How did you meet your significant other?

serena569 · September 2012

At the bank 17 years ago. It was the third of the month so all the senior citizens were in cashing their social security checks. The teller line was very long and I was impatient because I was on my way to work. He was one of the personal bankers and the waiting room was full of people to see him but he came to the line, addressed me by name, and asked me to step to his desk. He took my deposit behind the teller line so I skipped the entire line.

I left with his number and the instructions to see him personally anytime the line was long. I found out later he had been watching me for a couple months waiting for his opportunity to talk to me.

Maryaly40 · September 2012

Love @ aol personals site. LOL And we only lived like 7 minutes from each other! That was almost 13 years ago.

Hurricane_C · September 2012

He's the younger brother of my ex-boyfriend's college roommate. Became friends with the roommate and kept in touch after the breakup and then got to know his brother at his birthday party (at a bowling alley). My BF starting facebook chatting with me one day then texting, then visiting, then... *ehem*... then like 6 months later after MUCH debate about his brother's feelings we started dating... that was almost 3 years ago.

nayers86 · September 2012

This is a funny story for a lot of our friends and family. I was working at the gym he had been working out at for 3-4 years. I saw him every Monday-Friday and thought he was so incredibly handsome, but I thought that he was entirely out of my league. One of his friends (Mike), who was also a co-worker and his workout buddy, asked me on a date. I was hesitant but threw all caution to the wind and said the hell with it. Well, one night I was out with a group of my friends and we met up with Mike and his friends. Well, as expected handsome frequent gym goer, Dave, was with him. Mike was too occupied chatting up some other friends that night, so Dave approached me and we started talking...come to find out we had a lot in common. He gave me his phone number and told me to call him the next day so that he knew I made it home safe. Well I called him and that transpired into dinner, and invitations to go out with him....the more we chatted the more we connected and the more we realized we were sort of made for one another. Dave told Mike that he wanted to be with me--Mike got mad (we only went on 2 casual dates) and now they are no longer friends. However, Dave and I are still together, madly in love, have a house together and are planning on getting married in the next couple of years. His mother always likes to tell me she was praying he'd meet someone like me at the gym...she says her prayers were answered!!

lovemydrmartens · September 2012

we met up working together in a Psychiatric Hospital... I was the Artist in residence, he was the Musician, we found we shared a sense of humour and a love of booze and the Arts... 25 years later and we are still alive and still love each other (the first is probably a miracle, the second no surprise at all...;-)

SMBL2 · September 2012

We went to seperate highschools and met through friends (my BFF and his highschool buddy were dating). Fast forward a few years and we ended up working at the same place. We reconnected, started dating the following year and got married 4 years later. We've been married for 9 years now.

Side note, the friends who introduced us were still together and they (finally!!) got married last year. Yay!!

queenofgracey · September 2012

I met my Husband in High School, English class. He was 17 and I was 15. I thought he was the most sexy guy I have ever seen!!!! 26yrs and three girls (and one grandson) later, we are more in love than we ever have been. He is My King and he treats me like a Queen.

erindh87 · September 2012

I met my boyfriend through Okcupid.com. Our one year anniversary is on Monday.

There are some interesting characters on online dating sites, but there are also definitely some really great guys. IMO, it's a great way to find someone. If nothing else, you'll get to meet a lot of new people and maybe make some new friends.

Yoshima · September 2012

I was sitting in the university cafe studying for a history exam the next day. I'd been there for two hours when this guy I'd never seen in before say's "Um, excuse me...hi...I was wondering if you'd like to go out for coffee sometime" I said yes gave him my number.

He called later that day, and we went out for coffee, then back to my apt so he could meet my roommates, and more conversation. Our date lasted 10 hours and was awesome. We've been together ever since (11 years now, married almost 9, and we have a 3.5 YO daughter).

I found out soon after our first date that he'd never seen me before on campus, he was also studying for a history exam (a more advanced one, as he was a history major), and he had been building up the nerve to ask me out since I sat down. He decided that he'd keep studying before his class started, and if I was still there when he left he'd ask me out. Two hours later I was still there, so he had to ask. He thought to himself that this could be the girl he could marry

BTW - I was 25 at the time, and had dated A LOT (2 longer term relationships, and at least 15-20 short term ones). I was a bartender for years, met most of those guys at bars, and NEVER felt like any of those guy was the "one" after the first date, or after I getting to know them. I ended every relationship because I didn't want to waste anymore time on a person who I deep down knew was not compatible with me.

Don't be afraid to break up with someone you know isn't the one. You will totally know when you meet the right guy. I couldn't believe how much my hubby & I had in common after our hours long conversation during our first date. I was sure he was it, and couldn't believe I was saying that either. After getting to know him further I was even more sure. After 11 years together we are happier than ever.

GOOD LUCK!

amberm912 · September 2012

We met online 4 years ago...He messaged me one the longest and meaningful messages ever and it sparked from there...Went back and forth messaging and IMing..then we talked on the phone tons of times...He has FULL custody of his son and I have FULL custody of my daughter. So it was difficult to arrange when to meet def since he lived almost 3 hours away....But finally about a month or so later...I was going to be in the area & his son was at his mothers so figured why not...We drove around, walked on the boardwalk, and just sat in the car listened to music and talked until 2 in the morning...It was fantastic...We both couldn't believe how easy it felt, but due to the distance and all we drifted apart & stopped talking.

I ended up started dating a guy a few months later and posted pictures of us on my FB/Myspace...Well about 3 months later I get a random text from "him<3" saying he cant help but look at the pictures and KNOW hes the one who's supposed to be beside me kissing me and holding me not the douche I was dating. I ended up breaking up with the other guy (he was an alcoholic & I just knew he wasn't IT for me) & became very close friends with "HIM<3".

We talked everyday all the time....Finally he we decided to meet up again. He traveled 3 hours to come see me one weekend. We went to a haunted house (it was in October) He was soooo scared It was cute, we still laugh about it to this day...We actually plan on taking the kids this year, to the same one :-))). We went back to my house and just talked and hung out...No pressure it was amazing, our connection was UNREAL!...He stayed and the next day didn't want to leave but had too...It was a Saturday. Sunday we were talking on the phone and he talked about wanting to move here...I was like okay, not taking him seriously....Well Monday he gave him notice at work and 3 weeks later (before Thanksgiving) he became a resident of my city! :-))))...And now almost 3 years later...We live together, our kids LOVE one another, we have two doggies, and are completely happy...I truly feel as if I've found my other half with him, He's my best friend

People can find love anywhere...Online, at work, at the grocery store, high school, on a bus, ANYWHERE...I mean anything is possible! I mean my boyfriend took a chance moving 3 hours away to a new place where he knew NO ONE...Just have faith :-))) You never know what the future holds!

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corn63 · September 2012

We met in middle school. Then worked together in high school. To be honest, I didn't like him AT ALL. He made me crazy. Then we parted ways after HS, but went to the same college. He married his HS sweetheart... I.. had lots of fun:))

We met up in the Fall 2010 and we've been together ever since. Our sexaversary is on Sept 28.

MinnieInMaine · September 2012

I met my husband at a dance club. Went out for a girl's night and he just came up and started dancing with me and before long we were making out. LOL! We exchanged numbers and he called me at 9am the next morning! Never thought I'd hear a peep from him but here he was calling fairly early the next day wanting to meet up for brunch. I was co-hosting a baby shower for a friend (and to be honest, his eagerness freaked me out a bit) but we made a date for that Tuesday.

After that we pretty much hung out together every day and a few months later decided we might as well move in together. There have been a few rocky times of course but we managed to work things out every time and have been together for almost 15 years now. As cheesy as it may sound, I now fully understand why some spouses say their partner is their best friend. And I'm just as crazy about him now as I was back then.

ETA: I love all the stories about people who met their SO's in childhood and then reunited later. Something similar happened to a HS friend of mine. They rode the same bus and she totally hated him because he was always picking on her then one day he confessed that it was because he liked her (boys...) and they started dating. He was a grade ahead of her though so they ended up going their separate ways when he graduated. Fast forward about 5 years, she moves back to town, they reunite and realize they still have feelings for each other. They're now married with three kids and gonig strong!

daisiemae123 · September 2012

At the book store. I was working and he came in to order a book. He had just moved to the area at very short notice to help a friend, was a little homesick and forgot to pack his favorite book. I ordered it, he came back to pick it up. Drinks after work have led to a wedding, house, beautiful baby boy and a mother-in-law that will never forgive me for keeping her baby boy on the east coast

StaceyG221 · September 2012

I love telling this story! LOL! My hubby was my step-brother...

Now for the detail, my dad married his mom when I was 11 & he was 19, they were married in May and divorced by July, yes of the same year. I actually lived with my mom, so I think that the longest time we ever spent together was the day of their wedding. But even though she kicked my dad to the curb, I stayed friends with the family, and baby sat his niece and nephew. We have been together 15 years and married for 10 1/2 years.

PBsMommy · September 2012

Facebook.... We both had a local DJ as a friend, so he added me and we started talking on there. After a while we exchanged phone numbers. He asked me to dinner, I stood him up. But, he was so darn persistent, so I finally gave in and we were officially dating a month later. Been married for a little over a year now.

BAMFMeredith · September 2012

When I was 14 I had this friend who was totally bad news, but I liked her anyway. Her mom worked nights, so when I would spend the night we could sneak out and get back home before she got home from work. Well, one night my friend said "Hey we're gonna go to this guy's house, I have to talk to his friend." I was so naive.

We ran across this busy street that separated her neighborhood from his, down his street, and went into a backyard gate. Then, there he was, this SUPER cute boy from school that was on the baseball team, who all the girls were in love with, opening his bedroom window for us to climb in. My friend and the cute boy's friend went off into another room to "talk" (aka bone) and I was left sitting in this super cute, popular boy's bedroom being as awkward as humanly possible trying to make small talk with him.

From then on we'd say hi at school, and were acquaintances, but never really friends because, well, let's face it, he went on to be the star of the varsity baseball team, and I went on to be the vice president of the show choir. Who do you think was the cool kid in school? Hint, it wasn't me.

We ran into each other a couple times in college (he played baseball at my university before he broke his hand, ending his career), then just randomly throughout the years we'd see each other out and about. I happened to bump into him out one night almost 4 years ago after I'd finally left my son's loser dad. One of my girlfriends told me to give him my # since I was a single lady on the prowl, so I did, and the rest was history.

He'll always be that boy whose window I climbed into when I was 14.

Roadie2000 · September 2012

I joke that my GF stalked me on Facebook. We went to high school together but never met because she was two grades older. She friend requested me on Facebook maybe a year ago and told one of my friends she thought I was cute. Finally she got drunk, sent me a facebook message asking me if I wanted to to go a concert, she even spelled her own name wrong. I agreed, but we couldn't find tickets so I asked her if she wanted to grab a drink somewhere anyway. The rest is history.

Sassy922 · September 2012

He's my high school sweetheart. We've been together since I was 16. I've known him since I was 15. (I'll be 33 Saturday)
He was my friend's boyfriend's friend.

jackpotclown · September 2012

She auditioned for a start up cover band that I was in. I'll never forget it 'cause she brought her boyfriend with. He kept giving me death stares, and truthfully I wasn't really looking at his woman anyway. So the rest of the band voted her in (I kept telling them we need to audition more singers, but the keyboard player was sooooo insistant on her LOL). So we started playing out and we started becoming friends......we'd stay outside after band practice and talk for hours, though both of us were with other people. Eventually she split with the guy after her friends and I telling her it was a bad situation. I broke it off with my girlfriend as well. People could tell because our stage antics were becoming more obvious....to the point where our parents were asking questions. A short time after we started dating, and the rest is history......the band didn't last, be we have \m/

book_mage · September 2012

OkCupid. He had a really witty profile, so I messaged him first (which is very out of character for me!) and he replied. Messaged, IMs, then he asked me out. I wasn't sure at first, thought he would just make an awesome fired for hanging out with, but we just fit/ We've been dating for a year and a half. We're so awesome together that I forget I met him online and keep thinking I know him from college or something. And yeah, there were about 10 duds before that. You just have to decide what you want and also what you NEED from your SO, and then voila! That's what I did, and now I'm happy.

tashjs21 · September 2012

At a bar.

The whole "it happens when you aren't looking" cliche totally applied to me. I had given up on dating and was not looking in the slightest.

He was friends with a co-worker of mine. I went to an art show with some friends that evening and then we went to the bar afterwards. He came up to talk to her, I didn't even notice him really (which is strange because my hubby is gorgeous)

The next weekend she asked if I wanted to go to the same bar because she was going for a friends birthday and didn't want to go alone. I noticed him that night, we talked all night and he planted a kiss on me mid sentence at the end of the night. :laugh:

We got married in May.

tashjs21 · September 2012

She was a cook at a restaurant in Kunsan city Korea. I was stationed there with the Air Force. I told my Dad, I met the girl I'm going to marry and she is a cook" He said "Good, love gets old, sex gets old but you're ALWAYS going to be hungry" lol

bwahahaha, now that is cute. :laugh:

mrs_deg1983 · September 2012

On line about 12 years ago on talk city

oklanoue · September 2012

"He is an officer and rescued me from a burning building...carried me down 3 flights of stairs..." That is at least the way our daughter is going to hear it...LOL :happy:

Really we met on-line at Yahoo personals11 years...and it was during the time that my apartment building actually DID catch on fire and my now husband was one of the officers who did respond to the fire call ...so actually when we started chatting on line I was homeless and living in a hotel...turned out we both lived in the same town and actually had some of the same friends...yet we never met before...

Tip though if you do the online thing..BE CAREFUL...there are a lot of weirdos out there always bring a friend...that is how my friend met her husband as well...she went with me on a "date" and she ended up with my dates friend....and now happliy married...

willowdancer · September 2012

Oddly enough we rode the same school bus and lived two streets away from each other in high school, but I never saw him because I always had marching band practice before school and fencing or some other extra curricular activity after school. It was in the fall of my sophomore year in high school that I started talking to him because I went on a few dates with one of the guys he ate lunch with and he introduced us. It was really nice; every afternoon he would save me a seat on the bus so even if I got there late I knew I would have a good place to sit (while keeping good company, too!) We started going on walks together and hanging out, and about 6 months after starting to hang out he tried to ask me out and I cut him off with a smile and said "If I didn't want to be with you, do you think I would be here right now?" (on a side note, it was about 11pm on a frosty February night.) We have been together for about 8 years now and still in love!