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It's been almost a year and it's still the best. For a long time, we were both waiting for the other shoe to fall. Waiting to learn something heinous we just couldn't live with. Waiting for the fairy tale to come to a grinding halt and turn into a train wreck. We've been through some very tough times, financially, and we've loved each other through them.
We're both old enough to know that things like this don't happen all that often. It's like winning the lottery. Someone gets the money but it's never you. Maybe this one time, I got the prize.
Have you ever experienced an immediate and complete connection with someone, within just a few days? One where you felt that this person could be "the one"? I'm NOT talking about a sexual hookup either, so throw out those experiences.
Have you, or anyone you know, ever experienced this? Did it last? Or did it burn out just as quickly?
Sort of. We met online in the early ages of the internet (1991). There were no "chatrooms" then, but we exchanged long emails several times each day and felt like we knew each other very well after a couple months. We were both at the end of long marriages. She was from NJ where divorces are long and drawn-out (I think to keep all the lawyers employed), and I had just filed for divorce.
I was going to be in NYC for a convention and asked her if she'd show me around. We didn't really get to see much of NYC, and I didn't see much of the convention. There was an immediate and intense connection when we met in person. I made one more trip to NJ to see her a couple months later, after my divorce was final, and this time I left my car there so she'd have decent transportation. (Her car was on its last wheels, and I had a spare vehicle.) A month after that, when her divorce was final, she packed the car with enough belongings to last for a month or two and headed west.
It was supposed to be a "visit", but she never left, and we were married 10 months later. There was never much doubt in our minds, I don't think, that we wouldn't spend the rest of our lives together. Unfortunately, she died suddenly and unexpectedly 3.5 years after she moved here.
I love my "new" wife very much, but I don't think two people could be closer than my late wife and I were during those short years. It seemed like we started out as one person in two bodies and kept getting closer every day. Our relationship didn't pass the "test of time," but I have no doubt that it would have -- with flying colors.
Have you ever experienced an immediate and complete connection with someone, within just a few days? One where you felt that this person could be "the one"? I'm NOT talking about a sexual hookup either, so throw out those experiences.
Have you, or anyone you know, ever experienced this? Did it last? Or did it burn out just as quickly?
Yes, my husband. We met on a Sunday and moved in together on the following Thursday. This was in 1990 and we are still together. Not that it has been easy the entire time (we were 21 when we met) but that comes with most relationships.
Hmmmm. Actually, the night my ex-husband and I met, he told his best friend that he was going to marry me. Yeesh. I forgot about that one.
My husband did the same. We met (he still teases me about the double take I did when I saw him) at my work, I gave him a ride home and my phone #, he told his roommate that he met the woman he is going to marry (and I found out he told him mom the same thing), and the rest is history. While he can have his frustrating moments (who doesn't?), he was/is a keeper.
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