Married CAFers, how did you meet your current spouse?

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My wife and I met at the Catholic student center at college. Dated and broke up several times before we were married five years after we met.

We’ve been married for almost 34 years.
 
Met my first husband through my best friend. He worked for the same company. She and I would go out to lunch frequently and often ended up at the same restaurant one day, and he asked her about me. Had 2 children and then he took his own life.
A couple of years later, I met my current husband on Catholic singles. He lived in Ireland so we spoke on the phone for a year, then Skype for a year, and I went there to meet him, he proposed on day three, and moved here to the US a month later.
THe girls love him, and he’s now a permanent resident of the US. We still have the house and cattle farm in Ireland though.
 
She and I went to the same college and had friends in common but had never met even though she had been casually dating D, one of my best friends. I graduated a year before they did.

The summer after their graduation, he said, ‘hey, this really cool chick I know is having a party at her house. Do you want to go with me?’

I went. We met. She said, ‘I usually hate D’s friends. Present company excepted.’
 
I was working as a bilingual secretary at parish with a growing Hispanic population. A Spanish-speaking priest was transferred to that parish about a year after I started working there and he was good friends with my future husband. He introduced us within 3 weeks of him moving into the new parish, we dated a year, got engaged for a year, and we were just married this past summer.

My husband was and still is an incredibly faith-filled man who has an unshakable prayer life. He helped me grow in that way (always a work-in-progress).
 
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I met my wife of 31 years when I was in 17 and she was 15. We went to different high schools but that didn’t stop us. Most of our dating was done at the roller skating rink. The place was pretty much our home away from home. After I graduated I went directly into the military and I thought it was pretty much the end of our relationship. My feelings were so strong that I sent letters and called when her when I could. Three long years later we were reunited and in what seemed like a whirlwind I married the love of my life! It hasn’t always been roses but I wouldn’t change a thing.
 
I met my husband on Catholicmatch.com. We were talking in the forums and we realized that by coincidence, we were both going to be in Chicago at the same time, so we agreed to go to church together. Then we started a long-distance relationship. He lived in eastern Wisconsin while I lived in St. Louis.
 
Catholic Match for the win! I love hearing all the stories of how CM worked for others. Did you go on any other dates with CM men?
 
…how did you meet?
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We met on AveMariaSingles online.

And what did you do between meeting your spouse and getting married that you think has an impact on your marriage now?
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We put our faith first and foremost in our relationship. Our beginning relationship goals were to find someone who could help us grow closer to Christ and to raise a family for God (i.e., our children would not be “ours”, but entrusted to us by God to raise for Him).
With that in mind from the onset, we have weathered MANY storms after getting Married and it’s had a tremendously positive impact on our Marriage.

ETA: And now I am realizing that the old “quote” commands don’t work the same on this new forum template! LOL!
 
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I was introduced to my husband by a friend. We dated for 4 years prior to getting married. We’ve been married for 31 years. The more time you spend getting to know your future spouse, the better.
 
It was a blind date for my husband & I. My best friend and her brother-in-law got us together when I was 24 and he was 29. My husband doesn’t remember, but we actually met the 1st time when I was 16 and he was 21. It was only in passing but if he had really noticed me, he might not have married someone else, gotten divorced, gotten an annulment, etc… and we would’ve been married for much longer than 29.5 years!
 
One must be prudent not to spend too much time beating around the bush. For young persons, still in college or under, 4 years may be prudent, but as a grown adult, I wouldn’t have tolerated 4 years of dating. As it was we met in February, were engaged in October and married a year after our engagement. It quite often felt too long. Once married, I knew the time had been well-spent but I could have been married a year after meeting and been totally ok with that, too.
 
Eh, I took 10 years to get married to the guy largely because I wanted to be sure I was ready to be married and that he was marriage material. I realize that’s longer than most people would take and if you are concerned about chastity or about starting a family at a young age, then that may be too long of a time. But on the other hand, not everybody is ready to be married in their 20s. I certainly wasn’t.
 
Joe was on Catholic Singles. I tried CAtholic Match but there was this one man that all the women fawned over in the forums and the chat room. He was just having too much fun stringing people along.
So I went back to Catholic Singles.
I’ve known many couples who met and married because of Catholic Match.
 
I met my husband when I was still in high school through a mutual friend. The friend was supposed to come pick me up but he was tied up so he sent DH to pick me up instead. Love at first sight when I got in the car and the rest is history lol.

So when we got back to mutual friend’s house, we went to a haunted house (it was Halloween night). That was 24 years ago and we’ll celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary this November. 4 kids and a granddaughter due in December.
 
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