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Post by scrapmaven on Jul 7, 2016 4:36:57 GMT
We played tennis together. I was decent, because I was in a tennis camp at the time. However, dh was really bad at it. That was 37 years ago in high school. Our first date where he spent money on me was to a movie a few years later once we started seriously dating. Guess in high school I was a cheap date. lol.
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zookeeper
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Post by zookeeper on Jul 7, 2016 4:38:03 GMT
DH and I met online. He reached out to me first on a Monday night through the site and I typed so much faster than he did that he asked me if he could call me. We spent over an hour on the phone Monday night and then we made plans to meet for drinks on Tuesday at BJ's and we hit it off immediately. That was almost five years ago and we are so disgustingly happy!
It is a second marriage for the both of us and I think that we are both much more emotionally mature than we were in our first marriages. But mostly...we just fit together. We rarely argue and we can have fun going to the grocery store. We can make an adventure out of just about anything. I really never knew that love was supposed to look like this. My parents had a toxic marriage and I really thought that was what marriage looked like. Thank goodness I figured it out!
I love hearing all of these sweet stories about finding your spouse!
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seaexplore
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Post by seaexplore on Jul 7, 2016 4:40:51 GMT
Jan.26, 1998 Farmers Market in Monterey, CA. We had met the night before, he was drunk. I was not. The night, we hung out the whole night watching The English Patient and The Fifth Element. He didn't remember me the next day. We were kinda set up by our mutual friend. We walked on the beach and bike path. I was cold and he gave me his jacket in exchange for my sweater. We got so much shit when we got back because we traded clothes. I knew the moment we met that he was my forever. He figured it out a few days later.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2016 10:22:54 GMT
We were 17...both juniors...back then we didn't have cell phones. The plan was to leave from school at the end of the day. Well that was the day he overslept and didn't show up to school until 1pm. Man I was pissed,thinking he was standing me up. He walked into class, came over and kissed me on the cheek, said sorry but you look so cute all red and mad, pulled out a bouquet of lilacs from behind his back (my favorite, he had to have done some research) We went pumpkin picking, to a local bakery and then out for dinner. It was perfect simple not showy and gavw ua time to talk, laugh and enjoy.We talked a ton, we had a ball. The night ended perfectly with a kiss in the rain. It must have went great, we have been together for 21 years come October. He jokes that he will make up for being late for the rest of his life.
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mimima
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Post by mimima on Jul 7, 2016 14:41:07 GMT
It was winter break of our Senior year in High School and I called him up and asked if he wanted to go bowling. After we discovered that I am not that good at bowling, we went to see "Look Who's Talking"
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Post by cmpeter on Jul 7, 2016 14:53:45 GMT
We met on the debate team in college so we knew each other pretty well before our first date. That date was at his house...he grilled trout he caught himself and we watched a Jerry Lewis movie. That was 5/13/1986 and we knew pretty soon after that it was the real deal.
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brandy327
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Post by brandy327 on Jul 7, 2016 15:28:33 GMT
My dh and I met online in 1997. He was 17 and I was 20. We were in a chatroom of well over 3000 people and I asked if anyone there liked country music and he replied. We chatted about music for a while and then I found out he was into web design and I was in the process of making my first webpage. I had some questions and he helped me out. We chatted for 6 hours the first day and I knew immediately I was interested. We started talking on the phone right away and I knew within a week that I wanted to marry him. Thankfully he felt the same way. 4 months later I drove halfway across the country to meet him in person. 7 months later I moved out here. One year later, we were married. It's been 17 years (and 3 kids) and I'm still madly in love with him. He's my partner in every aspect and there's no one more perfectly suited for me than him.
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StephDRebel
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Jul 5, 2014 1:53:49 GMT
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Post by StephDRebel on Jul 7, 2016 15:32:52 GMT
He drove 9 hours on his birthday to take me to a local festival to watch the parade and eat pumpkin food. We had a blast, I would've married him when he got out of the car (we had been video chatting and talking on the phone for 6 months before our first in person date, we meet before, but were just friends) I did doubt myself though, he held my hand that night but there were a few moments that would've been perfect for a first kiss and he didn't make the move. We had a blast, but by the end of the night I was kind of wondering if I had misjudged and he just wanted to be friends. I was surprised at the insecurity when he didn't, but he made up for it later. I'm a big mouth so I asked what his deal was adverse he finally kissed me and he said he never wanted me to think that he drove out there for anything but really getting to know me and he didn't want to give me any reason to think his reasons were physical. I decided to keep him, but I'm grateful he finally kissed me and it was good
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2016 16:31:33 GMT
My DH was sharing a house with two of my co workers. I was recently divorced and NOT interested in dating...He asked me out for two years and for two years I said no. I found out later (after I actually gave in and started dated him) that one of the girls he was roommates with was interested in him. She was always dangling me as bait (saying I was going places I was never actually going).
I have to say we have been married 29 years, so I am so glad he was stubborn (about that, not so much about other things LOL)
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2016 18:02:38 GMT
Our first date was for a drink at a nice bar then to see The War of the Worlds, I don't remember much of the film because he kept kissing me! After the film we walked a bit then sat on a bench talking til four in the morning. I knew I wanted to see him again but was unsure about the age difference, at one point during the date I told him I felt a lot like Joan Collins and he said 'who'? Made me realise how young he was, eleven years later it's all fine though!!
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River
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Jun 26, 2014 15:26:04 GMT
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Post by River on Jul 7, 2016 18:26:00 GMT
Awe....I love reading all these stories!!
April 1st 1992 was our first date. It was a Sunday and he took me out for a late lunch. We've been together ever since and married for 21 years.
I played pool back in those days. Hustled when I could and played a lot of tournaments. The Friday before our first date I went to our local pool hall to practice for an upcoming tournament the following Sunday. All tables were taken so I was scoping out who I wanted to play to win a table. Didn't take long before my eyes landed on DH and his friends. I knew right then he was the one. I never had nerves when it came to pool or playing someone to win a table, but my tummy was turning inside out as I walked up to them.
I put my money on the table and said "I've got winner", kept on walking straight to the bathroom to be sick. Lol. I pulled myself together and went back out there. Low and behold, I would be playing DH. I won and took control of the table, but invited them all to stay and play with me.
Hours went by with his friends all leaving. DH and I closed the place down. He walked me to my car and said goodbye. No phone number exchange and he didn't ask me out. I was pretty bummed!! The following Sunday, I'm playing the tournament and currently in third place. It was double elimination and I hadn't lost any games. I'm seeing $$$$ in my near future. In comes DH straight for me and says "if you don't have anything going after this, I'd like to take you to lunch". I lost the next two games and was seeing stars. He still has the ability to make me completely loose focus.
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Post by papersilly on Jul 7, 2016 20:33:30 GMT
went to a nice restaurant at the Marina. it was the usual stuff---chit chat and kiss at the end of the date. 11 dates later we were engaged and 3 months later we were married. I had an inkling he was "the one" on the 3rd date. I wasn't looking for "the one" since I had just broken up with someone whom I dated for almost 4 years.
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Post by lostwithout2peas on Jul 7, 2016 21:16:21 GMT
We met in high school, he was a senior and I was Jr. We where just friends as I had a boyfriend at that time, it was 1994. Fast forward to January 1995 we still talked as friends and one day he asked if I wanted to go to the movies to see the newly released Lion King. I said yes of course cause he was hot! 21 years later we have 3 kids and are going stronger then ever!
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Post by jeremysgirl on Jul 7, 2016 21:36:16 GMT
My friend, Wendy, kept talking about this guy, Jeremy. I was beginning to wonder if she was cheating on her boyfriend and that's why she kept talking about him. I did not know that she had planned to hook us up at a dinner we had scheduled with our other friend, Chris. So I finally called Chris and asked him if she was cheating on her boyfriend with this Jeremy she kept talking about and Chris came clean that they had intended to bring him to dinner the following weekend to meet me. Wendy had been taking a new allergy medicine that day and about halfway through dinner she had to use the restroom. She said she wasn't feeling well would I come with her. So I did and she passed out in the bathroom and hit her head on the wall. The guys came in and took her straight out to the car. Jeremy ended up driving her home. We barely had a chance to even talk. I went over to Chris's house and decided to hang out with him for a little while. About an hour later wendy texted me said she was feeling better woukd we mind if they came over and brought a movie. So they did. Well we all watched a movie and no one was talking. When the movie ended I looked at him and asked him if he wanted to go get a drink. Wendy answered no. So they left with him driving her home. I was on my way home and wendy texted me asking me what I thought of him. I replied that I felt like I didn't even have a chance to talk to him and that when I asked him if he wanted to go get a drink she answered no. And they left. I told her the ball was in his court. She replied back right away that neither of them realized I was talking to him about going for a drink and if I still wanted to he was up for it. By this time it was like 11:30 at night. But I picked him up drove to the bar. He was so quiet. When we got to the bar his sister was there and she's really chatty. So we kept trying to talk and she kept interrupting. It was tough. At the end of the night we exchanged phone numbers. I told him I would like to talk to him and try going out again. On my way home I got a text from him. It said I would have kissed you but I was playing hard to get. It made me laugh. Good thing our second date went a lot better. And he is really a lot more chatty in text messages than he is in real life. So we spent quite a few days texting back and forth. But the first date was an absolute disaster.
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SweetieBsMom
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Jul 7, 2016 21:42:50 GMT
DH and I were friends before we dated. First date = Pizza Hut. How'd it go....well, I started off the date by falling down my parent's brick front stairs and landing on my back on the front lawn. DH didn't even know what to say. He looked at my Dad and my Dad said "she's all yours" and went in the house.
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