A stolen GTKY: how did you meet your SO?

purplestarz · February 2014

Ok, I admit. I'm totally bored and was stalking the October 14 board and am stealing this GTKY topic.

That's not like, against the unwritten rules of TheBump is it?

Anyway, there's got to be some good stories out there...so spill it. How did you meet your significant other?

Annsor · February 2014

I met my husband at the grocery store where he worked. My school was doing a fundraiser for a trip and we were selling cookies. The first thing I ever said to him was "do you want to try a cookie?" Lame. He was hesitant to date me because I was still in HS. I was a very persistent person & I won him over 6 months later. That was almost 15 years ago!

purplestarz · February 2014

I have the version which is the truth, and then the version we tell everyone else lol

What we tell most people: We met at a party through mutual friends. I worked with DH's best friend's girlfriend. We then happened to be at a party together and hit it off.

The truth: I had just returned home to my college apartment, tipsy, after a night at the bars with my roommates. I get on MySpace (so 2006 lolz) and get a private message from some guy I didn't know. It said, "Hey, you're like a 9." I reply (drunk, mind you), "why am I not a 10?" (to this day I wonder if I weren't drunk if I even would have responded). We chatted for awhile longer, who knows about what. He admits he found me on his best friend's girlfriend's myspace (must have been in her top 8 friends haha). Fast forward to a few days later, I get another message from him asking me out for Valentine's day and I turned him down (Valentine's day??? Really?). Fast forward a few more days, we do end up finally meeting at a "party" which consisted of me, him, his best friend, and best friend's girlfriend who I knew from work. The two of them end up ditching us and leaving us alone the entire night. The rest is history! Romantic, huh?

TL;DR We met on MySpace

CplusJ=S · February 2014

We met online in a Zelda 64 chat room in 1998. Neither of us were looking for love at the time just both having trouble beating the water temple. We struck up a conversation and realized we had a ton in common. He was living in northern VA and I was in NE OH. We continued chatting over the next few weeks. A month later he flew up to meet me in person. We had a great time together and the chemistry was there. We decided we didn't want to do the long distance thing so he moved to OH a month later. We've been together ever since. Celebrating 12 years of marriage on May 25. We still play video games together several times a week.

Meganz927 · February 2014

Fun! My DH and I met our junior year of high school. Language arts class he sat behind me diagonally. The teacher called out role and when i heard his last name i turned around and said "whats your last name again?" he replied, and i said, " i never heard that name before i love it, wish it was my last name!" BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR

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So another day in class the teacher handed out a deck of cards and whoevers number or letter matched was in that group. So we just so happen to be in the same group. We totally had crushes on each other but never did anything about it until summer. All we did was hang out. During summer we had Senior portraits assigned by day and appt with the school. I had to reschedule my appt since I was on vacay with the fam. The school said ok your double booked with another student so come 10 min early. What do you know when i checked in my name was written in ink next to his name which was pinted out on the schedule, I mean considering we had 900 students graduate our year was pretty insane my appt was shared with him. Fate.
So he asked me to be his gf the first day of our senior year and the rest is history..........

formerwigirl · February 2014

Pretty boring-We met on eharmony. My mom met my step dad through the newspaper 26 years ago though. So I feel like I followed in her footsteps just with more modern technology.

MMason12 · February 2014

We were introduced by a mutual friend of ours at the bar one night. I actually told my friends that night I thought my now husband was a little "creepy and weird". Turns out jes just awkward when he meets new people.

We met January 12, 2012 and our first date was 8 days later. We got engaged on March 9th and married a few months later on August 18th.

Not of us knew within two weeks of dating that we were "the one". I have never been so sure about a decision before, even though our family and friends thought we were a little crazy. I was 27 and he was 29 so there wasn't much they could do. Now everyone - including my parents - love him. Its like we've been together for years. My Dad always teases if I ever mess this up he is keeping my husband instead of me, lol.

TBarker925 · February 2014

I went to hear my good friend sing in her new band in 2005. He was the guitarist/keyboardist. I was smitten from the first moment I saw him. I got home that night and called my friend the singer and told her that someday I would marry her guitarist. She fixed us up 2 weeks later.
He's everything that I ever wanted. He's my nerd by day (software engineer) and my rock star by night. I still love to watch him play and it's been almost 9 years. :x

Ashleyrfiles · February 2014

We met at work. I couldn't stand him for the first year I knew him. I thought he was arrogant and annoying. He also had a girlfriend for the first year and half I knew him. We eventually became friends and talked regularly after hanging out at a company cookout. We started dating within weeks of their breakup (it was way too soon thinking back on it) He said he didn't want to "take the chance I would start dating someone else" and I was absolutely smitten with him, so we went for it! We have been together for almost 5 years.

RedBaramid · February 2014

I still remember the first time I met my SO. It was in the student union and I was in my second year and dating some lame guy I had met in freshman orientation. My SO walks up and starts talking to my boyfriend and I found out that they went to high school together. It was awful but I took one look at my SO and mentally was like "I could see myself with him."(Despite being with this other guy lol) Over a year later and after a couple of relationships for both of us we finally started dating. According to our friends we were always married, we were just okay with dating other people until we decided we were ready to be married. We have always been what balanced the other out. He was honestly my best friend when we decided to take the next step, and every day it's nice to know my best friend is right by my side. I just wish he was better at laundry. >.<

Tussie Mussie · February 2014

I met DH in high school. He was friends with my sister. She invited him to church and left him standing alone so I went to introduce myself. We hit it off, and everyone else seemed to notice because they pushed us together whenever possible for the next two months until we started dating. He was my first boyfriend, and i was his first girlfriend. After graduation, I went to school out of state and he was at a local community college. We stayed together though and he transferred the next year. We waited until we graduated college to get married (mostly to please our parents), but I had known he was the one for a long time so waiting wouldn't change anything.

MinerGirl82 · February 2014

In preschool. We've known each other forever. Started dating when he asked me to the prom when we were juniors in high school.

cmumama · February 2014

Nothing fancy here. We met in college.

MrsLaLaBug · February 2014

I moved away after Katrina and was so horribly homesick... My godbrother kept begging me to move back home. He kept telling me about this guy he was friends with and wanted me to meet, he thought we would really hit it off, yadayada. I came home to visit after Christmas and he introduced us. History.

mrsH1112 · February 2014

We met on Match.com. I had been dating on the site for about a year and a half before him and I started emailing.

brazendame · February 2014

We met in a college class the spring of 2006.

mrsdanielleM2010 · February 2014

2006 was my first year of teaching, and I was working so much I knew I'd never meet people to date in a traditional way. There are so many amazing women on my school's faculty who never found someone even though they really wanted to. I kind of freaked out that I would be one of them, and joined eharmony in October. December 13 I met DH on there, we talked for two weeks before going out. It seems weird now, but the night before we met in person, we both were talking about how afraid we were that in real life we didn't have the same chemistry. It turned out that wasn't a problem, and here we are 7.5 years later.

kwitt22 · February 2014

I was a senior in HS and had a crush on my friend who was a freshman in college. I convinced a bunch of my friends to go down to "party" at a college so i could see this guy. We all pulled the whole "I am sleeping at her house and she is sleeping at my house routine". When I got there my crush was basically all over this other girl. Well it just so happens this "other girl" convinced her friend to go to the party with us. This friend was my now DH. He started dancing with me at the party and I turned around and started making out with him. The rest they say is history.

Laceyrm06 · February 2014

We met in Sunday School in 8th grade. He was the persistent guy in high school that wouldn't quit asking me out even though I had a boyfriend. At my high school graduation party I found out that he was moving away for school and something changed (we had always flirted but no more than that since I had a boyfriend). I broke things off with the boyfriend and DH and I went on our first date two weeks before he moved 9 hours away.

We dated long distance for 2 years, were engaged for 2 years, and we've now been married for 3 years. I'm so glad that I finally gave him a chance.

beckynsean11 · February 2014

We were both in high school, he was 17 & I was 16, it was 2006. We 'met' in an AOL Metallica chat room. He sent me a pm & we chatted until like 6 am that night. By then end of that night, I was convinced that he was the guy I was going to marry. We stayed long-distance friends & Summer of 2003 he decided he was going to come to New Orleans to finally meet over our birthdays that September. That week was amazing & we both cried when he left. We tried long-distance for a few months, but it was too hard at that time. We stayed in touch over the next 2 years. After Katrina hit, he freaked out because he realized that he could have lost me. We started dating long distance again. That NYE he asked me to move to NJ, it's 8 years later & we've been married 2.5 years. We're moving to New Orleans in 3 months!

chusum · February 2014

At a bar... in the middle of the day. My sister and her BF at the time were stopping by to talk to him for a minute. And we met. He was more interested in the NFL playoffs that day than me, but he insists that sparks flew.

MAH1009 · February 2014

We had a history class together. I thought he was cute but was too chicken to talk to him, his dorm was in the same area as mine and I ended up behind him after class. His backpack had his initials on it, back then Facebook had a feature where you could search people by the classes you were taking. I went to our history class and searched for people with his initials, then I sent him a message asking about notes from a class I (hadn't really) missed. After that I continued to find ways to connect with him related to the course, and then made conversation a few times over the summer. We started dating in the fall. For a long time he was known in conversation with my friends as "pretty history boy".

JD83 · February 2014

We met on the same mission. He was the task force intel officer, I was a battalion liaison officer to the task force so we were in the same meeting every morning. Eventually, we started telling each other smart ass jokes and the whole task force staff started hanging out after work and invited me along. We kept in touch after my unit rotated home and a month later we were dating long distance. Been together almost four years now.

msarver · February 2014

Met mine at a restaurant we both were helping to open during college. We had a typical summer fling then broke up. We never lost touch and we saw each other out randomly or sent the occasional text. We hadn't spoken for about 6 months when he texted me a Merry Christmas in 2008. We've been together ever since

tulapink · February 2014

we met at work. he claimed he picked up a part time job there just to ask me out.

aggiefrau08 · February 2014

We met at a speech and debate tournament during our junior year of high school! I know, you just can't handle how cool we are!

jmolr · February 2014

We were set up as beer pong partners at a party.

henderson1026 · February 2014

we met at a bar. He walked in and it was love at first sight. We've been together ever since.

Irisheyes1247 · February 2014

We met at our first class on our first day of college, I sat next to him. He had a gf, then he didn't and our mutual friends tried to set him up with my bff, then we both had SOs and then finally we were both single and I picked him up at a bar.

BeckiLoo · February 2014

The first time I met SO I was in a high school play with his older sister. He ended up going to all of the practices because of her and I can remember thinking "Oh my god he's so freaking annoying!"
Skip forward a year and we have choir together. I still thought he was a freak but we started to become friends, slowly but surely.
Another year later, we were BEST friends. Like hanging out, watching movies, driving around at night listening to music - best friends lol. One night when we were joking around I made him swear he wouldn't fall in love with me. A few months later he said that he couldn't stop thinking about me and that he loved me more than anything in this world. Of course, by that point I had fallen for him too so we *officially* became an item.

That was over 2 years ago and I've never been happier

jortiz780 · February 2014

We met on match.com.

2004: I had just broken it off with a guy I was dating for a few months. I was down so my friend said I should create a profile on match.com. So I did and a few days later he emailed me. I had other guys email me but his pics had pics of family which I liked. We chatted on AOL IM for a week and met a week later. We went out with a group of his friends, girls and guys, had dinner, went bowling, played pool and darts. I beat him in everything we played and I think I won him over then. We were married 2 years later and now 10 years later we are pregnant with our first child!

ashleyb1114 · February 2014

My best friend had met his cousin at a bar the weekend before. He kept bugging her to come see him and see a movie. She didn't even remember what he looked like so after work I went with her. Her date ended up being way too touchy feely and she wanted to leave. Long story short, my h and I saw each other every day after that and my friend didn't see her date again.

Cnharbison · February 2014

We met at a bar through a mutual friend and did not hit it off until we knew each other for a couple of months. He thought I was too carefree and I thought he was too serious. Now we can't stand to be separated from one another. Hilarious.

TinkL0ver · February 2014

We met when my friends and I would always go to starbucks after school and he was a barista there.I had a huge crush from day 1 but didn't say anything because of the age difference (6 years, nothing now but huge back then). We became friends after he left starbucks and got a job at the local deli where I started getting lunch almost every day (there were lots of jokes about us stalking each other) Then, he moved across country to be with his gf and something like 5 years later moved back after several bad relationships. I was finally legal and still interested so I asked him out. That was two years ago and the rest is history.

[Deleted User] · February 2014

We met online. I was just about to turn 17, and DH was 19. My BFF and I were on AOL chat messaging with random people, and DH happened to be one of them. We ended up emailing back and forth a couple times, and then started talking on the phone. We met in person about two months later since we lived in neighboring cities. My BFF and I were just being goofy that evening, I never thought it would turn into anything. We've been together for a total of 13 years, and married for 3.

deviousmuse · February 2014

We met at work, but were both seeing other people at the time (I was rebounding after ending with with my bf of 5 years; he was living with his gf way north of town). 7 months later, I tried to set him up with a close friend of mine, and invited him out to watch football with a bunch of us. My friend told me it was obvious he was into me, so she ducked out, and we continued hanging out that evening. Our first kiss was sometime later that night, and while we were both still casually dating other people at the time, we both ended things so we could be exclusive about 2 months later.

He met my parents the week after we became exclusive at Thanksgiving/my birthday (and got drunk with my dad that night), moved in 3 months after that, and proposed 5 months later on July 4th.

Our first wedding anniversary is this May.

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