GTKY: how'd you meet...

ramaholic

Met in high school when I tried to pursue his asexual* best friend.  I'm the little shit who bagged an upperclassman while a freshman (he was a junior).

We were just friends for ~3 months, started dating in Dec 2003, engaged in Dec 2011, celebrated our first [married] anniversary two days ago.  All told, we've been together for nearly 11 years.

I wanted to make a blanket congrats to all the recent and upcoming anniversaries for you ladies, too!  Congrats!


*not sure if he was actually ace, but he acted like and didn't refute it when asked/confronted

ETA: made it sound like we weren't friends anymore after we started dating, whoops.

dazdareis

Through my best friend. She met her current DH via Nexopia. She wanted me to go meet him for the first time. I became decent friends with him, and he invited me to his bday party a month or so after meeting him.

I went and met his best friend, and fell in love immediately. D(future)H had a very similar sense of humor: dry, sarcastic and a bit ... Left fielded. When he told a particular horrible joke ... I knew he was the one when I laughed so hard that I cried.

Been together almost 7 yrs, married just over 3.

thiscoffeechick

I am sales rep for FedEx. He's the Shipping Manager at an electronics company. Let's just say I "really wanted his business".

rosiemead

I use to be a barista at Starbucks and he was a regular who came in at 430am. Finally got the balls and I gave him my number and told him we needed to go out. Together 3 years married for 1

Knottie77581547

I met my SO on a website called "MyYearbook"(now known as "meet me"). We met and had fun talking, so we exchanged numbers and just talked as friends, neither of us ready to be in a relationship. About 8 months later, he called me on the phone for the first time instead of just texting, and we talked for 9 hours straight. A few weeks later we met up in person for the first time, and the rest is history.

beersandweirs

FJM85 said:

We met through mutual friends. We have been together for three years, and married for  nine months.

This is like almost my exact story, timeline and all.

beersandweirs

We met through a mutual friend that used to sleep with my husband's best friend.  He had just moved to the same town as me for grad school, and didn't know too many people yet.  It was kind of a college town, so meeting people your own age could be difficult.  Our mutual friend and some others came to town for the weekend and she invited my future husband out to get to know some people.  Later he asked for my number and we went out for pizza for our first date.

Dated for 3.5 years, married 6 months.

VeganOnTuesdays

englandxo said:

I sent a text to the wrong phone number. 

This is awesome!

spiltmilkz

He was the first friend I made after moving to Kauai. We 'friend-zoned' each other for a couple years until one day he kissed me. We were engaged 5 months later. Just celebrated 1 year wedding anniversary in August.

mustloveerica

Online. I had just gone thru a really bad break up. My mom actually convinced me to try online dating. I played that game for like a year and a half. DH was the first one that made me laugh. The first time we met up was at the county fair. It was love. We started spending pretty much all of our time together. He proposed to me in a photo booth at the same fair a year later because he knows I love keepsakes. So now I have his proposal and my true reaction forever documented. We've been together for a little over 2 years and married for 2.5 months. We moved fast but sometimes you just know it's the right person.

abigailwaslike

MySpace! We interwebs dated till he moved to my state. (I know stranger danger) & we've been together for 5 years!

SammiC217

At a dance class. I knew the instructors and was helping out, and his mom drug him there so she'd have someone to take it with. We started off as friends, then began dating 2 years later. We've been together for 3 years, married for 4 months.

BTW - he still can't dance

TRP85

I met DH at my bff's DH's bday party. My DH and her DH grew up together. We've been together for almost six years and married for two.

LittleMrsW

We met in high school. Dh was in a band and my bff and I would always go watch him play. He has a twin; I called dibs on dh and she called dibs on his brother!

mallory4284

I met my GF on eharmony (kinda, they have another website for gays/lesbians called "compatible partners") she was my first and only date from that website. We talked for a few weeks before meeting. We've been "officially" dating for 5 years. Engaged for 3 1/2.

rlpointer

I met my DH on match.com. We were both ready to give up. He had actually just moved to the area a month before we started talking for the job he had lined up after he graduated, but he had taken a year and half to join the Marines. He was in my daily five. I thought his introduce was hilarious and he was the first and only guy I ever made the first move with. Then I had a message so I paid for a month to see it. It wasn't from him. So I sent him a message and he had to get a month in order to see it. I guess timing was everything. We lived 45 minutes apart and would have never met otherwise. 

We have been together five years in November, married for 3 (anniversary was in June).

lilsinginmama

I moved back to my birthplace 10 years ago and we both attended the same church.  He asked me on a date in 2009 (after the first girl he asked couldn't go) and then he went on a two year mission for our church.  When he came back we immediately hit it off and have been together ever since!  We have been together for 4 years and married for almost 3. 

lilsinginmama

@englandx0, that has got to be an awesome story! 

BillyHorrible

Joi922 said:

First class, freshman year of college. But we didn't start dating until the end of our sophomore year. We've been together for 14 years, married for 8.

This is almost exactly us.  But we didn't meet till the end of first semester. Started dating around spring break.

lazyreader

pippacricket said:

I met DH in high school. We've been together since our junior year (2003). We've been married for a little over 5 years.

met in HS. started dating Jr year (2003). married for almost 7 years.

splashmountain

DH and I knew each other for a while but started seeing each other after a mutual friend's wedding. We dated for 4 years before getting hitched and we've almost been married one year

nocatanywhere

He transferred to my department from another state, we chatted about old school platformer video games, he started flirting with me via email, we went out to play pool together and he didn't make a move due to nerves/respect, so next time we "hung out," we watched movies until four in the morning and then I said "screw it" and kissed him. Literally.

We had a secret office romance for 1.5 years because our coworkers were busybodies. No one knew until we mutually decided to move out of state and quit on the same day. People were seriously like "Wow it's so weird you're also moving to *state*. Did you know *name* also quit this morning and is moving to... oooooooooooooooh. Oh."

We've known each other almost seven years, been together for six, married for two.

CarolinaGirl83

We met at a local bar 11 years ago this month. We've been married for 7 years.

wineandcake

We met in the emergency room of a small town hospital. It was my first day working after graduation. There was a big accident and he brought the patient in. Two months later we started talking, dating very shortly after and moved in together about 2 weeks after we started dating.

That was about 4.5ish years ago. We're not married (or engaged), just living in sin We're not planning to be married, common law is good enough for us at this point.

frig05

OKCupid, but turns out we knew some of the same people and we were going to the same college. Talked online and phone for about a week and then met in person and have together ever since. Together 5 years, married 1 year, 7 months.

cautiouslydomestic

We went to the same high school, but I actually met him at a mutual friend's house. I had just been broken up with, and went to said friend's house because I was a stupid teenage girl. DH just happened to be there. We started dating a few weeks later. I was a freshman and he was a junior. We have been together for 6 years (almost), and married for 1 year. And contrary to popular belief in our hometown, I did not marry my high school sweet heart as a teenager because I was pregnant...

ezza671

Any Jaycees here? We met via friends in the Junior Chamber. I was a hot mess recovering after a break up and DH was yummy  

Remylove1011

We met in college through my older brother. He and DH were in the same fraternity. I knew him for about 3 years before we dated. DH and I have been together for 8 years and married for almost 3 (on 10/01!)

daystardreams

My BFF hated my boyfriend and she kept insisting that I meet her husband's best friend. I refused but when my boyfriend and I did break up, my BFF arranged a meeting between me and this guy. She asked me to come over, had her husband ask his friend over, then pretended it was an accident. I didn't like the guy at first but I was probably just dealing with my break up. Every time I went to my friend's house, this guy was there. My BFF would ask him questions randomly all the time that started with "If your girlfriend wanted you to..." or would also ask him about things she knew I liked. She'd say, "Do you like small dogs?" ... "Oh, you do, Lisa has a small dog." or "Do you like pizza? Oh because Lisa likes pizza!"

Eventually, things just fell into place! My BFF definitely forced it on us but I'm glad she did!

mechedes

Jesiy_Lyn said:

DH and I met through MySpace in March 2006.

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MySpace??!!! MySpace??!!!!! Seriously?? Lol..

Same here. Haha! We actually went to the same high school, but I don't remember him from then. He says he remembers seeing me around, so when he found me on MySpace, he sent me a friend request. We also met in 2006, but just got married June of this year (this man had patience!!!)

Love2RunJ

Moving into the dorm in college my roommate couldn't get her computer speakers to work. We went in search of a computer science major that she knew but he wasn't in his dorm room so his roommate offered to help instead. 7 years later we got married. Funny enough, the speakers just weren't plugged in. Thank goodness my roommate was an airhead or else I may have never met my husband.

SwivelChair5

We were set up by mutual friends when I was new and town and needed a date to an event.  That was almost six years ago and we have been married for three.

MrsC0617

We met via IMDb. I emailed him based on a comment he made on a movie. A email relationship ensued. Three years later we met in person and started dating. We've been together 12 years, married for 8. It took 3 years to meet because he lived in California & I'm from New York.

browncoatjr

I met my hubby through work/PlentyOfFish.  He had been trying to meet me for over a year without luck (still don't know why he didn't just stop by my desk).  But then he saw me on the website and started talking to me.  Ask if I was working on the 787 project which kinda crept me out at first, but it ended up working out great! Just wish he would have proposed soon.  Guess I was ready two years before he was. :-P

bosco213

Met DH through mutual friends when I was 15 & he was 16. I thought he was weird and I told his friend I would never date him!

2 months later we kissed and we've been together ever since. Our 11 year dating anniversary is 9/25 and our 3 year wedding anniversary is in October.

hollyk224

We met online, but then found out that we had a really good mutual friend.  It's a small world

sgarmand

Spring sophomore semester. I just transferred home from an out of state college. He sat behind me and put his boots on my chair. I thought he was a redneck hick, he thought my hair was too blonde.

Then he made me laugh. Like, really really laugh.

We've been together ever since. Met January 2011, engaged February 2013, and married May 2014.

Ant&Al2825

I'm loving all these responses!

Edit: all the wine

lucy2113

We meet at church youth group, he drove me nuts, still does Together for 6, married for 3 next week. 

AnonymousNurse

We met at a dog park... my dog stole a stick from his dog.  Cute, right??  : )