GTKY: How did you and your SO meet?

lisaren

Let's talk about our man. How did you two meet? Love at first sight?

I met my husband at work. I was working on the pediatric unit at local hospital and he works for a home health agency, he came in the unit to bring a baby some supplies to go home with. I was single after a horrid divorce and had just began dipping in the dating scene.
I saw him and thought hot damn, he's fuckin hot!
The girls around me knew him from various other cases and said ask him out. He's cute but shy. Next thing I know he walks by and I said...

Hey. Ummmm. Are you single.

Him: uhhhh yeah.

Me: cool. So am I. Wanna go grab a beer?

Him: uhhhh ok.


Hahahaha. We exchanged numbers. Met up two nights later. Played pool, drank beer, and played quarters, which ultimately decided who was kissing who first. I won. He kissed me. I took him home. Been together ever since.

We were engaged 6 months later, and married almost 10 years! He's my best friend and still super hot!

mrsransom

That's a great story!!  I met my husband in college.  He was a senior & I was a freshman.  We met in the spirit club at UofL (called the L-Raisers! haha)  We ended up having a lot in common because we were both die hard fans & had the same major.  We became friends & hung out at games together.  We ended up traveling to the Final Four together in 2005 & that's when it got serious   We got engaged about 7-8 months later & married the next year, & have been married now for almost 8 years!

shan24

We met over 15 years ago.  We were both working at the same retail store and became really close friends.  There was probably more even back then, but timing was never on our side - one of us was always in a relationship.

I ended up marrying someone else, moved halfway across the country and lost touch with him.  That marriage lasted only a few years and a few months after I divorced, I flew home to visit my family.  Everyone was working during the day, so I took a walk downtown and ended up running into him and another mutual friend of ours.  We ended up having a few beers on a patio that afternoon, hung out again that night and then again the next day.  I flew back home a few days later. 

He had enlisted in the army and was getting ready to go to basic training.  We kept in touch while he was there and after a few months, he decided that it wasn't for him.  He called me and said that he had two choices: he could move back to our hometown or he could move to my city and we could give it a go.

Needless to say, he moved to my city.  That was 6 years ago.  Three years ago, we moved closer to home and bought a house.  I don't know if we'll ever get married.  I don't know if (personally) I need to.  I feel more married to SO than I ever felt to my ex-husband.  

Kehlepop

Your story is so cute!!
My husband and I actually went to the same college graduating a year apart, but we didn't meet until I needed to have some stuff photographed my senior year. I had a photographer friend and my husb happened to be his lighting assistant/BFF. I thought he was cute and would see him at parties occasionally.
It wasn't until 2 years later, he walked past the store I was working at and something possessed me to run out and stop him.
We've been in-seperable for almost 4 years and married since June

LutherLove07

Cute stories! DH and I met in college. It turns out we grew up our entire lives in the same county but had to go to an out of state school to meet. We became best friends our sophomore year. I fell in love with him immediately....he took two years to realize he loved me. We started dating our senior year, graduated, survived 3 years of being long distance, got married 3.5 years ago and the rest is history! I can't wait to have this baby with my best friend!

MrsAdventure

Love your stories. I also met my hubby at college. He lived in the next state over, but since it was close, commuted to a community college in my state. I met him while between classes, I went down to the college's rec. room to play some pool with my best friend and saw this good lookin' fella playing pool with a couple of guys I usually played pool with. About twenty minutes later, he ended up getting into an argument with my best friend, but held his ground. No small thing to do, since she's a bearcat when angry. I was impressed. We dated off and on for about 5 years, but he moved a few states away and it just got to be difficult for both of us until, out of the blue he called me (we were not dating and not really speaking much at the time, due to schedules).

Anyway, we had a very frank conversation in which we decided we were stop torturing each other one way or another. Either go our separate ways and not have contact anymore, or we'd finally make the big commitment. Long story we got, engaged right then, and were married three months later. It's been almost five years now :x

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icaughtfire

We met in high school, hung out with the same group of people. I had a huge crush on him, but was sure he looked at me as just a friend. We drifted apart some after graduation but still saw each other occasionally when we were out. One day he text me out of no where & said it'd been awhile since we'd seen each other, we should grab a beer & catch up. I seduced him with my awesomeness and we became pretty inseparable after that night. Seven years later & I'm SO glad we didn't date in high school -- I doubt we'd still be together. 

nonoemily

I got a job in a restaurant running the catering department in the mornings and then I worked in the kitchen directing the food runners at lunch. DH was a lunch time regular for about a year or so. I used to tell the girls I worked with, "there's my boyfriend!" And they would laugh at me.

DH is really shy. It took him a year to give me his number. We went on our first date in 2007. He was a nice, quiet country boy who drove a big toyota truck on giant tires. He liked to work on cars, hunt, build things, and hang out with his family. I was a weirdo city girl who hung out at galleries and bars. I did performance art and played experimental music. I hated his friends and they hated me. We were so opposite.

I've met a lot of men in my life, but I knew DH was special.

JamieK1882

I love these stories!

I met DH at a bar after a Pens (PGH hockey team) game. I was on their cheer squad and went out with some of the other girls after the game and they convinced me to dress slutty (very low cut top lol). DH had been there watching the game with his friends and stayed to hang with me. Unfort at the time I thought he was dorky (he had on a mock turtleneck in a bar!) and he thought I was slutty (DEF not). I tried passing him off on my friends that night.

He later found me on myspace. Long story short, about a year later we finally started dating. Sometimes I kick myself for not dating him sooner because he's amazing, but everything works out for a reason.

We dated 2 years, engaged one, and have been married now 3.5 years.

missnacholover

We were friends in HS and he had a crush on me.  He even asked me to our senior prom, but I said no.  I had a boyfriend!

Fast forward to 9 years later and we ran into eachother at the gym and started hanging out.  Romance blossomed. 

jessa1228

H and I grew up in the same neighborhood so we've known each other since we were little kids. He was 2 grades ahead of me in school though so we ran with different crowds. He started dating a friend of mine my senior year of high school, which is how we became friends. That relationship didn't last long, and shortly thereafter we started dating. We got engaged on our 5 year dating anniversary, were engaged for just over 3 years, and we've been married now for 1.5 years.

amr196

Met mine in tenth grade biology (: my best friend at the time dated his cousin and she hooked us up! High school sweethearts :x

nonoemily

I tried to edit and add a PIP but it won't let me. Here's my handsome DH and DS as a nine month old.

tlc35

I met my H on eharmony.  I had just moved to town for my first job post training and didn't know many people so I signed up.  We started talking online the first weekend I was on the site.  First date was a few days before Christmas and second date was New Year's eve!

wendyld

My H and I met working at a gas station the first summer home from college. We grew up 15 minutes apart and became good friends then. We were both interested, but I was unavailable. Over the years we lost touch and each moved across the country. He got engaged and I got married (neither of those worked out) and ended up living in the same city as each other like 10 years later. We reconnected when I ran into his friend, but were still just friends for a year or so after that. When we started dating (3.5 yrs ago) we knew it was the real deal pretty much right away.

Celticlass6

I love all these stories! My husband and I met on OKCupid. He admitted to me a few months after our first date that he originally hesitated on messaging me because he thought I might be too tall (I'm just over 5'8"). And I admitted right back that I hesitated in responding because I thought he was too short! (He's 5'10"). November/December will be even more special now with LO due then - its when we had our first date, and also when he proposed. We've been together for more than 4 years now, and are looking at our fast-approaching 1 year wedding anniversary. 

lisaren

These stories make my heart happy. :x

krgriffin26

DH and I met about 8 years ago. I was working in HR and he was in my hiring pool. I was dating someone else and actually sent DH on a date with a friend of mine. Not a good match and they only went out once. I moved to NC and dated a different guy for about 3 years.
I moved back to TX about 3.5 years ago. The night before thanksgiving that year I was out at a bar with my best friend. I ran into him and we hung out all night just having a great time and danced to every song. I threw caution to the wind and decided to "slut it up" and go home with him. Best decision ever! lol well except for the part that my car was broken into because I left it at the bar and I was several hours late to Thanksgiving. We have been together ever since. We were engaged and living together by the next year and now married He's my favorite person and we have such a great time no matter what we're doing.

Bethyboo26

Really enjoy everyone's story
I met my hubby on Christian Mingle. We emailed for a couple months before meeting in person... And it was pretty fast after that. Engaged 9 months later, married 7 months after that.
Online dating was honestly the most awkward thing ever for both of us, but I'm obviously glad we both have it a shot!

lisaren

I totally whored out the first night with my H. And I didn't even care. It had been a long time! I needed some good stuff

Nfranco973

We met at work. He is a Taxi driver & I was a dispatcher. One late night around 2am, I had to dispatch an airport ride. It was very chilly that night. We were having a problem with the radio system so I called him on to the base to give him the customer info for the pickup. He rung the bell and when I went to the door, there he stood With a cup of hot chocolate in his hand. It was my first time meeting him as I was new to the company. He gave me the cup of hot chocolate and said he thought I would need it to keep me warm. From there on he gave me a ride every morning when I got off at 6am. We became best friends and inseparable for the next two years. One day, a guy at the job expressed interest in me & he asked in front of him if I had a man. Before I could respond he said, no she has a husband lol after the guy walked off in shame I asked him jokingly why he did that. He responded with: I can't imagine the thought of you giving another man a chance. I looked at him in the eyes and we kissed for the first time.we made it official that day. He didn't know it then but I fell in love with him a longtime before then. 6
years later, here I am with baby bump!

jf198400

DH and I met in high school freshmen year home room and first period biology. We started dating at the Halloween dance. We were both each other's first boyfriend girlfriend. We broke up but later became friends. We flirted all of junior year and finally got back together right before senior year. We've been together ever since.
We dated for 7 years and have now been married for 4.5 yrs.

musgral8

Aw I love hearing these stories! 

I met H when I was in my senior year of HS and he was a sophomore at the college 1/2 hour away. We were both working retail jobs at the mall. He developed a crush and would come over and see me all the time and my co-workers kept trying to push me into going out with him. I had already applied to colleges and had one foot out the door - I was ready to leave that town! I kept turning him down because I didn't want to date anyone before I left for school. We became really good friends, and he actually came with my parents to move me into my dorm. 

After being in school for awhile and him calling me pretty much every day, I realized that I wanted to be with him because he had become my best friend and we had crazy chemistry that I just kept denying. He came to visit one weekend and the rest is history. We dated long distance for the remainder of my 3 years, moved in together after I graduated and got engaged 6 months later. I wanted to go to grad school the following year so he moved 10 hours away with me and we got married right after my first semester. We've been married for 4.5 years now. 

lizgrace03

DH and I were in the same Master's program. We had a class together. I thought he was cute but seemed young (he's five years younger than me) plus I had a real rude/jerk boyfriend at the time. We had a conference later that semester in Knoxville, TN and ended up doing a bunch of car bombs together and then decided we should date. He proposed 3 and a half years later- on a weekend trip to Knoxville! :x

SarahHeck

Such good stories! I'm such a romantic, I love hearing these!!!

I met my husband @ church when we were 7. We became really close friends when we were highschool freshmen and chatted on AOL instant messenger ALL the time! Around Senior year we decided we liked eachother, dated through college, got married at 21, and have been married 8 years. He really is my best friend, we've been through everything together and no one can make me laugh harder than he can. I just love hanging out with him. So glad I get to share my life with such a beautiful person.

sweetbabyrahe

DH and I met working together at a day care. We were both college helpers and knew each other in passing for about a year. Then we got placed working in the same tough 3 year old room (and we both happened to be newly single). We began flirting immediately. I mean who can resist a guy who is great with toddlers! We started dating, then a few years later married, and now 6.5 years later we have a 2 year old son and another on the way !

Kristy774

I was divorced about a year, we never tell this story IRL because DH is waaaaaay to cool for it. We met on match.com, we tell people we met at a bar, which isn't a total lie because we met up in a bar. I went home with him but didn't sleep with him. We definitely had a strong connection from the moment we saw one another.

I got pregnant 4 months in to the relationship (by accident) and 6 years later we are married with another one on the way. He's my best friend, I never had the connection with my ex husband like I do my current husband. He is the best person I know. And he's super tall (6'6 and so attractive) but that's just a bonus! Us about a year ago

lisaren

Awwww look how cute y'all are @Kristy774‌ !!!

lisaren

In Vegas, actually the night we conceived our little N14 love bug. We stayed at the Palms and this was at the Ghost Bar. Amazing views!!

Kristy774

@lisaren‌ Awwwww! I love it! You guys look adorable!

mockingjay1

We met in 7th grade geography. We started "dating" when we were 15 and here we are today! We're not very exciting.

morrkim

We met each other in college. I was a sophomore and he was a freshmen. I had seen him around, but didn't really find him attractive. During the year, I went on a school trip to Greece. When I got back my room had suddenly become the hangout room and he was one of the people always in my room. One day I was eating lunch with them and was complaining about my printer not working and asked him if he could help me with it. I later found out that he was so excited about being alone with me. Over the next month we were doing a lot of heavy flirting. I was not very experienced with dating so I didn't even recognize it. One night he asked me out and I said "I don't know. We can try" (he still makes fun of me for it). We started dating and things got physical really quickly. Be fore this I had only kissed a guy one time. At the end of the semester he had to drop out and move back home because he couldn't afford to stay in school. We ended up having a long distance relationship all summer and into the next fall semester. In the spring he was able to get some money and returned to school. We continued dating. A year later, a loan that he thought he had gotten fell through and he had to dropout again. I told him I couldn't do long distance again without some type of commitment. A few days later we went for a walk in the park and he knelt down in the snow and proposed. We got married a year and a half later with a long distance relationship the whole time. We have been married around 4.5 years. It has been good with a few bumps in the road in the beginning, but since then things have greatly improved.

RedBirdFly

Craigslist.

I was curious to see what sorts of people different wordings of personal ads would attract. So I posted a few over the course of a few weeks, and started chatting with s few people that actually were interesting.

My DH just wanted to talk and that was cool because well, I wasn't really looking to date seriously. Well, on Valentine's Day I got stood up by my friend and he came to rescue me. It was the first time we had met face to face and he was gorgeous. Halfway through the movie we were holding hands, and then he walked me to my car, gave me a hug - I pulled away and then realized I pulled away too quickly because I really liked him by this time, so I leaned my forehead against his, and he kissed me.

The rest is history.


ETA:
Selfie at the submarine birthday ball this past weekend.

I have friends that think we look alike.

ShelleyElla22

DH and I met through mutual friends that were dating when we were in high school.  He was 16 and I was 17 and we went to high schools that were 30 minutes away from each other.  I still vividly remember the night 13 years ago when we were sitting on his roof under the stars and he asked me to be his girlfriend.  He also told me that night that he was going to marry me  

We have had a lot of ups and downs while we each matured and grew up but I love the fact that we found each other so young.  We have now been married for 4 years and are very excited to be expecting baby #3!

melissajam

What a fun thread @lisaren!

DH and I have known of each other since middle school, but we really got to know each other our junior year of high school. We had huge crushes on each other. I ran into him by accident a couple times that summer and he asked me out as soon as he saw me the first day of senior year, which is funny because I felt shy and didn't plan on speaking to him at all. We went to homecoming together and just really hit it off. We chose to attend the same college and started living together a year in. During that time I got pregnant with DD, he proposed, and we got married last summer. We had planned to marry the summer after graduation, but then decided that we couldn't wait any longer. Now we're expecting our second child. We're so happy with how everything has turned out for us. We've accomplished a lot in only 3.5 years.

lisaren

A lot of young love here!!! So sweet xo

jlove253

I'm loving reading all your stories!

DH and I met while working at the summer camp. The first day at camp all the staff was mingling and I was really nervous to meet all these new people. Everyone was starting to play volleyball, which I hate, and I was struggling with deciding to play or look like a lame-o for not joining in, when he arrived fashionably late. He walked up to me and introduced himself (later admitting it was because I was hot, not just because he's friendly) and I breathed a sigh of relief that I wouldn't have to play volleyball! He was struck by my unusual name, and I loved how easy it was to talk to him. Half way through summer I knew I liked him, and thought he liked me, but he lived 14 hours away, so I was going to just let things go as they may. The last night of camp I woke up and realized that based on what time it was he had left to drive home already and burst into tears.

A week later I was making him a care package when he called me. We talked awkwardly for a hour (which was odd because we were never awkward) when he finally told me he wanted to date me even though he'd sworn off long-distance dating. Nine months later we were engaged and 3 months after that we were married and I moved to his state! I've had a few guys tell me that my story makes them sick because it means their baby girls could meet a man and be gone a year later, but my family is really happy that he is a part of the family now. He's a perfect compliment, not just for me, but my family too.

Kristy774

@flutterbuggie‌ "uh hug it out?" Cracked me up this morning! Really cute!

Singingmama10

I met my DH on Match.com.   Someone IM'ed me (which freaked me out I didn't like that they could catch me off guard like that) He had a yellow shirt, brown hair, a beard, and was sitting in front of a white wall.  I quickly closed his IM because, again, it just freaked me out and I was only on there for 2 days, wasn't quite ready for that.  Then I had second thoughts "oooh I should give the guy a chance, maybe he's nice and not a creeper".  So I went on my site and looked at who had been viewing my page.  I found my husband, yellow shirt, brown hair, a beard and in front of a white wall.  His profile was ADORABLE.  I am a total romantic and, well he romanced me .  so I emailed him and totally lied, said I accidentally closed his IM, but I am interested in meeting him. well he had no idea what I was talking about.  but he did look at my profile and was about to email me when I he got mine.  Come to find out it was some other guy that had the yellow shirt, brown hair, beard and white wall that IM'ed me... but fate had another plan .  

momtojad

He was sitting next to me at a bar.  I was actually checking my eharmony matches and I looked next to me and I decided I wanted to take him home...lol obviously younger wilder days.  He never left and I knew that day I would marry him.

kjmommy1214

Everyone has such sweet stories. Mine, well, is different.

I went over to a high school friend's house. My sister was visiting with her deadbeat boyfriend, and I needed out of my house. I walked to her mom's to go swimming. There in the pool is the sexiest man I know. But I am insta-pissed. He is (as far as I know) married to my friend's drama loving little sister. NOT ANYMORE! They are getting divorced, and he stopped by to hang out with the bother. He asked me to go to the bar to celebrate his new job. Hell yeah! He got my
number after that night from my friend, apologized for his drunken ways, and invited me over. It was supposed to be a non-date. Ha! We have been together ever since.

Don't worry @lisaren you are not the only one that put out the first night.