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Parenting after 35
How did you meet DH/SO?
Can you tell I really don't want to work today? 
How did you meet your DH/SO?
I met DH at a cigar bar in '07. It was my "Cheers" of sorts - small place where I knew everyone/everyone knew me. Henry showed up one night when I wasn't there and my friends zeroed in on him....next time we were all there at the same time, my friends introduced us and we agreed to meet there the next day to watch the college football games. It took him about a week or two to actually ask me out on a date....he proposed 3.5 months later....the rest is history. 
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Re: How did you meet DH/SO?
I'd rather not be working today, too. Aaron woke up at 5:37 am and I'm TIRED!!!!
I met my DH the old-fashioned way: on JDATE!
How else does a Jewish girl meet Mr. Right?
I'd actually met my ex-fiance on JDate in November of 2005. We were engaged 7 months later (I think I was feeling like I'd never get married--I was 36) in June of 2006. Without going into details, I'll just say I made a lucky escape from marrying a momma's boy with major issues. The engagement ended after only 6 weeks.
That following September, I decided to give JDate another try. And for the first time, I got a LOT of responses and went on a lot of dates. Jonathan sent me an email the first week of October. We spoke on the phone the following week and had our first date on Wednesday 10/18/06. By the end of the year, I was spending weekends with him.
I moved in with him on November 2, 2007--one year after we met--and he proposed that very same day. We were married 7.5 months later and I conceived Aaron 5 months after that.
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Cute story - I lived in Nothern VA (Alexandria). DH winked at me first. His profile said Langley. There is a small town called Langely (near the CIA HQ). So even though he was AF, I didnt think anything of it. I mean who would blindly try to date someone 3 hours away?
Color me purple when we were arranging our first date and he said something about a 3 hour drive.
It all turned out ok. He was fine with the drive in the beginning. And once we knew it was it (pretty early on), neither did I.
Me, I guess
I was browsing on plenty of fish, and somehow my search criteria accidentally changed from Calgary (my then-current city) to Edmonton (a city three hours away). I certainly never had any intention of dating someone so far away. (NOW, I think it was God pushing me in the right direction)
I was pleasantly surprised at how many "new" people there were since I had last browsed, not knowing that I was looking in an entirely different city. I looked at DH's profile, and thought he was cute but didn't do anything about it because I am deathly shy. Anyway, he saw that I had looked at him, so he checked me out and liked what he saw. He messaged me right away, a week later I made the three hour drive to meet him and ended up staying the night so we could spend more time together
I drove up again the following weekend, and ONE MONTH later we moved in together (including his four children). That was August, we got engaged in October, married in August, and Priya was born in December.
He is still my best friend, I love him more each and every day. I honestly, honestly believe that it was divine intervention that led us to each other!
Oh these are all great stories.
I met DH at the gym. I never noticed him before & we were working out on machines next to each other & he asks me if I am from Clifton, which yes I am. (turns out he's also from the same town) As soon as I looked into his eyes & saw his smile he was mine. It did take him like 3 weeks to ask me out. At that point I was seriously ready to ask him. We dated for 9 months. Were engaged for 9 months.
DH and I met on Match.com. He first contacted me in '06 and I couldn't go out with him because he was separated and I had a hard fast rule about dating separated men (learned the hard way). But I was very interested from his profile so rather than just ignore his email, I responded and explained why I couldn't go out with him. He said he understood and asked if he could contact me again when he was officially divorced. I said yes but only if he was truly over everything and ready to move on.
8 months later I got an email from him asking if I was still single and we haven't looked back since. First date in Feb '07, Married Nov '08, baby in Jan '10.
Wow - it is so great to hear about all of these on-line successes! I wonder if our "advanced age" has something to do with it, and that we/they are generally not just looking for a booty call. I never had luck with the online stuff...guess "the powers that be" had other plans for me!
Your stories are all giving me such warm fuzzies today!
We had a developmental neurobiology class together in grad school. Love over a text book!! He says he liked me before then - the lab he was in used our surgical suite to do hemilaminectomies.
Is it any wonder that Ada came home in a onsie that said "nerdling" on it?
I have no idea what you just said
(nerdling...too cute!)
DH and I both went to the same large university at the same time but didn't meet until we both lived in Colorado. He showed up at an alumni football-watching party at a bar. I was the president of the club, so I was kind of running the party. He liked that I was outgoing and had big boobs.
He was with one of his friends, who I knew, and we struck up a conversation. Turns out he and I have a bunch of mutual friends from our college days. Knows some of my close friends out in LA. His former roommate's wife left him for a guy who was the minister at my friends' wedding. (Got that??) Very very small world kind of stuff, considering he was an engineering student and I was in journalism. It just progressed from there.
One of our first "real" dates was when he asked me to drive to North Dakota over a three day weekend to get some furniture from his sister, who is a nun who lives in a monestary. I figured it'd either be a hellatiously long weekend, or we'd have fun!
We met at a club in SF in '98. He was working at a dot com start-up and I was still in college.
We were introduced by a friend of his whom I actually dated for about 6 months.
DH can't actually remember the night we met because he'd had to much to drink.
Anyhoo, said friend left SF and DH and I didn't see each other again until another friend of ours came back to town for a conference and we all got together for drinks.
That was June of '99, and we've been together ever since.
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I met Mike a my local dive bar on March 2, 1996. I was in a really foul mood and was putting money in the jukebox to try and cheer myself up. He came up to me and asked why such a pretty girl had such a mad look on her face. I turned to give him some smart a$$ answer and saw the bluest eyes I had ever seen. We started talking and realized we had a few friends in common and were both huge Ranger fans. After 5 hours of non-stop conversation, he drove me home and said he'd be back at 11 AM to take me to brunch. After that date, we were together all the time, so we moved in together "officially" on June 1st.
He made the commitment to move from Long Island to Louisville with me in August of 98 - we got engaged 12/1/99 - married on Long Island 9/2/01 - Madison Shea arrived 8 years later on 11/4/09.
These are all great! I love hearing about how people meet.
For shiggles, I placed an ad online through Yahoo Personals in April 2000. DH responded in early May and was so sarcastic. His spelling, grammar, sentence structure (silly as it may sound) was spot on at all times, too! We exchanged emails and then moved it to online chatting. This went on for several weeks. We met in person 6/17/2000, he finally proposed NYE 2006, we married barely six months later on 6/1/2007.
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Awesome stories!!!
DH and I met at work. I started working for the agency he was at in August of 2000. After swearing I would never date anyone I work with again, I was scoping out the males for my roomate. I had names for all the hot guys because I didn't know their names (DH was grungy hottie because he had spiked bleached hair and like 5 earrings in one ear and 2 in the other). Well turns out that a mutual friend of ours kept inviting both of us (and others) to happy hour, but if I was going he couldn't make it and vice versa. Finally one night I set up a happy hour at a local pool hall and specifically invited him to set up with my roomate. Ends up rommie wasn't interested and he and I played pool on the same team all night. Next day I find out he was asking lots about me. The following week we went to the same HH again, closed the bar, and sat in the car talking till 5am. Thats when he asked me out. Oh and I wouldn't let him leave till he kissed me. (I had a thing that you knew if he was the one by the kiss)
Our first date was Oct 6th and really interesting. We ended up moving in together 3 months later in Jan '01, buying a house in July '01, getting engaged in May '03 and married in July '04.
Wow its been a long time. I was such a young chickie then. LOL
All great stories!
My DH and I never really met. I have literally known him all my life. Me, DH, and his brother all went to the same grade school. His brother was my age (older by three years) so I knew him better.
Fast forward a whooooole lot of years.... when DH turned 21 and I started seeing him in the local bars (ugh, I actually liked going out then) I started seeing him in a whole new light.
If you ask him, I used to take him home from the bar... for years. *insert embarrassment here* We both dated other people, but he was my booty call. And vice versa. We didn't try actually "dating" until 2000. Although we had an amazing connection, he was still a dumb boy and was way too young for a "serious" relationship.
After 9/11, I did some serious reflecting on life and decided that he needed to know exactly how I felt about him. I sat down and wrote him a letter. I would like to say it was a "love letter", but it wasn't. It was a "this is how it is" letter. I left the ball in his court and it only took him about six months to come around.
That time was the real deal. Moved in together in 2003, engaged in 2004, married in 2005.... baby in 2010
WOW! All nice stories!
DH and I met at a party in 1997. I had broken up with my old fiance a few weeks earlier and was SO not in the mood to be partying. We had been going out for years and dated, broke up, dated, broke up... you know the deal. So when one of my GF invited me (more like forced me to go) over to a party I hesitated. Her BF at the time was an avid motocrosser and most of the "guys" there were also. I had just finished my waitressing gig, so I was still in uniform, (really sexy, huh?) and was just really tired. I was talking to a this guy when my now DH pops his head in, interrupts our conversation and says "YOU, like football?". I was like "um, yeah, so?" It was then that he pulled me away from this other guy and we talked the whole night. He called me 2 days later at my job (who knows how he got the phone #?) and said he was thinking of me and wanted to see me again. I knew I liked him then and there. We went on a few double dates with my GF and her BF and then it was just me and him. FF to 13years later, here I am on cloud 9.
The weird thing is that after we got to talking, we discovered all these mutual friends that we have. Such a small world.
I love this thread!
My roommate was dating DH's roommate the summer of 1994. I was trying to break up with my college boyfriend and DH had a huge crush on me. DH was not my style (he was scruffy and snowboarded while I usually dated preppy guys) but his friends put on a PR campaign to get me to give him a chance.
A bunch of us went to Woodstock '94 and DH and I shared a tent out of convenience. He was so sweet during the trip that he finally won me over and I "let" him take me out on a date. We truely were friends before becoming a couple. We got engaged in 1998 and maried in 2000.
The best part is that none of my friends thought we were a match and actually bet we would break up by the end of the year! Of course now my former scruffy boyffriend has turned into my well-dressed husband so I guess he was my type all along!
Hysterical!
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he was the first guy i ever emailed on match - but it took us a year and 1/2 to actually meet b/c of crazy stuff going on (9/11, his dad's illness, then his brother and dad dying)... during that time i was going on tons of dates- but always felt i HAD to meet Greg - that he would be the one... we stayed in touch all that time- email, IM and eventually talking on the phone a lot - and then finally met and knew that night we were done dating forever!
I had the same type of criteria too! And a similar timeline with my DH (who was divorced, no kids). Met 10/6. Engaged 11/07. Married 6/08. Had Aaron 8/09.
Main difference, my DH is 1 year younger than I am.
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My cousin was married to his brother! So, we met at her wedding 12 years ago. We went out once a long time ago and I wasn't interested. We met again years later and well...here we are!
Since then my cousin and brother in law got divorced. It was and still is kind of an odd situation!
Oh and they have a daughter so my neice is my 2nd cousin also!
Carla- What an awesome post! It was so fun reading everyone's stories!
I was sick (therefore bored) on NYE. I decided to sign up for match.com. I only went on one date and that was with John. Within a week, we had both cancelled our memberships. We moved in together shortly after
. We got engaged a few months later. Then we got married a year later (after we had been together about a year and a half).
I've heard so many horror stories re: online dating. I was so lucky and blessed not to have to deal with any of that. I was *really* selective though. I screened DH for hours before we met.
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Match.com (I was actually signed up for match.com and eharmony.com at the same time). I had just broken an engagement and figured what the hel!. Late September '05 DH winked at me and I read his profile and thought he sounded interesting (his pic was VERY small, so I had no idea what he looked like) and we exchanged a few emails, decided to talk on the phone. Our 1st conversation (October 3, 2005) was almost 2 hours long! He had the best voice (I know that sounds weird) He asked if I would like to meet in person, I said Sure! and he said how is November?!! HUH?! He was going away for work for a month.....but he texted me and called me the whole time. He was really funny, so when he pulled up on November 6, 2005 and I got to see that sparkly smile and deep blue eyes, I melted on the spot. We went to a local bar and watched the Eagles game, drank some beers, and ate some wings without a lull in the conversation the whole time. Then we went back to my apartment and watched some TV and I fell asleep with my head resting on his lap. -It was like we had known each other forever. Then he woke me up to leave (we both had to work the next day and he had an hour drive) and gave me the sweetest little kiss goodbye. I knew he was a keeper right then and there.
Moved in together October '06, bought a house together Feb '07, got engaged in May of '07, married April '08, and Maeve came along November '09. Love him more each day
We met at work. He was my boss and was dating somebody else. He needed a roommate, so I offered him a room in my house. We were good friends. I got a promotion so we were equal in rank and he had broken up with his girlfriend. We started spending more time together but weren't allowed to "date" because of work. We were actually accused by work of dating far before we ever dated. Anyway, we got together, I quit my job and we moved to California from Hawaii.
We got engaged Dec 2005, married June 2006 and had Noah August 2007, and Finn last July. We have been together for almost 9 years, celebrated our 4th anniversary on June 2nd.
At work, sort of. The company I work for has about 2k people just in my building alone, and I don't date work folks (male-dominated industry, I was paranoid about being taken seriously.)
I had gone on a business trip to Montpelier in France for a couple of weeks, and worked with a friend of his, Gilles. Gilles and his wife were expecting a baby, so I stayed in touch with him. About a year after that, Rom got a job with my company, and since he didn't know anyone in Montreal, Gilles gave him my email address.
We were friends first for a while, but soon realized that despite the different nationalities, the 10 year age difference (I am older) and my policy we just really clicked. Once we accepted that, the rest went beautifully smoothly.