15 Years

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It was July 4, 1991. A guy that worked with me had set me up on this ‘blind date’.

I had never seen her before, never talked to her on the phone. Three days ago I didn’t even know she existed. I know that the same held true for her. Especially the phone part because…well, I didn’t have one.

I didn’t know what to expect as I drove up to her house that evening. I left the keys in the ignition becuase my wranglers fit a little tight, and I wanted to be able to haul ass and make the quickest get away possible - if needed. Fumbling for the pick-up keys was just going to slow me down.

Don’t get me wrong. I was under no illusion that I was a catch by any stretch. Hell - I rode a horse all day, and lived in a shit hole 3 room house that smelled like a dead mouse. Everything I owned was infused with cow shit.

But dammit - I did have standards - and I was not going to spend the 4th with some toothless nag. Besides, how good-looking could this girl be? She was willing to go on a blind date with a feedlot cowboy sight unseen?

I walked up to the door, and was met by her mother. We visited for a moment - exchanging pleasantries.

Then I saw HER. I can’t remember what Jana was wearing. I know that never in my life had I seen eyes so big and so blue.

I don’t remember what we talked about that night. But I do know that I have not spent a day apart from her since then.

That was July 1991. In September 1991 she gave birth to our son. Yes - Jana was 7 months pregnant when we met. But I cried when she asked me to be the father of record on Skyler’s birth certificate.

We were married November 16, 1991. If there are any math people out there - that’s 15 years ago today.

People want to send money to self-help gurus, or spend a lot of their time looking for the “answers”.

I found mine.

I spend most every day trying to feel like I have earned the right to be in the same room as Jana. I married WAY over my head.

I just wanted to post this as a public “Happy 15th Anniversary” to my beautiful wife.

But I still keep the keys in the ignition because I found out the hard way Jana has a right hook like a Mack Truck.

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[quote]rainjack wrote:
It was July 4, 1991. A guy that worked with me had set me up on this ‘blind date’.

I had never seen her before, never talked to her on the phone. Three days ago I didn’t even know she existed. I know that the same held true for her. Especially the phone part because…well, I didn’t have one.

I didn’t know what to expect as I drove up to her house that evening. I left the keys in the ignition becuase my wranglers fit a little tight, and I wanted to be able to haul ass and make the quickest get away possible - if needed. Fumbling for the pick-up keys was just going to slow me down.

Don’t get me wrong. I was under no illusion that I was a catch by any stretch. Hell - I rode a horse all day, and lived in a shit hole 3 room house that smelled like a dead mouse. Everything I owned was infused with cow shit.

But dammit - I did have standards - and I was not going to spend the 4th with some toothless nag. Besides, how good-looking could this girl be? She was willing to go on a blind date with a feedlot cowboy sight unseen?

I walked up to the door, and was met by her mother. We visited for a moment - exchanging pleasantries.

Then I saw HER. I can’t remember what Jana was wearing. I know that never in my life had I seen eyes so big and so blue.

I don’t remember what we talked about that night. But I do know that I have not spent a day apart from her since then.

That was July 1991. In September 1991 she gave birth to our son. Yes - Jana was 7 months pregnant when we met. But I cried when she asked me to be the father of record on Skyler’s birth certificate.

We were married November 16, 1991. If there are any math people out there - that’s 15 years ago today.

People want to send money to self-help gurus, or spend a lot of their time looking for the “answers”.

I found mine.

I spend most every day trying to feel like I have earned the right to be in the same room as Jana. I married WAY over my head.

I just wanted to post this as a public “Happy 15th Anniversary” to my beautiful wife.

But I still keep the keys in the ignition because I found out the hard way Jana has a right hook like a Mack Truck.

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Fag.

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But seriously, congrats ya ol’ bastard. And an “amazing job done” with putting up with your ass for 15 years.

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Congratulations on your anniversary.

But I must ask, What kind of guy sets up his “friend” w/ a 7 months pregnant blind date???

I would bet that your son thinks of you this way…

God bless you, you were more of a man than most would be in that situation.

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Congrats rainjack and nicely written man…

K.

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[quote]PGA wrote:
Fag.[/quote]

Nothing is gayer than an old married man pretending to be straight.

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Thanks PGA. From one fag to another, I’ll take that as a compliment.

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congrats RJ! Hopefully many more to come…

My condolances, however, to Jana- just kidding…

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As for my son - he thinks of me like every teen-aged kid thinks of his dad: He wishes I would just disappear.

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Hey, congratulations. My wife and I just celebrated 25 years in October. So, I have to ask: Do you ever wonder how your marriage worked out so well? Was it luck in finding your soulmate? Hard work and persistence? I know I have no answers. I mostly chalk it up to making a lucky choice when I was 21 years old. Anyway, many happy returns.

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Congrats to you both!

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[quote]Skuebb wrote:
Hey, congratulations. My wife and I just celebrated 25 years in October. So, I have to ask: Do you ever wonder how your marriage worked out so well? Was it luck in finding your soulmate? Hard work and persistence? I know I have no answers. I mostly chalk it up to making a lucky choice when I was 21 years old. Anyway, many happy returns.[/quote]

Luck and Jana’s momentary lapse in common sense.

25 years - You don’t hear of that many people lasting that long anymore.

We were doing a little reflecting this week. We are honestly dumbfounded over how in the hell two people could meet, have a baby, and marry within a 4 month window. You just don’t see that everyday. I think that’s been the key to how we have made it this long. Both of us hate rules. Both of us hate the idea that we are supposed to ‘be’ a certain way. I have a drive to not be like anyone - to be better. Jana has the same drive. We are steadfastly determined to do things our way, and that common drive has been the glue.

She stood by me when I was working as a landsurveyor by day, delivering pizzas at night, and selling plasma twice a week. She never complained when I went back to school to get an MBA.

Now that we don’t have to sell blood, or deliver pizzas - it makes those sacrifices worth it.

Rules are for sucks.

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[quote]rainjack wrote:
Skuebb wrote:
Hey, congratulations. My wife and I just celebrated 25 years in October. So, I have to ask: Do you ever wonder how your marriage worked out so well? Was it luck in finding your soulmate? Hard work and persistence? I know I have no answers. I mostly chalk it up to making a lucky choice when I was 21 years old. Anyway, many happy returns.

Luck and Jana’s momentary lapse in common sense.

25 years - You don’t hear of that many people lasting that long anymore.

We were doing a little reflecting this week. We are honestly dumbfounded over how in the hell two people could meet, have a baby, and marry within a 4 month window. You just don’t see that everyday. I think that’s been the key to how we have made it this long. Both of us hate rules. Both of us hate the idea that we are supposed to ‘be’ a certain way. I have a drive to not be like anyone - to be better. Jana has the same drive. We are steadfastly determined to do things our way, and that common drive has been the glue.

She stood by me when I was working as a landsurveyor by day, delivering pizzas at night, and selling plasma twice a week. She never complained when I went back to school to get an MBA.

Now that we don’t have to sell blood, or deliver pizzas - it makes those sacrifices worth it.

Rules are for sucks.
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Rainjack,

Staying married for 15 years is an admirable accomplishment. Having values and sticking to them (and your spouse) is certainly rare these days.

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Congratulations.

Is she Republican too?

[quote]rainjack wrote:
Skuebb wrote:
Hey, congratulations. My wife and I just celebrated 25 years in October. So, I have to ask: Do you ever wonder how your marriage worked out so well? Was it luck in finding your soulmate? Hard work and persistence? I know I have no answers. I mostly chalk it up to making a lucky choice when I was 21 years old. Anyway, many happy returns.

Luck and Jana’s momentary lapse in common sense.

25 years - You don’t hear of that many people lasting that long anymore.

We were doing a little reflecting this week. We are honestly dumbfounded over how in the hell two people could meet, have a baby, and marry within a 4 month window. You just don’t see that everyday. I think that’s been the key to how we have made it this long. Both of us hate rules. Both of us hate the idea that we are supposed to ‘be’ a certain way. I have a drive to not be like anyone - to be better. Jana has the same drive. We are steadfastly determined to do things our way, and that common drive has been the glue.

She stood by me when I was working as a landsurveyor by day, delivering pizzas at night, and selling plasma twice a week. She never complained when I went back to school to get an MBA.

Now that we don’t have to sell blood, or deliver pizzas - it makes those sacrifices worth it.

Rules are for sucks.
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Nice story. My wife and i have over double your years and still going strong.

BTW, are you still a feed lot cowboy or still invloved in horses? My wife and I raise QH’s and T’Breds for fun. We also spend two weeks each September in the mountains of Montana helping family friends move their cattle down from the high summer pastures to their more temperate winter pastures. Nothing beats driving several hundred head of cow/calf pairs straight down a ravine and them trying to crawl out the top! Better than a full body workout!!!

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Congratulations! As the two of you are good people in the truest sense of the phrase, I wish you more of the same riches you currently enjoy. My wife and I are at about 1/10 of your progress in married life, and I hope we can do things as well as you have.

To give you something to shoot for: My grandparents have been married for 66 years.

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It sounds like you have found someone to share a lifetime of memories with. That is such a rarity this day in age. Nice read. Congratulations!!

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Congrat’s RJ.

It is nice to see what can happen when it really works, here’s to 15 more.

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Congratulations. I haven’t seen any of Jana’s posts in a while, but she’s a class act… you’re one lucky sumbitch! Here’s wishing you many more years to come.

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Congrats, Hope you have many more.