How did you meet your Colombiana/o?

kat1 (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jul 12, 2009, 11:45:

CelticAce88 says on Jul 12, 2009, 11:46:

I went out for a few beers to celebrate a mate's birthday in London just over 6 years ago. Another one of his friends was there who was dating a Colombian girl at the time. That girl persuaded one of her friends to come along. I got really drunk and was downing bottles of Smirnoff Ice in one go trying to impress the friand! We endedd up swapping numbers and, despite my drunken behaviour, she agreed to meet me for a date the next weekend.

Our first date was to a rugby match (about which she knew nothing) with me and 6 other girls (I shared a flat with three girls in london then and we had planned the rugby outing for ages and had a spare ticket!). She was less than impressed, but surprisingly she agreed to meet me one more time.

Three years later we got married in Scotland and have just celebrated out third anniversary. We still laugh about our first few meetings and I am so grateful she stuck with me - even against the initial advice of her friend who was with her on our first meeting. She thought I was a bit of a nutter! I'm not though!

It all ended well for us - long may that continue

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dwmte7 says on Jul 12, 2009, 11:49:

my wife was hosting an art exhibit at the intercontinental hotel back in 1989. i would see her every afternoon when i returned from my business. finally i asked if she'ld like a pina colada when she finished her work. like kat, the rest is history. she flew to panama for a bank meeting i had to attend during the christmas holidays and we were ulitmately intimate. one time. she conceived. she was a virgin and i just couldn't treat it like some casual 'strange'.....she was about 35-36 and a virgin. i was buried from the get go.

patriarch

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lpdiver says on Jul 12, 2009, 11:53:

Douglas...you know what is coming...jejeje. What about wives 1-5???? Hmmmm? Just kidding I don't want ya to get tunnel carpel syndrom typing that long history.


ts

Remember what the monkey says, "Fuck money it's free"

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theflatline says on Jul 12, 2009, 11:57:

pasted from another thread, but she will probably end up being the mrs flatline one of these days.

When I lived in Manizales I met my girlfriend(ex now) at the grocery store, she walked by and smiled at me. She had no idea I was more gringo than Colombian. It used to be in Colombia(and still can be) where the scales to weigh fruit or not in the register, but you have to take it to someone sitting at table with scale, they weigh it and mark the price. Well, my girl had a ton of groceries and she had forgotten to get two papayas weighed. Well the women at the counter told her that she could either void what she rang up, get out of line and then recheck out, or forget the papaya. I walked up, grabbed the papaya, and kissed her in the check and said "Bueno, esposita mia, dame la papaya, ya voy a sacar el precios, mientras tu cigas aqui." with my big gringo southern accent, jack daniels t-shirt, and Dallas Cowboys baseball cap. I got the price, she bought all her groceries, I carried her bags outside and she said "I suppose after all that you want my phone number?" We were together two years from that day.

Legaleez for Complete Morons - A book for gringos in Colombia for who think they understand the nature of the law in a country where they cannot speak the language.

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Paisa/Calena/Luver says on Jul 12, 2009, 12:01:

"she was about 35-36 and a virgin."

In Colombia?

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dwmte7 says on Jul 12, 2009, 12:02:

great story flatline. ain't it funny how fate sets you up?

patriarch

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Robert Jorge says on Jul 12, 2009, 12:15:

I was on a "sort of" date with a Llanera in Villavicencio. She was a dentist, and she and I and my buddy all went to Aguapinelas. Well, there was not really any chemistry between her and I. The next morning, I told my buddy that I didn't think things were going to go anywhere with the dentist. My buddy said a girl had come up to him while I was in the bathroom the night before at the club, and gave him her phone number and her friend's. We called the girls up, we all went out that night, and the "friend" ended up being my future ex-wife.

"You can not take the barrio out of the girl you really can't." Oneforamillion

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Mephisto410 says on Jul 12, 2009, 12:53:

the first time I went to Medellin I didnt spend much time there my itinerary was full of places outside of Medellin… (eje cafetero, los termales, rio claro, and some small towns) After finally making it back to Medellin my cousin took me out to the usual tourist stuff in Medellin, we passed by the parque de los pies descalsos, and we met these two girls, one was very pretty the other not so hot… I conned my cousin to take one for the team and take the ugly one. We talked and eventually met up with them once again at parque lleras before I left. Nothing came of it at first I wasn’t too excited of a long distance relationship, but after I came back home and kept in contact with her online and so forth, something eventually clicked and now I go back every few months. I guess I have to decide eventually if its going to the next step or not because I cant keep doing that for ever.

Induite vos arma Dei ut possitis stare adversus insidias diaboli

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Papi de Alejo says on Jul 12, 2009, 13:28:

The first time I went to Colombia, was to San Andres with a girlfriend from Santa Marta who I had met while she was studying in the Dominican Republic. I enjoyed San Andres and wanted to know more about Colombia and the city that she called home. She didn't want me to go there and discouraged me. I bought a ticket to Santa Marta thinking that she would relent and come with me but she didn't. I decided to go anyway. I met her brother who was a great guy who showed me around and spent alot of time with me. One day he came by with his daughter and we went for a walk. We walked into the artesan callejon between Santa Maria del Mar and Hotel Karey and I saw a very striking artesania with a very well decorated local. I bought several items including a hand-made bracelet from her. My friend walked away and I stayed back chatted a little about the items in her local and asked her if I could take a foto. She agreed and I did. The next day, my friend couldn't come by, so I went, printed the foto and took it back to the local and gave it to her. We chatted some more and I asked for her email address but she said that she was too busy to go to internet cafes and gave me two phone numbers instead. When I returned to the states, I called the first number and someone answered in Spanish. At the time my Spanish was pretty much non existent. I apologized and hung up. I did this a few more times over several days and on the third try, the woman spoke very slowly and clearly and expressed that the person who I wanted to talk to had asked that she give me her number if I called. She gave it to me and I then realized that it was the second number that she had given me. Never thought about trying that. Just thought that she had given me numbers to get rid of me. We talked on the phone regularly over the next five months and her mother invited me to come and stay with them. I went back in January and spent two weeks with the family outside of Santa Marta and even went to visit extended family in Atlantico. I arrived as a friend and left as a novio.

Live simply... Love generously... Care deeply... Speak kindly...

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Paisa/Calena/Luver says on Jul 12, 2009, 13:36:

Colombiana studying in the D.R.? What do you leave Colombia for to study in the D.R.?

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Papi de Alejo says on Jul 12, 2009, 13:40:

Her father is Dominican. He wanted her to meet his family. After finishing her studies, she decided to live there. We're still in contact; but we're only friends now.

Live simply... Love generously... Care deeply... Speak kindly...

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utopiacowboy says on Jul 12, 2009, 13:52:

I used to have a ranch near the Mexican border and since there were more cows than people where I lived, I thought that maybe I could hook up with a Mexicana who lived nearby on one of the online sites. I was looking at the new profiles one day and I see a photo of this woman who really hit me. I looked at her profile but unfortunately she was from Colombia so I resolved to put her out of my mind. There was no way I was going to Colombia! Well, I kept thinking about her. It was like there was a voice that kept badgering me about her and wouldn't let go. After a couple of weeks of this, I thought, what the hell,I'm not going to fight this so I wrote her an email. That was that. She later told me that when her husband was dying in her arms, he told her that he would find someone for her. I believe that he did.

Disclaimer: any comment I make is inane and is not to be taken seriously, and is so patently ridiculous that no one should take it seriously, even as an insult.

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ratbag says on Jul 12, 2009, 14:25:

Well i met the love of my life on the internet.

I went down to Colombia and it was love at first site. She has beautiful plastics and has just turned 19. I am 42. Well when I was down there we went to centro commercials every day and held hands. I brought her lots of gifts and boy was she chuffed. She more than made up for it in other ways...

Anyway after that week I had to go. I go back every 4 months for a week and we spend quality time together. We eat in lleras every night and shop all day every day. It is so much fun. I send her money every week because she doesn't have a job besides dancing part time and her child needs money for medicine a lot. While I'm away she writes to me every second day and tells me she has never loved someone so much.

I'm in the process of organising green cards for her and her family. I have never been in love or felt this way about a women before. She is the love of my life.

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Paisa/Calena/Luver says on Jul 12, 2009, 14:31:

Do I sense a touch of sarcasm in your post RB? jajajajajja lol

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Bill Turley (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jul 12, 2009, 14:37:

gatogris says on Jul 12, 2009, 14:46:

It was in Tulua, actually. I walked into a bar on a hot afternoon. A lovely young woman with honey-colored hair sat behind the bar on a stool watching fashion models flounce down the runway to muted applause on a mounted flat screen. After a while, the young woman came over to my table holding a bottle of Aguila so cold I could make out chips of ice in the bottle. She wore a short, low-cut emerald sundress with a slit up the side and had an exquisitely beautiful figure, somehow both lissome and voluptuous. Gold bracelets adorned her wrists, a gold sunburst spread across her clavicle and touched the tops of her breasts, and gold dripped from her earlobes. Her skin was the color of cinnamon, and as she smiled and dimpled in greeting, she showed a lot of white, even teeth. Her eyes narrowed and her black pupils dilated like a cat's in the night.

The rest is, if not history, then an entertaining pseudo-history.

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ratbag says on Jul 12, 2009, 14:46:

P/C/L..no mate this is true love. You should see the way she holds my hand and tells me that she is always thinking about me. No girl in the USA has ever shown me this much affection. She is madly in love. She told me she is so lonely when I'm gone. It's hard to believe that a girl so beautiful can be single. Also I'm the first and only man she has ever been with. She even gets on cam every week to remind me about the western union money..she is very intelligent. I can't wait to bring her to the USA to settle down with me. It's going to go great. It's perfect.

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Paisa/Calena/Luver says on Jul 12, 2009, 14:52:

Just as long as she doesn't turn her cell phone off every time you guys are together or if she does leave it on, have to walk around the block to answer calls.. jjaajajja lol

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ratbag says on Jul 12, 2009, 14:59:

mate she is ALWAYS on the phone when we are together...must be a Colombian thing. But it's because she has a huge family and a lot of cousins.

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barrumundi says on Jul 12, 2009, 16:15:

Not many internet romances here.........except RatBag and I am still trying to decide if he is serious or "tounge in cheek"?

My wife tells everyone that we were introduced by her cousin when I was in Bogota on holidays. My wife thinks there is a stigma about people who meet via the internet. I don't care what people think...I am (we are) very happy and that is what is really important.

http://poorbuthappy.com/yourthing/post/uploading-photos-for-dummies/

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geoff71 says on Jul 12, 2009, 17:29:

met her on colombiancupid.com she showed an interest in me.. and i showed an interest in her... and the rest is kisstory

one day at a time

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Go Gring says on Jul 12, 2009, 18:49:

Its nice to know true love is still possible ratbag. My story is very similar, I just wish she would stop spending friday night with her cousin Jose. But I understand, she is very close to all her family.

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niolasarboleda says on Jul 12, 2009, 19:07:

I met my wife in a bar in Villavicencio, never thought I would see her again, then met her a couple of days later at work. We were both going to Bogotá for different reasons that weekend, met for lunch, then decided to 'throw a sickie' for a couple of days and go to Barranquilla. Like a few others, the rest is history.

The Internet. Strengthening the case against free speech every day.

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Haddeman says on Jul 12, 2009, 19:33:

She was studying in London,I was working at the Notting Hill carnival and saved her as one of the big carnival floats came around a corner.We got chatting,met and then I took her for a months trip to Europe.
She had to come back here,I followed,I came back,she followed .
We married and 7 months later had 2 babies ,about 2kgs between them.

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El Expatriado says on Jul 13, 2009, 03:20:

None of you alls' freakin business, OK?

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roloenNJ says on Jul 13, 2009, 03:28:

I still haven’t met my gf even though we have been together for over 2 years. Every time I travel to Colombia she always have to go to Pereira, Cali and Tolima so are schedule are not the best, but I am happy with just seeing her in Messenger every night.

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cali373 says on Jul 13, 2009, 08:04:

I met my Ex-colombiana when I got lost in Caldas and ended up in a little town. I stopped by the place she worked out of convenience, to ask for instructions to get back to Pereira.

Smile if you are a thinker!

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cali373 says on Jul 13, 2009, 08:05:

clyde, "How did you achieve 2 in 7?"

is that a serious question, what do you think?

Smile if you are a thinker!

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dwmte7 says on Jul 13, 2009, 08:09:

i'm not sure if all stories are true...if so, we got some interesting romance here. all the best to all of you. marriage and relationships are hard work and need a focus, daily on them to keep them going and keep them fresh. i know, i've failed multiple times. so take it from the bruised and broken. keep up the good work and maybe with the grace of GOD and you and your's hard work you can grow old happily together.
d

patriarch

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Haddeman says on Jul 13, 2009, 10:27:

It is true about the twins,the little bleeders popped out at 29 weeks about the size of a rat.

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dwmte7 says on Jul 13, 2009, 10:53:

"bleeders"?

patriarch

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Haddeman says on Jul 13, 2009, 10:56:

Bleeders is an English thing,it's just a colloquial endearing term,Jonny would know!

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Lisa Zee says on Jul 13, 2009, 11:14:

"Lisa Zee posted this exact same subject, and it got deleted.

What gives Mods??"

Thanks Mongo I was going to say the same thing.????!!!!

Vive la vida y deja vivir!.

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kat1 (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jul 13, 2009, 11:34:

Lisa Zee says on Jul 13, 2009, 14:00:

Yeah Kat, it was on a Friday night and you were sleep :). Peter deleted it!

Vive la vida y deja vivir!.

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dwmte7 says on Jul 13, 2009, 16:04:

did you get back at him? tell him what you really think...a piece of your lovely mind? i hope so.

back to "bleeders" endearing, eh? hmmmmmm common johnny, speak up. too, i want pow wow's take on this.

patriarch

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Chriscan (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jul 13, 2009, 17:44:

Paisa/Calena/Luver says on Jul 14, 2009, 14:26:

"Hi liza can't remember when you posted the same type of thread but if it was deleted maybe it was because it was spoiled by trolls just like some other threads."


And that should include some MODS who seem to have incorporated a "do as I say, not do as I do attitude" lol

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Robert Jorge says on Jul 14, 2009, 22:46:

at niolasarboleda: what bar in Villao?

"You can not take the barrio out of the girl you really can't." Oneforamillion

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Rocco81 says on Jul 14, 2009, 23:29:

clyde, "How did you achieve 2 in 7?"

is that a serious question, what do you think?

____________________________________________________________________________

Well you either had twins prematurely or your girl was banging someone else before you met her? Do the kids look like you? I mean not being an asshole, but we could assume either.

Sic semper tyrannis

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Rocco81 says on Jul 14, 2009, 23:33:

As for Colombianas...met a few here in the US, dated 2 of them. Have a 3rd back in Bogota.You can have all of them back.

Tell you's what, I will trade all 3 of my Colombianas for 1 Brazilian or a Mexican even. Do NOT sleep on Mexicanas gentlemen..and of course we all know Brazilians are where its at. If you do not know, let me tell you. Brazilians are best.

PS - I still love Colombia though/

Sic semper tyrannis

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excavator59 says on Jul 15, 2009, 05:58:

Met my soon to be ex when I came here in 1991 after taking redundancy from CEGB/National Power as was,my brother & sister who were married to Colombians kept inviting me in the 80's but I was always doing something else or didn't have the money .However this time I went & allthough at first there was an attraction it didn't really happen until the last days(she was the sister of my brothers wife,now supposedly she had a boyfriend who she hadn't seen for 6 months as he was on the coast who she beleived she was going to marry eventually,anhow in the last few days we had a meal together but nothing else ,we started writing to each other then she came over for 6 months we decided to get married asked her on New Years eve 1991 .She went back in Jan 1992 got all the papers & came back in April 92 & we got married July 92.
Then when we tried to help the family with this house & came to live here in April 2006 that's when it all went downhill ,went back to work in England for 4 months when I came back she was so cold (When are you going back after being back 2 days?) The upshot being she went back to England with the kids in Nov 2007 think she liked the easy money there & didn't want to work or do anything here(or seemed like it )always my dream a Bed & Breakfast/Hotel she didn't want to do it.
The other thing is I'm not leaving this place as I have no trust with my brother in Law so be careful out there .
Bloody difficult now to find a good one not intresada etc.
Saying that got a possible one I'm working on .

Life is like a Pubic Hair on a Toilet Seat (Sooner or Later you get Pissed Off)

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