How did you meet your significant other????

I went to the car races at the San Jose Speedway on a regular basis. A friend of mine who worked there introduced me to one of the security guards there. The timming of meeting him was not right because he was delivering money - so he was strictly business. After the races, I went back to meet my friend who was driving me home when she got off work. I ended up talking with the guy she had introduced me to. We had a lot in common, had gone to the same college, had the same class (he sat in the back of the room, I sat in front) & I really enjoyed talking with him. Soon after that first talk, HE became the reason that I went to the races on a Saturday night.
When the racing season ended. I started joining him at other jobsites (no I was not stalking him) & spent almost every weekend with him at the different jobsites. Soon after I met his boss for the first time, his boss said "If you're going to be out here for 8 hours every weekend, you might as well be getting paid for it." & hired me.
Almost a year after we met, we were visitng the friend who had introduced us & talking about how protective my family is of me. When he said "Well I'm not marrying them, I'm marrying you.." I sat there speecheless & could only nod.
Next June we will be celebrating 20 years of marriage & I have never been happier!!!!!

On August 2 (2008) I had been out late with a friend to a book release party. The next night, a mutual friend of ours was having a party that I did not want to go to... I wanted to stay home and read my new book (Breaking Dawn)! However, after much conversation, I agreed to go.

Prior to the party starting, a few of us showed up to help put things together. DH, living 3 doors away, was already there. When I saw him, my eyes followed him. Then I got up, walked over to him, and looked up (and up and up). "Who are you?" I asked. I was immediately interested.

Throughout the night we talked, laughed and drank. At one point our whole party was in a hot tub and had his arm around me. I made a few excuses to see him unofficially, and two weeks later I summoned the (liquid) courage to ask him out.

Three weeks after meeting we had our first date. The following morning we met for a breakfast date, and later that night to enjoy our city's Ghost Walk. I knew then, within 24 hours, that he was the one for me.

My husband and I meet on Meeting place,before online dating.They had colunms in the newspaper.We have been together 20 years,married 18,
jane

I met my boyfriend of almost six years when we worked together at McDonald's after high school. And guess what? I'm lovin' it! :P

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Funny story about how I met my boyfriend. I had been casually dating this guy who was really interested in me but I just wasn't feeling it. This was the first time I had ever dated anyone and so I had no idea what to do to tell him not to waste his time. Then, we went to a church actvity and he introduced me to one of his friends..... this friend and I hit it off really well... and, well, let's just say, the first guy got the hint when his friend asked me out right in front of him. My boyfriend and I have been together ever since... it's been about a year and a half now. And we couldn't be happier! (and don't worry, the other guy had a happy ending too... he's getting married in a few months to a lovely girl that I'm really good friends with)

Very similar to me but we started dating my freshman year

I met my husband through my brother. My brother dated his sister in high school and has been dating her for ten years. My husband and I were best friends long before we ever decided to date. We realized we'd rather be with eachother than anyone else and got married. Its interesting because my brother and his sister have a baby girl together. Cant help but wonder if our children will look like my beautiful niece.

I was in the Marine Corps and volunteered to go to the 3-week Marine Corps Instructor of Water Survial course at the Combat Water Survival Swim School. It would barely qualify as co-ed with only about 2% of active MCWIS's being female and as it was, the course had one of the highest attrition rates in the Marine Corps... 60%, right up there with Scout Sniper School. My husband was one of the newest of the schoolhouse's Instructor-Trainers, so he was teaching the majority of the classes. Now, he certainly wasn't the most attractive or built at 6' and 150lbs (edited to add it was a good investment, he filled out to 190 with a shoulder-to-waist ratio of .57!) but he had a sense of humor that would put a lot of stand-up comics to shame. He also got to attack me and drown my butt multiple times and figured out new fun ways to challenge me in the water, tough considering I'm a former USS regional-level swimmer. Oh, and this was back in the day before HQ decided things like tying our hands and feet together and throwin us off the highdive to complete a series of tasks while bound was too dangerous, or that swimming long distances in a camo bottoms & top resulted in too many severe shoulder injuries, etc. Oh, and I did the course with a fractured jaw (long sordid story).

I graduated SECOND in the whole class! He said he was overly impressed that I could hold my own with the guys and then some and asked me to be his date to the Marine Corps Ball that weekend.

My Very Significant Other and I met online 6 years ago on a band website when I was married. We chatted through the threads and eventually to Yahoo, always platonic, but I could tell him anything, especially the troubles I was having in my marriage. He'd disappear for a while, and I'd miss him and message him. I moved on to another website dedicated to the band, and suggested he join... and he did.
Then my marriage totally fell apart and he was there to hold my hand and listen. He still listened while I was sorting out my feelings (and hots) for another guy later. When that fell apart too, I did as well... but VSO was still there. When I moved back to Mass to be closer to my family I knew he lived in the general area, but never tried to meet up with him. We finally met in person a little over a year ago, and we've been dating since then.
He has since told me that he'd been interested in me since we first started talking, and he followed me through 8 websites dedicated to The Cure to get to know me and try to 'reel me in'. It worked.

We met in a casino dance-hall/bar. He asked me to two-step, then talked to me until 5 in the morning. We went on a date the next day, spent more time talking, and had a great night. He was actually only in town for the week for a work training, so he had to leave to go back to his home (900 miles away), and we decided to keep in touch. Good thing we did, because a month later, I found out I was pregnant.

I lost my job last March, so we moved in together last spring (I packed up and moved 900 miles away), now have a little fry now that joined us, and the rest is history.

Last June, my friend was going to run a race with me. About two days before she said she couldn't because she had to be at another friend's birthday party. I told her we'd do the run then go to the party. A third friend joined us. Me and my other friend introduced ourselves at this party as Chip n Dale figuring we'd never see anyone from this party again.

One year later, I'm still with the wonderful woman I met that night!! (and she knows my real name now)

My ex and I worked in the same place. She actually asked ME out. It was very refreshing to have her ask first. We were married for 9 years.

Short story: I stole him from my cousin.

Longer version: I was raised by my aunt and uncle and consider this group of cousins to be more like brothers and sisters. My "brother" brought home this really cute guy one evening but he was really quiet and shy. I was 17 and definitely not thinking long term! Over the next year he was around a lot hanging out with my cousin/brother and we struck up a friendship. I went from thinking he was cute to really liking him and enjoying being around him. I waited and waited and waited for the guy to ask me out but like I said, he was really shy!

I got tired of waiting and dated a guy for about two weeks. The guy was 21 and already getting divorced but still in love with his wife so it wasn't surprising that he ended up telling me he didn't want to date anymore. Well guess who happened to be at our house when I got home all depressed but cousin/brother's cute friend! He actually let me cry on his shoulder. And he was gentleman enough to wait until the next day to ask me out (FINALLY!!)

That was almost 22 years ago and we'll be celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary this fall. I think the two weeks with that other guy were a good little nudge for him. lol So yeah, I stole him from my cousin.

We met back in 7th grade at my best friend's birthday party. We went to "sister" schools and started online chatting a lot [which was the cool thing to do back in middle school, don't hate!]. We ended up becoming boyfriend/girlfriend for about 4 months and going to see "50 First Dates" as our first "date". He was my first boyfriend..

Fast forward to Senior year of high school. We began to reconnect, talked a lot, and ended up going on a couple real dates. It never went anywhere further than that, but we stayed good friends and in close communication.

I was dating a guy during my freshman year of college. He ended up breaking my heart, and Justin was there to pick up those shattered pieces and put them back together. He took me out to get my mind off of him, and our relationship took off from there. Now we're a year and a half strong and grow more in love each day.

We met in high school. He came to watch me eat lunch. My fiance told me to be nice to him because his girlfriend just broke up with him. That was 38+ years ago!

I met my wife Via Facebook. I had just gotten out of a string of bad relationships and claimed to be done with all women. Two days later, I got a message saying she was moving back to the area and looking for some friends to hang out with, would I like to be a friend. We started hanging out, watching movies, dating, and that was five years ago. We are now living in Austin, TX, ( where she had moved back from, coming up on our fourth wedding anniversary (Oct.) and have a beautiful girl together. The wonders of social networking.