<p>kirmum -</p>
<p>Your story made me smile, which I needed this morning! Thanks.</p>
<p>So, does this thread reveal the true reason for parental obsession with getting DS/DD into the very best school? :D</p>
<p>Funny NJres, a friend was telling me that her wealthy parents made her go to a State college because they figured she’d just get married, and that was my thought too, why didn’t they invest in the best educated husband then?</p>
<p>Kirmum…love your story! June will be full of happy events for you!</p>
<p>KIRMUM, congrats on your upcoming June nups! ::::confetti::::</p>
<p>tsdad, I don’t know if I’d agree about that conservative thing. I believe you’re the only one with wife and mortgage in a different state. Not that a bunch of fellas don’t have that dream…but you’re the CC’r livin’ it.</p>
<p>patient–and carolyn. Curiouser and curiouser. Such stable voices! I’d imagined they stretched back to adolescence.</p>
<p>kirmum. So…how exactly do you flirt with your leg in a cast? Tell more!</p>
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<p>cheers…you made me smile…(I will say no more, invoking the 5th Amendment–or has that already been repealed?)</p>
<p>Thanks everyone, I’m the shy type, didn’t flirt, he did all the work! Drew flowers on my cast!! Followed up with the real thing.</p>
<p>tsdad: As a lurker a few months back, I followed your story of leaving wife/mortgage behind for a job at UWisc. You haven’t posted lately about your relocation to Madison. My son is a grad student there, so i’ve been watching for your update. Got one?</p>
<p>Kirmum, congrats on your impending nuptials. Nice story too! </p>
<p>I do recall a thread on here last year about long marriages of the regular posters and so on. And back then it was striking how many there were. I guess what did not hit me that time but it is apparent now, how many of you, like me, are not only married a long time but that many of us did not have kids for a while and thus have teens now. In my case, we are married 27 1/2 years but we waited nine years to have children because we not only married young (me 20, he 22) but were in school for the first four years of our marriage (me - both undergrad and grad, he - four years of grad), and then wanted to get our careers started and thus we had children at the more typical age, even though we were married so young. I now realize that so many others on here also were married quite some time before having children, like us. I know that conceivably, the fact that I am married over 27 years, I could have grandchildren by now but shudder the thought. My 18 year old is the age that I met my husband and that does blow my mind. </p>
<p>I know I mentioned that we met at the start of my freshman year at Tufts while doing the laundry (we now have this Tufts art print framed in our laundry room) but I will give more details, why not, others are. I was just planning to put my laundry in and go back to my room because my room was just down the hall a short way from the laundry room. But this guy was there playing guitar while waiting for his laundry as he lived in an apartment off campus but had chosen this dorm to do his laundry because it had been his dorm back when he was a freshman (he was a few years older but also a student at Tufts). We started talking and I recall his telling me his first name and then at some point his age came up and I kept thinking, gee he is the same age as my brother with the same name. So, then I asked his birthday and my mind had my brother’s in my head and wouldn’t ya know this guy was born on the same day, same year, same name. I don’t recall the whole conversation but he asked me out to go hear music in Harvard Square and show me around and as I was just in college for a month at that point, it sounded good. I recall going back to my room and telling my roommate that you wouldn’t believe it but I went to do my laundry and I came back with a date lined up! The rest, as they say, is history. </p>
<p>While this was in Boston and neither of us are from Boston, we now live in Vermont (for the past 23 1/2 years) and it so happens that we live where we first, ahem, did a certain “deed” (keeping the forum G rated), and where we at another point in time also got engaged. But we did not move to this town until six years into our marriage. I guess this place will always be special. </p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>This thread is full of sweet stories! </p>
<p>My parents met in college; but they never really talked until post-graduation and a bunch of people went on a trip together. Actually, Dad had a serious girlfriend in college but he got dumped because he didn’t want to pursue his masters. lol I guess that worked out fine- my parents will be married 20 years this summer (they didn’t wait so long to have me) </p>
<p>This thread has also been inspiring because seeing so many people get married so young makes me feel less crazy (even though I know the marriage age has gone up a lot lately). I’m a senior in HS now, with a boyfriend across the country. Hoping to go to the same college together and get married eventually :)</p>
<p>It’s funny, almost no one that I knew in college got married during or right after college. But ALL of those who did (like, a grand total of about 5 couples), are still really happily married. You’re right about taking a second look at those prom dates!</p>
<p>My S told me he wasn’t going to get married. Hah! How long did he last before he had a serious gf at college? Four weeks? Or was it three and a half? She comes from a hugely different background/religion so I doubt they will marry but ya never know. </p>
<p>He’s a tall handsome feminist with a lovely temperament and a world class father. No right thinking woman is going to leave him on the shelf.</p>
<p>Not to mention a potentially great mother-in-law :D</p>
<p>And p.s., you owe me. How many posts have I contributed to this “I want to get to 500” thread you started???</p>
<p>Put together kirmum’s cast & Susie’s “deed” and you would have one of my best stories.</p>
<p>Aww don’t dismiss it as a “I want to get to 500 thread!” I love this thread, it’s quite beautiful and entertaining.</p>
<p>Honey, I wasn’t dismissing it at all. I was just honoring the fact that Cheers started it and I found myself entertained by it.</p>
<p>lol I know; and I was just commenting so I can get to 4,000 =D</p>
<p>Sadly, dstark is pulling farther and farther ahead.</p>
<p>Love stories are not as compelling to CC’rs as tales of morality involving money. Money talk seems to fire up the CC board like nobody’s business. </p>
<p>So…did anyone marry for money? (This is an anonomous thread after all…)</p>
<p>btw: big shout out for the posts, patient!</p>
<p>Marry for money, with college aged kids? Does anyone have enough? 2 hard working professionals with 7 kids at or approaching college age. Money???</p>