How did you meet your spouse?

[jenluckenbach]

Charlie (my spouse of 23 years) and I were both into raising rabbits for show. So we met through the rabbits clubs. (the best way to meet someone is through a common interest. I bet your future spouse is right now breeding Chihuahua's....LOL)

[ashleycat]

19? I got married at 19 and regret it. I still have and had a lot of growing up to do. Now I have a lil girl. Whom I LOVE sooo much and I wouldn't change that. But I really wished I had gotten to grow up before I got married at such a young age. I'm 24 now. And although I have a house, a car, getting to stay at home. I'm not happy now. Material things don't makeyou happy. So... Don't get married just because everyone else is. Keep on living untill you KNOW he/she is the RIGHT one.

[gemini9961]

I knew him from school, middle and high school but we didn't start dating until after we graduated. We dated for about 6 months and then he broke it off because he was going to be going to school on the other side of the state but he was not there for long and he came back home. It was probably a few months after that and we started talking again and the rest is history as we are approaching our 1st wedding anniversary October 20th.

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

Yes!! marriage is the last thing in the world you should be thinking about at 19! I got married when I was 21 and it was wayyy to early! Maybe that is just my opinion though. I knew my husband since I was 17, we were friends in highschool... and we were only engaged 7 months when we were married.

It was a HUGE mistake! I wish I would have waited. What I learned though is not to settle! , that being with someone shouldn't come with a price. Make sure that you find exactly what makes you happy! Marriage is costly especially when you get divorced!

Just spend time getting to know yourself... because even though you are 19 you still have a lot of growin up to do.... and the only person that can really make you happy is yourself! (and your furry ones!!!!!)

and i wouldn't say meeting someone in a bar or club would be the right place. chances are you will grow out of that scene one day and he may not.. and you wouldn't want someone you love clubbing and barring when you want them to spend time at home wth you. I agree with everyone else... i think the place i would want to meet someone is somewhere where we have the same interest....

[critter crazy]

I Met my Husband at the age of 18, I had been in the army for a year, and he came in one day, and I just was drawn to him, and actually ended up working with him for some time. He was going through a divorce at the time, and I was not interested in anything from him. so we just were friends for over a year. I went away for 6 months, and when i came back home, he called me up out of the blue and asked me out! I was so nervous, but we have been soul-mates ever since. we moved in with each other after 3 months of dating. We got married when I was 21. He is my life, people gave us some grief at the time we started dating because he was 10 yrs older than me, but we are a perfect match, aand of course I am still More mature than he is! We have been together for 10yrs and married for 8! I truly believe we will be together for ever!

[GoldenLuv]

i met my hubby online in a yahoo chat room 6 1/2yrs ago.. I think i started talking to him cause he has a strange screen name and then we started talking and then i was only suppose to visit him for a week but i ended up stayin.. and here we are today almost 7yrs still together.. this is my longest realionship YIKES.. i am stuck with him forever now.. lmao jk

[Cookiebaker]

This is a great thread!

I "met" Mark when I was a little kid -- like 6 or 7 years old. My parents were friends with his parents, and I would see their family about once or twice a year (they lived 5 hours from us). When I was around 13, I developed a huge crush on Mark that has never gone away. Little did I know that he also had a crush on me all that time.

When I was 18, my brother moved into his area to go to grad school, and I would come visit my brother often; and so saw a lot more of Mark, too. In July of 1996, we went to a picnic (there were about 50 people there) and we had our first "serious" conversation. It wasn't long after that in September when we started writing, got engaged in November, and were married the following May 1997. I can't believe that it is 10 years that we have been inseparable, and have loved every single minute of it.

So my advice to you is, do not settle for anything less than the best. Find happiness WHEREVER you are in your life, and when that special person comes along, they are just adding to your already awesome life.

[Jessika]

This is a great thread!

I "met" Mark when I was a little kid -- like 6 or 7 years old. My parents were friends with his parents, and I would see their family about once or twice a year (they lived 5 hours from us). When I was around 13, I developed a huge crush on Mark that has never gone away. Little did I know that he also had a crush on me all that time.

When I was 18, my brother moved into his area to go to grad school, and I would come visit my brother often; and so saw a lot more of Mark, too. In July of 2006, we went to a picnic (there were about 50 people there) and we had our first "serious" conversation. It wasn't long after that in September when we started writing, got engaged in November, and were married the following May 2007. I can't believe that it is 10 years that we have been inseparable, and have loved every single minute of it.

So my advice to you is, do not settle for anything less than the best. Find happiness WHEREVER you are in your life, and when that special person comes along, they are just adding to your already awesome life.

You got married in the future?? How freaking cool is that?

[carole]

Well I had been on my own with my son for about eight and half years after leaving my previous Husband, and as a lot of you know I have social phobia so i did not go out much at all, so never had the chance to meet anyone, everyone said i had better start going out or i will never meet anyone,how wrong they all were, i met my present husband Steve two doors down from where i live, my son played at his nephews house, it was funny really i had met him only once and was not that taken, he made a comment about solo parents which i took the wrong way( I now know he has the utmost respect for them) anyhow to cut a long story short, the idea of dating him was put in my head by his sister n law, at first i felt kinda like they were just hitching me up with anyone, but i guess my self conscious started playing on me, and i had been invited out to watch his brother play in a band at the local tavern, i hate pubs and only went because i thought Steve would be there, so i came home got all dollied up and then found out he was babysitting their children, he commented on how nice i looked, so i was disappointed and found out later they were trying to hitch me up with the drummer in the band, Rob was cute but not my type, i came home and then he and the sister n law walked me home two doors down, which kinda annoyed me as i saw this as chance to get to know him, well anyhow two weeks later i plucked up the courage and invited him over for coffee, and really he never left, two weeks later he moved in with me and two months later we married, we have been together now for 15 years.