The title says it all. Describe how you met your wife ... the very moment. (plus before + after, if you wish)

The answer could be from a few words to a few pages long, as per your wish.

[ManOfConstantSorrow]

At work in 1996. One thing led to another.

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Well that started a long time ago actually. You couldn't tell by looking at me now, but in High School I was a state champion powerlifter. The few of us in the high school that competed were well known. At the time, my wife knew who I was, but I didn't know her yet.

Then in junior college, she started working next door to where my mom worked and would talk to my mom on breaks. Again, she saw me around the JC campus, but I still hadn't met her. It was shortly after that she started dating a friend of mine and I got to know who she was.

Well, I went off to Kansas State University (KSU) while she went to Emporia State. I came back for summer and got a job renovating a hotel. She was working at the front desk of said hotel so we would see each other and smile and wave. By this time she had broken up with my friend.

After college, I went about my life until a mutual friend invited us to his birthday party. I drove back and both of us were there. She saw the car I was driving and wanted a ride so I took her for a drive and then we went about our lives.

When I got back to where I lived, I was cleaning my car and found an earring. I called around and couldn't find who it belonged to so I called her and asked if she had lost an earring. She said that she hadn't, but it sounded like one she had so she checked her purse. Lo and behold, she actually had lost an earring.

I said I would mail it to her and we talked about hanging out. So we got together and there were some crazy misadventures before here we are, 15 years of marriage and counting.

Originally Posted by Webgoji

Well that started a long time ago actually. You couldn't tell by looking at me now, but in High School I was a state champion powerlifter. The few of us in the high school that competed were well known. At the time, my wife knew who I was, but I didn't know her yet.

Then in junior college, she started working next door to where my mom worked and would talk to my mom on breaks. Again, she saw me around the JC campus, but I still hadn't met her. It was shortly after that she started dating a friend of mine and I got to know who she was.

Well, I went off to Kansas State University (KSU) while she went to Emporia State. I came back for summer and got a job renovating a hotel. She was working at the front desk of said hotel so we would see each other and smile and wave. By this time she had broken up with my friend.

After college, I went about my life until a mutual friend invited us to his birthday party. I drove back and both of us were there. She saw the car I was driving and wanted a ride so I took her for a drive and then we went about our lives.

When I got back to where I lived, I was cleaning my car and found an earring. I called around and couldn't find who it belonged to so I called her and asked if she had lost an earring. She said that she hadn't, but it sounded like one she had so she checked her purse. Lo and behold, she actually had lost an earring.

I said I would mail it to her and we talked about hanging out. So we got together and there were some crazy misadventures before here we are, 15 years of marriage and counting.

Wow, dude ! You have the best stories

That's awesome !

You still lift, right ? We've talked about testosterone and lifting in other threads.

[tommyp]

At work. We worked for a nursery/landscaping company. We both got to work a little early and would sit on bags of steer manure and talk. We got married 40 years ago this month.

Originally Posted by tommyp

At work. We worked for a nursery/landscaping company. We both got to work a little early and would sit on bags of steer manure and talk. We got married 40 years ago this month.

Wow ! Awesome ! Thanks for sharing.

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Originally Posted by lilodian4ever

Wow, dude ! You have the best stories

That's awesome !

You still lift, right ? We've talked about testosterone and lifting in other threads.

Lol, when I can I lift. Life is crazy that way. I had to quit competing because I was bursting blood vessels in my head. (Through proper form, education and hard work you can push yourself beyond your limits. ) So I just used it to stay in shape for martial arts up until my wife and I were married. She wanted to get in shape and start lifting weights so I taught her the correct forms and set her up on a program. As she got into better and better shape and started lifting more weight, she got bit by "the heavy metal bug" and she decided she wanted to compete. So I actually started training her for competition.

To this day I still can't lift big without blowing blood vessels, but she was getting stronger every day. I had her set up to peak perfectly at the state championships where she was going to open with a state record bench press and then blow the record away by 60 pounds by her 3rd attempt! I told her to bring her own cup to pee in because she was going to be immediately drug tested. (She was completely pure though as have I always been.) Then one day ... PPFFFFT! ... it was gone. She was weak and tired and had nothing left and ... uh oh ...

Along came our youngest son ... Da Bean! Laughingly he's been messing with our view of reality ever since.

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FYI ... Da Bean still wears mismatched socks, puts his shirt on inside out and won't tie one shoe. He seems to have been born just to mess with the world and turn it on it's ear.