How did you guys meet your wife? Need some advice...

[Hopperbin]

How old till going to college for a semester does not work??
It seems online is the way to go these days. Bars are like slough water. At least online there is conversation before sex.

[mcfarms]

Re college, my wife is 6 years younger than me and when we met at a Rodeo Cab I was 26 and she was 20, we were friends for 2 years while she was finishing school and stuff and really didn't start getting serious until then. She says that she did also take some college courses after Uni just asked her and she said that there were a lot of single even divorced people in her program with ages varying from 18-30. I would say its a bit of an inverse scale yes lots around 20 but there are those of higher age too. And really at 23-24 for the girl I know of more than one couple that have age differences up to 8 years apart and are great couples. I don't think you can get arrested for wandering through a college sometime to just see the age ranges of the students( OK its maybe a little creepy) but I do know that colleges like Lethbridge offer short courses that would give you some insight as well as add value to you and your farm ( if you have the time to take) I have thought in the past that my biggest mistake when I was single was that I went to college too young for the girls as I was the same age and should have waited until I was 22 23 then I would have had more life experience and more money( lol) that said at 23-24 I had my head down working hard and might have not gone. Though now as a middle aged guy I think I should have taken the time and done it. ( though things seem to have worked themselves out) I have a relative who never looked up and went out of his comfort zone because of perceived work and pressures and now he say's he could have hired a neighbour to feed cows and hauled his grain when he could . He regrets his choice I feel.

[barbiek]

I am the wife. We actually met at our
provincial fed of ag annual meeting. He
was a delegate and I was working at the
trade show. We sat down to lunch at the
same table and just started talking. He
came by my booth after the meeting and
we talked some more.

I then called him a few weeks later and
asked him out.

You never know, you can meet that
special person anywhere!

[KeephillsCowMan]

Just married for little under a year now. Met my wife through 4-H only problem was that there's almost 7 years between us. So needless to say nothing romantic there when I'm 10 and she can almost drink. She was a friend who I'd see 4 or 5 times a year. Then fast forward several girlfriends and 11 years later. She was working as agronomist at local seed plant and I finally decided to ask out a local girl instead of a long distance relation (highly overrated). Went to a rodeo and 4 years later asked her to marry me. I always figured I'd have to look far and wide since it's very rural out here. But she grew up only 12 miles from me. Sometimes the most obvious things are right under your nose. And definitely dont settle, the right one is out there.

[coppertop]

This is the most entertaining topic I have
read in a long while!

[ado089]

Try Thailand haha...but seriously unless you can find a local girl that likes cows they will be the way to keep a women out of your life, whether it's missing lake time due to haying, missing a winter trip because of calving, or the two months of sleeping on the couch so that you don't wake her every two hours to check on calving cows.

Before I moved back to civilization, rodeo cabs, curling, volounteering/sitting on boards, the gym is a good place too if you're close enough to one, all were great places I met plenty of nice women that would have been fine if I was looking for a commitment at that time. My brother meets lots of girls in their local dinner theater club. Also when I lived in Calgary it was almost the opposite where as you didn't know where to start, so dinner parties where each friend had to bring someone outside your normal circle worked great for meeting people.

[skip]

Wow...are you guys ever creative when it comes to women...I will show this to my buddy and get him going....

I love the plane story.

Thanks again.

[Hopperbin]

Plane story? Where is the plane story, now I have to read everything again to find the plane story.

[Chickie]

My bf and I met on an internet dating site. Ended up that we had a mutual friend in common and we were friends for a year before we started dating.

[lcarduner]

Internet dating in the last few years has really lost its negative stigma it had attached to it forever.

If a person is really serious about meeting someone special - be prepared to be totally honest in your profile. Stress that you want to meet someone that lives and loves the farming/country lifestyle. Mention the deal breakers you have (smoking, etc) and be honest about yourself.

If you really want to meet someone, and you are prepared to be open and honest, you will with online dating.

I think the biggest mistake people make is the get caught up in all the 'fabulous' photos and profiles and forget why they joined internet dating to begin with. If you see a photo of a swimsuit model who says 'she always wanted to move to the country' chances are she means Paris, France and not one-horse-town-Canada-Prairies. LOL!

[per]

Yes the Internet has possibilities. I have a cousin who met is wife over the Internet. She moved up from Melbourne to marry him. That must be eight or so years ago now they have 3 kids.

[barbiek]

I have 2 farm girl friends who met their
husbands online dating so farm girls are
definitely out there.