Good Morning. Blind date and 30-something years later
OH no Gina....are you ready for a book.....
DH and I have been married 38 years. He lived so close to us that when we were dating I could hear his tires burning the pavement when he got to the end of my road until he got to his house.
In 3rd grade he wrote me a love note and I'm guessing I was about 8 and he was 9. Although we saw each other on the bus everyday we didn't reconnect until 7th grade when our school had Amusement Park day and we got paired off in the tunnel of Love. I don't think we said one word to each other during the ride. I had a ton of boyfriends between then and the age of 15. During that time he said mean things to me and even wrote huge bad words about me in the snow ( I still bring that up sometimes)! Then the mean words changed to teasing and he called me fickle. I had to ask my Mom what that meant....LOL Then all of a sudden he started coming to our house to "visit" my brother. My dad said he thought he was hanging with my brother so he could see me. Then it hit me hard and I had a huge crush on him. I went to a dance and he was dancing with another girl and I ran out. He called me the next day and He turned out to be my first and last date. We got married 4.5 years later and I can't imagine being with anyone else. He is everything I would ever want in a man. A great husband and dad, hard worker, and totally dedicated to us. I have NEVER in all of these years seen him looking at another woman which totally amazes me when I look back at my FAT pictures.
Roz
God is walking with me every step of the way. Because of HIM this is possible!!
RNY 10/15/2008 9+ Years!!! Height: 4' 11" HW: 203 SW: 197 CW: 119 on Maintenance
Happy Anniversary Gina. That's a great story!!
DH and I had both got married very young to other people. We did not know each other and lived 200 miles apart. When my bad abusive marriage finally fell apart and I needed to get out of town, I moved here to live with my great aunt. DH's marriage fell apart about the same time(not his fault). I started working at a furniture company here and a girl I worked with told me she had the perfect person for me to meet. We decided to drive by his house one day after work and he was outside getting his mail. We stopped and talked to him that was that. We met in January and were married in April. Everyone thought we were crazy. 34 years later and we are still together.
Linda
Happy Anniversary :)
HW-298 SW-251 Loss/Month post RNY(1)-23.5,(2)-23.3,(3)-9.9,(4)-10.6,(5)-8.9,(6)-7.7,(7)-4.2,(8)-7.5,(9)-1.7,(10)-10.8*first goal reached*,(11)-6,(12)-1.3,(13)-0.3,(14)+2.9-*changed scales that weigh 2lbs heavier*,(15)-0.3(16)-4.7(17),+5.8(18)-1.5,(19)+4.4,(20)-+4,(21)-1.2,(22)+3.5,(23)
on 11/15/12 9:15 pm, edited 11/16/12 12:46 pm
Happy Anniversary ! These are SUCH romantic stories ! 
My husband and I met thru e-harmony almost three years ago after my operation. Were still working out compromising about the different ways we choose to live ( messy and cluttered vs neat organized and simple ) , radically different attitudes about money and who should have control over it ..
Sometimes I feel that my life is all about putting out financial fires and trying to scrimp and save ( and break my own back doing the work myself because my husband gives me no money to hire help or even to buy the necessary materials ) while my husband fails to make obvious easy changes that would enable us to pay far less weekly taxes , pays way too much for EVERYTHING from insurance to storage fees and refuses to complete the many far better deals I've made for him just to prove he's in control ......
Still we've managed to achieve buying a beautiful home together which I am slowly restoring to its original glory . So far paying two mortgages over a year after the closing hasn't resulted in foreclosure ( thank God ) ... though my husband has no workable plan to renovate or sell his former home with my filthy thirty year old stepson permanently squatting in it living rent free.
We have radically different attitudes towards debt and savings - he tries to " borrow " all he can , including daily trying to get his hands on the hard earned tiny mite I put away long ago for my old age . He refuses to pay back the money I advanced him in order to buy materials to do renovations and landscaping this summer .
GRR ! Sometimes I feel used , particularly as he and and my father in law also daily disrespect the rules I've established about the house ( slippers rather than shoes for less cleaning , no hoarding , no cluttering up the counters and tabletops, cabinets and closets with unnecessary junk making everything impossible to keep clean) They routinely talk to me and about me as if I were a dog .Worst of all they constantly try to force the disrespectful cursing and threatening parasitical alcoholic and filthy -living toadying ( and brazenly thieving ! ) adult stepson down my unwilling throat by trying to move him into our new home . 
Its hard for me to know whether these are growing pains we will eventually get through or situation I should try to escape at all costs . Sometimes I feel absolutely sucked dry by the endless work ...zero support and utter disrespect and obstinate and contemptuous attitude I have done NOTHING to earn , quite to the contrary .
