SO engagement post

We were together for 6 months in high school and then he broke up w/me. We sort of saw eachother on and off. When I went back to college at 21 he called out of the blue and came over to help me w/algebra. We've been together ever since. We've been together for 45 years w/that first 4 years mostly off, but 41 years steadily. After 14 years we finally got married.

He's the love of my life. Marriage is never perfect, but I never understood people who say it is work. It's never felt like work. It's like having a sleepover w/your best friend every night. I love it.

we "grew up" at the same ski area.. both of us there every week of the winter. but he is 6 yrs older, so he knew my older brothers.. but I knew who he was cause he worked on the expert lift with his dad.

I saw him again at the ski area in my mid 20's.. and picked him up at the bar, christmas 1980. we wrote letters to each other for 5 months.--his mom worked at the ski area that winter, as did I and I saw her all the time.. though no one knew we were interested in each other. and I went to SF for a visit with him in may and never left. he proposed new year's 1981 after we drove in one day from seattle. we were married 9 months later.
in two months, it will be 41 yrs. I still ski..he rides a ski bike.

We started dating in July 2000, and got married in December 2000. We were friends since high school, but didn't date until after college. So our "real" 24th anniversary will be in Dec. this year, but b/c we're so busy with Christmas, and both our kids are December babies (and so am I!), we actually celebrate our dating anniversary instead! 

We started dating on Canada Day, got engaged on Canada Day a year later and had our Canada Day wedding a year after that! 😄
We just celebrated 35 years. 🥰

Friends for 6 months before we started dating.

Engaged 18 months later.

Married 2 years after.

Been married for 20 years.

Met in Oct 1986
Moved into his house Aug 1988
Bought a house together Nov 1988
Decided to marry Sept 1990--not sure there was an actual proposal by either of us
Married Oct 1990
married 33 yrs 10 mos, still living in the same house we bought in 1988

We met in October of 1974 when I drove a friend to go see her boyfriend, his brother (neither of us knew it was a set up)
Dated for about 6 months and became best friends - he is 2 years older; I still had a year left of high school.
We stayed friends but he wanted to travel and well - I was heartbroken!
I ended up marrying the wrong guy right out of high school, marriage lasted about 1 1/2 years.
DH kept in touch with my parents and knew all the details. He called me (thanks Mom and Dad) in 1979, was living in Denver.
I was living in Virginia, where the Army took me with my ex, had a good job and making decent pay.
He offered to split the plane fare to come see him which I did.
He asked me to marry him when I walked off the plane, I said yes.
My boss offered him a job in DC, he moved there where we married in April 1980.
Three daughters and 11 years later we moved back to Ohio.
We have been married for 44 years and he is still my best friend.

We met in September 1960.  Both of us were newly employed in the research department of a large chemical company. I had graduated in June and he graduated in August from the same university. He saw me at lunchtime in the cafeteria and commented about me to his colleague who encouraged him to meet me. We had our first date a month or so later to a football game at our university. I honestly don’t remember when he proposed. March or April.  But we picked out my ring together and were married in October, 1961.  So 63 years married.He’s a keeper.

Known DH almost my entire life(my best friend is his first cousin)
Started dating August 1982
Engaged August 1983
Married August 1984
We will be celebrating 40 years next month!

Ha ha.  My inlaws also flipped out over our quick (seven months) engagement.  To this day, they seem to think I'm here on a whim and may take off any second (we've been married 27 years).

Our first date was January 1997. (We had met a few months before that.)
We got engaged late summer 1998. (So about a little over a year and a half between our first date & engagement.)
We were married late summer 2000. So, coming up on our 24 year anniversary right now.


On the flip side, my parents got engaged less than 3 months after their first date, and married 5 months later (less than 8 months after their first date). 

We just celebrated their 50th anniversary a few weeks ago. 

Met DH on a business trip to SF in April 1984. Had just gotten out of 6 year relationship the week before. My sister invited him to dinner as they were RE agents in the same office.

Went back to CA that summer in July with my parents for 10 days. Went out with DH every day. If set to music it would make a Hallmark movie. Went to Carmel, took me on his sailboat to Tiburon and docked for lunch, explored SF with him, etc.

He came to Baton Rouge in late August and proposed the second day. I accepted 4 days later on Labor Day. I went back to CA to meet his family in October and we married Thanksgiving weekend. So we'll celebrate 40 years this November.

Side note: old boyfriend met a woman the same day I met DH. They got married the weekend after us in the same church, same minister, same friends. We had met in the singles Sunday School Class.

Met Jan 1978
Engaged April 1979
Married June 1979

Still married after 45 years!