I knew him for almost a year. Then it dawned on me...I want to know him better and forever! Everyone kept saying how cute and nice he was. I knew it...as a friend. Then, one day I knew I had to have him in my life. I tended bar...and he'd wink at me when I walked by. "Did he just wink at me"?, I'd think to myself, and smile. With all the beautiful girls dancing here, he's winking at me? Hmmmmm! So, I walked over to him and leaned in over the bar and he leaned to me and I said, "Do you realize that under all these clothes, I am completely naked"? It might not have mattered to anyone else...ya see, I worked at a bar where the dancers were nearly naked all the time. But he was used to them and I'm not sure, but till that moment I don't think he thought of me that way. I'm eight years older than him and I was still in a marriage at the time (divorce already pending).

We started "dating", but after 2 weeks he called it quits. I was going to abide by his wishes but I couldn't stop thinking of him and so 2 weeks later I stopped him in the parking lot of the bar I tended and told him so. He felt the same, and we've been together ever since. He broke up with me because of my marriage situation and out of respect for my ex...but the marriage was over before he and I got together and so it didn't help to NOT be together.

This is only my third long term relationship ever...and it's lasted the longest. My first was nine years, my second (the broken marriage) lasted eight years, and my lifelong one (current) has been going strong for nearly 17 years ( I count the weeks we were broken up...lol). We married in Sept. of 2000, but have lived together since those days long ago when he used to wink at me.

Wait...what am I saying? He still gives me that wink now and then! *giggle* We are more in love today than ever...and it just keeps getting better!

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Minds are like parachutes. They only work when they are open.

~Thomas Dewar~