I recently read a post about how one of our F14 ladies met their DH and loved reading about it! So, I thought it would be a fun thread to dedicate to this. how did you come to be a family? How did you meet?
Disclaimer: I attempted a search on the topic and didn't come up with anything so I apologize if this is in anyway redundant.
I met my DH playing in an adult dodgeball league. We were never on the same team but saw each other at games and out afterwards. We chatted on occasion until one day, a year later, he asked me for my number. Then texted me two weeks later. He is one lucky SOB that I even responded to this! Sadly, this seemed to be the new dating method. Turns out that he had a crush on me since we first met but he was dating someone at the time so he didn't make a move until his relationship ended. Timing was right anyhow since I was grieving the loss of my late fiance and was no where near ready to begin a serious relationship at that time. After a year of casually running into each other, I decided to be open to the idea of new love. So glad I took a chance on him; I believe he was sent from heaven. We dated for 9 months when we got engaged since we both knew this was true love. We are married for 3.5 years now and have two under two now.
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My DH was my patient at the physical therapy clinic I worked at. We flirted then he didn't show for a while so I Facebook stalked him and he asked me out. We've been together ever since!
This may have been me, since I posted about it in the religion thread earlier, but I will tell it here too DH was one of the high school leaders on my confirmation retreat when I was in 8th grade. We were in youth group and choir together at church for a couple of years before he asked me out. I was a junior in high school then! We've been together 13 years now, married almost 9 (and our kids have/will be baptised in the same church where we met and were married!)
My DH and I worked together. We were both trainers for a large corporation and started hanging out in a group first then hit it off and went out alone. Been together 5 1/2 years, married almost 2 years and now have our first LO!
I was a dancer on a cruise ship and DH was my boss! We just hung out as friends for a couple months then just kinda ended up together but ours is one of the few "ship relationships" that actually worked out in the end. I don't know when our actual first date was because when you work on ships the crew all go off and do things together. Even if it is a date somehow you will end up with 4-6 other crew members going with you. Cruise ship life is so different than real life for so many reasons.
We've known each other for 5 years and been married for almost 3!
I'll admit it- eharmony! I know 2 other couples who are now married who met the same way! We got married a year after we met and then got pregnant with LO a month after.
No shame! I know some very successful online matches!
DH and I met at work. He claims it was love at first sight :-) It was my first day on the job at the lab where I still work. My boss was showing me around and introducing me to everyone in the different labs. My DH was one of the people I was introduced to that day. He remembers being in the middle of something and looking up to see the "new girl." He said he couldn't get me out of his head. For the first month I worked there, he took every opportunity to stop by my lab to come talk to me. A month later, he asked me to lunch and that was that. We've been together for 8 years, married 5.
I'll admit it- eharmony! I know 2 other couples who are now married who met the same way! We got married a year after we met and then got pregnant with LO a month after.
Eharmony too! Although we knew each other beforehand, Eharmony totally reconnected us. I first met DH 10yrs ago playing volleyball on the beach with mutual friends. He was playing in a tournament with my then-boyfriend at the time. After that summer, we never kept in touch until Eharmony brought us together 7yrs later. If it wasn't for Eharmony, we probably would have never reconnected. Our 1st date was 4 yrs ago on tax day (today)! We dated for 1 year, got engaged, then married 6 months later. Two months after getting married, I got pregnant & had DD. When she was 9 months old, I got pregnant again. Now we're a happy family of 4.
I joke with DH that we should make a commercial for Eharmony. Lol!
I met MH at band camp for it college marching band. I was a freshman in the color guard, he was a sophomore sousaphone player. Our first meeting wet literally ran into each other during a rehearsal break. Apparently, as we walked away from each other, he was staring at my ass and got smacked in the back of the headbyhis section leleader. ;-)
We were friends for a couple years and started dating when I was a junior, got engaged the weekend I graduated and married the following year. Hard to believe we'll have been together 10 years this fall!
Suzy & Brian November 3, 2007 "...this one time, at band camp..." ;-)
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DH's sister is a matchmaker, and I hired her. When I was first meeting with her and considering signing up, she pulled out her phone and told me that I had so much in common with her brother, and even if I didn't hire her, or didn't date or meet him (he lived across the country), she thought he and I would at least make great friends. Obviously she has skills, as he turned out to be the one. We dated for a year and a half, and have now been married for a year and a half. Also, coincidentally, LO was born on her birthday.
I met DH in high school through a natural friend. He had a gf at the time & my friend was telling me about how cheap he had been with his valentine's gift. We became friends from teasing him. Started dating after he graduated & was single. Have been together 13 years; married 5.
I interviewed DH for a position on the school ambulance while in college. He got the position and apparently liked me right away, but I was in a relationship. He dated my roommate casually to get closer to me and we became good friends. When my relationship ended, he took his time making a move. It was the right one; we've been together for 10 years this fall, and just celebrated our 6th anniversary.
The first time DH and I met was in 7th grade, we had social studies together. We ended up being the in the same group for a project where we had to go outside and measure the perimeter of the building. I left my coat in the classroom and about halfway around the building I was freezing, so he gave me his coat, we were pretty much inseparable best friends after that. I had a wicked crush on him and I was pretty sure he liked me but he was so shy he couldn't take the hint. That summer before 8th grade we got into an epic fight over a video game, I asked him to leave my house and he stormed off on his bike, I felt really bad and I chased him down to apologize but he didn't want to hear it. I always assumed he'd call when he cooled off but he never did, I cried about it for weeks but I wasn't about to apologize again after chasing him down like an idiot so we quit speaking. We went to the same high school but never spoke until two years after graduation, 2006, i got a Myspace message from him, asking if I was the same Sarah from Jr. High. I had just broken up with my 'long term' (2-year) boyfriend when i got that message and I was desperate for a sweet guy to talk to. We hung out and rekindled our relationship until he asked me out in December of 06 we've been together since then, married in 2012 and pregnant 6 mo after the wedding ^_^ He's my soul-mate and I can't believe how lucky I was to have him back in my life... and I gave him hell for not accepting my apology 7 years before.
My DH and I met in 8th grade. My cousin went to school with him and liked him. We met him and his friend at a carnival. The friend was for me, but I thought DH was cute. After that night, we talked on AIM and were just friends for a few months. We never saw each other though cause neither of us could drive. We lost touch in high school. He dated a girl for 2+ years at the same time I dated a guy for 2+ years. Freshman year of college we ended up going through break ups around the same time. DH started talking to me again on AIM and we started to hang out. We've been together for 8 years, married for 1.5 years and our first DD is 9 weeks!
We met September of my freshman year of college. MH was good friends with one of the girl's boyfriends on my dorm floor. My friend set MH up with my roommate. My roommate was also my best friend from high school. I met H before he went on his first date with my roommate and I thought he was so nice, funny, and smart. Instantly thought he was an awesome guy. My roommate had a good time with him but didn't want anything serious.
Long story short, my roommate wanted to date around and my H isn't like that. So, they stopped dating and about a month later I had my friend take me to H's campus to hang out. We've been together ever since. Monsters Inc. was the first movie we watched together.
I knew from the moment I met him that he was the kind of guy I wanted to marry. I told my mom on the phone and she thought I was losing my mind
DH and I met in middle school, but weren't really friends. My friends all "dated" his (I did too) but DH was really shy and didn't talk to me much. We ended up going to different high schools and colleges, but our circle of friends continued to overlap. After college we both moved back to our hometown and my best friend got engaged to his friend. We started hanging out and after about 6 months started dating. He's still a really shy guy, so I had to make the first move which is so not my style. I'm really happy I did.
We were senior prom dates. We weren't officially dating when he asked but by the time prom rolled around we were. We were both going away to college though in different states and agreed that we'd stay together but no pressure. If the distance was too hard or we grew apart we'd cut ties. I think we both kind of knew that we were the one for each other.
We dated through college and then "lived in sin" for 4 years while we put each other through grad school. In a sense we have grown up together...part of the reason I think we work so well together.
DH and I met through work. I knew him before we started dating, although I was married to my ex at the time. My ex was super controlling, but also lazy. He wouldn't work, so I supported us. After roughly 7 years together, 6 months of marriage, I found out he was cheating on me and I left him. Got my own apartment, furnished with an air mattress, camp chair, and computer desk. MH and I started talking on facebook. About a week later (on April 1), we started hanging out. Our first date was fishing... I had to go buy a pole, since basically all of my things (except clothes) were the ex's. After, he offered to do my laundry (save from having to do it coin op)... And we have been together since! About 8 months later, we were pregnant with our first... He proposed about 8 weeks into the pregnancy. We lost that baby at 20 weeks, but still got married 6 weeks later. Ended up needing a RE to get pregnant again... Married almost 3 years now!
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Our Angel was born sleeping at 20 weeks due to IC.
We met online, though any outside our closest family and friends think we met through friends. We weren't matched up by the site because I was outside the age range he was looking for. I like to remind him that I found him -- because I liked something in his profile pic (besides him). We emailed back and forth for a few weeks before meeting for lunch. We met in June, got engaged the next April, and married the next October.
I was 17 and working at Hallmark in our local mall. We had a mutual friend who worked at sears with DH. One day they came into hallmark and DH asked me if we sold cards to brake up wit people... Yes it's true! I laughed and thought nothing of it. Later that night my friend called me to see if I wanted to come out for a Bon fire but I didn't want to drive all the way out there in the dark. I heard a voice saying I'll go get her... It was DH. We talked all night and a week later went on our first date. This was August 2005! We got married almost 5 years to the day of our first date!
I was still in high school, he was in college. First meeting was at a party- but I was dating someone else. A jerk. Few months later after we'd broken up, DH came home for the summer and we were both working at a local amusement park. Everyone was doing this cheesey thing where the guys "proposed" to the girls with those fake toy rings you win in the arcade. He "proposed" and we went out to Waffle House after work- ha! It was supposed to be a summer fling but 14 years and 3 kids later... I still have the toy ring in the safe ;-)
I met my other half's parents before I met him, I'd broken my wrist falling over my own feet but worked in a cash and carry so the only role I could actually do was checking receipts against purchase at the door. His mum stopped to talk to me at the door and apparently told his dad I'd be her DIL one day.
My other half worked in a different department to me, but asked me out for drinks that night. I was leaving the county in 2 months for a job do went into the relationship thinking it would be my last fling before I moved away and started my new life. We've been together 14 years now, only 3 years less than I spent without him. Turns out our mums used to work together too years before we met each other
Short story: my college roommate was engaged (and is now married to) DH's brother.
Long story: I was super antisocial in college. I had a boyfriend when I met DH. He remembers meeting me, but I only remember the day but not him (I was fighting with my BF). Later in the year we were both at a pumpkin carving party, and I couldn't take my eyes off him. He had a crush on me from day 1, but was too shy to do anything about it. At that party we ended up by ourselves around a campfire for over an hour chatting. I don't remember what we talked about, I was just waiting for him to ask me out. Nothing ended up happening, but I was lovestruck (to the point where I saw him driving behind me after the party and almost faked car trouble).
His brother invited me to a NYE party that year, so I intentionally stranded myself there without a ride home hoping he would take me. Nope... a different guy ended up giving me a ride. I was so bummed.
Then we ended up hanging out together in the spring (at another event without a ride home... what a coincidence lol). He was talking about the foreclosure he had just bought and all the work he was doing to it. I told him that I loved working on houses (so not true) and would be willing to help him out sometime. That night (while a different guy was getting ready to give me a ride home) he finally asked for my number. It took him forever (about 2 weeks) to call me, and when he did I was out with another guy. I ended the date early so I could go meet up with DH.
We spent some time at the house, went out to dinner, and then sat quietly in his truck for three hours, not touching, not talking. We were both too shy to do or say anything, but neither of us wanted to leave. Our second date went the exact same way, except He finally kissed me before I went home. We ended up getting married 53 weeks later.
Ummm.... that was longer than I intended. My bad Hopefully the formatting sticks since I'm mobile.
We where both in the criminal justice program at college. We had majority if our classes together. I had been divorced for enough time to start dating again and actually starting seeing someone else from the program -just met for 2x for drinks- ended up complaining to my now DH about how a recent date wasent going to turn into much more. He said let me take you out so I went.
Funny, funny thing is at 6'4" and full beard I thought I remembered him saying a few semesters ago he was much younger then me. So I asked him his age and he said she was was only 2 years younger- doable since I have kids from a previous relationship I didn't feel like wasting time w someone immature (I know age is not the only factor) well after a few dates I find out his REAL age he is actually 6 years younger then me! But by then it was to late I was falling and realized age really isn't anything more then a number he always jokes about how he said he was older then said his real age and I thought he was joking
We met through our BIL that I work with. I was in the middle of divorce (oh young stupid love, I was married at 19 and divorced at 21) and was pretty mopey. My coworker introduced me to his shy BIL pretty much to get him laid. We started dating in August 2008, he moved in by that Christmas, engaged in April 2009, married in August 2010. I still joke with him that he can check "sleeping with a married woman" off his bucket list because my divorce wasn't final until the end of August...he doesn't find it as funny as I do
I was in grad school and he was well into his career. A mutual friend was having a winter game night. A bunch of us got together for an evening of board games. We shook hands when we met, and I thought he had nice eyes. While playing Cranium, he thought I was smart and funny with my answers. While talking, there was a moment where we both stopped talking and just looked at each other. I felt like he was reading my soul. (We both remember this moment and spark.) We flirted through the evening, but both went our separate ways. But I could not get him out of my head.
We met again two weeks later at a wedding, and continued talk and flirt. My parents were there (at a different assigned table) and both pulled me aside and asked who he was because they noticed him watching me. My mom's words were "I have seen that look before" as she stared at my dad.
A year and a half later we were engaged. This year will be four years married. He is absolutely my other half and my favorite person to be around.
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DH and I met in high school. We had some mutual friends, but had never really hung out. One day he walked up to me and asked me if I wanted to go see a movie (we went and saw Pearl Harbor - now we watch it whenever it comes on tv). It never really turned into anything more than a few dates over the next year. He wound up moving to San Diego to live with his dad, and we kept in touch until he moved back junior year.
After high school I went to school several hours away from our home town. We lost touch, although it wouldn't have really mattered because I dated the same jerk all through college. We broke up about 6 months after I graduated, which resulted in my 'wild' year of trying to make up for missed time in college. One night during that year I was at Waffle House with some friends after the bars closed - and in walked DH and another mutual friend from high school. The three of us talked for a few minutes and caught up, then DH asked for my number. He called me the next day (Easter Sunday) and asked if I wanted to go get coffee. I was supposed to be going to have Easter dinner with my family so I told him I was busy. Plus - I wasn't really interested in him.
He was persistent though, and he called me a couple weeks later to invite me over for his best friend's graduation party. I didn't have any plans, but didn't really want to go. I still wasn't sold on my DH. I called my best friend and she said we should go to the party. We went and DH spent all night talking to me, pretty much ignoring everyone else at the party. Something about him that night made me realize that I wanted to spend more time with him - and the rest is history. We've been together 5 years and married for almost 2 years. I'm glad my best friend made me go to that party!
Ooh, fun -- I want to play! Our story is a little long though...
Many of my good friends from high school went to the same college as my DH, including my best guy friend, Mike. Mike and I drifted apart during our sophomore year of college, but apparently DH once saw my high school senior portrait in Mike's room and thought I was hot and was mad at Mike for never introducing him to me. However, Mike said we weren't really friends anymore and that I had a boyfriend anyway. DH and I met in person at a BBQ that one of our other mutual friends was having the summer before my senior year. I thought he was really loud, but cute, but I was still dating my stupid college boyfriend.
During my senior year, Mike and I got back into touch and started hanging out from time to time so I became friendly with DH. This is when Mike told me what DH had said about my picture, which I found amusing During senior year spring break, I decided to spend a few days at their college hanging out with Mike and some of my other high school friends, since their break was at a different time. I was planning to stay on Mike's couch, but Mike's girlfriend did not like that we had rekindled our friendship and was very jealous of me and said that no, I could not stay on Mike's couch. DH lived in the same apartment complex as Mike, so Mike suggested I stay there, so we could still hang out. I ended up spending much more time with DH than Mike, but still, I had my stupid college boyfriend.
After graduation, my stupid college boyfriend broke up with me and I was devastated. I was still hanging out with DH and Mike and our other friends fairly regularly and DH and I began to date. However, it was a total rebound thing and I was still in love with my stupid college boyfriend, so I broke up with him after about 2 months.
We remained somewhat friendly and would see each other at friend's functions from time to time. When DH graduated the year after me, he took a job in the same random town that I did, about an hour from the rest of our friends. I was looking for a 3rd roommate and he decided to move in. Mike told us this was an absolutely terrible idea.
Our other roommate moved out and for a few months it was just the two of us in the apartment and we started hanging out all the time. Then we started hooking up as well, but insisted to everyone that we were just friends. Then, a few days after Christmas, we exchanged gifts with each other and DH told me that he loved me and I said I felt the same. However, DH's family is very very conservative so there was NO way that they would ever accept me if they found out that we had been living together while we were dating. They were angry enough that he had female roommates, so we moved out into separate apartments a few months later and insisted to all of our friends that we were still strictly platonic until we were living apart.
Four years later DH finally proposed and a year and a half after that DH and I moved to the UK. Mike had coincidentally moved there a year or two earlier. We found out I was pregnant shortly before we moved back 3 years later and a few weeks after that Mike told us that his wife, who he met over there, was pregnant as well. Now we all facetime each other's babies
I was at a metal festival when I was 16, and l locked eyes with this absolutely gorgeous man (only 2 yrs older) across the mosh pit. He smiled and waved, I melted (as most teens do), and gushed to my friends. We kept making random eye contact but then I looked back once and he was gone! I was sad but meh. All of a sudden I felt hands grabbing mine and someone standing behind me, I turned my head and it was him! He wrapped his arms around me and I fell in love with him right there. And then we made out a little bit haha It was love at first sight, or lust, eitherway it was beautiful and so intense.
Me and MH met on the birthright trip (free trip to Israel for Jews 18-26) he was a soldier in the Israeli army who just turned 20 and I was 26. I thought this was just a "vacation hookup" because that would be a crazy long distance relationship! After I got home we kept on talking through Facebook and Skype and decided after a month to start an official relationship. After many trips over there and living there for a couple of years he got a visa to the US and we were married 2 years ago! We like to joke that he only married me for the green card :-)
DH and I met in 2002 when we were both counselors at a YMCA resident camp. He was a sailing instructor and I was a horseback riding instructor. We noticed each other at a dance during staff training and had a summer fling. We spent the next 4 years apart dating other people. We reconnected my senior year in college and got married when I got out of grad school. We will celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary next month and are more in love than ever now that we have our baby girl!
DH and I met at a keg party freshman year. We were friends for a little over a year before we started dating (April 22, 2001). Tuesday will be our 13 year "dating anniversary." We've been married 9 years.
We met at a random party we were both getting utterly bored at. We joked about how lame the party was and exchanged yahoo ids. I lived in MN and he in NY and this party was in Kansas (random much!). We flirted on yahoo chat for many months after that. Never took anything seriously as we weren't in the same city. We went on a couple 'friendly' dates in those months when I was in NY which were great but that was that.
One fine day I lost my job and since I was not a US citizen I had exactly 90 days to find a job or leave the country. He stepped up, told me to move to NY as there are better job opportunities there, live with him to save rent, plus he would be happy to keep my dog as well. He took no excuses and told me the clock was ticking. I don't know what got into me. I packed up my whole house in MN in two days- put everything I could in my car including my dog and drove 21 hours from MN to NY non stop. All I knew is the moment I saw him waiting by his building to receive me that all would be ok and it was.
We lived together for 3 months, I found a job, got my own apartment etc. but by that time we were in love and practically inseparable. We got married 6 months after I moved to NY (we eloped in August to get married no one knows till date shhhh! We officially got married for family and friends in Nov that year)
DH and I worked together in an auto parts store. He was my manager and I had a BF. That relationship was in the beginning stages of becoming emotionally abusive (didn't see it myself at the time, of course). After a particularly bad fight I was venting to another coworker and he overheard. It was enough to make him concerned and he asked me to lunch to talk about it. DH ended up saving me from that guy after the breakup when he started stalking me. He would show up all over the place. I was on the phone with him one time when I pulled into my driveway and ex yanked open my car door. I managed to get it closed again, but couldn't leave. DH heard everything, grabbed one of his roommates and hauled ass to get to me. He and my dad almost beat the ever-living crap out of him!
A little while after that we started dating. We had been together a couple of months when HR found out about us. Still don't know know how. I thought we had kept it pretty discreet. Anyway, he was written up and I got transferred. We moved in after about six months and were together almost five years before he proposed (though he says he had the ring for over a year)! Married 15 months later and celebrated 13 years in March (8 married)
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Meteorology students at college were arranging car pools for a storm chase day. As an inexperienced freshman, I was put in a car with DH as the driver and another upperclassman. I learned valuable chasing lessons (ie don't get caught on a road with no way to whip a fast u-turn and let DH navigate cause I suck with directions). We started dating the following spring
Re: How did you meet your DH/SO?
I joke with DH that we should make a commercial for Eharmony. Lol!
I met MH at band camp for it college marching band. I was a freshman in the color guard, he was a sophomore sousaphone player. Our first meeting wet literally ran into each other during a rehearsal break. Apparently, as we walked away from each other, he was staring at my ass and got smacked in the back of the headbyhis section leleader. ;-)
We were friends for a couple years and started dating when I was a junior, got engaged the weekend I graduated and married the following year. Hard to believe we'll have been together 10 years this fall!
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Long story short, my roommate wanted to date around and my H isn't like that. So, they stopped dating and about a month later I had my friend take me to H's campus to hang out. We've been together ever since. Monsters Inc. was the first movie we watched together.
I knew from the moment I met him that he was the kind of guy I wanted to marry. I told my mom on the phone and she thought I was losing my mind
12 years later, here we are
DH and I met in middle school, but weren't really friends. My friends all "dated" his (I did too) but DH was really shy and didn't talk to me much. We ended up going to different high schools and colleges, but our circle of friends continued to overlap. After college we both moved back to our hometown and my best friend got engaged to his friend. We started hanging out and after about 6 months started dating. He's still a really shy guy, so I had to make the first move which is so not my style. I'm really happy I did.
We dated through college and then "lived in sin" for 4 years while we put each other through grad school. In a sense we have grown up together...part of the reason I think we work so well together.
dx PCOS 2007
BFP #1 (natural) 12/23/2010. Stillbirth due to IC 4/2/2011
TTC #2 starting 03/2012
RE starting 07/2012
05/2013 BFP on a Letrozole (Femara)/trigger!
Cerclage, Procardia, Makena, GD (with insulin), MBR, and we made it!
Our Angel was born sleeping at 20 weeks due to IC.
We met online, though any outside our closest family and friends think we met through friends. We weren't matched up by the site because I was outside the age range he was looking for. I like to remind him that I found him -- because I liked something in his profile pic (besides him). We emailed back and forth for a few weeks before meeting for lunch. We met in June, got engaged the next April, and married the next October.
My other half worked in a different department to me, but asked me out for drinks that night. I was leaving the county in 2 months for a job do went into the relationship thinking it would be my last fling before I moved away and started my new life. We've been together 14 years now, only 3 years less than I spent without him. Turns out our mums used to work together too years before we met each other
Short story: my college roommate was engaged (and is now married to) DH's brother.
Long story:
I was super antisocial in college. I had a boyfriend when I met DH. He remembers meeting me, but I only remember the day but not him (I was fighting with my BF). Later in the year we were both at a pumpkin carving party, and I couldn't take my eyes off him. He had a crush on me from day 1, but was too shy to do anything about it. At that party we ended up by ourselves around a campfire for over an hour chatting. I don't remember what we talked about, I was just waiting for him to ask me out. Nothing ended up happening, but I was lovestruck (to the point where I saw him driving behind me after the party and almost faked car trouble).
His brother invited me to a NYE party that year, so I intentionally stranded myself there without a ride home hoping he would take me. Nope... a different guy ended up giving me a ride. I was so bummed.
Then we ended up hanging out together in the spring (at another event without a ride home... what a coincidence lol). He was talking about the foreclosure he had just bought and all the work he was doing to it. I told him that I loved working on houses (so not true) and would be willing to help him out sometime. That night (while a different guy was getting ready to give me a ride home) he finally asked for my number. It took him forever (about 2 weeks) to call me, and when he did I was out with another guy. I ended the date early so I could go meet up with DH.
We spent some time at the house, went out to dinner, and then sat quietly in his truck for three hours, not touching, not talking. We were both too shy to do or say anything, but neither of us wanted to leave. Our second date went the exact same way, except He finally kissed me before I went home. We ended up getting married 53 weeks later.
Ummm.... that was longer than I intended. My bad Hopefully the formatting sticks since I'm mobile.
He and the roommate aren't friends anymore :P
Funny, funny thing is at 6'4" and full beard I thought I remembered him saying a few semesters ago he was much younger then me. So I asked him his age and he said she was was only 2 years younger- doable since I have kids from a previous relationship I didn't feel like wasting time w someone immature (I know age is not the only factor) well after a few dates I find out his REAL age he is actually 6 years younger then me! But by then it was to late I was falling and realized age really isn't anything more then a number he always jokes about how he said he was older then said his real age and I thought he was joking
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Sarah
BFP#1 10/24/11 EDD 07/01/11 DD1 6/29/11
BFP#2 07/26/12 EDD 03/21/13 M/C(mmc6wk)09/04/12 @~11w
BFP#3 02/08/13 EDD 10/22/13 M/C(mmc6wk)03/11/13 @~8w
BFP#4 06/05/13 EDD 02/19/14 DD2 02/05/14
It was love at first sight, or lust, eitherway it was beautiful and so intense.
One fine day I lost my job and since I was not a US citizen I had exactly 90 days to find a job or leave the country. He stepped up, told me to move to NY as there are better job opportunities there, live with him to save rent, plus he would be happy to keep my dog as well. He took no excuses and told me the clock was ticking. I don't know what got into me. I packed up my whole house in MN in two days- put everything I could in my car including my dog and drove 21 hours from MN to NY non stop. All I knew is the moment I saw him waiting by his building to receive me that all would be ok and it was.
We lived together for 3 months, I found a job, got my own apartment etc. but by that time we were in love and practically inseparable. We got married 6 months after I moved to NY (we eloped in August to get married no one knows till date shhhh! We officially got married for family and friends in Nov that year)
DH and I worked together in an auto parts store. He was my manager and I had a BF. That relationship was in the beginning stages of becoming emotionally abusive (didn't see it myself at the time, of course). After a particularly bad fight I was venting to another coworker and he overheard. It was enough to make him concerned and he asked me to lunch to talk about it. DH ended up saving me from that guy after the breakup when he started stalking me. He would show up all over the place. I was on the phone with him one time when I pulled into my driveway and ex yanked open my car door. I managed to get it closed again, but couldn't leave. DH heard everything, grabbed one of his roommates and hauled ass to get to me. He and my dad almost beat the ever-living crap out of him!
A little while after that we started dating. We had been together a couple of months when HR found out about us. Still don't know know how. I thought we had kept it pretty discreet. Anyway, he was written up and I got transferred. We moved in after about six months and were together almost five years before he proposed (though he says he had the ring for over a year)! Married 15 months later and celebrated 13 years in March (8 married)
Peanut 07/05/07 CP @ 4w3d Sweet Pea 04/21/08 @ 7wks
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