A guy I chat with on the Internet and I were discussing relationships. The following was my personal contribution:
Who knows? Sometimes I think we just fall into stuff. Once
in a while we luck out; more times than not we end up in trouble or just skate
by major disaster. But then my meeting my husband when and how I did seems
rather fated. Over 60. When I figured I would never meet Mr. Right.
I started looking a long, long time ago. My husband was
under 10 years old. When I was forced to resign from the Air Force, he had only
recently turned 10. So I was going to kiss a lot of frogs before he and I met
on DN. And only because I was a paying member and knew who had checked out my
profile. I engaged him in messages, and we finally went out about 3 weeks
later. He had long before figured he'd never meet his guy and had mostly given
up.
He took my having a Continental Viscount mahogany model on
the mantle of the fireplace as a sign. (His late father worked for Continental
years before, and he himself had always loved airlines and airliners) So we
just started dating. At one point I broke up with him and immediately regretted
it. We got back together a week later and have been together ever since.
Our house is filled with airliner models and pictures and
memorabilia, and ship memorabilia (we both like ships) and vintage car models
(we both like mid-century modern stuff). Even at 51, he has always loved old
Hollywood movies and gossip and all that goes with it. We never fight or yell
at one another. I make him laugh, a lot.
Maybe I have always been looking for that special buddy. I
remember a guy I once knew who introduced me to his latest BF, only to tell me
six months later that while they were great in bed together, when they finally
got out of bed, they found they had nothing in common and broke up. [My husband
and I] hug and kiss all the time and tell one another "I love you"
every day, and usually more than once each day. And we mean it. We watched the
soul mate episode of Friends yesterday afternoon and we both do believe we are
one another's soul mate. We have always believed it. We travel very well
together and love going to Comic Con.
I have never been happier with anyone, and if anyone believes this is a cosmic union, I would not doubt them.
