re: What was the reason you didn’t marry the person you thought you were going to?

I was young and stupid in college, I started drinking/partying too much

I always married 'em.

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Met my husband a year later and we’ve been married for 20 years today.

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happy anniversary, Grrrl and MrGrrrrl

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What was the reason you didn’t marry the person you thought you were going to?

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I never proposed

We wanted different things at the end of the day.

In hindsight, everything happened for a reason as she grew into a thick ole girl.

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Do it and tell her to supersize that shite.

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If I cared anything about her, that’s what I’d do. But she’s not important enough for me to go out of my way to bother with her. Our original plan was we’d get married and she’d go to college and become a nurse while I supported us both. But what ended up happening is she ended up dropping out of nursing school and stayed at Captain Ds until she quit work to stay home with the Mexican kids she and her then husband adopted. By the way, I didn’t mention it earlier, but at least one or two of those kids were special needs kids. I’m not sure, but she may still be having to care for them. They’d be in their 30s now. Anyway, she never earned a degree or picked up any job skills other than fast food. She’s well into her 50s now, never had kids of her own, and lives in a single wide trailer in her parents’ land. When I say I dodged a bullet, I mean I dodged a thermo nuclear warhead.

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She wanted to move to New York to be and actress

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Was she successful at this?

I remember when we would do quarterly sessions at school where they taught us how to apply for college, who might be a good candidate for college, told us about the trades, etc... I would always get a chuckle out of the painfully shy kids who weren't even enrolled in drama class that would randomly go with acting or modeling as their path.

Always felt the teachers in charge were doing those poor kids such a disservice by not bringing them back down to reality and guiding them down a responsible path.

Because she broke it off due to her inability to trust me. Never cheated on her but she thought differently due to the fact that I am flirtatious and other women paid attention to me. It devastated me at the time because I thought she hung the moon. After the dust settled I realized she had issues that pre-dated our relationship and we were doomed to eventually fail regardless. Turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Dated a girl for 3 years in my early 20s, she was great. Katrina happened and we were separated for a minute, and she fell in love with a guy she had been friends with a long time, or at least that's the line I was given

I'm glad it happened. Met my wife not that long afterwards, and to my knowledge she and that guy have been married to this day.

Things work themselves out.

She wanted me to be something that I wasn’t. She didn’t like the way I dressed, or what music I listened to.
Moving to Louisiana was the icing on the cake. She didn’t like Morgan City/Houma. We tried to make it work but it didn’t. I met my wife a couple of weeks after we broke off our engagement.