GTKY: 2/8

tuxielove93

In the spirit of Valentine's Day being soon:

How did you meet your S/O? 

jellie603

Oh this is fun! MH and I met at work. We were both working at a "residential placement facility for at-risk teen boys" - pretty much it was a behavioral program that was a school and housing (either court or school district ordered) and the step before juvenile detention. I was a residential worker/1:1 aid and he was the math teacher. I lived with 2 other coworkers at the time and he moved in. Since this is a very demanding job (I worked 80 hour weeks for 6 months straight) you don't really see anyone other than who you live with and who you work with. We started dating 3 months later, been together for almost a decade, and both have left that company.

feather_heather

We met on bumble! 

inthewoods23

I think I've mentioned the robotics program DH and I mentor (FIRST Robotics). We both participated in this program as high school students and that's how we met. I pretty much had a crush on him immediately but he was dating someone else at the time. I hadn't joined until my Junior year so I didn't know him until he was a Senior. We finally got together once I got to college. We now lead/mentor this exact team so we've come full circle. It's very dorky. And now we've got a future member on the way

creativesoul63

We met through mutual friends. A close college friend of mine met her S/O on OkCupid and he joined our friend group right away. MH is a good friend of said S/O, so when he moved to the area for work he started tagging along with him at parties/gatherings and we pretty much clicked at the second party we saw each other at and stayed up all night talking and ahem, other things. We moved in together 2 years later and were married 4 years after that. We’ve been together now almost 11 years.

sunshineandlemons

We met by way of mutual friends back in college when I was 18. He lived in a big house with a bunch of guys and I was coming over to hang out with some of them. Literally ran into him at the front door- he was leaving to go to a party and I was on my way in. Our paths crossed several other times before we got to know each other and began dating the next year. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought in that moment that would be my husband and father of my kids. And even crazier to think I’ve spent half of my life with him. ❤️ 

zinnia19

My hubby and I met on OkCupid almost 10 years ago. As an introvert I appreciated online dating! It made it easier to "make the first move". And made each person's intentions clear. We both had really lengthy, nerdy, witty profiles with lots of details about ourselves. I was smitten pretty quickly. 😍

bearsandbeets7

Fun! DH and I first met as kids at church, I was 7 and he was 6. My family moved away and moved back a few years later when I was 15. We went back to the same church and became super close friends. He wanted to date but I didn’t because I didn’t wanna lose him as a friend. He finally talked me in to being his girlfriend. We broke up right before I graduated high school and were apart for months, we reconnected at a church lock in and have been together ever since. We got married at 19/18 when I was pregnant with DD, this year marks 8 years of marriage and 12 years together and he is still my very best friend after all this time. 

Side story: he did not like me when we were kids because our local paper had a coloring contest and both of us entered and I won. The prize was your picture printed in the paper and $50 cash. He claims I cheated and my mom helped me to this day lol. 

francesgs

We lived in the same neighborhood and had mutual friends. He said he would see me around all the time and was very interested but his friends told him I’d never give him the time of day… Well, when I was 18 and he was 21 he asked me out on a date then a second date and we’ve been inseparable ever since! Going on 15 years together this year and 9 years married later this year. 

cmhme

We met at work... i was his boss! To this day when he tells the story he says "i didnt know i was interviewing for two jobs!" The first time we said i love you was on work trip so when we got back we told our bosses and luckily it was worth the HR troubles!

velvetblue88

#itscomplicated 😆
In short, we met at work at a software start-up. He was a programmer, and I was a tester. 

Longer story: I like to tell people we met when he stole my cubicle. I had prime real estate in the center of the office, and one day, someone told me that I was going to be moving to a place that we all jokingly called a "closet" with the other testers, and the new guy would be taking my cube. After I moved, I popped over to my old cubicle, and I jokingly accused him of stealing my cubicle.
Now, let me set the stage.
It was his first job after college, so he was this super meek, quiet programmer. I am a little bit more boisterous. After I accused him, he was so quiet when he said, "I'm sorry. They just told me to sit here." I apologized, told him I was joking. We became friends, and 3 years later started dating. 5 years after that, we got married. We'll be married almost 8 years when our bundle arrives. 🥰

inthewoods23

@velvetblue88 oh my god that's the cutest story lol. I love the "they just told me to sit here".

rubyrose_0919

These are all so sweet and funny! ❤

I was in a happy, long-term, committed, own-a-house together level relationship when I started a new job that I loved. I'd been there a couple of weeks and a few colleagues were going to a coworkers apartment for drinks after work. A random stranger (to me) walked into that apartment and was greeted by everyone there. We hadn't worked together because he had recently moved on from the job, but lived nearby and the host was his very close friend. Cue record scratch, jaw drop, slow motion, spotlight from the heavens, movie producer 'you just met your soul mate' moment. We didn't speak more than a few words to each other before I excused myself to splash water on my face and muttered to myself in the mirror "I think that boy is going to ruin your whole life if you don't leave right now." So I quickly left.

I broke things off with long term boyfriend a couple days later because I was still reverberating from that brief encounter and having a monster crush on a stranger felt awful.

That random stranger texted our boss five minutes after I left the party asking if he could "come back to work some casual shifts...and maybe help train the new girl." He also texted a friend that night 'hey, just an FYI, I'm pretty sure I'm going to need a plus one for your wedding.'

And that's how the boy who I thought was going to ruin my whole life became my husband.

creativesoul63

@rubyrose_0919 that is some next level romantic comedy worthy stuff! I’m so glad it worked out for you, way to follow your heart!

courtneyqdk

Awwww I love reading all of these stories! 🥰

We met at a bar - I was actually newly single (still living with the ex, hadn't even found my own place yet) and my two friends were SO excited fo go out for a girls night now that we were all single at the same time. I wanted to stay in and watch movies and eat pizza! 

Anyway, they convinced me, and I met this guy on the dance floor. He was just in town for his friend's birthday, happened to be heading back to a similar area of town as us so my friends and I split a cab with him and his friend back uptown at the end of the night. He asked for my number - I actually said no! lol I said that I was newly single not looking to date or anything. Somehow he convinced me to give him my email address - anyway he went back to school about 5 hrs away and we emailed back and forth for a few months while I was getting settled into my new single life. He came back to town around Xmas and we ended up going on a date... and here we are! Definitely a version of "it will come when you aren't looking for it" type of thing. Sometimes I think about how many random coincidences had to lead us to both being at that bar that night - pretty wild if you think about it! 

peppylilfoxy

We met on eHarmony. Lol. I had been engaged to a real abusive butthole and we ended it 5 months before our planned wedding after 6 years of being together (he cheated on me with one of his high school students I later found out). A week after ending things I thought "who the heck will I meet in this tiny rural town?" So I decided to go online for the first time and see what online dating was about. My husband was my first match (I totally thought he was out of my league at the time and "why the heck would he like me?") then we were engaged a year later.

runnergirl2018

Oh I love these stories! So interesting all the different ways we meet our partners!

my husband and I went to middle school together but I wanted NOTHING to do with him because I thought he was a super big nerd (which he was and still is) 🤣  we ended up with mutual friends that we both had for a long time. I moved away in high school but kept In touch with a mutual friend long after. We ended up as FB friends and reconnected the summer after I finished grad school and was unemployed and bored. We were just friends at first. We both around that time got jobs on the most opposite ends of the US possible but the connection grew (even though we were both trying to date people in our local areas) and we ended up in a long distance relation for almost 2 years before moving in together! We’ve been together now 8 years and just had our 4th wedding anniversary. 

So funny and strange how life works out 

tuxielove93

I posted this and didn't even answer my own question:

Husband and I met in high school. He was two years behind me, but we spent a ton of time together because we were in Drama together. I had an on and off boyfriend, and hubs and I just kept missing each other even though we both liked each other. I remember one time specifically, I was trying to get him to take me to some dance thing without outright saying it. But the man is not good at subtly. And his friend asked me before he could, so he felt like he couldn't violate the "bro code" even though I had NO interest in his friend. 
Anyways, when I was in college it finally ended for good with my high school boyfriend, hubs finally swooped in and asked me out, and we've been inseparable ever since. Cute side note, we met up with a friend from high school a few years later. When she first saw us, she just stared back and forth for a second and then said, "Yeah, this makes sense". We thought it was hysterical. Apparently, everyone else could see it too. 

LJMoon6

My BFF at the time just started dating this guy. We all went out to the bar together and met up with his brother. I instantly started flirting with him but got nowhere! He was wearing a muscle shirt and had tattoos and was just soooo attractive to me! I found out that he was in a relationship so I put him out of my mind. A few weeks later my BFF’s boyfriend told him his brother is single *wink wink. I had no intensions of being someone’s rebound. So a few more months go by and we see him out at the bar again. He invites me to go hang out with him and his friends and we end up having a WILD night. I had no intentions of this being more than a one night stand but I had mistakenly left my earrings at his place (and he had my phone number from trying to help me find my phone the night before lol). The rest is history!