This was originally posted by harleychic103072 on the community forum.

Hey Bev and Susan...this is DaLynn....girlfriend of cuner33, we're not sure what is going on with the link but I believe Chris is getting some help from Janice and Kathy. Hopefully it will be up soon.

This was originally posted by brewmax on the community forum.

Oh, Juicey, there was so much excitement in those clandestine moments when we were sneaking about (or out)! The story of your 1st meeting with Phyl was great, as is, I'm sure, the story of your life and love.

Here's to sharing more stories! And creating some new ones!

This was originally posted by evergreen on the community forum.

Okay, this should be the last episode. I got interrupted last time so I couldn't complete it!

Phyl suggested that I take a bus to her place & we'd go to the movie go from there. Well, she met me at the bus & took me back to her place. She lived on the lower floor of her mother's house.
We sat & had a drink & chatted. Then she put a movie on TV!!! We watched that & then the late movie came on, we watched that, side by side on the chesterfield, legs touching but that's all.

OH I can sense the excited building as you read this!!

Too late to go out to a movie theatre now so she ordered Chinese Food. Now, her mother, upstairs starts to sense something (Before Phyl sensed it!!!) She started banging on the floor "When is she going home??"

Anyway, I'll make a long story short: By about 2:30 am Phyl decided she had to do something "Do you want me to drive you home or do you want to stay the night?" "I'll stay!!"

Mother bangs on the floor again "Is she going home??"

Phyl offers her bed to me & she'll sleep on chesterfield. "No" said I "we can share the bed"

There you have it! Five minutes facing seperate ways in bed & suddenly we turned over.......

Now, this was really scary for me since Phyl was my boss.

After that, I stayed many nights at her place. Her mother never knew! Each morning Phyl would go up to say 'bye to her & lead her to the back of the house so that I could sneak out the side door. Wow, the neighbours must have wondered what was going on as I emerged, walked up the street & then Phyl drove out & picked me up!!

A year later we moved into an apartment together.
Phyl insisted on a period of courtship. She also had difficulty leaving her Mum as she had originally moved back for company following her father's death.
By the way, her mum was a lovely lady, not nearly as scary as she appeared to be that first night. She used to call me Juicey Lucy for some reason!!!

So, now it's 38 years later & we've had a wonderful life together. Well, we won't talk about going through menopause together!!!
I love her sooo much.

Oh, almost forgot the wet hair!!! She was having an affair with the woman I'd seen her with. Normally they would meet for lunch & a bit of nooky at her place, then of course a shower before returning to work!

So there you have it. Our story!

Thanks for listening (Reading!)

Julie

This was originally posted by Jen & Kim on the community forum.

Since my "How we met" story is the same as my "coming out" story I'll just repost it here.

I (Jen) am 32 and up until my late 20's had always dated men. My relationships would last 3-6 months and then I would become bored with the guy and break it off. For some reason I could never connect emotionally with a man enough to want to stay with him any longer than that. Then one day my friend (who I lovingly refer to as "Gay Jay") told me about Queer as Folk. It sounded interesting to me so he let me borrow his season 1 DVD. When I saw the first love scene between the girls I felt something inside that I had never felt before. I talked myself out of what I was feeling and started dating a new guy. Right after we broke up (3 months later :) ) the L Word started. Well…that pretty much sealed the deal for me. I finally knew what I was missing. I began posting on a message discussion board about the show and met (online only) a woman who lived in the same city as me and we started emailing each other several times a day. She was in a relationship that was ending and I just needed a friend who understood the emotions I was experiencing. She wasn't looking for another girlfriend and I wasn't ready to take that step yet either so we were just good online chat friends. Finally, we met in person and the sparks flew. Neither one of us acted on them for a few weeks…we just tried very hard to control ourselves when we were around each other. One afternoon she stopped by my office to talk. While we were talking she leaned over, held my face, and kissed me. I felt as if my head was going to explode. I floated on a cloud for the next few months…finally realizing what all those "cheesy" love songs meant. 2 years later we own a home together and have managed to successfully merge my two dogs with her two cats. We fall more in love every day and I am so thankful and lucky to have found her.

This was originally posted by JoCindy on the community forum.

Akmedic,
Welcome to Olivia, the Forum and congrats on choosing your first cruise. You will just love it! Many of us have been on one or more Olivia vacation and it is an amazing experience !
Keep an eye on the forum as we get closer to the cruise. Many of us who write here like to get together for a lunch and meet. Cindy & I will be there and hope to meet you.

What a wonderful love story you have written. How lucky you were to find each other. Our story is several posts back. I think that each story shows one more time that the straight world just does not know what we have.

Glad to see you posting on the forum!

This was originally posted by Bev and Susan on the community forum.

cuner33,

I kept trying to click on your link, but it said the page I was trying to look at is unavailable. Can you try posting the link again! Would love to see you two and put faces w/ names!

This was originally posted by Janice & Kathy on the community forum.

cuner33, great story! I wasn't able to bring it up but I am on a friends computer (waiting for boy to return from "away" track meet). I have the instructions written down at home to get the link on the forum. email me directly thru the forum with your email address and I will send the info to you when I get home either tonight or in the morning.
k

This was originally posted by Akmedic on the community forum.

Well even though I am new to this site, and I haven't even been on my first cruise yet (carribean 2007 here we come) I wanted to share my story also. I might be a little bias, but I like it.....
I was working at the ambulance station in town, and a friend of mine, who knew I had just come out as a lesbian was trying to hook me up with this woman, (who just happened to be a police officer in the same town that I worked in) and I always had a reason why I couldn't meet up with them...
Anyway, one day, after a particular bad call where I had lost my patient and it was about 4am and just got done cleaning my rig, and was about to sit down for some much needed "catching up" time as to what had just happened.
Then I heard some footsteps up the stairs, and I wondered why my coworker would be up, then the door opened, and in walked this beautiful blonde police officer that made my knees weak...
She introduced herself, and I did the same, I let her know I was the one our friend had keep trying to set up.(come to find out she had already had dispatch run my license plate so she knew I was there)
Well from there we started talking, and hanging out. But I knew I was attracted to her, and I knew she was to me, but there was what seemed to be a big problem, ther was 12 years between us.
I was 19 and she was 31.... I couldn't want to be with a 31 year old. Nor did she want to get with the drama assoc with a 19 year old.
But we kept hanging out. She kept asking for my massages, and wanting to hang out. I also kept persuing her, the more we hung out the more I loved to be with her. I was so attracted to her that i would to this day get weak in the knees. But she was adidmit that we couldn't be together. Like she would tell me I was not ready to settle down. But I never was the partier or one to "sleep around". And I knew I wanted to be with her. But she didn't want to get together, so i figured ok, well we will just hang out and soon enough she will realize that she wants to be with me too. HA
Well one night at about 2am, I had just got home, got into bed, when my phone rang. It was my partner at a bar in town, very drunk and needing a ride. I of course went to pick her up thinking I will pick her up and have to drop her off at home and leave(her roomates at the time did not like me so I wasn't allowed in the home)
Well I pick her up start to head towards her house and then she says, I don't want to go home, lets go to my brother in laws he is having a house party. Ok I said, so we go to the next town about 10 min away (we live in alaska, nothing is close by) and hang out talk and whatnot, but I am not drinking, someone has to drive. At about 4am I said to her, either we have to go home now, or stay here, I am getting to tired to drive.
Oh course she then pipes up, lets stay here. And then proptly says, let go to bed.
OK I am thinking, is this goinng to be one of those nights where we mess around and the next day nothing happend, I didn't want that. So we get into bed. A little twin bed and start to cuddle. And I have never "fit" so well next to someone before. I go to turn around, cause she is nervous and keeps talking, and we FINALLY KISSED. I thought my stomach was on the floor. We started to mess around, and I said, wait, I don't want this. I don't want to get together with one sober and one drunk. So instead we cuddled all night and slept. We woke the next morning still holding each other and went to breakfast and talked. We decided not to jump into things and maybe hook up once in a while.

Well any lesbian will know that lasted about 2 days. I had her over one night, candles and tequilla rose waiting. We stayed up all night talking and two weeks later moved in together (typicall I know) 2 and a half years later, we have bought a house, both work for the police department (I dispatch and she is a cop) and are having our commitment ceremony (which is not legal yet up here) this summer. And in January 2007 are enbarking on our first olivia cruise, which I am so excited for as our honey moon.

As my partner will attest too, I am the talker, sorry this ended up so long. I guess its fun to write out wonderful old memories.

Thanks for the fun.

Amie

This was originally posted by cuner33 on the community forum.

Ok....well we copied and pasted a slideshow......It's always nice to put a face with a name so Chris and I decided to share some pictures.....we couldn't resist adding the 4 legged children that we share....And to answer any questions in advance about the grey little fuzzy man in the photos...he is the other love of my life....he's a sugar glider. We actually have 2 of them and the first photo shows our older one...but my love bug is in the other photos. Hope the site pulls up for everyone.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?&mode=fromsite&collid=921335914105.466698294305.1144374033596&conn_speed=1

This was originally posted by brewmax on the community forum.

ah. . . oh. . . I see. . . hmmmmm. I understand completely. I was just explaining to Susan (of Bev & Susan)earlier today how my boss at the telco seduced me back in 1974. Okay, then. I'm with you, and promise not to rush the story, which is obviously a good one! :)

This was originally posted by brewmax on the community forum.

raisenrabt, is that why they say "Cleveland Rocks"!?

This was originally posted by raisenrabt on the community forum.

Janice and Kathy- What great fun this thread is!

The first time I saw Tracey was at the Olivia pre-cruise party for the "L-word" cruise (Mayan Cruise). The solos coordinator was introducing people and my thought was "wow- why is she traveling alone?" I didn't get a chance to talk to her. On the second night of the cruise Tracey ended up seated on the other side of a big round table in the solos section. We made eye contact, then she got up and moved to sit beside me and said "I think I'd like to talk to you tonight." We spent the week with a wonderful group of friends in the solos group-- the 5 of us hung out every day. After the cruise was over, Tracey and I decided we wanted to see each other again-- there was no ignoring the gravitational pull that caused her to relocate at dinner that night. We have been traveling back and forth between Cleveland and Washington DC ever since (Nov 04).

This was originally posted by Bev and Susan on the community forum.

Your boss, evergreen???? How scandalous!! LOL Just kidding!

This was originally posted by evergreen on the community forum.

Well Brewmax, I didn't find out until later why she had wet hair, I was naive then. Stop getting ahead of me!!
AND, it takes a while to start persuing a woman when she's your boss!!!

This was originally posted by lil' rhody on the community forum.

You can put a photo in your profile by copying and pasting the entire URL for that picture in the space provided. That's what we did...