How You Met

[DeWayneTN]

Someone asked the other day how I met my girlfriend and I'll share it later in this thread but I thought it would be cool to hear how some of you who've been together for years and years told the story of how you met. Any takers?

[paul]

1965 I was in the Navy. I went home on emergency leave because they thought my mother would not live. ( She just turned 80 ). While home my friend set me up on a blind date. three couples. Nancy was with another guy and I another girl. When I saw here I asked my friend her name and he told me Nancy Helebrant. I told him right them she was the girl I would marry.

I left and went to Southeast Asia. I wrote her many times and told her of my intent. she replied and told me to "drop dead ". I persisted over the next year. Her responses to all my letters were the same.

I was able to get another leave when my unit came back to the states. I went to marry her. I had 30 days leave the first three week she refused to se me. Finally the last week she agreed to one date. Two days later we ran off and eloped. Been married for 41 fantastic years and she is my very special valentine.

[Alan]

How about some of us who haven't been together for that many years?

As for me and my wife. I got lucky, we met online. We talked online and on the phone for about a month. I went to visit a friend who lived in Douglasville and drove to her house on Saturday to meet her. It went from me driving up there once in a while to every other week, and occasionally she would come down and stay at my mom's for a week. I proposed in January (after we'd been dating 5 months), and we got married in August. It's hard to believe this past August 24th was 5 years. It just doesn't seem that long ago, but at the same time I can't really remember what my life was like without her.

[RamboPreacher]

at church, during singles ministry.

[MrDanger]

Kimmy and I had known each other for years. However, she was always the younger cousin of friends of mine.

Summer of 2000. We worked camp together. She walked in to the staff meeting before the campers showed up. I looked at a friend of mine and said, "Is that Kimmy Cole?!? SHE'S HOT!!! I'm gonna marry her!" He politely informed me that she was engaged. I politely informed him that she was engaged....not married. I never dreamed in a million years that she would like me.

[dolfan]

August of 1983 at school. I was sitting in the windowsill of our 6th period school newspaper classroom, a few days before school started back, at an organizational meeting of our school newspaper staff. Lesley was a freshman and had registered for the class. She walked in with her friend, whom I grew to truly find intolerable and do to this day (btw, they're not friends now for 20 years). We said hi, and became fast friends. Started dating on this day in 1986.

[DeWayneTN]

Three years ago, when I was on a trial version of Eharmony, LeAnn came up as a match and I noticed that not only was she in Cleveland but also worked in Christian music. I sent her preliminary questions but didn’t hear back and I befriended another match in the meantime.

Fast forward to March 2007. I signed up for another three-month trial and LeAnn popped up with answers to my questions. I was glad to see them but wondered what took so long and why this poor girl had been on eharmony for three years. It turns out that she had only filled out the personality profile a few years ago and decided to do the trail the same time I rejoined.

We went through the process and besides her beautiful profile pictures, I could tell she was well-spoken, personable and interesting. I asked to see if we could meet up one night and not call it a date, so there wouldn’t be the pressure. Then we could decide if we wanted something further.

LeAnn, of course, was a sweetheart from the moment I met her. We talked non-stop for three hours at the restaurant about our jobs, our lives and some surprising familiar connections. Soon after, we had our first date at Tony’s Pasta in Chattanooga. It was so fun and exciting and yet relaxed, like old friends getting together. When we left the restaurant to walk across the small street to the coffee shop, I looked over and fireworks were going off at a nearby baseball stadium. I couldn’t have planned it better.

[Paully_44]

my wife is my best friends sister. We finally started dating after years of knowing each other and come this May, it will be 17 years for us.

[Dr. Ron]

The year was 1960. I was 13 and had a two week break from revivals with Harrison Price. By this time I had traveled to most of the US and half way around the world. I was a "seasoned" man of the world.

I took my two weeks and at my dad's insistance went to youth camp in Camp Hickory Hills in Madison Tenn. The first day there, I saw a beautiful girl walking near the dining hall. I asked a friend who she was and he told me she was Diane Tice from Memphis.

She got in line for dinner and I paid the guy behind her 50cents for his place in line. I told her who I was and she said " I already know who you are....you play guitar with my brother." I didn't know he had a little sister.
I said " I think you are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen and will you marry me?" Remember I was 13 and so was she. She told me I was crazy and I said "yep, I am crazy about you".

Five years and six days later, we were married after writing hundreds of letters and seeing each other at conventions, General Assemblys , youth camps.....and finally when I got a car.....I would go to see her.

The night she graduated, I brought a U Haul trailer to her graduation. I picked her and her belongings up and brought her home. That was almost 43 years ago....She is still the most beautiful thing on earth to me....and I even have grandchildren............she is my heart.

[MacUser]

Oh I could write forever about this wonderful woman... but I will try to be brief.

I first spotted her in 11th Grade english class in late 80's. She had a beauty/air that I was attracted to immediately. I said to myself.. She's the kind of girl I want to marry.

We were both dating some dead end people (mine worse that hers) and after we met, talked, shared mutual friends... I fell for her. But the moment I was going to ask her out.. She asked me instead. We went to the senior dance on her previous boyfriends invite. It was a life changing event.

Amazingly I was blessed to win her heart and she amazingly blessed mine every day since for nearly 18 years! I love you sincerely and pray God's blessings on you.

Love your Husband, Chris

[Sherry]

I was on vacation in Texas right after graduation visiting my aunt and uncle. I was going to stay in Texas for a month, go to youth camp with my uncle (he was working as Dean) and then return back to Chicago when my folks came down for vacation at the end of the month. All my plans changed when on the second day in Texas I met David, a friend of my uncles.

From that second day I was in Texas, we were inseparable! Camp was the following week, and we really bonded during that week. By the end of camp, he told me he loved me. By the time my family came down on vacation he had asked me to marry him. We were married four months after we met. That was 24 years ago.

I am a true believer of Love at first sight!

[free]

I met my wife through my now mother-in-law...It was at the General Assembly in Cleveland...During one of the sessions I was making my usual rounds of the building when I steeped inside to see what was going on.

Standing at the back was a woman I didn't know...She looked at me and asked me the name of a man who was singing at the time...I told her it was John Payne (from VA) and that I was from VA as well. To my surprise she said that she was born/raised in VA...She was a state secretary and her husband had pastored before being appointed as an overseer...I told her she might know my grandfather...When I mentioned his name she threw her arms around me and told me that my grandfather had been her parents pastor when she was a small girl...Come to find out she knew all of my family...Then she said she wanted me to meet her daughter.

Long story short...We met that day...We were both engaged to other people...Something clicked and I could not stop thinking about her...We sat together 2 times during the assembly...I told her good-bye on the last day...About 4 days after the assembly I went to their home in VA for a visit and went on our first and the rest is history...We met in September and were married in December (the same year)...That will be 22 years ago in December.

I too believe in love at first sight!!

[Ilovebigcats]

Met my old lover in the grocery store
The snow was falling christmas eve
I stole behind her in the frozen foods
And I touched her on the sleeve




I was working at Kroger in charge of the video department. I was where I could see the baggers. I saw his rosy cheeks and baby face and fell in lust. Lust at first sight is REAL. I told my friend that was working with me that I liked someone. She said, "ME TOO! Who?" I said he has brownish hair and rosy cheeks. She said, "so does the guy I like!" I said, "he is a bagger." She said, "MINE IS TOO!" I said, "what is his name?" She said, "DANNY!" I said, "WHAT!??" I was ready to fight! LOL! I said, "I like Danny!" She said, "NO WAY!" About the time Danny started walking by. I said there he is, in a giggly school girl whisper. She said, "OH! I like the other Danny." We both cracked up very relieved. Her Danny that she liked was UGLY so it never crossed my mind it could be him. I told her I knew that Danny and could hook her up. I got them together. It took another month or so to get me and Danny... both pretty shy... to get together.

We finally went on our first date. Were boyfriend and girlfriend 2 weeks later. He asked me to run away and marry him 2 weeks later. We were too young and we just couldn't do it. Mr Impulsive, for about 30 minutes, had to be told we need to wait. After he graduated high school the next month, he officially asked me to marry him. We were married 5 months later.

Best decision I ever made... though I have questioned it many times... where I am now. I wouldn't change a thing.

[rough_rider]

We grew up in church together, she was 7, I was 9. We dated for about 3 years before getting married, she was 17 and I 19. In April it will be 31 yrs. My mother-inlaw swore it would not last 6 months, 30yrs and 3 kids, 9 Grandkids later, we are still very much in love...

[rjc]

I was 6 and Bob was 23, he and his first wife (she died in 1986) were the best man and a bridesmaid for my older sister's wedding. They became friends of the family, had many Sunday dinners with us and I was a babysitter for his 2 oldest sons. I married, had 2 children and finally divorced because of physical and mental abuse. Fast forward to 1989, I was at my parents and Bob came for dinner. The next week we went out and 8 months later we were married. He was a big, happy Irishman who loved life everyday. He had 2 Master's Degrees (Biochemistry and Finance and undergraduate degree in theology) and a Doctorate in Law but would crawl around the floor with the grandbabies and make up silly songs and stories. We were married for 13 years but we packed a lifetime in those years. He has been gone almost 6 years now and sometimes it feels like yesterday, but even if I knew what we would go through I would still marry him.