I hope it's okay for me to contribute, since my parents' marriage technically ended when my dad died in 2016, BUT:
When Momma met Dad, she was 33 years old and a single mom to a 10-year-old son. She'd been divorced three times, which back in the day was considered scandalous, and she was worried she was too old/had too much baggage to ever hope of meeting a fourth husband. Plus, the divorces had left her completely broke.
Being the artistic sort--and an industrious young woman at that--she opened a flower shop. It did okay, but since this was, again, Back In The Day, it was all street traffic and word of mouth. Eventually, she had the idea to hire a delivery boy so she could take orders over the phone and expand her business.
She hired this 25-year-old local "kid" who was down on his luck. He'd been a professional baseball pitcher with a wicked curveball, recruited to the major leagues when he was only 17. But a career-ending injury had left him disabled, unemployed, and floundering. He had no idea what to do now that his dream job was gone forever, so agreeing to deliver flowers for a struggling single mom seemed like both the right thing to do and a way for a man with a bad arm to make some cash.
Dad started teaching her young son to play baseball--the boy needed good role models, after all, and Dad wanted nothing more than to share his passion for the sport--which naturally led to Momma and Dad spending a lot of time together. A few weeks later, my brother left to spend the summer with his biological father, and Dad promptly asked Momma out.
He immediately moved into her house, and they spent three glorious months together. But summer was almost over, and my brother had to come back eventually. Momma told Dad he had to get out. He was 8 years younger, she'd been soundly declared "damaged goods" by polite society, and obviously she couldn't let her child see her having what was obviously (XD) just a summer fling with the delivery boy.
Dad responded, "You'll have to marry me then, because I can't not wake up to you tomorrow morning. And every morning after that."
And that's the story of how Momma met her fourth and final husband.
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