I love all these stories!
I was 18 years old and had a boyfriend my mother hated. She kept telling me about this guy at her work that she wanted me to go out with. For my birthday she gave me a card with a cowboy on it and it had his phone number inside (yeah, she was really pushing this on me!

) Finally to shut my mother up, I called him 2 weeks later and we talked for hours on the phone. I was so excited about our first "blind date" but it turned out AWFUL and I was home by 9 telling my mom to never do that to me again! After talking to him on the phone again, I decided to give him a second chance and one more date...long story short, we were engaged a month later.

When I told my mother about the engagement she was a little upset as I was so young, her words were "I told him he could date you, not marry you!" Anyway, we'll be married 10 years on May 18.