allright, ill play (though she really tells the story better)
me and the wife "met" when we were both 17, on MSN chatroom
this was in the infant days of the internet, some 2 decades ago before people found out the potential for evil that the internet has (what i mean is, it was safer in those days)
we hit it off and talked for hours that first day
and just about every day after that
at some point she send me he phone number and after i figured out how to add the country code i was able to call her and proceeded to rack up 300 dollar monthly phone bills
(did i mention i was still living in the Netherlands at the time? she was obviously in the US)
at some point she invited me to come over for her high school graduation, and a few weeks later i bought a plane ticker and told her i was coming
as you can imagine, her parents were not happy with that news, but she found me a room we could rent for the few weeks i would be there and i just stayed there
neither one of us was looking for a mate, and honestly, we didnt really start "dating" until after we got married
we were pretty much best friends from them on, and travelled back and forth whenever we could
about a year of so later, we were hanging out in her parents basement, watching "nightmare on elm street" and eating some popcorn
we ran out of popcorn and she got up to make some more
then she mentioned how all of her credit cards were maxed out, and asked if i had any money left in savings
i said no, not really
as shes walking out to get more popcorn she says, well, this isnt gonna work, so we either need to get married or call it quits
she says that when she got back down with the popcorn my face was as white as the bowl the corn was in, but i made the right decision
so, we started the paperwork for me to come here and about 2 years later, at 21 we got married (first for the court, to keep the paperwork rolling, and then a month or two later for the Church)
thats been 16 years now, and like i said, we're doing more dating now then we did back then
whats kinda funny about the whole ordeal is how much her parents did NOT like me at first (cant blame em, i mean, she was the baby of the family and well, just look at how i looked back then)
but now, her mom lives with us and im pretty much the one who takes care of her
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