How did you meet your spouse.

[tradosaurus]

When I was about 14 or 15 years old, I remember going to my dad's uncle and aunt's 50th anniversary celebration. About 5 or 6 years later, they divorced.

My brother who has been married almost 50 yes told his short obese obnoxious wife to go live somewhere else. I've know her for forty years and I don't know how he made it this long.

By the way he still considers himself married to her.

 

[fried1765]

We both met on vacation at the ocean. You could say I caught the best catch of my life! It'll be 30 yrs May 11th! And yes, where has the time gone!

You are fortunate!
Not all ocean catches are keepers!
Also at the ocean, I caught what I always thought was a keeper, but after 34 years, she swam away to be with a fishy friend of mine.
I live by the ocean, but I am now too frightened to fish!
I nearly got dragged under by that fish!

 

[tradosaurus]

You are fortunate!
Not all ocean catches are keepers!
Also at the ocean, I caught what I always thought was a keeper, but after 34 years, she swam away to be with a fishy friend of mine.
I live by the ocean, but I am now too frightened to fish!
I nearly got dragged under by that fish!

Sorry to hear about that. Good chance she's going to wish she never did jump ship.

If my wife ever did that she would never be welcome back. And if any of my kids supported her I wouldn't have anything to do with them either.

Had a friend whose 82 yo mother divorced his father while he was in the hospital with cancer (sometime in 2006). He never talked to her again and she died about 10 yrs ago.

 

[Oaktree]

If my wife ever did that she would never be welcome back. And if any of my kids supported her I wouldn't have anything to do with them either.

I get not wanting anything to do with a spouse that ran off, but to disown one of your kids because they chose to remain close to their mother is beyond petty.

 

[fried1765]

Sorry to hear about that. Good chance she's going to wish she never did jump ship.

If my wife ever did that she would never be welcome back. And if any of my kids supported her I wouldn't have anything to do with them either.

Had a friend whose 82 yo mother divorced his father while he was in the hospital with cancer (sometime in 2006). He never talked to her again and she died about 10 yrs ago.

Your comment is particularly interesting to me.
After my Ex dumped me for her boyfriend, (my good friend) she then dumped him, and wanted to come back.
I flatly refused!
Two years later she married a different guy, who had divorced his wife while she was dying of Cancer.
I am very pleased that they found each other.
My three adult children detest the guy, and the stories they tell me just make me smile.

 

[tradosaurus]

I get not wanting anything to do with a spouse that ran off, but to disown one of your kids because they chose to remain close to their mother is beyond petty.

If my wife ran off with another dude and my kids supported it I would have no problem tell them to their face that they can go pound sand along with their mother. The reason why divorces are so prevalent is that very few people treat it like a stigma.

My wife and I took a solemn vow to remain married until death do us part. I could live with my wife having an one time affair as long as she realized she was wrong.

 

[tradosaurus]

Your comment is particularly interesting to me.
After my Ex dumped me for her boyfriend, (my good friend) she then dumped him, and wanted to come back.
I flatly refused!
Two years later she married a different guy, who had divorced his wife while she was dying of Cancer.
I am very pleased that they found each other.
My three adult children detest the guy, and the stories they tell me just make me smile.

Hopefully your kids detest their mother too.

 

[fried1765]

Hopefully your kids detest their mother too.

No my children don't.
They know what she is, but she is still their mother, and was a good mother to them.
I am sorta Ok with that.

I have been known to refer to her as the wretched ****, (there were 8 total guys) but I never use that description in the presence of my children.
Remember: You can pick your nose...but you cannot pick your mother.

 

[MossRoad]

All right folks. This was a pretty light hearted thread about how you met your spouse, not how you broke up. How about we go back to the light hearted fork in the road?

 

[Big Barn]

Remember: You can pick your nose...but you cannot pick your mother.

Nice adaptation but for those that care, I do believe the CORRECT version is “ you can pick your nose , but you can’t pick your mother’s nose.”

Sorry Moss, back on track. I met my wife at her staff Christmas party.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Was interesting tangent.

 

[newbury]

Thanks Moss.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

I dated my wife in college 24 years ago. I was 4 months from graduating when we met. We dated and I stuck around for a couple months after graduation but the whole world was ahead of me and I had a plan, I left. She had 2 more years of school left, and was on a soccer scholarship, so she wasn't about to mess that up for me. I moved 8 hours away and we tried to make it work but that was before email and cell phones, the distance was too much. That was 1998.

Fast forward to about 2005 when Facebook came around, we got back in touch and stayed in touch. We would cross paths every couple of months or years and shoot the $h!t. In the meantime she got married to an awful human being and had a kid. That ended badly.

In January 2018 I had the most vidid dream of my life, it was about her. I had not talked to her in a couple years. I immediately messaged her and we started talking. She had been living in Brooklyn, NY for the last 16 years at the time and was ready to get out. She came to visit and I asked her to move down to the country to live with me. That was in January, by June 2018 her and her 6 year old son were living with me. We just got married in March.

 

[ArlyA]

On a charity bike ride many, many moons ago.

 

[ronjhall]

My brother and this girl skipped school and came to our house for lunch. I was working afternoons at the time. The 3 of us enjoyed the afternoon just talking. About 2 weeks later my best friends sister gave me this girls phone number. I did not remember her name. Her name was Betty. Wanted me to take her to the prom. I did. Her We got married a year later. She passed in 2019. We had 57 years of good life.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Nice Ron!!

 

[Dftodd]

I got my wife online Or she got me online Depends on which one of us you ask

We are actually an online dating success story.

I had just moved to a new state and didn't like the idea of finding love at the bar. It was my experience that it was usually the only thing you had in common with the other person.