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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1814110" data-attributes="member: 99">I first met my wife when I was six years old.  She lived behind the kid who I was best friends with in first grade.  She and I probably played together a handful of times between then and when I was nine or so.  After that I didn't see her too much until we were in high school when we started to run in the same general circle of friends.I fell in love with another girl late my junior year and the girl who was to become my wife helped me set up the perfect romantic date for the two of us.  Three months later this other young lady dumped me and left me broken hearted just as summer was fading and school started again.  I had managed to recover enough by Homecoming to decide that going to the dance would be a nice diversion from moping around the house.So I asked this friend of mine to the dance who had helped me set up the date with the other girl.  She said, "Sure."  She didn't have a date either.  We started out the evening as friends and ended it as more than that.But, as good as our relationship was, we decided that it couldn't last.  Within a couple of months we found out that we were both accepted at the colleges of our choice and neither felt like trying to maintain a long distance relationship with each other.  So we agreed to break up at the end of the summer when we left for school, having dated for just under a year.  But what we didn't count on was how deeply we were falling in love.That summer was rapidly coming to an end and the days we had left together could be counted on one hand.  We knew that we were going to miss each other, but the "agreement" was just hanging in between us.  Finally I just decided, to hell with dignity and the agreement, I love this girl and I don't want this to end.  So I told her that.She didn't want it to end either and so we made a new agreement to stay together despite college.  For the next year we made frequent visits to each other and after that I just quit school and got a job near her so we could stay together.  It was the best decision I ever made.  We were married in 1995 after dating for six and a half years.  We've made a life and home and a child together.  And about a year from now we'll celebrate the day that will mark the point at which we'll have spent more of our lives together than apart.After sixteen years of being with her, I can honestly say that I'm still crazy in love with her.  We never part without saying "I love you" and we never go to sleep at night without a kiss.  And I somehow know that it will always be like that.I don't really buy into the whole "soulmate" idea.  But I do think that there are some people who are easy for you to love.  We are those people for each other.Ain't it great?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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