How did you meet?

I occasionally watch it in July as well. Dave hates when I do that.

Hi everyone!

It was really nice reading the stories of how everyone met their spouses. Bella, I thought I was the king of the lame jokes!

I don't have such a story to tell. At age 48 I have never been married; have been unattached for longer than the combined length of my three romantic relationships; and haven't had a date since January 4, 2009. I am "shutting it down", so to speak, because considering my history with women I think I am better off alone. I tend to like (some) women more than they like me, and believe that I am much better at being Mr. Left than at Mr. Right.

Jim

Jim,
"Mrs. Right" will come along when you least expect her to, look at Mase and Jess, literally bumping into each other!

Mike hired me. He worked at the YMCA as a youth director and hired me as a camp counselor for summer day camp. BUT...I was actually his second choice for the job. He offered the job to someone else first, she accepted, then took another job and declined, so he called me. We started dating half way through the summer, after I asked him out to see the movie "Batman". After the movie he took me to this nasty bar to see a band he knew, and I felt so out of place because i had on Khaki pants and PENNY LOAFERS in this bar (I was a preppy back then)! Then we went to this park by our zoo and talked for hours. He went home that night and told his mom that I was the girl he was going to marry. The following summer, he had me transferred to another Y to avoid nepotism. Then in July he took me back to the park by the zoo and proposed the old fashioned way, down on one knee. We were married the following May, and celebrated our 20th anniversary this past May.

20 years and 3 children (1 with difficulties) later, I am happy to say I am married to my best friend and soul mate. I know it sounds hokey, but we were made for each other. In many ways we are polar opposites, but I think of it as complementing each other. Our marriage has matured as we have been through some really tough times but stuck it out together. We have 3 kids born in 3 states, have moved all over and had major career changes. We respect each other and have the same core values. We listen to each other and still enjoy being together. We have never tried to change each other. We're just good together, and I am so thankful that I found such a perfect life partner for me. and the most important thing that keeps us together....
WE BOTH LOVE DISNEY!!

Sorry honey, Do you want to add anything???

Let's see. Ed and I met at work. We are both Starbucks Store Manager. He was the Assistant Manager at a store I was a shift supervisor at. We got a long great at work and I never really thought much of it. My friends at work kept saying we'd be perfect together and I was like "hmph what do they see that I don't?" On my birthday about 3 years ago he found out he was being transferred and he came out with my friends and me. The next day was new years eve and he was out with his friends. He sent me a text at midnight that said "happy new years, when I leave the store will you have dinner with me?" I was like HUH WHAT?!?!?! I agreed, thinking I had nothing to lose really. And I didn't. 18 months later we were engaged and a year after that we were married.

My husband and I have probably one of the most unusual stories of how we met. I was married to his older brother and he passed away. My son was eight months old at the time his dad died. Over the next year and half Mike spent a lot of time with me and his nephew and an amazing relationship grew out of that. We have been married for almost four years now and I couldn't be happier. We have a daughter together and have learned that we have to put our relationship first. Yes our children are important but when they grow up and move away all we will have left is each other so that relationship should be the priority. As far as romance goes he does so many little sweet things for me like laying out my work clothes in the morning I wear scrub uniform so it doesn't have much fashion choice. He always put gas in the car so I haven't pumped gas in who knows how long. We just enjoy being friends and doing things together.

That YMCA just promotes romance...My mom and dad met that way. My mom was youth director and Dad was on the board...of course this was in the early sixtys.

We met my first week of university. Our dorm mates were dating, so I ended up hanging out in his room a lot. At first there was no interest, I was in a relationship. When our first real conversation lasted half a night, I knew that was it. We married 5 years later, and have been together for 12 years.
We rarely fight, and have never raised our voices. I think our secret to that is if one of us is angry, we go off alone to cool off before discussing what's wrong. Always better to think about it first, than to speak in anger.