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How I met my SXM travel mate
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08/30/2019 11:17 AM
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I had recently broken up and was disappointed about not finding true love. On my lunch hour from work saw an add and decided to visit a tarot card reader to check for answers π. Got there early, heard the reader I had spoken to on the phone laughing. She had a male customer with a real hott voice. That was the first day I saw my husband as he was leaving. Felt fireworks π€£ how handsome. Following week I went to visit her again, saw him again, he asked me out. Crazy but true.
I decided to share this story today as I'm having a bad day my dad is so sick. With the storm heading to Florida, I hope not- I thought we could all share some crazy or funny stories about our travel partner or a crazy day on the island.
Last edited by Tammy; 08/30/2019 11:19 AM.
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Re: How I met my SXM travel mate
[Re: Tammy]
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08/30/2019 01:50 PM
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Great story Tammy.
My hubby called me 19 times before I agreed to go out with him. We were a blind date. When we decided to marry he went to a travel agent and without consulting me booked a trip to SXM for our honeymoon I thought our relationship would end because he hadn't thought to ask what I might want and that vein might continue once we married.
I am not a sun or water person and the thought of just lying on a beach suggested boredom. Well, there was a "dig" on the island and I joined to help out. Forty years later we're still married and every year return to SXM.
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Re: How I met my SXM travel mate
[Re: Tammy]
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08/30/2019 04:56 PM
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Hi Ron Blind date that's exciting. You were hard to get I was easy π€£. All's well that ends well.
Our first trip was a surprise for me also for our anniversary (2). Over the years we've often said the best money we've spent has been on our SXM trips. Better than houses, cars, horses, jewelry. Our priceless SXM memories.
Sure right Sammy Who's knows One magic moment in time Can take us down one road or another.
But we all share the same love SXM β€οΈ
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Re: How I met my SXM travel mate
[Re: Tammy]
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08/31/2019 06:18 AM
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Happy Anniversary Tom & Lisa π₯π 50 years Ain't love grand.
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Re: How I met my SXM travel mate
[Re: Tammy]
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08/31/2019 07:56 AM
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Sorry Rosemary. I thought the Ron was short for Veronica.
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Re: How I met my SXM travel mate
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08/31/2019 03:43 PM
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I visited a friend at college, met MJ on our way to a frat party, hit it off pretty well. Met back up one week later, engaged one month and one day from the day we met, married six months later. Our 35th is in under a month. Secret to lots of years, always have a vacation on the calendar to look forward to. Cheers, T
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Re: How I met my SXM travel mate
[Re: Tammy]
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09/01/2019 08:35 AM
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Eric and I met in college, sort of! His brother was going to college at the same school I was, in Indiana. His brother was dating a girl who lived in the dorm room next to mine. Eric drove out from Virginia to pick up his brother in the spring of our sophomore year. We met then and dated throughout college and my first two years of law school, although we never lived in the same state until we got married. We kept in touch mostly by good old pen and ink letters, although he did call me fairly often, often spending $200 a month (in 1978!!!!) on phone bills, way back before cell phones. We got married in 1979 and went to Aruba, staying at Manchebo Beach Resort for our honeymoon. We celebrated our 40th anniversary this June.
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Re: How I met my SXM travel mate
[Re: Tammy]
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09/01/2019 09:36 AM
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I met my best friend when I was about fifteen years old and in high school, not as a Boy Friend - but merely as a friend. Such a good friend, in fact, that I kept setting him up with some of my girlfriends since I had a steady bf at the time but who had graduated from hs the year before and was in the military. Needless to say, lots of things a girl would like a date for in her h s senior year and John became my go-to senior date guy and we, all three, were okay with that. As Jβs and my friendship grew and we all grew up and started to realize some of our life plans and goals were changing, the relationships changed, too. John and I first met in 1962, became engaged in 1965 and have been married since 1966 - definitely the best decision I ever made in my life. Love! Passion! Romance! Theyβre all wonderful attributes and necessary to a relationship but that Friends part - to me, anyway, is the thing that will carry you through all kinds of trials. Well, that along with him learning that magical and all important phrase - βYes, Dear......β very early on ..... . Soon come 53 years and if the good Lordβs willing, many more to follow. Such a lucky woman am I.
Respectfully,
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Re: How I met my SXM travel mate
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09/01/2019 01:31 PM
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Reading these stories gives me happy tears.
I believe laughter is important in a marriage. We make each other laugh a lot. In October we will hit fifteen years.
I also think that our trips to SXM have helped. Ever so often we get to head to fantasy land and always leave renewed.
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Re: How I met my SXM travel mate
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09/01/2019 05:00 PM
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Lots of wonderful stories on this thread. For us? 1969, US/ Viet Nam, does anyone else remember this time? 1. College graduation January . Navy, AOCS, Pensacola, FLA 2..Solo/Commission, Ensign, USN 3. Married to Lisa, love of my life (Good thing she had low expectations) 4. Fast forward 08/30/19, Last night Son and Daughter hosted our 50th with a dinner that was wonderful.
Where did all the time go?
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Re: How I met my SXM travel mate
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09/03/2019 10:14 AM
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PattyM,
All of these stories have been heart-warming but yours has brought tears to my eyes both of laughter and of joy. We've traveled similar paths (minus the cemetery of course.....) it would seem but in the end, when you can wake up each morning and know your family and friends are well, your children are good people and your mate is by your side and you still like him as much and/or more than you did all those earlier years ago, I think you are a truly fortunate person. I know my glass runs over in all those areas.
And Tom and Lisa,
Congrats to you both - we were feted for our 50th by our kids a few years ago, too, and it was wonderful to be able to share our happiness and good fortune with so many friends and family.
And sincere congratulations to all who have shared their stories here.
Respectfully,
pat
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Re: How I met my SXM travel mate
[Re: Tammy]
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09/06/2019 10:39 AM
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My late wife and I met this way, and had 12 trips to St. Martin... I had just passed the Bar and began private practice. My dear parents suggested, and I agreed, to move out and get an apartment. The apartment had no curtains, so I went to McAlpins Department Store in Middletown to get curtains. A 19 year old girl with dark hair waited on me. We learned in our discussion that we had a common friend. That common friend sparked a romance that lasted 44 years, as we married six months after that first meeting. It was "curtains" for me ! Roslyn loved the Divi Resort and our resort friends Walter, Marisol and Geraldine.
Don
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Re: How I met my SXM travel mate
[Re: Tammy]
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09/06/2019 01:43 PM
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I love every story. Thank You everyone for sharing your precious beautiful memories. Success stories.
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Re: How I met my SXM travel mate
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09/09/2019 05:06 PM
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I met my wife while on a Nile River cruise 10 years ago. There were a lot of things that made me interested in her. Finding out that she had been to Orient Beach was certainly one of them. Keeping me from hitting the marble floor when I passed out in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo was another positive. Since then we have stayed a Club O a number of times as well as stayed with her friends in Marigot.
Beach Hunter
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