Question Of The Day - Tuesday, June 25

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Do you know how your parents met? If so, how did they meet?







My parents met on a train in St Petersburg apparently what sealed the deal, according to my mom, was that he liked animals and owned a horse.


And of course, the rest of history. Next couple of years, marriage and little ol' baby me came into the world.

They met when my father's family moved into the neighborhood where my mother's family lived. They had a rocky marriage and were separated for most of the time I was growing up, but got back together eventually. It was still Rocky but they stayed together until Mom died in 2009.

My parents were introduced to each other by my father's cousin. They were married for almost 25 years until my father passed away at the age of 45.

My parents met at a bar (my mom says it was a night club though) that my mom was working at. She was 17 and my dad was 20. My dad asked if he could buy her a drink. My mom tried breaking up with him 3 months into their relationship because she didn't want anything serious and 3 months was the longest she would go. My dad didn't like that and basically wouldn't give up until she took him back. They got married like a year later. They've been married 39 years. I'm the oldest and was born 6 years after they got married.

My parents grew up knowing each other. They started dating in high school. Dad graduated before Mom, immediately joining the army. They married soon after Mom's graduation. The marriage lasted 22 years, until they divorced.

My dad was my mom's second-oldest brother's best friend (he's 5 years older). He practically lived at her house. He came and went, had different jobs, but she always saw him around. When he went away to boot camp---he was older than most military recruits, or she wouldn't have been old enough yet---she missed him. All their other friends got together. She said "hmm, we're the last ones, we should get together I guess". So they did. But she went to college in a different state. Then she figured out her degree wouldn't be valid in his state so she dropped out and went to live with him. One day they were lying in bed and he said "I suppose we should get married, so you can get my military benefits" so they did. So passionate!

Immediately after the wedding he was deployed for 9 months. She didn't work and didn't have a baby so she just kind of wandered the city all day doing whatever. I came along over 3 years later. They just had their 43rd anniversary.

My parents met at a party but I have no idea whose party.

My parents met at a downtown restaurant during their lunch breaks. My father was shy but had just recently returned from military service in WW2 when he saw my mother. Apparently he laughed and said said...what the hell, I got nothing to lose. He asked her out and they were married 45 years before she passed away in 2001.

My parents met at a St Patrick's Day dance her church had and I guess he heard about (maybe it was mentioned in his bulletin). I was born two years and 11 days after their wedding.

My Dad was an American G.I. in England during WWII. Mom was a 17-year-old English girl. Her friend tried to set her up on a double blind date with her boyfriend and she. Mom's blind date stood her up. Gloria suggested that she, Mom, and Gloria's boyfriend go to a dance. Mom had a headache, and didn't want to go to the dance, but her friend insisted. Meanwhile, on the other side of the building, at the back door, Dad's friends were trying to get HIM to go in, and he also had a headache. He then saw Mom (she was an English beauty: pale skin, blonde, with blue eyes). He said went up to her and offered her his arm, "Grab a wing, chick!". She thought he was a jerk at first. He proposed on the ninth date! To celebrate, they got intimate for the first time, under a parked truck in the parking lot--and my brother was conceived. I was a late-in-life surprise baby, born when they were in their 40's. I have two other older brothers. By the time I was born, Mom became an American citizen.

My parents grew up a few blocks away from each other but somehow didn't know each other till they were grown. My Dad is the same age as my aunt; so a couple years older than my mother. I don't remember how they met though. I feel like I remember my mom telling me once when I was a kid; but that's all I remember. They've been divorced since I was 2.

margecat -- Have you ever seen the movie "The Americanization of Emily"? An excellent movie from 1964. About Americans in England preparing for the Normandy landing. And the courtship of an English woman by an American. In one scene, an English man observes, "The only thing wrong about the Yanks, is that they're overpaid, oversexed, and over here." It is black and white, but it does have Julie Andrews in a non singing role as Emily. Very good movie. Or so I thought when I saw it then.

My mother was an Army Air Corp nurse and my father was a sergeant in the Army Air Corp. Both of them were assigned to the hospital at Barksdale (now AFB) just outside of Shreveport, Louisiana. They met in 1938. They stared dating, very discreetly, because officers were not supposed to fraternize with enlisted personnel. At that time, I think that could get you kicked out of the military. As a military nurse, my mother held the rank of 2nd Lieutenant.

They were secretly married in late 1939 or early 1940. So they both remained in the Army Air Corp. After the US entered the war in late 1941, they were married a second time, openly, and my mother left the military. Now think about that. Our country had just gone to war, but my mother, a nurse, had to leave the service because of her marriage to a sergeant. I was not conceived until a few months latter and was born in late 1942. And my father earned an officer's commission in 1943. The only couple I know of that were married twice to each other, without a divorce.

Their marriage lasted until my mothers death in 1992. A fifty three year marriage. Very rocky at times, divorce was discussed but not acted on.

The US military was very conservative up through the 1960s. It was frowned upon for officers to get divorced. The assumption was "If you can't manage your marriage, how can you possibly manage a military unit?" A divorced officer would never receive another promotion. He could stay on active duty until retirement. But never receive another promotion. Or given another desirable posting.

That's probably more than anyone wants to know.

My mom was dating my father's brother. They set up a blind date for my father, who came home on leave from the military, with my mom's first cousin and went on a double date.

I have cousins who are both first and second cousins, since brothers married cousins.

ArchyCat said:

Our country had just gone to war, but my mother, a nurse, had to leave the service because of her marriage to a sergeant.

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My grandma had to get out of the Army when she got pregnant. She said the colonel she worked for nearly cried. Lot of nonsense back then.

They lived 4 houses away from each other. Dad was in the Air Force when his family moved into the house. His brother introduced them.

Blind date and the rest is history. Dad was 10 years older than Mom.

ArchyCat said:

"The only thing wrong about the Yanks, is that they're overpaid, oversexed, and over here

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Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!

ArchyCat said:

"The only thing wrong about the Yanks, is that they're overpaid, oversexed, and over here

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Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!

My father's sister, my aunt, brought my mother over to their house to hang out. They hate each other & should be divorced, but they couldn't afford 2 households I guess, so they stayed married.

They worked together.