GTKY- SO edition

nopegoat

-How did you and your SO meet?
-What does your SO do for a living? 
-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? 

nopegoat

We haven't had one of these in a while and one of our ladies getting married today (@k_keyser1996 congrats again) made me realize we haven't shared much about our SO's. Plus I'm currently trying to ignore the utter chaos inside my house that my boys are creating because it's pouring rain outside so....

How did you and your SO meet? We met when I was 16 and he was 17, 3 days after I started my first job at our small local grocery store. I remember going home that night and telling my mom all about this really hot guy that came through my line even though we barely said two words to each other just lots of goofy grins. 😂 After that day he started coming in every single Sunday for the next 3 months before he finally got the courage to ask me for my phone number. Inseparable ever since. Next month makes 18yrs together. ❤️

-What does your SO do for a living? He is a marine fire safety specialists. He installs, repairs, and inspects fire safety equipment on ships and rigs. Before moving to the fire safety he did life boats and general ship repair and traveled the globe. He still travels some but thankfully nowhere near as much and I have become incredibly spoiled because of it. 

-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? Physically, I hope they get his metabolism, strength, and if it's another boy, his height for sure. Personality I hope they get his people skills, he so much more social and can relate to anyone and everyone so easily while I am awkward as heck and prefer to be left alone. 😅 I also hope they get his work ethic and his mechanical ability. Dude can seriously fix anything. 

miss_lynn9

@nopegoat awe that's such a cute story! 

How did you and your SO meet? We met online through eHarmony. I was 23 and he was 24.

-What does your SO do for a living? He is an electrical rope access technician at a shell oil refinery. So he gets to do electrical work 200 feet in the air hanging off a rope. He enjoys it. 

-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? Physically, his metabolism is amazing so that and his athleticism. Personality, his worth ethic and his love for learning and drive to better himself. Oh also he is amazing with building and fixing things too. He taught himself how to completely renovate houses and he does an amazing job. 

cheznet

How did you and your SO meet?
We met at a dance party that our mutual friend invited us to. I was DD, but still letting loose and dancing like no one was watching. He came up and started dancing with me.
-What does your SO do for a living? 
He's a data scientist for a company that tracks and predicts electrical grid data.
-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? Athleticism, intelligence, especially math-wise, cooking ability.

mamahosch

-How did you and your SO meet? We actually matched on Tinder and here we are 7 years later - married with (almost) two kids! I was visiting my college roommate for the weekend since we lived 3 hours apart after graduation and teaching in different towns and I had just downloaded the app because I thought it was funny and never meant to use it for anything other than swiping left or right. Well we obviously both swiped right and at the time we talked for about 2 months before we met in person for a date. We were long distance for about 2 years, and since he could work remotely he would live with me for about a week at a time! I left my teaching job with no prospect for another at the time to move to be with him which was actually closer to all my family and friends and here we are!

(Tinder: It isn’t just for hooking up 🤣)

-What does your SO do for a living? So I still don’t know exactly what he does after 7 years (it’s so damn confusing) but basically the gist is that he is an IT Specialist on a government contract for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid. He basically makes sure all of the applications hospitals etc. use are running and things like that. 

-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? Well we already know he’ll get his looks from him as all of the kids on that side of the family look like their fathers (DS is his mini me). But I hope he gets his brains for technology and mathematics. And his humor.

nopegoat

@mamahosch I thought for sure that all our kids would look just like my H because he has slightly darker/more olive skin and has brown eyes and I have very fair skin and blue/green eyes. So far we have 3 that take after him and 3 that take after me. I can't wait to see who this one takes after. 

noxacanthus

-How did you and your SO meet? We met through a mutual friend in college. I thought he was cute so I lied and invited my way into their gaming group that met every Saturday. 5 months later we were engaged. Everyone thought we were insane, but we just celebrated our 10 year anniversary.

-What does your SO do for a living? Currently a SAHD, but before that he worked in the security and fitness fields. We move around a lot with the Navy so everything from night manager at the base gym to driving armored cars for banks.

-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? Basically everything, haha. Definitely his height and metabolism. Also his sense of humor and creativity (I am too logical and left-brained to be creative). Our daughter looks like a carbon copy of his sister, so here's hoping the trend continues.

disneybaby23

-How did you and your SO meet? I met my SO at my old job while I was married to someone else. Working with him over the years and forming a friendship made me finally come to the conclusion that my husband at the time was completely abusive towards me. Spending time around someone who was gentle and patient made me realize that I could actually be with someone who was compatible with me and who respected me. When I finally stepped away from that relationship my husband and I got together fairly quickly after that and I had a life that was so much better. It wasn’t scandalous or anything but the story always makes everyone raise an eyebrow. 
-What does your SO do for a living? He is my co-owner at our business doing taxes. He’s a CPA. 
-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? I really hope our kid gets his curly hair - fully springy ringlet curls. I’m obsessed. Also if we have a boy I hope they embrace his complete anti-toxic masculinity attitude. No chore is gendered and no man needs to prove anything. I love that about him. He also humors everything - no hobby is a waste of time and no interest is stilly. 

heytallmama

-How did you and your SO meet? We met as college interns working at an opera house! I was doing development (fundraising) and he was doing audio for the productions. We got together within a week of meeting, dated long-distance during my senior year, and then moved in together the summer after I graduated. Together for 15, and married 10 years this month! 
-What does your SO do for a living? He works at one of the colleges nearby basically doing classroom tech support for about 250 classrooms/ professors. All of those years of helping his parents with their technology has prepared him well for "...but is the screen turned on??" type trouble shooting. 
-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? Oh my gosh, his patience. I am quick-tempered and have zero patience, my husband remains cool and unbothered; he lets things roll and handles what's in his control. Candidly I hope our second daughter also looks like me (our oldest is my mini-me for sure)- but I hope that both girls get his naturally straight teeth and 20/20 vision. Pre-eye surgery I was darn near legally blind. So far we're 1/1... c'mon little baby! 

marebear15

-How did you and your SO meet? We met at a college bookstore during the summer between my sophomore and junior year. He was taking summer classes as a grad student. He kept making every excuse to buy random stuff, multiple times a day, and then one week hid a product and then asked me for help in finding it. We ended up talking for an hour before I "found" it, completely oblivious to his scheme. We were basically inseparable from then on and got married the weekend after I graduated from college and he from grad school.

-What does your SO do for a living? He's gone through several jobs, first as a youth pastor (that life was not for us), then in construction for different companies in different roles. He is actively starting his second LLC, since he sold his first fencing company. By January he hopes to have everything set to be a sub-contractor.

-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? I hope they are as generous as he is. He has such a big heart and gives his time and money to people or projects that he feels passionate about.

TortugaAzul

-How did you and your SO meet?
We met as summer staff for a Christian camp working in the kitchen. We most definitely were not allowed to date so we actually just became good friends over the summer and afterwards realized we missed each other a lot more than normal friends so we started a longish distance relationship later that fall. We ended up dating for 3 years and had to sign contracts during the summer saying no PDA or time alone together. And then we ended up getting married at that camp and starting our family there. We spent our first 8 years married there and he was the full time night cook. 

-What does your SO do for a living? 

My husband is now a mechanical engineer in charge of the debug department for a company that makes manufacturing machines for medical grade testing equipment. (I.e. pregnancy tests, ovulation tests and COVID tests 😅) 

-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? 
I’m thinking this kid will probably be a clone of their siblings because the other two are pretty identical. But I hope they get his intelligence and his ability to befriend people. 

mytrueloves

@mamahosch one of my siblings also met their SO on Tinder. They've been together 7 years!

How did you and your SO meet? I was a single mom to DD#1 and had had some crappy short-term relationships from online dating. One night I logged into my OkCupid account to delete it after being ghosted, at the exact same time my SO logged into his account to delete his. He saw my picture and messaged me and since it was late and I was bored (and thought he was cute) I went ahead and answered back. We hit it off immediately, talked all night and nonstop for a week. He asked me out 1 week later and we went to the zoo. I hadn't been on a real date in years and was so nervous and awkward he thought I hated him 😂 at one point he went to the bathroom so I went into the gift shop to browse (which was *right* next to the bathroom) and when he came out and didn't see me, he thought I'd run away!

Fun fact, I gave him the stuffed animal I bought at that gift shop for our first anniversary. It was a prairie dog because we'd had a really good conversation and almost had our first kiss at the prairie dog exhibit.

What does your SO do for a living? When we first met, he'd been working for a logistics company for over 11 years. He changed positions a few times in the same company and right after DD#2 was born we moved states so he could become a manager at a service center. During the 2020 shutdown, things went crazy there so he quit and put all of his savings into getting his CDL. He was a local driver for a while, then a dispatcher, and he recently started driving over the road.

What do you wish this LO gets from your SO? His intelligence, his ability to understand math (DH has to do all the math homework assistance in this house because I am hopeless), his general weirdness and nerdiness. If we have a boy, I hope he's sensitive and emotionally intelligent like DH

bbrahmbhatt

I love these, all the stories are so cute!

-How did you and your SO meet?  We met on Coffee Meets Bagel. I, being totally done with the fuckboys, posted a sweaty post-workout selfie to my profile because if they can't handle that then thank u, next. Well, that photo was the one that made him "like" me. I loved his profile answers, so I "liked" him back. We talked for awhile and he pretty quickly asked me for a first date, but I was working 6 days a week, 13 hour shifts at the time (I was a surgical resident). He was insistent on a Saturday dinner date to make sure I was serious and would give him the prime date night spot, but I kept saying that I worked every Saturday until 7pm, and suggested Sunday. He finally asked when I would be free for a Saturday and we made a date for that night. We were pretty inseparable after that and were going out for dinner multiple times a week. We moved in together about 9 months later and got engaged about 9 months after that. We've been married for 3 years and have 2 (almost) kiddos. 

-What does your SO do for a living? He's a highschool science teacher and is also a certified athletic trainer (he recently gave it up to spend more time at home).

-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? DEFINITELY his patience. I am like @heytallmama and patience is not my strong suit. I am quick to anger, while he takes a lot to boil over. I think he's also adorable, but I already know this bebe is going to have dark hair, eyes and darker skin like him...Indian genes are so strong compared to my Irish/English genes lol. 

foxofmoore

@mytrueloves ah, OkCupid is where I met my love too!!

-How did you and your SO meet? OkCupid- I honestly hate online dating so I did not do it much and was actually thinking of ridding my account. I was in a particularly bad place in life, really lonely and trying to recover from an old bad injury that drs kept writing off as nothing, so I decided to keep the account but be extremely picky about who I talked to, seeking mostly just that. Then I saw this handsome devil who just had ‘that look in his eyes’, took him two weeks to reply because he never was actually on that thing. We hit it off and even had a pre date because we could not wait for our planned first date, now we have been together 3 years, 1st marriage anniversary will be this December!

-What does your SO do for a living? Property Manager for a Reality Company. Thank goodness he has a good job because it gave me time to heal my injury and now it will give me time to stay with our children when they are born (which has always been important to me because my mom left when I was young)
 
-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? His energy, he is so upbeat and just has endless energy, his sense of humor, and his gorgeous thick locks of hair! I have thick hair too but he puts mine to shame! Lol

missmuisq

Agreed, everyone's stories are so sweet!

-How did you and your SO meet? We met at a social event (dinner and then a dance party) organized through Couchsurfing. We first saw each other across the room on the dance floor – he had this really attractive energy and looked so happy and comfortable in his own skin. Later, several people went a few blocks away to a salsa club and I joined them, hoping that that "cute guy" would go too. He showed up later and, knowing it was now or never, I summoned up the courage to talk to him at the bar. He was living in a different city at the time and only coming back to Bogotá (where he's from and where I was living) once a month. We started chatting on Skype and seeing each other once a month, started dating, and then he got a new job and moved back to Bogotá shortly afterwards. We've been together for eight years now and married for 5.5.

-What does your SO do for a living? He's a chemical engineer who works as a process engineer and natural gas specialist in the oil and gas industry (lots of calculations and modeling for things like pipelines and facilities). He's been WFH since 2020. 

-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? His work ethic, affinity for math/science/technology, gentle spirit, easygoing nature, innate curiosity, well-roundedness, love of music, and, of course, his fluent Spanish

excitedforpiscesbaby

-How did you and your SO meet? I’d been doing a ton of online dating with no luck, so I decided to bite the bullet and pay for Match. My mom around that time told me she could see me with a high school English teacher, so I decided to just date teachers. Four months later, this cute guy sent me the nicest message and when I looked at his job it was a high school Latin teacher! We met up for our first date at a dog park. His dog Molly (now our dog) and I recognized each other (she was in his profile pic) and she ran across the field to greet me before running back to play. Then I went and found my SO. It was the first date of my life where I wanted it to keep going! So we took Molly home and went out to dinner! We were “official” a few weeks after that, and a few months later we were already planning future baby names! 

-What does your SO do for a living? Still a HS Latin teacher, although he’s gotten really into woodworking and keeps saying he wants to start a side business so we’ll see!

-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? Physically, his 20/20 vision, his complete lack of body odor (he has the gene that makes his sweat not stinky), and his ability to eat anything. Personality, his love of learning and making!

shorty-sar

 How did you and your SO meet?
One of my college friends/roommates was dating a guy and wanted me to have a boyfriend too. She showed me one of her sister’s boyfriend’s friends on Facebook and said we’d get along since our personalities are similar. I declined since I was still healing from a serious and emotionally abusive relationship. A few months later her sister got engaged to her BF, and started planning the wedding. My friend wanted me at the wedding, but was dating the same guy as before and her sister said she couldn’t have two guests. And the only way I could be invited to the wedding was if I was a date of a groomsman. So, my friend talked me into coming to the wedding and letting her set me up with a groomsman. Her sister suggested a guy, and it ended up being the Facebook guy. She gave me his number and we started talking. We met in person at a little local bar with our mutual friends in tow, and then the rest is history. He lived in a little mountain town, about 45 min-1h south of the Canadian border, so we had to talk via FB messenger since the town only had landlines and WiFi access, and we did long distance for about 3 years. Luckily his parents live close to my college and he stayed with them every other weekend since he had to travel to a bigger city for his apprenticeship classes. I would visit him whenever he was in town, and would go up to the mountain town in the spring and summer since it was 3 hrs from my college town. A year after we met, we went to the wedding and my friend(who had stopped talking to me after she graduated 🤷🏼‍♀️) didn’t have a date. The wedding was definitely awkward, but I knew a lot of people there on the grooms side, including my future in laws. We have been together for 6 1/2 years and married for 2. 

-What does your SO do for a living? 

He works for the State. He is a state road maintenance worker, so he plows the state roads in the winters, sets up detours when there’s an accident and does road work the rest of the year. When we first met, he worked for a company that trimmed trees for the PUD. Now he does tree trimming as a side job.

-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? 

Physically, his dark hair and his height. My hair is a light brown, dirty blonde(but bright blonde highlights in the summer) and a few strands of dark red, so it’s hard to say what color it is. Hopefully this baby will have his dark brown hair, or at least a single shade 😂. I’m also short and he’s about 6’0, so I hope the baby will be somewhat tall or at least average height😂. My BIL and FIL are 6’4ish, so there’s a chance the baby could be taller than dad. 

Personality wise, I hope the baby gets his need for adventure and fearlessness. Not a lot seems to phase him, but he’s  also cautious when something doesn’t seem right. When he lived in the mountain town, he would go hiking by himself, and not follow a trail. He always found his way back home, but it still scared me! 

muggsd

-How did you and your SO meet?
we were living in the same residence at university, and spun in the same friend groups for 5 years. He went away in 4th year to Germany and we reconnected just after Christmas in our last year of school. We dated for 3 years and have been married for 5! 
-What does your SO do for a living? 

He’s a systems engineer, mostly working in pharmaceutical plants to set up & maintain their manufacturing processes. 
-What do you wish this LO gets from your SO (either physically or personality wise)? 

Physically, his eyes. My son got his beautiful blue eyes and I looooove it. 

Personality wise, he is so driven and down to do anything. He doesn’t see any task as “beneath him” and doesn’t want to move up the corporate ladder without doing some “real” work first. His work ethic is amazing.