Who did you marry?

Gold Member Joined: Sep 13 2010 Posts: 2266

I married my husband

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Active Poster Joined: Mar 05 2011 Posts: 59

married my 3rd cuzin. didnt know each other b4, but its really nice to see our grandparents sitting together at our simchos (theyr 1st cuzins!)....

Moderator Joined: Mar 29 2005 Posts: 18393

That's what I was going to write. (My husband.)

Good thing no one answered they married their wife. Now that would be a problem.
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Posted: Sun, Sep 25 2011, 12:24 pm Post subject: re: Who did you marry?

I married my 3rd cousin - who also happens to be my 3rd cousin (again) - and my uncle's best friend (and triple 3nd cousin)'s son - you get the idea? Wink

How crazy, for some strange reason I never heard of or met him before - G-d has is master plans Smile

Platinum Member Joined: Feb 20 2009 Posts: 7959

My marriage is the kind only G-d could have made. We are from different countries, different backgrounds, different social circles, the works. Though we did find out once we started dating that I had briefly dated someone he was in yeshiva with. That's the closest we got!

Silver Member Joined: Aug 24 2009 Posts: 653

Married someone from a different continent, no connection at all, introduced by someone who knew him and knew someone who knew me. But after the wedding we found out we share a common ancestor 12 or 13 generations back...AND that a guy who used to take the same bus I took to work every morning was his older brother! Laughing

Silver Member Joined: Aug 14 2007 Posts: 877

our fathers were good friends as bachelors and dh and I are considered a bungalow colony shidduch since our families often went to the same colonies. some summers our bungalows were maybe 15 ft apart so while we knew of each others existence, little did we know then what the future had in store for us.

Posted: Sun, Sep 25 2011, 5:26 pm Post subject: re: Who did you marry?

I have 2 good friends who are first cousins, and who married brothers. So their kids are first and second cousins to one another.

One couple has been married about 23 years, and the other 19, so I guess its worked for them.
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Posted: Sun, Sep 25 2011, 7:30 pm Post subject:

my husbands cousin just got engaged to her uncle. I think its weird.
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Posted: Sun, Sep 25 2011, 8:04 pm Post subject:

A. Jewish. Man.
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Gold Member Joined: Jun 29 2011 Posts: 1210

my brother married my childhood best friend. We were neighbors till we were 8 and we were friends throughout high school and elementary. Her older brother is good friends with my brother (now her husband) and her younger brother is good friends with my brother. So yes the families know each other well and I knew her very well. However, the chassan and kallah (now husband and wife) did not know each other well before they dated each other. They knew of each other though. They are now happily married for about 2 1/2 years and they have one kid and another on the way. She is a great sister in law.

Active Poster Joined: May 22 2010 Posts: 55

really interesting...
my grandfather's family took refuge at my husband's grandmother's home for a while when they were both kids (hiding from the communists I believe)
and we got engaged 3 months after his grandmother passed away, 1 year after my grandfather passed away.
we always wish they would have lived to see it, and then we wonder if it was them who made the shidduch up there.

Moderator Joined: Aug 14 2005 Posts: 4703 Location: Ohio

DH and I met at work.

Our only connection is that we lived in the same area, although many years apart. I lived there as a little kid, he lived there as a teen.

Oh, and we had the same first car. Same year, same make, same paint job. (And not a common car, at all. In fact, very rare.)
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Senior Member Joined: May 06 2009 Posts: 130

Our parents are good friends. We used to play as kids, but then got too old and barely talked to each other until a mutual friend (who didn't know that we knew each other) suggested the shidduch.
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Platinum Member Joined: Jan 23 2008 Posts: 9074

I married a skinny guy with hair. Don't know where he went.

He married a chubby broad. She's still here.

Silver Member Joined: Mar 27 2011 Age: 27 Posts: 811

My husband! B"H!!!

His name was already in the works but his parents said he was too young, wait a yr, in the meantime I dated a guy from our community who was from such a diff background to me and on our supposed to be last date he couldn't/didn't propose...B"H!! He is still not married...

Then a month before we were going to start dating (and he was really wanting another yr to learn etc) another guy from the same class as my dh (and good family friends to us,) and I dated and got engaged. I broke the engagement...5 weeks before our wedding..

Almost a yr later I got engaged to my dh and B"H happily married with three gorgeous kids and so grateful that the One Above clearly showed me that the right one was there all along...

Gold Member Joined: Apr 27 2010 Posts: 2009

I married my brother's brother-in-law, my brother-in-law's brother, and my mother-in-law's son. Yup, all one person.
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Beginner Joined: Aug 19 2008 Posts: 24 Location: Queens

I married my brother's friend, although did not know him. He is also my brother-in-law's cousin and my brother's best friend's cousin. When we got engaged all my brother's friends were kind of shocked because I looked young and they themselves did not know that I was of marriageable age.
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my bashert.
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