How did you two meet?

[the_man]

Laceyones gave me the idea to ask in a recent post she wrote (in the thread Who married their first love?).  How did you and your spouse meet?  I thought it would be interesting to hear the stories about the different ways God brings two people together.

 

[lucypevensie]

My DH and I met at church. We were both in the singles group. I noticed he kept turning to look around and his eyes always stopped on me. We got to talking at a singles' fellowship and he asked me if I had plans for Thanksgiving--and I didn't. So he invited me to his family's Thanksgiving dinner. That's when our friendship began. We got engaged exactly one year later, and were married 5 months after that.

 

[E-beth]

Online. Seriously

On a fluke on night I turned on ICQ so that anyone could talk to me (normally I am invisible to anyone but family) and this random guy IMed me and we started talking. This was a bit before Thanksgiving, we met IRL New Year's weekend, and got engaged February 2.

The Lord knew that working online was teh perfect way for me because I am not myself in face to face social situations at first. Meeting online was a way for me to have heart -to-hearts with a great guy BEFORE I met him.

Doesn't work for everybody, but it did for me!!!!

 

[Child of God78]

We met in 1995 on the first day of school. We were both new kids, so we connected right away. The way she laughed was so funny. She'd crack me up, every time she laughed. That's what got me. The fact that she made me feel so at home and happy. We've been married for about a year and a half. But it feels like I've know her all my life. She's beautiful inside and out. We can talk to each other about anything. She's my best friend. We chill, we laugh, we kick it... We're always together. In fact, we even got saved together. I enjoy every minute with her. Yes we do argue but we get over it so fast because our love and friendship outweighs everything else in our relationship. I smile everytime I think of her. Even now. I'm smiling just like the first day I saw her.

  I thank God for her.

 

[Lacey0nes]

I am glad to be of help.... It is amazing how other couples have met, and some in time have come to know Christ.  Some together, and then some alone.  Either way, both or singly, they have come to know the true meaning of LOVE. 

 

[minniemouse]

My husband and I met at a gas station!  LOL  My friend worked there nights and I would stop by to visit her occasionally since it was slow that time of night, but my husband would stop in every night on his way to work to pick up a soda and that sort of thing.  A few weeks later my friend went to work in the restaurant that his father owned, again nights (11-7).  It was a diner and I would stop there and have coffee before heading home for the night and that was when I really started to talk to him and get to know him.  We sat there almost every night just talking and getting to know each other, for hours, for about a month before our first date.  We were truely friends before anything else.  We dated for a few months, moved in together and were engaged a year later.  We planned our wedding for a year and a half after that and we have now been married for 6 1/2 years. 

 

[hanaya]

We met at church.

Where better to meet the person you're going to spend your life with than in the house of God?

He had been invited by a mutual friend to an event at church, and sparks didn't fly that first night, but we became friends in the subsequent weeks and then more than friends.

We're not married yet, but we will be.

-Hanaya

 

 

[booger]

WOW!!  This is so cool reading everyone's post on this. 

As far as mine goes.  Well, I met my wife at a pool hall /  bolwing alley one night out with friends in  November of 1992.  I was in the darkest time of my life (suicidel) but noone knew it at the time (but GOD of course).  A week later I had asked her out and we dated until March 15, 1997 of which we were wed.  Also during our dating she had became saved at a revival and in turn shared GOD's message with me and I surrendered my life as well. 

It seems like she is my little angel that is always here for me, because she loves me unimaginably. THANK YOU JESUS!!!

 

[MsAnne]

Freshman year of College. First day of class - Political Science. He was the loud, bad boy of the class. Discussion was on presidential elections.

After class I shyly, quietly told him I would vote for him for President. That was 23 years ago.

 

[the_man]

These are beautiful stories , please keep 'em coming .

Laceyones, you could repost yours here also if you would like to.

 

[Lacey0nes]

Pray constently and God will show you the path to help her to also be saved.  Sometimes it takes a little humbling on her part also.

I know this because I was also just saved.  It started right before Thanksgiving of 2002.  My husband has sleep apnia--which is where he stops breathing while he is asleep--.  He was sitting on the sofa and had been ill for almost 2 weeks with the flue.  He started coughing and we-my daughters and I- thought that he had just fallen asleep again from the hard work that he does during the day.  Just then, in the midst of his coughing spasm, he went into convulsions.  I and our oldest daughter who is 16 yelled at him to try to get his awareness back.  Our youngest daughter whom is 9 yrs thought that her father was just asleep, so she started laughing.  Until she had saw his color change and felt the sincerity in our voices.  I then reached over to smack him on the side--which I was told by the ICU nurse, this was a good thing-since his convulsions were respitory arrest, she told me the next step would have been cardiac.  He then came back to awareness and we immediately took him to the Emergency room.  While checking him in, the triage nurse noticed that his blood oxygen level was only 64%, which is very low.  She then called and told the head of ER that she was goin to bring him back immediately. 

They then took xrays of his chest to find out that he had contracted Double Pneumonia.  From there he was admitted to the hospital ICU unit for 3 days, and spent another week in the hospital.

I had almost lost my husband of 19 yrs.  I knew then that I had to be strong for the family.  But thinking, who is goin to hold me up and make me strong?  After my husband had gotten out of the hospital, our oldest had a Christmas pagent at her church that she has been attending for almost 3 yrs now.  This was on December 11th.  Near the end of the pagent, the Reverand had asked if anyone would like to pray silently with him a special prayer to ask God for forgiveness, and to allow Jesus into your life.  Both my husband and I had done this that night. 

Now the question has been answerd to who is goin to make me strong.  It takes humbling, and sometimes it takes a tragidy to wake others up in order to accept the Lord as your Savior.  I know that it took a strong blow to my heart to come to him.  And I am thankful that it was that way.

We have sinced joined our daughters church by becoming members.  She is elated because in her testimony that she is to give this coming up Sunday, she has prayed for us to come for almost 2 years now.  And she feels that her prayers were answerd. 

 

[seebs]

I couldn't even begin to go into the story; it's very long and complicated, and involves mutual friends and parties and ex-girlfriends, and it's just too wacky. I knew her in 7th grade, and I always thought she was my type; ten years later, we started dating.

 

[OracleX]

I met my wife at Bible college.

 

[the_man]

Originally posted by seebs
I couldn't even begin to go into the story; it's very long and complicated, and involves mutual friends and parties and ex-girlfriends, and it's just too wacky. I knew her in 7th grade, and I always thought she was my type; ten years later, we started dating.

Sure you can, but only if you are comfortable with sharing it.

 

[seebs]

Originally posted by the_man
Sure you can, but only if you are comfortable with sharing it.

It's very long, and if you don't know the people involved, a lot of it just doesn't make sense. We hadn't seen each other in maybe ten years, and we met because she was dating my roommate's old friend, but we only met him because I went to my girlfriend's roomate's friend's roomate's friend's party, or something like that. It's a lot more complicated than that, but you get the idea.

I'm a second husband, and the relationship started out sort of as an affair, only it's more complicated than that, and... It's a very long story, and I'm not entirely proud of some of the things I did, but they're done, and there's not much to be done to change them now.

 

[Dewjunkie]

My story is complex and long also, would make for a good short story, but the reader's Digest version is:

We met on a ship in the Navy. Amanda couldn't stand me at first, but after time we got to know each other and "clicked". We were both on the heels of miserable first marriages, and we treated each other exactly how we needed to be treated. We both approached the relationship with a "whatever happens" attitude, and 5 years and 2 daughters later, here we are.

Be watching Amazon.com for the book.

 

[hollygirl]

My husband, Mr.Cheese, and I saw each other for the first time at a bible study on the capus of the school we attended in 1993. We were introduced by a mutual friend. Mr.Cheese had a girlfriend. Then when he didn't have a girlfriend I was interested in his friend. Then we lived in seperate states until four months before we got married in 1998. That's the shortest version I can offer. I'm sure you could scrounge up the details by searching the forums.

 

[bigat]

My wife and I met at a high school dance.  It was one of those "socials" where you really don't bring a date.  A buddy and I walked in late and a slow song started to play.  He grabbed a girl he knew and started dancing.  I said, "What about me?".  He turned and grabbed a girl and said, "Here!  Dance w/ her!"  Little did I know that I"d marry that girl. 

I spent the next week trying to figure out who she was because I never asked for her name and I didn't see her again after that one dance.  I looked through my yearbook and finally found her.  I asked her out on a date....and here we are 9 yrs later, married for 6 w/ one beautiful daughter!! 

 

[the_man]

Today at 04:50 AM bigat said this in Post #19

He turned and grabbed a girl and said, "Here!  Dance w/ her!"  Little did I know that I"d marry that girl.  

Hahah, that is AWESOME!

 

[jayebrownlee]

I met my fiancé on a mission week run by Youth For Christ. I was going out with someone at the time and then after him I had a long break from men then I went out with anouther guy (bad, bad relationship) and I kind of lost touch with Sandy and then God did some amazing stuff and I moved into the town where he went to uni, I happned to walk down the street and he saw me and sent me a text, just as well he did it then as I was on my way to change my mobile complete with new number and if we hadn't met that day then he wouldn't have been able to get in touch!!

We marry in August this year and I can't wait!!

Jay