Questions for the married/engaged ATOT-ers...

[TwinkleToes77]

Met in jan 98, engaged in feb 2002.. married in march 2003

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Lager
Did you guys meet at workplace, college or high school?

Intarweb (web chat room of all places).

• 1996 - late in the year we "met" online, chatted a few times, exchanged a few e-mails then I lost touch.
  She e-mailed asking if I want to be friends, blah blah, we chatted, blah blah, blah.
• 1997 - summer she visits the USA for the first time.
• 1998 - summer she visits again
• 1999 - summer she visits YET again
• 2001 - August my family flies down to Canberra, Australia and we get married then she moves to the USA

Did you meet this person online or RL?

 

[OutHouse]

5 years for us before we got married.

 

[mpitts]

My wife and I were on the fast track:

Sept '99 - We meet
Nov '99 - We move in
Jan '00 - We get engaged
Oct '00 - We get married

BTW, I met her at matchmaker.com.

 

[PowerMac4Ever]

I got engaged after about a month and a half

 

[Tiqua]

I met my hubby online in a MUD called Farside. Lots of chatting through ICQ and phone. I got lucky that he wasn't an axe murderer or something to that effect.

 

[olds]

Dated for 5 years, engaged for a little over 1 year.
I know people who met, were married, divorced and remarried other people in that time frame.

 

[yllus]

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
I got engaged after about a month and a half

That's just plain crazy/scary!

 

[MattCo]

Met, got engaged 1 1/2 years later, married on the 2 year anniversary of the day we met.

Happily married 9 months now.

-MC

 

[PowerMac4Ever]

Originally posted by: yllus

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
I got engaged after about a month and a half

That's just plain crazy/scary!

I'm pretty stupid

 

[bolido2000]

My dad asked my mom to marry him after 3 months of dating. She finally accepted after 6 months of dating. They've been married for more than 30 years now.

 

[bernse]

4-1/2 years

 

[Dracos]

About to pop the question to my gf this July, have to save up for that ring . Been dating for 2 years known each other for 12 years.

 

[dman]

Originally posted by: Dezign
How long did you know/were you with your significant other before you got engaged?

How long were you engaged before you got married?

:wine:

3yrs (can't recall exactly). Engaged another 2yrs. Been Married 2yrs now.

 

[Pliablemoose]

I was really fried from my 1st marriage, that was one of those 6 months & married relationships that went to crap quick, and I deal with fallout from it still because of the child we have in common.

2nd time around was on my terms, she would have married me in a heartbeat, I would only get engaged after a year of dating, married 9 months after that.

I seriously doubt I'll ever remarry if this one doesn't last.

But if I'm single & live long enough, I'll let the ladies from the senior center do sleepovers (they will have to pass the screening tests to ensure they've never had an abortion though, guy's got to have some guidelines.)

 

[JesusIsLord]

I believe I knew from my 4th date that she was the girl for me. We Dated threw 2 years of high school. As soon as I graduated I was drafted and did two tours in Vietnam. We got married 3 days after I returned stateside and have been happily married ever since

 

[Nitemare]

Same night I met her - I proposed
Married 2 years later because she wanted to get married with the turn of the millenium

 

[erikistired]

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever

Originally posted by: yllus

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
I got engaged after about a month and a half

That's just plain crazy/scary!

I'm pretty stupid

what kind of person does that?

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Dezign
How long did you know/were you with your significant other before you got engaged?

How long were you engaged before you got married?

:wine:

Met during a January (friday before the skins killed the broncos in the superbowl)
Broke up in (May?) - (should have dumped her in Feb)
Back together in November (day before Thanksgiving)
Engaged in April Married in Sept.

So, knew her for over a year, but only dated a few months total.

Been married 15 years. Typical ups and downs of marriage, but did not give up during the downs. Quite happily married these days.

edit: told my friend who I was hanging out with the night I met my future wife that "she's the one, I know it."
He told me wife years later, right before Valentine's day that I had said that. Like a moron, I pointed out that I had been drinking the night we met.

 

[spidey07]

edit: told my friend who I was hanging out with the night I met my future wife that "she's the one, I know it."
He told me wife years later, right before Valentine's day that I had said that. Like a moron, I pointed out that I had been drinking the night we met.

DOH!

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever

Originally posted by: yllus

Originally posted by: PowerMac4Ever
I got engaged after about a month and a half

That's just plain crazy/scary!

I'm pretty stupid

That's a given.

 

[allisolm]

Met end of February.
1st date March.
Engaged April.
May we went home from college for the summer - him to Oklahoma, me to Alabama.
July we saw each other for Fourth weekend.
Aug 31 married.

Went home after 1st meeting and told boyfriend of two years that I couldn't see him any more (despite the two year thing it wasn't a deep relationship) because I knew in my heart that I would marry the new guy.

Still married and very happy after many, many years. He still tells me every day how beautiful I am (although he does have an eye exam scheduled soon ), and I know that he's still the best looking guy out there (well, except maybe for Tom Cruise.)

Some things I think are keys to longevity - ability to compromise, agreement on major issues (spending, child-rearing, long-term goals, etc.), unified front always for the children, never make major decisions unilaterally.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: allisolm
Met end of February.
1st date March.
Engaged April.
May we went home from college for the summer - him to Oklahoma, me to Alabama.
July we saw each other for Fourth weekend.
Aug 31 married.

Went home after 1st meeting and told boyfriend of two years that I couldn't see him any more (despite the two year thing it wasn't a deep relationship) because I knew in my heart that I would marry the new guy.

Still married and very happy after many, many years. He still tells me every day how beautiful I am (although he does have an eye exam scheduled soon ), and I know that he's still the best looking guy out there (well, except maybe for Tom Cruise.)

Some things I think are keys to longevity - ability to compromise, agreement on major issues (spending, child-rearing, long-term goals, etc.), unified front always for the children, never make major decisions unilaterally.

Do you realize how short Tom Cruise is?

Your husband is a lucky man, and he also gets all the best hot deals

 

[allisolm]

Do you realize how short Tom Cruise is?

Yes, but in those fantasies we aren't standing!

BTW - hubby is 6' 3" and I love that.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: allisolm
Do you realize how short Tom Cruise is?

Yes, but in those fantasies we aren't standing!

BTW - hubby is 6' 3" and I love that.

:Q the horizontal bop :Q ???