How did you meet your spouse?
 

Another poster told a beautiful, funny story about how their aunt and uncle met. At the suggestion of Richie, I thought I'd start a new discussion where you can tell us about your marriage or the marriage of someone you know.

How did you meet your spouse? How long have you been married? Do you have a story about how someone you know met that you'd like to share?

My grandfather traveled on horseback for two days to catch a train that would take him to his future job as a school teacher in a rural Southwest Virginia town on the Tennessee border. The conducter forgot to stop at my grandfather's stop and he got off in a different town.

As a stranger in the town, people were curious about who he was and what he was doing in town. He told them his story about his new job and how he missed his stop. Soon, everyone was telling him about a neighboring little coal mining town that was in dire need of a school teacher. He met with the superintendent of the county's schools and signed a contract to teach in a one-room school on a mountaintop.

He boarded with a family whose oldest daughter turned out to be his future bride. I always loved that story. Please share some of your own.

bkcunningham:

Thanks for starting this thread. It seems this is the thread where my story of my Aunt and Uncle should be so..........

I just found out a year ago as I asked my Uncle Joe how they had met. The man is sharp as a tack at 98 years old.

He said their was a local get together at a church and decorations were being done by my Aunt Virginia. He notice her trying to reach the ceiling by standing on a table and he offered to help as he was slightly taller.

Another day, he saw her standing on the corner with her girfriend trying to catch a trolley ride. He had one of the few cars at that time and he offered her a ride. She accepted, he asked her out and the rest is history.

The start of a great life together.

BTW - He moved to the nursing home to be with and take care of his wife. If she is there, then he wanted to be there. As he once told me, "74 years is a long tiime and I just want to do the right thing".

A great man and someone I look up to as a great role model.

I love that story, 2BNTV. Such a beautiful love story. I'm glad you added the nursing home part. It really defines the love, doesn't it? I had a friend whose father was 93 and put into a nursing home after an illness he couldn't recover from. Her mother had Alzheimer's and he had always tended to her. When he went into the nursing home, the family put her in too.

They didn't have a room for the two of them to sleep in together. The old couple was distraught. Especially, his wife. My friend tried everything to get them a room together to no avail. Finally, her mother settled the matter. Every morning the nursing staff found her in the twin bed curled up beside her husband. She refused to sleep in another room. They finally gave up and let her sleep with him.

An added thought is that when he first went into the nursing home, they weren't given the same room. He was very disappointed. Their daughter was having arrangements made to move to a much nicer veteran's nursing home that would let them have the same room. I was somewhat invovled and when it was made known they were peturbed about not being together, the nursing home broke down and gave them the same room. Transfer to the veterans home is waiting for a room to be available so they can always be together.

A funny side to this story is that he is so mobile, they were afraid he would walk out the door and not come back. He said to me, "are they crazy"? Where am I going run off to with no money and transportation".

We met in 1984 at the Brown Derby, a bar and restaurant, in Clearwater Florida. It was Love at First Sight. Two weeks later we were married, and we are still happily married.

Three years ago, my son and daughter-in-law were looking for a house "on the water" in Alabama. They looked at a house that wouldn't work for them but really liked the owner (who was moving to The Villages). My son said "We can't buy your house but my mom has been widowed for eight years and we really like you. If she says it's ok will you call her?" He said yes, I said yes and we were married one year later and I joined him in the villages the next week. Two years and counting!!

My story is not glamorous, but I was always a little shy around the ladies and conversation never flowed easily for me. My best friend at that time, Lenny, was a bit of a ladies man with the gift of gab, so I generally palled around with him on Friday night.

We were in a club in Hasbrouck Heights NJ, and Lenny and I scouted around and nobody got his interest and we were just on our way out the door for greener pastures, when Lenny called me back in because he saw someone he knew. I followed him and the girl he wanted to say hello to was with the cutest little blonde I ever saw. She was all of 19 yrs. old and talking to her just seemed easy and natural, and I wasn't nervous around her. She had a way about her that made me feel fine, and she hasn't been out of my sight since.

P.S.: I also related this story to my two wonderful children to show them how fate had a hand in bringing them into this world. If Lenny hadn't spotted his friend, they wouldn't be here today.

mikeandnancy1112, two weeks later!? That is love at first sight. That was, what, 27 years ago! I believe!


LELANDJANE, that is fate in my book. Just like mikeandnancy and 2BNTV's Aunt Virginia and Uncle Joe. It is just meant to be sometimes. Thanks for the smiles.

Aww, Richie. I hope your sweet little blonde gets to see what you wrote. That is really sweet.

On the very first day of my freshman year in high school I saw the this beautiful girl walking down the hallway. to this day, I can tell you down to her shoes what she was wearing. I aks my friend to tell me her name. I told my friend that that was the girl I was going to marry. Shortly after chasing after her, she caught me. I left school early and entered the Navy. We were married when I had two year left to serve. We have been together for 55 years and married 49. She is the only woman I ever loved.

Met my husband back in the seventies at PNSY. Didn't like him at first simply because he yelled down the hallway at work "HEY GIRL!". I kept walking. Two days later there was a salami and cheese with mustard on a poppyseed keiser roll from The Blindman's sandwich shop on my desk. I was interested! Our first date was at Longwood Gardens in PA a few weeks later and I knew that day he was the one! Salami sandwiches, flowers...what more could a GIRL want! We have been a couple for 36 years...married 31!

That is beautiful rubicon. I could really feel your love. Beautiful.

And they say the way to a "man's" heart is through his stomach. I say it works for us girls too! Really good story tainsley. 31 years. OMGoodness. That is really great.

On line dating service
 

My husband and I met through a on-line dating service. My name was teachnmo and I taught special education. We agreed to meet at a public place. He thought he was meeting his ex-wife. LOL We got married after three years and have been married for 8 1/2 years. Now loving being in Florida's The Villages!

1st Grade!

I went to a weekly singles dance that I wasn't going to go to, but at last moment went. My wife to be wasn't going to go because she couldn't get any of her friends to go, but at the last moment decieded to go alone which she never did before. I saw her when she was on the way in and locked my radar on her. We ended up dancing all evening and she asked me to walk her to her car. We married about a year later.

:DI met my wife on a blind date. I was home for a short stay after returning from overseas while serving in the Marines. I took her to the movies with my buddy and her girlfriend. I was headed to the beach in Delaware the next day to my grandparents cottage and invited her to come with me. My great mother was their along with aunts, my grand mother and my mother. My great grand mother told the group after meeting her that I would be marrying this girl. We couldnot disappoint her so we corresponded, dated and got married. That was 51 years ago this past April. Love at first sight on my part.

Went to the hospital to visit a friend. Mr. MAC9 was her nurse. Went to a film with him the next night. Saw him every day for the next 3 months. We decided then to get married and we've been together ever since. It will be 40 years in November and every day still feels fresh and new.

2BNTV, you started this wonderful thread with your story and it grew thanks to a suggestion from Richie. You should be very proud. I love reading all the stories. It really lightens my heart to hear so many stories of love. Thank you all!

Ladies, how many times have we heard "you're never going to meet anybody nice in a bar"? Well, I did and we've been married 16 years now. He says I picked him up - there he was minding his own business, sipping on a beer - blah, blah, blah! The truth is, he asked me to dance and we've been together ever since. We even got married at a cheesy Vegas chapel and the whole wedding party rode the roller coaster at Circus Circus right after the ceremony. Maybe not the most romantic story on this thread, but I wouldn't change a thing!

Not romantic?! I love it!

I'm glad you are still friends with your former husband Kathie! Everything happens for a reason.

That is a beautiful and romantic story. I love it that you remember what she was wearing the day that you met. :cry:

The ole boy was a blind date
 

37 years ago, I peeeked thru the peeeeep-hole and said, Hmmm!...think I will let this one in, and he never left!...I've never laughed or loved anyone more than the "ole boy".....No. 1 requirement to be married to me, you have to have a sense of humor!....It's a GREAT life!

Lovely stories everyone! Please keep going, I could read them all night :read:

I have a big smile on my face from reading all these stories. There's not one that's not precious in it's own way. Thanks BK for taking the idea and running with it. It's good to smile.

Thank you BK for your kind words and Richie for the suggestion. :mademyday:

Its always easy to be in love with lovable people. :)

Keep the stories coming.

Great story , loved it but I'll have to admit that I was more impressed with the fact that you rode that roller coaster in a white dress..........

stainless fumar.,..........chilout

Sandy and I met in the workplace - I got a summer job during college at a store where she worked full-time. I thought she was VERY pretty though extremely quiet and shy. But I rolled the dice and asked her out on a date. She accepted, though she told me she was already seeing someone else. "What the heck?", I thought. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

So we went to see a movie. At some point during the evening, she called me 'Bob'......the "other guy's" name. "Nice. This is heading downhill fast." And that it was: As we were pulling into the parking lot of her apartment building at the end of the evening, she pointed and screamed at a car that was leaving - "THERE GOES BOB!!" She hopped out of my car right then and there and was gone. And "there goes Sandy.......", I thought.

Details get fuzzy for me after that evening. But suffice it to say, Bob went by the wayside (and no, there weren't any warrants issued for my arrest!! :) ) and Sandy and I continued to date each other the rest of that summer. I left town for my last year of school in the fall and we continued to see each other. But....(and you've GOT to know this is coming)....some of our conversations, directed by her, of course, started focusing on getting married. :22yikes: As my graduation time got closer, the pressure started mounting - the screws were getting turned. (Incidentally, just for the record, Sandy will NOT deny that!) So I whipped out my 'ace in the hole' - I bought some time: I wanted to get through school, get a job teaching, do that for a year to make sure everything was working out well, and THEN we could talk more about getting married.

June 28th of the following year - almost a year to the day after my graduation - was our wedding day. :) She won. I had no choice - it was either get married then or she was moving on. And she will not deny that, either! :D Big blow-out gala wedding event: $50 for the church, $50 for the minister, immediate family only (14 people in attendance), wedding photography compliments of her mom's Polaroid (yes, I am being serious), a do-it-yourself reception at her parents afterwards.......then Sandy and I went water skiing with my sister and her fiance (his parent's boat) later that day!! No honeymoon - we couldn't afford one. It was back to work on Monday. Wedding rings? Sandy wore her mother's original wedding ring. We couldn't afford to have her ring and mine paid off by the wedding date - they were still in layaway. Seriously. But we were happy.....well, she was REALLY happy. I was still getting used to the concept (I'd told my mother years earlier that I was never going to get married).

So here we are today..........37 years later! Happy as two peas in a pod.....myself included! :) I knew all along I'd never be able to find a better person and a better wife. I was just being stubborn...and frankly, very scared...way back when. What a big mistake I'd have made if I'd passed up the chance to be married to her.

And guess what? Sandy not nearly as quiet and shy as she used to be!! :pepper2:

That's our story.....thanks for reading it (if you made it this far)! :mornincoffee:

Bill :)

Are you kidding? Make it this far? I'm laughing and wanting more. That is a good story and good writing Bill.

Nice story Bob! :throwtomatoes:

Mikeand Nancy1112 -- Love your story. It was meant to be!

LelandJane -- What a nice story.

RichieLion -- It was destiny that brought you and your wife together!

Wonderful -- hey next year is your big 50th anniversary -- like I need to remnd you -- do something special with your lady!

Food...the true way to a girl's heart. Who needs bling?

Connie, Way to go for your and your husband...

Whoo Hoo 51 years -- great!!