Tiffany: I managed a bar and restaurant as a shift manager/kitchen manager. We were about 45 minutes from Fort Knox, and there are not a lot of great experiences you have with service members at a bar, [laughs]. Our first meeting was his birthday and he was drinking at the bar. He had some friends with him, and I thought they were being ornery with the bartenders so I kicked them out. The bartender stuck up for them and said, “No, no. We were all just joking. They weren’t being ornery or nothing,” so they stayed and I guess he liked the spunk of me trying to kick them out, so he spent the next three hours trying to convince me to go to dinner with him that night. At first I said,, “No. Get out of my establishment,” But three hours later I realized, ‘Ok, he’s really determined,’ so we went out to dinner. He took all of his friends home (a 45-minute drive there and a 45-minute drive back) to take me out to dinner. So, we went out to dinner that night and I think the next day we went fishing. Well, We’d only known each other two months when he asked me to move to Texas, so I told him, “Yeah,” but I needed a month to get my bearings.
Robert: That was huge, because marriage was not on the table ever for me. Living with anyone else? Nope. Nope. Not doing it. Commitment was not my bag. But then she came along.
