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How did you meet your husband?
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jenrenee
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How fun!! My story is a little embarassing - for him mostly. 
My best friend was dating his best friend back in highschool. The summer between my sophomore and junior year, she decided to go to his house - something about a class ring, I don't really remember. When we got there, we realized they were having a party - just about 3-4 people was all. But being guys in highschool, they were mostly drunk... 
We were in the basement and I was sitting on the couch and I heard someone roll down the stairs - yes, roll... 
It was my future hubby. The first thought I had was how good looking he was, but needless to say - I was not impressed with the fact that he was drunk, because I was, well, a goody two shoes - and proud of it! He said (and I'll say this in a nicer way) Who is the pretty (hmmm) sitting on the couch? I was still not impressed - especcially when he somehow got his arm caught halfway in and out of his sleeve and I had to help him get it back on right. Well, we hung out with them a few more times, this time sober. A few weeks later we were all camping at the lake - all sitting in this gigantic tent playing cards and going around in a circle talking about things. Little by little everyone left - but us two - I think it was a set up... but then he said "what would you say if I asked you out?" Well, after a little hedging I said yes - and then we took a walk around the lake. Four years later - on Christmas Eve, we came back from church and decided to open presents. He said mine was hanging on the tree - can you believe that I completely missed the bright red ring box on the tree?? It took me forever to find it but that's how he proposed - we got married on our 5 year anniversary of being together - and just celebrated our third wedding anniversary.
My best friend was dating his best friend back in highschool. The summer between my sophomore and junior year, she decided to go to his house - something about a class ring, I don't really remember. When we got there, we realized they were having a party - just about 3-4 people was all. But being guys in highschool, they were mostly drunk... We were in the basement and I was sitting on the couch and I heard someone roll down the stairs - yes, roll... It was my future hubby. The first thought I had was how good looking he was, but needless to say - I was not impressed with the fact that he was drunk, because I was, well, a goody two shoes - and proud of it! He said (and I'll say this in a nicer way) Who is the pretty (hmmm) sitting on the couch? I was still not impressed - especcially when he somehow got his arm caught halfway in and out of his sleeve and I had to help him get it back on right. Well, we hung out with them a few more times, this time sober. A few weeks later we were all camping at the lake - all sitting in this gigantic tent playing cards and going around in a circle talking about things. Little by little everyone left - but us two - I think it was a set up... but then he said "what would you say if I asked you out?" Well, after a little hedging I said yes - and then we took a walk around the lake. Four years later - on Christmas Eve, we came back from church and decided to open presents. He said mine was hanging on the tree - can you believe that I completely missed the bright red ring box on the tree?? It took me forever to find it but that's how he proposed - we got married on our 5 year anniversary of being together - and just celebrated our third wedding anniversary.
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Well, we went to the same school, but didn't know each other, as he is 2 years older than me. All I remembered was his gorgeous dark blue winter coat (he still has it - and this would have been the early 1990s!)
Anyway, I finished school, went to uni, started work etc etc etc and so did my friends form school - one of whom started working at the same place at the same time as my future dh. They became friends and at her birthday party she sat us together because "You've both lived all over the world, you went to the same school, you're the same nationality - I'm sure you'll find something to talk about." The rest, as they say, is history.
We pretty much knew we were going to get married straight away. He knew the same evening, it took me about two weeks to recover from the shock and accept it!
We had a lovely ecumenical Mass for our wedding, with both a priest and a Protestant minister, and that was 6 years ago now. Time is flying while I have fun!
Every day I am more grateful that God brought the two of us together. We truly are the best of friends. I don't think a woman could wish for a more wonderful husband than mine.
Anyway, I finished school, went to uni, started work etc etc etc and so did my friends form school - one of whom started working at the same place at the same time as my future dh. They became friends and at her birthday party she sat us together because "You've both lived all over the world, you went to the same school, you're the same nationality - I'm sure you'll find something to talk about." The rest, as they say, is history.
We pretty much knew we were going to get married straight away. He knew the same evening, it took me about two weeks to recover from the shock and accept it!
We had a lovely ecumenical Mass for our wedding, with both a priest and a Protestant minister, and that was 6 years ago now. Time is flying while I have fun!
Every day I am more grateful that God brought the two of us together. We truly are the best of friends. I don't think a woman could wish for a more wonderful husband than mine.
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We met in 7th grade. Were just friends through school, though pretty much every one in our class of 300 said we would end up married some day. We both denied it and didn't give it a second thought until after he enlisted in the NAVY. After knowing eachother for 8 years we had our first date, 3 days later he proposed, a week later he went back to Japan, He had two leaves between the time we got engaged to the time he got out of the NAVY, which was two years after we got engaged, we were married three months later. November will be 4 years for us.
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Ooh great stories girls.
My husband and I met when we were 18. I was a youth leader at a parish youth retreat he came along to, and I ended up being the facilitator of the small group he was in for discussions. I remember being struck by a lot of his comments in the discussions we had.
We got to know each other a bit more over the next few months because we had a lot of mutual friends through our church activities. At one of my friends birthday parties, he asked me on a date - and I said 'sure, who else is coming?' thinking he was arranging something for everyone
. I hadn't thought that he was interested in me, and I hadn't been interested in him that way (I'd decided that I wasn't going to meet my husband til I was 28). But after discussing it with my mum, I realised that my only hesitation in letting him court me was that I thought I was too young to meet my husband. Obviously I wasn't So I went on some dates with him, and we hung out with each other's families, and got involved in a few of the same ministries...and not long after we turned 19 we decided to marry. We told our families, but we didn't tell our friends about our engagement until three years later ...when he had almost graduated and we could seriously think about supporting ourselves.
Waiting to be married was almost as hard as waiting to be pregnant! But it really gave us a huge foundation for our marriage, and I think we are a better couple for having had that difficulty. I think that our current hardship is helping us to grow as a couple as well. And in retrospect, I'm glad I met Eddie at 18 rather than 28, we got to grow into adults together...and I think it's kinda beautiful.
My husband and I met when we were 18. I was a youth leader at a parish youth retreat he came along to, and I ended up being the facilitator of the small group he was in for discussions. I remember being struck by a lot of his comments in the discussions we had.
We got to know each other a bit more over the next few months because we had a lot of mutual friends through our church activities. At one of my friends birthday parties, he asked me on a date - and I said 'sure, who else is coming?'
thinking he was arranging something for everyone. I hadn't thought that he was interested in me, and I hadn't been interested in him that way (I'd decided that I wasn't going to meet my husband til I was 28). But after discussing it with my mum, I realised that my only hesitation in letting him court me was that I thought I was too young to meet my husband. Obviously I wasn't So I went on some dates with him, and we hung out with each other's families, and got involved in a few of the same ministries...and not long after we turned 19 we decided to marry. We told our families, but we didn't tell our friends about our engagement until three years later ...when he had almost graduated and we could seriously think about supporting ourselves.Waiting to be married was almost as hard as waiting to be pregnant! But it really gave us a huge foundation for our marriage, and I think we are a better couple for having had that difficulty. I think that our current hardship is helping us to grow as a couple as well. And in retrospect, I'm glad I met Eddie at 18 rather than 28, we got to grow into adults together...and I think it's kinda beautiful.
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