GTKY 8/22

scorpiomer

How about how you and your significant other met?!

scorpiomer

My hubby and I are an eharmony success story.  Spent our first date unable to make decisions about what to do...but somehow we had a second date.  Moved in together after like 4 months together.  Got engaged after 3 years together.  Married now for almost 7 years and together just over 11!

peachy0709

We met at a bar through mutual friends exactly one week after I proclaimed to friends: "Well, it's not like I'm going to meet my future husband IN A BAR." We dated for a year before becoming engaged and have been married for 5 years now. 

chelle087

We met in college. We were both RAs in the same building. We dated for 5 years and have been married for 8.

shoegirl1975

we met in a bar, a mutual friend intorduced us, 6 weeks later he proposed and we have been married 17 years

housewifehobbyist

I met my husband smashed on whiskey at a Spice Girls concert dressed in Baby Spice drag (me, not him). 

ladameperdue

A university bar in London! (Seeing a bar theme here...)

KirstinH88

We met at the restaurant we worked at. I was 17 and DH was 23. I went off to college. He left for another job, but we always seemed to come back to that restaurant around the same time. Six years went by with the back and forth, coming and going. Finally we started dating when I was 23 and he was 27. Got pregnant with DS about 5 months into the relationship. Engaged after 1 year of dating and married 1 year after that. We've been married 3 years now.

nwshay

We also met at a bar through mutual friends. I called "dibs" and went home with him... Super classy, I know. He drove my home the next day and I realized how much of a catch he really was. I invited him on a hike a couple of days after and we connected really fast. Ended up moving in together after about a month,  go engaged 2 years later, married a year later, and in September it's our 1st wedding anniversary

Omie_Wise

We met at ancient Greek Culture think tank. I was doing an internship and he was completing a post bac program before he moved to France to enroll in a Master's program. Our programs only overlapped for 2 weeks so after that we did the LDR thing for 3 years. We will celebrate our 3rd wedding anniversary next month after being together for 7 years. 

Dannylion24

My husband grew up down the street from my cousins' house and we met at a bar when I was visiting family over a holiday. We were married within a year of starting to date. Going on 9 years now! 

mylittleirvz

We met at the coffee shop/bookstore that I used to work at. He actually was friends with a coworker of mine and came in to see him but then we met and he would come in to see me! We dated almost two years before getting engaged and we will be celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary on September 10th!

SuperKristy85

We met through our friends getting married. He was the best man in their wedding and I was the made of honor. We met at the events leading up to the wedding. 

STM2017

We met in a retirement home (haha) where we both worked as servers in the dining room. I was 18, he was 16 and we HATED each other for the first year. I was a huge keener and he kind of slacked off at work. Then something clicked and we started dating. 5 years later we got married (we wanted to both finish school first). We've been together almost 9 years, 4 of them married. 

leslieknope

Knew each other in college. Added each other to facebook. Both randomly moved to a different state about a year apart, and a few years later we both found ourselves single. Met up under the guise of friendship, and the rest is history! 

marshmallowmadness

High school sweethearts!  Met/started dating at 16, got married at 17 (summer between Jr and Sr years, eek!) and we just celebrated our 7th anniversary in July! 

marshmallowmadness

leslieknope said:

Knew each other in college. Added each other to facebook. Both randomly moved to a different state about a year apart, and a few years later we both found ourselves single. Met up under the guise of friendship, and the rest is history! 

I feel like this is really familiar and I've heard it before. Do we know each other?????? 

artemis618

We met online (OKCupid) at the beginning of last year.  He asked me to move in in August, to which I responded, "No, not without at least being engaged" (but not in a manipulative way, I swear!).  He proposed this past December and we got married in June.  I'll be 39 in October and DH is 41, so no time for delay! (He actually wanted to start trying right after he proposed, but I selfishly didn't want to be KU on my wedding day and wanted to dive the Great Barrier Reef on our honeymoon).

rachelgreene-2

He was a regular. I was the barista in a green apron. 

bww_0331

We went to college together.  He was dating a girl that lived on my floor senior year.  They broke up, I become good friends with her for the semester, we graduated.  He and I lived in the same town and would see each other around at the bar.  He asked me out in the fall, I said no.  I texted him that spring to hang out and less than a year later we were engaged.  We got married in July 

holzie-2

We met online (Plenty of Fish), moved in together 4 months later, got engaged 3 months after that and married 7 months after that.  October is our 4 year wedding anniversary. 

herewegrow

We went to middle school together and started dating in college, been together 8.5 years, married almost 5. 

BluesGal10

We worked at stores that were across the hall from each other. He told his boss he thought I was cute, and wanted to ask me out on his lunch break. His boss said go, you're on lunch now. He still has the business card I gave him with my number on it. We dated 2 years before getting engaged, and in October, will have been married for 6 years. 

LittleChick2

We met through a mutual friend. One day I got a random text from him, I only knew who he was because of good old Myspace and he had dated an acquaintance of mine. We've now been together for almost 10 years and married for just over a year.

bwo

He worked on the same Naval nuclear submarine as my brother and in same circle of friends.  I drove up to see my brother one weekend and they had all just got back from being underwater for 80ish days.  They were hammered by the time I got there.  DH was so drunk he was "slip and sliding" over the roof of his Honda Civic.  Safe to say I didn't have my eye on him until the next day at the beach.  

mrsw0920

@Holzie We're a POF success story too!

Met on POF and realized we both were attending the same small college. Both of us were older students and joined to meet people closer to our age. A year later we were engaged. We were engaged a little over a year and were married December 12th, 2015. This September will mark 3 years of us being together. 

ashleym112

We worked at a hotel in an amusement park during the summers in college. I met him our last 2 yrs there, became good friends. I graduated college and he moved across the country and asked me to come with him on a whim. Started dating for a bit and then got married 3yrs ago this October, I've known him for 6 yrs---I was in love with him the whole time though lol. 

cookies754

We met our freshman year in college through a mutual friend. His friend was interested in me and asked if I wanted to go to his friend's (DH) house for a movie night. I went and met DH, who was with another girl. A few weeks later, DH messaged me on AIM (aol instant messenger) and asked if I wanted to go bowling. It's always been an elephant in the room with that one friend, but oh well. We've been together 8 years, married for 3 of them. 

ArchyFlores

I was an archaeologist and so was his brother. 11 years ago he went to visit his brother and the rest is history. Badoomp ching!

gardenmama17

Chemistry lab!!  You could say we had...chemistry!  

STM2017

@gardenmama17, oh this made me laugh way more than I'd like to admit haha

Omie_Wise

I love all these stories! 

allybadry

We met online and then discovered we had a bunch of mutual friends. One of those mutual friends was having a b-day party at a local bar, we went together and the rest is history. We've been together 10 years, married for 6.

Limie

We met 11 years ago.  He was my boss at the grocery store.  We were always super flirty but then he married his ex because she was knocked up.  (Obviously huge mistake)  He moved on to a different store.  I moved on to a different job.  4 years later both after fresh breakups meet at a bar and end up talking about our screw ups in a corner over drinks.   3 years later we get engaged and married in the same year.  Been married for 3 years and on our second kid together,  his 3rd (my wonderful stepson) 

winterstar1

I joined Match.com on a whim and got a wink from my DH within a week of joining. We texted for a week before we met in person and I knew he was the one by the end of that first date. Everything with him came so easy, it was amazing. We were engaged 6 months later and got married 2 years to the day after our first date. We will have 5 years married next June. 

pinkshades05

We met in high school...at band camp...yes, yes, bring on the jokes. We both played clarinet and he was my section leader. We dated the last 2 years of high school and both went to the same university (dated a total of 6 years). We got married the weekend after graduation! We've been married for 7 years.

TheJerilu

Partner and I met on OKCupid.  He messaged me the day I signed up with a pickup line written in [bad] C++ because I included that in "Languages I Speak".  I actually was fairly convinced he was pranking me because he was waaaay too hot for me.  We played online video games that night and I asked if he wanted to meet up for a burger for dinner and within two weeks we moved in together because that's a reasonable adult thing to do.

It didn't end horribly though!  Obviously.  Been together 4 years, married for 2!

lovelongdog06

Loving how many couples met online! I also met DH online on Christian Mingle. I was freshly divorced after a long painful separation and signed up for 6 months because I was sure it would take at least that long. DH sent me a message 3 days later. Our first date was at a Texas Roadhouse. We talked so long they began to close, so we left for a coffee shop and talked some more. We got married a year later.

BryDienta

@scorpiomer we also met on eHarmony!  We moved in after 4 months, engaged after 8 and married 10 months later!  

Dannylion24

@gardenmama17 and @archyflores you guys are puny! 

Edit: tagged the wrong person

elplocho

We both worked at Ikea and he had a huge crush on me. I didn't know he existed, he didn't work in any of the departments I was friendly with. 

I had a rough day at work and bummed a smoke from him. He proceded to borderline stalk me for 3 weeks, then worked up the courage to ask me out. I thought he was a creep... Nice but not my type, but didn't have a good reason to break up. Lol. Little did I know we would get married 2 and a half years later.