<p>I was working at a publishing company, and he was fresh out of grad school looking for a publishing job. I hired him to work for me. After six months, he got a promotion and worked for someone else. The rest is history. </p>
<p>Thirty four years ago. Yowie.</p>
<p>I noticed him at a large picnic in a park with lots of friends (some were mutual) He looked really good on the volleyball court (shorts and no shirt on that hot afternoon). </p>
<p>Later: we both frequented the same restaurant for breakfast on weekends. Mutual friends…we often ate together. Interesting guy, good conversation, but no romance.</p>
<p>Much later, I was at a restaurant where I had been stood up by a date made weeks before (I think the “date” had been pretty well lubricated when the arrangement was made) and H-to-be was in the bar. </p>
<p>He said: Why are you here? I said: I’ve been stood up. He said: Have you had dinner? I said: Of course not; I have been stood up! (a first for me: both humorous and humbling). He said: Great! I (dense) said: What’s so great about being stood up? He said: You can have dinner with me!</p>
<p>We had appetizers and danced and laughed all night. Never did have dinner.</p>
<p>5 years later we were married. 28 years now.</p>
<p>These would make a nice book or TV series. Oh wait, is that what “How I Met Your Mother” is about?</p>
<p>Mail order catalog. My spouse just jumped right off the page. I was so excited I got a paper cut. The rest is history.</p>
<p>On the college crew team - I was my husband’s coxswain for the Head of the Charles, and he was the stroke of the boat. After staring at each other six days a week for a month, he asked me to go out for dinner with his parents after the Head. 35.5 years later . . .</p>
<p>Wait, LM, your first date was with his parents along? Lol, I will suggest this to my Ds and see what they say about this idea for them.</p>
<p>DH, fresh out of college, gets a job at a Fortune 500. My mom works there, meets him , and lets him know she has a girl for him. Mother knows best! 34 years this October!</p>
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<p>We have a winner!</p>
<p>I think I met him at a punk bar. He says no, he met me at a SuperBowl party with the same bunch of friends several months earlier. I admit, I was in a bad mood that party, having just dumped a schmuck, and it was amazing he remembered me fondly.</p>
<p>He died two years ago, after 22 years of marriage, 25 years after that Superbowl party. And yes, he died on Superbowl Sunday, just after the game ended. He was holding out for one more Superbowl with me.</p>
<p><em>hug</em>, UCDAlum. I’m glad he held out for you for that last Superbowl, and I’m glad that you all had those 25 wonderful years together.</p>
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<p>In the interest of full disclosure, the first date was the previous spring when I asked him out. I was late, it was a disaster . . . but then he saw the error of his ways, I guess.</p>
<p>And yes, parents were in tow, but that wasn’t all that bad. I was used to being asked by guy friends to chat it up with their parents over dinner so they wouldn’t have to answer questions, and then the parents would think we were actually dating!</p>
<p>It was actually a couple of months of just hanging out together in a small group before anything truly romantic happened. :)</p>
<p>I was used to being asked by guy friends to chat it up with their parents over dinner so they wouldn’t have to answer questions, and then the parents would think we were actually dating!</p>
<p>When she was home- I would use D1 for the same thing with my own mother!
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<p>We met while students at UCLA, working in an on-campus restaurant. I was her boss and chewed her out for not doing something right; she immediately branded me as an idiot and that was that…until later in the year, the salad bar flooded in the scramble area of the restaurant, and we started talking. We’ll be married for 26 years in June.</p>
<p>^^^ LOL</p>
<p>H and I were “set up” by a mutual friend. I didn’t like him at first - he made some comment about women being gold-diggers (which is so not like him at all to say that, but he had just gotten out of a relationship with a gal who demanded expensive restaurants with pricey wine bottles for every date. ). </p>
<p>But, then he called me and we talked for a few hours. I told my mom the next day that I would marry him. Our 25th wedding anniversary is very soon!</p>
<p>^ Really? That must been a GREAT chat.</p>
<p>We were both cancer widows.</p>
<p>We were involved with an online grief support chat. Periodically that site would have “real life” get-togethers for the members to meet each other. I had been to several of these get-togethers prior to the one in May 2002. I saw him across the room and thought, “there is a good looking man, I should go shake his hand.” We ended up talking for the rest of the evening and then exchanged email addresses. A week later I gave him my phone number and he called - and the rest, as they say, is history…</p>
<p>^^^That’s a nice story.</p>
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<p>I told my mom that very night. We celebrated our 25th last year :)</p>