Stories of how you met and married your spouse

[Roscoe]

  I searched and didn't find this tread anywhere so I started this one. As the title says, tell your story of how you met and married your love. I KNOW there's some good stories out there.
I'll start with my story, which is a little lengthy. I had been going through a rough time in life and had been considering leaving church. My mother, who is the closest thing to an angel that God ever put on this earth , had just been diagnoised with alzheimer's and I was having a hard time dealing with this and the fact that God chose not to heal her despite her years of faithfulness. I had gone to the police academy and spent three months away from home and church, in which time I  tried to forget about God, and the call to preach that I was running from.

  Lawanda (my wife) attended the same church that I did, and was nearly the exact opposite of my situation. She was beautiful, VERY on fire for God, and wouldn't give me the time of day. (Rightfully so). She was also seven years younger than me. One Wednesday night, we were having an awesome service- people being slain in the spirit, shouting, worshiping God. I was sitting on the back pew, feeling absolutely nothing. My pastor was praying for a young man and stated that he didn't consider himself a prophet, but that God had a work  for this young man. I sat there, feeling as low as I could,feeling like God had forgotten me. I said, "God, that used to be me You had a work for." I decided that I would leave and go get a bottle of whiskey and just get drunk and forget about God. I stood up and began to walk out of my pew when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned to see Lawanda, who had been down front worshipping. She leaned over and spoke to me. "I don't know why I'm telling you this, but God still has a work for you." The exact words I'd just told God with no one around. I stood there dumbfounded as she walked back to the front of the church. As  I watched this beautiful creature walk away , I heard God as plainly as I have ever heard anyone. He said " And she's gonna be your wife." I said "yeah, right". I hadn't been able to get a date with anyone, much less a beautiful girl like that. I broke down crying and praying. Needless to say, I didn't leave and get the bottle.  This was in May 2003. I asked her out, she was dating someone else. I left it in God's hands and tried to do better in church. Eventually, she and her boyfriend split. She and I went out "as friends". On our second date, I told her what God had told me that may night. In September of 2003, I married the most beautiful, Godly, woman alive. It has been seven years now,  and I'm sure it's been rough on her sometimes, as I was still running from the call until about six months ago. I thank God everyday that she obeyed God that may night. If she hadn't my life would be a shambles instead of this great life I enjoy.

[SippinTea]

  Great story!

I'm not married YET, but... I met him on GP. And then we met at PF's house. And then... well, the story is still being written.

[Niki]

Love your story! I had chills on my legs and tears in my eyes.

I'll share mine later when I have more time.

[Amelia Bedelia]

My story is still in draft mode... Hasn't been released. The publisher might decide to pull the story.

[BroTrey]

Met On GP, in the chat room.  Then after some down parts of life and I went to the forums, I saw her picture and God told me she would be the one. I went to courting and I did go.....    I eventually told her about the forum incident.....after we were married.    

[YooperYankDude]

My story is still in draft mode... Hasn't been released. The publisher might decide to pull the story.

Ok... you basically stole my answer...!     and *poke*

BOB... your story is awesome! I am praying that someday when I get married... mine is similar to yours! 

[Scott]

I met my wife during a time that I wasn't expecting to meet anyone.

About a year before I met her, I broke up with a gal that I had dated for a short time. It was a good break up because we really didn't like each other and to this day I don't know why we even dated. She broke up with me 5 minutes before I planned to break up with her.     In fact I celebrated our break up by going out on dates with 5 different girls in the next 5 days. And for the next year or so, I casually dated 3 different girls and nothing serious ever came out of those relationships.

I was getting heat from people at my church to settle down and get married.  My Pastor had already selected which of the girls he wanted me to marry as did her parents - mom started calling me to apply heat and pressure.    she'd even call me at 2 in the morning and tell me to talk to her daughter.

The other girl in our church was taking a job out of the country and expecting me to fly to Europe to be with her. Her parents were applying some heat on me as was she.

It became very stressful - there were days that I'd date both in the same day. One during the day and the other by night. I was too nice to pick one over the other.

Back in  my home district; my parents and the parents of the girl I dated when I was home started pressuring me to marry her!

Then anEx girlfriend was pestering me to start dating her again and I kept telling her NO! Then she'd call and write letters, I'd say no and and she'd lay off for a while and start up again.

To complicate matters even more - a another former Girlfriend resurfaced - she was backslid and had been on drugs for while and was trying to come back to church, trying to get clean trying to live right and I was the one she came to for help. She expected me to be her ''white knight'' and save her.  It was a well known fact that she was in love with me and expected that the two of us would get married. Needless to say, my life was getting complicated.

To be honest, on a shallow level - I was enjoying all of this!   

All the heat from the various parents and other church members started to wear on me and I actually begin to feel stressed out. I decided to ask God what I should do, who I should date and didn't get an answer; so I finally asked God to at least give me a hint as to whom I would marry, what was her first name and he told me. I looked up and saw 3 or 4 girls in my church who had that name and decided that I had not heard from God at all.

Six or seven months later while evangelizing I met  a very fetching young lady at a bible college I had visited and was supposed to be her escort at a school dinner the following week, but.......

I met my wife to be at a youth meeting I was preaching at!  She was on the other side of the volleyball net and I was smitten!  6 months later she and I married.

One day God reminded me of the name he told me a year or so before... it was my wife's name exactly.  You see, the name he gave me was the common nick name for several female names; however my wife was given this particular name from birth - this exact name!  Sue!  I knew Susan's, Suzette's, Suzanne's and Susanna's, but her given birth name was ''Sue''. Just like God told me a year before.

[YooperYankDude]

My story is still in draft mode... Hasn't been released. The publisher might decide to pull the story.

Ok... you basically stole my answer...!     and *poke*

BOB... your story is awesome! I am praying that someday when I get married... mine is similar to yours! 

Ok... Just in case anyone else confused... I said similar and meant it in the way of God telling me in a church service who is gonna be my wife! I think that is awesome! Any more questions???   Lol

[MsJennJenn]

My story is still in draft mode... Hasn't been released. The publisher might decide to pull the story.

yea that!

[Niki]

My husband and I first met at NC Youth Camp '92. He was 23 and I was 19. We didn't really speak much after that initial first meeting and introduction. Just a smile and a nod and a possible "Praise the Lord" in passing.

Over the next year and ten months it pretty much stayed that way. He lived three hours from me and we only saw each other at conferences - District Conference, Youth Convention, East Coast Conference, etc. Sometimes we'd make small talk.

After awhile I could tell he was interested in me, but I wasn't interested in him. He was going to ask me out after one of the services at East Coast Conference in November '93, but I hid from him in the ladies bathroom. I knew he was going to ask me out. I can't say "no" and would've gone out with him even though I didn't want to. lol

In April of '94, my group and my then future husband's group "happened" to be eating at the same place (Pizza Hut) in Durham after Youth Convention's Friday night service. After eating, we were all standing in the parking lot talking. My then future husband called me over to him and I knew he was going to ask me out. There was no hiding from him this time. lol  I told him that we could go out at the next district function.

April 22, 1994 my church hosted Street Praise in a local park for churches from our section, which my then future husband's church was not a part of. But he found out about it and showed up. We all went out as a group afterwards and he drove me home. The following Friday, April 29th, we had our first date. We stayed at the restaurant talking until after closing and then talked a couple more hours at my house.

A preacher had prophesied to me about my future husband in late summer/early Fall '93 (before ECC) and the night after our first date, I got to thinking about that prophecy and realized that I was going to marry him. He asked me to marry him that Thursday, less than a week after our first date, and I said yes. We were married 7 months later on December 17, 1994.


My husband walked out on me and our kids last summer, but I'm believing that God will bring him back. The prophecy came back to me recently and the part that stood out to me was that he would be used in the ministry. (Which I realize could be anything. Not necessarily preaching.) My husband has never been used in the ministry, or any ministry. So either that part of the prophecy is a lie, despite the rest of it being true, or ministry is something yet to happen. Which means this isn't over. If it's true, my husband will  come back, he will  get refilled with the Holy Ghost and he will finally allow God to use him.

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[YooperYankDude]

Praying for you and your husband and your family...

[alohilani]

I met my husband through mutual friends. He actually liked someone else at the time, and I was just coming out of a bad breakup, but we happened to be sitting next to each other one night with a group of friends, and we started chatting. We ended up getting together the next day, and the next..

We married almost exactly a year after that night [give or take a few days].

[Geri]

I met my husband on the old Godplace chat. We were talking and he mentioned he was from Middletown, and that was close to the town I was in for college so I asked him where he went to church. He told me, and I remembered a friend of mine used to visit there, so I decided to check it out that Sunday since I had been looking for a church close to school.  I got lost and showed up about 1/2 hour late, and didn't know what class to go to . I happened to mention that I was invited by Tyler, and people immediately assumed that we were dating......so that was rather akward lol. We went out to lunch with some ppl from church, and from then on pretty much spend every weekend together. About a year or so later, he asked me out on a date. We dated for about a year and a half and started talking about marriage. On Christmas day, 2006, he proposed, we were married the following September, and I haven't regretted a day that I have spent with him.  We have a two year old daughter, and I couldn't imagine a day without her and my husband.

Everytime he sees a tv commercial about dating sites, my husband likes to joke that "we met the old fashioned way...in a chat room." LOL

[sunlight]

[angelofthe_lordz]

I met my hubby thru GP as well. It was totally unexpected and I really wasn't looking for a relationship, but a conversation was sparked from a thread about relationships and how diff people were tired of meeting people that wanted to play games. We met face to face a month and half after that, then engaged, then  all in under 8 months and 4 years later still going strong. 

[Melody]

I don't know if our story is unique or something of a cookie cutter love story.

We've known eachother since we were 6 yrs. old but really only saw eachother about once a year, if that.  Our parents were friends.  I used to be taller than Nathan and that was one of many things I was onrey to him about growing up... until he hit puberty and got to be 6'8"!  We had silly crushes on eachother at opposite times.  I was actually kinda boy crazy so he wasn't a unique case really, he was just a BOY. ☺  LOL  He did write me a love note when we were 11 that my mom secretly kept and laminated.  It's adorable.

I grew out of that though.  Our 2 families took a vacation together when we were 16, to Colorado/ mountains.  I don't know if it was the thin air or destiny but we fell for eachother, hard.  By 17 we were desperate to be together and married @ 18.  All our parents had basically backslid and thus so did we years before we got together.  Things were not done the most Godly way, I have no amazing prophesies or words from God about us.  But I believe what God has joined together... is indeed one.  When we had our 1st child, I had heavy conviction.  For 2 yrs I went to church, often by myself, praying late hours for my husband to submit to Jesus, for God to use him, even if it wasn't anything "big" like being a preacher, (in my ignorance).   God did it and he is actually called to preach!


As long winded as I am.  Nathan renders me breathless and short on words.  He is and was then this feeling of "home."  The world stands still when I'm near him.  He is a gentle giant, wise w/ simplicity.  I know the moment I fell in love with him, but it's kinda hard to describe cause I sometimes feel as if at times I fall more in love w/ him.  So then what is the first time compared to now?  I don't know. Perhaps I'm still falling in love with him.

I'm pretty adventurous... (at least in my mind...lol) and I think I feel free to be that way because Nathan is my constant.

I hope that doesn't sound idolitrous.  Honestly, even though I got back into church sooner, Nathan has always had deeper virtues.  There are times, that he literally represents Christ to me, and I need that so much.  I've had moments where I knew it was my Jesus speaking right through Nathan.  I know my God better because of my husband. 

[Roscoe]

 " I know my God better because of my husband. " I hope that this is something my wife will be able to say about me at some point. 

[SippinTea]

There are times, that he literally represents Christ to me, and I need that so much.  I've had moments where I knew it was my Jesus speaking right through Nathan.  I know my God better because of my husband.

I love this. Perhaps because I've experienced that through Chris. And we're only engaged, not married, but still... he has done that for me on numerous occasions. It's a wonderful, beautiful thing, and I am incredibly blessed to have a man like that in my life. I am SO looking forward to the next 60 years or so with him.

(And don't tell him I was getting all mushy on here. *lol*)

[1way]

I met my husband in K-garden, we were in the same class. Later we met again at his church I was visiting when I was about 12-16. All this time we just was acquaintances never developed a friendship or anything. Later after a broken engagement my sister was dating this solider and wanted me to meet his friend. Well I did ... not looking for a relationship just liked men in uniforms.   We talked forever on the phone that night and for the nights afterwards.... when they got back in town we decided to meet. We realized soon thereafter that we've "known" each other for a while! We started dating..... and got married less than a year later!!! We've been married almost 4 years. Been through a year long deployment overseas. And several deployments here in the states! I thought I would never get married after the broken engagement..... But God knew what he was doing!!!! I Thank God for that broken engagement.... My husband is a wonderful man and I am proud to be his wife!

[The Purple Fuzzy]

Here is another thread along these lines:
http://godplace.com/forum/index.php?topic=27746.0