How did you meet your significant other?

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  • ilovemyboysx3
    ilovemyboysx3 Posts: 12
    He had a hot dog cart in the office complex where I worked. He was "the hot dog guy" - so good looking and everybody who saw him said so. So one day I drove by during lunch and he smiled at me. I almost died! So then I would purposely drive by for the smile. He put his hands up one time like "when are you going to stop?" so yeah... I did! That was it. We started talking on the phone for hours at a time, he took me to the movies (Gone In 60 Seconds) and here we are now, married with dog, 12+ years later. He is the love of my life. I finally got it what I wanted with him.
  • summertime_girl
    summertime_girl Posts: 3,945 Member
    Keg Party in high school.
  • melindadunston
    melindadunston Posts: 157
    I moved into the house next door:)
  • allenaceattorney
    allenaceattorney Posts: 10
    Dating website. I posted a picture of myself in a fedora and it was all over.
  • MrsB123111
    MrsB123111 Posts: 535 Member
    I met my husband through my best friend and her (now) husband. Her husband's best friend from college and my best friend work together. They got married in November 2011 and my husband and I got married in December 2011! The boys lived together when we all started dating! It made for some pretty memorable weekends!!
  • Keenasgettingfitnhealthy
    Keenasgettingfitnhealthy Posts: 169
    On Myspace =D He found me through mutual friends... that was just under 5 years ago and now we are engaged and have a beautiful little 2 year old man =D
  • Jul158
    Jul158 Posts: 481 Member
    I joined a kickball league with some friends (people ages 24 to about 32) and he ended up being the pitcher for the team and I was the catcher. We knew each other for about 6 months before he confessed his feelings to me one night when we were out with our friends. I had always had a high school sweetheart, then a college sweetheart and was single again as an adult. Just have to put yourself out there with things you like to try! Ironically, I was doing online dating the same time I met him..and that did not go well for me (obviously).
  • bellydancer124
    bellydancer124 Posts: 248
    I was seeing this guy for like 3 weeks when he "broke up" with me by changing his phone number. I was raging (not because he dumped me, but because of the way he did it) and did some shopping therapy, then I went on MySpace (this was in 2005, before FB was big) and started friend requesting all the single guys I went to high school with (even though this was 8 years after I graduated lol).

    One of them happened to be my now boyf.

    We never even really knew each other in high school. I used to see him around here and there, but he graduated a year before me and we ran with different crowds. I only friend requested him because he was cute.

    Typing all this out, I realize I was kind of psycho. :huh:
  • S1NN3R
    S1NN3R Posts: 452 Member
    He was my best friend in high school's boyfriend of 4 years. They grew apart, broke up, he dated 3 girls or more after her until we finally ended up together.
  • deborah0123
    deborah0123 Posts: 61
    I met my hubby 12 1/2 years ago in a chatroom. He lived in North Wales Great Britian. He asked me to go to Las Vegas in May.
    I said yes..that was January. We were on the phone everyday. He decided he couldnt wait until May to see me..so he asked if he could come over sooner..so February he flew over. Love for sure at first sight. after that he kept flying back and forth until we decided to marry and save money lolol.got married and still together..he is my 3rd husband..third times charm..
  • lucero22
    lucero22 Posts: 75 Member
    Awesome stories yall! It gives me hope after all. I think I'll try okcupid seems like there is some success on that one! :)
  • wanttogohome
    wanttogohome Posts: 13
    i meet my new hubby on Date hookup.com it is part of eharmony 5 years ago. march we started speaking and finally meet June 9 when i took a trip to California and ended up staying for 2 months got to know each other and he ended up asking me to marry him:heart: i accepted and ended up going back to Nebr packed all my thing in a u haul told my family and they were :smile: happy for me and my daughter helped me drive back to California meet her soon to be step - father and on the side gave her approval :laugh: LOL this was September 07 and in July 08 i ended up going back( moving) to Nebr due to health issues:sick: my mom was having and we didn't know if we were going to get together again or not:brokenheart: but, thing got better and in Sept.08 i move back to Cali once again and on April 25, 2009 we were finally married :blushing: !!!! i try and fly back to Nebr once a year to visit for 2-4 weeks and so far everything has been great !!! Sure we have had our moments but who doesn't :indifferent: ?? we both have had similar problems in our past with thing and exes which helps when it come to understanding things .I only have one regret and that is that i miss my family (mom ,kids,grand kids ) so much that i some times just sit and cry:sad: .after a few hour or even a day i am usually OK :smile: but overall i would not change anything i am happy!!!:bigsmile:
  • rachelbethany
    rachelbethany Posts: 211 Member
    We grew up in the same TINY town, but never really knew each other. I mean, we knew each other's names (everyone at least knows that much about everyone else in my hometown, lol), and we had mutual friends, but that was it. I thought he was cute from far away in high school. We were both involved with other people.

    Fast forward to college. We ended up at the same one. Which is weird, because it was a last-second decision for both of us; we had both been accepted to and planned to go to different schools. We ended up having a lot of the same friends, which is even weirder, because our college has almost 30,000 students.

    We definitely got to know each other through parties more than anything, but we were both on the same intramural softball team, too. We HATE softball-- our team of friends lost every game, lol-- but it was fun! After a couple years of being friends and always ending up on the same couch at college parties, we started dating. Now we've been together for over four years!

    I will say that alcohol definitely helped us both loosen up and get to know each other, but perhaps that's not always advisable, lol!
  • asyrinsgirl
    asyrinsgirl Posts: 55 Member
    I met mine for the first time on OkCupid, but we reconnected almost a year after that first meeting at a bar on karaoke night. :)
  • zachatta
    zachatta Posts: 1,340 Member
    I would throw up an "anyone want to go fishing" thread about once or twice a month on a local forum we both posted.

    She said she wanted to go...

    This is awesome for 2 reasons

    1) That actually worked lol
    2) She likes fishing
  • devil_in_a_blue_dress
    devil_in_a_blue_dress Posts: 5,214 Member
    I met my husband on match.com
  • Tranquil_Miche
    Tranquil_Miche Posts: 66
    At the orthodontist my sophomore year in high school. We were too shy to exchange numbers then, but he happened to walk into the department store I worked at about six months later and we hit it off then. It took him like eight years to propose though, but I wouldn't have been ready any earlier anyway. You can find love in the strangest of places.
  • ktbollman
    ktbollman Posts: 32 Member
    I met my fiance on okcupid.com! We met about 2 years ago and got engaged 3 months ago. woot!!! He was the 9th person I dated from various online sites....so...when I found him, i knew he was the one!
  • AshleyRKnutson
    AshleyRKnutson Posts: 98 Member
    I met my husband almost as soon as I graduated at his mom's house where he was living at the time. His little sister was and still is one of my best friends. He and a buddy were drinking on the back porch and she went out to tell them to be nice because a friend was coming over. They made some snide comments about not caring because "she's underage" but once they found out I was 18 they both jumped up and went to change out of their grungy clothes...we hung out with the rest of the night and made fun of their drunk butts!
    We still give him crap about that night!! :laugh:
    We dated briefly, then didn't talk for years and then got back together 4 years ago and I couldn't be happier. :love:
  • glwerth
    glwerth Posts: 335 Member
    I got mine at Sears.

    But, we've been together for 26 or so years....married for almost 23.

    But, I did get him at Sears. We both worked there, in the service center. He was a technician and I was a call taker and we both worked at night and had time to talk.

    We became close friends and were friends for almost 2 years before we even started dating. Actually, the first time I met his parents, I was on a date with another guy.

    He's my best friend. I cannot even imagine my life without him, though I do tease him about how I should have gotten the service agreement. :)
  • Yieya
    Yieya Posts: 168 Member
    I met my husband on christiancafe.com 9 yrs ago :love:
  • themommie
    themommie Posts: 5,033 Member
    His ex-wife (his wife at the time) introduced us LOL. I had just moved in and was trying to set up my waterbed she came over and introduced herself and said that when her husband got home from work she would ask him to come over and help me set up my waterbed. She was cheating on him and left him for another guy, moved out while he was at work and took the 2 kids. We started hanging out together because we lived in the same apts and were both going through a hard time. We both had 2 kids that were about the same age. That was 26 yrs ago and we are still together, he is my bestfriend
  • juicy011
    juicy011 Posts: 200 Member
    a 10 yr old set us up, lol!
  • carrieo888
    carrieo888 Posts: 233 Member
    Met my husband through is ex-girlfriend - no kidding! She was dating of friend of now-hubby's, and they forced him to ask me on a date. I said no, cuz he'd been kind of a jerk to her when they were dating. She promised he was "better now." I finally acceded and had a great time. We were married a year later...that was 20 years ago!
  • AmyfromBama
    AmyfromBama Posts: 125 Member
    I met my significant other thru my sister's husband ...He took me to his house to meet him... We all sat around his place and talked and had a few drinks lol .. Crazy i know but we hooked up like a few days later.. BUTTT I kinda sorta moved in with him the minute i met him lolol ... NOOOOOOOOO we didnt do nothing until like a week or so later.. I was having problems with my step dad back at home and didnt have no where else to go! :/ We've been together for almost 12 yrs now, and has got 2 beautiful girls name kenslie and Katie! We have broke up 1 time for like 6 months and got back together!!! I <3 him so much, and yes he tends to get on my nerves at times but i still love him lol .. We have been thru so much together and I plan to stay with him for the rest of my life!!! He has done ALOT for me!!!! :)
  • Rage4lightning
    Rage4lightning Posts: 72 Member
    I met my match on OKCupid as well.

    I've been on a couple of different dating websites but I always refused to take them too seriously. Too many guys wanting only one thing. My "you should contact me" section on this particular profile said something about how pirates should definitely contact me.

    The first line of his first message to me said "I'm not a pirate, but I just finished writing a game about pirates." I was instantly hooked!

    Our 4 year anniversary is next weekend. :smile:
  • gissalm
    gissalm Posts: 41
    I met my honey at work. We started as friends, he even convinced me to go out with one of the supervisors there and I did, he was dating another girl.
    I broke up with the other guy it didn’t work and the girl he was seeing moved out of town. So we started to go out but just as friends one day he told me he had a crush on me since I started working there and that it kill him to see me with the other guy hahahaha… So we tried and started dating, we move in together a year later. We now have a 6 year old boy :wink:
  • cdprouty
    cdprouty Posts: 140 Member
    Finish line of a half marathon. 2005 Monson Memorial Classic
  • Namaste1983
    Namaste1983 Posts: 603 Member
    Specifically, on yahoo personals (and I'm not even sure if that is around anymore, I think match and eharmony have a stronghold on the market ). I was actually dating someone when he emailed me, and I didn't respond for close to a month, until I realized the guy I was with was a total and utter douche so I emailed him back- we had one online chat, one or two phone calls, met up for a date that Friday, and have been together ever since. If I can give one piece of advice about online dating is don't drag it out and do months of online chatting- establish contact and if the attraction is there, meet for a drink of coffee. I think the reason online dating kind of has a bad rap is people build these false relationships based around excessive chats and perfect-lighting photos and feel that they've built up a 'perfect' version of themselves that will never hold up to the real deal. If you don't give yourself time to do that, then it's just like any other date.
    BEST ADVICE FOR ONLINE DATING.... SERIOUSLY. MEET AND GET IT OVER WITH.
  • Drop_it_Like_Its_Hawt
    Drop_it_Like_Its_Hawt Posts: 226 Member
    One of my best friends was attending the same college as him, and went to chess club with him. He introduced us, I started going to chess club with him (even though I didn't attend that college), and it was nerdy makeout time in no time.

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