[Ansteorra] time for a different topic

[Jane Sitton]

Thank you for this sweet story.  I am in need of a few just now.  My life
will most likely change drastically in the coming year, as my s.o. and I
have reached an impasse in our relationship.  It helps me to know that there
is, indeed, romance still out there.  And it will happen for me when the
planets are aligned properly.  I just have to be patient and wait.

Amicalement,
Madelina

-----Original Message-----
From: D. Vandever [mailto:hlannes at ev1.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 7:16 PM
To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] time for a different topic



> So my idea for a different topic is this:  tell how you and your mate came
> to be together if it had anything to do with the SCA.
>
> Amicalement,
> Ly Madelina de Lyndesaye

Being newly handfasted on Feb. 23rd, this "hook" got me.  :)

I met my lord, HL Thorgard inn Svarti, at the last 9 Worthies tournament
held at the Stones of Ravensfort in 1994.  My now ex-husband told me he had
a fighter friend who had injured his knee.  Did I have some ibuprofen he
could have and could I look at it for him?  We were packing up to leave and
the last thing we did was go find him.  He was sitting rather forlornly in a
chair, sort of staring at his leg.  I introduced myself, thinking "My
Goodness, he's a *big* guy!" and tended his leg for him.  He seemed to be so
grateful for the fussing and was so gentle spoken for such an obviously
powerful man.  I was most impressed by his demeanor.  My marriage was pretty
much dead by that time although we tried another 3 years to salvage the
dregs of it and my friendship with Thorgard continued to grow.  The long and
the short of it is that first kind act grew to a lasting friendship first,
then into mutual admiration and respect, then into love and now into a
handfasting.  I have been married twice before this and honestly I have
never been so in love nor felt so loved as I do by this gentle, honest,
dependable man.  My handfasting was witnessed by many and I can truly say
that because of the SCA I have finally a chance at true happiness in a
relationship. The funny thing is that Thorgard and I have been in each
other's vicinity on and off again for nearly 20 years, often within just a
mile or two of each other, yet it took a chance meeting over a slight injury
for us to find each other.  I guess the time was just right.  I for one, am
grateful beyond words that the meeting did happen.

HL Annes Clotilde von Bamburg
Dear God,  Help me to be the person
my dog thinks I am.  Amen