When you first saw your spouse did you know you were gonna marry that person?

My second wife, yes, and I made it my quest.

No not at all.

Well, sort of.  We had been sweethearts in junior high and high school, then parted and reunited 9 years later.  When we first saw each other again, we both knew it was permanent.

Oh no! When we first met I was new to the organization and I did not know it but I had been hired and placed in a position promised to her.

Not at first. I was too stunned when I met her. It was challenge enough to speak in coherent sentences.

No, but I wasn't planning on marrying anyone.  I did know I wanted to meet him and get to know him. He told me within a few weeks he was going to marry me.

I usually dropped by one or twice a week at a local bar for a drink.

The bartender was a friend of mine.  She was meeting a female friend for a drink and was going to introduce a male friend of hers to introduce him to her.  She asked me to come along.  I did.

We arrived early and she was already there.  The male friend came on time.

Too late, it turned out.  We will have been married for 36 years next month.

Nope, it wasn't for a while. Maybe a few months later.

I was thinking of good lay never imagined I would.

No, I never imagined myself marrying him....until we had a Psych class together the next semester. We were together off and on - from 1977 to 1992 before we got married.