Engagement

Question: How did you become engaged?

Gil and I had been dating for several months, exclusively. We spent all our free, awake time together. We went to the beach before work when I worked afternoons, we went to his parents house and listened to music, we ate our lunches together at work. We were always together. I knew before he asked me that we would someday marry. He was going to school and working full time, so I figured we wouldn't marry right away, but that we would become engaged soon. I even told my roommate that I knew Gil was going to ask me to marry him. That was a week before he actually did.

We went to the beach one afternoon. It was a little cold, so we just parked on a cliff overlooking the ocean and sat in his car talking as we watched the sun start to go down. Inside the car was a warm setting. We sat there talking; talking about the future. Then he asked me. I do not remember exactly how he did, but I remember my answer. I told him I knew a week before that he was going to ask me. He did not have a ring to present, but the sincerety and love he showed was more than enough for me.

We were married about a year later on March 29, 1969.

We have been married 43 years now, so I guess it was a good match. Don't you think?