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My husband and I met in an English class in high school. I used to talk to him about my boyfriend, whom I was having trouble with. My husband wrote me a note on a two dollar bill and asked me for a date to make my boyfriend jealous. After that I sprained my ankle and he stayed with me for lunch. After several days I began to see that I liked him more than my current boyfriend. We have been together ever since. We are sixty three years and have been married for forty-two years. We have eight children, twenty-seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

My husband and I ride a motorcycle together. Before, it was like we had four people on the motorcycle with us. Now, after our surgeries on October 10, 2007, having lost about two hundred and fifty pounds between us, we have lost a woman and a small child. Our goal is to have just two people on it at once?him and me. We have also been Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus in the past and enjoyed that very much. It would be O.K. for me to continue to be a thinner Mrs. Claus, but my husband has lost so much weight that he won?t be able to do it anymore.

Probably the thing we enjoy the most about our life right now is our family. There are forty-two of us. When we get together we have ?Muhlestein conversations?. That is where there are many conversations going on at once. The remarkable thing about it is that we can keep track of conversations, other than our own, and make comments on occasion, then return to our main conversation. Our son-in-law?s advice to those who have not seen this is to ?just jump in there.?

Even in our closeness there have been times that we have struggled as a family. Sometimes we went to counseling, when it was called for. I got sick of hearing the word, ?dysfunctional.? I wrote a book about our family called, Don?t Call Me Dysfunctional; I?m a Progressing Survivor.  I guess that sums up our family. We are all a work in progress. No one told us how wonderful it was going to be to have adult children.

My husband and I are best friends. Now that we have an empty nest, we go everywhere together. We are very thankful that we had our surgeries to lengthen our lives. Life is good!

To visit Jo Ann and Mick?s ObesityHelp profile click here.  http://www.obesityhelp.com/member/mjmuhlestein/