I had an intensive girlfriend in high school,
she lived in a HS dorm.
We broke up, I have realized she has very nice friends,
we reconciled.
We broke up again, I realized that her best friend is particularly impressive and entertaining.
We reconciled again, and then we broke up again,
and this particular friend of hers moved out from the dorm, and we started to go to school with the same bus.
Then we reconciled again with my aforementioned very intensive girlfriend, and than she broke up with me again. I started to think that this braking up-reconciling is the thing that she is interested in not me, so I kept away and focused on other girls, especially on the best friend of my ex. It was spring, 12th grade, lots of time together, and it turned out we were born for each other.

I'm not really great with the romance stuff, so it's hard for me to make this story sound interesting.

We met in high school, in the drama group. He was the student director for The Importance of Being Earnest, and I was playing one of the characters. We hung out a lot, and he basically made me laugh my ass off on a daily basis, and that's how he won me over. We had one of those relationships where after we had spent a couple hours together, our cheeks actually hurt from smiling and laughing so hard.

We're FAR from perfect, and actually I probably want to smack him with a club at least once a week (and he likewise, I'm sure), but we've been together the better half of a decade and he still makes me laugh like that.

We got married at sunrise, here:
In '04. Just us, the notary who married us, and two witnesses (his brother and my best friend). We had a party with our families later in the day at the same state park, that lasted until sunset.

I was on the outs with my girlfriend (I was 17 she was 16) and I needed someone to b***h to so I called our mutual friend and her cousin. I wanted to go to a movie. So I called and her dad said she wasn't there, that she was at some girl named Cheryl's house. I had met this "Cheryl" the summer previous at a 16th birthday party for the mutual friend. The single thing I could remember about her was that she was short. So I got her number and asked for the mutual friend. "Want to go to the movies?"
"Sure, but I'm staying over at Cheryl's house."
"Ok, she can come too."

So I pick them up. Still nothing remarkable about "Cheryl", but she is shorter than I remember. We go to see "Guarding Tess" (not recommended) and I sit between the two of them. In the intimate and dark setting of the movie theatre, the scent of this "Cheryl" person filled my nose, it is dark, and intriguing. Musky, hard working, a good sweat smell, a passionate relentless compelling odor. She doesn't talk much (didn't last long). We share an arm rest, perfectly in balance without either of us shoving, or flinching from becoming too close and touching. The reflected light from the bad movie played across her face, barely lighting her dark and firey brown eyes. I wasn't awestruck by her beauty initially, she had an old world face, mediterranean complexion and prominent Italian nose, thin supple lips, and thick dark eyebrows. There was something about her eyes like, big, deep, reddish brown pools of some mysterious liquid that was mesmerizing and took real effort not to fall into. They flashed from amusement, to fury, to glee, to brooding all so quikly, so elusively. I remember telling the mutual friend that I thought she was nice, maybe more than once. When the movie was over, we waled back out into the cold and across the icy parking lot to my small and borrowed car. She sat in front. The mutual friend and I didn't talk much about her cousin, but the three of us DID talk. Cheryl laughed, a lot, and her laughter was so free of pretense, so candid, so real. I think she thought I was funny. The cousin was always embarrased by me, yeah she thought I was funny in private, but in public would note with a cool glare or a brush off that I wasn't ready for "prime time". Cheryl was so emotionally stable for a girl her age, so well adjusted and comfortable to who she was and who she wanted to be, so not needy. We got back to her house, and we hung out for a while, I didn't want to leave and I'm sure they both got that impression. I was in serious like with this short, busty, funny, dark-eyed Italian girl. Physically she was the polar OPPOSITE of what I always thought I was attracted to in a girl, but she was SO charming, and SO mysterious I knew like a mastermind ARG I'd never completely figure her out. I called her like the next day, went to her house and asked her to my senior prom. I officially asked her out on April 23, 1994 (The Bard's birth and death date) I think it took me another 3 weeks to kiss her, and a month to tell her I loved her, I was so scared of screwing up whatever we had...but I was hopeless from the start. We had this very strange second/third date experience where I took her sailing on my 12 foot Zuma, I knew she couldn't swim, and she knew I knew, and her knuckle color indicated that she was scared but for some dumb reason she trusted me (and wore daisy dukes and a tie-died American flag bikini to boot) all alone miles from shore. We had a series of weird conversations where I intuitively "knew" some of her deepest darkest secrets, and it freaked her out, but some how cemented that we were meant to be. Almost 14 years (5 long distance), 2 college experiences, 1 apartment, the death of 2 parents, and 2 wonderful(ly bad) children we still are.

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(Me 9 months ago)

I made best friends with a guy I was working with, who decided to play matchmaker. In May he introduced me to a friend of his and kept pestering us saying that we should get married. We met a few times (like our friend's parties) over the next few months (with our friend constantly extolling our virtues to the other in between). We started going out in September and we couldn't be happier :) We're so similar it's actually freaky, we sometimes say the exact same thing at the same time or else one of us says something that the other was literally just about to say. (Like I said, freaky, but cool none the less :) )