Been with this guy for 20 years as o’ NYE midnight-ish, been married only a year and a few months. It’d be nice to do something cool for the two decade date-iversary, but we’re too gay to know how to drive, and got health issues limiting the options further. No need for suggestions, stuff be what it be. But congratulate us if yer so inclined, that’s cool.
New Year’s Eve 2005, we started hanging out earlier in the day, in his apartment. I think we ate out, that I don’t recall, but I do remember we showed each other movies we like. He showed this anime called Dead Leaves I’ve never heard of anywhere else or since (how odd), I fast-forwarded to the highlights of Hard Boiled. I’m more of a basic bitch in the obscurity game.
One of our mutual friends came over to hang out for a bit. I remember coming out of the bathroom and both of them looking at me like I’d lost my mind. Took a second to realize it was because I was doing a shaky leg dance to straighten the long johns inside my jeans. Hey, maybe I like to twerk. Don’t judge.
He kissed me when I was on the way out the door a lil after midnight. Or before? I don’t remember. Then I took a bus back to Everett. The end.
I invited myself to live with him and sorta ruined his life possibly. I was telling him “I love you” a year before he said that to me. His ILUs are hard-earned.
It’s good tho. We abide
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Well, congratulations.
All love stories are a little bit quirky, and even though I think it goes without saying that I love my wife I do have to occasionally remind myself that she likes to hear me say it.
thanks bud
Congrats! 🙂
That’s a pretty decent stretch of time, although somehow I didn’t realize how recent the marriage part was so recent.
I remember seeing that anime, but I didn’t recognize it until I watched the vid, I think I just thought of it as “retro and panda” or something. weird…
there was a new anime coming out with similar vibes but i can’t even remember the name now. something about racecars? memorieeees…
Ah, another member of the New Year’s Eve Gettin’ It On Club! We celebrated 54 Year’s last night, and send a whole handful of pixie dust your way.
Cheers.
Nice to be married, once done.
All nice and legal and formal, system is set up for it.
I too spent over a decade shacked-up with my now-wife before marrying.
(Better than the other way around, eh?)
congratches to you wiesses. i hope we get to 54 and more as well. john, that’s just sensible.
Congrats on 20 years and 1 year anniversaries. That’s a sweet date-cute story.
🎵 👏🎉🌈🥳👋🏻🍾❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💕🫶💖🎆 🎶
Congratulations.
😉
feels good, thx everybody 🆒💯🎉
Very late to the congratulations, but sincere all the same!
Me and Mr got together on 18th January 1986, we’d known each other for years, but at that point not seen each other must because of living in different towns. Met up at a Christmas party, agreed he’d come to stay in a couple of weeks and that was that. It is also the anniversary of my best friend getting German measles. Mr went downstairs, saw bf and yelled “does he always look like this in the morning?” cue me running downstairs to see BF’s face covered in a rash. We too didn’t get married for years don’t know how many, but older family members started having health problems including an emergency hospitalisation of Big Bro No 4, fortunately the hospital staff did listen to his partner, but they had no legal obligation to do so and it made all of us think about the “my relationship is not any business of the State” thing.
yeah my husband has a lot of bad memories tied to our recent marriage, because to have one that feels properly celebratory, you either need a fair number of people in your life or you need money. we had neither. total shitshow. at least now he gets my pension when i die.