Gosh....
I really do not know...BUT My wife  lived oh maybe 200 foot from my house and she moved into that house 2 months after I was born..So I grew up with her as a neighbor...

Never dated, etc....   However  in my 3 rd in college  we both came home the same weekend and I had nothing planned so I asked her if she wanted to go to a movie...

Darn...never saw the tree next door because I was always looking at the forrest....

I married her  39 years  9 months  and  14 NIGHTS ago...  and to be truthful....I am now more in love with her TODAY then I ever have been...and expect to be more in love with her tommorrow then I am now...

Bob G.
 

no fair sayin we have to wait to hear the whole story...that ruins it for those of us who can't make it

Like SFVETTE, I had a 2 year, long distance (9600 mile) relationship with my wife before I ever saw her in person. We met in a yahoo asian chat room the day she graduated from college. After almost 2 years of daily contact, both by phone and emails, I flew to the Philippines to meet for the first time. 

To make a long story short, we've been happily married now for 5 years and if it was any better, I'd have to get someone to help me enjoy it.

Here goes:

My best friend's (from high school) mother sold her home to a widow with (3) kids, fresh from the city.  They had never lived on a lake, but she bought a boat on a whim.  As part of the deal he would act as handyman and get to park his 22 foot TolleyCraft at her dock (complete with full size cabin and flying bridge).  I lived about 2 miles away in a trailer park, and had grown up only 10 doors down the street.  Was first introduced to her and really didn't think much of it.  Later that summer I began spending weekends on the friends boat just to be on the water.

One day she (my future wife) and her kids were standing on the deck talking to me on the boat when somehow the conversation turned to innuendos.  I asked how old the oldest were and they replied "18", and I replied (to the mother...of my new children) that they probably knew more about sex than she did.

She was speechless!  Anyway, we apparently met July 4th (remember I wasn't too aware of her at the time), I proposed October 22 and we were married June 1st.  Then December 18th we got word that my adoption of her children was approved by the state, and the rest is history!

10 years later we still have not had a fight...oh, sure we argue from time to time, but never a full-fledged fight...and are best of friends, sometimes we think our ONLY friends.  We're homebodies and tend to like it that way!

I met my husband via blind date, reluctantly.  A co-worker of mine was dating him, but met up with another guy that she had dated before a while back and she was more interested in that one.  Would I be interested in meeting the one she wanted to get rid of.  Confused yet?   She said that this guy she wanted me to meet had a Chihuahua and he was into computers.  Shoot, I had been single for 8 years, didn't date (too afraid) and raising a son by myself.  I thought, huuummmm.........I'll just meet him to see if he really had a Chihuahua.

Met him and he had a Chihuahua/Pom.  He seemed like a nice guy so far.  Right before I left, he asked me what I look for in a guy.  I said (as a joke/truth), ...."Well, he's got to have a hairy chest."  Well, Dave took his shirt off and sure enough, he had a hairy chest.  

I thought OMG, I'm lost for words.  The next day he called and we (took my son) all went swimming.  Afterwards, my son and I left and on the way home I said, "Well, he's ok, but I'm not going out with him again.........I don't want to get envolved."  My son said, "Mom!  Give him a chance, he's a nice person."  I thought about it and the rest is history!    It's been 7 years........seems like less.

I met my wife on a blind date.  I was stationed just outside Las Vegas, Nevada and a buddy of mine asked me if I wanted a blind date.  Seems I had a car and he didn't.  He was dating this girl and she had a friend that was living with her.  Soooo, to make a long story short, we met, went to the A&W Root Beer stand and 6 months later we were married.  My buddy ended up breaking up with his girl.

All this happened 42 years ago.  Like many others have said here, not only do we love each other very much, but we also are each others best friend.  Where you see one of us, you'll see the other.  We believe that's the way it should be. 

Larry & Margie

In June of 1991, I was "midnight bowling" with a friend of mine who often did this with his work buddies.  A really attractive girl asked my friend's girlfriend (whom she was friends with herself) to ask me if she could see my car (a Red '89 Chevy Beretta)...Attractive women didn't talk to me, so this was a rare opportunity for me.  I figured I better not let this one go! We had dated for two years when I proposed to her. Two years after that we married.  That was over 11 years ago.

By the way...sounds like we have our first "event" for Reno/Tahoe!  "How we met"

We'll have to have a transcript available for those that can't make it.

I met my wife in a calculus class in college.  My best friend was really interested in her friend, and it took off from there.  We went out to the movies that first date and it was awkward to say the least.  Years later she told me that she only went out with me a second time because she felt sorry for me... 

We celebrate our 24th anniversary next month..... 

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By the way...sounds like we have our first "event" for Reno/Tahoe!  "How we met"

We'll have to have a transcript available for those that can't make it.

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No Way!!! What happens in Reno, STAYS in Reno!!
If anyone wants to hear details, they'll jist have tuh show up!!

I'll be there takin notes.... I think this topic will make Shark Bites.... The one that didn't get away...