How did you meet your partner?

texasmama786

I love hearing stories about how people met. I am definitely a hopeless romantic, so lets here it ladies! 

My story isn't the romantic type, but here it goes: DH and I met at a sports bar while I was watching the NBA finals with friends. He kept trying to talk to me and kept staring at me and I was all like, "who is this guy and why wont he shut up so I can watch the game?" I didn't even give the poor guy a chance until weeks later when had gotten my number from a friend and called me. Persistent and a little creepy at first, but I later found out that he's not so bad. 

vickisher

That's so nice xx I met my hubby when he called into the supermarket I worked in to get a few things I fell in love with him as soon as I seen him, I gave him his change and he gave me his number, 2 wks later we got engaged and married 2yrs later and now 9yrs on we our haveing baby number 1 xx

YaMrWhite

I started a new job and he was working there. He asked around about me and was told I had a serious boyfriend of 3 years. 6 months later, serious boyfriend started cheating on me and when I confided in a coworker, she told me about my husband having taken an interest in me previously. He now had a girlfriend but my coworker told him my boyfriend and I were on the rocks. So, he asked me to lunch and we talked and then the next day he told me he broke up with his girlfriend. So, I broke up with my cheating boyfriend and the rest is history!

SpaceGirlSpiff

We have a sort of unique story..might out me as kind of a nerdy nerd too

H and I "met" online... but it wasn't like people meet online now, it was back in the old days of AOL and dial up and I was only 13 (he was 15 or 16 I believe), and we would hang out in teen chat rooms and it was in one of those rooms that we frequented often that we started casually chatting.  It went from that to exchanging pen-pal type emails and just being online friends and getting to know each other.  We also played online games together (like yahoo games, etc) and Instant messaged.

A year and half or so later with off and on communication, we started getting a little deeper into getting to know each other (from a distance, I was in AZ and he was in So. CA), and decided we had feelings for one another, exchanged pictures and phone numbers and eventually decided to be in a long distant relationship and that we wanted to meet in person.  When we decided to start our relationship, I had just turned 15, he was 17 (soon to turn 18)

8 months into our long distant relationship (So I was still 15) we somehow convinced our parents to let us meet in person, and he flew into AZ where I lived to stay the weekend.  (My mom is crazy, I know!)

I was a nervous wreck waiting for him at the airport, because there's always that what-if when you're meeting someone you only met online... what if he doesn't show up, what if hes not who he says he is... scary! But the instant I saw him walking down towards the waiting area in the airport, and I saw that it was him and recognized him, all the jitters went away and I went right up to him (past the security point, oops) and we hugged each other for 10 minutes, as if we were not shy at all and there was no difference.... While my Mom and best friend watched from afar with their arms crossed and skeptical brows lol

We have been together ever since.  We visited back and forth during my school breaks, and took longer trips during summer time and would talk every night either on the phone or computer.  He took me to my prom and he went to my graduation, all major events he was usually involved in.  We kept our long distant relationship going for 6 years total through my high school years and first couple years going to college, and then I finally transferred to So. CA when I was 21.  We got engaged right away, and married the next year on our 7th anniversary.

We just celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary and 13th total years together in April

Not the most conventional relationship, but it's worked out!

atrinh11

YaMrWhite said:

I started a new job and he was working there. He asked around about me and was told I had a serious boyfriend of 3 years. 6 months later, serious boyfriend started cheating on me and when I confided in a coworker, she told me about my husband having taken an interest in me previously. He now had a girlfriend but my coworker told him my boyfriend and I were on the rocks. So, he asked me to lunch and we talked and then the next day he told me he broke up with his girlfriend. So, I broke up with my cheating boyfriend and the rest is history!

Haha, our stories are somewhat similar

I also met DH at work. It was at a small local chain of restaurants. I was working at a different location that got shut down, so they transfered me to a different location. DH had just moved here from out of state and had just started working there too. I had a long term BF at the time also, but it was not a healthy relationship. DH and I became "work friends" being the two newest employees at that location. I confided in him about some of my relatioship issues. He was sweet, but sometimes played devil's advocate, which I hated at the time. Anyway, the BF just didn't last as I started falling for DH over the time we were getting to know eachother. It was alittle rocky at first, and DH didn't want to jump right in to anything as I was just out of a relationship. We let it cool off for a couple months, but decided we might as well give it a try as we seemed so great together. It all worked out in the end

Jellybean707

eHarmony. Followed by marriage and babies. We could be in the commercial 

Curbs12

I met my H when I was 16 (he was 19). Our best friends were dating and introduced us. We've been together for about 6 years now. Got married last September.

larahouseman

Your stories are all so romantic!  

DH and I met in law school, in a feminism class.  I was totally sure it would never work because he's 6 years younger than me so for the first two months I kept telling him that I wasn't serious about him, this was just for fun and he needed to go find a girl his own age.  A year later we got engaged...

motherboy

Jellybean707 said:

eHarmony. Followed by marriage and babies. We could be in the commercial 

Oh, you're classy. We met on match, which I think of as the sluttier version.

ETA: our first date was at a dive and was awkward for the first couple drinks and then he started telling inappropriate (but hilarious) jokes. It was awesome from then on.

YaMrWhite

larahouseman said:

Your stories are all so romantic!  

DH and I met in law school, in a feminism class.  I was totally sure it would never work because he's 6 years younger than me so for the first two months I kept telling him that I wasn't serious about him, this was just for fun and he needed to go find a girl his own age.  A year later we got engaged...

lol that's hilarious!

longcat07

okcupid.  LOL

really though, i'd semi-recently been widowed (11 months), and i wasn't really looking to date yet, but i did want to start meeting people and generally living again, since i'd pretty much been a hermit the whole time.  my profile reflected this much, so there was no false advertizing.  i guess where i lived was considered a part of SO's "region" (even though we lived about 7hrs by road, 1hr by air apart), and i showed up on his home page as a "high match" (91%!) new account in his region.  he recognized the name of my podunk U.P. town of roughly 4k people because his younger brother's ex-girlfriend, who he used to share rent and be in a band with, was from there.  so he checked out my profile purely out of curiosity and then moved on.  being new, i was sort of browsing "matches" but also looking at people who looked at me, so i read his profile too and thought, well, he's far enough away and sounds cool, could be good practice since it'll definitely never go anywhere. 

famous last words (or thoughts, i guess).  i sent him a message.  we were chatting over messenger by the next day (till like 2am no less, and he had to work the next day), and over the phone by the end of the week.  after a month (just after the anniversary of LH's death), i went out to meet him for the first time while LH's mom looked after DS (she knew where i was going and why!...although i might have downplayed the relationship and implied that he was one of a few people i was meeting up with, lol), and that was all she wrote.  we did the long-distance thing over the next 7 months, taking turns going to each other every 3 weeks or so, and then i put my house on the market, packed up myself and DS, and moved out here to live with him. 

the move was almost 3 years ago now.  we just bought a house last year in an attempt to cut down on bills (our mortgage is $400/m less than our rent was!) so we could save better for a nice wedding, but then the basement flooded and the plan backfired spectacularly, so we're having a baby first and then getting married in a few years once we have that stuff paid off.  haha.

edit: holy wall of text, batman.  edited to break that shite up.

BookitBoo

First year of college. He sat behind me in honors seminar and would say quiet things to make me laugh (and get in trouble with the professor, who was his best friends mom).

We started dating a year later

ShuShubee

A mutual friend set us up. We had both recently gotten out of relationships and were going to all be hanging out together for NYE, so my friend thought the two of us should be each others dates. She gave DH my phone number and we talked on the phone before we met. We didn't live in the same city, but he came to visit a couple weeks before NYE and we hit it off.

That was 7 1/2 years ago. We will be celebrating our 4 year wedding anniversary this month.

Lanatir

We met throwing things at each other.

DH and I were in an informal dodgeball group on campus.  Not sponsored, but with basically all of us being students (or a few alumni), it's sort of hard for the cops to kick you off the outdoor basketball court unless it's during mandatory quiet hours for finals.  He actually spent a ton of time talking to me online about one of my rugby teammates that he liked, and she totally didn't like him at all...  We ended up hanging out outside of dodgeball because he was the only one who was free to take me to get my thumb x-rayed the time I sprained (and potentially hairline fractured, but the x-ray tech wasn't sure and I wasn't paying for another x-ray when I already was missing the last 2 weeks of rugby season anyway, it wouldn't have impacted how long I was out if we confirmed a fracture).  Idk why, but shortly after he wanted to start hanging out with me, so we hung out and eventually I guess it was actual dating since he started paying for stuff.  haha.

Long story short, together 6 years, married almost 4 years.

angels889

My DH and I met in high school Sophomore year to be exact. I was dating someone at the time but we weren't really into each other anymore by Junior year, so I told myself to stick to my studies but my DH I guess was determined to get to know me so I gave him a chance over the summer that let to our Senior year. And we have been together ever since 2009.  

taryn0527

We met in eighth grade at a junior high track meet (2006). He was getting ready to run his relay. And as soon as he started running, I screamed out to him "You're hot!!" (Damn that awkward puberty stage in life.) And well, we've been together ever since

sydneygerten

Met DH in 9th grade at a football game... remained friends through highschool until Junior year when my boyfriend cheated on me with his girlfriend so we became close after that and dated months later. Went to college together and moved back to our hometown where we got engaged and married

Beckyboo71

I met DH 18 years ago at the job we are still currently at. I married my ex in 2006, and he was with his live-in girlfriend. We had been friends the whole time...we bonded over our love for baseball. I even went to a couple of games with him in a group that included his girlfriend (my ex never did anything but play video games). I finally left my ex in 2010, and on a whim, my DH and I decided to try to date. It was really weird and awkward at first, but I quickly forgot that we were ever "just friends". So, in June 2013, I finally, truly, understood the saying that I always thought was cheesy...and "married my best friend"...in a baseball-themed wedding, of course! ❤️

vicviy87

I met my at work as well. I was outside smoking and he was out there with a friend. Talking about newports, so I chimed in to say that newports are bad for you because they are made with artificial Tabacco. Since that day he called me beauty and brains. We were nice to each other until one day I came up to him and asked to bum a drag off of is his square. I was upset because I spent my whole pay check on my DUI fine and he asked me out. And I said yes. And three years and four break up to make ups later. We are getting married in 3 weeks. Plus expecting our first baby in January!!!

Tapsalteerie

I met DH in high school. We didn't start dating until I was a freshman in college (he's a year younger than me). He asked me out by tricking me and saying he wanted my help for an art project. He was done with said project when I got there and instead we spent 4 hours watching a movie and cuddling. He ended the night with a kiss and an iris for me.

LadyXaverian

My story is similar to @spacegirlspiff but we were older.

I met DH online when I was a freshman in college. It was the '95/96 school year, and I had just gotten my first email address. I was online searching for "college student home pages" because this was pre-Myspace or Facebook. What I found was the university he attended and a list of student names. When you clicked on each name, you saw a homepage that the student created for a class. DH's had a cute picture of him wearing a Santa hat and he had an "email me" icon. So, I emailed him. We had an on-and-off internet friendship (emails, AOL IM, and eventually phone calls) until 2002 when we finally met in person. 

I remember being nervous when he drove up to where I lived to meet me. Not the smartest choice, but he came straight to my apartment. I figured a serial killer probably wouldn't have invested 6 years into an online friendship. I'm glad I was right. lol

We got engaged 3 months after meeting IRL. Married 9 months after getting engaged. We'll celebrate our 11th wedding anniversary in September.

LadyXaverian

maribethgrace said:

Anyone else have a foreign husband it having a mixed baby?!

Well, I am "foreign" (Canadian lol), so I guess our kids are "mixed"-- American and Canadian. But I'm guessing that's not quite what you meant.

Tapsalteerie

Oh, but to prove that all love stories don't start off like fairytales, I thought he was an asshole when we first met. We slowly became friends over time and I saw the asshole had a soft side.

LadyXaverian

taryn0527 said:

We met in eighth grade at a junior high track meet (2006). He was getting ready to run his relay. And as soon as he started running, I screamed out to him "You're hot!!" (Damn that awkward puberty stage in life.) And well, we've been together ever since

I was teaching 8th grade in 2006. I could have been your teacher. I feel so old. lol

readyforround2

This thread is awesome! I love all the stories! My DH and I met in our 8th grade chorus class and started dating that summer. He signed my yearbook and one night I was flipping through the pages and saw his number and decided to call. The next day he was leaving to spend the summer in Indiana with his dad and we spent the whole night talking. He called me almost every day after that. When he came back we were on the phone and his big brother Chris got on and told me that he liked me. I didn't believe him but when my DH got back on the phone he asked what his brother said and I told him and he said completely nonchalantly that he did! His confidence was what I loved most and still do! Sometimes it lands on more of the cocky side lol but I still love it.

We dated all through highschool and did break up once (only our friends knew because we still hungout and stayed close). Once college started I got a lot of pressure from my parents to "enjoy my life" and "experience new things." My dad actually sent me a pretty nasty email (he's horrible at confrontations) saying that he didn't approve of us because we were too young to be serious. He also mentioned that since his parents are divorced he doesn't know the meaning of marriage because of it.

I responded to him by telling him that Kevin is more ambitious then he was at that age and grandma Kay (dad's mom) had been married 4 times so his 20+ year marraige throws his theory of "not knowing the meaning of marraige" out the window. There were more things said between us both but those were the main arguments. It was rough on DH and I's relationship and we did split up for a few months.

He still came to visit me on the weekends and ended up being accepted in the spring. We had a few classes together and after awhile I decided that I didn't want to date anyone else so I told my parents that they could either accept us or ignore us.

We moved into an apartment with a roommate and eventually when my parents saw that we were responsible and not just "playing house" they began to accept our relationship.

We have been together for 13 years, married for 3 this October, and even though it hasn't been easy and we have had our fair share of hard times I've never been more in love with him then I am today!

My parents have both apaulogized to us years ago for doubting our feelings all those years ago but I understand why they were concerned. I understood back then too. We were young and the odds were against us, but we both have made an effort to learn from the relationships around us.

Now we are expecting our first child! I can't wait to see him as a daddy! I know he will be great

SRose1005

We met in middle school and started dating after we were assigned to the same table in 9th grade English. Seeing how small 9th graders are now kinda makes me creeped out at past us, but there ya go.

This October 5th we'll celebrate our 1st wedding anniversary and the 10th anniversary of our first date.

atrinh11

maribethgrace said:

Anyone else have a foreign husband it having a mixed baby?!

Well, my husband is not foreign, but our kids are "mixed". DH is Vietnamese (born and raised in the US though), and I am half Norwegian and half European mutt.

My son is beautiful (but obviously I am biased)

Latham12

I was visiting my cousin and her husband on an all boys college campus and met my husband the last night I was visiting! Definitely at a party, and I won the beer chugging contest against him. He knew I was a keeper lol. We did long distance and visited each other frequently for 5 months and then he proposed and we got married 3 months later :-)

MusicFanatic

I love reading these

My H and I met at a lacrosse game . He was playing and got injured, had to sit out. He sat near me.. we struck up a conversation and pretty much talked the whole rest of the game.  Exchanged numbers. He took way too long to contact me so I assumed I would never speak to him again... and then he finally called, we made plans to go out..  and it all happened from there!

taryn0527

Awe I am so sorry!! I didn't mean to make you feel old! @LadyXaverian‌

Roxycc55

atrinh11 said:

maribethgrace said:

Anyone else have a foreign husband it having a mixed baby?!

Well, my husband is not foreign, but our kids are "mixed". DH is Vietnamese (born and raised in the US though), and I am half Norwegian and half European mutt.

My son is beautiful (but obviously I am biased)

My husband always told me he gets offended by the word 'mixed.' But he is half black, half white, so our babies will also be interracial.

We met when I was a sophomore in college the day I officially ended things with my ex-boyfriend. We have now been together 5 1/2 years, and today is our first wedding anniversary.

emily3332

These are fun to read.

I met my DH at my friend's wedding (it was his sister's wedding). I just went with a friend. He says he noticed me right away and wanted to ask me out. I thought he was cute but I assumed it was my friend's married brother because he was sitting with his infant nephew at church . He ended up having to help behind the bar at the reception because one of the bartenders didn't show up. We started talking at the end of the night when most guests had left and the rest is pretty much history.

@HappyMonkey817‌ - Our 1st anniversary will be August 17 too!!

Christina_Diane

Mutual friends. The Las Vegas strip. New Years weekend.

longcat07

LadyXaverian said:

taryn0527 said:

We met in eighth grade at a junior high track meet (2006). He was getting ready to run his relay. And as soon as he started running, I screamed out to him "You're hot!!" (Damn that awkward puberty stage in life.) And well, we've been together ever since

I was teaching 8th grade in 2006. I could have been your teacher. I feel so old. lol

i'm not a teacher, but i read this and...yeah.  haha

LadyXaverian

@sassquatch That's a crazy story, but awesome, too. How do your family members feel about your relationship considering your families are so close? Is your uncle weirded out by it? lol

gingerygirl

Hubby and I met in high school at All-District Choir. We went to different high schools and met through a mutual friend. I was dating someone from my school at the time. Districts was three days long and he followed me around everywhere like a lost puppy! He was shy and didn't say much, but he did sing a song to me. He got my number from our mutual friend and started texting me after districts were over. I thought he was super creepy because he kept going on and on about how we were meant to be together.
Time passed and we lost contact. My then-boyfriend cheated on me so we broke up and I went to college in Idaho, across the country. At the end of my first year I got a text from a number I didn't recognize; it was him! We agreed to meet up after I flew back home to Virginia. Strictly as friends. I made that clear.
We had a Sunday together at the beach and agreed to do it again the next week. Soon we were seeing each other every day. One day we were sitting on the couch and he says "I need to tell you something...I kind of think of you as more than a friend..." To which I replied with "oh, well that's convenient, cause I feel the same way!" And he laughed and said "so uh...do you think we should...do this or something?"
A year later when he proposed, after all the tears and hugs, he leaned in and whispered "so uh...do you think we should...do this or something?"
Silly boy (: I love him (:

newguardwife

DH and I met at a church youth conference in TX (we're from MN). I was a senior in HS and he a freshman in college. I was the only person from my church but I knew a bunch of people from the church my dad worked at. I started hanging out with them as soon as we arrived and I met DH. My the end of the first night we were holding hands and by the end of the weekend we were officially a couple. We've been together ever since, there have been some rough patches and deployments (he is National Guard) but I wouldn't change a thing. We've been together for more than 10 years and married for more than 7.

AlfiesMOM

We met in freshman English class. I sat in front of him, we were friends for three years before we started dating!

jennyhatt

@sassquatch‌ BEST love story ever!!

jennyhatt

I was 19 when I met my hubby. He was a member at the golf course I was working at over the summer (and still is a member bc we since moved to the area). I was working and living at my parents cottage in between school years, he was currently laid off- an electrician. We golfed together, went to parties and hung out on the beach and had the best summer.
I thought he was going to be a short summer fling bc we both had just gotten out of relationships and we lived two hours apart once I went back to university. After a month of dating and spending not one day apart, I went back to school and our summer fling quickly turned into love. He visited me every weekend we could. Once I was done school two years later he proposed (despite my dad shooting him down saying I was too young-21). We married two years after that. We have been married for 6 with baby #2 on the wAy. I turn 30 this year and have spent my entire 20s with him. In your face dad

NatureLovers

These are great!

MH and I were set up on a blind date through a mutual friend. She was his sister's best friend. I met her through the Knot when I was planning my first wedding many years ago.

I had been posting on FB about my adventures in internet dating. Luckily I have a sense of humor! Anyway, she hooked us up, but before we could meet I had a very serious accident. I was on bed rest due to a bad head injury. During this time we texted a lot and chatted. Once my black eye had healed sufficiently, I agreed to a date, although I wasn't supposed to be out of bed yet.

We met for dinner and a movie. The next weekend, I went over to his place and never left. That was at the end of Oct 2013. I formally moved in in Nov 2013, we got engaged Feb 2014, married legally March 21, 2014, and conceived April 11, 2014.:)