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OmgsItsTashaRose
Farmgirl in Training
44 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
MN
USA
44 Posts |
 Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 2:32:16 PM
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Your love? Do you have a Fella or a Lady? how did you meet? What drew the two of you together? how long have you been together? What keeps you together? Do you have a defined value-set in your relationship in order to keep it part of, but seperate from the relationship of your family culture?
I am very interested having been through two long term relationships in the past but never feeling how I feel now, with Travis.
I will answer these questions also :)
I have a Fella...a wonderful wonderful, loving, giving, compassionate, passionate and powerful, goddess worshipping, god revering Fella. We call each other "Lady" and "Fella". We prefer that to "partner" or "boy/girlfriend"...one evokes the idea of a gay couple-of which we have no opposition to, we just aren't a gay couple- and the other evokes the idea of 17 year old high school romance...and we are clever ;-) so "Lady" and "Fella" it is...
more later :-)
Formerly GaiasRose
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YakLady
True Blue Farmgirl
652 Posts
Natalie
Montana
USA
652 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 3:13:39 PM
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Fella. We met online 2 years ago :) We are very much on the same page in the values and beliefs department, and we're very similar personality-wise as well. It makes for very little conflict and way easy joint-decision making. We consider each other in our daily choices and it just works for us.
~Natalie~ Just a farmgirl in Western Montana. http://mtnme.blogspot.com
Starting a family and raising Tibetan Yaks, Nigerian Dwarf Goats, Laying hens, Muscovy ducks, and a few dogs. |
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natesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1735 Posts
angela
martinsville
indiana
USA
1735 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 3:54:04 PM
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I met my Hubby in 8th grade. We have been best friends ever since. I was married before and when I was goin through a divorce from that my cousin came to stay with me for a while. She asked me one day when I was feelin really down a question that changed my life.
If the whole world turned it's back on you, including family and friends, who would hurt the most?
I came to a dead stop and could only see one face in my mind...Nathan.
I called him the next day and he came straight over to visit and offer to help me through my divorce. We were married 6 months later and have been together for 14 years now. All together we have known each other for 22 years!
Farmgirl Sister #1438
God - Gardening - Family - Is anything else important? |
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Fiddlehead Farm
True Blue Farmgirl
4562 Posts
Diane
Waupaca
WI
USA
4562 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 6:03:54 PM
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I met mine the Wisconsin way...in a bar! I had been divorced and single raising my two children for over 10 years and my friends were always setting me up. I was in the bar with my girlfriend and her husband waiting for my blind date. He called and said he wasn't going to make it. I ordered a Guinness and did a Prost with the fella next to me, who was also drinking a Guinness. Low and behold, he was recently back in town to be near his Mom after his Dad died. He went to school with my younger sister, I am 5 years older. We started to talk and ended up into the wee hours. We have been inseparable ever since and were married a year later. He is the only one who took me on along with my two teen-agers. We have been married for 11 years this last June. By the way, we were married in the court house, but had a big party at the bar were we met! A half barrel of Guinness and an Irish band to boot...we no longer did the Prost, we did the Slante'!!!
Here is the handsome fella instructing at an Appleseed Event. He has been in the military for 28 years and retires in 2012!
http://studiodiphotosite.shutterfly.com/
farmgirl sister #922
Don't go with the flow...you are the flow.
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
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musicmommy
True Blue Farmgirl
430 Posts
Wendy
Oregon
USA
430 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2011 : 6:19:03 PM
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Well, I have a fella and like another poster, we met at a bar. He thought I was with the guy I came in with who was just a friend of mine, but then he saw me give my phone number to another mutual friend of ours. He managed to get the other guy to stand me up a few times and then he called. Our first date, we talked to through until the wee hours of the morning. We've been together for 17 years, married for 14. He was my "bad" boy. Honestly, that is what initially drew me to him. (well, that and he drove a Jeep)
We are pretty much night and day. I'm the emotional musician, he's the logical financial consultant. He's a bit more pessimistic and I tend to see the silver lining in everything. I'm introverted, he's an extrovert. I lean left and he leans right. The list of opposites could go on and on, but we work. He has taken me out of my shell and helped me find a strength and I've helped him find little joys in the days and become a gentler person.
We do struggle with our values at times, because our upbringings were so very different. (he is from city living in Chicago and I did most of my growing up years in Alaska). When my dad married us, he told us that we would either have one of the most wonderful marriages or one of the most difficult. Good thing that it has turned out to be wonderful. 
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
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StephB
Farmgirl in Training
27 Posts
Stephanie
Alcove
Quebec
Canada
27 Posts |
Posted - Nov 18 2011 : 6:29:33 PM
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| I met my DH when I was 18 in our first week of our first year of university. I had chosen a front row centre seat in our 8:30 AM biology class (being a serious student) and he came and asked if he could sit next to me. The way he tells it he came over because he thought I was pretty and when he saw that I was working on a puzzle from a book of brain teasers while waiting for class to start he decided he had hit the jack pot. After that we "just happened" to run into each other all the time. It took him 5 months to finally ask me out but in the meantime we had gotten to know each other well. Two months after we started dating people were already laughing at us for acting like an old married couple. We were inseparable from the begining. |
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batznthebelfry
True Blue Farmgirl
1257 Posts
Michele
Athol
Ma
USA
1257 Posts |
Posted - Nov 20 2011 : 03:16:40 AM
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I was 29 & he was 20 & I met him in the Veteran's Club in college, we were good friends for 2 years, he was a science/Math major & I was a art teacher major.....needless to say everyone thought 'Yeah this is going to work out just fine' LOL...I asked him out first to go to dinner & dancing & I paid for it. It started really slow where I would call him & tell him to come over for dinner, mainly I wanted the company & slowing I fell in love when we took a ballroom dancing class with some friends...he was all left feet! After 3 yrs of this he looked at me one night & said when you want to get married tell me...lol...We got married on halloween in costume 1993, I was in Arkansas teaching he was still in Missouri going to school. We spent our 1st year mainly apart but it worked for us...Now after 18 yrs of marriage we have spent a total of 5 yrs apart because of his military & still we don't mind...I think it works cause I spent so many years single that I can do things on my own & him being a scientist his brain is off in lala land most of the time so I do what needs to be done & don't think about it. Its funny he settled quicker than I did in this marriage but we have a system that works for us...when I need him I yell on the stairs for him to come help me & he does....We are close but not stuck to each other & have our own things we like to do & don't feel bad that we aren't together doing it...yeah like I want to join him jumping out of a plane! but he is always willing to help me with the chickens, gardens & cooking whenever I need him so what more can you ask for?!....Michele'
Chickens rule!
The Old Batz Farm
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2552 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
Minnesota
2552 Posts |
Posted - Nov 21 2011 : 11:28:10 AM
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bump so that it's in my list :-) Got my user name back :-) Yipeeee!
~*~Brightest Blessings~*~
Tasha-Rose
Farmgirl Sister #88
Blogs:
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FarmDream
True Blue Farmgirl
1085 Posts
Julie
TX
USA
1085 Posts |
Posted - Nov 21 2011 : 1:44:53 PM
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DH and I met at work. I was still married and didn't pay any attention to him. Actually, I couldn't stand him. I stopped working there and moved on to another job and went through a divorce. About 6 months later I went to work and he was there. I found out he had been going through a divorce at the same time and the old work place was pretty negative. I decided new work place, new outlook. He mentioned going for a ride on his brother's boat and would I like to go for a few hours. I gave him my number but didn't expect a call because he was kind of flaky. We ended up on that boat and the rest is history. We've made pretty much every mistake that can be made and only in the last few years has everything really started to work harmoniously. I think we know we're in it for the long haul and that has a way of making us work well together.
~FarmDream is Farmgirl Sister #3069
Live Today, Cherish Yesterday, Dream Tomorrow
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Bornagainfarmgirl
Farmgirl in Training
24 Posts
Jenn
MT
USA
24 Posts |
Posted - Nov 21 2011 : 2:10:38 PM
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My Fella (from Germany), and I met in Norway when we were both writing our Master degree Thesis works there. Met at a BBQ which neither of us was supposed to attend, said a few kind words to each other ( with MANY lightning bolts going off in my head), and then did not see hide nor hair of each other for about a month, until I bumped into him in a sporting goods store (in the village we studied in), waiting for an impromtu hair cut appointment next store! I talked to him again (Many more lightning bolts going off in my head again), and finally mustered the courage to give him my phone number. The stinker did not call me for a week! Meanwhile the other students I lived with (all guys it so happened), where taking bets on if, and when, their 'darling sister' was going to get THE CALL. Finally, he did, and that was 12 years ago tommorow. 2 beautiful children, one precious beagle, and still living my happy dream. It took a lot of heartbreak and mess ups in my life, but I would not take any of it back, because I know it is how it got me to where I am now! :-) It is exactly like the Carrie Underwood song- God bless the Broken road I think it is called?
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Apache Lady
Farmgirl in Training
47 Posts
Erika
La Puente
California
USA
47 Posts |
Posted - Nov 21 2011 : 2:24:43 PM
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| I met mine on Match.com. I had been divorced over two years and decided I was ready to start dating. But I didn't want to do the bar or club thing. I was very reluctant to try online date sites, but what the heck. So after several instant messages from weirdos, I finally went on a first date. That was a disaster! We just did not click. My membership was about to expire and that's when Marc contacted me. I was keeping a low profile at first, feeling him out. He was very patient and understanding. After several weeks we went out on our first date, a seafood place where they dump a huge bowl of food on your table and you eat with your fingers. What a way to break the ice, and we had a ball. I didn't want that night to end. We went out the following weekend, over by his house. Went hiking, jeeping, played monopoly, watched the olypmics all night. And we were so afraid of messing things up, neither of us wanted to scare the other way. And now we laugh about it, everything just fell into place for us. He is the love of my life, very caring, sincere, and we both love to hunt and fish. He loves all my hobbies and wants to get involved in a lot of them. We help each other around the house and even my dog loves him. He is a very good man, and i can see spending the rest of my life with him. |
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woolgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
901 Posts
Elizabeth
Great Lakes
IL
USA
901 Posts |
Posted - Nov 21 2011 : 3:54:55 PM
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I have a wonderful Fella. We met when I was in the military. We were both at the same training command. I thought he was the most arrogant jerk. We both later ended up being stationed in North Carolina. On Thanksgiving I was making a big dinner for everybody who lived in the barracks (I got to live off base since there wasn't enough female berthing) and someone asked if they could bring him since he was alone in the barracks. Me being the sucker I am, I said yes. I don't know what happened that night (I wasn't drunk or anything, I do remember, lol) but something changed with how I felt about him and we have been together since.
Three Thanksgivings later we had our daughter. So this has always been a special holiday for us.
Last year we had a really rough patch. He was having a bad time dealing with his last deployment. It was a really rough one where they lost a lot of guys. My husband is a Corpsman (like a medic, but in the Navy and stationed with Marines) and I think he was having a lot of survivors guilt. It was affecting every facet of our lives. Since we both were in the military we just don't really know how to be a "normal" married couple. One of us was always gone. So now that I am out and he is on shore duty we don't know how to be around each other this much! Things are much better now. People always ask how I deal with the separations. I guess it is just the only thing we know, and it works for us.
Liz
Farmgirl #1947
www.militaryfarmgirl.blogspot.com
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Ruby V
True Blue Farmgirl
220 Posts
Ruby
Chilliwack
BC
Canada
220 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2011 : 12:44:48 AM
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My husband and I met in a chatroom on the net back in 1998. He's Canadian, I'm an American. We chatted every day/night, often until 2am! After a couple of weeks, we managed to meet in real life, but were only able to spend 11 hours together. Two more months of chatting and we decided it was either be together or collapse from exhaustion! {laughing} So I came up to Canada and married him! {laughing} It's funny to tell people I married a man I'd only known in real life for only 11 hours! Back in 1998 meeting online wasn't as common as it is now. The first thing everyone said was - oh like that movie You've Got Mail! {laughing}
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rough start farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3331 Posts
marianne
The Beautiful Pacific NW
Washington State
USA
3331 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2011 : 03:15:47 AM
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My husband and I (26 years now!) were roommates in college when one of my roomies sublet to him for the summer. We were both engaged to others at the time and at different points told one another that they deserved better than they were getting. We finally wised up and decided we knew where to find that "better" person - we were staring each other in the face. We had become best friends by then and that has not changed. I can count on him and he still makes my tummy do flips.
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Sweet_Tea
True Blue Farmgirl
194 Posts
Tara
Newberry
SC
USA
194 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2011 : 08:11:39 AM
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I met my Husband at a Rodeo in gainesville Georgia July 4th over 2 years ago :)
after the competition he was complaining about how his shoulder hurt him all the time and he gets weird looks from the people in the drive through windows because he couldn't get his arm up to grab his food... I told him "your first problem is that you don't have a woman home cooking for you.." then I found out what was wrong with his shoulder and put it back in place for him... and the rest was kinda history after that :)
Farmgirl Sister #2974
~ http://notsosweettea.blogspot.com/
"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears"
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Missus Miranda
True Blue Farmgirl
285 Posts
Miranda
Thrall
TX
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2011 : 08:38:58 AM
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I'm always tickled pink to answer this.
Old Man (as I call him, even though he is a year and 10 days younger than I am) and I met, completely by random while on our lunch breaks.
I work for a credit union just outside of Austin, Texas, and he works at a furniture rental store on the other side of the main road from my branch. This particular day in July, I was feeling rather cantankerous, in a calm way, if that makes sense. I had just decided my relationship that had been going on for a couple of years, off and on, was over. He'd found another girl out of the blue and I was done with dating. I was SO nonchelant that a literal rock star walked into my office and began discussing business, and I was not phased.
In fact, the rock star was almost more intrigued by me and my necklace (a miniature Champion spark plug) than I was by him! HA! We chatted for a bit, and that put me about 5 minutes late to going to lunch. When I finally did clock out, I stopped by my manager's office and told her about the conversation with the rock star, and how I wasn't in any big hurry to do anything, so I decided to wander down to Walgreens.
There, I grabbed a bottle of Dr Pepper, and two big bottles of local bottled rain water. as I turned the corner to head to the line, I found myself staring at a torso, and heard "WHOA! YOU MUST BE THIRSTY!" I began chatting with this tall, slender man with the PRETTIEST blue eyes I'd ever seen, then we went our seperate ways. We found each other again in line, me standing behind him. He turned and saw me and declared "OH no no! Ladies first!" and our conversation resumed.
Now, by the time I paid for my stuff and headed for the door, I'd decided I wanted to keep talking to him. So, I walked out slowly to my truck, something I rarely ever do. I sat and lollygagged, waiting, and waiting some more. Finally, I was ready to give up. It was all in my head that he was flirting with me, so oh well. As I reached for the shifter to begin backing out, I saw him in my mirror, trotting toward me.
SO, he asked if I'd like to go out for drinks one night, but I decided, let's talk a bit more and we'll see. He was patient, willing to chat, and I gave him my number. I figured I'd never hear from him again, but 6 PM I got a voicemail. Needless to say, my boss was like a 14 year old girl when I told her the cute guy from Walgreens had called.
We dated for about a month and a half, then split up. I was devistated, but it was good for us. We both realized what we meant to each other when we reconnected in October of last year, and by December, he had fallen in love. (I'd fallen way before that!) A week later, he was transferred up to a store in Oklahoma, something he had requested so he could be closer to his folks, as his father's health was failing. It was the day he left for OK that we found out, our fathers were good friends before my Daddy died.
Josh and I have differences, every couple does. But he has been a blessing for me. Back when I found out my good friend (almost like a brother to me) Chadd had been murdered, Josh was there to bring me out of my hysterics. He's not part of the crowd Chadd and I were in, but he still came with me to functions to support me and my friends. He helps me take care of my Momma, and my Momma spoils him. 
He really is my best friend and I don't know what I'd have done without him. We're coming up on our 1 year anniversary, so to speak, and talking seriously about marriage. He's a bit worried since he's been through a bad marriage before, and wants to get it right. Somehow, I have a feeling, we'll get it right this time. 
"I'm not trying to be mean or cantankerous. I just wish people would do the right thing, and use a little common sense." ~ Farmgirl 3535
Pflugerville, TX
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Missus Miranda
True Blue Farmgirl
285 Posts
Miranda
Thrall
TX
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2011 : 08:46:24 AM
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Originally posted by StephB
I met my DH when I was 18 in our first week of our first year of university. I had chosen a front row centre seat in our 8:30 AM biology class (being a serious student) and he came and asked if he could sit next to me. The way he tells it he came over because he thought I was pretty and when he saw that I was working on a puzzle from a book of brain teasers while waiting for class to start he decided he had hit the jack pot. After that we "just happened" to run into each other all the time. It took him 5 months to finally ask me out but in the meantime we had gotten to know each other well. Two months after we started dating people were already laughing at us for acting like an old married couple. We were inseparable from the begining.
Steph, that's kind of like Josh and I! We chatted, texted and hung out all the time. The more I get to know him, the more I realize, he is a lot like my family. It makes even more sense, now, realizing how much our dads liked one another!
"I'm not trying to be mean or cantankerous. I just wish people would do the right thing, and use a little common sense." ~ Farmgirl 3535
Pflugerville, TX
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Sweet_Tea
True Blue Farmgirl
194 Posts
Tara
Newberry
SC
USA
194 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2011 : 10:56:29 AM
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Miranda:
That is an awesome story!
Farmgirl Sister #2974
~ http://notsosweettea.blogspot.com/
"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears"
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Missus Miranda
True Blue Farmgirl
285 Posts
Miranda
Thrall
TX
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2011 : 11:15:29 AM
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 It makes people go "what?" an aweful lot. His Aunt Lu stopped and stared at me a moment when I told her how we met. "At walgreens???" she says... I smiled and shrugged and she did not know what to say. The funny thing is, from the time I was a little girl, I knew I would randomly meet the man I'd marry while shopping.
I kind of have a feeling Daddy "introduced" us *giggle*
"I'm not trying to be mean or cantankerous. I just wish people would do the right thing, and use a little common sense." ~ Farmgirl 3535
Pflugerville, TX
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2552 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
Minnesota
2552 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2011 : 12:22:09 PM
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Ok so my Fella, Travis, and I have known OF each other for a number of years...about 8 in fact...two years ago we sort of became a little more aware of one another. He credits my kids for introducing us lol...We know one another because of the non-profit we are both affiliated with.
last year when I left the kids' dad, after bouncing from a couple of friends places, and then to atransitional home facility (an apartment style shelter for displaced families), Travis offered up his basement for rent: a bathroom, a bedroom and the living area with use fo the kitchen upstairs. I took him up on the offer. I had a little crush on him and we definitely had some kind of connection. After I got my job, I got an apartment and moved out. I think we lived there for about a month. When I hugged Travis the day I moved out, I didn't want to let go of him. there was something pulling from his core , pulling at my core and vice versa. It was the most incredible embrace I've ever had.
Fast forward a few months...we get to working together as council members of our non-profit. We put on a Pagan festival every year in Southern Minnesota. After much tension and heavy flirting over the course of many weeks and texts and emails revolving around getting together, I finally stayed late after everyone else had gone home. We were at his house watching videos on Youtube and having a goofy time...then we started talking and we both kinda blurted out our feelings.
We have been together since.
At the festival this year we had our first experience in family living...that is, him interacting with my children and we all camped together. After the festival there was some drama with the kids' dad (which resulted in a protection order against him) but Travis stayed instead of bolting. A few weeks after the drama he asked me to have his baby, to which I said yes when our timing is right (planning to get pregnant after the new year :) ) and shortly after that he asked me to come back to his house and live with him :-) We have yet, since the festival, to spend a night apart. Aside from the sacredness of my motherhood, the connection and bond and relationship I have with him is the most sacred I have ever known. I always thought I was in love...and maybe I was to some degree in my other relationships...but I never have ever loved like this.
~*~Brightest Blessings~*~
Tasha-Rose
Farmgirl Sister #88
Blogs:
http://omgsitstasharose.wordpress.com
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2552 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
Minnesota
2552 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2011 : 12:25:01 PM
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For the record, we might get married and we might now, but the committment and vows we have made to one another established that for us already...the rest is just formality... :)
~*~Brightest Blessings~*~
Tasha-Rose
Farmgirl Sister #88
Blogs:
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Missus Miranda
True Blue Farmgirl
285 Posts
Miranda
Thrall
TX
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2011 : 12:36:19 PM
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Awe, Rose!
Old Man and I separated because I fell a little too fast and he was afraid to fall. When we began talking again (I PRAYED and prayed and prayed about that) we ended up going to my company Christmas party together. He's not comfortable around large groups of strangers, and had decided that this was the night he would know. We ended up getting there late, and barely had a chance to eat, but did. He got on with my coworkers as if he'd always known them! We had a casino night set up, and wandered around looking for a table, till we finally settled on a poker table...
...with one of our loan officers, a board member, the chairman of the board of directors, marketing director, a vice president's husband, and the president of our company. Halfway through the game, Josh and our president started joking like they had known one another for YEARS!
We had so much fun that, when he got back to his house, he texted me that he was falling in love with me. The next day, I babysat his dog (now our dog) and the next day, it was announced to him that he would be transferring to Oklahoma the very following week. I was devistated... things were finally going well, and now he was going away. Minutes after texting me the bad news, he was in my office, hugging me, telling me "you finally did it, I'm in love with you".
We surived the 7 month separation and became stronger, seeing one another when we could, and chatting whenever possible on the phone. He's now back home in Texas and, thick and thin, we are making it!
I believe the sweetest love is not the fairytale... but the ones that survive hell and high water.
"I'm not trying to be mean or cantankerous. I just wish people would do the right thing, and use a little common sense." ~ Farmgirl 3535
Pflugerville, TX
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
2099 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2011 : 5:48:31 PM
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| At risk of sounding like a groupie...I went to see his band. |
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2552 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
Minnesota
2552 Posts |
Posted - Nov 23 2011 : 06:51:54 AM
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Originally posted by Amie C.
At risk of sounding like a groupie...I went to see his band.
That's friggen sweet.
~*~Brightest Blessings~*~
Tasha-Rose
Farmgirl Sister #88
Blogs:
http://omgsitstasharose.wordpress.com
[url=http://lilypie.com][/url]
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Apache Lady
Farmgirl in Training
47 Posts
Erika
La Puente
California
USA
47 Posts |
Posted - Nov 23 2011 : 07:14:51 AM
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J.F. Brown
True Blue Farmgirl
130 Posts
Jamie
Beaverton
OR
USA
130 Posts |
Posted - Nov 23 2011 : 10:41:43 AM
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I met my late DH in a coffee shop. I was pouring coffee, he was drinking it, both of us thinking we were characters from a 1940 film noir clip, or a Tom Waits lyric. We stayed sort-of flirty friends for a long time, he'd come to my house and rub my neck when I had a migraine, I would pour his coffee... black, of course.
Eventually he showed up at my door with his guitar, and I cringed. In the 1970's, every California boy with long hair and ripped jeans thought he was James Taylor. However, John played me 'El Paso', and 'Uncle John's Band', and a whole lot more, in tune and he knew the words- all the words- to 'This Land ', so I let him come play as often as he wanted.
We still hadn't so much as had a kiss or held hands, and then one day he hung out at my work, we went for coffee... then to a bookstore... then lunch and more coffee... then dinner at a friend's house... then out for a drink... then home, and he moved in, and we were married through 20-plus years, four children, sick old parents, music, endless pots of coffee, till the day he died. I still drink a lot of coffee. |
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Family Matters: How did you meet DP? |
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How did you meet DP?
