Going blindly into a blind date - would you?
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
United States
March 14, 2017 7:05am CST
Recently Laurel @Happy2BeMe told us about finding love through online dating. She met the guy 6 years ago and it worked out for them. We always hear about the bad things that can happen meeting people that way, but there are also good stories with happy endings.
I didn't do online dating but I did 'friend-line' dating. I was divorced for 16 years - I was not looking for a new man in my life but friends always insisted that they had 'the perfect guy' for me. Most were far from perfect and not for me. I was better off alone. I had a wonderful job, beautiful condo, lots of friends who were in similar situations.
Then, out of the blue, one of the ladies in my group decided I should go out to dinner with a man she worked with. His wife had died and he was just trying to get back into 'dating'. I put her off and put her off until finally one day in late May 1997 I said "OK, give him my number."
She did, he called, we met, it didn't go well. We were total opposites. His friends told him to try again, and my friends gave me the same advice. It is a good thing they kept after us as here we are.
This coming Memorial Day it will be 20 years since that first meeting. We got married 8 months later and, believe it or not, we eloped! We both had a big weddings already so it didn't take much for us to decide to go to Maryland and get married by a Justice of the Peace.
If it is meant to be, then it will happen. I was not looking for love but I found it anyway!
Photo from Pixabay
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@LadyDuck (471541)
• Switzerland
14 Mar 17
I love your story, love comes when you do not expect it. The first encounter with my husband did not go well either. I met him at the office where I worked, he was one of the partner. I found him very cold and demanding about the work. I finally learnt to appreciate him, we started to go out together 8 months later and we finally got married 6 month after we started dating.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
14 Mar 17
Dating the boss - While I was single I dated the boss but he wasn't marriage material! Glad your relationship ended well!!!!
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@LadyDuck (471541)
• Switzerland
14 Mar 17
@AbbyGreenhill He is still very demanding for what concerns work, but now I feel more confident to say "if you do not like what I did, do it yourself"
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
14 Mar 17
@LadyDuck Being married give you the right to say that LOL. 
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
14 Mar 17
It just goes to show that in the end, we will be where we are supposed to be. I met my hubs on a blind date and here we are 52 years later.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
15 Mar 17
@1creekgirl I was too you, only 14 on that first date, we got married 3 years and a month later when I was 18. But I knew just about from that first date that he was the one I would spend my life with.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
14 Mar 17
That's right - if it is meant to be it will be
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@1creekgirl (41428)
• United States
15 Mar 17
Wow, same here! We met on a blind date 52 years ago and got married exactly one year later.
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@MandaLee (3764)
• United States
14 Mar 17
@AbbyGreenhill Yes, it will. My mom and stepfather met online. They have been married for ten years and are very happy.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
14 Mar 17
Glad it worked for them! Love is love and if two people find it that's great.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
14 Mar 17
At our age we know what to ask to make sure we could make it!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
14 Mar 17
Thanks, yes, we were supposed to be together.
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@celticeagle (166976)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Mar 17
I have heard of several successful marriages of couples who met online. I think too that many times when a person isn't really looking is when love comes their way. Weird how that happens.
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@celticeagle (166976)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Mar 17
@AbbyGreenhill .....Glad it works for you. I think I chose men to much like myself. We didn't get along and it was my way or the highway with this last one.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
14 Mar 17
Absolutely, I was not looking, not in the market, had no desire and 20 years later we're still together.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
14 Mar 17
@celticeagle We were (and still are in some ways) total opposites. I lived on chicken, he hated it. I drank Coke he drank Pepsi. He wore cowboy boots, I wear sneakers! But we both smoked and we both enjoy the summer and the pool so we worked around those other things.
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@marguicha (223021)
• Chile
14 Mar 17
I beautiful story! And the best of ot all is that it is true
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
14 Mar 17
glad it worked out so well for you - my only blind date was set up by friends from school who hoped the girl would tell them what I was like with her but I met a different girl entirely by chance and they ended up losing out though the relationship didn't last long it as lovely
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
15 Mar 17
@AbbyGreenhill A little at first but they were bemused to see me with a girl - they had convinced themselves I might be gay. They tried following us round until she grabbed one of them and actually punched him - she as quite tempermental
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
15 Mar 17
@arthurchappell are you all still friends?
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
15 Mar 17
You never know how things will work out....were your friends upset you messed with their plan?
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@LeaPea2417 (37353)
• Toccoa, Georgia
15 Mar 17
That is a great story. My sister met her husband through a dating site and 16 years later they are still happily married. I met my husband in College back in the 80s. I remember the first day I met my husband, it was just like meeting another student. I had no idea we would get together a year later, date a year and get married. It is true, what is meant to be will happen.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
16 Mar 17
You have Benn together quite a while...
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
14 Mar 17
Glad you enjoyed it - it's always fun hear how people met.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
14 Mar 17
@AbbyGreenhill yes and you gave me an idea for my first post here.
@Tampa_girl7 (50256)
• United States
15 Mar 17
I am happy for you that you met and have had twenty years together so far. May you have many more.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
14 Mar 17
It was more 'dislike at first sight' LOL...I guess second chances do work out.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
14 Mar 17
Thank you, you never know what is wating for you.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
20 Mar 17
In so glad for you as he turned out to be someone you could
love
@ckciasigurl (2081)
• Italy
27 Mar 17
your story is very cute i didn´t do a blind date but i try online dating..
i can say it is not bad at all as long as you love the person and he respects you :)
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
16 Mar 17
lol, well I am glad you gave it a second chance!
@1creekgirl (41428)
• United States
15 Mar 17
What a wonderful love story! I met my husband on a blind date and that was over 50 years ago.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
16 Mar 17
We can't make 50 together since we are old!!
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@aktivnyj100 (86)
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29 Mar 17
I met my wife on the announcement, the first date was also blind, we have been married for seven years and we are happy.
