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

 
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.
 
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.
 
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:
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3yrs (can't recall exactly). Engaged another 2yrs. Been Married 2yrs now.
 
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.)
 
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
 
Same night I met her - I proposed
Married 2 years later because she wanted to get married with the turn of the millenium
 
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:
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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.
 
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.
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DOH!
 
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.
 
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.
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Do you realize how short Tom Cruise is?

Your husband is a lucky man, and he also gets all the best hot deals 😉
 
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.
 
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.
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:Q the horizontal bop :Q ???
 
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