Who knew?! Happy Anniversary to us!

Today marks the 17th Anniversary of the day Drew and I met!   Pretty amazing to us both that it's been that long.....getting close to a third of my life and over that of his.   Does seem amazing when you think in those terms.   Some of the boys at various parties we've been to lately at Rubberasylums, Sparkys' and Jerry's were just starting elementary school when we met at the Cuff...yikes!    Maybe you want to know how it happened ?  ( Maybe you dont' care and only hope I post some new pics soon? )  Whichever...here it is.
I'd been dating around, mostly trying to find a nice, kinky boy I could take home to Mom some day, who was fun in the playroom and also had enough in common with me that I could spend my life with him.  Our
mutual friend Jerry, knew Drew from previous years in Seattle when he'd played with him and other mutual
friends of ours.  Drew had been living in California with his first partner of 7 years or so, who had died earlier
in the year.  Eventually he made his way back to Seattle, and was living down near Pike place market in a top floor apartment overlooking the waterfront.   Jerry knew this and thought I should meet him, so at some
point one week he said..."hey there's a guy who just moved back to Seattle you might get along with...why don't you come up to the Cuff Saturday night and I'll introduce you? "   So, Saturday rolled around and I put on my ( as Andrew would tell you ) crappy leather jacket and drove up to the Cuff from my little cottage in
Rainier valley.
I walked in and Jerry was towards the back by the pinball machines, which were near the coat check then.
I got a beer and chatted a moment, while eyeing a boy in full white, blue and black race leathers who was playing one of the machines.   "Thats' Andrew" Jerry told me.  " Just make sure you have a gag handy...you'll need it, or you'll have him tied up and he'll start wondering about when the last time the oil was changed in his car in the middle of a scene"  Hummmm.  Really?  ( in retrospect...yes.  really )  Anyway, we met...he looked a little geeky back then, with gold wire rim glasses (without which he was fairly blind as it turned out)
started chatting, and the rest as they say, is history.    Yes, we did play the first night.  Then I don't think we spent more than 2-3 nights apart until he moved in with me 8 months later when the lease on his apartment
was up for renewal.  Very, very not in character for me, but it's how it worked out!
So...how do two very kinky guys, ten years apart in age, and with some very different outlooks on life get to
17 years?   Patience, compromise, enough things in common to keep us together, and the desire to stay together.    Despite our differences in the way we interact with people...I'm much more quiet and introspective overall, we do have a lot in common and have developed even more as we've gone on...which is probably natural in any long term couple.
We also still have really fun scenes, play and sex.   It's changed over the years...he's not quite as passive, I'm not quite as aggressive, theres' much more give and take than early on in our relationship, but amazingly enough we still play once or twice a week in some form.  It may be short and sweet, or it may be more involved but it still happens after 17 years....and that's awesome!   Happy Anniversary Spike!  I love you.