GTKY 11/15: How did you meet your SO?

stlbuckeye132

Tell us how you and SO met!

KatieEl

Fun GTKY! My husband and I met over inauguration weekend 2009 at a bar.  (He told all his friends that we met at inauguration which makes it sound like our eyes met across the mall while Obama was talking, but really his old college roommate ("Dave") came up to DC to visit and was staying with him.  Dave was currently roommates at the time with "John" my best friend's boyfriend, so it was through friends.)  We met up at a very dive bar and I picked him up. 

stlbuckeye132

I had an internship in Oklahoma the summer of 2011, and MH was an intern too. I'm super quiet/shy/introverted until I get comfortable around people, so I was super nervous my whole first day. I was introduced to him by another intern and MH asked me about Ohio State football, and that's when I knew I'd marry him. jkjk, but I knew I could be friends with him and instantly felt comfortable around him. We didn't date that summer because I knew I'd be going back to Ohio in a couple months.

The last week of my internship, I interviewed with the same company for a full-time position upon graduating, and they offered me the job! We did the long-distance dating thing while I finished school, and then I moved back after graduating. We were engaged in 2013 and married in 2014!

blaf322

We were cashier's at the grocery store together in high school. We worked together for 6 or 7 years before we started dating 

rachelredhead

Match.com! In late 2016, I listed on my profile that I loved the smell of onions and butter. He wrote me a one sentence message, “Onions and butter, that’s a good smell”

The rest is history. We got engaged less than a year later and married in the spring of 2018. ❤️ We have wine glasses that say Onions and Butter. I’m usually Butter. 😁

stlbuckeye132

@rachelredhead that really is a great smell though!!

blaf322

@rachelredhead   What a great reason to connect!

littlebug2010

DH and I met in 2004. He was 12 and I was 14. We started dating at 14 and 16. We dated all through high school and college. Got married right after her graduated from college. We were basically middle school sweethearts. 

pretzellover

I met MH in a bar, and after a couple hours (and MANY vodka drinks later), I got sick of waiting for him to intro himself & did it around 2.30am. But... I don’t remember this.
What I do remember is getting a call around 8am the next day, and some guy asking me ‘are we still on for today?  I’m at Hertz renting a car & need your address.’ After a few questions (who are you; what do you did / have you been fingerprinted), I agreed to go skydiving with him 2 hours outside NYC.
That was late 2006!

stlbuckeye132

@pretzellover you win! 😂 that’s amazing!

b_1029

We actually went to the same college and knew of each other through a mutual friend but didn’t actually meet until several years later on St. Patrick’s day in Chicago when that same friend came to visit me. Needless to say we drank a lot the night we met and my friend and I ended up crashing at his place (me in his bed- clothed at least? Lol). Our friend told us if we didn’t become friends she’d defriend both of us and the rest is history. True love 😂

modoodles

I met DH in 2016 at work. I worked in the office and he was a machinery trainer, at my location and also traveled around the us to train at new locations as well. Anyway, our HR lady always had to schedule trainings with him, and since I could see her desk from mine, we met that way. We flirted lightly at work for a year before a first date happened. By flirting, I mean I told everyone how gorgeous the trainer was, and that obviously I needed some training. On his birthday he brought me brownies. Now THAT'S love. Brownies did it. 

crystalmir91385

He came home from college for the summer and we both got jobs at the same place. We did the long distance thing for the next 3 years 

coffeeandcookies84

DH and I met during university when we both had co-op jobs in the same city. At the end of the term we both went back to our respective provinces to finish our final semesters. We would fly back and forth to visit each other during those few months. DH graduated before me, and moved FURTHER away from me (our current city), luckily I had family who lived there, so I took a chance on him. That was 13 years ago!

mamarosebud22

My hubby and I met through a mutual friend (my best guy friend). He bought us both tickets to mayhem festival. We clicked instantly, and history is and still being written. Lol. We've definitely faced our challenges. Although the road has gotten Rocky every now and then; we've been pretty inseperable since. He's truly my other half. Now here we are 10 years later, and expecting baby number 3!

enchantindragon

We met in college our freshman year. We lived in the same building and made mutual friends. We stayed friends for four years and started dating right after we graduated. Been together now for 16 years and married for 13. We have known each other for two decades which seems crazy to think about now that I typed it out.

mommyofthefence

Our favorite band's fan facebook group. We became friends and started talking every day even though we were 800 miles apart. We tried not to do it, we even tried dating other ppl but nope. Lol  Couldn't stay away from each other. He moved here and we got married last year. 

dancingtreepose

Match.com! I had been on a first date spree, lots of dinners and drinks, plenty of ok guys but no one I was excited about. I was 29 and looking for The One. Then this snowboarding dude who grew up the town over from me started messaging with me and we decided to meet at the mountain to go snowboarding (both had passes to the same ski mountain). We met at the bottom of the lift and rode together all afternoon. It was so much more fun and relaxing than dinner or drinks. Four years later, he proposed at the top of the mountain we met on. 

dancingtreepose

@mommyofthefence what band??

@pretzellover skydiving!!!  OMG

@rachelredhead Glad to see another Match.com success story   And you're right, it is a great smell.

macheno

I was in a relationship when I moved to NYC. After almost 6 years it finally ended. I waited 8 months and decided I wanted to try dating which was completely foreign to me after not being single for so long. I also wanted to find a partner with similar values and felt it would be easier online rather than wade through the millions of people in NYC bars. The ratio of women to men in NYC is 2:1.
   I tried Match and didn't find anyone really. We met on the website How About We. Instead of just swiping left or right or weeding through profiles you write 3 date ideas i.e. "how about we grab coffee and walk through a new neighborhood". So you see people's basic profile and their dates first, if you like their date it sends them a message. It was a much more fun way to GTK someone and get a feel for their personality. Also, the questions asked on their profiles were quirky and interesting i.e. what's your guilty pleasure? if you weren't at your current job what would you be doing? What's your idea of home? . Don't even know if it still exists. Anyway we met and started dating June 2014, were engaged February 2016- that's a fun proposal story that involves him going to visit my parents to ask for permission and me forgetting or date, married July 2016 in Hudson Valley.