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OldBaldy1701E

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29. I have to say I do not condone this, but...

Tue Oct 25, 2022, 09:30 PM

Oct 2022

I posted to a gay message board about some topic that he also posted to, and we ended up responding to each other. A penpal thing started which lasted for about a year, and then we arranged a get together. About two months after that, he proposed to me. I first gave him a dire warning about what he was getting into, and I accepted. That was 18 1/2 years ago. I would have never thought that my gay ass would ever be married. Now, the 'legal' marriage took place in 2014, but we had our ceremony in 2004. I do not suggest that one try for love everlasting on the freaking home of the troll meme and Facebook, but it worked in my case. (I am not saying don't try it either, but i would suggest that, knowing the internet as I do, the odds are pretty slim that it would be the real thing and not some serial killer or psycho who likes to squat in people's houses once they move in.)

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Are you married? For how long and how did you meet? [View all] trof Oct 2022 OP

Yes, 50 years. Met 51 years ago. ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2022 #1

How did you meet? trof Oct 2022 #4

30 happy years. Met on the golf course. SharonAnn Oct 2022 #2

Yes, 37 years. onecaliberal Oct 2022 #3

How did you meet? Mine was a 'blind' date. trof Oct 2022 #6

I worked at a soda counter next to a business owned by his parents. onecaliberal Oct 2022 #8

Foursome? trof Oct 2022 #5

48 years - met at a friend's bar. rurallib Oct 2022 #7

28 years redstatebluegirl Oct 2022 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author Baked Potato Oct 2022 #10

Yes, 10 years, funeral. Xipe Totec Oct 2022 #11

yes.... mike_c Oct 2022 #12

20+years markie Oct 2022 #13

Yes. 47 years. Met in May 1973 in college. I saw him in the cafeteria livetohike Oct 2022 #14

56 years Timewas Oct 2022 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author Baked Potato Oct 2022 #19

Been fun Timewas Oct 2022 #26

Met my Sweetheart, of blessed memory, on a blind date. Mme. Defarge Oct 2022 #16

I'm 60, she's 55, we met 14 years ago and have been married for 12... Drum Oct 2022 #17

47 years. At the bank, she was a teller. Sneederbunk Oct 2022 #18

44 years. bmbmd Oct 2022 #20

43 years - met through a mutual friend. flor-de-jasmim Oct 2022 #21

Over 24 years married. luvs2sing Oct 2022 #22

Yes, 32 years. Quakerfriend Oct 2022 #23

62 years, met in college, married 5 years later, after other relationships. enough Oct 2022 #24

Married 26 years. Met at a dance at College. The dance hall we met at has been demolished. texasfiddler Oct 2022 #25

Yes. 44 Years. Met 47 years ago, in college . . . Journeyman Oct 2022 #27

54 years DavidDvorkin Oct 2022 #28

I have to say I do not condone this, but... OldBaldy1701E Oct 2022 #29

Married Nov 1, 1969 aka-chmeee Oct 2022 #30

April 12, 1969. trof Oct 2022 #33

48 years here! ShazzieB Oct 2022 #31

Met 32 years ago at a Star Trek convention Random Boomer Oct 2022 #32

It's a complicated story, but I'll try to do the Cliff's Notes version. trof Oct 2022 #34