of 1992, I came home from college for the summer and placed a personal ad. I was working 2 jobs (neither with a chance to met any eligible men). I had 1 bad date and 2 nice ones. I had to pick between the 2 and I picked the one that was "easier to talk to". It really was tough! Both guys were super, sweet and had nice jobs. Both were a little older, focused on their futures and had great morals. In the end I picked my now DH. We were engaged about 3 months later and married a year later.

We have been married almost 14 years, but separated a few times. Several times it was because of communiction issues, ironically enough!
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Old 01-26-2007, 11:07 PM
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We met in a high school English class. He sat next to me and couldn't spell and I could
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Old 01-26-2007, 11:23 PM
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Our parents were friends growing up and he came to our house once. I was too shy to come out of my room and so he never met me!

UNTIL..............

Years later, we had both finished with college and were back in our home town with new jobs. I was teaching First Grade and mentioned to his mother that I wished that I could play the guitar since it was a small school and I had to teach Music to my students. She told her son that I wanted guitar lessons. So, he called me and asked me when I wanted to start. It was a set-up!

Anyway, I took lessons for about two weeks and could play the "Alphabet Song" and was DONE with that! B


But, we got along so well and really enjoyed each other's company and it blossomed from there.

We dated for two years and have been married for 17. Wow! He's my best friend and never waivers in his love for me. I feel very blessed that we get along so well and still truly enjoy being together after all of these years.

Someone mentioned shorts up above... At my first guitar lesson, he was wearing these 80's teensy-tiny jersey shorts that left for little for the imagination! Yikes. That really threw shy little ol' me for a loop but I managed to get past it... Although I still tease him about it!
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Old 01-27-2007, 04:00 AM
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My best firend and BIL brought us together. My best friend is in AA and we went to a New Years Eve party and it was very boring since we were the youngest ones there. Someone suggested another AA Party to go to since there were younger people there. I swear, if you didn't know it was and AA party you would've thought everyone was drunk. Well.....the Dh was there since his brother went to AA also. I'm very shy when it comes to people (since I've always been overweight) and he came right over and said "I give very good back rubs" and then asked me to dance. We did exchange numbers, but didn't think nothing of it. He did call and we dated for a bit (this was in 1986). We lost touch because he just got out of a bad relationship. I didn't know where he moved too so I looked up his name in the phone book and sent him a card and a few days later he showed up on my parents doorstep and he hasn't left since! LOL This was in September 1988. He proposed on December 10 that year (which is also my b-day). We've been married since 1993. Sometimes I'd like to kill him but he is a sweetheart (at times LOL)
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Old 01-27-2007, 08:33 AM
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I met my hubby when I was 16 and he was 17. We dated for about 3 months and then he broke it off with me. It was the first time that my heart was actually broke. About 7 months later I met someone else and we hit it off really well. I was engaged within a year. Right after the engagement my hubby, ex boyfriend at the time, started calling me again, telling me what a mistake he made.

Well, not long after that I broke off my engagement and married my husband. At the wedding, everyone was SO worried that the guy who I had broken up with was going to show up just at the part where they ask for anyone to say why you shouldnt get married. It seems so strange when I write it all down but after all this time I feel like I made the right choice. We got married when I was 18 and he was 19. We have been married for 16 years.


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We ride the same bus to work and we got off at the same spot. He would walk me part way and then watch to make sure I was ok (alone at my stop) until the bus came. He asked me for my phone number, we talked, hit it off and been together since (nearly 2 years). I had been hurt and was not looking for anyone but he is so sweet, caring and trys to take care of me (I'm sutbborn and don't always let him) and he wormed his way in my heart.
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Old 01-29-2007, 03:09 PM
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DH and I met in 1993 in an Anthropology class in college. (We both ended up having to re-take that class -we had better things to do than sit in lecture hall!!) He "rescued" me from the cheating loser I'd been dating for 4 years. Hubby worked in a snooty french restaurant that paid really well so he'd always take me out for fancy dinners, was really up on all the nice wines, etc. He was also President of his fraternity and we were always doing social things with his friends and their girlfriends. Most of my closest girlfriends to this day are married to his fraternity bros.

Anyhow, despite all the wining and dining, parties and trips, I fell in love with him for the "little things" - just the sweet, thoughtful things he'd do. He treated me like a queen and still does. Whenever I call him on the phone he answers with "Hello, my queen."

He proposed to me on Christmas Eve, 1996 and we were married the following July. Our 10 year anniv. is this July and I love him as much as I ever did. We've only had one rough patch and that was after the birth of our first child. It was a HUGE adjustment for both of us. Now, 2 more kids later, we're very "adjusted".

I could go on and on about how wonderful he is and how much I love him, but maybe I'll just save it and write a nice epic for him for Valentine's Day.
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Old 01-29-2007, 03:25 PM
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I met hubby in high school. I sat a table w/some girls and he sat at a table w/a bunch of guys. They threw peas at us and we started talking and hanging out w/them every day (just me and my best friend). I had study hall with him and his friends. He would ALWAYS come down to my seat and pester me. Every study hall. I had to go to the library to get away from him. I was NOT interested in him in HS, he wasn't my "type."

I got married to someone else and was separated when I called my now hubby up out of the blue. That was the weekend after Thanksgiving in 1994. We've been together since. He adopted my oldest when she was 5 and we went on to have two of our own together. No one thought it would last. We've been married since 9/6/96. I love him more today than I did the day I married him. I couldn't ask for a better husband or father to my kids.
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Old 02-02-2007, 08:58 PM
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I moved in across the road from my husband when I was 9. He was a grade ahead of me but we rode the school bus together, went to church together, and played in the backyard together. In high school we were best friends and went everywhere together until we realized that we loved each other. We dated for about 7 years before we were married (we started dating when I was almost 16) and have now been married for 7 1/2 years. He is still my best friend.
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I met DH and his roommate at a bar when I was 18 (yes, fake ID!), and he was 22. His roommate kept asking me to dance and I kept turning him down. They were military officers and I grew up a military brat and wasn't having ANYTHING to do w/ "those" men. Well, his roommate was so persistant and finally I said, "If I dance w/ you, will you leave me alone?" Yes, apparently I thought I was hot sh*t....Well, DH was just standing there and I told him to ask my friend to dance. Well, the four of us went out on the dance floor and just tore it up-just having fun and being goofy and dancing our hearts out. They asked if they could buy us a drink and we ended up chatting away all night and just having the best time. So, the roommate and I kept in touch and went out on a few very casual dates-just a bit of kissing, that's all. DH went out w/ my friend a couple of times, but she was kind of snooty and that didn't last too long. So.....every time I would call to talk to the roommate, DH would answer the phone and we would talk and talk and talk. Well, roommate got deployed and one day I called to ask where I could send a letter, and DH and I stayed on the phone for a couple of hours. We went out a few days later and realized it was a match, but were both really torn what to do about the roommate. This was before the days of email, so we each wrote him a letter and explained the situation and asked for his blessing. He was a bit of a playboy, and it would have never amounted to anything serious, so he replied that he thought it was great. Anyway, DH and I were pretty inseparable after that-we dated two years then got married. Funny thing was, a few years later, when I was REALLY pregnant and couldn't sleep well at night, I would watch that show Love Connection. One night when watching, the roommate was on the show! Too funny. From what we have heard, he is still single. DH and I have been married for 17 yrs. Oh, and I should add-DH did date the roommate's sister for a bit too. Boy, we just sound like a bunch of circus freaks huh????????
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Old 02-02-2007, 11:44 PM
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I met my future DH when I was 20 years old. He played rugby with my brother and was built like a brick Sh/t house. We were all at a bar one night celebrating their win and he got a nosebleed. I stuck a wet smelly bar rag in his face and I guess he fell in love with me. Man, talk about a gyp of a story.
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i met my BF on Yahoo personals. I had posted a profile but with no picture, so the responses were few and far between ( I guess I wasn't really ready to make the leap!) I looked through the personals and saved a profile of a guy the first day but never emailed him or anything. I just kept looking at his profile for a couple of months trying to get the courage up to talk to him. One day I had an email from him and couldn't believe it. We emailed a couple of times and talked on the phone and I emailed a picture, then finally decided to meet. We got along great, the unfortunate thing was the day we started talking to each other was the day I found out my Dad had cancer. I was pretty involved with family matters so I didn't really have alot of time to be with him. He stuck by me through the entire ordeal including the funeral which sadly was only 4 months later. He met my entire Italian family and my college age kids at the worst possible time of our lives and fit in perfectly. We have been together ever since 1 1/2 years!!! Sometimes I think I should submit our story to Yahoo, because it was a perfect fit that never would have happened if I didn't see him online. He only lives a few miles away and we never even saw each other before!!
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Old 02-03-2007, 11:40 AM
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I went to visit my cousin and she kept telling me about this guy who was so hot, etc...
We had a party that night and all the guys her boyfriend ( now hubby ) worked with came, along with "hot-boy"...lol. Talked to him a bit but really liked the look of his room-mate!
Ended up at a club the next night and all of the crowd seemed to show up too, room-mate included. We sat and talked all night since we both had decided not to drink after the party the night before! We hung out for my entire vacation and made lots of plans to visti/call/etc after I went home. ( I knew I was in love with him within a week, even though I tried to talk myself out of it....lol)
before that could happen he got shipped out an a slow boat to Saudi Arabia! we had been writing and calling almost daily and now I could not get anything! It was a month before I got a bundle of letters! I had been writing and hoping for the best but I was about to tackle the mailman and write DH a serious &*^% you letter....lol.
We continued to write shoeboxes full of letters and had the occasional collect calls at 3am when he could get to a phone! He came home 8˝ months later but I didn't believe he was coming that day since it was April Fools day...lol My first meeting of my future MIL and SIL was when they picked me up to go meet him.
We were engaged by mid May and married in July one year to the day we met!
We will be married 16 years this July!
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My now DH was a widower and put a prayer request in our church email "to find a Christian home which would babysit his 2 DDs". I was divorced with 2 DDs and figured it would be easy to babysit his 2 DDs since they were my girl's ages! I had no interest in dating anyone when I first met him.....but God had other plans for us! We dated for almost 2 years and here we are married for 1 1/2 years now! Life sure is different going from being a single mom of 2 DDs to being married and having 4 DDs!!
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11 years ago my now DH and I were both working at the local McD's. I was married with 2 DD's and had gone back to McD's to work parttime while I was trying to finish my Accounting degree. (got sidetracked with the kiddos) I was working on the front counters with my now DH, but at that time I did not even pay any special attention to him...I knew he was a hard worker but he is alot younger than I am (6 yrs) and I never gave any thought to him...
Anyway I was working with him and others during a busy time after a ballgame and a frequent customer was conversing with nowDH and I heard him mention something like "How about her!?..." something about going out on a date with someone...I said "Sorry, I am married." and the customer said "Yes, but are you HAPPILY married?" He was just joking around and meant nothing by it at all - he was always in the store goofing with the employees...But all of a sudden I felt like someone had stabbed me in the stomach with a sharp knife...those words echoed in my head over and over. At the time it had nothing to do with my now-DH as I didn't even really know him - that was just coincidence that he was the one the customer was talking to, but I knew that to answer that question honestly I had to say something I had not even admitted to myself yet - NO! I was (looking back now I can see) in a horrible relationship and was severly depressed. This moment - strange, chance moment - was what set me off on a better path to a better life. I got a divorce. Finished college. Got remarried to my DH. Got pregnant and had our wonderful DS. We worked hard together to pay off all the leftover debt that my ex-husband had racked up in my name. Bought a house suitable for a family of 5. Finally got a job that I love right in my small hometown. Don't get me wrong, times are tight and money is scarce but I have everything I ever needed now so I am so thankful for it all.

The other ironic thing about me & DH is an incident that happened even further back in our lives...I mentioned that I am 6 years older than he (and he never lets me forget it, lol) so around the time I was 18 and he was 12 (oh! that sounds so weird) I had a minor fender bender at one of the 3 redlights in our small town. I had rearended an "Old woman and her little boy"...as I was telling this story to my DH a longgggg time after we had been together we both realized that it was his mother & him that had been in that car in front of me! She was white haired even then as she was 40 when she gave birth to DH. She always got mad because everyone thinks she is DH's Grandmother instead...) I told him that it was that attraction to him that must have caused the accident even though we were both too young to know it.
We all laughed over that once we discovered it. And now the age difference doesn't seem to make as much difference...we plan to grow old together, I just have a head start.
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Dh and I met thru Jerry the embezzler.

It was November 1993 and I was going to start doing my company's payroll and A/P. This guy (Jerry) came in and was going to set me up with a computer and software and train me. After a month or so he told me he had this friend who was my age and single and thought I'd be perfect for him. I told him thanks, but no...I was dating someone already (even tho it wasn't the best relationship...I had hoped it would work out) and wasn't really interested. Fast forward to Feb 14, 1994....I had broken up with my boyfriend over New Years (he wasn't going to take me out anywhere and was pissed that I'd go out without him....went with a guy from the garage below my apartment.....that's another story altogether! LOL) and told Jerry that I was ready to have him introduce me to his friend..if he was still single. Yep he was so he told him that I was interested and to call me. Little did I know the day before he called me (at work) he stopped in to see me at work. So the day he called, I was doing that day's deposit and we talked for awhile. (I had to count the deposit 5 times cause I was so worked up! ) We made a date for that Friday night at a local bar, he'd meet me there. Well, I got there first but had NO clue whom I was looking for! A few creepy guys were looking and smiling at me....God forbid any one of them came up to me (I was praying none of them were my date!)....luckily he came in at that moment and came right over to me. Wow...talk about love/lust at first sight! He was so tall, dark hair and eyes, dimples......a super cutie. So we talked for hours, then he asked if I wanted to go for a ride in his truck. Ummm, yes! He took me to a park by the lake. He wanted to check out how frozen the lake was so I sat in the truck (I wasn't going to freeze!) while he walked out a ways on the lake. Came back to the truck where we made out for a LONG time and then he took me back to the bar to get my car. I knew he was the one just from that night. After that we were inseperable. After about a year or so, I moved in with him and then a year after that we got engaged, and got married in June 1997. That's when we found out Jerry had embezzled thousands of dollars from his computer company (he and another guy started it) and left town. He's back in town now, we see him once in a while. We always laugh when we say that we got together cause of an embezzler....LOL

This June we'll celebrate our 10 year anniversary and we get to open our wedding time capsule. It'll be a special and tearful time for dh especially cause there is a letter from his mom in the time capsule and she passed away in 1999. And we have 2 beautiful dd's, who are pretty good most of the time!
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