Warms my heart to read these stories
 

What wonderful, romantic stories. For those of you who married later in life, you've given me renewed hope of finding someone special.

Continue on with more great ones . . .:posting:

In aw of TV............

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Frank, From the photo of you and your wife in your avatar, you both look so young. Are you sure you didn't meet at age 11 and get married a year later? :). Thanks for sharing -- cute story.

Never give up trying to find the right one. It will happen when you least expect it and will be worth the wait.

He worked in surgery, i worked in labor and delivery. My boss didn't like who i was dating and his boss knew he had just returned from Nam and newly divorced..She kept sending him down to make sure my c-section room was ready to go everyday. An hour before our third date i ended up in his or with a ruptured appy, 10 days in ICU almost died, he came to me and said after he did the surgery,he said i was the only person he knew inside and out... married year later, it will be 39 years this November

Wow! Now that's what I'd call meeting your mate while living on the cutting edge! Nice story; thanks for sharing!
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Met mine on a coin toss, best quarter I ever had!

After going through a painful divorce I had pretty much sworn off dating and long term relationships. To "get away from it all" I changed careers and ended up captaining a boat in the Bahamas. Ten years after my divorce I decided I might be ready to start dating again, but because my boat only put into port (Port Everglades in Ft. Lauderdale) on Saturdays for provisions before heading back to the Bahamas, my options for dating were very limited.

At the suggestion of a friend, I decided to check out an online dating service. I was very reluctant because I always felt online dating services were for desperate types, and I didn't consider myself desperate. After viewing hundreds of ads, one particular ad stuck out. The young lady seemed adventurous, well read, intelligent, she loved the ocean, and wanted to learn to scuba dive (in addition to being a boat captain, I am also a scuba instructor). I decided to contact her and after corresponding online for a while we decided to meet for sushi when I was in port. Dinner was a wonderful experience with such an amazing woman and we decided to meet for lunch every Saturday when my boat was in port. When I had vacation time I certified her to scuba dive and we took several dive trips together. I felt myself beginning to fall in love. As the relationship progressed, I decided that it was time to leave my life "out at sea" and I got a shoreside job. We became an item and after about a year and a half we got married.

We had originally planned to elope since it wasn't either of our first marriages and we didn't want a big fancy wedding. We wanted to get married at a remote dive resort in the Bahamas, on the beach, at sunset. At some point prior to the wedding, my bride-to-be asked me if she could invite her mother, as it would break her mom's heart if she couldn't be there to witness the ceremony. While we had planned to elope, I didn't see any harm but I did feel that if we invited her mom, it would be unfair not to invite my parents as well. Things kinda snowballed from there, and before we knew it the resort was almost entirely booked with our families. We had our beautiful beachside susnset wedding on Andros Island in the Bahamas.

My wife is my best friend and we've been together for the last nine years. We've been on many great adventures together, including owning and operating our own dive shop on a remote Caribbean island in Panama. Our next adventure begins later this month when we move to TV.

Now that sounds like a Lifetime movie! You are a lucky man Captain to have found love again and to have gone from one paradise to another!:smiley:

Met my love at college in the dorm watching the Billie Jean King vs Bobby Riggs tennis match on tv. She was gorgeous with long curly blond hair like Farrah Faucett wearing a mens white shirt-all I wanted to know was - was she wearing a bra?(yes) Started dating and by Christmas we were engaged and married before the summer was over-will be 37 years in 3 days!!!

WOW! Somebody should write a book on all these great stories!

2 great husbands
 

I married my college sweetheart and had a great life for 12 yrs. We had 2 terrific girls and life was sweet. Then he died of colon cancer at the age of 37 and I thought that life would be me and the girls.

After a year and a half I started to go to a weekly singles discussion group at the Unitarian church in an attempt to get some adult conversation! I remember telling my first husband (I talked to him alot) that I thought I was ready now to meet someone that he thought might be interesting. It was at the gathering that night that I met my second husband and we married a year and a half later.

He has been a great father to our girls (they were 9 and 6 when we met) and we just welcomed our 4th grandchild, a girl, 3 days ago so life is still sweet.

There really is a silver lining to every cloud that darkens a day.

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We met in the cafeteria line at the plant where we both worked. My youngest son was about to depart for the Navy and I was telling my co-worker how hard it was to see the last one leave the nest. Bobby was right behind me, reached out, patted my shoulder and said, "It'll be ok, little mama". When my friend and I got to our table, I asked her, "Who the *&** was that?" She said, "Oh, that's Bobby...the guy who owns the bus company." “So THAT’S who that is!” I had heard of him for years, but until that day had no idea who he was. (Bobby and another guy had gone in together several years before, bought some buses and operated a park&ride service to the plant, some 25 miles from town.) I lived just outside of town, not far from the plant, and so had never ridden the bus.

Right after that, I married the guy I was dating and he married the lady he was dating. We later moved into town, ironically just a few blocks from Bobby. After moving into town, I decided to try the bus. The very first morning, just as I pulled up behind the bus and parked, he pulled out before I could get to the door of the bus. There I stood. Not good...on his part.

Later, Bobby and his wife went their separate ways. We had become good friends on the bus when I became the first passenger on and the last passenger off. There was a guy at work who would bring homemade burritos every morning and they went fast. Bobby was never able to get inside in time to get one by the time he made his last stop, parked the bus, and got inside. He told me one morning that he would buy for both of us, if I would get him one. His office was just down the hall from mine and I would call down and tell the girls to "Tell Bobby that his breakfast is ready." every morning after that and we would meet in the hallway halfway between our offices. We took turns buying.

Soon, I started fixing him up with my single girlfriends. When my mother was dying, my spouse could not see beyond himself to even come to the hospital, hospice, or offer any other support. Bobby checked on her everyday and didn’t even know her. Needless to say, Mr. Important and I parted ways.

Not long after my mom died, I was suggesting another friend to Bobby and he stopped me mid-sentence to tell me that I was the one he wanted to date. That was 22 years ago. We got married in the church parlor after church one Sunday morning after he finished driving the church bus. (That’s another story.)

And, as they say, the rest is history. He’s still my best friend and always will be.

Our wedding December 28, 2007
 

chloe52, I agree. :agree: These stories have been so great to read and encouraging/uplifting also. Thank you to everyone who has already posted and will post their stories in the days to come. Congratulations on your years of happiness together. :thumbup:

I met my wonderful husband at a single resort in Mt. Freedom, NJ. I introduced him to my girlfriend as I was with another gentlemen. All night he kept looking at me. The next day he told my girlfriend that she was nice but wanted to get to know me. When I went to the pool the next day and was lying on a bench my not yet husband through me in the pool. When I got out he introduced himself and said I was the one for him. A year later we were married and we just celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary, have two wonderful children and three grandchildren. My girlfriend still talks to me and she married a wonderful gentlemen a short time after me.

Your's is an epic story. All those highs and lows, and somehow your guy and you kept going in the same direction until there was no one left on that road but the two of you, as it was fated to be.

Loved your tale, and thanks for telling it.