The Filipino Mom Blog is sharing stories of love with the Love Month Meme every Thursday in February to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Here is my entry for this week:
This week’s theme: Love Story
I met my husband during one of my college vacations, shortly after taking a job at a local bookstore in our area. I think I’d been working there one or two weeks when dh started, and my manager asked me to train him on register (which I thought was crazy, given how short a time I’d been there but I’ve been working retail most of my working life, so it wasn’t a problem). I remember that he was a quick learner and picked it up easily and that the other boy, who started the same day, did not learn as quickly. In my book, that gives bonus points because I have this weird thing for a good work ethic and brains. Some girls like basketball players, I like employees of the month. Not that we ever had Employee of the Month at our bookstore, but if we did, my husband would have won that award like every month, no lie.
Anyhoo, I went to college about an hour and a half away from my hometown so when vacation was over, I headed back to school. I continued working at the bookstore during most of my vacations and he frequently “trained” me when I came back, because for some reason small details always escaped me after several months away. Later I found out that both of us had had a thing for each other since probably that first day we met, but considering that I was barely in town throughout the year, we never pursued it. But when I graduated from college and took a permanent job (for then) as the children’s manager at the bookstore, I decided that I definitely still liked him… but did he like me?
I tried to figure it out for a couple months (being terribly dense, because looking back it was obvious) then finally took the plunge and invited him to watch the fireworks with me and my friends on the 4th of July. At the end of that night I still had no idea if we were just friends or if he was interested. When he left after dropping me off, I started mentally berating myself for being so lame and not doing anything to find out, so I called him up like minutes after he’d pulled out of the driveway and blurted out, “Do you like me? Because I like you, and I thought you should know…” After the longest seconds of my life he confirmed that (hurray!) he liked me, too. And we went on a real date like the next night and have been basically inseparable since then. We married a little over a year later in August of 2006 (which is part of a whole other long story that I won’t get into here and now) and I’m thrilled that I finally found the guts to ask him out because I cannot imagine life without him now!
If you are reading this sweetie, I love you, I miss you and I can’t wait until you come home from your trip tonight!
Mommablogsalot 
11 responses to “A Love Story (The Love Month Meme)”
[…] Who asked whom out? I asked him to watch the fireworks with me and my friends in a sneaky covert operation style way of finding out if he liked me. By the end of the “date” I still didn’t know and had to call him to find out (a story I’ve told a billion times over – like here). […]
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This is girl power! It’s a good thing you told him you liked first! LOL
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Lovely story! I admire your guts in coming forward. Some guys really are meant for strong women. Cheers!!
I posted my story too..
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I like your love story! It teaches women (and men, too) that sometimes you need to help (or work at it) that special someone to realize what he/she is looking for/at all these years. 🙂 I wish you more happiness and blessed years together.
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[…] Jen’s A Love Story […]
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Aw! Love a great love story when the woman takes the initiative. I know your bursting at the seams for him to get home.
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Love this story! So sweet! Such a cute picture, too! I remember reading this story before, but I loved it even the second time!!
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You have a sweet love story. I admire you for taking the first step. I believe love always gives us the courage and drive to express how we feel inside.
You make a lovely couple. Stay happy.
Thanks for joining The Love Month Meme.
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@ Jen : Yeah if I’d waited for my husband, we might have been waiting a LONG time – poor dork was clueless! haha
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What a lovely story! The pix of the two of you is very cute too. You both look very happy & contented. Thanks for sharing.
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Great picture of you both. Love that you took the initiative. I can only imagine how hard that was to do but look at you now 🙂 Thanks for the link to the Filipino Mom blog, too.
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