Hiw did you meet your husband/ mate/wife/significant other?
@1creekgirl (40570)
United States
June 28, 2023 3:47pm CST
This post was inspired by LOL and @Ambiepam recently when Lol(Jimbo) was telling how he met Yvonne.
I met Dale on a blind date. I had just gotten home from school (12th grade) and he took me to a drive in movie with another couple. We were living in Hawaii where my dad was stationed in the Coast Guard. Dale was there in the Navy.
I always liked southern country boys and he was from Arkansas. So cute with black hair and kind of an Elvis look. I decided that night I wanted to get to know that boy better!
We were so young, but got married exactly a year later...I was 18 and he was 20. We thought we were grown, of course.
That was 57 years ago and although we had a lot of rough years together, we're closer now than we've ever been. I think we finally grew up!
What about you or maybe an interesting story about your parents?
20 people like this
16 responses
@AmbiePam (85648)
• United States
28 Jun
I love hearing your story. 
It makes me smile thinking about an Elvis twin courting you!
I’m not married, and although I love my parent’s first meeting story, I actually think my sister and her husband’s story might be cuter. They both went to the same big church, but didn’t meet until they were cast as husband and wife in a church play. Eight months later, they were married, and have been now for 17 years. She was 27, and he was 35. 
It makes me smile thinking about an Elvis twin courting you!
I’m not married, and although I love my parent’s first meeting story, I actually think my sister and her husband’s story might be cuter. They both went to the same big church, but didn’t meet until they were cast as husband and wife in a church play. Eight months later, they were married, and have been now for 17 years. She was 27, and he was 35. 3 people like this
@1creekgirl (40570)
• United States
28 Jun
That really is a sweet story. Is this the sister with the three kids we read about?
1 person likes this
@AmbiePam (85648)
• United States
28 Jun
@1creekgirl Yes! They adopted their first one, Amyra of course, three years after they were first married. Four years later came Hudson, and four more years later came Annelyn. Jeff (my BIL) is 52 now, and he says he’s done. 
No more kiddos.
No more kiddos.1 person likes this
@1creekgirl (40570)
• United States
28 Jun
@AmbiePam Well, they have three wonderful children who are blessed to be in your family.
1 person likes this
@snowy22315 (170199)
• United States
28 Jun
Well I met friend who was a previous husband at a singles dance. He was a good looking guy and a good dancer, although a bit strange..( I should have taken note then). He does have a heart of gold though. Not sure what life would have been like had I not met him.
. He does have a heart of gold though. Not sure what life would have been like had I not met him.2 people like this
@snowy22315 (170199)
• United States
28 Jun
@1creekgirl No, we are just friends now. He would like to be a husband, but that ship has sailed as far as I am concerned.
2 people like this
@1creekgirl (40570)
• United States
28 Jun
@snowy22315 Okay, thanks. Sometimes a friendship can be better than a marriage.
1 person likes this
@1creekgirl (40570)
• United States
28 Jun
I'm sorry, I'm a little confused. Are you saying he is your husband now?
1 person likes this
@LadyDuck (458591)
• Switzerland
29 Jun
My husband was the younger associate of a financial office where I was hired to translate documents from English and French to Italian (to distribute to the clients). We met the month of February 1970. At the end of the year he decided to open his own office and asked if I agreed to follow him and become his assistant (w were NOT dating). I agreed, one year later we were married.
1 person likes this
@LadyDuck (458591)
• Switzerland
29 Jun
@1creekgirl And we have worked together all the time, I have never stopped to be his assistant. We have lived together since 1971 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
1 person likes this
@1creekgirl (40570)
• United States
29 Jun
@LadyDuck Wow, that's a lot of togetherness.
1 person likes this
@xFiacre (12609)
• Ireland
28 Jun
@1creekgirl it was the mirror sitting on top of the church organ so that the organist could see the people bringing the offering to the front, and what I could see was wife material.
1 person likes this
@1creekgirl (40570)
• United States
28 Jun
@xFiacre That's so sweet! How long have you been married?
@sallypup (58008)
• Centralia, Washington
29 Jun
@1creekgirl If you mean me, you betcha. Forty four years this December and still friends and hassling each other.
1 person likes this
@1creekgirl (40570)
• United States
29 Jun
@sallypup That's wonderful! A sense of humor goes a long way in a good marriage.
1 person likes this
@1creekgirl (40570)
• United States
3 Jul
@JudyEv We did that too, but it was in about the 13th year of our marriage!
1 person likes this
@JudyEv (326054)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Jul
@1creekgirl We went together for a while then split up and got back together after about a year.
1 person likes this
@jeanbug23 (992)
• Philippines
29 Jun
I haven't had a boyfriend until I was 26 years old, working. I met him in the office where I work but we have different jobs and departments. He could only see me during lunch breaks, and when it was about to go home. I didn't mind him at first because I have no plan of having a suitor or a boyfriend. He was the friend of all my co-workers except me. He was friendly, with a sense of humor and everybody would laugh at his jokes.
We became friends and got to know more of him as time passed by.
1 person likes this
@jeanbug23 (992)
• Philippines
30 Jun
@1creekgirl For some, yes. At least we get to know the person well.
1 person likes this
@1creekgirl (40570)
• United States
29 Jun
I think it's good to be friends before dating someone.
1 person likes this
@Jenaisle (14079)
• Philippines
29 Jun
That's such a wonderful story about ever-lasting love.
I met my husband when I was 19 and married him when I was 20 and he was 23. It was love that developed as we got to see each other often. But there was no doubt we were so in love with each other.
1 person likes this
@1creekgirl (40570)
• United States
29 Jun
That's a beautiful love story. You are very blessed.
1 person likes this
@kaylachan (57914)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
28 Jun
Not to much to say about my parents. They claimed it was love at first sight, and married quickly. Dad passed a year and a half after mom. My husband and I met at Pizza Hut when I was working there. I thought he was trying to bitterly steal from me, so I told him to F off. He didn't listen, and now we're married living in our own house.
1 person likes this
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
29 Jun
My parents' story is quite interesting. Similar to Romeo and Juliet. My grandparents were rivals and it's a very long story.
1 person likes this
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
29 Jun
@1creekgirl I think I've written about it here long time ago.
1 person likes this
@1creekgirl (40570)
• United States
29 Jun
That's really interesting. If you don't want to write the whole story, could we read a version of it?
1 person likes this
@Tampa_girl7 (49059)
• United States
30 Jun
Congrats on your 57 years together. I met my husband in May of 1988 at a shrimp boil. We were both with someone else. In November of 1988 I went to spend the weekend with a friend of mine and my husband and I were reintroduced. We have been together ever since. We married July 7 , 1989.
I met my husband in May of 1988 at a shrimp boil. We were both with someone else. In November of 1988 I went to spend the weekend with a friend of mine and my husband and I were reintroduced. We have been together ever since. We married July 7 , 1989.1 person likes this
@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
29 Jun
My new friend came into the store, asked me for my phone number.
1 person likes this
@aninditasen (15749)
• Raurkela, India
29 Jun
My was an arranged marriage. In India marriage is more a family union than the union of a couple. It was my husband's family who came and proposed for my hand and that was how I got married.
1 person likes this
@1creekgirl (40570)
• United States
29 Jun
I hope that work out to be a really good marriage.
1 person likes this
@aninditasen (15749)
• Raurkela, India
29 Jun
It was a mixture of good and bad. We spent 34years together and have two grown up sons.
@LindaOHio (156584)
• United States
29 Jun
I married my girlfriend's brother. He was home from the service; and I saw him and knew that he was the one. I did something I never thought I would do and asked him out to a cookout a coworker was having. We dated for four years and were married in 1970. The years have just flown by. I wish we had another 50 or so. Have a good day.
1 person likes this
@1creekgirl (40570)
• United States
29 Jun
A good marriage is truly a blessing from God.
1 person likes this
