I was initiated a month before I met my fiancee. When things started to get serious, I told her I was a mason (at the time I was a fellowcraft) and she was ho hum about it not really knowing anything about it. After I was raised, I told her I wanted her to come to the stated meetings with me. She was hesitant at first, but at the first meeting she went to, a wife of a pm took charge of her and said "honey, after the meal, when they go upstairs to do their meeting, you come sit with us." Afterwards I asked her what she thought; she had a blast. She now goes to all stated meetings, open lodges, and award ceremonies. She loves stated meeting as much as I do, if not more. She puts it this way: "we have your family, we have my family, and we both now have our masonic family." Once we get married she wants to join the easter star.
