How did you meet your significant other?

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HellsBells61

How weird! My husband & I were reminiscing about this only last week!

We met at a party at a mutual friend's house - the friend was someone I worked with and my husband-to-be was a friend of a friend of his. It was a fancy dress party, I was dressed as a French maid - complete with skimpy skirt and stocking tops! - and he came a someone who had crashed his motorbike - which he had 2 weeks before! (either that or he didn't get the memo!) - with ripped jeans and "bloodstained" leather jacket (actually just a red crayon). Our eyes met across a crowded room, he asked me to dance and 25 years later we are still together, married for the last 20 of them. They say that people you meet at parties are never the same person in the cold light of day, but, as our best man said at our wedding, sometimes you just realise that you've happened across something special.

jaxbeck

I was his waitress his first day in town on a construction job, he asked me out, I said no, he came back 2 more times that night. I said no 2 more times. He came back the next day, I said no. He came back again, I said fine! lol Me, him, my friend & his friend went out to a pool hall. My hubs & I were married less than a year later. My friend & his friend married a few years later. The End

catshark209

We met at my job. I had seen him come in a few times for uniform shirts but my boss waited on him( I was a rookie so I was always in the back ironing Class A uniforms). I never in a thousand years thought he'd ever look at me so I just admired him from afar. Then one day he came in and she was gone on maternity leave and he introduced himself to me and shook my hand. It was crazy because I practically felt the universe shift lol. Now I joke with him and I tell him we imprinted on each other like they do in Twilight ( yeah I'm a dork ). And here we are 7 years later.

HelloSweetie4

I originally met him my freshman year in high school (he was a senior) but he doesn't remember that because he was hung up on my friend at the time, lol.
So our official first meeting was at a halloween party 2 years later (at the same friend's house). I was dressed as a gothic fairy, and he stopped by to take my friend's brother out (to get him out of the house so my friend could have the party with just her friends). He hung out for a little bit before the two of them left. About a month later, he started working at the same place I worked and we developed a friendship and starting hanging out. 3 months after that I broke up with my boyfriend of 1 1/2 years because it wasn't working anymore. He asked me out the next day. We've been together for 8 years (married for 4)

zmzmzm19

A blind date.....32 years ago!!

rbn_held

We met on Myspace back in 2008

swordsmith

She was my high school Engish teacher.

I so want this to be true

It is. Here is the story.

We got together 10 years after I got out of high school (nothing happened in high school!). I stopped by my old high school for some reason and ran in to "Mrs Hobbs" who was smoking hot from what I remembered. When I was a student she was the stereotypical Englisg teacher - hair in bun, ugly glasses, frumpy clothes, etc. Now there was this hottie with loose hair, in a red dress chatting with me and catching up.

Came to find out her husband had died the year before and she didnt get out much. Me and a bunch of friends (also former students for the most part) were going to go see the Rocky Horror Picture Show that night and on the spur of the moment I asked her to go. She said yes and quite frankly I thought she was going as a friend (when she found out I was single still she even tried to set me up with someone a week or so later).

So for the next few weeks she hung out with us all. I kept getting weird signals but ignored them as I was like she just cant be interested in me. Then one night we met at a movie theater to see Total Recall. "The Gang" never showed up- just me and her. I was like WTF? I thought we had the time right, etc but no one else was there (this was pre-cell phone so no way to contact the group). My wife said "well since we are here lets see the movie anyway".

After the movie she invited me back to her place on some pretext (moving something I recall). Then she said how her back hurt, so I gave her a back rub... next thing I know I am being dragged across the hardwood floor to the bedroom - claw marks are still left in the floor- tossed onto the bed where I whimpered something to the effect of "please dont hurt me". We were married a year later and this year will be 21 years married.

Oh- I found out WAY later that she had called everyone in the group and personally threatened them with disembowlment if they showed up for that movie. She said she did this as I was being kind of dense in picking up that she liked me.

Oh- she is also 20 years older then me.

Dozrzz

I met my boyfriend online on a free dating website. You always have to be careful with the dating websites (especially free ones) because they can be full of creepers. We started chatting one day but really had no intention of actually meeting since he lived 4 hrs away in South Carolina. Well then as it turned out my sister moved that summer to SC and I went to spend the summer with her. So we figured, why not and decided to go on a date. I never would have imagined that we would still be together now, almost 3 years later! It has been a long distance relationship the whole time which has been extremely difficult. On average I might see him once a month. But he is so worth it and I just try to remember how lucky we are that we even met in the first place!

ckmama

going to the nightclub with a girlfriend of mine that wanted to date him (I had never met him)...she wanted him but he didn't want her. He called me a couple of nights later and we've been together ever since 15 years.:flowerforyou:

bigdogc23

I sold my soul to the devil for a piece of chocolate cake so the devil hooked me up with my wife and being married to her is my version of hell... I don't remember how I met her I just woke up one day hooked to the ball and chain....

lizzybethclaire

I met my husband at church and I swear I heard God telling me that this was the man I was going to marry. We got engaged 3 months later and married 3 months after that. It was rocky, especially since he has 3 boys, and while I regret it was so quick and I was so young (I was 26 and he was 31) I wouldn't change a thing. We are looking forward to our "couple" time when the boys leave in a few years - they will all be in HS officially next year (Senior, Junior, and Freshman). I can't wait to see them start their new lives, but I would kick their *kitten* if they did what my husband and I did.

BriskisGrl

I was 18.. he then 24. We met originally online. In person he came to my job and came through my line with a single white rose. He waited for me to get off work. Spent a few hours talking, swimming. He's had me since the first kiss. I'm now 29 and he's 35.

ajalcazar

My wife is my high school sweetheart. We met while in the JROTC program. We were really good friends for 2 years before we started dating. All of our friends said it would only last a week. Now, 12 years later, we joke that we are barely on Tuesday of said week.

LilRedRooster

He asked me to dance two-step at a country bar in a casino in Reno. He was in town for a training for work for a week, I had actually canceled plans to travel out of town, and we hit it off and talked all night that night, and the next. He had to go back to New Mexico at the end of the weekend, but we stayed in touch and made plans to meet up again.

Which was a good thing, since a month later I got the enviable job of telling him I was pregnant. Almost three years, one almost two year-old and two states later, we're making it all work.

And I have such a great story to tell my daughter one day when she asks how we met. I can just see the blushing already. It is evil that the thought of her future embarrassment makes me giggle?

xoalyssaox

We met at a restaurant downtown about 14 months ago, and then went bar hopping with mutual friends. We talked A LOT that night. I knew that night that I wanted this man in my life for a very long time. We hit it off so well, he had every quality I wanted. We exchanged numbers that night. The next morning he asked me on a date for that evening. We have been inseparable ever since, getting married in October I looove him

MummyOfSeven

I was dating an aquaintance of his, who treated me appallingly. I eventually dumped him. By then, Hubby and I were friends and spoke to each other nearly every day. I moved house and found, to my surprise, that he was living in the next street (I'd never thought to ask).

We sort of fell into a relationship, lol. That was seven years ago. We will have been married for five years this August and our son will be six next month. We also have six other children between us.

terraskye

Met my husband on this this chat server called ICQ

I moved to Canada one month later and we got married two months after that.


August 1st is our 11 years Anniversary

stormieweather

In a chat room nearly 10 years ago.

interceptor311

Electronic grabber machine. B***tch cost me 10 tokens! ;-)

netsirk12

My husband and I met...

well we were a one night stand...

haha, he found out where I worked, kinda stalked me untill I went on a date with him....

so yeah my one night stand turned into forever

RaysfanATL

We met on an online dating site, we emailed back and forth for a few weeks, getting to know each other...when we finally decided to meet up, and pick a place to meet, we found out that we lived in the same apartment complex, and had been for a year and a half already! And we also work for the same airline, in the same city!! So now we travel the world together!!

jcstanton

Halloween party... I was a dark angel and he was a gynecologist, Dr. Seymore Bush. :laugh:

Hahaha! Hey, did you know that there's an ACTUAL real life gyno named Harry Beaver? It was like he was fated from birth to be an OB/Gyn! LOL

Vince_1964

We met in 1983, waiting in line to buy concert tickets for Journey (Escape Tour!!) at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. It was raining, so she shared her umbrella ... I was 18, freshman in college, she was 17, junior in HS. We started dating, got engaged in 1985 (20 and 19 at that time), got married in 1987. We'll be celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary this summer ... but we've been together for 29 years now!

DonM46

Plane geometry class in high school. She sat in the row next to me.
Next month will be our 44th wedding anniversary.

Sagelit

That's a very sweet story. I don't see why you shouldn't live your life together! My brother married his wife last year, and they're fairly young. They're happy! That's all that matters.

I met my hubby on World of Warcraft! We often think how close it was that we never would have met at all

MHaddick2355

My husand and I have been friends since we were about 7 years old. We have pics of us trick or treating together and at family gathering. His family and my family have always been like family. So we have spent almost our whole lives together we are almost 40 now. We have one child and she is going to be 10 this year. I am truly blessed when it comes to my family.

AmberLee2012

I met my husband through a friend at a local club. A girl friend had begged me to come out with her that night. She was dating a guy who brought some friends with him as well. As soon as I saw Russ, I was like WOW. He had tattoos, a killer smile, and a cute butt! My girl friend told me that if she wasn’t dating her current BF, she would totally be with Russ, so I figured he was off limits. We were dancing later in the evening and I was so shocked when he came up and started dancing with me, and he had major skills on the dance floor too! Come to find out, we graduated from the same high school, the same year. Our high school was huge and it was almost impossible to know everyone. He gave me his hoodie at the end of the night. The next day, I had to take to back to him and I was so nervous! We ended up rollerblading and had dinner with the other couple and a few weeks later we made it official. We’ve been together going on 8 years now, and married for 5 in September. I know not everyone believes in fate, but I do. We both were dragged out by mutual friends that night, and might have never connected if we had choose not to go. The girl friend made attempts to get me to break up with Russ afterwards and when it didn’t happen, she quit talking to me altogether. It was strange, but I don’t miss her.

madamepsychosis

It was the birthday party of someone we both knew. I was 18, he was 20. I'm the kind of person that has no problems talking to people, UNLESS I find them attractive and I thought this guy was seriously cute. I decided to have a few drinks to feel a bit more comfortable around him and initially it worked, as we started talking and it turned out we had quite a bit in common.

Later that night, we wound up separated from the rest of our group and he kissed me. My train of thought essentially went like this:
"YES! He's kissing me! This is AWESOME! A really cute guy is kissing...damn, I feel funny. Maybe I shouldn't have had those shots as well as the wine. Actually I feel kind of queasy. Uh oh!'

Before I broke from the kiss to run to the men's toilets (I ran straight past the gender-appropriate ones in my drunken stupor) to puke and had to have a friend take me back to her place.

I was convinced I'd totally ballsed things up and would never see that guy again. We've been together for nearly 4 and a half years.

Fitnin6280

At Band Camp.. yep that's right, not kidding, band camp!!