These were wonderful - I just spent 1/2 hour reading them....Ok - Here's my condensed version
About 10 years ago I was hanging out at the pool at my apt....this DUDE sits down and starts asking me about a girl that lived there and asked ME to give her his phone number lol - (They were both in AA together at the time)
So I do and she turns it down.
I called him to tell him this and he invited me out and since I was between men - I said sure....(I really only wanted free drinks and to rub his face in the fact that I was the go between) .....
Then he hits on ME and I said "HELL NO" !- I wasn't going 2 be 2nd choice lol - and he said he didn't think I'd say yes ....Well...once I met his cocker spaniels and got to know him ...he turned out to be a really nice guy.
We've now been married 5 years and going thru the hardest thing I've ever dealt with....His serious illness......I really miss the guy I married but we're trying to make the most of it.