Tell us how you hooked up with the love of your life!

(Cut from Step Up thread)

We don't really remember.

My husband and my sisters were friends in school. They've known each other since they were 9 years old. I was two years ahead of them in school and never really paid attention to who they knew. But we're sure he was at my house when we were kids. Plus we were VERY different back then.

Years later, we double dated, with other people and Tommy used to get in trouble for looking at me. He was such a dork! He would stare at me (while we were on our dates with other people!) and say, "You are so cool", "I love your voice", "You are so cool."

My senior year in college I was dating a guy who wasn't so nice to me. I was out at the local bar complaining to a group of friends about the lastest wrong done to me, when Tommy pipped in "Break up with him and go out with me." So I did. Don't ask me why...

Our first date was the day I graduated college, May 25, 1990.

We met through mutual friends. That is, I had a crush on a guy who was friends with Chad's roommate. Both the roommate and my crush were really into swing dancing. One night a dance teacher was visiting from California, and my crush invited me to go dancing with them. I didn't know how to dance, by the way. Anyway, afterwards we went back to the house to watch "Swing Kids," and Chad, who I vaguely remembered meeting a few weeks before, watched the movie with us. He mentioned that he wanted to take lessons, but didn't have a dance partner. I told him I didn't have a partner either, so we decided we'd take lessons together.
I didn't have a car, so he offered to drive me home. Unfortunately (or fortunately) his car kept quitting, so the ten minute drive turned into almost two hours. We had a lot of time to talk and trade phone numbers.
Over the next three weeks he kept visiting me at work until I had a chance to hang out with him. I went over to his place to watch the animated version of "The Lord of the Rings." We also finally started dance lessons. We spent almost every day of the next five months either at dance lessons, watching Star Trek, or just taking long walks and talking.
Five months after we became friends, we finally realized that we wanted to be best friends for life :D So we started dating (January 12, 2003), and ten months after that we were married.

Blind date through mutual friends!!

4 months after we met, we got engaged, then 8 months after we got engaged we moved from Kentucky to Florida, then 8 months after THAT we got married...when it's right, it's right!! lol

HIgh School Sweethearts.

Without making this a long story:

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Sister, we love long stories like that! Tell us!

Okay, I’ll go a little more into it than that. I was just lacking in time and didn’t feel like writing a lot.

Note: Not everything in the following story is a role model for godly living. I was at a very low point in my life.

When I was 10, I started praying for my future spouse.

Fast forward many years later.

My husband at that time (different than the one I now have) and year were having a very terrible year. We were going to be hitting our 5 yr wedding anniversary right before Christmas ’98. Our marriage, from day 1, was very rocky. I believed during our engagement that Aaron was not the man I should’ve married. I was a very insecure person with a terrible self-esteem. To me then, it was better to have someone than be alone. And, I allowed myself to listen to Aaron’s mother, who said we were perfect for each other and should marry. So, we got married. I don’t recall having a happy marriage, rather being very miserable throughout it. My career soared, while my marriage went down in the dumps.

In earlier ’98, I began losing weight (this was when I began my quest for better health) through the Weigh Down Workshop. I was getting all sorts of compliments and lived on them. Around the same time, at one of my company’s sites that was nearly 1000 miles away, I became friends with someone that was helping me. One thing led to another and over a couple months, that turned into an affair. I ended up committing adultery with this person on a business trip.

Since I was an honest person, I couldn’t live with that and told my husband. It was upsetting, but he forgave me. Nothing changed in our marriage and that greatly discouraged me. My ex couldn’t keep a job. The final straw was when he lost another job right around Thanksgiving. At that time, I separated from him.

I ended my affair with DG, but we still kept a friendship. He introduced me to Yahoo chatting and Messenger and while my ex was away at school, he and I would chat. But, that wasn’t always, and I began to explore.

In Oct’98, I met Henry online. He IM’d me while I was in the interracial chatroom. He mistook my name (Tiger Cub or something like that) for a plane. Because it hadn’t been too long since I graduated college, I still remembered my aerospace engineering stuff, so we had a really intelligent conversation about planes. He was one of the more intelligent people I chatted with.

Initially I didn’t like him because he was so obnoxious and crass, but as we chatted more and more, I found him to be intriguing….as he was like a bad boy with me. He lived a life much different than mine. Not too long after we started chatting, he gave me his phone #. We began talking on the phone. After my ex and I separated, I met Henry that Christmas when I flew to my mom’s who lived within an hr of Henry. We began a dating relationship around that time. Mind you, I’m still married to Aaron.

I was way backslidden in my walk with God. The years of discouragement with Aaron had really worn me down and I had listened to all the lies of Satan. I also didn’t have the correct tools and resources to get the help I needed. It was not good. Aaron and I divorced in Jun’99. Henry was not saved when we started dating, but one of the things that impressed me about him was his self-control. His language was so vulgar, which was a turn off, but when I asked him to stop completely, he did just like that. He could keep up with me intellectually. He also allowed me to share a great deal about Christ with him.

Years before, he used to go to a Jehovah Witness church (or whatever they called them). That was where he learned about God. April ’99, I led Henry to the Lord.

However, I continued to make wrong choices because of my poor self-esteem and lack of respect for myself. We continued to have sex and I got pregnant before the year was up. I was due in Jul’00. We planned when we found out at Thanksgiving ’99 to get married April ’00. Henry lived in San Francisco. I lived in the Phoenix, AZ area. Henry moved here a week before we got married.

That first year of marriage with a new baby was so challenging. The year that followed was very stressful, too. But, as we’ve submitted our marriage to God and our lives to Him, He has totally changed it. Henry is an incredible husband. God has changed me so much because I was willing to submit. That’s about as short as I can make this other than the 1 sentence thing.

Though we made a lot of poor choices, God can turn things around, if we allow Him to. It’s been a sometimes very painful journey, but one that was necessary. I know what it’s like to make very poor choices and be responsible for them. I also know what it is to be in complete bondage, and what it’s like to experience freedom from bondage. God wants us to live abundant lives in Him. I will never go back to that life again. It’s hard now to imagine how I could make those choices, but I know that I did and only I am solely responsible for those choices. I have learned a great deal. God is so good and I am very grateful for His infinite grace and mercy in my life.

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Wow Doris, what a great story. Thank you so much for sharing it. :hug:

Ok, I'll give more detail.

I was captain of my cheerleading squad my senior year of High School (basketball season). No, my wife wasn't a cheerleader. But our school had one a dance after a basketball game one night - me & my buddy (he was also a cheerleader) were late for the dance and as soon as we walked in a slow song came on. My buddy grabbed a girl & started dancing - he then grabbed another girl and said, "Here - dance w/ her". That is how we met. I left taht night and didn't even know her name. looked her picture up in the year book to figure it out. A week or so later I ask her out on a date......the rest is history.

Come to find out we went to the same grade school, middle school, junior high, and high school - but I had never seen her! She was friends w/ my best friends sister - still - never met. Amazing what God can do!

Hubby and I met at the end of July '00. I was living in Italy at the time but had gone back to England for a vacation. While I was there a friend of my mother's needed a house sitter so me and my friend house sitted for a week. We were allowed to use this guys computer so me and my friend took turns chatting on ICQ. I didn't want to chat to a local person cos they always try to convince to to meet them LOL and I'd always been interested in ranches so I did a search for users with "ranch" in their details and hubby came up as he owned a ranch and feedlot. So I sent him and message and he responded. I caught him on the one evening he had off as it was harvest time and he was working for the local tractor dealership. He said he never responded to random messages but this time he did. I talked to him until 6 o' clock in the morning. He had just seperated from his first wife 2 months earlier so he was definitely not looking for a relationship but as crazy as it sounded something kept prodding me to keep in contact with him and before long we were chatting every day. At the beginning of December his divorce was finalized and in Feb '01 I flew out to Texas to visit him. It was the most amazing two weeks of my life but I still thought to myself how crazy was I? I went back to Italy and we were both miserable and decided that I would go back to Texas so 6 weeks after I left Texas I flew back there. We knew that we didn't want to be apart again so 5 weeks later we got married in May '01. That's also when we found out we were expecting Katheryn.

And the rest as they say is history!

It's convoluted and I blame EMS and Dungeons and Dragons.... (Actually no blame I am very happy with her... her family on the other hand will have to be a seperate post....)


Geoff my best friend since 8th grade joined a D&D group.... couple months later they were looking for more players, so he got me to come out of gaming retirement...
Don who is another good friend of ours (paramedic who is actually the guy that peer pressured me into becoming an EMT several years ago) got drug back in by Geoff (best friend). Don drug his partner Mike (now my BIL) who Drug his wife Dusty. A bunch of the gaming group had free passes to see Last Samuri in DLP Mike and Dusty brought her sister Misty. Misty and I met that night Actually just an hour or two over two years ago to the minute as I type this. I thought she was taken, she thought I was taken. She joined the group, we started talking and really liking each other, I was ticked off at the world I mad an offer to my employers to spend time in our Hungary facility, sent a note to the group to tell them that I had made the offer so I might have to drop out on short notice if they take me up on my offer, she emails me with a note saying she was sad and she wanted to get to know me better, short time later we had our first date on Mike (BIL) B-day which was the one year anniversary of my BIL Tim's death. It snowballed from there so that 24 days past our one year anniversary of meeting that we were married.

Yours sounds like mine. See my testimony (still trying to figure out these links here...) for the graphic details.

sig worthy....


TMI Bro...this one should be in the "vault".

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I first saw wifey at a state-wide FCA retreat (Fellowship of Christian Atheletes).

At the time she was promised to another guy in Phoenix. I didn't think much of it, other than she was a hottie...(I don't think she knew I existed but she says she remembers her mom callin' me 'radical' (in a Christian way..lol)).

Thought about her over the summer and low and behold...she dumps the ex and starts going to my college (Northern Arizona University) which is 150 miles North of Phx...anyway, of course she attends FCA and so I started to put the moves on her....

Problem is, her roommate liked me....so I had this love triangle I had to operate around for a few weeks until said roommate finally had to get her heart broken. College soap operas...lol.

We dated until I graduated (bout 1.5 years)...married on 6/16/1990....she still had student teaching as her last semester...we lived in a 300 sq ft studio apartment for our first year of marriage...I dont' recommend this.

Think back to high school - think back to the cheerleaders - you know where my hand was? Yeah - B) All is good! :thumbsup:

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So YOU were the one feelin' up my girlfriend....

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Oh yeah. :)

don't hate the playa - hate the game.

I met my wife at a summer job at the movie theater. She was the new girl and I was training her.

I offered her a ride home and the next day she left her phone number in the Box Office for me.