My husband always says that he was aware of me at the auditions that Thursday, and that, when I showed up in the choir at the first rehearsal and was picking up my music, he turned to his friend in the tenor section and said, "That's the woman I'm going to marry." I didn't know this until some time after we were married, and I've always wondered if it were true, but he swears he said it. He says he just knew.
But we had a wonderful time in the choir for a couple of years, performing concerts and touring to Savannah, Orlando, Washington DC, and even Europe that summer (Germany/Switzerland/Austria), all at school expense. We sold singing Christmas cards and delivered them to the dorms during December in small groups of 3 or 4. And the second semester I auditioned for and made the Chamber Singers, a madrigal group of 14 or 16, to which my husband already belonged. That was my favorite singing I've ever done, because I don't have a big, operatic voice. I was born for chamber music, that early stuff from the medieval and Renaissance periods (we did a few modern pieces, too). If I'd known about that genre sooner, I could have made a career of it. My husband's voice is gorgeous and much bigger than mine. I think he could have trained for opera, but if he'd sung professionally I'm sure he'd have gone in for jazz. He'd played in a jazz band in high school, so he was always much quicker with syncopation and unusual time signatures than I was. He regarded Al Jarreau as a musical genius and adored Mamhattan Transfer. I liked them, too, but the King's Singers were my favorite group.
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Re: Catching up
Thank you Murf. 
Our wedding was on the Sat. the 20th, and Thanksgiving was on the 25th that year, my wife and I were so preoccupied with the wedding plans that we didn't even realize that it was so close to the holiday, but we postponed the honeymoon until the 27th so that we could have our first Thanksgiving together with both families. It goes without saying that it was a chaotic week.
You had previously told us where you met your husband, but hadn't elaborated on the circumstances that led up to how you met him. It's interesting to think about how making a simple choice that at the time can seem so inconsequential to you, but it can actually be one of the most important decisions you ever make. If you didn't go back to the auditions on the second day then the course of your life would have traveled a drastically different path.
It's like when I met my wife, something pushed me toward her, some force, perhaps maybe even the good Lord, but something directed me to her, like it was meant to be. I've had conversations with other married couples that say it was the same way for them, well, mostly the guys, usually the women don't notice the guy first, maybe because they're always being pursued by so many guys that they are just used to it, but the guys that I talked with say that they knew fairly early on that they had met the woman they were going to marry. So I absolutely believe your husband's story that he knew that you were the one. Somehow, the people that are meant to be together, will always find their way to each other.
I guess it also depends on what a person wants out of life, people have various reasons why they seek out relationships, I won't get into those other reasons because we would be here for the rest of the week, but for some people, they are looking for a stable relationship with somebody they can start a family with.
That's the category I was in, I always knew that I wanted a family, and I couldn't tell you how many women I met in my late teens to my late twenties that were indecisive about every aspect of their lives, they just didn't know what they wanted, and that included a family. I wasted a few years in relationships with some of those women, only for them to tell me that they weren't ready for a family. If it was up to me, I would have started my family when I was 20, I know some people think that's too young, but I knew exactly what I wanted. I was 27 when I met my wife, yeah, I was a bit behind on my plans, but she was definitely worth the wait, and we know how that story turned out.
I think that if you can find somebody special that will stand beside you, regardless of the tribulations and vicissitudes that may occur on this journey through life, and you both take on the world together, then you can accomplish anything, and you are truly blessed.
Our wedding was on the Sat. the 20th, and Thanksgiving was on the 25th that year, my wife and I were so preoccupied with the wedding plans that we didn't even realize that it was so close to the holiday, but we postponed the honeymoon until the 27th so that we could have our first Thanksgiving together with both families. It goes without saying that it was a chaotic week.
You had previously told us where you met your husband, but hadn't elaborated on the circumstances that led up to how you met him. It's interesting to think about how making a simple choice that at the time can seem so inconsequential to you, but it can actually be one of the most important decisions you ever make. If you didn't go back to the auditions on the second day then the course of your life would have traveled a drastically different path.
It's like when I met my wife, something pushed me toward her, some force, perhaps maybe even the good Lord, but something directed me to her, like it was meant to be. I've had conversations with other married couples that say it was the same way for them, well, mostly the guys, usually the women don't notice the guy first, maybe because they're always being pursued by so many guys that they are just used to it, but the guys that I talked with say that they knew fairly early on that they had met the woman they were going to marry. So I absolutely believe your husband's story that he knew that you were the one. Somehow, the people that are meant to be together, will always find their way to each other.
I guess it also depends on what a person wants out of life, people have various reasons why they seek out relationships, I won't get into those other reasons because we would be here for the rest of the week, but for some people, they are looking for a stable relationship with somebody they can start a family with.
That's the category I was in, I always knew that I wanted a family, and I couldn't tell you how many women I met in my late teens to my late twenties that were indecisive about every aspect of their lives, they just didn't know what they wanted, and that included a family. I wasted a few years in relationships with some of those women, only for them to tell me that they weren't ready for a family. If it was up to me, I would have started my family when I was 20, I know some people think that's too young, but I knew exactly what I wanted. I was 27 when I met my wife, yeah, I was a bit behind on my plans, but she was definitely worth the wait, and we know how that story turned out.
I think that if you can find somebody special that will stand beside you, regardless of the tribulations and vicissitudes that may occur on this journey through life, and you both take on the world together, then you can accomplish anything, and you are truly blessed.