How did you meet your spouse?

[Gail]

I bet there is no usual way!

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[Dr. Shane]

I was working in as a missionary in El Salvador and met my wife at a church social. However she wasn't attending the social, she was washing her clothes. She caught my eye and I became more interested in her than the social.

[cricket]

I met my future husband at an all-night Halloween skating party! I was 15; he was 16. And, no, it was not love at first sight. It took us three more years to get to that point.

[Bravus]

We were on a scuba diving course, and became buddy-breathing partners.

[there buster]

She walked into the cafeteria at the now (mercifully) defunct Oak Park Academy boarding school in Iowa, and sat down at my table. That was my (and her) freshman year. We were both 14 years old, just about this time of year, 42 years ago. I still remember how she looked. It was all over for me, no other girls existed. Our 38th anniversary is this December 22nd.

I'm just as bedazzled today as I was in 1964.

[Gerr]

Met her on a blind date on the beach. Yes, it was love at first sight for me.

Gerry

[Gail]

He shaved my head!

[SandyColorado]

We met at campmeeting - and his sister introduced us. It took us a year to fall in "love at first sight."

[SandyColorado]

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Gail said:

He shaved my head!

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I REALLY want to her about this one...

[Gail]

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He shaved my head!

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I REALLY want to her about this one...

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LOL Some of the members here will remember about 4 years back when my daughter and I took part in a shave-a-thon for a support event for her English teacher who was going through chemotherapy for breast cancer. Stan was there representing the Conference Communications department, as well as local and Vancouver media.

Rikki and I were the only women who took part, out of about 2 dozen participants.

Zip! Out came the clippers and razors! And soon we were all bald

Rusty was also shaved. He took part in this because he is a cancer survivor himself, and had recently lost a daughter to the disease.

He was the one who Trac-II'd my head.

Actually we had met briefly before, but he always quotes this story when asked

Seeing my daughter on the news on TV was her estranged grandmother, who subsequently contacted her. She is also a breast cancer survivor

[Michelle]

He was my admissions counselor at Andrews University--I was a 17 y/o academy senior, he was a 20 y/o college sophomore.

M

[Nan]

Loved your story Gail - is Rikki's teacher doing OK?

Well I can claim the most modern form of meeting <img src="/adventist/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />- Christian Options.com in cyberspace - we were on email for about 3 weeks before we met in person.

[Gail]

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Loved your story Gail - is Rikki's teacher doing OK?

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She is doing well and teaching again <img src="/adventist/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> She is looking forward to reaching her 5-year mark

[Halfstep Denise]

I met my husband via the ICQ chat program on the Internet in 1998. We married in 2003.

Halfstep Denise

[Parade Orange]

She was sitting on a bench in front of the local Soda shop.

I can still see her. She had on a powder blue leather mini.

and a halter top!

her dirty blond stringy hair was not reflecting the beautiful sunset behind her.... o wait- I dont have a spouse.

oopsie!

[Dr. Shane]

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[olger]

We saw each other across crowded rooms for five years. Instantly, we knew! That it was too crowded, I mean...

olger

(our 24th is coming up).

[Jerry D Thomas]

My wife and I went to academy together, but we never dated there, except on double dates with other people. Once we got to college though, we got together and got serious quickly. We started dating in October, got engaged in November, got married in March. We were both 19.

Three kids and 27 years later, I still think she's gorgeous and much too young to be a grandmother next February.

[Planey]

At the end of one school year I was at a loose end, no girlfriend, vacation approaching. On the Sabbath night of Avondale College graduation I was attending the Messiah recital at the College auditorium and one of the local girls had some sort of disagreement with the boy she was sitting with and got up and left. She met me in the foyer and we went outside to talk.

I had a bit of an interest in this girl's sister and in the process of our chat (just talking, nothing else...) I arranged to sit with her sister at the Grad concert the next night.

Things progressed from there and so I had a girlfriend for the vacation

This year we celebrated our 36th wedding anniversary.

A long vacation.

Graeme

[puddles]

Met my husband at church. After years of having well meaning folks introduce me to "Mr. Right", I actually had the good sense to stumble across the real deal all by myself...lol <img src="/adventist/images/graemlins/wub.gif" alt="" />

He said he became interested in me one Sabbath when I was sharing a prayer request but didn't figure I'd want anything to do with him. A few months later we both participated in a "Relay for Life" walk for breast cancer and I happened to look over at him and was struck with that "still small voice" that said in no uncertain terms "you are going to marry that man" and the rest as they say is history.

There are a few years difference in our ages but it bothered everyone but us and we were what mattered, so we took the plunge during an ice storm in 2003 and have become closer with each passing day. He truly completes me and I couldn't imagine being married to anyone else. []http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smilies/romantic/couple.gif[/]

[Dottie]

One Christmas vacation a friend called me and invited me to a New Year's party at her parents' house. It was a couples party. Eveeryone there was married except myself and my husband-to-be.Her parents were away for the weekend.

I was separated at the time, and he had been recently divorced.

The party was three hours from my parents', where I was staying. I left my little boys with them and drove through four hours of fog. We sort of hit it off.

Later we talked on the phone a lot, as where I lived was four hours from his house. We would alternate weekends visiting, him staying in a motel in town, and I staying at his house with him, his girls, and another family who needed a place to live while their house was being finished. (Had to keep it kosher)

We married 18 months after we met on New Year's Eve, 1972.

[Gail]

These stories are AWESOME!

[darlene]

And.....what if you don't have a spouse, then how can you say how you met, him or her?

[cricket]

You can say how you'd like to meet him/her!!

[darlene]

But what if you wouldn't like to meet him or her? Life is great just the way it is..... <img src="/adventist/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />