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this is the perfect weekend to tell your love story...past or present. so please do, and warm everyone's heart! :-4

Seven years ago come the annual Westminster Dog Show (everyone knows how I love dog shows), I was surprised to be invited to watch the show by a fellow who had recently transfered to my company from Chicago. I was on a tight budget and didn't have cable TV so I always had gotten someone to record it for me. That was the start of my love story, and the tradition continues. Every year we watch the show and bet on who will win the groups and who will go Best in show. It's our anniversary of our first date :-4

The Val used to be: So many men, so little time. Or: I only like 2 kinds of men,

Imported and Domestic.

All that changed when I met my husband. Through work. I thought at first he

was gonna be another one of my love 'em and leave 'em guys, have a little

fun what the hey. Boy, was I ever in for a surprise.

The only man ever to inspire complete, total, and HAPPY monogamy from

The Val.

Sigh.

:-4

I know this isn't quite what you were looking for, but love is love, right?



One night the family and I went out to dinner. The kids always loved going to the pet store (argh!)...so we dutifully trudged over there after eating. There was the most beautiful golden retriever in a cage. She was almost 5 months old, wayyy too cramped in that little space, so I asked the pet store people to let her out.



You get to visit with them in a small circular room, so she ran about in there for a bit, occasionally stopping to lick me and pull on a chew toy. It wasn't enough room for her, so I "accidentally" let her out. (The main doors were closed so she was in no danger.)



That dog ran around the outside of that circular cage, ears back, tongue lolling, and a wide grin on her face! What a joy! Every time she'd come around to me, she'd jump in my lap, lick my face, and take off again.



Of course I took her home. I had a childproof gate and had good intentions of keeping her in the kitchen until she was housebroken. The kids went to bed, finally. My ex and I went to bed, finally. Within 10 seconds, the puppy lets out this mournful howl. By the time she was mid-way through her second howl, I had scooped her up and put her in bed with me. (She was accident-free, amazingly enough.)



Man, I loved that dog. :-6

don't we all have one?

Our love story began with me, sitting in front of my parents computer, beginning to mend from a black hole of gloom and doom.

I log in to what was my usual forum, when lo and behold......a new member was asking me what a certain abbreviation meant.

After that initial 8 hour (I'm not joking! EIGHT hours!) The phone calls (and roses) started coming.

A few months later, I found myself in England, face to face with my soulmate. We've been together ever since. We just celebrated our first wedding anniversary the 29th of January.

It's funny, but I've just managed to put the most adventerous, exciting and overwhelming period of my life into a couple of paragraphs! LOL!

I have come to the conclusion that I never knew what love actually was, till I met him. He is the center of my universe. He'll probably come on to add his two pence to our story. For it IS ours.

I love you, Voodoo. :yh_flower

koan wrote: "My other half" may come and tell his side of the story if he ever gets the chance. :yh_giggle

I gave up on love. Then I didn't. Then I did...for good. (So I thought.)

I was content to be not content. I engaged in a relationship that had no future because I didn't want it to. I had nothing left to give. The only thing I had left was my sense of humour. No one will ever take that away from me. I managed to use it to cover up my discontent and pretend I didn't care anyway. I believe I wrote a poem on this somewhere. At least one.

Apparently I was not funny enough because I went looking for something. A place where I might meet a few people who in some way could relate to what it is like to be me. Who might get a sense for who I am and even appreciate it. Guess what I found. A beautiful garden that accepted me and sometimes even loved me.

At some point, I began a little competition with one of the members who actually knew what my username meant. The game was "Who can get the last word?" We are still playing it and expect to be playing it for the rest of our lives. I heard my mail arrive. I guess it's my turn. He can wait for a moment.

To my surprise and delight, it turned out that I met the most compassionate, funny, intriguing, and incredible man. He touches my soul with every word, he senses my pain before I do, he laughs at my jokes, and admires my mind, and best of all he loves me. I never knew what love was or I never would have stopped looking.

Thank you, kensloft, for opening my eyes.

That is only one reason why I love you. The list of other reasons will grow with every day.

Watch out, I'm coming to get the last word now.


Tired of the lust that passed itself off as love I had stopped looking for love. Tired of the hurt, the recriminations, the anger and the jealousy that go with being in lust I just walked away satisfied that it was a better thing to do. There are many beautiful women but they all fell short of what beauty is all about. There was nothing that shone with an inner beauty that matched the outer beauty that is there for all to see.

I came to the garden because I had some things that I wanted to say about the world we live in and what we should be doing to make it better. In the garden I met some wonderful people whose cares and concerns for the world were the same as mine.

I noticed that there was one poster who seemed quiet yet when she spoke I felt the reverbrations of what she said. Did anyone else hear these sounds? I noted her name and was content that the profundity that I saw was encompassed in her name... koan... the Zen Bhuddist means of stilling the mind. Were these small, subtle pearls of wisdom coming from this person that understood them because that was what she had chosen to be her name or was her name a name from another language?

A query to her revealed that it was a name that she had chosen and before I knew it I had met the most beautiful person that I had ever met in my life. As our messages went back and forth my love, admiration and trust in who she was grew and grew and grew. For the first time in my life I began to understand what love could be. I began to understand what love is.

My heart opened. My soul opened. My love opened. My entire being opened to this flower in the garden that bloomed into full resplendence giving me a vision of beauty unlike any that I had ever seen before in my life.

As we corresponded we both began to realize that before us was a life that we never had but with each other the divine purposes of the universe unveiled itself and we fell in love. A love that is love in its purest form. A love of the being that is there.

I'm moving my life and going to where the love of my life is. It is where the most beautiful person that I have ever known in my life and we are embarking on our lives together 'til the end of time.

I love you koan and anxiously await the day that we will begin our journey together, hand in hand, arm in arm, into the future. A journey into love that I have never dreamed existed before I knew there was one such as you with whom it could be shared.

I am so humbled by your beauty and thank God every day that He has given me the beauty that is you to spend my life growing and nurturing this heaven sent love manifest in your being.

Happy Valentine's Day

I love you koan, deeply, truly and happily in reverence to your being.

When we move in with each other we will be moving into our house with a white picket fence.

Got to give my husband credit. He has determination. Every time he said "I love you" my response was "Shut up. I don't want to hear it". I wasn't looking for love, didn't want it, had been hurt enough. After a month of me telling him to shut up at least once daily, he said "I wish you would marry me". I said "Okay" and here we are still together after 18 years. I still tell him to shut up, but not when he says "I love you".

koan and kensloft...omg!!!! I wish I could happy dance around the two of you and shower you both with rose petals. How awesome, and thank you for sharing it!

:-6



I wish we all could go to the reception, to dance and laugh and celebrate you both.

A Karenina wrote: koan and kensloft...omg!!!! I wish I could happy dance around the two of you and shower you both with rose petals. How awesome, and thank you for sharing it!

:-6



I wish we all could go to the reception, to dance and laugh and celebrate you both.


I think you just did the happy dance around us. Thank you for your best wishes. It is so wonderful to be this much in love with someone that you never thought you would ever meet. I'm still rocking from the utter joy that it has given me.

well after a bitter, nasty and downright ugly divorce (after 17 years of marriage) I felt it was time to move on, I had been single for almost a year so went to the easiest form of entertainment, the internet. I joined one of the online dating services and thought oh what the h*** I had nothing to loose as long as I was cautious. So I had a couple very dull dates zzzzz and then found out that this site was more a social gathering kind of site and everyone hung out together. I made a quick exit stage left as there was no way I was partaking in a date and having it become next days tabloid topic among the LL "group" So I swore off the sites for about 3 months until I came across another and thought ok one more try. I browsed for about 2 weeks and came away quite disappointed and on my last ditch effort decided to heck with waiting I will send an invite to this one man who I kept coming back to his profile. He sounded fun, smart and looked nice too. So I mustered up my courage and sent him a hello. I can't gloss over to be something I am not so prayed I had a modecum of something interesting about me. Well a couple days passed with no reply which didn't really upset me as I was feeling a bit embarassed I had made the first move and thought I was a tad bold. But to my surprise he replied back. I had a bit of an awkward feeling that he was just being polite in responding but figured I really had to try. So we shared a few emails back and forth and then started to get onto msn and chat it up and after about 2 months felt comfortable to meet. Well he darn near knocked my socks off when I met him. My absoluely honest opinion was WOW he was gorgeous (thank god he does not come to FG he would be mortified I shared that one) We went to a concert and out to eat at Dennys as it was the only place open after midnite on a tuesday nite. We sat until 2:00am chatting. From that day on for a couple months we spent late late dates together. We had the best times talking. We started to spend more and more time together and haveing so much fun. The tension from the start melted away easily and it was very casual and comfortable and we though great we have each found an "activity buddy" well funny how things change and we went a step beyond and I asked him "so now if you were to introduce me to you best friend what would you address me as" and in all his wisdom and charm he said "I guess I have to call you my girlfriend now" and we laughed long and hard about that. Soooo our initial meeting was nearly a year ago and we are still happily bf and gf. He is a total Gem. I have learned so much from him, I have received volumes of supoprt, I have found confidence and I adore the man. He treats me in a way that I can't even explain. We both maintain our own homes and respect and accept the need to be individuals, however the time we spend together goes way beyond anything I have ever experienced.

Whew sorry too long I got a tad passionate there hehehehe.

I also found love online. I was seeing one gal and cancled a date with her due to being asked to stay over at work. Well it turned out that I did not have to stay over. So I went to the bar where I met her. Figured I would surprize her. Well when I got there she was dancing with another guy. She informed me that she wanted to see other people. DUH!!!

So anyway I drank a tad to much (7 drinks and I rarely have more then 2. If I go over 2 then 4 is the limit) and took a cab home. Had already started the drinking process before I found her.

So anyway trying not to be to long. I regestered on a ton of dating sites. All the free ones I could find.

Invested 3 months talking to one gal. Then after one date she tells me I'm moving to fast and that I am not to call or E-mail her anymore.

Six months after another relationship crashed. I decide to see if she will give me a second chance. I go to visit her at her church and end up meeting her husband and two kids. And I over heard someone say that I was not the first guy from the internet to go looking for her.

So back to the online dating. Well, by this time I am sick of E-mailing back and forth and long phone conversations. Kristi agrees to meet me in real life. We did not do a whole bunch of online corespondance. We did E-mail back and forth for about 2 days. We soon agreed to meet in a public place. We fell in love very fast. She had on her profile what she wanted for a perfict date. So it was easy to do what she wanted. We are in our 3rd year of our relationship as well as our second year of marriage. And we are expecting our first child within a month.

Lotto

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Magic

I'm sitting at my bar after a 10-hour shift, chatting with a friend, having a drink. (Some of you will know this story from another thread...sorry for repeating myself!) I had recently moved into my own place, and was pretty high on my own independence, and determined to ignore men of every size and shape.

Enter Matt. :-5

He walks into my bar with a group of people, and I hear them because they are so damn loud, just walking in. I turn to look at just the right time to see him, leather from head to toe, and laughing. His laugh and smile light up a city block. I'm looking at him, and blindly slapping at my friends arm and saying, "Look....at.....that....wow...look, look...do you SEE that???" Chin in lap, slobbering all over myself. I can admit that my first reaction to him was strictly carnal. Like he loves telling people: I wanted to "peel" him.

My girl friend took it upon herself to talk to him for me, and before I knew it he was standing next to me, ordering drinks. I talked to him for a minute, trying to be nonchalant and probably not doing a very good job.

I thought about him a lot in the next couple of days, and when I saw a buddy of his in my bar, (one of my regulars) I asked about him. 20 minutes later, Matt was there. I found out later that his friend had called him and told him that I was asking about him, and he came right then. We talked for a few hours after my shift, one subject being his bike. I told him that in NO uncertain terms was I getting on a motorcycle, EVER. He said "Hey, no problem." An hour (and several shots) later, I blurted out with "Take me for a ride on your bike, right now before I lose my nerve!"

I've been addicted to Matt and motorcycles ever since. I love you, baby!! :-4 :yh_kiss

(((((((((((((( BR )))))))))))))) Muah! I'm surprised that you didn't want to ride his bike immediately. But very cool that you did go, and fell in love with riding and the man-hunk. (wicked grin)



(casually letting this out) I met someone recently. He lives about 40 minutes from me and our schedules are really a mess, but we're trying to find a way through all of that. He is amazing! There's a sense of rightness that I've never encountered before, so I'm curious to see what happens with that.



It's been very intense, very fast which freaks me out rationally. Emotionally, I'm totally ok with it. He's awesome about it, stating his own feelings but giving me plenty of room to get there at my own pace. He calls me on it from time to time (hair toss), but then I do need a man who stands up to me in a good-humored way.



I didn't expect to find someone this quickly, but he's convinced God is at the heart of it all. He may be right.



So, we laugh until we hurt, talk endlessly, and it is so comfortable to be together. He is the bravest, most ethical, kind-hearted human being I have ever known.



And he's getting a new motorcycle this week, so hopefully the weather will cooperate and we can go riding over the weekend. He's excited to share his hobbies with me, and I'm eager to try them. In turn, he's not so eager to learn to knit, LOL, but that's ok. We share a lot of common interests already so it's good to have things we can do independently as well. The weird thing is how well our values mesh, our outlook is so similar. Maybe that's why it's moved so fast - I see myself in him, and he sees himself in me. I'm completely happy.

Another week to go and kensloft will be in BC with koan. Woo-Hoo!!!!

Love is so great. There ain't nothin' like it.

kensloft wrote: Another week to go and kensloft will be in BC with koan. Woo-Hoo!!!!

Love is so great. There ain't nothin' like it.
No there sure isnt! That is WONDERFUL ken! koan, you go girl!

CONGRATULATIONS YOU TWO!!! :yh_flower

AS i reached for the arrow, the entire thread flew by my eyes. let me try to read this at least.

OK, I was at the grocery store in the freezer section checking out the girls when they.......no wait. That's not it. I was actually at this club and rolling up dollar bills to put them in the girls.........wait, nope that's not it either. Um, let's see. Oh yeah, I was broke down on the side of the road and the Tropicana bus full of bikini girls stopped to help me and they were looking for a lotion boy and......wait, nope that was'nt it either.



Ok, ok. I was walking into this bar with some Brothers of mine. We were raising hell all night and this was our 3rd or 4th stop. Anyway, we get our brews and are kicking back and laughing and making all kinds of noise, when this girl walks up to me and asks me to talk to her friend who is sitting at the bar. I look over apprehensively and spot this drop dead gorgeous vixen with the long brown hair and beautiful eyes and her tongue in her lap looking at me like she wants to peel me. The fact that she is interested and breathing is good, the fact that she is breath taking is a bonus. I was smitten. So I stagger over (only tripped twice)to talk to her. I introduced my self as B-B-B-Bullet. Well we rode out to our next tavern soon after, but my Brother called me a week later and said that there was this totally hot chick asking about me. Come to think of it he sounded kinda confused about the situation. Anyway, I rode up there and we talked and I was really cool. I refrained from farting and everything. She tried to be coy, saying she would NEVER EVER get on a bike. I just pretended I did not care, but I knew she wanted to and when she did, she would be mine. About a half hour later she was beggin me to take her for a ride. I got really excited, then I realized she was talking about the bike. About an hour later, she and her twin sister got in the hot tub.....wait, that's not it. Anyway, she is reading this over my shoulder and smacked my bald head. Forgot to duck. She is an angel for putting up with my shenanigans. (almost St. Patty's day) I know a good thing when I see it. And she is the greatest thing, er I mean woman, that I have ever seen, er met. Seriously, I am the luckiest man on the planet. My baby girl is my best friend and an amazing person. Extremely intelligent (so why did she pick me?). Oh, I could type for an hour on just her attributes.

You're hilarious, Bullet. You two must have a great time!

Bullet wrote: OK, I was at the grocery store in the freezer section checking out the girls when they.......no wait. That's not it. I was actually at this club and rolling up dollar bills to put them in the girls.........wait, nope that's not it either. Um, let's see. Oh yeah, I was broke down on the side of the road and the Tropicana bus full of bikini girls stopped to help me and they were looking for a lotion boy and......wait, nope that was'nt it either.



Ok, ok. I was walking into this bar with some Brothers of mine. We were raising hell all night and this was our 3rd or 4th stop. Anyway, we get our brews and are kicking back and laughing and making all kinds of noise, when this girl walks up to me and asks me to talk to her friend who is sitting at the bar. I look over apprehensively and spot this drop dead gorgeous vixen with the long brown hair and beautiful eyes and her tongue in her lap looking at me like she wants to peel me. The fact that she is interested and breathing is good, the fact that she is breath taking is a bonus. I was smitten. So I stagger over (only tripped twice)to talk to her. I introduced my self as B-B-B-Bullet. Well we rode out to our next tavern soon after, but my Brother called me a week later and said that there was this totally hot chick asking about me. Come to think of it he sounded kinda confused about the situation. Anyway, I rode up there and we talked and I was really cool. I refrained from farting and everything. She tried to be coy, saying she would NEVER EVER get on a bike. I just pretended I did not care, but I knew she wanted to and when she did, she would be mine. About a half hour later she was beggin me to take her for a ride. I got really excited, then I realized she was talking about the bike. About an hour later, she and her twin sister got in the hot tub.....wait, that's not it. Anyway, she is reading this over my shoulder and smacked my bald head. Forgot to duck. She is an angel for putting up with my shenanigans. (almost St. Patty's day) I know a good thing when I see it. And she is the greatest thing, er I mean woman, that I have ever seen, er met. Seriously, I am the luckiest man on the planet. My baby girl is my best friend and an amazing person. Extremely intelligent (so why did she pick me?). Oh, I could type for an hour on just her attributes.


Ahem. Second luckiest guy on the planet. Sorry but until I come down, if I ever do, you're out of the equation. Snowballs at noon in Panama.

Baby...you're right, you are a lucky man. Lucky that I love you, otherwise I'd have to kick your butt for that post!! You know darn well it was the sauna, NOT the hot tub. Big oaf.

:yh_kiss

BabyRider wrote: Baby...you're right, you are a lucky man. Lucky that I love you, otherwise I'd have to kick your butt for that post!! You know darn well it was the sauna, NOT the hot tub. Big oaf.

:yh_kiss


You guys are all proof of why I don't bring my man to this forum hehehehe though your banter is cute as heck hehehehe I am keeping him away on purpose cause you may get a glimps of the duller side of Minks hehehehe

Ah the stories here are grand, they make me smile and bless us all who have fabulous partners and for those of you who haven't got there yet, your time will come.

Oh My God!!!! Bullet, I had no idea you are BabyRider's man. I'm grinning ear to ear, great post, by the way...but I'm also trying to remember if I've ever given you a hard time on a thread.

Wow! Just wow!

Cat's out of the bag eh? here kitty kitty kitty

Bullet wrote: Cat's out of the bag eh? here kitty kitty kittyAre you speaking to me??? :yh_rotfl

BabyRider wrote: Are you speaking to me??? :yh_rotflHey, it worked!!!

Bullet wrote: Cat's out of the bag eh? here kitty kitty kitty


Bullet you are a lucky man! Congrats- Take good care of our good friend BabyRider! :-6

Cars :driving:

I had a sneaking suspicion that BR was the beautiful woman in the bar. You guys make a great couple!

koan wrote: I had a sneaking suspicion that BR was the beautiful woman in the bar. You guys make a great couple!
Aww shucks...Thanks Koan! You and Ken seem to be really well suited, too! He sounds thoroughly "smitten"!!!



Thanks to you, too Cars!! What a great thing to say!:-4

as ive said on a nother thread,i met my carolley just over a year ago on friends reunited chat,we were in a chatroom and noticed we both came from the same area of east london ,making us both cockneys,we also it turned out,used the same pubs at about the same time,early 70s.she was a singer in those pubs and i was a local hound.we phoned ,texted,and emailed ,eventually decided to meet,we expected to be good friends only but fell in love,ime buying a house in her home town so when she is free we can be together.we are so close and in tune with each other thats its almost like the twin connection thing.roll on when we can join for good and go about chooseing curtains.

carolley;504655 wrote: I joined FRC last year. It was last December that some flash cockney guy lol started talking to me in the rooms. Our backgrounds were so similar and we both came from the East End. In the days we talked about I had been a singer and he seemed to find this very interesting also when I gave it up due to throat problems I had become a lady cab driver deep in the heart of the East End. He asked me to pc as he thought we should talk about those things in private and i thought, ok mister but any funny stuff yer history boy lol. Well the next couple of weeks we progressed to talking on the phone. Then over the new year of 2005 we had one almighty fall out ( cause his nutty and i aint lol) but glad to say after a few days he realised he had been wrong (oh gawd his gonna love that bit!!!) Well we met in person a year ago and I think I fell a little in love straight away and now I know he is indeed the love of my life and his buying a house near me at the moment and one day when things are sorted my end we will be together. Hoxton Chris...........I love youxxxxxxxxxxxx behave girl you on dodgy ground!!,,,,lol

Does when she's free mean she's married?

carolley;505594 wrote: Valerie it means I have commitments that I cant turn my back on until the time is right dear.Things are not always as cut and dry as you would like.


Geez Louise, where did I say/imply things were cut and dried? I asked

a simple question.



It seemed from the posts that you wanted to talk about your situation.



You don't, fine by me.