Love Thread

[lady cop]

here is what Far wrote last night..."Sorry folks to get off topic... is there a love thread?"...sooooo, i propose a love thread...how did you fall in love? what is the best thing? was it instant? love at first sight? or over time? tell us your love story!! all of us LOVE love stories!

[venus]

hello folks, well l think that everytime you fall in love its different, thats not to say one is less important than the other.
Love at first sight (haaaaah swoon) beautiful... but in my experience not the long lasting type, for the reason of its normally LUST
not that lve got anything against lust
For me the best type of love is when youve gotten to know the person first and youve managed to develop a kind of friendship.. Because if your relationship is going through a rough patch its easier to see things from their point of view.

The only problem with love is that sometimes you feel like headin to the funny farm as it messes with your head and your heart

which way to the clinic?

[Accountable]

Okay. For me it was horn at first sight. But fate must've had a hand in it.

I was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, in the Air Force. I'm bright white and don't normally go to the beach because of the cooking factor. But on this Sunday my buddies convinced me to go with them to Moon Beach to hound dog girls.

Naomi grew up in Okinawa, Japan. She doesn't normally go to the beach because she tans easily and the Japanese value porcelin skin. But on this Sunday her buddies convinced her to go with them to Moon Beach to enjoy the water and eat sushi.

Long story later, we wed. Longer story later, we are looking forward to our 20th anniversary in November.

Geeze My story is plastered all over the place now so I might as well...

For me the first sight of her was dynamite... I started sweating and my palms itched and my heart pounded in my chest! And I ran like heck! The following Sunday her family arrived at our little church late and it just so happend that the only open seats were right next to me... and as fate er whatever would have it she sat right next to me! I don't remember a thing the preacher said that sunday, I was to busy trying not to sit there looking like an idiot and desperatly trying not sit too close to her for fear she think me forward...my brother on the other side of me whispering out of the corner of his mouth 'shes mine stay away' yeah right! I'd of killed him in a second if he even tried to talk with her!

I was 14 she was 13... and as far as I was concerned she was Mrs Far Rider that day.

For three years we walked to school, rode horses, worked in the fields.. our families had neighboring farms. Everybody tried to put us two together (except for her father) when our families did outreach and services I was always sent along with my sister to help her in whatever project was there... and she did her level best to tell me how I did everything wrong and how inept I was at the slightest activity... I never cared one bit! Heck she was talkin to me! hahahah thats all I cared about... more than a thousand times she said, 'wipe that grin off your face and get goin'! hahahahahahaha....

Love is funny... somewhere along the line I gave my whole heart to this very special woman... the day before I left for the Army, a sunday, her and I were walking ahead of my family... I never looked up at her, I told her I 'liked' her since the day I first saw her, and when I left in the mornin I was gonna leave my heart with her and someday when I come back Id like her to keep it but with us together. For the first she was ever nice to me she said without lookin up, 'I'll keep it'... My heart was gonna burst! But I just stayed calm on the outside. To me we had an agreement!

As I look back now, she went to all the football games, wrestling matches and was at every work party and hung around the same places as me, every beau she dated I hated, and every time she broke up with one I was there talking about it and listening to her, always the reliable one. I threatened a number of fellas that would want to take her out, always the same thing...if you hurt her I'll kill you. hahahah its a wonder she had any dates at all! My sisters knew how much I loved her and they would always encourage me by saying it will take time but she'll see you for who you are, just stay steady and wait! Well thats what I did.

Over 25 years ago I first saw her standing there in a yellow dress talking and introducing herself to another group of girls. She still makes my heart leap in my chest, she has a devistating smile and the deepest green eyes. She is the keeper of all my secrets and the woman I most want to be with all the time.

[mominiowa]

Mine isn't a love at first site thing - it was more of a hands on type things LOL No & not that kind of hands on..... My 1st hubby and I had an attraction and it ended up being my daughter ..LOL so we married and spent 11 years together.....but when I met Chad and he thought I was ready to date - I was still holding a torch for the X --he waited it out and we dated slowly---when I knew I loved him was - he took me to Omaha for the weekend and we went to the Old Market--we were waiting at the cross walk and he turned me around and kissed me - and told me he was falling in love with me...WHOA!!! wait a minute here buddy---I had only been divorced for 9 months! -BUT the moral of MY story is - Never in all of the years my X hubby and I were together did he grab my hand to hold it- pat my bottom as we walked - or KISSED me in public....No -I am not one for slobbering love & affection in front of people - but he made me feel like he wanted to whole world to know that he loved me...

[Vicky Mae]

Originally Posted by Far Rider

Geeze My story is plastered all over the place now so I might as well...

For me the first sight of her was dynamite... I started sweating and my palms itched and my heart pounded in my chest! And I ran like heck! The following Sunday her family arrived at our little church late and it just so happend that the only open seats were right next to me... and as fate er whatever would have it she sat right next to me! I don't remember a thing the preacher said that sunday, I was to busy trying not to sit there looking like an idiot and desperatly trying not sit too close to her for fear she think me forward...my brother on the other side of me whispering out of the corner of his mouth 'shes mine stay away' yeah right! I'd of killed him in a second if he even tried to talk with her!

I was 14 she was 13... and as far as I was concerned she was Mrs Far Rider that day.

For three years we walked to school, rode horses, worked in the fields.. our families had neighboring farms. Everybody tried to put us two together (except for her father) when our families did outreach and services I was always sent along with my sister to help her in whatever project was there... and she did her level best to tell me how I did everything wrong and how inept I was at the slightest activity... I never cared one bit! Heck she was talkin to me! hahahah thats all I cared about... more than a thousand times she said, 'wipe that grin off your face and get goin'! hahahahahahaha....

Love is funny... somewhere along the line I gave my whole heart to this very special woman... the day before I left for the Army, a sunday, her and I were walking ahead of my family... I never looked up at her, I told her I 'liked' her since the day I first saw her, and when I left in the mornin I was gonna leave my heart with her and someday when I come back Id like her to keep it but with us together. For the first she was ever nice to me she said without lookin up, 'I'll keep it'... My heart was gonna burst! But I just stayed calm on the outside. To me we had an agreement!

As I look back now, she went to all the football games, wrestling matches and was at every work party and hung around the same places as me, every beau she dated I hated, and every time she broke up with one I was there talking about it and listening to her, always the reliable one. I threatened a number of fellas that would want to take her out, always the same thing...if you hurt her I'll kill you. hahahah its a wonder she had any dates at all! My sisters knew how much I loved her and they would always encourage me by saying it will take time but she'll see you for who you are, just stay steady and wait! Well thats what I did.

Over 25 years ago I first saw her standing there in a yellow dress talking and introducing herself to another group of girls. She still makes my heart leap in my chest, she has a devistating smile and the deepest green eyes. She is the keeper of all my secrets and the woman I most want to be with all the time.

Oh My word Robert! Men! I was wearing a green dress that day! It had a yellow flower on it!!

There was a reason I walked to school with you everyday. You protected me! You lame brained man! It was the beginnings of LOVE for me!

And I wanted you to kiss me the day you asked me to keep your heart!!! You shy boy! LOL!

The truth is he was always handsome! He just would not smile! He walked around with the meanest look on his face, like the world was out to get him and he was ready for a fight! Oh he used to make me so mad then! And all the girls liked him! He only 'dated' two before me, one of them I set him up with. She was crazy in love with him! He only went out with her to make me mad! And I would not let it show, so he ended up being stuck with a girl he didn't like because he was too gentlemanly to hurt her feelings! LOL!!!

One time he and I needed to go into the city and we rode in the back of daddy’s truck. Robert was going to help lift for my daddy and I was going to buy dance shoes. I only put one canvas in the back to sit on. And it began to pour rain. There was plenty of room under the canvas for two if we squeezed in, but he would not do it, he gave me his coat and put the canvas over my dress so I would not get wet at all. He sat there in the cold rain, soaking, too ornery to shiver and too kind in his heart for me to let me get wet. And I used it for all it was worth to get him to soften up and he never did until the day he asked me to keep his heart.

He can be one of the most exasperating men on the planet! But I love him anyway!

Love is knowing someone so well that even their faults are accepted, he is like that with me, he knows all my little problems and he does not care. He loves me anyway! I love him the same way.

[Peg]

There was a guy I was seeing. I loved him, but I knew he not the one for me. I had divorced an alcoholic/ drug addict and was not about to marry another one. He kept calling and coming to my house, and knowing how much I loved him, I knew the only way not to get myself in a bad situation was to get away from him. I moved to another town and in with my sister. The week I was getting ready to move in she called and said, "I have this really good friend. I don't know why I never thought of him before, but you two will be married in 6 months". That was the last thing I wanted to hear! I moved in, met him that day because he helped, and thought "this isn't going to happen" LOL. Well, everyday when I woke up there was a knock at the door. It was him, Bud. Everyday I came home from work, he was there waiting. I told my sister he was driving me insane! He backed off and I missed him. When he would stop by, he'd lean towards me like he wanted to kiss me, but would back off before he did. After about 2 weeks of this, I was getting to the point I wanted to scream and say, "Just kiss me and get it over with!" He finally did and told me he loved me. My reply? "Shut up. I don't want to hear that". One day, he looked at me and said, "I really think we should get married." I thought he was going to faint when I agreed. We met June 30, 1986, moved in together Aug 15, and married Dec. 14 of that same year. Two months later I got pregnant, and one year after that I was pregnant again. During my first pregnancy, I was in the hospital 13 days because our son was bound and determined to enter this world early. For 13 days, he never left my side. The poor man slept in hospital windowsills, in chairs, in bed with me, etc. 19 years later, he's still by my side.

[nvalleyvee]

BTS and I met through an internet dating service in June 2004. I had just finished my last chemo and was still bald. We talked on-line for a couple of months. We met for the first time in September - my hair had barely begun to sprout. He didn't call for a few weeks so I called him. He thought I was mad at him for not calling me - I wasn't. He came to visit again in October when my house was torn up from renovation work and I was going to have reconstruction surgery the next week. He went with me to the hospital for my pre-op tests even though he was supposed to be leaving that morning. I called him on his birthday the next week and we never stopped talking after that - everyday - several times a day. We started talking about living together the first of January - he brought it up and I was very surprised. On March 30 first I flew to California - helped him pack and moved him to NM. We got married July 3.

[lady cop]

god it is so rare for me to tell personal stuff...but here goes....i was doing surveillance one night. i knew Bothwell was at this place, the sunset grill. i was parked behind a sign. i was dressed to kill, white silk suit. looked hot as hell LOL...so after about 45 minutes i started to walk towards him, but he saw me right away. he grabbed me and hugged me and said i was beautiful and i melted into his arms. he gave me his paratrooper wings in that moment, which i always wear on my uniform with pride. damn i love that man!

Originally Posted by lady cop

god it is so rare for me to tell personal stuff...but here goes....i was doing surveillance one night. i knew Bothwell was at this place, the sunset grill. i was parked behind a sign. i was dressed to kill, white silk suit. looked hot as hell LOL...so after about 45 minutes i started to walk towards him, but he saw me right away. he grabbed me and hugged me and said i was beautiful and i melted into his arms. he gave me his paratrooper wings in that moment, which i always wear on my uniform with pride. damn i love that man!

hahahaha LC! Good for you! Its awesome when tough hearted people tell whats inside, we get to see your humanity.... it does not make you weaker I found out!