Shocking wedding announcement today.

[minkydog]

OP: My nephew (18yo) met his DGF Nov 1, 2005..left for IRAQ on Thanksgiving...turned 19yo in Jan....returned home May 27th, married his DGF June 3rd and went back to IRAQ on June 10th.....

MY ENTIRE FAMILY HAS BASICALLY BEEN SAYING "WTH"......

On and BTW nephew will not be home until Dec 2006!!! DGF is NOT pregnant and has been and will remain living at home with her parents!!!


STRANGE BEHAVIOR....

You could take this story, change the names to R & D, change the location to Viet Nam and you'd be telling about my best friend. She barely even knew her DH , having had a long distance letter-writing relationship with him for about a year. He wisked her away from her family to a base in Texas and promptly left for war.

They have been married 35yrs and have 5 kids

 

[LisaB]

War is a totally different animal. I think the young men just want someone in case something goes wrong while in combat.

 

[JPN4265]

And baby makes three?

 

[mickeyfan2]

A wise person I know would always answer these questions with the answer "People marry". That seems to fit her too.

 

[Skatermom23]

I would think that someone needs more than 3 weeks to get to know someone they're going to spend the rest of their life with My Lord, I doubt they've even had a fight yet. It just takes so long to see the good, bad, and the ugly that I'd want some time before I said "I take this man to be my husband until death" in front of God.

I met my DH and within three weeks we were engaged! Five months from the day we met, we married due to him getting a last minute assignment from the military. We had three weeks to plan that one! Here we are 20 years later and still waiting for that first real fight! Sometimes people just know...although, I am not sure that is the case here. I am sure some people thought the same about me and my DH though..

 

[dazeddaisy]

My brother-in-law got engaged to a girl he met a month ago, and was married the month later. 10 (maybe 11 years), on they are still married.

My nan's boyfriend at the time, dumped her when he came back from WWII, pretty much soon as he got off the boat. Apparently my nan burst into tears and some other soilder asked what was wrong, so she told him. He told her, he was after a good wife and proposed to her there and then. 2 weeks later they were married. They have been married about 60 years.

Sometimes love is blind. Sometimes things do work out for the best.

I honestly would never do it. I like to know a person first before I get married to them. Maybe even have a few dates first, learn their first and last name

 

[NikiM20]

My brother-in-law got engaged to a girl he met a month ago, and was married the month later. 10 (maybe 11 years), on they are still married.

My nan's boyfriend at the time, dumped her when he came back from WWII, pretty much soon as he got off the boat. Apparently my nan burst into tears and some other soilder asked what was wrong, so she told him. He told her, he was after a good wife and proposed to her there and then. 2 weeks later they were married. They have been married about 60 years.

Sometimes love is blind. Sometimes things do work out for the best.

I honestly would never do it. I like to know a person first before I get married to them. Maybe even have a few dates first, learn their first and last name

That is so sweet
My grandparents dated for 3 mths got engaged and 2 mths later got married, They will have their 50th anniversay this year

 

[sajetto]

There are some relationships where you "just know." I know that is so cliche, but those are the best words I can think of right now and those are very different situations. This girl doesn't even act like she's head over heels for this guy. When SHE made the announcement she just stood there like a robot. He stood behind her when she made it and couldn't be seen. Even though she was making what should be a happy annoucnment she herself wasn't even smiling. She was just nervously laughing and fidgiting. There wasn't a ring (which isn't important) and she couldn't even remember the specific day that he asked her to marry him. After the announcement I overheard her talking to another cousin and she said "the good news is that since I already had my wedding half way planned I'm able to use a lot of that so its not really like were all that rushed." (She was talking about the wedding she was planning a month ago)

Weird is all I can say.

 

[sajetto]

I honestly would never do it. I like to know a person first before I get married to them. Maybe even have a few dates first, learn their first and last name

I'm the same way, it would even be nice to know the middle name too

Love in war time is very unique. I even had great grandparents who knew each other for a while through letter correspondence and then married, but this situation doesn't even look like their in love.

 

[PaulaSue]

Some people just need to be with someone. I have a friend who was getting a divorce from her husband of 5 years because she felt she "settled" for him. While going through the divorce, she became engaged to someone else and was moving cross country to be with him. Right before she was to move, she broke up with him. Within a couple of weeks, she met someone new and moved to another state to be with him. She once again became engaged. That was all within a month or so. Her divorce was still not final and she had been engaged twice. A month after her divorce became final, she remarried. She just needed to be with someone. Maybe thats the cousin. I dont think a quick proposal and a short engagement is the way to go. I find it odd and it says a lot about the couple. And I dont find that to be a good thing. Although I am sure there are some couples it works out for, most of them it don't.

That sounds a LOT like MY MOM