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September 2011 Moms
xtinaxmariex
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GTKY How did you and DH/SO meet?
xtinaxmariex
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So, how did you meet that lucky guy that made your heart go pitter-patter and decided to start a family with in the first place?
DH and I met online, plentyoffish.com dating site to be exact. lol I'm curious to see if anyone else met their SO online.. Especially with all those commercials nowadays saying 1/5 relationships start online. We chatted for a couple weeks, met for dinner and quickly hit it off. Neither one of us were even looking for anything serious. Honestly, I think we were both just bored and wanted to get laid. lol And now, we're happily married with a baby on the way! Funny how things turn out.
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Re: GTKY How did you and DH/SO meet?
i have about 3 weddings to go to for friends next year, all of them met their fiance's online (match.com)! I met my BF in high school we both were on the cross country team, started dating my junior year, stayed together through college, and now here we are with a baby due a month before our 10 year anniversary!
One of my best friends answered an ad on craigslist for a roommate for a house share in the city. She asked me to go with her to check it out... DH owned the house. We went to check it out, he opened he door and I was like "HOLY HOTNESS!" His friend was also living there... We all sat around talking forever and hit it off.
She moved in the following Wednesday and on Friday we all went out to celebrate.. We started talking that night, hooked up and never looked back. After a year he asked me to marry him, 8 months later we got married, 6 months later I found out we were expecting DS.
We still own that house in the city, rent the rooms out and there have been 2 other marriages that have happened from people meeting there randomly : )
We work together
Best part is that he had this rule that he would not date anyone from work. Well apparently I took that as a challenge. 10 years later here we are still working together with 2 beautiful girls and a third on the way!
My H and I met online too! ... About 11-12 years ago actually (I think I was 13/14 and he was 15/16), we were just wee little teenagers exploring around in chatrooms and game rooms and came across eachother and seemed to have alot in common (as much as you can in those young years) ..... Started exchanging emails in a kind of friendly pen-pal type situation and also chatted on private IM... just getting to know eachother, or sometimes we'd play online games. Didn't even exchange pictures or anything until probably a year or so later. Just strictly friends for quite a while.
And then when I was like 15 and he was 17 (almost 18), we started talking about how we really liked eachother more than just friends...confided in eachother, had alot in common but also balanced eachother out because we're opposites in some ways too...and went a little further by exchanging pictures and phone numbers. And after that ultimately decided we wanted to have a long distant relationship.... and even convinced our parents to talk to eachother and consider to let us meet in person (Now that I'm grown up I see that's a TALL order to ask of our parents....but somehow we talked them into letting us and I'm glad they did) ....I lived in AZ at the time, he was in Southern CA so it wasn't a HUGE distance.
He came out to AZ for our first meeting.... and we clicked right away. Instant I saw him in the airport we just hugged for 10 minutes... wasn't as awkward as you'd think it'd be, we were the same people (thank god) and cared for eachother the same in person as we did online. It just worked for us. This is not always the case, so we were lucky. We've been together ever since... we were long distance for 6 years while I finished school and did basic classes in college...and then I finally transferred over to Southern CA to live with him and to continue with school as well .... I was 21. We got engaged and married a year later in April 2008.
We are still happily married almost 3.5 years later and all is good! He's my bestfriend.
We also work together too...and manage not to kill eachother...I think that says alot too!
i love our love story.
i was camping on the beach with my sister and her bf, and this gorgeous guy to the right was teaching hit dog how to surf! i thought it was the cutest thing. i watched him half the afternoon, he was hanging out all by himself, with his dog, drinking beer and playing guitar. He started playing one of my favorite songs and i walked over and sat on his cooler and started to sing the song (thank goodness for booze-courage) we had so much in common, and i was HOOKED. we went home together
and have been together ever since!
We each have a very slutty friend.
Basically, my BFF, and one of his work buddies met online (nexopia, I believe) and hooked up. Then they decided that DH and I needed to meet each other because we were both helpless at dating. Rather insulting to us, but w/e.
We broke up about 6 months later, and then got back together almost 3 years to the day that we had originally started dating. A few months later (last August) we decided we wanted to get married, and then in December we found out I was pregnant. We just got married last month.
TTC since 10/07
11 medicated cycles
including...
4 IUIs*5 IVFs*1 FET
2 chemical pregnancies*missed m/c @8w 9/09*missed (twin) m/c @8w 5/10
Laparoscopic myomectomy 8/10
Chromosomal translocation of #2 now requires ICSI and PGD
IVF #4= success!!! G-man born 8/18/11
IVF #5 2/2013 = N born 10/10/13 at 35w3d
So with him as a cook and me as expo, we worked face to face every night. It took me 45 days to leave my "hs sweetheart" and go on a date with DH. We haven't been separated since!
Kind of cliche; we met at church. Both of us had KP duty, and being the 15 year old smarta$$ I thought I was, used the opportunity to debate diametrically opposing theological views with the older guy I was crushing out on. Poor guy, he liked me too, but it took him forever to decode my cattiness for infatuation. Three years later, he had won me over to his side, (and got my parents approval) we made our relationship official, followed shortly by his fairytale proposal to me, and our wedding three months later. Then, on New Year's Day, we got the BFP.
So, ta DA! That's our story, nutshellified.
It was a hot Tuesday night in August, a couple girlfriends and I met up at a local college bar, where we knew the bar tenders. It was a slow night, so the girls decided that I should go around to all the poor drunk guys in the bar to see how many I could get to buy us shots. Apparently, I asked every one of DH's friends, except him. HAH!
He says I did it on purpose, but I don't remember him being around his friends when I would talk to them. Towards the end of the evening, he FINALLY had made it around the bar (the bar was literally round) to talk to us (or me). I ended up putting my number in his phone, for some reason, I never do that!
He called me the next day, while I was driving around town. We made a date for dinner a couple nights later, to which I had to pick his butt up, because he broke his truck key while trying to leave to pick me up. I say he was nervous, he denies it. We ended up at walmart for our first date.. for super glue. He was going to try to glue the key together LOL. (He ended up going to Land Rover for a new key that next morning.)
Anyway, He tells everyone we slept together on our first date, because he played the "I don't watch tv in my living room" card, so we laid in his room talking and watching football. It ended up being VERY late when I woke up and realized Oh crap, we fell asleep! I have to get home! haha
After only dating for a couple months he moved in with me, we moved across country and back and ended up planning our wedding after only 2 years this past June! And now our LO is almost here.
? Voted Cool Cat ~ 2012 Sweetpea Mom Awards ?
We met through mutual friends. He worked with a friend of mine and ended up moving in with him. I was dating someone else at the time so I didn't really think of him that way. He was my friend and I routinely complained to him about the person I was dating.
The guy I was dating was a bit odd, while he treated me like a girlfriend in the non-physical way (took me to family gatherings, went on vacations together, practically lived with him) he never really treated me like a girlfriend in a physical sense. Nothing ever happened, and I mean nothing, not even kissing past a peck goodnight. I finally got sick of waiting and broke it off.
To "get back in the game" I went on a date that ended up being terrible. He met me on his dinner break from work and talked about how he wanted to live in a cabin in the woods with no electricity. I'm not exactly the outdoorsy type, I think it's roughing it when the cable goes out. The next day, I went out with a bunch of friends including DH. I told him the story of the terrible date and he stopped me and said, "wait a second, you broke up with your boyfriend?" When I said yes, he smiled and seemed to sit a little closer. We went on a date a few days later and 9 years after that we're expecting our first child.
I met him in first grade, we were in the same class. We went to school together till 8th grade. In 7th grade we had every class together and his locker was right above mine. We lost contact in 8th when I moved but met again though his best friend (that I dated sort of) our senior year of high school. He asked me to prom then he went off to the Marines and I to college. We became best friends and anytime he was home acted like we were together. He told people I was his future wifey, which he admitted one drunk night after he got home from his first deployment. hahaha It took him getting shot at in his first deployment for both of us to admit our feelings to one another. We have been together ever since. Okay I'll shut up now.
Lets see if this picture will work. I'm the red head, to the left of me is my husband and over my shoulder is the friend that got us together again. This is our first grade class photo.
Aww, its nice to think of the early part of our relationship!!! We have a great story.
We went to college together & met at a party. I had asked a friend to pick up some "good beer" for me and a friend (mmmm Bud Light over Keystone or Natty = good beer?) since I was a college freshman.
So at the party this cute guy came up and was chatting with me, low and behold drinking a Bud Light. I asked if he brough them & he said he had grabbed it from the fridge, I said "Great, you are drinking my beer so now you owe me a drink"
So DH and I met over beer at a college party. We've lasted almost 11 years since that party.
Peanut Butter and Jelly!
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I can't believe all of these 'meet cute' stories. These are fun to read!
Tina Marie, I also met DH on a dating site. I thought there would be more of us!
After I got divorced, I did the online dating thing for a while, and had a succession of bad experiences that didn't work out. My "MO" had always been to wait around and see who contacted me, because I didn't want to be too pushy. Also, I had a sort of 'give everyone a chance or five' philosophy which lead to me wasting time dating quite a few guys that really weren't right for me.
So after the 25th mini relationship that didn't work out, I finally decided to take the bull by the horns. I went on Match.com and I searched through all the profiles to find 'my dream man.' (If can you believe it, in 2 years of online dating, I had never done this before.)
DH looked incredible. Very well educated, gorgeous, funny, sweet, and we had a ton in common including liking the same authors and music and both having studied Arabic (random). Also, he was gorgeous. Did I mention that?
So I sent him an email, and I guess he felt the same way about me, because he wrote a long email back. Once we met, we hit it off right away. We ended up having a whirlwind romance, which involved moving across the country together about 7 months after we met. And the rest is history. So glad I finally got the courage to do what I should have done in the first place!!
I was at a friend's place (duplex) and we were sitting outside just talking and hanging out. DH was helping his buddy move out of the other side of the duplex. I thought he was cute, so I invited him to sit down and have a bottle of water. We talked for about an hour til his buddy got mad cause he wasn't helping anymore. LOL
We traded numbers and went from there. Two years later we are married with a baby coming soon!
Adam Logan born at home 9/19/11~Breastfeeding, Babywearing, CDing, SAH Mama
Short version that might seem whorey, but it's not: Met DH the same night as Ex-H. We were in a big group of new and old friends, hanging out at a bar.
DH was Ex-H's friend. Ex-H and I divorce. DH and his ex do the same a few months after. My best friend invites DH out to her 30th b-day. DH and I reconnect at her party and start hanging out (dinner and church. Steamy, right?) We start really dating, which quickly turns into living together, one M/C, getting engaged, getting pregnant with this baby girl then get married. It's been crazy, but also the best couple years of my life!
eHarmony
I had a paid subscription for a few months, but let it lapse when I bought my first house to save money and because I was busy. Within my profile though, I snuck in my email address (you know, toriwc at blah blah blah). DH was the only one who took the time to respond directly to my email. We emailed for about 3 weeks, talked on the phone for 2, met for dinner, and were engaged 6 months later, married a year after that.
We still got the Tiffany's bowl from eHarmony even though when we met, I wasn't a paying customer!
We met online too! We both play Lord of the Rings Online, and had been in the same Kinship for a while, but never talked. After grouping together for a couple random runs, I though he sounded interesting, so I started being more friendly and inviting him to group with me more. We ended up spending quite a bit of time chatting with each other in-game and in Ventrilo, and I developed a pretty big crush on him, which was fun (sarcasm) because he would talk to me about someone else he was very much into who he knew from "real life". It was always a very odd situation for me, because the very first time we talked, I got a really strange feeling that this was the man I was going to marry, and I didn't even know him. It literally gave me chills. Of course, I decided it was best not to share this info at the time- even I thought it was crazy. But also the reason I continued talking with him, despite how heart-wrenching and de-moralizing it was to hear about his being really into someone else at the time. :P Anyways, we ended up meeting months and months after we began hanging out online when he had a conference to attend close (4 hour-drive) to my home. We lived a 14-hour drive apart at the time. We hit it off even better in-person during that visit and things moved fairly quickly after that. I'm so glad that I trusted my instincts and was patient. We now live in that place, which was 14 hours away, and we are expecting Baby #1, of several, I hope.
I feel so fortunate to be with my husband, because there are so many times that we could have easily just lost touch and a couple times I know that one or both of us debated if we should continue hanging out given the circumstances. But I guess when it's meant to be, it will just happen. But yeah, definitely was not expecting to meet my husband when I signed up to play the game. 
I was in 9th grade. A friend of mine was chatting in an AOL chat room to my boyfriends friend. We decided to be scandalous and sneak out one night to meet each other
Ashlie (my friend) and I snuck out around 11p and Daniel (my boyfriend) and his friend Danny picked us up down the street. We walked around this brand new house that was being built and just laughed and joked around. It was INSTANT CHEMISTRY for Daniel and I. I was 15, he was 16- lived in a neighboring city...
We tried dating throughout high school but the distance/age thing wasnt working out, I think it lasted about 6 months. But we ALWAYS kept in touch, and whenever we saw each other there was always that *zing* connection....
Well, I got married and got pregnant and then divorced, lol. Immediately afterward Daniel and I found each other and the timing just SEEMED RIGHT this time around. We talked about getting engaged before we got pregnant, but we've decided to put a hold on the engagement/wedding/marriage stuff until after the baby gets here.
We've known each other almost 15yrs and have always believed we are soulmates
So nice to hold him.... Here we are from this past weekend
We met on the first day of high school...DH was sitting on my desk, all 6'4" (at the time, he's 6'6" now) of him. I was terrified of him and walked right back out lol.
Turns out the girl I sat next two for the next four years was his girlfriend, she and I became friends, he and I became best friends.
He didn't kiss me until after we graduated high school 4 years later