Had any of you almost "given up" on meeting anyone? If you'd like to give your age, I'm interested. If not, thank you for sharing your stories.
(trying to remain hopeful!)
Husker41
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This is my second marriage - we were married in 2000. We met in a writers' group, online. She was looking for someone to edit her latest book - I volunteered - we were back and forth on that for quite a while. Discussions eventually became more personal. She lived in Virginia, and I was in Nebraska. In 1999 I flew out to visit her, we hit it off very well, and the following year, we married. We honeymooned in England, and have lived very happily ever since. I am now 76.
Below, I'll try to upload a picture of us. Sometimes the upload works, and sometimes not.
Mariana Straits
Second time, we were good intimate friends for 9 years and we have been married 28 years, a grand total of 37 years together.
Our first contact was over the citizens band radio, our first personal contact was at a fund raiser/charity jamboree for Down's children.
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I only been married once, started dating someone last year on and off as he was a psycho/ narcissist to my total shock, as i found out, took me awhile to recovered from it, now I have giving up on finding someone and i am not open to such thing any more i could not trust anyone at this point of my life for being afraid to be hurt again as badly as i did with that guy.
Tigger
Met my husband of 35 years when I was about 10 years old and in grade school though back then I didn't like boys and he was just there, one of the older kids who I ignored. Then one day I saw him at the gas station and he asked me what I was up to and I said I was going to a movie and he invited himself along. Also my cousin who was his best friend told him to go out with me or he'd break his arm...
Kojak
When I was in high school I dated a Filipina.... a sweet delicate beautiful girl..... on our first date I got a nice little kiss.....took me forty years to get a second date and a second kiss.... In those forty years life had changed her.... made her bitter, angry.....I thought I could change her.....make her "sweet" again......It did not work.....she was changing me..... One day she went to the store and I walked away.... or more accurately ran away.... I simply gave up on having that special someone I always dreamed of all my life and never found.....I even stopped looking.....stopped dating..... I was 62.... old and tired...... one day some friends ask me to check out a "retired Green Beret general"..... having spent 15 years in the Green Berets they felt I could determine if he was lying..... He was.... but I also discovered he was dying....I could see it in his eyes..... I refused to reveal him as a fraud and let him die with his false dignity..... the significance of that encounter was his girlfriend...... there was something mysterious.....something intriguing about her..... she never said a word but I was captivated...... but even after his death three months later I never approached her but she filled my thoughts..... on various social occasions I would see her.....she was intelligent.... articulate..... compassionate..... gregarious.... with a great sense of humor..... the fact that she was beautiful did not hurt either...... my problem was she was forty years younger than me...... a child...... I could not handle the "may-December" concept...... then I hit on a solution..... I would hire her as my trainer.....if she was around me long enough.....she would fall in love and that would make everything "alright".....That was one of the DUMBEST ideas I ever had three years of frustration and four boyfriends later she was still not in love with me..... because of our age difference she would not date me socially.... fortunately she had HORRIBLE taste in boyfriends..... every one of her boyfriends was a LOSER....hurt her..... and I was there to hold her hands as she cried.....tore my heart out..... If she would not "date" me how could she "know" me????.. I hit on a solution..... I started writing an opinion column for a local newspaper..... I got her to proof read my column.... make sure I did not make any "mistakes"..... she began to see past the "old" man and see my young heart ...... long story short.... we have been married for six years..... the happiest years of my life......and to be honest.....the most interesting and painful years also...... the course of love is never easy or without problems but I would not change a thing.... without her I would probably be dead now....... she is the spark that is my life.
THUMBS DOWN..... ????? All these answers with thumbs down...... how can anyone thumbs down any of these posts.....they are all the true experiences of the people telling the story..... what criteria makes the personal truth of the person posting "bad" ????