My DH was a bachelor through his thirties, no serious relationship before me. I was a divorced single mom. He is the quiet man and very neat and organized - a tool guy who can fix or build anything. He loves history and rides a 1982 Colnago. I am a chatterbox and a slob. We both love to read and we love our farm and do just about everything together, so I would consider him my best friend. He is not the best person to take to a party and he is sometimes without words at the dinner table and doesn't always know how to relate to my (also quiet) artist teenager, but he's come a long, long way. I've known him since 1996 when I was still married to the first... we met in a Thomas Hardy book discussion group on AOL. We were all friends and he and I dated a little after the divorce, broke up, dated again, and finally got married in 2006. It was well worth the wait.