Where/How did you meet your SO?

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  • Rebeccasluckyduck
    Rebeccasluckyduck Posts: 168 Member
    I was 1 and he was 3. We met over a sandbox. I'm now 39 and we're living happily ever after. Our 21st anniversary is next week. His sister says we started taking baths together and just never stopped. :blushing:
  • ak_in_ak
    ak_in_ak Posts: 657 Member
    He was the DD and I was the talkative drunk girl. He had a girlfriend at the time and his friend and I had a thing going. About a year later we ended up dating and have been for almost 4.
  • shander7
    shander7 Posts: 613 Member
    I met my bf technically when I was a baby (my dad worked with his grandfather at the time) and then technically again in preschool.. then we really met in high school because my friend had a crush on him :blushing: And we then lived in the same dorm in college and hung out together a lot even though he had a girlfriend at the time! Then we got together after that and it's almost been 4 years now :heart:
  • Qarol
    Qarol Posts: 6,171 Member
    We met on an online dating site. He's so shy and reserved, we never would have met otherwise. Even though we lived in the same metropolitan area.
  • TinaDay1114
    TinaDay1114 Posts: 1,328 Member
    Our parents knew each other in high school, but we didn't meet until we were both in college and they moved across the street from each other. We dated for about 3 months in our mid-20's, and it was a BUST (my mom liked him, which for me at that age was DISASTER). He thought I was crazy (I was a man hating radical feminist something-or-other :angry: , and he was afraid I might like girls instead), I thought he was too goody-2-shoes :flowerforyou: (he was too "normal" for me, I guess).

    We tried it again at age 28 -- by then he decided I wasn't crazy after all, and I decided maybe the trustworthy goody-goody kind of guy was what I needed after all.

    Now we're married with 2 gorgeous boys -- and that was 12 years ago!

    (See? The good guys do win after all!) :bigsmile:
  • fuhrmeister
    fuhrmeister Posts: 1,796 Member
    bump for tomorrow time to go to the gym :)
  • jkestens63
    jkestens63 Posts: 1,164 Member
    Ironically, online dating site... for "big, beautiful people". I had lost only about half my weight at that point. Attracted him with my bod, kept him with my sparkling personality, lol. Fortunately he's happy for me and loves me regardless of my size.
  • cochoa35
    cochoa35 Posts: 1 Member
    I met my boyfriend online EHarmony been dating 7 1/2 months now. It's been wonderful, we are so glad we found each other.
  • lizziebeth1028
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
    We met online. He's 10 years younger than I am but we found out we lived in the same town growing up, went to the same schools and work in the same profession and have had many other odd instances through out life when our paths have crossed and we did not know it at the time ...it's like are paths crossed all through out life but the age difference had us out of synch until we are finally of an age that it no longer matters:)
  • monoxidechick
    monoxidechick Posts: 339
    we met at a local metal show in the mosh pit, I kicked his butt a few times but in the end he won the free ink for the best mosher. And here we are 6 years later still pushing each other in mosh pits and getting tattoos together, who could ask for more
  • koylefam
    koylefam Posts: 142 Member
    Met at a volleyball game in Feb. engaged in March, married in june.... 8 years ago.... :-)
  • Lleldiranne
    Lleldiranne Posts: 5,516 Member
    We went to Jr High and High school together. We were both in band. I remember I didn't care much for him in Jr High. But he was one of my brother's best friends. By the end of my sophomore year we were kind of together; by the end of my Jr year, we were definitely an item, and we got married 2 months after I graduated (he was a year ahead in school).
    Coming up on 16 year anniversary this month :)
  • Strive2BLean
    Strive2BLean Posts: 300 Member
    Good old fashioned blind date! I worked with his uncle and he is the one who set us up. Happily married for 22 years. :heart:
  • fitness_superstar
    fitness_superstar Posts: 47
    I met mine in high school, senior year. We didn't talk too much but I had a crush on him. A year later, after we'd started talking a lot more, we started dating. Now our one year anniversary is the 25th of August :) We're engaged.
  • christy_frank
    christy_frank Posts: 680 Member
    Through my neighbor. He was her boss @ one time & thought that we would get along good. She exchanged our numbers, we spoke for couple of weeks for hours on the phone. Finally met and wasn't interested at first, but he quickly grew on me and we have been together ever since....11+ years.
  • shallo
    shallo Posts: 353 Member
    Internet. We were just friends because both of us had just started dating other people at the time. They both ended up being crazy and we spent a lot of time trying to convince each other that the person they were dating was nuts, not so we could be together, just because they were making us miserable. Both those relationships ended fairly quickly and we decided to date. We got married in April. :heart:
  • JennaM222
    JennaM222 Posts: 1,996 Member
    A Freind and I ( After not dating ANYONE for 2 years and 4 bottles of wine later one random night ) made me an online profile. The next norning we woke up on the floor with the lap top open with a big picture of me, and a title that stated, "CALLING ALL SEXY GORILLAS"

    About me: I love wine & well endowed men.
    About you: You love wine too, and steroids.
    What I am looking for: Someone to drink wine with and pet heavily.

    OMG. I was mortified. what if someone from work saw this? what if someone I KNEW saw this! Then, my worse nightmare, one outgoing message to a guy named Travis...

    "You are hot. and look normal. Wanna Pet my pikachu?

    Our first date was July 4th, 2010 and we are still together. I love him very much :) He, he thanks Wine!!
  • gr8grl68
    gr8grl68 Posts: 417 Member
    We met online. He was my "last ditch effort" . . .I had been dating online for a while with NO success and was going to delete my profile when he caught my eye (he's 7 years my junior :love: ). I am in Chicago, he was in Denver. We dated long distance for 1-1/2 years after which time he moved here and we got married. We are going on 5 years of wedded bliss and have a 4 year old daughter.
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    A Freind and I ( After not dating ANYONE for 2 years and 4 bottles of wine later one random night ) made me an online profile. The next norning we woke up on the floor with the lap top open iwht a big picture of my, and a title that stated, "CALLING ALL SEXY GORILLAS"

    OMG. I was mortified. what if someone from work saw this? what if someone I KNOW saw this! Then, my worse nightmare, one outgoing message to a guy named Travis...

    "You are hot. and look normal"

    Our first date was July 4th, 2010 and we are still together. I love him very much :) He, he thanks Wine!!


    *LMFAO* That's just funny :)
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    We met online. He was my "last ditch effort" . . .I had been dating online for a while with NO success and was going to delete my profile when he caught my eye (he's 7 years my junior :love: ). I am in Chicago, he was in Denver. We dated long distance for 1-1/2 years after which time he moved here and we got married. We are going on 5 years of wedded bliss and have a 4 year old daughter.

    Rockstar! I'm not too far north of you btw, and have had *kitten* for luck online.
  • FearAnLoathing
    FearAnLoathing Posts: 4,852 Member
    I met my husband when I was running an adult bookstore,he was buying porn
  • dragonbait0126
    dragonbait0126 Posts: 568 Member
    Band camp (not kidding).

    I was 18, he was 23. I played percussion and he was a tuba player. My freshman year, I'm standing on the sidelines at band camp (I played Marimba) and the formation the rest of the band was practicing had the tuba line come right up behind us. My soon - to - be boyfriend saw my red hair and told the guys next to him that he was laying claim. At that point, we'd never talked and he hadn't seen my face. A few weeks later on 8/26/98 we started dating. We got married on 8/26/10 which was our 12 year anniversary.

    Ironically, my great-grandparents have a similar story where he was walking with a friend and say her up ahead with long red hair and he said to his friend "that's the girl I'm gonna marry." Kinda weird how history repeated itself (coincidently, hearing the story of how my great-grandparents met is also how I discovered where I get my red hair from since no one else in my family is a red-head).
  • stephanielynn76
    stephanielynn76 Posts: 709 Member
    Well we met at the gym in college... but I technically already knew him because he was a student in my mom's 3rd grade class and friends with my little brother when they were kids. When I met him in college I had no idea who he was until my brother came with me to the gym one morning. They shook hands and acted like they knew each other so I, of course, drug my brother aside and said, "Tell me everything you know about that hot guy..."
  • Dtho5159
    Dtho5159 Posts: 1,054 Member
    Online.. Yahoo personals lol. I was 18 and he was 23. The first time we met in person, I made him meet me where I worked (a wholesale club retailer lol) so if he was a freak, I would be in public and not have to worry about him kidnapping me.. We just celebrated 7 years of marriage in June and this December will be 9 years since we started dating.
  • ZebraHead
    ZebraHead Posts: 15,207 Member
    She was the "Girl Friday" Admin to the owner of the company I worked at.

    Dating was forbidden.

    We did it anyway. :devil:

    That was almost 26 years ago :bigsmile:

    What the H E Double Hockey Sticks is a Girl Friday Admin and how do I get one??

    She ran the office and most of the company's business while the owner played 'boss'
  • MrBrown72
    MrBrown72 Posts: 407 Member
    I was a rental./
  • gr8grl68
    gr8grl68 Posts: 417 Member
    We met online. He was my "last ditch effort" . . .I had been dating online for a while with NO success and was going to delete my profile when he caught my eye (he's 7 years my junior :love: ). I am in Chicago, he was in Denver. We dated long distance for 1-1/2 years after which time he moved here and we got married. We are going on 5 years of wedded bliss and have a 4 year old daughter.

    Rockstar! I'm not too far north of you btw, and have had *kitten* for luck online.


    Let me just say this. . . do NOT rule out people who are long distance from you. There are many benefits, some of them being: they won't smother you--if you don't want to talk to them, don't answer the phone; they turn out to be crazy/possessed/married--block them; and you know the old saying "absence makes the heart grow fonder" . . .well that's not the only part of you that "grows fonder" . . .reunions are H-O-T! :love: :devil: :blushing:
  • Whatareherthings711
    Whatareherthings711 Posts: 316
    I'm single now, but I've met all of my dates online. I'm young, and the friends I have hangout with immature guys that I'm not interested in.
  • amymeenieminymo
    amymeenieminymo Posts: 2,394 Member
    I met my husband through his cousin, she and I had been friends for several years so she set us up. Unfotunately we had a big blow out and neither one of us speak to her anymore.
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    But... I'm needy *LOL* And, I have a child, family, ex-husband, blah blah blah and will never relocate :frown:
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