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| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 11 2008 : 8:04:58 PM
I worked at the City Hall and had to call the printer to help me put a scrapebook together for the Mayor. Four months later, the printer and I were married! |
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| LivingWell4You |
Posted - Aug 15 2008 : 05:29:17 AM
Through a dating service! My girlfriend met her future husband through the same service so I thought I'd give it a try. Robbie was the first one to pick me! But here's the cool part..........
I'm an only child and I knew I could care for my parents when they got older. It's in my genes. But I also knew the day would come when there would only be one of them left and I prayed that God would send me a special someone that I could lean on while caring for them. I found out that Robbie had picked me and that night we put my mom in the hospital. She was diabetic and an infection had lodged in her knee and made it swell. It had all the symptoms of gout and that's what they were treating her for. That night she had a mini-stroke and we took her to the hospital and that's when they figured out what really was happening. After several days of phone tag, Robbie and I finally got to talk and went out the next weekend. Two weeks later we said "I love you." Two weeks after that we stopped by the hospital and my mom and dad got to meet him. The next morning I stopped at the hospital before work because the doctor was supposed to stop by and give an update. I told mom, "Don't tell Robbie but I think you met the man I'm going to marry." That morning was the last time we talked. Ten days later she passed away. That was May 4, 1994. We married February 25, 1995 and moved in with my dad. He was the one with serious health problems and I prayed that God would give me at least a year with him after Mom passed away. We had 8 more wonderful (although at times infuriating - I was living with my father in a small house), blessed years with him before he passed away in 2003.
One more thing - Robbie always wanted a house on five acres. We bought the 3 acres next to our property back from my cousin a few years ago. Put that with the 2 my dad's house was on and we have the original five acre plot that my dad bought from my grandpa when he came back from WWII. How's that for prayers being answered???
God bless -
Karen
Farmgirl Sister #??? (to be filled in after I get my badge) |
| Celticheart |
Posted - Aug 13 2008 : 11:22:59 AM
I met him in a bar....and they say nothing good ever comes of that.
My sister and I had gone to meet a friend and he was with the friend. He spent most of the night staring at me. Or so my sister says. Anyway, I thought he was older than he was and he thought I was younger than I was. We overcame that hurdle real quick. We've been together for 21 years and married for 19. It works.
Marcia
"Nature always has the last laugh." Mrs. Greenthumbs
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| clux64 |
Posted - Aug 13 2008 : 08:32:06 AM
My husband was my freshman computer teacher in college. Taught me everything I know about computers twenty five years and two kids ago. Yes, I did get all A's in his class!
Celeste
"No matter where you go, there you are"
--Confucious
www.urbanprairiehome.blogspot.com
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| elphie0503 |
Posted - Aug 13 2008 : 03:20:50 AM
I met my hubby for the first time at a local carnival...he was living with my best guy friend from childhood. So BGF thought hey, wouldn't they hit it off. Well, DH thought that I was a supa-biscuit at the time, so didn't say anything. Three months later, same friend tried again, this time of New Years Eve. Apparently, he knew we were the only two single people there, and so I guess he thought that would force us into a conversation. However, this time DH must have liked witchy women, b/c I couldn't get him to leave me alone!  That was 12 years and 2 kids ago, and BGF and his wife (which I hooked him up with) live right up the road. Nice!
Samantha
www.elphie0503.blogspot.com
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort~~Albright
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| Alee |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 10:30:16 PM
I love reading these!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.awarmheart.com
Please come visit Nora and me on our new blog:
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com |
| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 7:38:08 PM
Dawn:
Like you, I love my husband, but never again. First, I'll never find another one like the one I have, and second- I am too spoiled for another man to put up with me.
Marly |
| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 7:31:52 PM
Grace:
Your story was just beautiful. I'm so sorry for your loss. My heart is touched. Thanks.
Marly |
| goneriding |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 6:21:33 PM
Hubby and I met while sitting at a table at the truck terminal that we drove for. I was trying to get a divorce from my abusive 'husband' and took up truck driving as a way to get out and make money. So I had been sitting all day in my truck and it was driving me nuts. My dog kept looking at a truck parked next to me and growling. I looked out and the guy in it was staring my way each time I looked! So I holed up in my sleeper but after about 8 hours I HAD to get out! So I gathered all my nerve and walked up to the building and walked in and out a few times, afraid to go sit at the table with the other drivers.
Finally I got the nerve and just plunked myself down by a guy in a western hat. But I had my back to the outside and decided to sit with my back against the wall. I moved and then looked into the grey eyes of the guy with the western hat. He looked back and that did it for both of us!
So we talked a while and then I went back to my truck. The next day I drove around the yard, looking for him but didn't see him so I left on my run. I got up to Bend, OR and it was snowing heavily and I was getting worried. I went to the then-truckstop called Jakes and parked. Then I called over the CB for info on the snow going north. A guy answered saying he was going that way too and I could follow him.
Then I looked out and saw HIM walking toward me. I yelled at him but he couldn't hear me over the idling engines so I whistled and he looked up. Other than that 2 week period afterward, we've been together and haven't been apart more than 36 hours!!
We've now been married for more than 2 years after 3 years together before that.
Winona ;-)
When you lose, don't lose the lesson!!
http://goneriding.wordpress.com/
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| deeredawn |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 5:04:01 PM
Trust me Betty, I love my hubby but would NEVER marry again! Too much stuff!
Dawn M. Sista #279 (big grin!)
www.harvestthymefarm.com
"I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one!"...Calamity Jane |
| Betty J. |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 4:29:38 PM
Wonderful stories everyone. I'm glad ya'll are so happy. Some of the stories are sad and the others are so uplifting. Me, I've been married and divorced three times. I would like a companion, but am definitely not sure about marriage.
Betty in Pasco |
| mommom |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 4:24:50 PM
I met my hubby at work. He was an executive and I was an executive secretary....though not his. He kept calling me in my office asking me out and I kept saying no. I remember he sent me some flowers for my desk with a note asking me out again! I called him and finally said okay. We had a great time. We got engaged in March, 1978 and got married on August 19, 1978.........which will be 30 years on this coming Tuesday! Susan |
| deeredawn |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 4:11:30 PM
The first time I saw my hubby was in a picture. My BF had went out with him (to a New Years Eve party) and she was showing me pics. She said I should meet him cuz he's really sweet. I said he had a kind face...but would NEVER go out with a guy my friend was dating. She insisted that they werent, cuz there were no "sparks". That spring BF and I were at a local tractor pull and guess who was there with his John Deere! She intro'd us, but he was too busy changing weights to really say much so I thought he wasn't interested. Then a month latr we ran into eachother again at a fair (tractor pull), then again at a big party, then again at another fair(yep..another pull). The last time we "ran" into eachother was planned...I had it bad for this guy! Bowling Green, Ohio is famous for the big tractor pull there every August. BF and I decided to go. I specifically went to Tractor Supply a purchased a JOhn Deere sweat shirt to wear there. He was grinning from ear to ear when he saw me. We stayed up until 4 am the next morning talking on the tailgate of his truck. He asked me out and I remember telling him that I was a single mom, wasnt going to play any games, if he likes me then he dates me and me only! I thought was such a hot shot! Anyhoo, a year later (at Bowling Green) he asked for my hand in marriage and 7 tractor pull seasons later (that's how I know a year has went by, for those of you with hubby's & hobbies you know what I mean!) we are still hitched! Get it? Hitched? I crack myself up.....!!!
Dawn M. Sista #279 (big grin!)
www.harvestthymefarm.com
"I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one!"...Calamity Jane |
| acairnsmom |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 4:11:17 PM
Like many of you, I met my one and only through my friend. He was her next door neighbor and had just gotten out of the Marines. He had a poker party at his house and my friend didn't want to be the only girl there so she roped me into going with her. DH and I have been together ever since. 31 years and still going strong!
"Let us greet with a song of hope each day" |
| whiteraven |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 3:33:20 PM
It was college and I was dating his roommate. That ended -not so well- especially because my DH and I started hanging out together. I knew 3 weeks after we started dating that he was the "one". I must have been right because it been 15 years! I am waiting for the day I can say I have been married to him longer than not!
whiteraven
Life is what you make it! |
| grace gerber |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 3:00:30 PM
When I was seventeen my first professional job was a medical bill cordinator for our major teaching hospital. I was continually fixing the medical records and billing for a patient who was the worlds first kidney cadaver transplant. I must say my heart broke everytime I had to read his files and the long list of horrible procedures he went thru. I found a second job to afford life and the first day at the job I had to host a Christmas party for the clients of this firm. After getting my rear end pinch one to many times I went to hide in the back room. There I found this guy reading away. We got to talking and we went out to dinner. After dating every day for a month I found out this was the guy in the medical records (Way small world) it was to be - Five years later we married, had two children that the doctors said we would never have because of all his medical issues. I spent 19 years with him before his passing. It has been 12 years since I lost him - he was my one and only.
Grace Gerber
Larkspur Funny Farm and Fiber Art Studio
Where the spirits are high and the fiber is deep
http://www.larkspurfunnyfarm.etsy.com
http://larkspurfunnyfarm.blogspot.com
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| CountryBorn |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 2:46:53 PM
The first time I met my husband, I didn't care for him at all!! He came to a big party my girlfriends and I had and he was to say the least a little tipsy! He grabbed me and was trying to dance, more like stepping all over my feet. Then as if that wasn't bad enough, he grabbed me and kissed me. Then I went to another girlfriends house and we were out walking,this was months later, who slows down on his cycle and tries to get me to go for a ride, you guessed, Tom. I told him to buzz off and not to bother me again. Well, in my junior year, my best friend was going out with his brother. She kept begging me to go out with him, I kept turning her down, I had enough of him already. Finally I said ok. He came to the door to pick me up and zap, it was love at first sight for both of us. We have been together from that day on, never broke up, been with each other 44 yrs. married for 42. My and and his brother? Broke up!
MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
| dkelewae |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 11:07:34 AM
I met my hubby online on a local BBS(before internet!) The BBS used to have weekly gatherings at restaurants or pubs, and after chatting online we discovered we lived less than a mile from each other. We met in person at one of the gatherings, and the rest as they say is history! We've been together over 12 yrs and celebrated our 10th anniversary this past June.
Diana
Farmgirl Sister #272
St. Peters MO
Country Girl trapped in the city! |
| bushelnpeck |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 10:25:35 AM
It was on a blind date set up from a mutual friend who thought it would be "the match" butI really didn't think it would work out. I hadn't ever thought I would date someone with children and be older than I some , let alone marry them. Here I am 35 years later. It was VERY hard at the first because at nineteen I became a fulltime mom and had no idea what I was in for, and I have to say but for his caring and help we wouldn't be married today. He has made all the difference. If I could change anything it would be about how I managed myself especially in those first years, but then I was growing up too. I give all the credit to the Lord above and to my dh for these many good years together...Debbie
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all
Emily Dickenson |
| Bear5 |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 10:09:28 AM
Wow!!! What heart warming, absolutely wonderful postings! Thank you all. As I was reading all the postings, I felt like I was reading a short story!
Marly |
| MissDana |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 08:09:28 AM
We were both cast in a theater production as husband and wife.
Eighteen months later we made it happen for real!
We will celebrate 25 years in January! Good casting by the director wouldn't you say?
Dana
Proud Farmgirl Sister # 267
www.schultztroupe.wordpress.com |
| StarMeadow |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 07:14:15 AM
I was singing in a chamber choir and he came to record our album live in a concert (he's an audio engineer). We hit it off right away and spent most of the weekend together chatting. By the end of the weekend we knew we wanted to "date" exclusively but he lived 3 hours away on the opposite side of the state. We talked on the phone almost every day. We saw each other about 4x and less than a month later we eloped!!! That was in January. We lived apart (except some weekends)for the rest of the winter and then I left my choir and my job (in June) and moved to the other side of the state. This is our 18th year! |
| paradiseplantation |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 07:04:24 AM
Blind date. Actually, the third blind date in a row. After the first two, I actually avoided phone calls from this one, until I slipped up and answered one evening. We've been inseparable ever since (16 years lsat Saturday!)
from the hearts of paradise... |
| Lainey |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 06:47:13 AM
We met in an internet chatroom (IRC channel) back over 11 years ago and became email buddies, then phone friends. We met in person eight months later and that was pretty much it for us, we both just knew. We were married about a year and a half later. And next month will be our 9th anniversary.
Farmgirl Sister #25
http://countrygirldreams.blogspot.com/ |
| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 06:45:37 AM
DH and I met in my driveway.
Divorced 5 months earlier, I finally got a car that turned out to be a bad purchase (the salesman saw me coming from a mile away!) and the husband (Ron) of one of my friends (Marcie) that I worked with took my car to his house to fix it for me. When Ron was done he had dh drive his car over to my house while Ron drove my car. Ron introduced him to me, but I barely noticed as I finally had my freedom back in my own driveway and it RAN!
The next day, at work, Marcie told me that this man wanted to take me out. I told her to tell him that I'd think about it. Well, then a flood of flowers started showing up at work. Every day a beautiful bouqet of flowers with a really sweet note asking me out was delivered to me at work. All the girls at work told me I should give him a shot. So, I finally agreed to go out with him.
Our first date was absolutely wonderful. He took me to a local restaurant that I had never been to as it was VERY expensive. Then he took me dancing. He was so sweet, so polite, so charming, so attentive that it actually scared me. I had never met a man like him before and I was really gun shy after being newly divorced. So, I dumped him at the club we were at and ran home!
The flowers started coming again. I didn't know what to do. He seemed so genuinely sweet and yet I couldn't help but think he was too good to be true. About a week after our first date, I was on my way to the grocery store for Grandma and my car broke down (again!) right by his house. I had no choice but to knock on his door and ask him if he could help. I felt totally foolish, but Grandma really needed stuff and I couldn't let her down.
He couldn't get my car running, so he took me to the store. All through the store, he followed me around asking, begging me to give him another chance and I kept telling him that I just couldn't do it right now. Finally, in the last aisle, he jumped in front of my cart and refused to let me go anywhere until I agreed to go out with him again. The store was full of people and I was so embarrassed as they all stopped and stared at us. I gave in and the rest is history. That was 21 years ago.
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
my blog: http://lisamariesbasketry.blogspot.com/
My Website:
http://www.freewebs.com/lisamariesbasketry/index.htm |
| catscharm74 |
Posted - Aug 12 2008 : 06:41:25 AM
I was trying to come back into the Navy after 4 years of being out. I had my return date pushed back twice and I finally came back in on October 18th. I went to a temporary transition unit to get my uniforms and get my processing done. I was with stuck with 16 guys, all of who wouldn't talk to me. Hubby was one. I somehow started talking to him while he was standing watch and we found out that we were going to the same school. We ended up in the same class and hung out a lot. We were the "older " ones of our class and we would just hang out and laugh. We started dated right after we graduated but I went to Washington state and he went to San Diego. We have fought tooth and nail since then to be together and I am glad we did.
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
FARMGIRL #90 |
