Share a happy love story, maybe? :)

[nellyleyva92]

Hi guys, I'm new to this forum. I found it after doing some research about marriage and all that stuff.

I have read most of the threads and unfortunately I have found that many or most (or all?) of them are sad They talk about divorces, pornography, fights, etc., etc. I pray Heavenly Father to help all those who are suffering

I am not married yet, but I need to feel more confident about marriage. Reading so many sad stories left me a little bit more scared and confused than I was

I was wondering if some of you could share a happy love story?

Come on guys, I know there must be some happy stories too! Of course there's adversity but I believe marriage must not be that bad. How did you or a person you know find their sweetheart? Have you met someone with an amazing marriage? Why are you happy with your spouse? etc, etc.

I'll be very grateful. That will help me a lot to feel confident and faithful again

Edited November 16, 2012 by nellyleyva92

[annewandering]

I met my husband at work. He walked into the cafeteria with a bunch of other men and he is all I saw. Afterwards I apparently just sat there watching him during lunch. One day a friend jumped up on the table and sighted my line of sight to see who I was looking at. We both, apparently, instead of eating just stared at each other. I must have been unconscious because I never realized it.

Anyway my car kept having battery problems. He would stop and ask if I needed help but I didnt because I always called my dad who worked there to come jump the car. He was very disappointed he told me later. We did finally get to talking and its now 41 years later.

It's not an amazing, romantic story but despite everyone saying there is no such thing as being meant for each other we were and we knew it from the beginning.

[Vort]

Sister Vort's first words to me: "Who are you? You don't belong here."

Five children and 24.5 years later, we're still having fun, and she's still the one.

As a teen and young adult, I scoffed at the silly, ignorant Saturday's Warrior idea of someone "meant for me". But after my experiences with Sister Vort, I am not so sure. That silly, starry-eyed romantic idea may have some basis in truth.

[Guest SquidMom]

I met my current husband in the Army. We stood next to eachother in formation during AIT. I couldn't stand him. He was very happy and energetic and I was miserably married to a loser, so it annoyed me. We ended up getting stationed together and eventually became friends. After about 3 yrs I finally divorced my idiot husband and We started dating. we dated for a year and got married 3 wks after the divorce was final. 8 yrs later we are still very happy. It hasn't been perfect, but it's been worth the ride. my 2 kids from my first marriage have called him dad since the second we said 'I do' and we have another together. Opposites often attract, and I can't imagine being without him now.

[MorningStar]

When we were newlyweds and very poor, my husband went a week without eating lunch so he could spoil me on Valentine's Day. I spent the day at my mom's house making heart shaped sugar cookies to look like those heart candies (with custom messages) and he brought me a little box of chocolates with some small flowers. I was thrilled just to have those. When we got home later, there was a huge bouquet of roses and a double decker box of chocolates.

He also arranged for there to be flowers for me at his parents' house for our one week anniversary when we traveled down there for our open house.

[Guest]

Sister Vort's first words to me: "Who are you? You don't belong here."

Five children and 24.5 years later, we're still having fun, and she's still the one.

As a teen and young adult, I scoffed at the silly, ignorant Saturday's Warrior idea of someone "meant for me". But after my experiences with Sister Vort, I am not so sure. That silly, starry-eyed romantic idea may have some basis in truth.

So why weren't her first words to you, "I've seen that smile somewhere before. . ."?

[Guest]

I saw a boyfriend off on a mission. A couple of weeks later, my older sister told me to move out of my parents' house and live life while he was gone. So I did. That very day I found an ad for a roommate at the Institute building, moved in with some girls I'd never met, got invited to a party, and met my husband there. From our first conversation he thought of me as being his wife. I thought he was too young for me and I didn't want to deal with another guy who needed to go on a mission (as it turned out, he was 24 and had been home for 3 years. I was 19).

He was kind and had a quiet confidence that was much different than arrogance that I usually saw in young men. He was firmly footed in his faith and goals; not in a self-righteous way, but because he believes down to his core. He really looked at me, not just checked me out, but looked at me when we talked. Conversation came easily to us and we were quickly very comfortable with each other. Our courtship wasn't perfect. We're both pretty strong-headed, and we had to figure out how to communicate and really understand each other. But once we both knew we had something good going, we fought together for it.

It's been a wonderful 14+ years with him. Not always easy, but worth every struggle. For the last few years we've been in a place where even when life around us is really tough (and it is for us, right now), our marriage is bliss and a constant that we can count on.

[Bini]

Some friends and I spent Superbowl weekend down in Las Vegas. I had just got out of a crummy relationship but I had decided that I was going to have a good time and enjoy myself. Since we didn't have any real plans, we did a lot of hotel hopping from one place to the next, checking out the sights and mingling with the people. I met my husband at the MGM hotel, we got talking, and he was very much a gentleman. He asked me to dinner, we had great conversation over Chinese food, then he took me to Stomp Out Loud at Planet Hollywood -- and it was all history from there. We dated long distance for several months (I lived in southern Utah and he lived in SLC), he'd drive down on his days off to be with me. Shortly after he proposed and we got married. Been together almost five years and have a beautiful daughter. For me, it's been a fairytale :)

[Vort]

So why weren't her first words to you, "I've seen that smile somewhere before. . ."?

That was just her way of saying it.

[pam]

Sister Vort's first words to me: "Who are you? You don't belong here."

Five children and 24.5 years later, we're still having fun, and she's still the one.

As a teen and young adult, I scoffed at the silly, ignorant Saturday's Warrior idea of someone "meant for me". But after my experiences with Sister Vort, I am not so sure. That silly, starry-eyed romantic idea may have some basis in truth.

Reminds me of this song:

[classylady]

My husband is sitting here next to me and I read all the posts on this thread to him. Then I asked him if he would like to help me write our story. He says "sure"!

This is what I remember. I had a coworker who wanted to line me up with this "great guy" that had just moved into her ward. Only negative she told me, was that he had just gotten divorced. I told her, "Okay, I'll go out with him," even though I wasn't too interested in a divorced guy. About a week later I was attending my Single Ward's Family Home Evening Group's activity at a roller skating rink. There was a young man there that I didn't recognize. I could tell he was attracted to me, and he wanted to skate with me. After he introduced himself, I wasn't too interested in him because he told me he was divorced. So, I tried to pawn him off onto my roommate. But, he wasn't interested in her. A week after that I was at a dance (same Singles Ward), and this same young man came up and asked me to dance. We got to talking more, and realized we had a mutual friend (my coworker), and then it dawned on us: she was wanting to line us up, but hadn't gotten around to it yet. We beat her to it. We started dating. And seven months later we were married. It's been over 31 years and five kids plus his two from his former marriage, which he had custody of. We've had some hard times, but pretty amazing times too. I'm amazed at how well we get along. We hardly ever fight. But, our hardest struggle has been his baggage from his former marriage. We're still a work in progress.

What my husband remembers: I went to church with my friend out in SLC. I attended all the meetings, but wasn't too excited about anyone I met. After Sacrament Meeting I stood up, and was looking around, when I saw this very cute gal across the chapel and out in the other foyer. I made my way across the chapel, which was no easy feat since there were so many people there, and she was gone. Later, my friend invited me to his FHE group the next day which was a skating activity. And guess who was there? It was the same girl I saw at church the day before. I fell in love at first sight. I would try to talk to her, but she kept pushing me off to her roommate. I tried to be courteous to her roommate, but I wasn't interested in her at all. I only wanted to skate with the dark haired beauty I saw across the foyer after Sacrament meeting. Then a week or so later, I saw her at an outdoor dance. And I saw her all the way across the parking lot. Again, she stood out from all the other girls. She was trying to be a wall flower, but it wasn't working. I went over to her and started talking to her "playing 20 questions". That's when I found out she was working at the Church Office Building, and I told her I had a friend who worked there also. Found out they were coworkers, and my friend was trying to line the two of us up. Coincidence? I think not. About a week later, I got the courage up to call her on the phone to ask her out, but during the conversation, she asked me out instead. That was a relief, and an answer to my prayers. The rest is history. I feel she was an answer to my prayers, an angel. She took a broken man with two children, and made us into a family. I probably haven't been an answer to her prayers, though. But, we've made it work. And, I'm so thankful for her patience with me.

Edit: Learning that my husband had seen me in church before we actually met, was something I had never known about until just recently.

Edited November 17, 2012 by classylady

[IamMe]

I was a single mother of 4, since I had been 7 months pregnant with my youngest daughter, who was 2 at the time.

I remember one night sitting with a friend, and telling him that I felt I would be waiting until my children were much, much older, at least until in their teens until I would be in a position to ever date again. After all what kind of man would be interested in a single mom with so many children...

Then I met my husband, he was also a single father with 4 kids.

I only went out with him as a night off to relax, have some adult chatter with someone that I shared a common thing with and get a free meal. I figured 8 kids between us, just no way.

We've been married for 4 years and have added 2 more kids to the mix

Wouldn't change it for anything

[mannisue]

I love this thread!

I met my husband at a job I got as a waitress at a small cafe in the town I live in. I had just got home from nannying in Las Vegas for a year...I was engaged to another guy who I had tried to maintain a long distance relationship with while I was gone. He was more of a friend than anything, and his controlling stepmother was driving me up a wall. (This guy proposed to me under the giant clown at the Circus Circus sign when he came down to visit me! LOL)

Anyway...I got this job, and my first solo shift was with this good looking, 17 year old kid I had vaguely known from school: tall, long hair, an earring, and the most beautiful face I had ever seen in my life. He was so quiet, but so kind, and we were drawn together. We became good friends and nothing more (I was engaged, after all) and we spent long shifts together in this quiet cafe talking. I was smitten, but I remained steadfast in my engagement.

After one night shift working the bar crowd until 3 a.m., he suggested my sister (who was hanging out with us) and I join him and his friend on an excursion out to go hunting, as it was officially opening morning for deer season. I literally raced out the back door to be the first at his truck so I could sit by him, and so I could beat my sister out to the seat. My sister had a propensity to chase the guys I really liked, so it was totally on purpose...she wasn't going to have this one!!! We drove out to a canyon and all sat in the truck until morning light came. He asked me to go sit up on a hill with him. We just sat down and a little buck came over the ridge. He shot him, and we drug him back to the truck. He called me his good luck charm.

A couple of days later, my fiance called me at work and I broke it off with him. He was in school about 12 hours away from me, and it broke his heart. I just couldn't do it anymore.

After that, we went to a dance together, a few more outings, and it was just the most natural thing in the world. He proposed to me a couple months after we'd been seeing each other (much to the fear of my parents, LOL) It's now been 15 years that we've been together, 14 married, with two beautiful children. I've never loved someone so fiercely in my life, even if we haven't had the most perfect marriage and he has no interest in the church or God or anything. He is such a wonderful human being, and I hope one day we can be sealed together.

Every time I hear this song, it makes me swoon for him all over again. I adore it.

[EarlJibbs]

This is a very good thread!

Short version teaser: I said "just sit on my lap", and she obliged.

Long Version: It was my senior year in high school. I was a Teachers Aid for like 3 classes. One of them was drama (easy grade). The class took a trip to hang out with the singing group (Madrigals) as there was some touring singing youth group visitng the school. There was only one seat left after I came in, it was down in front and there was a group of about 5 people singing for everyone. Since it was next to a friend of mine I took it. Next thing I know some girl is telling me I was sitting in her spot. I looked up, she was beautiful. I said "Just sit on my lap" and I patted my legs. She said okay.

We skipped the next two classes and just talked. We dated until I left for my mission, she dated and waited. We wrote faifully. She would tell me about some of the guys she went on dates with. I would encourage her to date some of them (because I knew them and wasnt scared ) After I got home we got caught up very fast and were married within 8 months. What is funny is when I got home I had to beat off two guys from her arm. Well one guy new I was coming home and never called her again, the other guy had to drop her off at my house after she went on a date with him to end it! That's right!

It has been 12 years and I am still crazy in love!

Edited November 16, 2012 by EarlJibbs

[Guest SquidMom]

We just sat down and a little buck came over the ridge. He shot him, and we drug him back to the truck. He called me his good luck charm.

Nothing like the murder of cute furry animals to bring two people together! I love hunting! (Really, I do.)

[Dravin]

My wife and I met online actually, on this very board. I'm not sure how to turn our history into an amusing or saccharine acendote. There were many chat sessions and many phone calls, and a few plane flights until I finally wore her down enough to say yes to a marriage proposal.

If you want you can see some of the giddy happiness over our engagement and marriage in these threads:

http://www.lds.net/forums/general-discussion/37360-i-got-engaged.html

http://www.lds.net/forums/general-discussion/40358-congratulations-beefche-dravin.html

And if curious some of the planning silliness:

http://www.lds.net/forums/general-discussion/37386-engagement-wedding-advice-3.html