Silly Question of the Day 3/15/02 About This Page:

[SarahJ]

Dh and I met at a Valentine's day bachelor/bachelorette auction to benefit the Make a Wish Foundation. A local bar here in Seattle hosts it every year. I was in a bidding war for another guy and DH was helping the MC by encouraging me to bid higher until I won the bid for some outrageous price (hey, it was charity). Anyway, a little later DH walked by me and kind of laughed saying I was stupid for bidding so much on such a jerk.

Well, DH ended up being right about that guy but what did happen was that I started socializing with a group of people that DH also hung out with. A year later, DH finally asked me out on our first date. We moved in together after 6 months, got engaged after 10 months and married a year after he asked me.

What's great is that we still attend that auction every year, although they no longer auction off bachelors and bachelorettes. Also, the band that played the night of the auction, and every auction since, was the band that played at our wedding. They're very good friends of ours now.

[patty c.]

I was hoping you wouldn't ask that. (I suppose I don't have to answer, do I?) Ok, here goes. I met DH at a party. We were both playing a drinking board game and I ended up owing the person on my right 3 articles of clothing beginning with the letter "S". DH was the person on my right. This may not be totally shocking to anyone here, but now that DH is ordained and we both do a good share of speaking/teaching on Biblical topics, most people are shocked to hear of our beginnings. Suffice it to say, God's done quite a work in both of us. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[sammycat699]

Not much to tell. Our parents had known each other for years. We would run into each other sometimes. He finally started calling my house. Of course I was never home. My mother made me stay home one day just in case he called again. He did. That was in the winter of 1974. We were married in Oct. 1975.

[Cinderella_68]

Patsy-c what a wonderful story!

One day in late February 1995, sometime after the divorce and after swearing off men, a friend of mine got a Thursday night off from work and told me to be ready, she was picking me up to go to this country-western dance club we'd been wanting to go to. Interestingly enough, I had just gotten back from a Bible study class, and was SO not in the mood! But I knew my friend, and she was not going to give up.
Towards midnight, I was very tired, and past ready to go home. She kept saying, "one more cigarette." Well, we are at the last table before the door, and these two men ask us to dance. Yeah, okay, whatever, I just want to go home.
Needless to say, we closed down the club, as Jim and I danced and talked all night until they kicked us out. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] At the end of the evening, I was SO impressed, and a little bit disappointed [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] , that he didn't try to kiss me goodnight. There was something about this man that I couldn't shake.
I didn't hear from him again for two weeks, even though he had my number. Turns out he was out to sea, but he did finally call, and I met him again at the club, and we played pool and danced and talked some more.
Three months later, we were together whenever possible, and he was given the privilege of being introduced to my daughter.
He asked us to marry him that Christmas, although he'd been saying things like "when we get married..." since before Thanksgiving.
I kept telling him that I wasn't ready to get married again, but he persisted. He finally won me over with the absolute support and understanding he showed during one of DD's operations and a nasty custody battle between my ex and me, in which my ex abducted DD. (scary times.)
I finally relented [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] on Oct 3, 1996, and we were married on Oct 6. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] God couldn't have sent me a more wonderful mate and father to our children. Jim's support and understanding have never waned, and only seem to get stronger, along with his love for me and our family. I am very proud of him. I thank God that He sent Jim to us, and that we are living the happily ever after...

[rescuesk]

This is such a cool topic!

Steve and I met in 1985, when we were both married to other people. He was my instructor in my very first Advanced First Aid class. We were friends, but nothing else. He got divorced in 1989, but I didn't get divorced until 1992. After I was seperated, he started to call me. He had dated during that time, but he was really waiting for ME! I said I would go out with him, but I was a little gun-shy. But one thing led to another, and he is truly my soul mate. We dated for three years, moved in together in Jan 1996 and got married in July 1996.

Our first date was a picnic at Beltzville Dam. We took a ride out there because I had to buy a new car and was upset by the decision. So he drove me out there, we walked by the water, sat on the shore and had a great time. (And we still have the car!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] )

Sue

[tikibird]

Wow! What a great question and responses!

Andy (aka the food police) and I met in sixth grade. The teacher made us do everything together because out names rhymed, which I hated. Andy sat in front of me, and every time he turned around to talk to me, I lifted up my desk lid.

Fast forward to Junior year in high school. Andy and I ended up on the same team in acting class. My boyfriend broke up with me, Andy made me laugh, and we started dating a week later. We got married at in 1980 at age 18, Gonzo arrived shortly after, and then Chris three years later.

So, we've been married for 21 years, and at soon to be 40, have raised our kids, and are ready for new adventures!

[MrsM]

[img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] Wow, these are great stories! Mine sounds like alot of the others - we met in 7th grade when we were 12. We were good friends all through school, but never anything more. He moved to a different school at the end of 11th grade, but we still had mutual friends so I knew that he & his girlfriend had a baby right after high school.

2 years later, I was working at the same company as his mother and engaged to someone else. All of a sudden, I started running into him (3 times in 2 weeks when I hadn't seen him in 2 years!) He invited me & my fiance over one Friday night, then I went back to see him (without the fiance) several more times - still just friends!

One Wednesday night we took his son out for pizza and it occured to me that I had more fun with him than with my fiance. The next day he sent me flowers and I broke up with my fiance and started dating him! I knew from that day that we would get married, and I have never regretted it! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]

[MagicLover]

OK, don't laugh.... Back in the early nineties I had a regular office job during the day, and worked as a musician at night playing musicals. My night job made it very hard to meet any men, as most of the guys at the theatre only liked other guys. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] Anyway, halfway on a joke, me and a friend decided to join the Together Dating Service, and the rest is history.

I received a match letter about Bill in early September 1991, and we spoke for several hours on September 6th. On September 7th was our first date, and we went to the National Zoo in Washington, DC. I was hooked! After a few short weeks, I told the dating service "No more matches", "I like this one!" Bill moved in with me in May 1992, and we got engaged Christmas Eve 1992. We were married July 10, 1993, and now have two beautiful children together.

[stonewall]

Sorry to be so mundane, but Lynne and I met in a Bruegger's Bagel place and discovered how much we had in common. That was in October of 1997 and we have been together ever since! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]

[Las17]

We met in 1984, when I was selling Tupperware and one of my friends needed some. My DH was this friend's roommate. We said hello-no big deal.
Flash forward to about nine months later. I was dating this guy who said he couldn't wait to let me meet his best friend. Guess what? Yep, my future hubby! Of course, I embarrassed myself by giving him a huge hug and saying,"Oh, we already know each other" He didn't remember me!
My boyfriend and I broke up and he gave his friend my number.
We went to a movie(don't know which one)and out to dinner. Ten months later, we were married and honeymooning at WDW! Now, it's almost 17 years later, and here we are!
Laura

[September]

I love reading these stories...they just make me happy! It does make you realize, though, that so much in life is by chance (or is it???).

[Bert & Sully]

Well I've known Keith since I was 15. We went to the same boardingschool. - He wanted to be there and I didn't. I was rather rebellious in HS and he was more of a goody-goody so I had no use for him!! I heard bits and pieces over the years; like he got married a week or so after graduating from college which was a SHOCKER! - He was soooo shy in highschool!

Fast forward some twenty years and I get an email from an old classmate who got my email from my brother. - I had done a VERY GOOD job of slamming the door shut on those past years as it was a very difficult time for me. Needless to say I was NOT happy my brother gave him my email! Our school was planning a reunion up in the Boston area in June of 2000 so people were hooking up with former classmates. I agreed to adding my email to our class list. It's a good thing, too! I realized I wasn't the only one who had gone through hell over the years and come back to tell about it. It was a good lesson for me! Well in the process I was looking for an old boyfriend who had been close to my dad. Nobody had his email but someone suggested emailing Keith; which I did. I had also heard he was going through an ugly divorce. - I had just untangled myself out of a bad scene a few years prior and offered, via email, to swap ugly tales! - He came back with some annoying comeback about preferring to stay positive about the situation (gag)! - We had a huge class email going back and forth. I hadn't realized that when Keith responded to my emails it was one on one for the most part rather than to me and the group! He asked if he could call me some time (at the time I was in Ithaca NY and he was here in Crawfordville)and the rest is, as they say, history! (Our "first date" was ten days in Key West [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] )We have a mutual respect for each other and how to treat each other after being in pretty unhealthy situations over the years. I still have trouble sometimes remembering it's not just me and my cats; that I have somebody else to be considerate of. Keith is actually the Disneyphile in our house! He knows all the history of the locations etc etc. I keep track of all the codes, ride refurbshment etc; as well as finding a cool board to hang out and pick brains for vacation ideas etc.

[aurora1429]

I was working at my family's store and DH was working for a construction co. out of Texas. He had answered an ad for work so that he could make enough money to fix up his 69 Mustang.

He and his crew were coming in every day for coffee. I was still in college and my hours were always different. He started to come in at different times to see when I was there. He asked me for my number and when I wrote it down, I wrote it wrong.(Must have been the nerves)
After a few day of wondering why he hadn't called, I got the nerve up to go to where he lived. He was living in a big house with all the guys from this construction company, about 75 guys. I was supposed to be at class that night but intsead we went out for ice cream. That was 15 years ago, we've been married since 1993.

He still has the car(and yes he fixed it up) but he never made it back to Texas.

[minemoz1]

My DH and I met at a friends 4th of July party 8 years ago when we were 25. They were trying to set me up with another one of their friends, Mike. I started talking to him, found out he was currently unemployed and not really looking for another job [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] Dh comes over to where we are and we start ganging up on Mike about finding a job. Why don't you temp, etc. Mike leaves and DH and I talk until 2 am. I remember sitting there and thinking "I could really consider marrying someone like him." He gave me a kiss on the cheek good night.

He called me the next day and we went out the day after. We saw True Lies and went to Friday's. We were together every weekend after that.

We were married 4 years and 1 week after we met. And, it has been "happily ever after".