clitrenta
Android Enthusiast
Mostly some women but I don't have a problem with the term. Most people understand we dont actually "own" someone but it's more a figure of speach as in "that's MY man".
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Mostly some women but I don't have a problem with the term. Most people understand we dont actually "own" someone but it's more a figure of speach as in "that's MY man".
septembersrain
句_句 Smurfing Awesome
Same here. My parents were only together long enough to have me. Then they only got back together on occasion to fight over me. LOL
My mom always won and eventually my dad poofed. @_@
Gmash
Extreme Android User
breadnatty08
pain rustique
Yikes, that's no fun.
My parents are pretty "traditional" Catholics so PDA is more or less frowned upon. But, they've been together for decades and if there's issues with their relationship, I know none of it.
septembersrain
句_句 Smurfing Awesome
My Grandmother has been without my Grandfather for over 20 years. Yet she still always visits him on his birthday and cries on their anniversary. To have this kind of love that stays with you after one leaves this earth.... So beautiful.
K
Kaat72
Guest
Oh my... my mom is in love... she met the guy in her bowling club... she hasn't told him yet though...
Ever heard a 65 year old lady giggle?
Ever heard a 65 year old lady giggle?
Gmash
Extreme Android User
Oh my... my mom is in love... she met the guy in her bowling club... she hasn't told him yet though...
Ever heard a 65 year old lady giggle?
All together now...awwwwwwww
😍Good for her. Hope it works out.
LilacBleeds
Android Enthusiast
This is a weird one at how I met my partner......
I started working for Tesco UK in 2005 christmas time.... and my bf at the time worked on checkouts so never really saw him but he saw me. The only problem was he was too shy to say hi to me. But he moved on to the back door and we started to talk a bit more but we both never said we liked each other until 2012 december. We started talking on facebook then on google and msn, we then started flirting and we got caught by managers when they were doing staff searches and said I need to ask him out but what I ddin't tell them was he already asked me out and I said yes. We have now been together for 2 years and almost 6 months
I started working for Tesco UK in 2005 christmas time.... and my bf at the time worked on checkouts so never really saw him but he saw me. The only problem was he was too shy to say hi to me. But he moved on to the back door and we started to talk a bit more but we both never said we liked each other until 2012 december. We started talking on facebook then on google and msn, we then started flirting and we got caught by managers when they were doing staff searches and said I need to ask him out but what I ddin't tell them was he already asked me out and I said yes. We have now been together for 2 years and almost 6 months
PattiCakeUS
Android Expert
I met my ex-husband at the company we both used to work at. Still wondering where I'll meet the next guy.... dun-dun-dun...
mrex
Android Enthusiast
I met my man in internet (i rarely go bars etc., once a year maybe). We chatted like a year before we met and it took another year before we were daiting. Was it slow enough? Now beeing together 8 years and having a hairy mutual baby with four legs and a tail. Well he's already six, but like a baby.
Now beeing together 8 years and having a hairy mutual baby with four legs and a tail. Well he's already six, but like a baby.
PattiCakeUS
Android Expert
We met at a BP gas station in Georgia. We started corresponding and soon thereafter we became a couple.
We've been together for 7 months and counting. Yeah!
Hey, there's an idea. Maybe I should just start hanging around at gas stations...
But seriously, congrats! Hope you guys are happy together for a very long time
M
Member243850
Guest
AI have completely changed my mind over how much I dislike relationships...
I have only had 1 girl in my life and after extremely painful experience with women there is only ONE THING girls care about........
ONE THING ONLY
Shout it man - just say it loud and say it proud!!!!
GIRLS DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU GUYS THEY JUST WANT YOUR MONEY
Take it from my hard painful experience with women.... they are like super thieves.....
THIEVES SQUARED TIMES INFINITY
I have only had 1 girl in my life and after extremely painful experience with women there is only ONE THING girls care about........
ONE THING ONLY
Shout it man - just say it loud and say it proud!!!!
GIRLS DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU GUYS THEY JUST WANT YOUR MONEY
Take it from my hard painful experience with women.... they are like super thieves.....
THIEVES SQUARED TIMES INFINITY
If you want the long version, here it is:
The short version is that sometimes, love awaits you in the least likely places.
I was in the Navy, assigned to a barracks in Italy. There was a female Sailor who worked in the barracks. Miss Super Proper, obeyed all the rules and regulations to a tee. I found it my mission to violate every barracks rule just to annoy her... she managed to get me reassigned to the smallest possible room for my paygrade. We made life utterly miserable for each other.
One night I was headed out to a popular club in town and my female friend asked if she could bring a friend along. SURE!
It was HER, of course. My arch-nemesis, and I'm driving her around Italy! GRRRR!
Anyway, the hours progressed and I thought I'd ask her, since she knows everyone in the barracks, who she thought would be worthy of a road trip with me to the East Coast on a whim. She grabbed her drink, ready to throw it in my face, and said, "Yeah. ME."
"Okay." She was stunned that I didn't just laugh her away (and wear her drink home).
So the trip was coordinated, we got the same days off scheduled, and hit the road east. As we talked, I found things we had in common and things we didn't. She had been treated horribly most of her life. I was a lonely introvert. After a miraculous rescue off the side of a mountain, spite turned to acceptance, which turned to like, which turned into love. It's a novel waiting to written, I tell you.
That was 1987. The Navy then pulled us in two different directions: she transferred to Greece, I came back to a U.S. based ship. But Fate had another ace to play: in 1990, she transferred back to a base 15 miles from me! I supposed it was meant to be, and one night I proposed to her.
We just celebrated our 25th Anniversary together.
One night I was headed out to a popular club in town and my female friend asked if she could bring a friend along. SURE!
It was HER, of course. My arch-nemesis, and I'm driving her around Italy! GRRRR!
Anyway, the hours progressed and I thought I'd ask her, since she knows everyone in the barracks, who she thought would be worthy of a road trip with me to the East Coast on a whim. She grabbed her drink, ready to throw it in my face, and said, "Yeah. ME."
"Okay." She was stunned that I didn't just laugh her away (and wear her drink home).
So the trip was coordinated, we got the same days off scheduled, and hit the road east. As we talked, I found things we had in common and things we didn't. She had been treated horribly most of her life. I was a lonely introvert. After a miraculous rescue off the side of a mountain, spite turned to acceptance, which turned to like, which turned into love. It's a novel waiting to written, I tell you.
That was 1987. The Navy then pulled us in two different directions: she transferred to Greece, I came back to a U.S. based ship. But Fate had another ace to play: in 1990, she transferred back to a base 15 miles from me! I supposed it was meant to be, and one night I proposed to her.
We just celebrated our 25th Anniversary together.
The short version is that sometimes, love awaits you in the least likely places.
That's the great thing about relationships. They are like underwear. If it gets dirty, you just change it and you're good to go.
I have two daughters, both in their twenties, that have struggled to find quality relationships. They were raised in a very loving and stable environment and expect nothing less. I watch as they try to find Mr. right. I know it has to be a frustrating process with a lot of hard feelings involved. I encourage them by reminding them if often happens when you least expect it... Much like The_Chief's story. Just be ready to give as well as receive... it will happen.
If you want the long version, here it is:
I was in the Navy, assigned to a barracks in Italy. There was a female Sailor who worked in the barracks. Miss Super Proper, obeyed all the rules and regulations to a tee. I found it my mission to violate every barracks rule just to annoy her... she managed to get me reassigned to the smallest possible room for my paygrade. We made life utterly miserable for each other.
One night I was headed out to a popular club in town and my female friend asked if she could bring a friend along. SURE!
It was HER, of course. My arch-nemesis, and I'm driving her around Italy! GRRRR!
Anyway, the hours progressed and I thought I'd ask her, since she knows everyone in the barracks, who she thought would be worthy of a road trip with me to the East Coast on a whim. She grabbed her drink, ready to throw it in my face, and said, "Yeah. ME."
"Okay." She was stunned that I didn't just laugh her away (and wear her drink home).
So the trip was coordinated, we got the same days off scheduled, and hit the road east. As we talked, I found things we had in common and things we didn't. She had been treated horribly most of her life. I was a lonely introvert. After a miraculous rescue off the side of a mountain, spite turned to acceptance, which turned to like, which turned into love. It's a novel waiting to written, I tell you.
That was 1987. The Navy then pulled us in two different directions: she transferred to Greece, I came back to a U.S. based ship. But Fate had another ace to play: in 1990, she transferred back to a base 15 miles from me! I supposed it was meant to be, and one night I proposed to her.
We just celebrated our 25th Anniversary together.
The short version is that sometimes, love awaits you in the least likely places.
that is awesome !!!
love your story... and you have my curiosity..
then you stabbed me in the head.. by leaving out the good parts! (NOT sexual)
Freakin tease!!!!
come on man!
rescue off the side of a mountain??
spite.. to acceptance.. like.. into love??
God is in the details! give!!!
sorry little bug... you need to dive in that pool many times to find the right fish.
cant base your entire love life on one... smelly slimy fish!
only 1..
in any scientific study ... then to have a full understanding.. and a conclusion.
you must have a big enough sampling of the subject matter.
your mission is to go out and gather more raw data!
as you do.. you will grow and learn.. find out what you REALLY want.
then...
love will find you!
shalemail
Android Expert
Timely thread. My dearest and I just celebrated our 5th anniversary on the high seas this past 10+ days. Well we were on the high seas when we celebrated, not that we have spent 5 years on the high seas.
It is a testament to whats been said here a few times though to be sure. When you least expect it...
My wife (who is 14 years my junior) also happens to be the niece of two dear friends that I went to high school with. I was in a bad place, marriage of 10 years coming to an end, paperwork filed, kids upheaved, the works. These friends of mine had a party in November of 2008 (my birth month) and Rachel was there when I arrived. I was no more looking for love than I was looking to be run over by a Mack truck, but oddly this evening would set into motion being hit by love like a Mack truck.
We had met a few years before and honestly I had always thought of her a kid, until this night at this party. That said it was far from love interest, honestly it was more amazement of the woman she'd become. Her father had recently passed and she was thoughtful, articulate and bright, not so much smart bright but like a shining light bright. (She was not NOT smart bright FYI
) Anyway, we chatted over drinks that night and parted with out so much as a second thought. Over the next few months we saw each other at the occasional get together and each time shared a moment. We began to correspond proactively the end of January and on Valentines day she dropped off a little gift on my porch and that signaled the end of the buddy type relationship. I pushed her away for many months siting the age difference, that I could never be to her (early 20's) what she needed and wanted in a life partner. Well her persistence, or God, or luck or Karma or whatever you want to call it won the day. Later that year we made it official to our friends and though there was some initial discomfort it's really been wonderful since. It's nice at holidays to hang out with friends AND family all at the same time. 
I was the poster child for "the nice guy" every 80's movie love story echoed my woes. My first marriage was a mistake I didn't know better than to make - I married a friend thinking the passion would come. It didn't and that doomed it from the start. But that brightness I saw in Rachel, soon revealed itself to be a deep interest in her, a passion for her soul. I didn't want it, I didn't recognize it, so it smacked me in the face with a brick to knock some sense into me.
7 years later (5 of them in wedded bliss) it's not perfect, it's not easy, but it's all I want or need and it makes me a better man. She's a miracle ... she doesn't believe it but she is.
<3
It is a testament to whats been said here a few times though to be sure. When you least expect it...
My wife (who is 14 years my junior) also happens to be the niece of two dear friends that I went to high school with. I was in a bad place, marriage of 10 years coming to an end, paperwork filed, kids upheaved, the works. These friends of mine had a party in November of 2008 (my birth month) and Rachel was there when I arrived. I was no more looking for love than I was looking to be run over by a Mack truck, but oddly this evening would set into motion being hit by love like a Mack truck.
We had met a few years before and honestly I had always thought of her a kid, until this night at this party. That said it was far from love interest, honestly it was more amazement of the woman she'd become. Her father had recently passed and she was thoughtful, articulate and bright, not so much smart bright but like a shining light bright. (She was not NOT smart bright FYI
) Anyway, we chatted over drinks that night and parted with out so much as a second thought. Over the next few months we saw each other at the occasional get together and each time shared a moment. We began to correspond proactively the end of January and on Valentines day she dropped off a little gift on my porch and that signaled the end of the buddy type relationship. I pushed her away for many months siting the age difference, that I could never be to her (early 20's) what she needed and wanted in a life partner. Well her persistence, or God, or luck or Karma or whatever you want to call it won the day. Later that year we made it official to our friends and though there was some initial discomfort it's really been wonderful since. It's nice at holidays to hang out with friends AND family all at the same time. I was the poster child for "the nice guy" every 80's movie love story echoed my woes. My first marriage was a mistake I didn't know better than to make - I married a friend thinking the passion would come. It didn't and that doomed it from the start. But that brightness I saw in Rachel, soon revealed itself to be a deep interest in her, a passion for her soul. I didn't want it, I didn't recognize it, so it smacked me in the face with a brick to knock some sense into me.
7 years later (5 of them in wedded bliss) it's not perfect, it's not easy, but it's all I want or need and it makes me a better man. She's a miracle ... she doesn't believe it but she is.
<3
xyourxhighnessx
Android Enthusiast
I met mine on the first day of high school. Her friend thought i was "cute" and wanted to talk to me But she Was too nervous to go alone so she asked her friend (my now s/o) to go with Her and she admitted she didn't even want to come with Her friend to meet me.
She said i was looking down with my headphones on and she just nudged me with Her foot.
.she said she knew i was social when she saw my eyes ( whatever) i didn't get that feeling right away but we became friends. Went on dates with each of our friends arranged by us (she set me up with her friend and i set her up with one of mine)
We stayed friends. Eventually when we were both single we ended up talking and losing our virginities to each other and sorta stayed fwb...eventually we went from friends/fwb to not wanting the other to date anyone and finally realized there was a hell of a lot more to it than that
Fast forward 13+yrs and here we are.
She said i was looking down with my headphones on and she just nudged me with Her foot.
.she said she knew i was social when she saw my eyes ( whatever) i didn't get that feeling right away but we became friends. Went on dates with each of our friends arranged by us (she set me up with her friend and i set her up with one of mine)
We stayed friends. Eventually when we were both single we ended up talking and losing our virginities to each other and sorta stayed fwb...eventually we went from friends/fwb to not wanting the other to date anyone and finally realized there was a hell of a lot more to it than that
Fast forward 13+yrs and here we are.
Sorry Dan, I'll have to spare you the details for now. I'm sick as a dog and just can't bring myself to write Part II 
