How did you meet your significant other?

NewCaddy · June 2013

He was the cook at the restaurant I started waitressing at in college. Neither of us liked each other until we were put on the same overnight schedules. Lots of time to talk without customers and we got to look deeper than initial outward appearances/prejudices. Lots of ups and downs, but in August, we will be married 18 years.

peachfigs · June 2013

I added him on MySpace (back in the day) thinking he was someone else from my college. We got on really well, exchanged numbers, and met a week later. Now we live together and have been together for 5 years :smooched:

LassoOfTruth · June 2013

I met him online, playing Everquest. It was when LDoN first came out and we grouped together for some dungeons. I thought he was a female for the first 6 months that we played together. I never asked, he played a female toon. He lived in Manhattan, I lived in Podunk Arkansas. We finally discovered that we were opposite sex and started talking 70+ hours a month on our cells. We spent even more time than that on Teamspeak and Ventrilo! I flew up to meet him in July of 2004. We spent the next 5 months flying back and forth until I finally flew (one way) to NYC in December of 2004. We were married 12/28/2004 and have been happily gaming ever since! :bigsmile:

Yes! Gamer love! This is my favorite story in this thread thus far!

& freaking congrats on the 100+ pounds loss!

BikerGirlElaine · June 2013

www.alt.com :devil: six years ago.

HannahJDiaz25 · June 2013

Met in a bar... I was not looking for anything...my hair a mess, no make up... was actually kind of pissed that night.. he comes over, a bit tipsy, tryin to pick me up by sayin he just got back from Iraq (really Kuwait). Tell ya, he did NOT impress me w/ his dancing skills, :laugh: !! But we've been together for 5 years, married for 2

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HAHA!! this sounds remarkably familiar! (You kno its for real when i guy hits on you with no makeup, sweaty at a bar...somewhat drunk. And if he still likes you in the morning with a puffy hungover face...Marry him LOL!)

2vayla · June 2013

At work...he duped me...I was new, he said some co-workers were going to meet at a bar for drinks; come to find out he was the co-worker...but lucky me...love of my life for 3.5 years!!

anne2605 · June 2013

I met my significant other at a Health Club 16 years ago.

peachfigs · June 2013

AOL Chat. Super old school. So old school that we were considered weird for meeting online. Now, it's normal.

That's so cool!

SezxyStef · June 2013

Online (POF)
We are now engaged & live together

same here

Almost the same here except we are now married and have been for 4 years this Sept.

Amberlynnek · June 2013

In our apartment building's elevator. My dog tried to eat his dinner and apparently within 5 floors I gave an awesome elevator speech!

xvxCelticWandererxvx · June 2013

In real life? At the airport! The international terminal. True story.

peachfigs · June 2013

We met on one of those Chat lines. Ironically, it was the last time either of us planned to call it because the "chat" part was ever decreasing. I loved his voice and we talked for hours. He lived near LA and I was in San Diego at the time so we had "phone dates" for a couple of months. The first time we met it was like an episode of Blind Date. He came down to SD and we took the Trolley downtown to my favorite martini bar. I was so nervous I had us get off on on the wrong stop and we walked hand in hand to the restaurant. He looked like a happy puppy the whole night and I knew he was the One. We got engaged on my 40th birthday. Due to a move cross country move we put off the wedding plans and he came with me. We married a few years later. We were together a total of 8 years when he passed at 44 in 2009. God, how I miss him.

*hug* :flowerforyou:

xvxCelticWandererxvx · June 2013

We met on one of those Chat lines. Ironically, it was the last time either of us planned to call it because the "chat" part was ever decreasing. I loved his voice and we talked for hours. He lived near LA and I was in San Diego at the time so we had "phone dates" for a couple of months. The first time we met it was like an episode of Blind Date. He came down to SD and we took the Trolley downtown to my favorite martini bar. I was so nervous I had us get off on on the wrong stop and we walked hand in hand to the restaurant. He looked like a happy puppy the whole night and I knew he was the One. We got engaged on my 40th birthday. Due to a move cross country move we put off the wedding plans and he came with me. We married a few years later. We were together a total of 8 years when he passed at 44 in 2009. God, how I miss him.

*hug* :flowerforyou:

:flowerforyou:

BinaryPulsar · June 2013

I had applied and been accepted to my first choice college, so I went to stay over for a night with a student, to go to classes and experience college life. They do this as part of the student's decision (but I was already confirmed to go). I was eating lunch on the balcony of the student dining halls. He ran in to the room (I was sitting with his friends) and he said, "Does anyone want to go white river rafting?" And I thought in my head that I was going to marry him. We were friends for two years before we dated (that was by my choice...it's a long story, but I was young and had trust issues that I needed to work out because of my abusive childhood). That was 17 years ago.

traceytwink · June 2013

Met mine SO 19 years ago in a nightclub in Tenerife ( holiday romance) I was in a relationship at the time but when we got back home we wrote for 3 years before deciding to meet back up again, this time I was single he was engaged but not in a good relationship, well when we met back up it was like we were meant for each other, he was in Wales, me England, we had a long distance relationship for 9 months until we moved in together, we are happily married and about to celebrate our 14th anniversary.
Who says holiday romances don't work ????

lightdiva1 · June 2013

My husband met me for the first time in ballet class. I was the ballet student. He got dared to take a class by a girl he was friends with after making some jokes about how ballet dancing is easy. He came to class to prove his point. It just happened to be a stretch class... Needless to say he was surrounded by girls all bending in half and chit chatting while he moaned in pain. He says it was mind blowing and he was fascinated by me. (I am thinking it was more the positions I was in that fascinated him.)

That was when I was in 6th grade and he was in 5th. Move forward to us in high school. I was a junior and he was a sophmore. I choreographed a musical he was in and after the last performance we all went to a cast party. I waited till he went outside to smoke and met him outside with a big wet kiss. We've been together ever since. Two decades together and 12 years married.

MizVandyk · June 2013

Best friends since we were 15..never dated in HS started dating when we were 22 married when we were 25, celebrating our 6th anniversary this winter

Serenitytoo · June 2013

POF. Fate had been trying to get us together for a while I think. We worked at the same place, but never connected even though I had a lot of interaction with his supervisor. He now works for a good friend of my boss's and their work is located in the same building as my boss's wife.

We have been dating just over a year and are moving in together this weekend.

:happy:

LadyElby · June 2013

I have loved reading all the responses to this thread! How awesome is it to read everyone's wonderful fairy tale stories!!!

After finally ending a pretty unhealthy 3 1/2 year relationship with a guy I had known from high school, I had dated around quite a bit; people I knew through friends, as well as on POF and OKCupid. For the longest time it was really just to meet some new people, I really didn't have much faith, nor was I positive I was ready for a serious relationship again. But he messaged me with the one liner that I've pretty much always hated getting, and most of the time declined to respond to: "Hey, how's it going?" His picture was cute though, so I decided to give it a shot and just look through his profile. As I read through it, I found things that I could relate to, he lived pretty close to me, and seemed okay, so I messaged him back. His next message was much better, about 3 paragraphs long. We wrote back and forth for the entirety of our Thanksgiving evenings. A few days later, we had our first phone date, talked for 3 hours. December 1st we had our first date, which was just supposed to be dinner, and ended up lasting until about 2am, including dinner, drinks, a long walk, and lots and lots of talking. From then on, it's been him and me.

A year and a half later, we've been living together 2 months now, and talking future. We've had, and still have many roadblocks, including bad jobs, tough schedules and not seeing each other for days at a time (even though we live together), mutual friends breaking up; cheating on each other etc. But through it all, he's my best friend

afronigga6 · June 2013

I met mine at a furniture store. I've been sleeping on her every night for the past 5 years.

toothpastechica · June 2013

At a bar. I didn't want to go, but had promised a friend I would go to support her friends "promoting" event, and honestly, the night sucked terribly. My (now) husband knew the promoter from way back and had come to do some photography of the event...turns out he was the only one who wasn't a total douche that night and 3 years later here we are, just celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary.

Nissi51 · June 2013

I remember ICQ!!!! That was the bomb back in the day!!!!!

I met him through ICQ about 12 years ago. 10 years ago we met up, dated for a couple of weeks but he lived at the other side of the country and we were both young and poor so we gave it up as a bad job. Then about 18 months ago I caught up with him and we were both single for the first time since the last time and we lived just over an hour apart so we met up again and have been together ever since.

I am currently trying to find a job nearer so I can move in with him (at his request).

I waited a long time for this!

Wow, haven't thought about ICQ in forever...used to love that thing!

JenCatwalk · June 2013

He was my manager at work.. and at the time I was in an unhealthy relationship with someone else. Anyway, I told the other one I was gonna find someone to sleep with if he doesn't get off his lazy *kitten* and get a job (I was working 2 full time jobs then). I warned him, but he kept trashing my place up eatin my food etc etc. So I decides to venture out.. I started to like my manager more and more and because of his age (he is 49, I'm 24) I really decided to test this older men are better in bed theory... just a fun little experiment and nothing more. Aftwards I felt terrible because I cheated on the other and finally broke it off with him. Anyway... mr. manager and I kept talking and we really just started to click.. love followed from there.

MyChocolateDiet · June 2013

I was fixing my friend's online profile for a dating site because she'd been too modest. I had her password and logged in and it sent me 3 pic's of men in a pop up right off the bat. I saved the center one as "the one" and once I revamped her profile... I told her to log back on and go for him he's a keeper. She tried talking to him but said he wasn't for her, apparently he felt the same way I found out later. When my relationship I was in at the time ended she told me to date that guy I was so gung ho for her to date because I was telling her about the guys I was seeing and each was problematic in one way or another but all ready for serious times but I was hesitating. I said, if you're sure okay, so she emailed him my number and explained how I'd been the one that found him and pushed the whole thing along. One of the original emails to him had been typed by me on the phone with her permission but he immediately singled out that email and said "was that her?" and she said "yeah" and he right away called me. We hit it off right away but interviewed each other for marriage and family compatibility and readiness before meeting. Then we hit the ground running.

mockchoc · June 2013

A guy I met at a party invited me over for a BBQ at his place with him and his friends and he didn't own a BBQ. Husband was his friend. Husband cooked me lunch and made me a coctail. Husband won.