One of my best friends and I were both out of our romantic relationships. We were discussing the fact that we needed to be more social and decided to throw a party. Halloween then Thanksgiving came and went, it was coming up on December so we thought that we would throw a Holiday party. The next available Saturday was coming on and we hadn’t done anything yet.
That Thursday, we were talking on the phone about this and she mentioned that our friend “Jerry” had just moved into a new place and he and his roommate were throwing a party that weekend. I thought about standing my ground and saying “No! We are going to do this party if it kills us.” Unfortunately, I’d just gotten over bronchitis so that possibility wasn’t entirely out of the question and I just didn’t have the energy to pull everything off at the last minute. So we agreed to go and show the flag for Jerry and demonstrate that he could get women to come to his party.
I walk in the door, see my friend in the kitchen with another friend from college that we hadn’t know was coming. Great to see her! Then I turned and met the host, Jerry’s roommate who owned the house. Nice guy. Tall, good looking. Cooking something I’d never heard of on the stove.
Later, he got my friend’s number from Jerry and asked her if he could get my number. We did throw our party and made sure to ask Jerry and his roommate to come.
Long story short - He asked me out but I wasn’t available due to Christmas time commitments. My ex-boyfriend who had been out of the country tried to get back in touch but due to those same commitments, I wasn’t available, and thanks to meeting Jerry’s roommate, I wasn’t interested in trying to resuscitate a dead relationship. I got to know Jerry’s roommate better over the next few months and we finally went out on our first date the day after Valentine’s day. He was very clever. He asked me to go to a concert a week or so later but then said, “Hey, why don’t we go out to dinner next Wednesday to to get better acquainted before hand?” so he fixed the first and second date. The concert was great! I now have about six of that group’s albums. He really did turn out to be as nice as he seemed at first and he can sing! We found out later, much to both of our surprise, that he is also a really good dancer. My cats, friends and family loved him. His friends and family loved me. We discovered that we loved each other!
Four years later, we were married. That was sixteen years ago. He just walked by my office to discuss summer camp for our son. Best split second decision I’ve ever made.
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