How did you meet your SO?

Marie6 · April 2010

I always think these stories are interesting...

DH and I met after I had a car accident. I was going home from my parent's restaurant and was about a block from my house, I was in a car accident. There were no injuries. The cop that came out was a real jerk at first. But after the other car left, he was really nice and just started talking. We became friends and he started coming in to eat at my mom's restaurant (I was still working there at the time) with another cop that worked in town. DH was the friend and we hit off and have been together ever since.

It's one of those cliche cop meeting stories. lol.

ohiostategal · April 2010

DH and I met in law school. We were in the same section and became friends half way through the first semester. During Christmas break we started dating, were engaged by the beginning of the second year and married at the beginning of the third year!

madelyn07 · April 2010

We met at Vikings training camp. Super random. DH was coaching in NC, I was going to school in MN and I was at training camp because I worked at a daycare and we took our kids, he was there because he was in the area for an NCAA meeting and met up with one of his best friends who was recruiting in the area. That friend's brother played for the Vikings so they went to training camp to watch him and to hang out.

Super, super random...

Villo24 · April 2010

My first initial meting was Freshman year of college at a party. I didn't give him a second glance becuase he had a girlfriend and was at least 5" shorter than me. Then two years later I saw him in a club - he was now single and 5" taller! ha ha. We hung out as friends then started officially dating 4 months later. We have been together ever since (13 yrs)!

lmc5004 · April 2010

Dh and I met in a class our senior year of highschool and were both dating other people but before long we know that we had to get rid of our SOs and date eachother

Highschool sweethearts

Sunshine05 · April 2010

We met through a mutual friend and had a bit of a long-distance friendship for years. He was living in Alabama and I was in Ohio. We met for the first time in Myrtle Beach since I had planned a post-freshman-year girls vacation, and he came with a couple friends who had a beach house there. I spent the days with the girls and we all went out together as a big group every night that week. From then on, we did a long-distance dating thing until he graduated from college and moved up to Ohio. We were engaged weeks later and married 2 years after that. Been friends for over 10 years now, and married for almost 5!

roselln2 · April 2010

I posted this in response to the final question on Madelyn's morning poll, but my husband and I met in a bar! I was working in Toulouse, France, at Airbus as a consultant. On the weekends I would take the car down to Barcelona because I felt much more comfortable there because I spoke the language. One night I was there in town and debating whether to stay in my hotel room and do expense reports or go out to dinner. I took myself out to dinner at a sushi restaurant and then afterwards stopped for a drink at a bar. My husband was paying for his drink with a piece of paper, and I'm incredibly nosey, so I asked him why he was paying with a piece of paper. He said it was buy one, get one free and that you had to turn in your receipt for the second drink. We stood there in the bar talking for an hour or so while his friend looked on. The next day we went downtown to go shopping, and then after that, we would meet up regularly in Barcelona or Toulouse on weekends.

thebeadinglady · April 2010

Dh and I had worked together for about 2 years before I even really talked to him. Truth be known I actually hated him. He was rude and grumpy and his butt crack was always visible. But then a group of work people went out to a local bar for someone's b-day and I went to talk with a guy I had a crush on and DH was sitting at the same table. We all started talking about horror movies, then the crush walked away and I kept talking to DH.

Turns out when he isn't at work is very nice and funny, and the butt crack problem has since been solved thanks to belts and better fitting pants.

whispergrrl · April 2010

DH and I met online!

I was playing on MySpace at the time, checking out profiles of friends of friends and such. I saw a link to a page that someone was a fan of, called OK Stupid Cupid. The title caught my attention, so I went to check it out. It was a fan group for another website called OKCupid. The site is kind of a combo site...social networking/dating/quizzes/etc. I was checking out the silly quizzes on there, and thought I would put up a profile. When you put a profile up, and answer questions and quizzes, the site will show you "matches" on the main page. It will show percentage of "friend" and "enemy" for people in your area. I logged on one day and it was showing me a "match" - something like 86% friend - of a guy who had just posted a new journal entry. I read it, and immediately was drawn to him. He was online at the moment, so I said "what the hell" and sent him an IM. We ended up chatting on IM all night long. We exchanged phone numbers and the next day after work we talked on the phone from about 5pm until 6am the next morning (when we both had to get ready for work). We kept up the talking on the phone for hours and hours on end for a couple days, then he wanted to meet me in person.

I was so nervous - wasn't really looking to meet someone online, but this guy was awesome! I agreed to meet, but said I had plans to be at the mall with my best friend and her kids, and he could come out there and meet me with them. Explained that I wasn't comfy meeting someone from online by myself the first time. He understood, and wanted to meet still. He met up with us at the mall, hit it off with my best friend and her kids, then they left us alone to sit and chat for a bit. There was no doubt in my mind that he was THE ONE. At the time, he lived about an hour and a half away from me, so for the first few months of our relationship, we talked on the phone a lot! He would come stay at my place a few days a week, and drive to work from there (it was the same distance of a drive from my place to his work or from his place to his work). After dating for 9 months, he asked me to move in with him. I was terrified (I was 31 and had lived alone most of my life! Never lived with a boyfriend before!) to leave my job and friends. He was starting a new job even further away, so I would be moving several hours away from everything I knew,.

He was worth it!

I moved in with him in September 2007, we got engaged June 2008, and married June 2009! Never been so happy in my life!

Wow...that was long. Thanks for reading if you made it this far!

Marrisa

baloneydisc · April 2010

I grew up in a small town & when I was in high school my mom worked at Sams Club. She was the cashier out in the tire area. Anyhow, DH worked with my mom as a tire changer when he was in college, so I would go by after school to ask my mom if I could go do something & ended up talking to all the guys. I met DH when I was 16. Fast forward two years. DH had gone off to join the military and was back from tech school. I was a front end supervisor at Target & he happened to come in looking for a Christmas gift for his brother. We talked for a few minutes, someone helped him find the thing he was looking for & he left. He drove straight to Sams to ask my mom's permission to ask me out because he knew he was alot older than me. When I got home my mom told me what had happened & that B was a really nice guy & if I didn't atleast give him a chance I was going to regret it. Our first date was Dec 26th, I moved in with him Feb 16th, we got engaged on July 4th & married the following January.

AuburnBride06 · April 2010

DH and I met my freshman year of college in marching band camp. He was a junior at the time. He played saxophone and I played clarinet. Since I was a freshman, I was an alternate for our pregame show. One day in camp, we were rehearing the pregame drill and I was put in a new spot, that was never supposed to be my spot. That spot just happened to be right next to my DH. He stuck his hand out and introduced himself. He said he thought I was the cutest thing ever. I was wearing a white baseball hate that said "Princess" on it. Embarrassed Yea so incredibly cool. He has always called me princess b/c of that hat.

After that, I would always look for him around campus and on the concourse. One day, we saw eachother on the concourse over by my dorm. I was headed back from the bookstore after buying a microphone for my computer.....so I could chat with my BOYFRIEND, who went to FSU. He asked if he could come up and install it for me and I said sure. After that, we ended up going to a toga party togther and the rest is history. So was my poor boyfriend at the time, who I met when we were 15 and living in Singapore. We dated for over 3 years, then my hubby came into the picture.

It's kind of cool b/c we are two of the most unlikely people to end up in Alabama. DH grew up in Honduras/Miami and I graduated high school in Singapore. Neither one of us had ever been to alabama before we came to school here. I guess it was just meant to be......

Oh and we got engaged in August 2005 (I graduated that past may and he graduated that past December). We dated all through college and we got married in July 2006. So we have been together going on 10 years.

DeputiesWife · April 2010

DH and I met my sophomore year in HS. He was a senior and 3 years older than I was. We were introduced by a mutual friend. We were engaged in 2001, married in 2003. This october we will be together for 15 years!

huddlstn · April 2010

We met in college, we lived in apartments across the hall from each other for an entire semester without having met. We had both come back from winter break a few days early, and he was going around the building, knocking on doors to find someone to help jump start his car. No one else was around, but I answered my door and helped him jump start his car. We started dating the next day and have been together ever since!

JackieMac824 · April 2010

My DH and I met on a blind date - my good friend set us up. The funny thing is that we lives only about 5 blocks from each other in the same town and never ran into each other, but that may be because we are 6 years apart - we met when I was 18 and he was 24 - we have been together for 10 years now.

Jlynn3 · April 2010

A friend of mine was dating his brother. We met randomly out with them one night and have been together ever since. We actually went to high school together and while we knew of one another, we didn't know each other.

roselln2 · April 2010

Jlynn3:
A friend of mine was dating his brother. We met randomly out with them one night and have been together ever since. We actually went to high school together and while we knew of one another, we didn't know each other.

Totally random... in the picture in your siggy, your DH looks like Prince Henry from the side, who I think is a complete cutie!

DaniGirl0517 · April 2010

I met him in 8th grade when I joined a friend's lunch table. I fell instantly in "like" with him and managed to make him hate me quickly, oops. I finally gained his favor as a friend and we "dated" a few times before summer but he broke my heart again and again. Summer came and went and on the first day of school at the end of the day I bumped into him and apparently summer treated me well because he finally fell in "like" with me! Another heartbreak then we took it slow from then on. We've been together the fourth and final time (hahaha) for 9 years but married for just over a year. We were junior high sweethearts.

cara-n-steve · April 2010

We met on eharmony!!!!!

mbjmaybebaby · April 2010

DH and I are both teachers at the same school

MrsP71506 · April 2010

My roommate freshman year (who was also a friend from highschool) had a cousin (who is my now DH) who was two years older than us and had a house with 10 other guys. So our first night at college we went to their house because we knew that they could buy us beer.

We became good friends with all the guys and always hung out at their house. DH and I were friends and liked each other but never committed to each other. It took us a year and a half before we "officially" started dating.

and I love going to family parties because I am now cousin-in-law with one of my good friends!

mrslovebug · April 2010

We met in high school in a talent show my freshman year. He was that guy I NEVER would have dated back then. We were soo opposite.

We met up a few years after high school, saw each other every day for a year, and now he's stuck with me

Rachael07.07.07 · April 2010

DH and I met in college during our sophmore years. He was on the baseball team, me on the softball team. All of us hung out together everyday. the first time we met, it was the Monday after one of the biggest parties I went to that fall...I was so hungover, LOL. We didn't start officially dating until May, right before I went to the national tournament. We've been together ever since.

jannasmith · April 2010

DH and I met online, way back in 1997 - on AOL. Anyone remember that? Hee Hee

We weren't on a dating site or anything, I just kind of "found him" in the profiles on AOL and we starting IM-ing. We met the next day and that weekend we were planning our honeymoon. Crazy! And almost 12 yrs later...

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