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Let’s play.

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Because it’s probably more fun than scrubbing grout.

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I think my answer is a wee bit off the average.

6 days.

And that’s only because we had to wait 3 for the license.

Yes, we knew each other for 6 days before we were married… almost 40 years ago. He proposed on day two.

What can I say?

When it’s right, you know it.

How about you?

Did you date a long time….

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38 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  1. That’s astounding. I’d love to hear whatever version of that story you’d be willing to share. My husband and knew each other for four years before we got married, so, although the circumstances were weird, looks like we fit the norm with the timing.

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    1. There’s not much to tell… I went to high school with his two youngest sisters. Family of 9, he was the one I’d never met because he was older and in the Marine Corps. He came home on Christmas leave, we met at a party, I rudely ditched the guy I went with because the attraction was instant and like being hit on the head with a sledgehammer. He had to return to base in North Carolina in a few days and we couldn’t bare to be apart so we got married. Crazy, I know. But it worked.
      ❤️

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  5. We never dated at all. Everyone knows we “met” through a personals ad in the Village Voice, he in Vermont, me in NYC. We corresponded and talked on the phone for about 3-4 months. I went up to Vermont to visit him, returned home packed up my apartment and went to live with him – 4 months later, on Valentines Day, he proposed. We got married about 2 months later..

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      1. Yeah it solidified the thought that she was the one. We met in a book store cafe, walked talked watched the sunset in a park, ate sushi for dinner & made out in the car till we called it a night

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  7. Dating? What’s dating? The night we met we took a walk that lasted 15 years. She had the nicer apartment, so I moved in with her, and we lived in sin for 7 years. After a brief split we got married, which lasted another 7 years. We still lived together another year after a marriage counsellor told us we had irreconcilable differences. When we finally agreed to part ways the judge at our divorce proceeding mentioned he had never seen a couple so together and he wondered why we divorcing. It took 15 minutes to explain, and he banged his gavel.
    The woman I live in sin with now took 3 days before we were living together. That was 20 years ago.
    Dating? I tried dating once. Not for me!

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      1. I’ll give you all three.

        1. We went to high school together but didn’t run in the same circles. My first leave from the Navy I went home and randomly bumped into her. We wrote letters (yes, snail mail!) back and forth while I was on a six month deployment. Came back and went on my second leave for two weeks and asked her to marry me at the end of it. So probably about 8 months total.

        2. Met on a BBS, dated for about six months, lived together for about a year before getting married.

        3. Met in an IRC chat room. I was dating her friend, she was dating mine. We were friends for probably a year when our other relationships went sour. I swore off women for another year but she wore me down and we dated for about six months before tying the knot. Had to do that for her to come to the US but would have done it anyway but maybe not that soon. It finally took. 20 years last June.

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  13. I swore up and down that I would never marry anyone until I had been dating them five full years. Not sure why “5” was the magic number… this is teen/early 20s logic we’re dealing with. In the end, the husband and I dated for 2.5, then were engaged for a year, so 3.5 total.

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  14. You two certainly aren’t the norm! But hey, it worked. ❤️

    We dated for almost six years, but that was mostly because we were so young. I was seventeen when we met, so I was still growing up. (I’m still not finished if you were wondering)

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