how did you first meet each other and develop a relationship?

[proggerr23]

For the married couples, how did you first meet each other and develop a relationship?

[TrinityLives]

Wellllll I don't know If I am a great example or anything because my husband and I struggle sooooo much these days! ( as you have probably read).

I was in another marriage for 11 years, he decided to leave.. neither of us were saved at the time.
After several months of throwing myself in my work I decided I should start dating again. I met several men but none were THE one. IN fact I have a prayer book and I made a list that if it were Gods will this was what I was looking for.
I did the online thing. Being I am a worry wart about safety I didn't meet many of those that I emailed or chatted with. Sometimes if you chat long enough online you know all you need to know!
Most I would talk to online for about 2 weeks before they even got my phone number

I went on one horrendous date after meeting online and said "NO MORE ONLINE DATING".. swore it off..

BUT

Valentines day I was home bored and thought OK I shall try ONE more time and I put myself out there on www.matchmaker.com
Pretty instantly I had many responses and several I didn't return but one stood out so I emailed him. He was online and we started chatting. For another odd reason I decided to give him my number THAT night and we chatted for 3 hours on the phone. He seemed too good, I knew he must be a dork or something in person!
SO I agreed to meet him for dinner the following weekend.
We hit it off. We spent hours chatting on the phone, online, in person. Being he had children from a previous marriage I wouldn't see him when he had his girls. I didn't know if we were going to stick so I didnt want to get the girls attached to me and vica versa, and we NEVER spent the night at each others house especially after I did meet the girls. I know women have it hard enough so I wanted to be a good example.
We just had so much in common. Both sports nuts, love animals, conservative, CHRISTIAN, in fact he was 14 of the 17 things on my list! The other three I found out with time.
One day when we were wrestling around ( he wrestled in college and I am a tough girl) He said " I think we should get married"..... I said "OK"

And that was 4 years ago ( we have been together 6 next month)...

Nothing fancy, he and I just seemed to be a great match. Our problems have always been around his ex.... other then that we are a good match... we just don't see I to I on that issue and sadly its a HUGE issue for me!

Is that what you wanted to know? LOL

[proggerr23]

Originally Posted by TrinityLives

Wellllll I don't know If I am a great example or anything because my husband and I struggle sooooo much these days! ( as you have probably read).

I was in another marriage for 11 years, he decided to leave.. neither of us were saved at the time.
After several months of throwing myself in my work I decided I should start dating again. I met several men but none were THE one. IN fact I have a prayer book and I made a list that if it were Gods will this was what I was looking for.
I did the online thing. Being I am a worry wart about safety I didn't meet many of those that I emailed or chatted with. Sometimes if you chat long enough online you know all you need to know!
Most I would talk to online for about 2 weeks before they even got my phone number

I went on one horrendous date after meeting online and said "NO MORE ONLINE DATING".. swore it off..

BUT

Valentines day I was home bored and thought OK I shall try ONE more time and I put myself out there on www.matchmaker.com
Pretty instantly I had many responses and several I didn't return but one stood out so I emailed him. He was online and we started chatting. For another odd reason I decided to give him my number THAT night and we chatted for 3 hours on the phone. He seemed too good, I knew he must be a dork or something in person!
SO I agreed to meet him for dinner the following weekend.
We hit it off. We spent hours chatting on the phone, online, in person. Being he had children from a previous marriage I wouldn't see him when he had his girls. I didn't know if we were going to stick so I didnt want to get the girls attached to me and vica versa, and we NEVER spent the night at each others house especially after I did meet the girls. I know women have it hard enough so I wanted to be a good example.
We just had so much in common. Both sports nuts, love animals, conservative, CHRISTIAN, in fact he was 14 of the 17 things on my list! The other three I found out with time.
One day when we were wrestling around ( he wrestled in college and I am a tough girl) He said " I think we should get married"..... I said "OK"

And that was 4 years ago ( we have been together 6 next month)...

Nothing fancy, he and I just seemed to be a great match. Our problems have always been around his ex.... other then that we are a good match... we just don't see I to I on that issue and sadly its a HUGE issue for me!

Is that what you wanted to know? LOL

yes, anything that describes how you both met and fell in love.

[youngmom4]

Well...I had just started driving for a company that my (now) hubby had just quit working for. On my third run (it was a team driving run), I went out with his old partner, a lady old enough to be mom to both of us. After talking to her for a little bit, she just decided that hubby and I would be a perfect match and orchestrated our talking on the phone. We talked almost constantly during the three days I was out on that run, and then he met us and went with us to deliver our backhaul when we got back home. Afterwards, we went out to breakfast together...I ended up not making it home until almost 5:00 am, the normal was about 1 or 2 am getting in from these runs. The next day was payday, and he was up there waiting when I came to get my check, so we went out to lunch together. We went out to the movies that night, and I think that is when I really knew that we were going to be together! :clap2: He left the next day to go to orientation for a new trucking company and a few days later I left on another run for my company, but by the time I got back, he had come back because the new company wasn't going to work out (too much time away from me ) and we ended up making our next run together as a team. Oh, btw, he had told me he loved me while I was gone on my run and he was sitting at his orientation. That crazy man told me he loved me when we had known each other less than a week! :funny::dance2: He must have meant it, though...cause we're still married today, and I know I love him more than I thought I did then.

Just something a little interesting to show how meant to be we are:

-We met on December 3. :dance2:
-We got married on June 3
-Our daughter was born on January 3 :baby: (Yes, we were bad before we got married.)

I think 3 is our lucky number! :idk:

[s4bush]

My husband and I met at Pensacola Christian College in FL. He was a senior and I was a freshman. We did absolutely nothing together at college and after he graduated, I started writing him (snail mail) and I called him over the summer. From then on, it was a long distance relationship with him in MI and me in FL, and an occassional visit over my college breaks. Three years of the long distance dating until got married after I graduated. Now we've been married 5 1/2 year and have three kids. The best 5 1/2 years of my life!

[BlessedDragonfly]

My hubby and I met on my second or third night at a new job while I was in high school. I'll never forget it, I was a cashier at the time and I remember seeing him walk in the door. He literally took my breath away. I knew the moment I saw him that he was the one for me even though I had no clue who he was.

I saw him stop and talk to my sister, who was working in the cosmetics dept. Next thing ya know, he's on the aisle in front of me looking at some hair products. I thought to myself again that he's the one.

He wandered back over to my sister and next thing you know, she starts hitting him with her fists. I called her (the phone went to automatic speaker) and I told her to stop beating up on the customers. Her reply "He's not a customer, it's just Mat!"

When my sister and I got off work, I asked her what all the hitting was about. She said that she had asked him to go take a look at the new cashier and tell her what he thinks. Well, he did just that and said I was cute. That's when she went off on him and said "She's not cute! She's my baby sister! Don't even think about dating her!"

Long story short...It turned out that Mat worked there too and when I walked by him one day on my way to the breakroom, he asked me out. And we got married 3 1/2 years later. Mat looked at my sister on our wedding day, "I'm not gonna date her huh? HA! I married her!" And if my memory is correct, she smacked him again, hahaha.

[Seattle Rain]

we actually met on Christianforums.com back in 2004. Back then several of the teens would get together on MSN and group chat practically every evening. Kenny was part of that group, although we'd only cross paths every six weeks or so (I found out later that he saw my profile and was afraid to talk to me because he had a crush on me). Whenever we did talk it was usually about school and such, since we were both having school issues (my grades were dropping due to lack of interest, he was getting into trouble because of the extremely strict rules of Pensacola Christian College.
Things didn't really start up until January the next year. It was actually more of a joke than a relationship. One evening I was in an MSN chat with the usual members kinda flirting a bit with one of the guys, when Kenny popped in. Jokingly I told one of the guys to "strongly hint to Kenny that I wanted a proposal." Kenny joined along and "proposed" and we ended up getting "married" about 45-60 minutes later in the chat.
Since that night we talked practically nonstop, even if a lot of times we were continuing our little joke marriage. I was pretty sure there was a mutual crush going on, but at that point in my life I decided that I was going to wait on God and not make the first move as I had in the past. Sure enough, Kenny surprised me when I asked him what he wanted for his birthday. "I want a mouse pad with a picture of my lovely wife on it," was his request. The relationship grew from there. We began texting around the clock, calling when we could, and talking online every evening. Six weeks later he flew out to visit me for spring break, I went back to Florida to stay with him for awhile, and he even moved to Washington for a few months to be with me.
One week after we celebrated our one-year anniversary we got married. We'll be celebrating that date two years ago this Wednesday.

[Gwenyfur]

I'm definitely not a good christian example ROFL

Met hubby a few years after my divorce...through a friend I went to high school with...

After being nagged for months (I was *happily* divorced) I finally agreed to go out on a date with him once...he is a hottie after all...

I wasn't living a christian life at the time...thankfully G-d forgives...but anyhow...he was smart, articulate and witty...so after all my years I decided to have a one night stand...

one night, after another night...after another night...tomorrow we'll have been married for 10 years...

not very romantic...and still little romance, but in a weird way it works for us

[Tenor]

As most of you know, I met my better half on eHarmony.com.

I was bored still out of my mind on night in late Oct 2006 and filled out the personality profile just for giggles, really did not expect anything at all to happen, and I actually forgot about the crazy thing .

Well I was contacted by them that she wanted to start communication in around Nov 10th 2006. I prayed about it and felt that God was leading me to at lest talk with her, so I signed up (for only one month cause I figured that it would flop anyways), and we went through the process (very detailed, btw). We started our open communication in late Nov and in early Dec we started talking on the phone nightly. Since we where not able to meet over her CHRISTmas break we decided that the best time for us to meet would be Jan 6th 2007.

I asked her to marry me in late Aug 2007 (I knew that she was the one that God had prepared for me and my life from the first month, I knew that she was the one that I just could not live with but the one that I could not live without).

We where married on June 21st 2008 (despite her dad not initially liking the whole idea of meeting someone online ).

I would not trade her for anything in this world, and I think that even if I could I would trade my Salvation for her if anything where to happen to her.