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# Fifteen years ago
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2005824fifteen-years-ago-html/
- Published: 2005-08-24T00:36:38.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:34:25.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Life, #DashHouseCom, #wp

Fifteen years ago, I invited Charlene out to help me pick out a new pair of glasses. That was the excuse. Where did I really take her? To [Corner House Restaurant](http://www.toronto.com/profile/145764/?ref=dashhouse.com), near [Casa Loma](http://www.casaloma.org/?ref=dashhouse.com). After dinner, on a walk, I pulled the ring out my pocket and asked her a question, and the rest is history. Before I got married, I learned a lot about marriage from a counselor in seminary who was trying to teach us what to expect when we started counseling couples one day. Nothing, of course, prepares you. Marriage has been different from what I expected, probably harder, but in every way better than I imagined back as a single man. I’m a lucky (blessed) man because she said yes fifteen years ago tonight.