Where/How did you meet your wife/husband/gf/bf?

[Kori Ellis]

Krista and I met at Midnight Rodeo on November 29, 2001
and have been together ever since. It was just one of those "things" that you cant explain.

So when are you going to marry her?

[Brodels]

I met the future Mrs. Brodels in college in 1999. I joined a national service fraternity and had a frat 'mother' who turned out to be the future Mrs. Brodel's best friend. I thought she was cute and word kind of got around...I asked her out a short time later. She wasn't into a relationship for a while though. I pressed hard to keep us together over the first couple of months.

I've broken parts of my wrists/hands on two different occassions playing basketball. I got a cast on my right hand/wrist/arm the day of our first date. I ate my meal with my left hand for the first time that night. I was dumb enough to get pasta, too. It was quite an adventure, and I didn't really get to eat much.

[KEDA]

So when are you going to marry her?

If it was our choice, TOMORROW


but I want her to focus on her school so she can support me, so we have decided to do this after she graduates, so about a year and a half or so.

we are having the reception at the Ellis Palace Hotel and casino in San Antonio Texas!!!!!

[Kori Ellis]

but I want her to focus on her school so she can support me

we are having the reception at the Ellis Palace Hotel and casino in San Antonio Texas!!!!!

Great! We are looking forward to it.

[gay abc]

lj & kori's story is great - almost brought a tear to my eye

i met my partner on the internet in a gay chat room - almost 2 years ago :p

[MannyIsGod]

Holy , gay men in a relationship of 2 years? Now that is a cause for a riverboat parade. :p

[KEDA]

Holy , gay men in a relationship of 2 years? Now that is a cause for a RAINBOW riverboat parade. :p

EXACTLY!!!!

[1369]

My wife worked for me during an expansion of a plant on the coast back in 1995.

She knew the instant we laid eyes on each other that we were soulmates and that I was the only man for her and she would one day be my wife and mother to our children.

I just wanted to see her naked.

[samikeyp]

After a string of failed relationships I was done. I had always heard that nice guys finish last but I didn't believe it. I was the nice guy and damned if I didn't get screwed...and not in the way I like. I was the poster boy for "I just want to be friends" or "but you are like a brother to me" or "we are too good of friends to date" Name the copout, it was applied to me. I was tired of getting stepped on so I said to with it. A friend of mine convinced me to come to Dallas for New Years Eve. I was determined to get completely faced and face 2002 with a hangover. A week before my scheduled trip, I was about to cancel my trip and spend New Years with only the company of my friend Smirnoff. For some reason, I decided to take my trip after all. I got there and the next night was the party. My friends throwing it set my up with someone. Ugh. We were not even there 10min and she was on my arm and talking like we had been dating for 10 years. I was not in a mood for a clinging vine. I was then introduced to Beth's (the woman throwing the party) friend from church, Erica. We hit it off immediately and talked all night. Not sure what happened to the other girl. She stayed until 2a that night and came back over New Years Day at 7p and stayed with me until 2p the next day when I left for home. Over time we talked via email and phone and we made trips back and forth to see each other. We saw each other once a month until June 2002 when we moved her to SA. We got married in October 2003 and have been happily married since. Something I found out later about fate....the week leading up to the New Years party, Erica had been sick and only decided to go at the last minute.

[ChumpDumper]

Karaoke bar.

[gay abc]

Holy , gay men in a relationship of 2 years? Now that is a cause for a riverboat parade. :p

my first relationship was almost 8 years - second was 5 years - this WILL be the last one

[tlongII]

This thread is worse than a chick flick.

[Jekka]

However, on that same day, we also commented on a blog that we both followed (we didn't know it though) and another conversation ensued. This one wasn't friendly in the least and involved terms such as man hater.

Manny did not know at that point that I was going through a very jaded and bitter period in my life (scary I know, because that's how I come across to many people already) thanks to a jackass that I had recently had a falling out with after dating. I looked for the friendster messages and couldn't find them - but I did find the blog comments:

Original Blog Entry:
He talks to me like nothing is wrong! I CANT STAND THAT!!!

GRRR MAKES REALLLLY PISSED OFF!

Jekka: Oh how I empathise. All too well. Men are pigs... and that pretty much sums it up.
Blogger: Amen to that. I just told him something that he didn't like soo maybe he'll actually get the freakin hint, but more than likely he wont. That asshole!
Thanks for the comment..at least I know ONE person understands!
Jekka: Good look to you on that, though from my experience, men do not take hints. They know the dictionary definition but are completely incapable of recognizing them when confronted.
MannyisGod: I take hints, you said you had a problem with my face and I left the room. DLKFJSDLKJFSDLKJFDSLKJLDSKJ
MannyisGod: that's a pretty ty blanket statement. I guess I could resort to the typical women are es retort, but then I'd simply be falling into your pig mold.
Judge each invidual on their actions, not on their gender.
Jekka: All men are pigs and all women are es. Men don't take hints and women keep giving them ... no one is learning from anyone - such is how it has always been, and probably how it always will be.
MannyisGod: I disagree.
MannyisGod: Seriously, when in this situation, the best action is to ignore the person. Nothing sends a stronger message than showing that if you're an ass, you're out the door.
Thats my opinion anyhow.


And for the record, there's still a bassist in a local (bad) band that plays Sin13 out wandering around SA who is Satan. I thought he'd be the last musician I'd date and then I met Manny.

[2Blonde]

I was separated from my first husband and had finally decided to file for divorce. On the day I filed my friend and I made plans to go out and celebrate. She had previously told me about a guy she thought I would hit it off with. I said no because I wasn't ready to date yet. After being with someone for ten years, the last thing I wanted was to get into another relationship. Anyway, we went out that night and who should we see but this guy. She introduced us and we visited for a while and then he left.

We did not exchange phone numbers or anything. Then the next day she called me and said he called her and asked if I would be willing to have lunch with him. I gave in and said yes. When we had lunch I found out that she had called him and said the same exact thing to him about me. Although we had really hit it off when we met, neither one of us had asked about the other.

After that first lunch, the rest is history....We took the bull by the horns, so to speak, and got married 6 months later. We have been married for 7 1/2 years. The 8th anniversary of our first meeting was last week on March 21. He is still just as romantic and wonderful now as he was then. He is a great husband and father & I am incredibly lucky. He spoils me rotten.

We got married six weeks after my divorce was official. We were going to wait until New Years Eve and go to Las Vegas but my ex husband was threatening to take me to court for "living in sin" after the divorce was final. He said I was setting a bad example for our daughter.

..2Blonde & 2inLove

[bigzak25]

timvp, sorry no Changs. I had to get her home before her curfew! It's high on my to do list, so take heart in that.

[PeterBurns]

2000

UTSA Party
Wouldn't give me the time of day

Robert Earl Keen Concert.
Wouldn't give me the time of day.

Finally convinced her to let me take her out.
Went out with her on New Year's Night.

Been together ever since.
5 1/2 years. Been married for almost 3.

My motto:
If you ask 1 unbelievably fine girl out, she'll tell you no.
If you ask 100, someone is bound to say yes out of mercy.
I was Stacie's mercy date.

Tough break for her.

[Shelly]

Damn, SW and I are witty...

SW--Where's the thread where we were hinting about bringing flowers on a first date?

[Dex]

This thread is so cute it makes me want to throw up.

P.S...you all are invited to Sabrina and I's wedding....whenever the we decide to get around to it.

[bigzak25]

me and wifey went to the same highschool 2 years apart, but never knew each other.

we had a mutual friend and he introduced her to me when he found out she would be attending A&M Kingsville, where i'd been for 2 years already....

we were fast friends, but were not meant to be at first...so I dissolved the friendship.
we remained acquaintances though, and it was about a year later that we got together. that was Jan of 96. we were long distance for a while when i graduated in may 97 had to move back to SA. she followed after graduating in 01 and we married in Nov 02. I've been blessed.

[timvp]

thought he'd be the last musician I'd date and then I met Manny.

So you are dating musicians on the side?

[bigzak25]

i caught that too...was gonna say "so you were right" but i thought that would be too mean...j/k manny...

[Jekka]

So you are dating musicians on the side?

Manny is a musician on the side. I should say I stopped dating guys in bands - the ones I've dated have all turned out to be jerks. It would be difficult for me to spend this much time who didn't share my music appreciation, though.

But no, there's no one else on the side, haha.

[Shelly]

Thanks! And I must admit that I crack myself up:

Yeah, but we're saying that getting flowers out of the blue is a good thing. I'd much rather get flowers that way instead of because it's my birthday, annivesary or because I'm right and he's wrong.

[mrblonde17]

A good friend of mine was going out with this gal he knew at SWT. We were having a frat party one evening when he came up to me and asked me if I would hang out with this gal. This was the one he was currently going out with. He explained that there was another girl at the party that he wanted to get to know, but wouldn't be able to because girl #1 would be there. I told him it would cost him a case of Shiner and a dinner at Herbert's. I'd met the girl before and didn't think too much of her from a personality standpoint. So we talked and drank and talked and drank and drank and drank and drank. I begrudgingly went out with her the next evening.

I guess she kind of grew on me, because I've been married to her for the last 15 years.

[desflood]

Now, THAT'S a good story