Did you fall head over heels in love when you met your wife or husband? Was it love at first sight? Or did it take awhile to figure you were made for each other? Heck, maybe you knew each other in high school, then you went your own ways, and then met at your 25th reunion years later and wondered “Where the heck has he (she) been all my life?” Maybe the two of you hopped in your car and beelined to Vegas and tied the knot there. That sort of thing happens.
Our question today, then, is how long did it take you to get married after you first laid eyes on your current partner?
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I met her in the second grade. Twelve years later we married. Fifty three years later she is still the love of my life.
Said No for over 2 years, then decided we should elope. 52 years later, still my lover and best friend.
Met in August, married in December. Going on 53 years together.
A ‘blind date’ in 1981. Married in 1986. We thank our mutual friend Denise every day for getting us together.
Met at age 12. Married at 19. Now 76 and life together gets better every day.
I met my wife while I was in Tech School. After Tech school I got a job 150 miles away and traveled back and forth to be with her every weekend. That lasted about 6 months. We talked about the problem and with the blessings of both sets of parents, we got married a month later. 54 years ago.
3 months and have been together 49 years.
We met and lived together in the late 70’s, but didn’t get married. We went our separate ways, but ran into each other several times. We reconnected about 10 years ago and have been happily married now for 7 years.
Met in Nov married in July, still together after 52 years.
It was almost 15 months since meet g my now wife that we got married, but there was in 1968 a war going on in Southeast Asia that I had to attend. Fortunately or not I left there early and we were married 8 months before our intended date. And now it is 55 years later and we are still happily married.
I met my wife when a friend of mine asked me to come over and assist with the stereo installation in her car. This was 1974. She got in on one side I got in on the other, and when we looked at each other in her eyes locked, I knew I was going to marry that girl, it was like getting hit between the eyes with a sledgehammer. We got married in 1976. We’ve been together 47 years now.
Know the feeling.
Just curious. As of right now there are only men replying???
Yeah, I just noticed that. What does that say???
That only men read this news letter?
No, that mainly men make comments. My wife reads the newsletter religiously, just like I do.
Interesting, isn’t it. I wonder how many women read the newsletter vs men.
Met my husband in September 1975 while working at a restaurant together. I asked him to Sadie Hawkins Dance at my High School, which was 3 weeks away. He called and asked me out before that dance. We married in January of 1978. Life has had its hiccups but we are Happy Campers as we move toward our 46th Anniversary. Love you….❣️
First laid eyes on her in ’77. Started dating in ‘87. Still living that first date.
We met in Organic Chemisty class in college, after I came back from Vietnam. We were supposed to have the wedding in June 1966 (1yr 4 mo after the first sighting), the day after she graduated. However, rumors that I was probably going to be recalled (I was a Navy Corpsman) caused us to move the wedding to January 1966 (11 mo. after we first met). 57 years later, and counting, it’s still working!
Met in 1972, started dating in 1987 and married in 2012. Couldn’t be happier.
3 Months and 1 day. It will be 60 years next April. Luckiest day of my life!
Very happily together for something like 26 years but for several tax and medical insurance reasons we still aren’t “married”.
While home on leave from the Navy, my brother introduced us. She was still in high school. It was love at first sight. We married 9 months later, 4 months before our first child was born (you do the math). We will celebrate our 44th anniversary next month with our three children, and eleven grandchildren. Our life has been a camping trip! (country living).
God is Great! Life is Good!
We met 40 years ago while training recruits at Recruit Training Command (Navy Bootcamp) Orlando. Our paths crossed again 8 years later in Jacksonville FL & we have been together ever since. We got married 7 years ago on our 25th Anniversary of becoming a couple.
Fresh back from Vietnam and at a Shakey’s Pizza restaurant outside MacDill AFB in Tampa with several service friends eating pizza and drinking beer (lots of beer) when in walks this beautiful young woman with her little two year old son (but no ring on). We made a lot of eyes at each other and when she left I followed her out and finally managed to get her phone number. I called her number several times without getting an answer. Little did I know at the time she was working two jobs to support herself and her son. I finally decided I would try one more time and she answered. Within three months we were married. We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary last December.
Met my to be wife on Fort Lauderdale beach during spring break.She from Massachusetts I living in Ft.Lauderdale.I flew up once to meet her parents.Many phone calls and letters followed.We will celebrate 50 years of marriage this October.
Met on a blind date when I came home to see the parents on Illinois. I lived in Tahoe , she in suburban Chicago. Many phone calls later, we married after 5 months apart. We will celebrate 50 years in Nov.
Spouse and I went to elementary school but lost touch after graduation. Reunited 42 years later on classmates.com. married 2 years later.
When i was 12 years old my family vacationed in MN on Gull Lake. There i met Anne. I met her again in college my junior year while on a blind double date. We were not partners on the date but hit it off. We were married for 54 years and two days when she had a fatal stroke. That was 12 years ago. I miss her every day.
Met in college and married 6 weeks later, 1968. That was 55 years ago.
Chuck, If you’re reading this, I believe this is the perfect topic for your next essay; “Happy Campers”. The comments to this poll question share a common theme (meet young, marry quickly, share a long life together). And although I know it doesn’t work out that way for everyone, it makes me question the common philosophy; get an education, become established in your career, date many, and THEN get married.
I know our bond was forged in the fires of adversity, as we struggled to build our lives together. It wasn’t easy, but we have been rewarded greatly for our commitment to each other, and our family. And when this life is over we WILL live, “Happily Ever After”.
Jean and I were both married to other people when we met. She was teaching folk dancing. We joined the club and then the subsequent performing group. We remained friends through the years, during which time she got divorced. Thirteen years ago my wife died, and Jean and I realized how strong our friendship was. We have been together since, known as “the old pair of Jeans.”
my wife and I grew up as neighborhood kids then moved apart fast forward I joined the Navy in 66 and we met again when I was in So. Cal. We almost got married then….I got out of the Navy in 72 and we both went different ways…both married 30 years then divorced…for both of us ….then 6 years later meet again…..married 3 months later….16 years now and very happy…. life’s little twists and turns……in this case life time of memories…..
The only reason I had to check 5 to 10 years was because we were in 7th and 8th grade in junior high.
We grew up across the street from each other and our Mothers good friends. We married half way through college at 19 and 20. It will be 50 years next year. We have shared many adventures. Retired early and raised 3 successful daughters. You will not find the greatest loves of the world in the pages of People magazine but among ordinary people who found their soul mate early in life.
My husband, Steve, and his family are people I have known my whole life. We went to church together and he was always there in my life. He had a crush on me in high school and asked me out, but I was two years ahead of him and interested in college guys, not sophomores. Fast forward twenty years. We were both divorced and our sisters ran into each other and got talking about how we needed to go out. My sister bugged me about Steve until I finally called him. We talked and talked and then met up with our boys at a Chuck E Cheese and picked up where we left off. A year later we were married. We’ve been married for 15 1/2 years now and are so grateful for second chances!
We met April 1971 and married Christmas Eve day 1971. We will celebrate 52 years on December 24th.
Met in March, engaged in June, married in July. 36 wonderful years next week!
I’ve known my wife since high school; she was friends with my sister. For the next 50 years, I dated (and sometimes married) several of my sister’s other girl friends. My wife had a similar “trial and error” experience. When we finally got together in our 50’s, my sister said “you have to make this work, I’m out of girl friends”. So far, so good!
Met my wife at the local swimming hole, the Little Piney River. She looked so pretty in that one piece swimming suit. I was smitten. Yes we were young (I had to sign my wife’s grade card),,,, just kidding! Married almost 5 years later. But we were young and most people didn’t think it would last when we got married. Just celebrated 60 years. We promised each other and God, that we would be married til death would part us. I always wondered why her parents let her marry a guy like me. I got the better deal.
I met my wife as a freshman in HS, but we didn’t date until Jan of our senior year. We were engaged 6 weeks later (when ya know ya just know) and married in May of the following year. Celebrated 51 years the past May. We have friends who have known each other since kindergarten and got married the year before us.
We met in high school in the fall of ’67 (Senior and Junior). Married in March of 1970. Still going strong!
We married in our teens. Now 64 years later, we are still going strong. The main reason is she is a rock. Makes our world go around.
We met skiing in 1971. Decided to get married in December 1973 (her aunts all marked their calendars, but our daughter wasn’t born for 10 years!). Fifty years in December, my how the time has flown by!.
It only took moments for her to catch me. It took 9 years for her to ask me to marry her.
6 weeks from 1st date to getting engaged, 1 yr later to being married and we hit 37 yrs this yr. There were people including some of her siblings who said “Don’t do it, it will never last”. We met while both in the military back in the 80s.
4 years after meeting in Dads blackberry patch. We were in different schools. Still together after 63 years of marriage and still enjoying each other.
We met the summer of 72, she was separated, I was just getting out of the navy. We met again 5 years later. She was now divorced. I hadn’t married, we went together and married a year later.
16 years to the day. But not because we couldn’t commit. It took that long for same-s*x marriage to become legal.
We met in 4th grade. We dated in Jr High. Always good friends. But then they moved out of our district. In 1975, after my college and his Air Force, we married on October 4th in Niagara Co, NY. Problem? We didn’t marry each other! We married losers who were rampant adulterers. I remarried but was widowed on my 40th birthday. Left with a 4 yr old son. Who called shortly after he heard about it? Mr 4th grade!!! Those intervening years apart just disappeared. We were married 9 mo later, he adopted my son, and we just celebrated 29 yrs in June. God knew the timing wasn’t right earlier in our lives.
My wife and I are met when we were 15 & 16 respectively. We got married when we were 43 & 44. When we met, I had just returned from living in Germany for 18 months, returning to the States as a Junior. I met her in Geometry class, listening to her complaining about her boy friend who was not taking her to the upcoming dance.
Without knowing anything about her (including what she looked like) I turned around and blurted out, “Why don’t you dump your boy friend and take me to the dance”. Well,…let’s just say she did, and I did.
Unfortunately, due to our young age, and immaturity we never dated, but stayed good friends regardless who was dating whom. Eventually she got married and…
we lost track of each other. When we reconnected years later, i proposed 2 months a later in Yosemite (during a snowstorm). The next March we were married.
Honestly, even though we missed almost three decades, of each others lives, we started our relationship as if we had never been apart.
Proposed prior to her heading off to graduate school, dated through college so about 7 yrs
Our first date was when we were both seniors in different high schools.We continued heavy dating for four and a half years and got married four days after Joe graduated from College
Just celebrated 69 years of being ” happily married” on June 5th
That’s so sweet, Helen and Joe.🤗 Happy 69th Anniversary!🍾 Have a good evening/night. 😀 –Diane at RVtravel.com