How did you meet your spouse.

[drssg]

Met my wife on Match.com back in 2003 when it was a novelty. Maybe it still is, but at the time it was very embarrassing. We came up with a story about meeting at the gym so that we seemed somewhat legitimate.

She had an add stating that she was Chewbacca. I had to look. Took the chance and asked for a date based upon three grainy, dark photos. She was not at all Chewbacca, but cool, funny and cute. Married in 2009 and definitely my best friend and even better enemy. That woman drives me absolutely nuts. But when she's away, even for a day, I'm miserable.

Wow, you are a brave man! I don't think I would go out with a woman based on an on-line profile claiming to be Chewbacca. I'm glad it worked out!

 

[RalphVa]

Our daughter and SIL met online. He'd been married 2 times already. Seems to be working. Think it's now 4 or 5 years.

 

[kenmbz]

Work office party, then at a Christmas party a few months later and asked her to dance.
Together over 20 years. But hitting some rough times.

 

[SouthernSky]

In a Tax class at Louisiana College in the 80s. I was in the USAF and taking some classes before hoping to finish up 8 years and move back home to Chicago. She was studying accounting and I was studying girls.

Went on a date. She cost me exactly $1 that evening for a Coke. Things were looking real good for this poor man.

Less than a year later, I was asking her dad for permission. He said you have to promise me three things.
1) Never hit her. (I promised)
2) if you ever split up you need to make sure she gets home. (I promised)
3) you can never take her away from here. (I couldn’t promise that).

He said, “Well, 2 out if 3 isn’t bad. Okay.”

33 years later and I’m still stuck in the swamps. Apparently if we moved I’d have to take all 400 of her relatives with us.

She asked me if I had any regrets. I thought yes but said no. I told her she made a pretty good choice for my first wife.

 

[oosik]

So many great relationships ending in long marriages. Makes me happy to read all your stories. You guys/gals are the best.

 

[lman]

Met mine in jail. It's not how it sounds. She was working there and I was booking in a customer.

 

[workinonit]

I stepped on her shoe...and her foot was in it.

 

[Bird]

SouthernSky said, "Went on a date. She cost me exactly $1 that evening for a Coke. Things were looking real good for this poor man."

Cokes cost less than that when we started dating, but this does remind me of the fact that my wife spilled a coke in my very clean car on our first date. So I had a mess to clean up.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

In College, friends family invited me to go to the beach with them. We met a couple girls and hung out. I got address and we wrote some. I lived in OH, she was in DE. Couple years later I graduated and took a job in MD, about 2 hrs from her, and I started seeing her.

One Friday after work my best friend from HS calls me from VA, he was married and had just moved there and was staying in basement of a preacher friend (who I also knew from OH). He invited me down. At church this pretty young girl kept eyeing me. Afterwards there was a church picnic, and we met. We went out that afternoon, and I never saw the girl from DE again.
Got married in the church of Christ building where we first saw each other, and been married 34 yrs.

 

[grsthegreat]

Today’s my 28th annivarsary. We were going to go out to eat, but we went out 3 times this week. Decided to stay in and eat. I’m smoking 3 racks of ribs, some corn on the cob, baked beans. Not too fancy, but oh so tasty.