Awwwww! What a great story! I’m so glad you had that lifetime of joy together.
I’m just sour because mine didn’t work, don’t mind me!
After my Australian wife died, after awhile, I decided to get back into dating again, this time using online dating. I found a British widow (she had been married to an Air Force officer) living in a little town outside of Fort Worth and we struck up an online conversation and talked on the phone. When she expressed some reluctance about the distance between the two of us (a little more than a two-hour drive), I told her quite simply, "I have a car and I'm not afraid to use it ..."
We had our first face-to-face meeting on August 20th, I proposed on October 7th, we were married in the County Registrar's office on November 10th, and we had a church wedding on December 15th.
We just passed our 13th year and have started on 14 ...
So don't give up hope ...
Neither did mine. Good luck to you.
I've known people who've built long-lasting marriages on whirlwind romances that lasted a week. Meanwhile, my ex and I were together for years before we married.
I've long wondered whether I let a soulmate slip away 31 years ago, someone I met while traveling. Last I saw him, he was boarding a plane. He lived far away, and he seemed to be the "bad boy" type. So I took the safer route with a "nice guy" close to home. It turns out, "nice guys" aren't always nice, and sometimes the "bad boys" are the good guys. But, I didn't know that at 23.