We were introduced to one another by the Rector of our church. I'd been a single mom for over 21 years, he was a widower. Married May 31, 1991...will be married 18 years this May. First ten years were great...since then ....well, you know the story.
We've been together 25 years - married 13. For a while his idol was my great uncle's friend who was engaged for 50 years and died still engaged (yes, all to the same woman).
Will be 20 years this summer, married July 29, 1989. My son Kacy, then 7-1/2, and his daughter Kasey, then 6-1/2 were in the wedding. We met at church when they were toddlers. He was married, I was divorced. We crossed paths 3 years later when our kids were in Kindergarten together at a private Christian School. By then he was divorced. We started dating after his Kasey wanted my Kacy to join them for their Wednesday McDonalds nights. I was invited by DH to join them too. That was 1987, and we married in '89.
Middle names. Oh, and their birthdays are 1 yr, 1 wk apart. Both Novembers. They attended same middle and high schools, too. When school called it was hilarious. "The boy or the girl?" we'd ask. Usually there was some confusion on the other end as to why we'd ask such a question. Always a topic of conversation.
Funny story....during school years my son took on DH's last name (military changed that now. No legal adoption, so had to go by name on birth cert. Son wanted it that way anyway once he became an adult). DH's ex-wife was on one of the parent committees giving awards at an assembly. She called out the name, there was a whispering chatter in the audience, and after a pause someone yelled out, "Which One?" She said, "Oh, uh! (checks with someone else), THE BOY." I snickered!
29 years. Second marriages for both of us. We each have 3 children from our first marriages. I was 50, he was 60. For some reason, he always put his children ahead of me (they were 17, 22 and 24 and not living with him). I think this is why there is such a mess now - they feel entitled. We got along fine except for the children, and so it continues. It's all about money.
Just celebrated 44 years in December. We met when I was 14 and he 17, married 7 years later, one month before I finished college. This year I got a gift and a card, kinda expect that may not be the case next December...so many changes showing up as the days roll by. It gets lonelier and lonelier...thank heavens for friends and family.
we will be married 30 yrs july 28. we met at work. i thought he was a doll and had the most beautiful hair and eyes. he thought i was so pretty,but that i was stuck up and wouldn't talk to him. we didn't speak to each other forever. we worked different shifts. i would see him come in to work every night and he passed right by where i worked,then one night some friends and i were out celebrating one of their birthdays and he grew up with them. he came and set at our table and the rest is history. love at first "word" instead of love at first sight. we have 3 children and 2 grandchildren. he has been the smartest, most honerable,honest,hard working man i have ever had the privaledge of knowing. i love him so and he deserves better that this dispicable diesase. jav
I think I have the record. We were married on July 17, 1943. This July will be 66 years. I was 16 and my DW was 17 years old, that makes her 83 and me 82. For over three years now I have had to take care of her 24/7. Unlike a lot of the messages on the message board, she has been pleasant and thanks me for taking care of her. She sleeps almost all the time. The main problem I have is once or twice a week she will have sundowners and insist on going home and will not sit still. That is the time that tries my patience, however we have made it so far and we are both in good physical condition.
We celebrated 30 years last July. I am 52 and DH is 57. I am having a hard time lately trying to remember the good old days. The man I fell in love with has been gone for a while now.
My husband and I were married for 40 years when he died at at the age of 61 last March. We were together since I was 15 and he was 16....that's a long time.....
(I wasn't the only one at Rice who married a prof, Nancy. A lot of grad students did too. The funny thing was that during my senior year, when I was married, the wives would absolutely shun me if I went to the faculty club for lunch with my husband. Their husbands did NOT< and I'm in touch with some to this day! When I graduated, I was accepted into the Faculty Wives' Club, etc.)
Y'all went to Rice???? How great is that. Such a beautiful campus with the huge oak trees at the entrance. It's growing by leaps and bounds.
Foster's PCP and his Neurologist are both Rice Grads and his Neurologist's husband is a professor there. From being a Rice Owl to a Rhode Island gal was quite a move.
We lived in Houston for 17 years. Kids chose University of Houston instead of Rice. I loved Rice. The campus was so pretty and the courses so hard. You had to be smart to get into that university! (my kids chose the easy way!)
I KNOW you had to be smart,.usually a Valedictorian - to get into Rice. It's still such a highly esteemed university. Where are you now?? (Too lazy to look you up!)
We moved to Arkansas so that I could take care of my mother when she found out she had cancer. After she died, we decided to stay. I miss Houston. I go there once or twice a year though. I have a son and his family there, as well as two grandsons and 3 great-grandchildren!
We lived in Atascocita on Lake Houston and it took 45 minutes each way to get to work in downtown Houston, but we loved the area. Now it takes me 10 minutes! I don't miss the traffic! <grin>