GTKY: How did you meet your SO?

becausescience

It's GTKY Tuesday!

How did you meet your SO?  Answer the poll below and share the details!

JournoGrl23

It was freshman year of college in the month of March (2008). It was the day after my birthday and I asked one of my friends, who I also went to high school with, to come out and party with me that night to celebrate. He was trying to join a fraternity at the time, so he dragged me to one of the parties so he could meet some of the guys and see if that's the one he wanted to join. DH was a theatre major, so he had just finished working for the King Lear play on campus and was working his way through a handle of Captain Morgan. He knew my friend, so he came over to offer him a shot, which my friend turned down since he was driving. DH then turned to me and asked if I wanted one, which of course the answer was yes! The very first words he ever spoke to me were "do you want to take a shot?" which, by the way, is engraved on his wedding band (makes us sound like drunks, but I promise we aren't -- we just liked to party in college). After that he followed me around the rest of the night, which I thought was annoying, but I befriended him on FB anyway. A week later we were officially boyfriend/girlfriend and we've been together ever since. We got married in 2013.

megpeg

We started dating when I was 16 and he was 15. We went to see Toy Story 2 and I asked him if he wanted to start "going out." He said yes and we have been inseparable since- that was 1999. We got married in 2006, had DS in 2008, and DD in 2013.

becausescience

I didn't date at all in high school and only had one summer fling in college.  I was pretty shy.  After college I moved to Middle-of-Nowhere, WI to teach.  I wanted a boyfriend so I made it my New Year's Resolution to try online dating - as I wasn't about to hit up the "bar scene" and hadn't meet anybody through work or mutual friends.  So I joined eHarmony.  I went on a few dates with some very nice guys.  

DH meanwhile had been on eHarmony for the 6 months prior and hadn't met anybody.  He decided to give it one more 6 month try.  And then we got matched!  We emailed back and forth for about a month before setting our first date - Applebee's and a local bar (again - middle of nowhere).  I was smitten - he was super cute, but didn't talk much.  Went on another date a week later and met a lot of his friends.  

Made it official a month later and I moved in 5 months later.  We got a dog that fall, engaged the next summer, and married the summer after that.  

JBcakes08

I picked high school sweethearts in the poll even though that isn't 100% accurate. We went to high school together and were in a few of the same classes but didn't really become friends until senior year in German class.

I was kind of a flirt and he developed a crush on me but I wasn't into it. He asked me out three times senior year (to the homecoming dance, and to the movies twice) and I kept saying no. He was joining the Marine Corps right after high school and my mom put me on a guilt trip saying I should just go on a date with him since he's going to be leaving anyway and see how it goes. I remember her saying, "You never know, you could have the time of your life." I laughed, "I won't."

I called him and said if he was still interested in going out then I would be too. We went to Applebee's and the movies (we saw 1408, a terrible horror movie with John Cusack) and were inseparable that whole summer until he went to boot camp. We got married 11 months after our first date, I was 18 and he was 19. We just had our 9 year wedding anniversary in May! ❤️❤️❤️

LiveNLove44

College sweethearts. We met during my sophomore and his senior year. We had seen each other around campus at the fitness center and field house where he played IM volleyball and I often ran, but we officially met at a party on another college campus following a rival football game. We were immediately connected and have been together ever since! He graduated with a degree in nutrition and mine was in English (secondary education minor). Our mutual passion for an active lifestyle brought us together, and it's been an incredible journey seeing how we've each grown as individuals and through our marriage. 

@JournoGrl23, DH offered me a beer at the party, so there must be something to that way of meeting. serendipitous

livingthedream-3

SS. He was a friend's brother. We started dating in 2002. We got married in 2004 but didn't have our first kid until 2013 and now KU with #3. 

muggle621

So cool to see everyone's "how we met" stories!! 
I became friends with my SO's brother as we worked for the same agency (I work for the State). For an entire year he kept telling me he wanted to set me up with his younger bro and how perfect we are for each other etc but his brother was in a shitty relationship at the time. Then when he finally broke up with her I was in a relationship! The timing FINALLY worked out in Sept 2015 and we met face to face at a tailgate. We moved pretty fast - we were dating a week later, engaged Dec 2015, married May 2016, and now we are expecting our first! Our logic is we both have dated a million ppl so we knew what we were looking for by the time we met each other. 
It's also a awesome having a brother in law that I was good friends with first! 

ivfgotthistwice

I had moved to NJ 6 weeks prior and still was learning my way around. I was in a rush but had to run into CVS to pick up something quick. OF COURSE there was only one cashier with a huge line (because I was now late) and I turned around to the guy behind me to whine. I married that guy.

chasingroygbiv

Through mutual friends, but we are also high school sweethearts. Met in 2005 when I actually went to someone's house to hang out, he was too busy playing video games so I went to leave and my now husband asked if I wanted to "drive around" (that was the cool thing at 16 around here). We did and that was it! 

citygirl17

I didn't know which one to choose.  DH and I met at a bar our sophomore year and then became college sweethearts lol

ellekell

We met on MySpace. Because we are super effing classy

crossfitbabybump

I was a Junior in high school on the boys Varsity Hockey Team (I was the first and only girl to join the boys team in Freeport history.) It was Valentines Day, 2008. We were playing a game against a Catholic School and they were NOT fond of a girl playing hockey with a bunch of boys, and they made that very clear. The last period of the game with about 2 minutes left a young man decided to just lay me out, breaking my tailbone in the process. I spent Valentines Day in the ER.

A few days later at school, I was part of this yoga club and that's where I met my husband. Of course I couldn't participate due to a broken tailbone. So while others were practicing, I was sitting on a donut, working on Spanish homework. I just happened to notice a cute guy with a really nice butt in rag doll position in front of me. He looked through his legs at me gawking at him and in front of the whole class said to me, "Hey.. what'chya looking at?" with a smile on his face. I immediately turned red, embarrassed that I had been caught staring. I shoved my face into my Spanish book and didn't look at him the rest of the time. One part embarrassed, the other part of me mad at him for calling me out like that. As soon as the bell rang, I sprinted (as best I could with a broken tailbone) out of there!

A few weeks later, we found out we had a study hall together. We started chatting and eventually he told me that he wanted to go to Penn State for college. SO DID I! I knew right then and there I had to marry this guy. We started dating but a few weeks later, I decided I didn't want to date anyone at the moment and asked him if we could just be friends. He agreed but he kept hanging around until one day, he didn't. I have to be honest, I was slightly upset. I ended up taking him a huge Ziploc bag full of animal crackers, since I knew he liked them. I also had asked him to burn me a CD since he had LimeWire, ya know that was cool back in the day, haha.

He told me he wouldn't charge me for the CD even though he charged other people. I was super happy! But the next day when he brought it to me, he told me he lied and that he was going to have to charge me for the CD. WHAT?! But then he told me he'd have to charge me a kiss. Smooth. So I let him give me a kiss on the cheek. (To this day we both talk about how he should have just kissed me, but he was nervous and so was I!) After that we just kinda started hanging out and he'd take me out to eat and to the movies, write me poems, hangout with my family, you know, boyfriend things. We aren't really sure of what our actual dating anniversary is but we have guess-timated around March 26, 2008.

And now I'm pregnant with his first son or daughter. It's crazy how these things happen but I am so blessed to have had this man bend over in yoga. It's quite the story to tell our grandkids someday.

vflux33

I clicked mutual friends because we didn't actually meet in college and he transferred to my college a few months later, but we were also college sweethearts. 

I don't have a cute story. We met in a smelly disgusting house through his former very drunk bandmates. The grossness of the house became a catalyst for us to meet elsewhere and then things just sort of fell together. Our first conversation was very deep, about how we hated people who pulled the victim card. I don't remember how the conversation started, but it's a conversation we still have today, 14.5 years later. We found out recently we have the same rare Myers-Briggs personality type, and now it all makes sense. 

mamaloba816

I clicked mutual friends, but we were also high school sweethearts. My best friend and his best friend were sister and brother. I stayed over with her and he stayed over with him during the first night of Christmas break my 8th grade year (he was in 9th grade). At the time, I had a "boyfriend", but I had a huge crush on this new guy. I told my best friend that he was cute and made her swear not to tell. Of course, she did. My boyfriend ignored me all of Christmas break and broke up with me before Valentine's Day. DH had a girlfriend once we broke up. Finally, in March, we were both single and we started going out on March 9, 2001. We got married in June of 2010, adopted our fur baby in April 2011, had our DS in August 2016 and are expecting baby 2 in March 2018. I estimate that my due date is 3/9-3/10, so possibly exactly 17 years after we started dating! 

MLD912

We met while drunk at a bar following a rodeo - my first and only one night stand... who stuck! We've been married 4 years now!

hullabalou

I checked "mutual friends," but what actually happened is a friend and I rented a 4 bedroom house while I was in college. She was friends with my H's brother, who was going through a divorce and rented the 3rd bedroom. When my H moved to town that year, he ended up renting the 4th bedroom. So we lived together before we started dating.

arhodes6

Wow so many cute stories! I met DH in high school, through mutual friends who introduced us on online first then we ended up going to the same church so I didn't know what to pick! After we ran into each other at church he asked me to junior year homecoming and we were inseparable ever since. We got married on our 10 year anniversary so every year we say we have been together for 1/11, 2/12, 3/13 and this August will be our 4/14 anniversary

riansmommie

I met my hubby the day we graduated boot camp. He was standing looking at the train schedule, I needed a liberty buddy, so I asked if he wanted to come out with my dad and me. He accepted. He was actually still married to his first wife when we met, though they were separated. That was in July 2010. All throughout A-School we were inseparable, even though he swore up and down that once we left Pensacola and went to our first commands that would be the end of us. Boy was he wrong! After 4 months apart he drove 14hr overnight to see me for a couple of days, we got engaged and married just a year after the first day we met. 7 years later and here we are with baby #4 on the way.

deleted22152218

He was 18 and I was 15.   My sister's boyfriend (now husband) was one of his close friends. I was going to go watch the local high school drama club's musical (starring his ex girlfriend. Boo!) and so were they. So I caught a ride and we sat by eachother in the back seat, and I was like WOW this guy is cute.   We kind of just set our eyes on eachother and let things progress naturally over time, and now here we are with a beautiful daughter and baby #2 on the way! 

Amarantheansea

We were actually both in unhappy and unhealthy relationships when we met. I was with a verbally abusive and controllling man who I had been with   For 10 years.  He never wanted to go anywhere with me little lone hang out with my friends or go on vacation. I had given up on love and decided that I was going to do things that made me happy. Fuck men!  Well my girls wanted to go out and party.  I would have rather curled up on the beach and watched the stars .  But I went along.  While they were hitting up guys.  I hung out and played poker with the bartender and drank fireball shots.  Because why the hell not.   Well this guy rolled into the bar after midnight and sat down at the end and ordered food.  I keep noticing him staring at me and then glancing away after our eyes met.  I thought he was kind of cute and I had just lost my hand in poker so when his food arrived I walked over to him and told him it looked pretty good and asked if I could try some.  I pretty much ate half his meal and then offered some French fries to my girlfriends.  He was really sweet and seemed amused.  We started talking on a very personal basis dreams, hopes, aspirations, we were both very open and honest about being in relationships.  We were both unhappy and wanted more out of our lives.  We talked until sunrise and he made me promise that I would get in touch with him. He said it twice and held my hand the second time looked into my wanted and he affirmed., "I really mean it".  To make a long story short we started talking over email, then phone.  I flew out to the islands to see him.  We had a really honest soulful connection.   I trusted him,  we carried on a long distance relationship for a few months until we both got kicked out of each other's country  I am from Canada and he is from the US...( this happens sometimes when you start dating someone from another country). We had to visit each other in the carribean, and Europe, I even took a work placement in India so we could be together. We decided we wanted to be together so we filed the paperwork we spent 2 years going through immigration processing.  We sometimes went 6-7 months without seeing each other.  But there was always trust.  I can always count on him. I have always called our relationship perfectly imperfect.  We are perfect together, but we went through fire and brimstone just to be together.  This made our relationship rock solid.  That was almost eight years ago now we're married and ready for baby # 3.  Happy ending and the beginning of another beautiful adventure:). Totally worth it!

historeliza

College Sweethearts, though we didn't start dating until after he graduated. We met in the college marching band (dorky I know), and i played piccolo and he saxophone.  At first I thought he was pretty immature.  Actually started to get to know him a few months later, and we fell for each other.  However, I was in an abusive relationship, and sadly got reeled back by my ex.  Took about another 8 months before I had the courage to break up with him, and it took another 4 months for us to get to the point we were at.  However, I invited him to my hometown, went on a date, and here we are 8 years later, 3 years married. 

mockingjay1

We met in 7th grade geography and "dated" for a couple months. We started dating again in 10th grade when we were 15 (homecoming dance) and have been together ever since. 

pumpkinpancake

I chose "other" because we were technically junior high school sweethearts. We met when we were in 6th grade, and "dated" as much as 6th graders do (going to the movies, out to dinner in groups, etc). It obviously wasn't anything serious at that point, but then we started really dating in high school and college. We got married after we had graduated college, and this year will be our 5 year wedding anniversary! 

runsoncoffee

I went to visit my best friend from college during summer break and we went to my now DHs best friends birthday party. We chatted and became Facebook friends lol then a few weeks later I visited her again and DH dropped his guy plans to invite the girls *me* over. He was sneaky and got my number and the rest is history! We spent 5 years long distance before getting married!

TennisLove30

 I met my husband on match.com back in 2009.  We live three hours from each other but decided to date anyway. We dated for two months, got engaged, and were married six months later. We have been married seven years as of yesterday. It was a whirlwind, but he will always be my best decision.

HappyMonkey817

We met online. A couple of weeks later, Hurricane Sandy devastated our area. He had no power, water, etc. and I did. There was no phone service, so I was surprised when he showed up at my house (but also very happy, obviously). He wound up staying with me for 2 weeks, and the rest is history. We were married less than a year later.

Staciefacie

We were both 16/17 when we actually met. We both were always at the same parties (we were bad kids  ) but we both were dating other people fast forward a couple years. I texted him looking for his cousin and he never gave me his number but we ended up talking. He actually came to my house one night (he worked nights at the time) and as he was leaving (early am) my dad thought he was an intruder and almost shot him! My dad thinks he's crazy because he came back later that night, haha. 

justkeeptrying

I was in university and he was in high school. We worked in a retirement home in the dining room. Funny story is that we hated each other for the first year we worked together. Like could not stand each other. Then a switch flipped and we've been together 10 years. 

KristinUM12

We both worked as full time missionaries and were at training in Florida. I just knew him as the short guy who was good at volleyball...we both enjoy playing sand volleyball a lot, so we spent a lot of our free time on the court. Started chatting one night after playing, and got into this long deep conversation and before I knew it he was asking me on a date. 3 years later we've been married for a year and a half and hopefully many more to come!

Elizabella85

Eharmony. We lived in neighboring states then we both relocated to Texas. We've been married 4 years.

Gingermom15

We were childhood neighbors and hadn't seen each other in years after we moved apart. We got set up on a blind date by a mutual friend after he (friend) had begged me to let him set me up. Swore up and down we were a perfect fit. Turns out he was right. DH and j have been together almost 5 years, married 12/14/16

lgutu28

I taught with one of his close friends and she introduced us! We were engaged within 6 weeks.  

fatstagnation

I was getting over a bad spot after a bad, and brief, marriage. I told a mutual friend I thought I was finally ready to date seriously again. He said he knew a really nice guy. I joked with my friends because in all the times I'd talked about what I was looking for in a partner, I never thought I needed to specify "nice." Until that bad relationship.

So, we went on a blind date, and it was great. We couldn't stop talking. The restaurant closed around us and we decided to go to a bar so we could continue getting to know each other. That was a little over 5 years ago. 

Every now and then I have a twinge of sadness/guilt that I'm starting a family so late in life. Like, will I be here long enough for my kids? But I don't think I'd have gone out with DH at any other time in my life. It had to happen when it did!

calecorvus

I checked College Sweethearts, though technically it took us a few years after college to start dating xD

We'd been pretty good friends in college, both the mom-friend type so we bonded over that and how ridiculous our brood of friends could be. We crushed on each other on and off the whole 3-ish years we were at college together, but we were almost never single at the same time. The one time we were both single I was still kind of hung up on my most recent ex, but since DW was about to move out of state I still threw her the most incredibly awkward "farewell party". It was just us, we went out to dinner and then picked up some alcohol and went back to my room to sit awkwardly next to each other and almost-cuddle while drinking xD I only admitted to that basically being a date much later on, haha.

We lost touch for a couple years after college, but eventually I think it was DW who messaged me, and we immediately fell back into regular chatting, and then regular hours-long phonecalls nearly every night, and then at about 3am on Thanksgiving 2012 I very clumsily asked her out. We were both unemployed at the time (I was trying to make a go of freelance art/gophering for a friend who did haunted house stuff), and after a few months of dating long distance we made a bet that whoever got a job first could decide who moved in with who.

I got a job 3 days later, haha. DW moved into my room at my mom's house, we finally managed to get our own place in 2015, then got around to getting married May 2016 (then pregnant in 2017, baby in 2018, I'm a little afraid of what we'll do in 2019, haha).

DDRRT1982

I met mine in 2001 at his college dorm.  We use to go over there to drink and hangout on his futon.  Lame.  He wasn't very social with me, but he tells me stories now of what he thought of me.  We ended up reamaining in touch here and there over the next decade.  We met back up after I moved back from finishing my degree for a beer.  I did not consider it a date.  However, he was actually someone I never thought he was.  He had a lot of personality and humor.  We connected. We've been together ever since.  Since we are both a little older we kind of just laid expectations out there and decided to have kids before we got married.  I've been married before and I wasn't as much looking forward to that as I was having kids.  We are married now, but kids came first.

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ivfgotthistwice

Omg this thread is great! 

I had just moved to the area and only knew how to get to a few places. I ran to cvs quick on my lunch at work and there was only one cashier and a super long line. I turned around to the guy behind me and said "wow I can't believe they only have one cashier, I hope I'm not late back to work" - I married that guy I turned around and talked to

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ShawnnaO

I met my husband my freshman year of highschool. He was a year older than me. I had just gotten out of a bad relationship but he was dating one of my friends at the time. They broke up but I was already in another bad relationship. My sophomore year we were both at a dance and his at the time girlfriend started grinding on some other guy. He broke up with her and came and told me what had happened. We spent the rest of the dance together and six years later we're still going strong. He proposed when I was a senior, and we got married right after I graduated. 

@fatstagnation my mom had me when she was 40. Not being around was always one of her biggest fears, but I know that she wouldn't have had it any other way. 

npkat

My husband and I met our freshman year of college(2005) in chemistry class. We were both on the nursing path so we had at least 1 class together every semester. We became pretty good friends. I was roommates with one of his fraternity brothers so we hung out outside of class that way. Never dated, but almost did. Might have hooked up a couple times  We ended up starting nursing school at different times so we didn't see eachother too often the last year or so of college. Fast forward about 3.5-4 years after I graduated college... had not seen each other all that time, both had been in very serious relationships(his ending most recent) and we saw each other out at a local bar. Started catching up and never looked back. We've been married for 2.5 years and together for over 4.5 years. It's been so much fun! I can't wait to finally bring a baby into this world with him! 

orbmaker

We met in NYC via okcupid and hit it off. I had just finished nursing school and we were both kinda underemployed that summer and hung out/had sex constantly. We moved in together after 4 months, got engaged after 1 year, married after 2, and pregnant by 3

savedbygrace1213

I guess I missed this GTKY from July like the rest of you!  

I met my SO in 3rd grade. He moved from PA and came to our small town. My class only had 21. I dated very few boys and those probably don't even count because we were so young. So DH is about the only person I've ever been with. We started dating my Junior year and dated forever while going to different colleges. Made it through that with a few minor rough patches and finally got married 6 years later. This year was our 6th year of marriage, so we've officially been married as long as we dated!