How did you meet your other half?

There is a book by Henry Cloud. The title is something like, "How to Find a Date Worth Keeping."

He says that you should be meeting new people every week. If you are not doing that now, then you need to do something differently.

Go out to meet all kinds of people. If you only look for single people of the opposite sex, that comes off as "desperate," and you will scare off some guys.

Relax, and go to clubs, activities, whatever ....that would be interesting and fun for you. If you are relaxed and enjoying yourself, that will be a lot more attractive to most men.

Good luck!!!

BTW, this evening I am planning to go to a chapter meeting of members of the Weston A Price Foundation. They are a group of people that are enthusiastic about eating healthy.....including the benefits of raw milk!!!!! Since I have dairy goats and I drink raw milk, I know there will some common interests there. It is a very diverse group of people, so it should be fun!!!

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"When you are having dinner with someone and they are nice to you, but rude to the waiter, then this is not a nice person.".....Dave Barry

I love stories like these.

DH and I met through a mutual friend at work who was doing some side work as a 'match maker'. During our short contract period she introduced a number of couples, at least 3 of these couples married and are still happily married.

It's my theory that she brainwashed me. For several months she'd talk to me and say, "Do you know Ed? He's such a sweetheart... blah, blah, blah..." Not really trying to interest me, but talking about work he was doing for her or whatever. Then, eventually, she introduced me. She said, "Do you know Ed?" (In my brain I heard the words, he's such a sweetheart.) I think she used her Jedi powers or something!

But 15 years and 3 kids later... we're still here!

Me and my DH have been practically tripping over eachopther since childhood. But we first met through one of his friends who was trying to date me. I wasn't interested but my girlfriend was so we went to this little bitty Ne. town to see this guy and I hit it off with his roomate. He opened doors and held my hand he was so nice. WE talked and talked everything just clicked. Our first date was watching movies at their house and when I kissed him goodnight I new he was the one I was going to marry. That was 14 years ago we've been married for the last 9 and have 4 wonderful kids together!

the first time we met, I was 12 and his parents were chaperoning a girls group to Anaheim to Disneyland (we lived in NorCal)...a few of us girls were simply aghast that a BOY was on the bus!! Egads!

When I saw him next was at a track meet in 1977 and he was a hurdler...and really good...

I saw him a few days later when I was cruising town with girl friends (it was the late 70's, not the 50's! LOL!) and had a friend send his friend a letter saying I thought he was cute..well, of course the note got sidetracked and DH saw it and proclaimed I must be one of 'those' girls to try and get a date this way...more laughter....

In the spring of 1978, we were introduced and I told him I knew exactly who he was. We started 'going' steady and about a month later he asked me to marry him. Funny thing is I had to tell him even though I was a sr in highschool, I was only 16...I should probably wait...big laughter for the look on the poor guys face!!!

Needless to say, we got married in 1981 a month after I turned 19 (had to plan it around spring break in college...) and have been together ever since... I cannot imagine ever having a different mate, we are def. together forever this life .... and the next 10 or 12 lives for sure ;-)

=)Bonnie

I'd seen him around campus before. Small college and he's 6'3", wears tall boots and a hat, so he stuck out in the crowd.

But we finally met our sophomore year at a mutual friend's birthday party on my dorm floor. A friend and I ended up partnered against he and a buddy during a pitch tournament. He was cheating. Blatantly.
He played the Jack of Diamonds three times. He had an ace tucked in his hat band. Facing out. He had the three up his sleeve. It fell out while he was playing another card.
He winked at me.
That was it.

Fifteen years later, when I'm getting too serious about something, he can still tug my metaphorical pig-tails, wink at me, and I fall all over again.

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~*~Erin~*~
SAHM, ranch wife, sub and quilt shop proprietress
the Back Gate Country Quilt Shop

My husband and I met doing college radio.

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"Perhaps I'll have them string a clothesline from the hearse I am in, with my underwear waving in the breeze, as we drive to the cemetary. People worry about the dumbest things!"
by Wendy

I kicked him and his friend out of the sheep pens at the college farm.

I met my hubby at Radio Shack. He was the manager and looked like a pasty faced geek. He now has a beard, looks a little more rugged and he is MY geek.

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Wags Ranch Nigerians


"The Constitution says to promote the general welfare, not to provide welfare!" ~ Lt. Col Allen West

Yahoo Personals. He had stopped looking for several weeks but his profile was still there and I sent him a message. He decided to log in one more time and there I was. We emailed and talked on the phone and finally met in person and boom! That was it for both of us. He's my soulmate, best friend, and the finest man I've ever known.

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"Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them." - Jackson Browne.

I married the boy next door Met when I was 12, and starting Jr. High. He was 18 and starting college. Thankfully, he waited for me to grow up :banana02:

Keep these stories coming!

please

Contra-dancing. I wiggled my eyebrows to the music and spun her and swung her. Soon she was mine...

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SugarMtnFarm.com -- Pastured Pigs, Poultry, Sheep, Dogs and Kids

I wrote her a parking ticket (Security) at the hospital we both work. She came in and yelled at me for a while. Love at first sight.

DH and I met at a Grateful Dead concert 24 years ago. We will celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary this coming winter solstice.

Just keep truckin' on.

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Anne
Give me a sweet home set among the trees,
With friends whose words are ever kind and true.
-Phoebe Carey-

LONE PINE FARM
Barnesville, PA
Boer goats, Angora goats, Eclectic mix of poultry

I met the love of my life at work, we do great CPR together

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Amanda

"Live and let Live!!!"

"Courage is being scared to death--and saddling up anyway" John Wayne

I was a school teacher in a big city and dreamed about marrying a country boy and having a farm.
I met my husband at a singles pot luck put on by a Christian radio station. I was 36
After so many year of dating I knew the minuite we met that he was the one.
He lived in the country and loved to hunt . We were married 4 months later.
Tomorrow is our 15th anniversary. We started a garlic farm 13 years ago,and I homeschool our 2 beautiful children.
God is so Good!
the garlic lady

I was stationed in Germany, across from her parents' apartment. She was 16, and I, 20. We eloped and got married in Denmark 3 days after she turned 18, as her parents (Greek/Turkish) wanted to sell her to a Turkish family (arranged marriage). Now we have 4 kids and a farm in WI!

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veni, vidi, volgavi

WE were introduced by one of my co-workers.

One day at work, Cindy was asking Lisa if she knew how to play Pitch, the card game. Lisa said no, and I overheard them, and piped up "I do."

Seems Cindy and her husband liked playing cards with a friend and his wife, but she'd left him (the friend, now my dh) and they still wanted to play cards, but needed a 4th person.

So, I went over that night, and we played pitch and then they taught me how to play Spades. It started a weekly thing, we'd all meet to play cards and we'd usually do supper too. I was new to the town, so didn't know many people there.

Then one day, she asked me what kind of man I wanted. I described what I was looking for and then realized that DH met the criteria, but he didn't seem interested, so I forgot about it.

In January, I wore a new short denim skirt that I'd just bought. DH saw me and told his friend "Her legs go clear up to her a**!) He called and asked me to the movie--with Cindy and her DH. So, I didn't quite know if this was really a date or not, except he paid my way in, so I guess that made it qualify as a date.

He didn't kiss me for over 2 weeks. I thought that by then this wasn't going to work and that we'd just stay friends. But we didn't. We dated 6 years before getting married. We've been together for 20 years now. I'm not as thin, he's not either, but he still lights up my fire!

We met while winter camping.

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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In the USA, capitalism triumphed over democracy. -F Lebowitz

Religions are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies. -T Jefferson

My husband and I met at Radio Shack of all places. I now call it the Love Shack. He was already working there and I was just hired on. We were only working there a very short time before we became very good friends. I did not know the Lord and had gone through some very real trials before meeting my christian husband.

He was the first guy who I had ever gone out on a date where he asked if we could bless the meal. I knew something was different then. Thats not to say that we were walking in the Lords will at the time because when his other job required him to go to Montana for a couple of months I ended up going with him. He had gone ahead of me (via plane) but had mapped out the whole 7 state trip for me to drive. Each page of the trip had a love note that he wrote to me motivating me to carry on. He taught me how to shoot his gun, gave me the cell phone and handed the keys of his truck over to me. I was ready for the trip of a life time. Before heading out on my big adventure, my husband (friend at the time) had already told me of his love for me. I unfortunatly could not return the words. However, I knew I wanted to be with him. I drove for two days (with an overnight stay at a hotel) and when I finally got there after some challenges it dawned on me that I was in love. Some of us are slow. When I saw him he hugged me and that is when I told him that I loved him.
I knew because of his strong beliefs in the Lord that our living arrangments were not sitting well with him. After being in Montana for a couple of days one weekend we were in the mountains and had seen a wedding chapel. In my heart I already knew what we should do but did not mention to my man. That night we were back in the valley where we were staying. I already new that he had wanted to marry me but my pain from my past was holding me back. While watching tv I leaned over to my husband and said lets do it. He said do what? I said "Get married". His eyes got big and he started to well up ( We dont say crying when we refer to him). He said very happily "Really???" That next weekend we got married by the justice of the peace in the mountains of Montana. Shortly after I told my husband that I wanted to know the Lord. We were back home in Baton Rouge, La and while kneeling down on our 2" mattress, that sat directly on the floor, he lead me through sinners prayer.


16 years of marraige lots of laughter, lots of tears, Katrina took everything but our love for the Lord,each other ,and a shell of a house. That could not do us in. In 2007 my husband who had never been seriously ill was diagnosed with 2 brain lesions. I am here to tell you that prayer and vitamins has healed the lesions. I know this was supposed to be about how you met but I love our story. I hope you find peace in knowing that ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.

God Bless