So how'd you meet your spouse?

[TheOneMarine]

This is a great post, shows that among the many posts of divorce and seperation, people can still find a souldmate who will support them in this buisness. Bravo.

[gcman6]

She was a good friend of my older sister in High School. I worked alot outside of school so I didn't really see anyone that much besides my coworkers. Well it just happened that I had a particular day off and she was hanging out with my sister at our house. She punched me in the arm and said, "hey, who are you. I've never seen you around here!" I was lovestruck! We became good friends and spent most of our time together for the next two years. Then, in my senior year of high school (I had liked her for two years now) I worked up the courage to ask her out and the rest is history. We didn't go to the same college so the next 3 years of our lives was long-distance, including one year in which she lived in Kiev, Ukraine. She came home in April '05 (I was just finishing up my junior year of college) and I proposed. We married three months after that and have now been married for 1 year and 4 months and lovin every day. No kids as of today...

[Chris_Ford]

Originally Posted by gcman6

No kids as of today...

...but we will name them Chris Jr.

[flygirl813126]

We met in high school. We actually went to rival high schools, but met through a mutual friend. We really hit it off, but he didn't call me for 6 months. Finally I called him to see if he wanted to go to post-prom (A school sponsored after party), since I had a huge track meet during prom. He said yes. He proposed after high school when we were suppossed to be going to school 1 hour apart. I said yes, but then I transferred so that I was 3 hours away. He was competing on flying team and working and I played soccer and was working, so we saw eachother every 5 or 6 weeks for a weekend. After 5 years of dating we got married in 05. He is not flight instructing and I am teaching middle schoolers, so we don't have any kids. I tell my students that it will take awhile since I have to get used to having 100+ at work everyday.

[aloft]

Not married, but I met my current gf via MySpace.

[I_Money]

Just looking for a girl to get pregnant so her father would make me marry her so I could get my greencard - really easy in this country.

[Maximillian_Jenius]

Originally Posted by I_Money

Just looking for a girl to get pregnant so her father would make me marry her so I could get my greencard - really easy in this country.

Just don't choke on your silver spoon!

[flyguy969]

Tanning Salon. I owned it and she tanned there!

[Maximillian_Jenius]

Originally Posted by flyguy969

Tanning Salon. I owned it and she tanned there!

That's a great way to meet chicks and gay dudes!

[TonyC]

Does "other" include church?

23 years ago next month.








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[PacMan4x4]

Well.... My bride and I met over the internet on the AOL chatrooms. I was stationed in Alaska and she was in college at Iowa State. We started out IMing and e-mailing--alot...and 15 months later on my way to Panama for a deployment, I took leave to meet her in Iowa. The rest as they say is history...been married for 6 years and about half of that we've been separated by deployments and my 2 year tour in Korea. I couldn't have been more lucky to have a beautiful, understanding, and caring woman in my life. And she puts up with the airplane stuff too ;-) Thanks baby!

Pac Man

[jml2992]

I had moved to DEN from STL to work on my CFI and my best friend had found a place to live near downtown off of craigslist. She was my neighbor's/best friend's roommate's best friend (yeah! try to sort that one out...) from UCLA. She had come to Denver to hang out for a couple of days and we totally hit it off. I never believed in love at first sight before but I walked in and she was still in her PJs...if that's what you would call them. Short-shorts, white hoodie, and UGG boots!!!! She is sooooo SoCal and I was just floored. She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my entire life and she still is. We went out to a party and we had been flirting for a couple of hours and I decided that if I didn't make my move, my life would forever wallow in obscurity and unhappiness. I was making a phone call for my friends to find this party and I stepped into the laundry room for a little silence. She happened to walk by and I said "Psssttt....come here. I want to talk to you for a minute," and I just totally laid one on her. Long story short, I was working for Lakes at the time on the ramp and had travel benefits....so I spent a lot of time on Frontier back and forth to LAX. I ended up moving out there and taking a flight instructing job about two weeks after I got my CFI and I spent most of my time there commuting back and forth on the 405 during rush hour. We broke up on the 4th of July because she didn't think I was ready to be in an adult relationship and I took my job out here in Hawai'i. I heard about two months later that she was engaged to her ex. I have spent the last five months of my life broken hearted and thinking that I could never be happy again. I've also done a lot of growing up.

November 10th - 1:13 a.m. One year and five days after I met her, she called me to apologize. The engagement ended very shortly after it started and mostly because he never changed. We have been talking about her moving out here in a couple of months and hanging out while I get my time together and can interview somewhere back on the mainland. I love this woman more than life itself and I cannot imagine ever being happy without her. I know it seems like everything is moving so fast but I know I have to have her around. I never wanted children before I met her and I am so ready to have an entire litter if she is willing to marry me.

[Old Pete]

Originally Posted by Gonzo

The family (father and two sons) that run this company used to be clients of mind at the bank. Nicest people in the world you'd never guess meeting them that they run a mail-order bride business.

I almost married his (ex)wife's sister if that is who I think it is. I haven't seen him or his family in a long time.

I met a couple of the Russian women once. They were every bit as gorgeous as their pictures but I didn't find them particularly friendly.

[Windchill]

We met in college through mutual friends. A group of us went to dinner together at the Student Center, and we sat next to each other. This wasn't a setup. I was trying to flirt with another girl who was eating with us. My wife, sitting next to me kept trying to engage in conversation since we shared majors, etc. and I kept blowing her off because I was interested in someone else.

Well, she became pretty ticked off and made a point of being exceptionally rude to me whenver we ran into each other. Well, the constant attention, albeit negative, worked.

It was a good thing. The other girl I was interested in and trying to flirt with ended up dropping out of school after contracting a STD.

[TexasFlyer]

I'd like to be the first to meet my wife through Jet Careers. So PM me with any leads of cute woman that want to marry a future pilot.

[Bandit_Driver]

I met my wife after transferring colleges to start flight training. We met in the dorms and hung out a lot. We didn't start dating until we had both moved out of the dorms. The rest is history as we have been married 3+ years with a 18th month old daughter.

3 years of Electrical Engineering 10,000
3 years of flight training 40,000
tranferring colleges and meeting the woman of your dreams: PRICELESS

[amorris311]

great photo! great story too!

[Screaming_Emu]

Originally Posted by ChinookDriver

My senior year in HS, I moved from Nurnberg to Heidelberg.

I sense a military brat :-P. I went to middle and high school down on Bad Aibling Station.

[TheWife]

We met when I was in HS, I was 15, he was already graduated and was 18. He had a friend that looks like Jack Black, so we'll call him Jack, his friend THOUGHT that I liked him, so he told Corbin "this hot girl at school totally likes me" and Corbin was like "no way does a hot girl like you, so she's either not hot or doesn't like you". So Jack invited me and a friend to watch a movie at his house, so he could prove his claim, and I had no idea about any of this. I just went over and watched the movie and went home. Then Corbin started showing up at my house to hang out, I wasn't to "dating age" really, so it was just a lot of "hanging out". After a few months he told me he didn't want me to "hang out" with any other boys and I said "ok". Right after that, my family moved to FL, and I stayed in UT, so he was pretty much all I had since then, we got married about 5 years later on 09-09-99. Sometimes he's the only person in the world that "gets" me. Cause I can be a little weird. Or see things in a way that no one else does. Or have a saracastic sense of humor. But he always gets it. I don't really believe in soul mates or anything, but I do think he's a good soul-match. (And no, I didn't like his friend, other than as a friend, and I didn't even know that was going on, and "hot" is HIS word, not mine, so don't call me arrogant!)

[Ian J]

Originally Posted by Screaming_Emu

I sense a military brat :-P. I went to middle and high school down on Bad Aibling Station.

Cool!

I did some years in elementary school in Ansbach, 2 years of HS in Nurnberg, and 1 year in Heidelburg. Loved every minute of it.

[Ian J]

Originally Posted by TheWife

We met when I was in HS, I was 15, he was already graduated and was 18. He had a friend that looks like Jack Black, so we'll call him Jack, his friend THOUGHT that I liked him, so he told Corbin "this hot girl at school totally likes me" and Corbin was like "no way does a hot girl like you, so she's either not hot or doesn't like you". So Jack invited me and a friend to watch a movie at his house, so he could prove his claim, and I had no idea about any of this. I just went over and watched the movie and went home. Then Corbin started showing up at my house to hang out, I wasn't to "dating age" really, so it was just a lot of "hanging out". After a few months he told me he didn't want me to "hang out" with any other boys and I said "ok". Right after that, my family moved to FL, and I stayed in UT, so he was pretty much all I had since then, we got married about 5 years later on 09-09-99. Sometimes he's the only person in the world that "gets" me. Cause I can be a little weird. Or see things in a way that no one else does. Or have a saracastic sense of humor. But he always gets it. I don't really believe in soul mates or anything, but I do think he's a good soul-match. (And no, I didn't like his friend, other than as a friend, and I didn't even know that was going on, and "hot" is HIS word, not mine, so don't call me arrogant!)

Your husbands name is "Corbin?" That's awesome - don't meet to many guys with that name. If I ever have a kid I'll name him Corbin. (And certainly NOT Chris Jr.)

[TheWife]

(And certainly NOT Chris Jr.)

I like Corbin's name too, I think I've probably only met 1 other Corbin and I don't know why cause I think it's a great name, not weird or spelled funny or something. I would have named my son Corbin too, but I'm not into "jr's" (causes problems with phone calls and credit reports!) but if I didn't marry a Corbin I would have named my son that. Caleb (my son) used to be pretty uncommon too, but now there are a lot of them. And I had never heard the name Kyla when I named my daughter that, but now we have a neighbor w/ that name, and I've seen it on the internet 3 times.

[amorris311]

Originally Posted by TheWife

(And no, I didn't like his friend, other than as a friend, and I didn't even know that was going on, and "hot" is HIS word, not mine, so don't call me arrogant!)

come on now, self esteem needs a boost. its ok to say you are hot. it doesnt make you a bad person.

[TheWife]

Well last time I mentioned something along the lines of "I'm not ugly" someone said I was full of myself, so I was just making sure you all knew I wasn't bragging, just stating the facts as they happened.

[Bandit_Driver]

Originally Posted by amorris311

great photo! great story too!

Thanks