Have you ever considered that the love of your life may live in a different town or city? This summer, a group of women are about to embark on a holiday to jump start their dating life.
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I told my mom the next morning about this icky guy. Stating that he , " Would be the last man I would even go out with !"
Mom said to me, " Watch what you say honey, that's what I said about your father."
Well we have been married 23 years yesterday, and my parents 49 years.
roflmao. That's a good story!
Today's my 24th wedding anniversary. check out my celebration post. :)
I met mine at work.
I think my only chance at meeting the man of my dreams (and hopefully in reality, too) is at church. I'd like someone local since my mother is in her 80s. But since I'd like to travel, maybe he'll just be visiting.
I actually ended up dating one of his friends and we had a child together. That relationship didn't work out though -- and throughout the years Travis and I always kept in touch. He ended up moving a few hours away and when I'd go to that town to visit other friends, I'd always call him up and we'd hang out. When he'd come to my town, he'd call me and we'd hang out. It was totally a 'just friends' relationship but over the years I thought about him more and more.
I had another failed relationship and for some odd reason I had this STRONG feeling that I needed to find Travis. I was really close to his parents so I sent a letter to the last address I knew they were at, and I got an email about a week later from his mom. She told me that Travis just got back from Arizona where he was attending school and gave me his phone number. I called him a few days later and got his voicemail and he returned my call and got MY voicemail!
A few weeks went by and we finally made plans to hang out, we went out for the evening and from there we were together! We moved in together a few months later, he asked me to marry him 1.5 years later and now we've been married for 4 years!!!
It sure is funny how life works out. :o)
We went out three times while he was in town, and he called me a couple times a week for a while after he came up here to his duty station. Before long the phone calls had progressed to every day, and by the time he came home 4 months after our first date, we were already planning our wedding. ;) We got married 9 months and 3 days after our first date, and I moved over 1000 miles from home, to a place I had only been once before. I still don't especially like it here, but I'm happier here with him than I think I would be anywhere else without him.
I remember him looking back at with soft blue eyes and giggled a little.
I came to my senses and said, "Uh-hi. I saw you and felt the need to be next to you. Am I wierd?"
Luckily for the both of us, he was in town for a job and met his brother-in-law for lunch that day. His B-I-L was in the restroom when I came over.
Mark told me I wasn't wierd. He said he noticed me when I walked in too; mainly b/c of my platinum blonde hair shining in the light.
He asked me out to dinner for the next night.
We've been together 5 years now. :) Married 4.
My friend who was with me just stood there in shock; I really am a shy person!
SO I turned into a prince looking for her princess bride~ =D
I was visiting my cousin, I lived 2 hours away. RJ came over to talk to my cousin about something. I'm very shy and just sat there listening to them talk guy stuff. A few minutes later, I get up to walk into another room and RJ says, Wow, aren't you stuck-up? WTH? I didn't even know him, he didn't know me! I later learned it's his nature to "mess" with people!
The very next day a blue Toyota pick-up pulls up into my cousins driveway, it was RJ. My cousin picks me up, throws me over his shoulder, carries me out to the pickup, throws me in and locks the door. And RJ drives off! Isn't that a form of kidnapping?!?!?!
We started dating about a month later, on March 21st, 1997 and we have been together ever since! If it weren't for the "kidnapping" I might have missed out on so many wonderful things. I can't imagine my life without him! He's a wonderful husband and a fantastic daddy. The kids and I are so lucky to have him.
But. We had some issues. I met a guy online actually, playing world of warcraft. Now this may sound crazy, because in fact it is. But, I flew out to see him. I live in Georgia. He lives in California. I'd never been on a plane, and never really out of my state before. I'd never met this guy before in my life, and I flew 2500 miles to meet him. I know that's really dangerous, but it was worth every risk. I went to California and the Golden Gate Bridge. I only stayed for 5 days, and then came home.
I'm off and on with my boyfriend all the time, and sometimes I feel like it's just never going to work. The guy I met in California was perfect. I'd give anything to be happy with him.
It was love at first sight.
Last month we celebrated our 12 year anniversary.
We got married the day we met, and tomorrow (7/21) is our four year anniversary.
Yes, I met my husband online. If you could only meet us you would know we were made for each other. My family had their reservations before meeting him, but within minutes they were as head over heels in love with him as I was, and his family accepted me just as readily even though our situation is a bit unconventional. We did not enter into the friendship ever expecting anything out of it, or even to ever meet. God definitely had a hand in everything that happened.
I was at a softball game for a fraternity that I was sweetheart of, and he was in the outfield. While trying to catch a pop-up fly ball, he collided with the left-fielder, and his face and the left fielder's knee fought, and the knee won (but needed to be scoped). I helped administer first aid and got him into the car and helped take him to the hospital, where he had to have facial reconstruction surgery. He and I started partnering in pinochle to pass the time with the other softball players, and we wound up kicking butt against everyone.
Next thing you know, we're dating and then married!
We'll be celebrating our 10th anniversary this November.
It is a wonderful thing to marry your best friend. That is exactly what I did. We have now been married for over 30 years and I love it.
I ended up getting married to someone else, for 10 years. Once I was divorced, the girls got me into going out partying with them. One night at a bar, this awesome looking man came in. Had blonde curly hair, crystal blue eyes and was a biker. The southern gal became shy and I was still afraid of my own shadow. We spoke and talked. He knew most of the girls I went out with. I fell in love with him immediately. But he was a player and I knew I didn't have a chance in heck with him. Well as time went on, we saw each other occassionally. I had started to date an older man during this time also, as I wasn't waiting around for the love of my life. One day my ex came back into the picture. Didn't like the fact that I was dating (even tho we were divorced, he felt he knew what was better for me). To make that story short, I ended up with a black eye, thanks to him. When I went out that night with the girls, Kerry (my soul mate) saw me with the eye. He was very upset. I was to meet this other man I was dating. (Now this part is something I never found out for 3 years). When this other man came in Kerry looked at him, told him he wanted to meet him at the pool table. They made a deal, they would shoot a game of pool, him this other jerk won, Kerry would walk away from me, if Kerry won, this man (who was an alcoholic) would walk away from me and never look back.
Kerry has been the man of my dreams, my soul mate, my best friend, my pitb (pain in the butt), and the father of my 3 children. Even tho we never had children together, he raised mine as if they were his own. This past June 24th, we celebrated 28 years. It hasn't all been blissful, it took a while for him to stop being a player, but love pulled us thru alot. It seems like no matter what hurdle is thrown our way, we manage to get thru it. Would I change what we have had in our lives. Nope. The love we have for each other is something that no one else could ever replace.
I pray that God will let us have many more years together. Oh by the way, those 3 mouthy boys, well Kerry was one of them, and the other two are my brother in laws, that treat me as if I'm their sister. I love them all.
Question 1. As a single Mom, I was very busy with two young boys so my dating was kind of limited so I resorted to a radio date line. We met on there, talked for weeks on the phone before we met. I was scared of him when we met because he was like ready to jump right in so I cooled it off for a few months then got back in touch with him.
My dream of meeting a significant other, well since I am married at this particular moment I would not even begin to know where to go to meet one now. My son would say to go to church to meet a nice guy if he had his way.
During this time I was also deleting the emails being sent to my regular email account. Some of these emails were from the dating site showing profiles of "compatible matches" as well as messages I had received. One message in particular popped out to me. This message was a paragraph long, it was well written, and did not contain anything perverse.
I hopped over back to the dating site and looked up the profile of Jeremy, the young man who had sent me the message. His profile was much like mine, several paragraphs long detailing his personality, and speaking of a past relationship. I could almost hear Jeremy's voice from his profile, and so we began to email each other. For about two months we talked online about everything and anything. We were both in similar life stages, living with our parents and trying to get through college. In fact we went to the same college!
Our first date was at McDonald inside a college building. The table was wobbly, and flies buzzed around us. He was so nervous that his knees rocked the table even more, while his hands darted to his empty cup about five times. As usual, I was shy, but we were able to still hold a conversation and it felt like I had known him my entire life. At the end Jeremy shook my hand, a perfect gentleman for a twenty-two-year-old. We went on many other dates, the second date we shared a hug, and the third we gave a quick peck on the lips.
Eight months went by so fast, and he proposed while we were laying on the floor watching a DVD. He was so nervous at first that he couldn't even ask me until I asked him "When are you going to ask?" He giggled shyly then proposed, we both ended up in tears in the second half of his "speech" and just hugging each other. Obviously, I said yes and we moved into an apartment together. We actually were engaged for two years so we could graduate college. May 10th 2008, a month after my graduation ceremony, we had an intimate wedding in my parents backyard with our closest friends and family.
Jeremy and I have have now been married for more then a year, and I can't imagine life without him. We have since moved to a different town as he got a programming job. We do still visit the first places we dated at, and we have our first special emails saved on a DVD as well. We are also taking another big step by starting our family. As I type now our daughter is proving to be very active as she kicks me from the inside. I love Jeremy, and our daughter. I know that we will make wonderful parents to this baby, and our future babies. I am so thankful for everything that Jeremy has made possible for me, to always encourage me, and be by my side.
My cousin got married in May, and begged me all summer to come meet the pastor's son, the guy who did their wedding cake. I was dating someone, and right after we broke up I was "talking" to another guy. I finally went with her in August, and he got my number. After our first date, he never called and I was very disappointed. My cousin happened to talk to his sister, and she said he liked me but thought I wasn't interested.
I had to let him know I WAS in fact interested, so I went back to his church that night, he gave me a ride home (I rode with my cousin again) and we started hanging out after that. We were married a year later, and this September will make 4 wonderful years married, and we will also have two handsome boys by then!