Fun Question: When did you think you met your future husband/wife?

I was going out with my Husband to be only 3 weeks.  I was nervous asking him this question.  I ask him if he wanted to go to my parents 40 wedding anniversary party.  My sister and I had already had this party set up months prior.  To my surprise, he said: YES.  I said are you sure.  There will be everyone there in my family.  He said, it sounded like fun.  That was when I knew I had a very special person in my life. 

My husband (of soon to be 23 years) and I started living together after our first date- we were married within 9 months of meeting and have been very happy ever since.  I guess love at first site does happen.

He tells a story to friends and our kids of how he knew I was the right one.  It was a December in Nebraska freezing temp/ snow up to your knees and he picked me up after he got off work from the bar and we started to walk home.  We lived at the top  of this very steep hill - I had been drinking alot that night so he was kinda helping me stagger up the hill then he got mad and let go of me and I plopped into a snowdrift passed out.  He then carried me the rest of the way to our apt got me in a warm tub and then I started to puke - so he held the pan under me while I got sick and thought to himself well if this is as bad as its gonna get I can take it and proposed to me the next day. -- this was 2 months after we met. 

I met my husband when we both were in the army. I was out with some friends and this drunk old guy kept bothering me. My husband was standing next to my friend , I grabbed his arm and said to the drunk - This is my husband and if you don't leave me alone his going to deck you.  My husband said that's right get out (or something like that) then I found out he didn't know my friend, but we started dating and got married 6 months later . With all the ups and downs that was 31 years ago.

When i kept nearly telling him i loved him even though we were only friends at the time. He was the same hehe

My husband proposed 2 weeks after we met and we were married 4 weeks after that. That was 9 years ago last April and I still believe it is the best decision I ever made.

my hubby was best man at my sisters wedding in 1984 .I fell in love with him then,but not him with me.

We remained friends and he then got married and I thought oh well missed opportunity.

The marriage was very short,and they divorced soon afterwards.

I thought here we go again and each time he met a girl i hoped it would not work out,as I knew one day he would be mine.

Through all this time we stayed just friends but even he has to admit it now  there was always a bond between us and we could talk for hours together and got on really well.

I used to tell the girls at work when he cam e "he will be mine one day" and they would tell me to tell him how I felt but i said no i don't want to spoil the friendship,so i kept quiet........................................ ............................................. .... 

SO to my surprise in 2002 he asked me out and we have just celebrated our 3rd wedding anniversary in June.

SO my moto is don't ever give up on love it might be round the corner although sometimes you have to go the long way round!!

catherinexx 

Huh, you're right, kind of a fun question!

I have to say, I'm suprised at how many of us got married within such short time!

...I am from WA State, was visiting a friend in Texas.  I met a guy by the pool one day....He was a sexy soldier, just back from Iraq, and DRUNK!   We had some small talk for a few days, and then I had to go back home.  The day I was leaving, stopped by his apartment, left a note on his door (telling him I was on my way, gave my phone #, email address).  He showed up at the airport  two hours later (minutes before boarding), kissed me for the first time and said godbye.  ... Long story short...I moved in a month later... we got married eight months later, moved to Korea, and now have a beautiful baby together.

SO, like someone else said... I guess "love at first sight" really doea exist. We are madly in love with eachother, and always joke about how we met, and how fast things happened... I can't imagine being with anyone else.

(edited to say:  He's from NC.  I can't believe we got that lucky, and somehow just ended up meeting in the middle!!! funny)

I had been dating my husband for a couple weeks, but didn't think there was potential.  One day he drove me out to visit my grandmother... he was supposed to just drop me off.  She had just taken a pan of molasses bar cookies out of the oven. So the three of us sat there on the porch eating cookies. For the next hour or two this no-potential guy and my grandmother swapped stories. When he got up to leave, she had to give him a hug and a kiss.  That was the first time I understood this man fit into my world.

Catherine, your story SO fits that Vanessa Williams song, "Save the Best for Last"! :)

i was at work on day on bourbon street and talking to the owner, i had my back to the door and he was like "you have a customer", so i walked down the counter and when i got to the end i looked up and saw my now husband for the first time and was instantly attracted to him. he was there to turn in a job application and i talked my boss into hiring him, haha. he and i were both dating people we weren't happy with, i had a boyfriend who was pretty much mentally and verbally abusive from being an alcoholic...  the more we hung out as friends and talked and got to know eachother the more we knew we were both insinuating that we wanted to be together. he ended up moving into the spare bedroom in the house i shared with my then boyfriend and one other roomate, so we started hanging out pretty much all the time. i would leave my bike at home and walk to work with him, and we'd walk the long way home by the river and pretty much all around the french quarter before going home having these long talks. about a month after meeting him,  we were in a scummy dive bar with a bunch of friends watching a band play and he just took my head really gently and pulled it to him so he could whisper to me "i have the biggest crush on you, you're perfect". when he said that to me i was like, there is no frigging way that i'm ever letting this guy out of my life. he made me feel like no one has ever made me feel. he was talking to friends and co-workers about how much he wanted to be around me and asking their advice on what to do, it was all getting back to me and my smile just kept getting bigger and bigger, but i was STUCK. the guy i was dating then sucked up ALL of our money and i had what felt like no options to get out of that relationship. about 3 days after terry (my now husband) and i confessed our crushes on eachother i had a massive "fight" (really i was just getting screamed at) with my boyfriend who was wasted drunk, i was crying on the couch afterwards and my now husband came out of his room to see if i was ok, he was sitting next to me just rubbing my back and i leaned over and kissed him... and at that EXACT moment my drunk boyfriend was spying on us from the hallway. we got kicked out and were walking down the street together and i just grabbed his hand and said "now we can be together!" we ended up kissing in the street for about 20 minutes before we walked to a friends house to sleep on the floor. the next day we moved out of that house and onto an air mattress in my best friends house... about a  week later he was visiting me at work while we talked about our future plans to move out of new orleans and he just blurted out all nervous "so, do you want to get married.... and shit?" he's lucky i'm not a romantic girl!

we were married a few months later after being together 6 months, by the way.

I knew I was going to marry my future husband (in three months!!!) when I met him, and about 2 hours later, he came over and hung venecian blinds in my house for me!  It was so sweet, he was basically a stranger, and it was so nice.  Aww. :-)

Piece of cake: When I shook her hand as I met her for the first time.

I found out about 2 days into dating him....had only known him for about 3 months at that point and he was almost 20 and I was only 17 but still the same..i fell in love and (as a matter of fact) he proposed earlier today....(sorry if this is getting old....i'm pretty excited!)

All of you have such nice stories.  Mine is a little longer.  I met my first husband in high school - love at first sight.  Five years later I finally woke up to the fact that he'd cheated on me from day one, so we got divorced.

#2 was my knight in shining armour.  I just knew he would rescue me from my horrible life as a divorced mom.  9 years later, after supporting him while he lost a fortune on fly by night businesses, we were divorced. 

I thought I'd learned my lesson, had lots of good job experience, so raised my 3 kids myself and thought I was done with romance.

At the age of 41, I met a short, chubby, bald guy with a twinkle in his eye at a library book reading.  We sat together every week and had a great time together.  I wasn't really attracted to him and his profession really turned me off - he's a psychiatrist. And he had reservations about dating women with children. In the course of conversation we discovered we had a mutual friend, in fact it's a wonder we hadn't already met.  It took a while, but I fell head over heels in love and so did he.

that was over 20 years ago.  We decided not to get married and to live in our own homes.  So we have all the joy of a beautiful relationship and none of the aggravation.

 

22 years and counting! Most of them good but we have had our problems! Love covers a multiple of sins/problems! I met my hubby in Jr. High. NEVER THOUGHT WE WOULD GET MARRIED! He was such a geek! Still is! We graduated and that was that. 5 years later I was a secretary for a dating service and my boss said he had the perfect match for me. I told him I was not interested in dating but he insisted because he could not match this guy up with anyone! (My hubby)! I knew who he was and I sure didn't want to but I finally gave in. All my intuitions were thrown out the window when he came walking up with a bottle of wine and a dozen long stemmed roses! We went out for three months and got married in the 5th. month! And still together. The hard times make us stronger together. I tell people...What he lacks, I have and what I don't have, he does so together we are a perfect pair!

This was fun! Makes ya think of the good old days!

Augh... really bad time to stumble upon this thread...

I just broke off my engagement :*(