Do you Remember your first date?

Keeping it Real On Purpose
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Being nostalgic about your first date can really get the juices flowing and also make you realize some trueisms that you never realized. Listen as my guest Rachel Kerr Schneider as she recalls meeting her husband.
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I wasn't impressed, and yet he had the audacity to ask me out on a date.
I was going through one of those phases, Edna, maybe you went through it too, where I was
on a why I hate men phase, I was not, yeah, does everybody go through that?
I didn't want to have anything to do with them, I just didn't.
And he caught me, I guess I must have had just a minute of time there, and he asked
me to go out, and I said yes, and that's where our story started.
So we got married here in Dallas, and then left to go to Philadelphia, and then to Seattle,
and then to San Francisco, and then back to Dallas, and then to Chicago, and then back
to Dallas, and then ended up in Minnesota, which is where the rest of the story takes
place.
Wow, wow, you just went zippity doodle everywhere, my goodness, that's incredible, it's a nice
story though, it's a real, I like that story, it was a really good story, I like that.
Well, I think, you know, back in the day, Edna, they called us the trailing spouse,
did you ever?
Yeah, we were the trailing spouse, right?
And I never felt like it was derogatory, I just felt like, didn't everybody do this?
It wasn't until many years later that I found out there are a lot of women that were like,
I'm not leaving my family, I'm not leaving where I grew up, I'm not leaving, and I'm
like, I don't know how they, you know, my parents were kind of surprised, they're like,
okay, we moved around, but not that much.
But I think that was just part of the culture too, at that point in time, that's kind of
what you did, or if you were married to someone who was climbing the corporate ladder, you
