Share the Love: We Want to Hear Your Stories
Gearing up for Valentine's Day with mushy, gushy and off-beat tales.
It's February, and that means we are getting closer to one of the most romantic of holidays, the one where couples embrace their love for each other and get more mushy than usual.
But, we're not here to talk about Groundhog Day.
This Valentine's Day, we want to hear from you!
Tell us how you met your significant other. Was it online on a dating website, a blind date, at one of the Long Valley area's finest watering holes? Did you meet at a wedding, in the supermarket, or something even more interesting that it just has to be shared with our readers?
Of course sometimes love doesn’t exactly work out as planned. Whether it’s bad dates or a good intention that led to a bad outcome—like arranging a skiing trip and breaking your leg, or buying a gift that triggered your beau's nasty case of warts—everyone has stories about trying to find, impress or keep “the one.”
Some of those stories are pretty hilarious—in hindsight, of course.
So, Washington Township, we want to hear your stories, good and bad, funny and sad, believable and otherwise. Send us stories of your best first dates, how you met your match, dates gone wild and anything else about love, and we'll post them all in the days leading up to Valentine's Day.
P.Homer
10:34 am on Monday, February 6, 2012
My parents met through college friends. Mom went to William Patterson and Dad attended Rutgers (rah!!!). They wrote letters to each other often and still have them! Imagine dating today without that instant communication! They celebrated 46(!!!!) years in December. Great parents and even better grandparents! Now THAT'S a love story!
Jason Koestenblatt
10:40 am on Monday, February 6, 2012
Thanks so much for sharing, P.Homer! You're right, that is a great love story!
Cindy Rhodes
1:55 pm on Tuesday, February 7, 2012
My husband and I were introduced to each other by my Dad. They worked together at Follett Corp. in Phillipsburg and I got a summer job there. Bob drove a little 1960 MG and I was admiring it one day, so Dad introduced me to Bob. Father knows best! We've been married for 46 years.
T Simms
2:45 pm on Tuesday, February 7, 2012
My husband was a well liked instructor at a technical school I was attending in 1983. Unfortunately for me he wasn't my instructor, nor did he have a clue that I had a crush on him. A year after graduating I was called back as a guess speaker. He was now director of the department and just happened to bump into me as I was leaving. He invited me out for a drink, we talked until closing, until they were vacuuming around us. We married in 1986 and will soon celebrate our 26th anniversary. Twenty five of those years right here in Hopatcong.
n1salvatore@comcast.net
1:07 pm on Wednesday, February 8, 2012
My parents have been married for @ 67 years. He is 92, she is 88. They both still work which is amazing. She at a bank, he for a company that does grocery store set ups.
They still hold hands and sit with their arms around each other. She makes sure his meals are ready; he makes sure she takes her medications.
They are such examples of long lasting love and are respected by all their family and friends.
Anyone who meets them is amazed by their total devotion to each other.
I know that I love them very much and so does the rest of my family. It is truly a love story.
Jason Koestenblatt
8:52 am on Tuesday, February 14, 2012
She was walking down the hallway in the 8th grade wing of the Long Valley Middle School. I knew her as a friend of a friend, and we barely spoke to each other, but boy was she cute. So, I did what most 14-year-old boys do to initiate flirting - I threw a pencil at her legs. It was the heat of the moment; I didn't know what else to do. It caught her attention and, for whatever reason, made more of a positive impact than a negative.
Nancy and I married eight and-a-half years later (more than six years ago), and now have two sons and our own home in Long Valley, right where we grew up and found each other.
Happy Valentine's Day to my wife and best friend :)