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Post by ~summer~ on Mar 28, 2024 16:49:37 GMT
My parents’ had homes next to each other and I think families sort of knew each other. My dad had a summer job knocking mussels off of boats and he’d have his shirt off and my mom could see him from her bedroom window and would admire his muscles!
When she was in high school - he took her to a college party - he then didn’t call for a few weeks. He then saw her out with another boy and quickly called her again.
They started dating when she was just like 17 - dated through college at UCB and UCLA then got married while still in college. He was drafted to Vietnam and my mom got pregnant with my sister when he had r&r in Hawaii and they met up. She was super pregnant with my sister in Japan and she still remembers that she’d take the street car and no one would offer her their seat.
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Post by fotos4u2 on Mar 28, 2024 16:57:47 GMT
Love reading these.
My parents met when my mom was working as a waitress at IHOP, either right before she graduated high school or shortly after so she was 17/18 and he was 19/20. They moved in together quickly but my mom insists she was a virgin when they got married. Not long after I was born when they were 21 and 23. By the time I was 7 they were divorced and my dad had remarried. Ironically he also met my stepmom when she was working as a waitress at Bob's Big Boy (which has a similar feel to IHOP). They have been married 44 years and have seemed miserable most of those years.
My paternal grandparents met in college I think? They were happily married for 55 years before my grandpa died.
My maternal grandparents met in the Army and my mom was an oops that happened so they got married. They were married 31 years before my grandpa died of cancer but were definitely unhappy the majority of that time.
My mom met her current husband at work when I was in high school. They've been married almost 30 years and while they don't have a great relationship seem content to stay together until they die.
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Post by Peace Sign on Mar 28, 2024 17:13:33 GMT
my mom and dad went to high school together. on their first date, he took her about 20 minutes out of town to this little lake town that had a small amusement park. he took her on her very first roller coaster ride. when they were going up the first big hill, the chain broke. my mom thought it was part of the ride, but my dad pushed her out and jumped out after her. i think he landed on a fence. they were both ok but someone did die in the accident. she does not go on roller coasters anymore.
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Post by The Great Carpezio on Mar 28, 2024 17:45:26 GMT
My mom was working in the health office at the University of Minnesota. She started dating a guy who was Jewish-- and in pharmacy school-- and she was Catholic (1968). They went on a few dates, but they knew it wasn't going to go far due to religious differences. He said, "Hey, I have a guy in my fraternity who is graduating in a couple of months from pharmacy school and needs someone to go the the end of yr activities--he is a good Catholic boy--can I give him your number?" ---and that was that.
They were engaged three months later and married a year after. I think they were 23 and 24 when they married.
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Post by pilcas on Mar 28, 2024 17:49:05 GMT
They lived in the same apartment building.
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Post by Fidget on Mar 28, 2024 20:06:25 GMT
My parents met at work, my mom had her first job at age 17, my dad was 18. They married (in 1954) when my mom was 18 and my dad was just 19. They were together until my father died at the young age of 56.
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Post by cmpeter on Mar 29, 2024 2:10:42 GMT
Not surprisingly, no. They made it about 5 years. They joined a commune in San Francisco called the Magic People. The commune moved up even further into Northern California. My mom went with them and my dad stayed in San Francisco.
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Post by lg on Mar 29, 2024 2:23:13 GMT
My Dad saw my Mum at the phone box at university and thought she looked alright. He would pretend to call his Mum at the same time she was there each week so he could chat with her 🥰 She though he was such a nice guy calling his Mum all the time - btw he does call his mother all the time but might have called more than normal to chat with Mum 🤣
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Post by busy on Mar 29, 2024 2:53:05 GMT
I actually don’t know how my parents met but my mom and stepfather dated for two years in high school and then broke up when my stepfather went away to college in Nebraska (from Oregon). They both ended up marrying other people and having two kids each. At their 20th class reunion, they reconnected, discovered they’d both divorced within the last year, one thing led to another and they had their 40th anniversary last May.
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Post by sillyrabbit on Mar 29, 2024 3:14:22 GMT
My mom and my aunt were at a bar with my aunt's estranged husband. Aunt's husband got rowdy and the bouncer hit him on the head with a billy club, and he dropped to the floor unconscious and covered in blood. Bouncer was getting ready to hit him with the billy club again when my dad stepped in, grabbed his arm, and told the bouncer, "I don't think so." Bouncer backed off, my dad picked up aunt's husband and threw him over his shoulder, and looked at my mom and aunt and said, "Which one of you ladies is driving us to the hospital." They all piled in a car and went to the hospital. Apparently, mom and dad became smitten with each other and got married a year later. They were married almost 50 years before my dad passed away. He was the toughest yet kindest man on the planet. And according to my mom, "as handsome as a movie star." Sure do miss him.
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Post by brynn on Mar 29, 2024 3:28:28 GMT
My parents met at a dance, where my dad and uncle were musicians. They were 17 and married at 20.
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Post by jackietex on Mar 29, 2024 3:41:38 GMT
My dad, a 27 year old American officer from New York City, was stationed in Trieste, Italy, where he met my 24 year old Italian mother while she was working at the PX (Post Exchange is a like a department store). They were married 53 years.
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Post by onelasttime on Mar 29, 2024 5:32:30 GMT
During WWII my dad was stationed at an army base near Swansea Wales. They were there being trained for the D Day.
It was there that he met my mom and where they were married. After the war she joined him in Reno, Nevada where my dad settled with two of his brothers after the war. They started a construction company. This was in 1946
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Post by Bridget in MD on Mar 29, 2024 11:20:35 GMT
My parents were both the friends that their friends brought to a double date. My dad was in Rhode Island for navy stuff, my mom lived in MA. Funny, the couple that was on the date didnt make it but my mom and dad did!
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Post by needmysanity on Mar 29, 2024 12:32:41 GMT
My parents met at a USO dance during WW2. My dad was in port in Seattle and my mom and one of her sisters went to a USO dance. My mom ended up marrying my dad and her sister married my dads friend. Both couples stayed married for years. My parents were married 53 years when my mom passed away.
I'm also adopted and my birth mom and birth dad were co workers. My birth dad got really sick and was off work for a week. My mom checked in on him one night and brought him soup. They started dating right after that. They were together about 6 weeks when his estranged wife asked for a reconciliation - he felt obligated to try.
My birthmom found out she was pregnant a few weeks later. She made a birth plan for my adoption, he knew she was pregnant and even though didn't like the idea of placing me for adoption felt he didn't have a choice to say no. He never told anyone about me until my DNA and my nephew (his grandson) were matched a few weeks shy of my 50th birthday. The first time we talked he broke down crying because he had carried such a guilt of not stepping up and raising me. Both my birthparents are wonderful people and I'm so blessed to have them in my life.
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Post by artbabe on Mar 29, 2024 14:53:09 GMT
My parents met at a drive in. Mom and her sister were there in a convertible. My dad, his brother, and another guy jumped in the back seat. Mom said he was the only nice boy.
Mom says she was aware of him before that, because she saw him at the county fair.
They were married for 50 years, until my mom died.
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Post by PLurker on Mar 29, 2024 22:16:39 GMT
My parents met at a wedding. My mom was the date/plus one of a friend of my Dad's.
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Post by lisaknits on Mar 30, 2024 12:38:47 GMT
At a city-wide Memorial Day picnic.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Mar 30, 2024 13:31:29 GMT
He was a pharmacist, and she was a district nurse, newly arrived to the area. She usually got her patients' medication from the other pharmacy in the village, run by a much older gentleman, and assumed that my dad was also older. One day my great aunt sent my mum to my dad's shop to collect her photos. Their eyes met over the counter, and the rest is history.
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Post by deekaye on Mar 30, 2024 19:49:59 GMT
My two sets of grandparents were friends and when my mom's brother got married my dad's parents were invited to to the wedding. My mom was 17 at the time and my dad was just home from Korea and tagged along with his parents to the wedding, where, of course, the rest is history.
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Post by pinkberry on Mar 30, 2024 20:22:21 GMT
My parents met because of the Great Alaskan Earthquake, which a few days ago, was the 60th anniversary. My Mom was getting ready to go to Good Friday Mass when it happened on March 27, 1964. My Dad was a fireman and after the earthquake he went around Anchorage taking pictures. He put together a slide show. My Mom babysat for the Fire Chief and he invited my Mom to come watch the slide show.
I have always said that it literally took the earth moving and shaking to bring my parents together. 😆❤️
Edited to add - they were married for 57 years until my Dad passed last July.
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Post by 950nancy on Mar 30, 2024 20:51:51 GMT
They grew up in the same tiny town North Dakota.
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Post by janeinbama on Mar 31, 2024 1:09:21 GMT
My parents met on a blind date. Her college roommate introduced them in October and they were married the following June. They were together until his death after 32 years of marriage. She has never remarried.
My maternal grandparents met on a couples’ blind date. My grandfather attended a boarding school and lived 6 hours away by train from home. Several guys went home with a friend, my great uncle, who lived much closer. My grandmother and her friends went out with the guys that came with great uncle. Two of the couples began dating the other friends. Clear as mud?? Anyway, my grandparents were married over 50 years. One of the other couples married also and came by to visit my grandparents in the 70’s. Both coupes married in the 1920s. Don’t know about paternal grandparents.
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Post by theshyone on Mar 31, 2024 3:55:23 GMT
Mom was cooking in a lumber camp, and the man who fathered me either worked there or his dad ran it, unsure which. There was never anything but some stolen nights and me the unwanted child. At the time mom was 29 with a 9 & 10 year old, the man was older with 3 older kids than moms.
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Post by brynn on Mar 31, 2024 5:11:25 GMT
They grew up in the same tiny town North Dakota. What town?
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