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In '82 I was back in Cincy after a long road trip and dad said to come to the F.O.E. picnic at Lower Millcrest Park to meet my future bride. ??? Interest piqued. It seems that mom and dad were close friends with Ruthie's mom and dad. She being 7 years younger I had never met her.

My folks were both smitten by her. Dad said: "I can't marry her but you can...trust me...show up".

I did. I was thunderstruck. For the first time I was tongue tied. At that moment she owned me. I wooed her with all the woo that I knew how to do.

We married 4 months later. She made climbing on a tour bus more and more difficult.

I had hit the love lottery.

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I had lost my drivers license for a year for drag racing on the street. One night I was leaving my girlfriends house and was hitchhiking at my usual spot when 2 girls picked me up. One turned out to be my future wife.
 
I met my wife in church. It was a Sunday evening service, and she was sitting right behind me. This was September of 1994. I chatted with her every time I saw her. On my birthday, Oct. 30th, she gave me her phone number. I still tell her it was the best birthday present I ever got. We were married in June of the next year, now over 24 years ago. Best move I ever made!
 
My wife worked part time at two of my friends restaurant .To be honest I did not remember seeing her there.
One Friday night one of my friends and the other waitresses got her to call me but I wasn't home after several try's and she was ready to give up. They talked her into trying one more time and I had gotten home and answered.
We met for coffee and have been together sense.:D

p/s One friend was my best man and the other gave my wife away at our wedding.
 
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I met my wife in a junior college class called "Marriage and Family". That was 40-1/2 years ago.
I needed ALL of my charm to get her to notice me. But I knew I finally won her over when I taught her how to trout fish in the stream next to our school in the Catskills.
 
Was introduced to wife#1 by a coworker. She was a near neighbor. Cancer took her eight years ago.

A lady who had been a coworker of wife#1 (crazy, huh?) suggested I call a friend of hers and set up a date. To say the connecting lady sold my wife short would be a gross understatement. My tongue was collecting fluff off the floor when she walked in.

I'm sure she saved me from a whole bunch of online dating adventures. Even my limited experience in that area generated some stories that you'll never see here.;)
 
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Met the love of my life in jr high , dated all through high school , went out separate ways after graduation. 22 years later we're both single again , she's in town ,gives me a call & like Linda Rondstat says
" Just one look " that was 21 years of wedded bliss ago.I am definitely the luckiest guy i know
 
I was at my first duty station at Beale AFB California. Me and some guys piled in a car and went to “Old Sacramento” to party and meet girls.

2:30 in the morning we were driving back to base. No girls. No phone numbers. Half drunk. Then one of the guys says “hey, they got all night disco at the NCO club!!!

We arrived at the NCO club. Me and a buddy stood there looking at the prospects dressed in three piece suits looking sharp. Two ladies walked up to us. One grabbed my hand and says “you’ll do”.

Nearly 40 years later, she still grabs me by the hand and says “you still got it”.
 
Opened the first Jewel Tea in Rockford in 1958. I was a stocker/bagger and she was a checker. She was a senior and I was a junior. One night I was bagging for her, and we has our first conversation. The next evening we went on a date. Dated during college, got married in 1964.
 
We were a blind date. Went to a movie and a burger at Steak N Shake. Then I said movies are horrible dates since you cannot talk so you don't get to know each other.
I asked her if she feels safe with me and I suggested we just drive around and talk. She did so we did. Drove around about three hours just talking.

Our second date was a hockey game, STL Blues vs the USSR. STL won that game. After that I knew she was a keeper so I won also.

Seven weeks later we were engaged and now it has been 32 years.
She is a true Proverbs 31 woman, even keeled and quite tolerant of my quirks.
She's sitting right next to me. She said "HI GUYS!!!"
 
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I met my future missus at a poker game. My best friend had a game at his house and we were short a player. A friend of his wife’s sat in. At the end of the evening the little lady had taken all my money. We’ve been married now for 37 years and she’s still taking all my money.
 
In March, 1986 I started the second semester of my first year social work internship in the trauma unit at the Washington Hospital Center in D.C. First day, I walked into the ICU and there, running two code blues at once, was this nurse who looked just fantastic in scrubs.

But it was her attitude that really hooked me. At one point she turned to a hapless young medical resident and said, "Doctor, are you doing that out of an abundance of ignorance, or, are you deliberately trying to kill the patient?"

I said to myself, "you gotta get you some of that!" so a week later I asked her out to dinner saying, "It's just my way of saying 'thank you' for easing my transition onto the unit."

Thirty-three years later she's still got quite a mouth on her and we still work together healing the sick and trying to keep physicians from committing malpractice. She's my best friend and confidant, and the best mother, and RN, I've ever known.
 
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I'm giving away my age a bit with this, but- I was 17 working in a grocery store in my home town. They hired a new "head cashier" and when I saw her I lost my breath. She was 7 years older than me, divorced and had kids. There were some Easter lily corsages left over and on sale so I bought one and gave it to her. Next I weaseled my way into "helping her cut her grass". Two little boys at the house and I got along okay and a date was arranged for me and their mom. Married 36 years and she is the still my Princess. She loves me unconditionally (good thing as I'm not an easy person to stay with), and she holds my heart in the palm of her hand. Very blessed!

P.S.- As I've mentioned in someone's post earlier today, no one from either of our families thought it would work. Very grateful they were wrong!
 
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My wife and I were in the same high school class, 1969, and were friends but didn't run in the same circles. I didn't see her after we graduated until she came in my fruit stand in 1993 to get some strawberries. I siad "Hi Pam" big and bold and she said "I'm not Pam, I'm Vicki" I said of course you are and we chatted a bit. Pam was a hottie so no disgrace to be confused with her.

As luck would have it I stopped at an Ohio River barge converted to a bar called Towboat Annies a night or two later and there she sat. We went out and have been together ever since.

There's an old Delbert McClinton song, "He Keeps Sending Me Angels" that hits home. I was a hard dog to keep under the porch for many years and blew several good romances thinking the grass was greener. I've wised up and grown up and I'm not going to let my good thing get away.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj3I0YKplnI[/ame]
 
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