55 years ago this week

[BOSSHOG]

I asked a young lady to go steady. She said yes. I knew love for the first time. Head over heels. We were together for four months when we moved away. We kept in touch and those touches dwindled but I never forgot her. Five years and one month later I married my “first” wife whom I’m still married to. Our 50th is in a couple of weeks. She is my best friend and soulmate. But I have never forgotten March 1969 and My First Love. I still have a few pics of us and a cheap ring she gave me. My wife has seen all. I get nostalgic every March.

[spooky3]

1. Congratulations to you and your wife! Nt

[BOSSHOG]

2. Thank You

I do not deserve her. She’s a patient, sweet Angel. I’m a knucklehead.

[Permanut]

4. You married up, and so did I.

My high school steady broke up with me in 1963; lost track of her, but never forgot the memories. I did see her obituary 11 years ago, she died at 67. It stung a little, even though I've been with my best friend for 37 years.

[BOSSHOG]

5. I married way up My Friend

I have no doubt I’d be dead or in jail l now if it weren’t for my soulmate.

[debm55]

3. Dear BOSSHOG. your post is very much like mine. We also met in March, He was my first love. We got engaged and promised

to wait for each other when I finished college. He married the blond cheerleader/ homecoming queen. I was heartbroken. But I met my true love =my husband. We will celebrate our 46th wedding anniversary in June. I contacted Chris on Facebook. He turned into a Trumper. My husband knows about Chris. Chris wanted a beautiful blond and I was not it. Congratulations to both you and Mrs. BOSSHOG. Sometimes as we age we realize that that first love was not what we thought it would be. TY BOSSHOG.

[DFW]

6. I know the feeling (sorta).

I thought I had met THE girl when I was 18. She was a very mature 16. We never lived anywhere near each other, and it still lasted two sweet years. Then she went to college, and got jumped by half the guys in the student body. I had no chance from afar, and she told me so. I thought my world had come to an early end. Then, in July of 1974, in West Berlin, of all places, I got introduced to the woman of my dreams. I thought, “too bad bad nerds like me NEVER end up with women like her.” That was fifty years—and two children and four grandchildren—ago. My first love? Oh, she married some guy who was in some international finance scandal, and was paid 150,000,000 euros to go away and shut up. She did just fine. I did better.

There are many of us who married up. I am definitely a member of that club.

[BOSSHOG]

7. Congratulations My Friend

Continue to enjoy your marital bliss. It is without a doubt my number one asset.

[DFW]

8. That makes two of us!

It’s a great club to be a member of, ain’t it?

[fierywoman]

12. Dear DFW, I never get tired of reading you reverencing your wife. Please

keep the stories coming, they always make me happy!

[DFW]

15. I got VERY lucky, very early on.

To meet THE right partner, some have only to cross the street. Some, like me, have to travel to another continent and learn another language. And even then, at least one of the two has to KNOW that this is the one. I did, she didn’t. She thought America was a place she’d never see, somewhere beyond the edge of the solar system, and after a nice summer fling, she would never see me again. I just thought I’d probably never find another like her ever again, and I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life looking. She was tall, friendly, smart, and beautiful enough to be a model, but turned it down to be a social worker, instead, because she found the notion of modeling to be “boring.” So, she wasn’t out for money, either.

What she saw in me, on the other hand, I still haven’t quite figured out, but when someone comes to your door to announce you’ve won the lottery, you don’t ask why.

[fierywoman]

16. Beautiful, absolutely beautiful!

[rubbersole]

9. I hear you...and understand completely.

You might enjoy listening to Ashley McBryde's "Single at the Same Time". Kinda what I have. Unequaled as far as friendship is concerned.

[PatSeg]

10. That is so sweet!

[PatSeg]

11. That is so sweet!

[Ford_Prefect]

13. Wonderful. I hear the butterflies dancing in your heart.

[calimary]

14. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww... SWEET!!!

And you're STILL going steady!

Congratulations! That's just SO cool, and it's really nice how you remember the details. It must be love!

We're not far from that, ourselves. And I'm pleasantly surprised that he still has a full head of hair. We'll be at Year 50 in a couple of years.