How did you meet your partner?

KatieFNP1984 · July 2014

We met on AOL back in 2000. I was 16 and he was 19. Turns out he had high school drafting class with my sister and she thought he was hot but too young for her. We split after a wonderful year of dating over a misunderstanding on my part and he went off to war in Iraq. We reconnected in 2012 through Facebook and I fell back in love with him after 1 date. We were engaged after a year and married 6 months later. We are and always have been soul mates. I feel really lucky he took me back!

mshepherd20 · July 2014

DH and I met at an Ohio State/Michigan game. My friend and I had been partying too long and I just wanted to go back to our friends' house. DH's friend heard me complaining and commented on our conversation. He ended up buying us drinks and we were having a great time. After awhile DH walked into the bar with his friend's wife (they went to get food). We ended up talking all night then went to get breakfast. I drove him home and was suckered into going into his house to meet his dog. DH kissed me on the steps then asked for my phone number.

We lived 2 hours apart but managed to see each other every weekend. We were engaged 10 months later on a cruise and married 11 month after that.

Our 4th anniversary is in August. 4 years of a wonderful married life together with 2 beautiful babies and another on the way.

mumfourevermore · July 2014

Well.... technically, I met DH in kindergarten. Lol. (we still have a kindergarten holiday program tape. He was the one off to the side pouting with arms crossed and i was front and center belting out the songs. Lol!) We were friends from kindergarten until sophomore year. I told a friend DH had a cute butt and then she told him to ask me out. He asked me out and we have been together ever since. So, we were friends for 13 years, dating for 2years, engaged for 1 year, and will have been married for 8 years this November. I think my story is a bit small town & crazy, but i wouldn't trade it

cassied7 · July 2014

I was on vacation in NYC with my mom. We went to a comedy club and were sat next to two guys a few years older than me. I was breaking it off with this guys I was seeing, on the phone, when my husband swooped in. Well, they both swooped in, kind of. My mom went back to the hotel after the show and I stayed out with them. We had an awesome time. A few months later we met up and we've been together ever since. I should add that he was from CT and I was from MA. I love how we met and I wouldn't change a thing.

jennyhatt · July 2014

@CrazyMonkeyBear‌ kind of interesting- in fact kind of scandalous!? Isn't that a conflict of interest!? Didn't he grade your papers.....Giving you an A for your efforts muahahah

love it!

EmilyD76 · July 2014

I had just moved back home at 25, ended a long and horrible 8-year relationship. Had been hanging out pretty exclusively with my gay friend and going to gay bars to go dancing (didn't have to deal with creepy guys hitting on me) when I realized that I wasn't going to meet a guy that way. BF and I started hitting a local hangout that has karaoke every week that we went to in college. DH and his friends showed up one night for kicks. We talked a while and exchanged phone numbers. Never connected. A week later I was back at the same bar with a group if friends and he walked in. Completely out of character, I waved at him and we ended up going on a date the next night.

Vanval10 · July 2014

Me and DH met my sophomore year of high school. He was a senior and my ex's friend through football. We had a Spanish class together and ended up dating after me and my ex broke up. He left to college in the Fall and we stopped talking. I guess we just went seperate ways. We met up again by chance on the night of my senior prom (At a party). he spent the next morning calling me. It took about two months for him to convince me to be his gf and from there the rest is history.

tkr7c9 · July 2014

I met my DH my freshman year of college. He lived on the floor below mine in the same dorm. He was always late to class and would smile at me when we crossed paths to and from campus to the dorms..... he looked me up on facebook through friends and struck up a conversation with me. I fell in love hard and fast..... we dated for 4 years, were engaged for a year and have now been married for a year

amandad715 · July 2014

DH and I went to the same elementary school but he didn't know me since he's 3 years older. But everyone knew who he was and his twin brother. Plus, his mom, future MIL, was a substitute music teacher. Talk about small town.

We kept missing each other in life after that, sort of almost crossing paths. He went to public high school; I went to a private one. But one of my oldest friends was friends with him and managed the varsity soccer team he played on. I would go watch the games. I almost went to his college without knowing he went there. He moved to the town my college is in for a job after law school, just about a week after I graduated from college and moved home. A few years later, he was offered a job as an attorney in our home town OR the city he went to college in. Luckily, he chose to come here. Another friend from growing up started working at that same office and he was working there. She is bossy and bossed me into setting us up. A perfect match. 9 years together this Oct and 7 years married in Nov.

Since then we have successfully set up friends and they've gotten married and now have a baby.

TiffanyJill · July 2014

We ran track together at college. I thought he was a total dream boat and little did I know he thought I was "way out of his league" our friends set us up to go on a double date with them. It was a pretty quiet date, my mysterious dream boat man didn't say too much the whole time. I thought he wasn't interested in me. When I walked with him to his truck the can of worms opened. He who had been silent the whole date came out of his shell. We ended up sitting on his tailgate talking until sunrise, when he said he might as well go home and eat some breakfast I told him I wanted some too

he cooked breakfast "toast I think, lol poor college kids" we talked more on his couch and the date ended/morning started with an incredible kiss. I had never met anyone like him, I knew then what we had was special. 5 years later I still feel the same.

jmcmoe · July 2014

DH and I went to Ag College together which has one residence on campus where most first year students stay. It has to wings and I didn't know him for the first two months or so because we hung out with different crowds in different wings. Then his roommate/best friend came to our room one day looking for my roommate and found me! So he kept repeatedly telling me that I needed to meet his roommate/friend for coffee (I don't drink coffee and wasn't interested so I said no) later that afternoon he came back with a different friend and they convinced me to go out drinking at the bar with them later that night because they offered to buy all my drinks haha. So my future DH obviously tagged along but I honestly didn't notice him very much even though he bought me a couple drinks. Then when we went back to residence I went straight to bed and like 5 minutes later there was a knock on the door, it was future DH saying his roommate locked him out (lie) and he didn't have a key (lie) so he wanted to stay there. I read right through the whole scheme sink told him he could stay but I was going to sleep and if he tried to touch me he would regret it haha.

The next day I called him out on it and he was super embarassed blaming his roommate for the whole plan. So he began coming to visit quite often throughout the next couple months but I wrote him an email saying fat chance because I wasn't interested in dating. Then New Years rolled around so they (DH and roommate and other friend) invited me to a party in their home town (2hrs away) so I went and ended up being completely hammered by 10 pm so I went to go sit outside in DH's truck to get some "air". Next thing I knew it was 6 am lmao. DH was sleeping in his driver seat so j woke him up a bit later and we say and chatted for a couple hours. Then it came out that I actually puked all down his arm the night before so he ended up not wearing a coat (this is January in Ontario) I felt really bad

For the next month he put a lot of time in watching ridiculously girly shows with me in residence (the search for the next pussycat doll, ANTM etc) so I agreed to go out for dinner one night with him. Next thing you know we were dating, 2 yrs later engaged, 1 1/2 yrs later married and now we have one DS and married for 4 years on July 3rd with #2 on the way! Where has the time gone! 7 1/2 years together!

mellie86041 · July 2014

Technically, okcupid... but we had actually met in person before our online meeting.

After a night out at the bars in the DC area with a couple of my roommates, one of my roommates was complaining about the lack of "new" guys to meet in our neighborhood, so another one of my roommates at the time had mentioned that a friend of hers was using it to meet and hang out with all sorts of people she wouldn't normally meet. So we all decided to sign up for it, not really taking it seriously.

I got bored with the intro questions about five minutes in, so had like zero info to go off, but my now-husband sent me a message anyway, saying something along the lines of "there's not much to go on, but I felt like I should send you a message anyway. Can we chat sometime soon?" So we did for a couple days, then arranged to meet for drinks. When we got to the bar, we realized that we had already met, incidentally at a bar on that same night my roommate was complaining about lack of new guys to meet! He already had my number and everything!

We always joke now that it was totally meant to be and how funny it is that we never met before that because we always seemed to be at the same places or events at the same time, and we even had a couple mutual friends.

MichaelSC28 · July 2014

My DH and I met at Gold Cup, its the opening horse race in Virginia. I was just out of a relationship and totally on a mission to have a good time "single", broke up like 5 months earlier from the ex (I may had been mooping for like weeks). I got a lil tipsy and was informed by my friend that there was a guy with a map suit...and i was like we need a picture. Well the man wearing the suit happened to be my future DH. I didn't talk to him much...wasn't really interested, took the picture and disappeared. I was waiting in line at the portapotties and I see in the corner of my eye one of those pop up chairs but like 10 times bigger pop up next to me. He sits in it and says "I know you...you won best dressed" I looked at him and stated..."do I know you" ( I was like 3 sheets to the wind). We started talking and to be honest I blacked out here and I was informed we talked about wine fests and I gave him my number...don't remember cause I think I gave it out a couple of times that day.

He texted me that night and I responded...I just remember something about him being on a plane and that he was from Canada (come to find out all that was incorrect..go figure) I was on my way to a 3 week vacay in Europe with a guy I had been talking to on and off who lived in Austria (another long story). My DH asked if he could pick me up from the airport when i got back and I was like WOAH there buddy...and played it off like no thanks. I mean really we met once hadn't gone on a date and had a total of 10 text messages. Anywho I go on my trip come back and realize the guy I went to see total weirdo...thank god figured it out. I ended up texting my DH.. "How about those Broncos" Yes I know...totally great ice breaker jk. He responded and he asked me to HH.

Now...here is an issue couldn't remember what the hell he looked like for the life of me and the pics of him were of course on my friends dang camera. So we decided to friend each other on FB to get to know each other and remember looks (well for me, I wasn't walking into a HH blind)... BAD IDEA...he had some questionable, not perverted...but different tastes and his humor and pictures were of a different caliber of humor. I almost backed out but a friend of mine convinced me to go and said to let her know if she needs to bail me. Did I mention that no pictures were straight on of his FACE...ugh so I was taking a chance. I went to HH and saw a guy at the bar that was attractive and I was like wait...this is your life..thats probably not him. Until he turned and smiled...luckily like a I know you smile. We talked and drank...once again the physical attraction was still lacking so I was really relaxed and just started blabbing. We got on some pretty frisky and risky convo 6 drinks later...and that is when things kind of took a turn. My beer goggles for once actually made the picture clearer with him.

We dated he waited on purpose 2 months before makin a move...I htink I did it once again intoxicated after a bar that I met him at after being out with my friends. We ended up together, and two years of dating and purchasing a house togheter ( I know crazy), I proposed to him on vacation. AND HERE WE ARE...we grow more and more comfortable with each other everyday and I love him more and more for it. He was the best out my of normal guy choice I have ever and will ever make!!

Mrs_Bennett · July 2014

DH and I met in Spanish class our junior year of high school. We were friends for a while, dated briefly at the end of our senior year, then he broke up with me because he "didn't want to ruin such a good friendship by dating", haha. Much to his surprise, I refused to speak to him for several months afterward. We went to different colleges, and eventually began talking again on instant messenger. He came to visit me at college in the spring, and we started dating again when I came home for spring break. The rest is history!
We've been married five and a half years now, and have two kids (#3 on the way!).

jmcmoe · July 2014

@sassquatch‌ Happy Belated Anniversary to you too!

WillCMyInk · July 2014

I'm at work so I don't want to read through all of these right now (I'll do that when I get home) but here is my story:

I met DH my freshman year of college. He was already in the Navy and had been for about a year and was dating a girl that I was pretty good friends with at the time that lived one floor above me in the dorms.

The girl, we'll call her "L", would always talk about her boyfriend and how she was going to bring him around and introduce him to everyone and somehow I was always not around when that happened. I later came to find out that she actually told him that she didn't want to introduce us because she was afraid he would like me too much. Eventually, I ran into them while they were together on campus and she introduced us and even though I had a boyfriend at the time I was smitten. I thought he was super attractive and I just KNEW I was going to date him some day.

They broke up after dating for about 8 months or so that year and he and I stayed in touch on AIM for a while. Eventually we kind of lost touch but he messaged me one day at random asking if I was going to this car meet in my area with my boyfriend (they both had the same type of cars) so we met up there. We talked for a few months after that then lost touch again.

When I was convinced that things with that boyfriend weren't going to go any further (after almost 2 years) and broke up with that guy I found DH on MySpace through some mutual friends and added him. It turns out he was on deployment at the time but we talked a lot for the last half of his deployment and decided we should meet up when he got back. So in December '06 when he got back from deployment we got together and totally had what he thought would be a quick fling. After a couple of weeks I went down to visit him for the first time and we talked and decided we should stop seeing the other people we were "dating" at the time and be exclusive.

The first year of our relationship actually sucked horribly. We broke up several times, had some huge fights, and most people probably thought I was crazy for getting back with him time and time again. Eventually in early '08 things in our relationship settled down and in May '09 he proposed. We were in a long distance relationship until we got married in Vegas in Dec. '09. We went on to have a big wedding in May '10.

(Sorry for the novel!)

babyzap20 · July 2014

motherboy said:

eHarmony. Followed by marriage and babies. We could be in the commercial
Oh, you're classy. We met on match, which I think of as the sluttier version. ETA: our first date was at a dive and was awkward for the first couple drinks and then he started telling inappropriate (but hilarious) jokes. It was awesome from then on.

I met SO on Plenty of Fish. MUCH sluttier then Match LOL

peggels24 · July 2014

I met DH through online personals in 2002 (he was using theonion.com and I was using Boston.com). I had seen his profile but didn't message him because of various reasons. At about the same time, he was looking at ads and his mother happened to be there and he asked her for an opinion of a few different girls and she picked me. So he messaged me and we chatted on the phone and then the next night I was going out with my friend to a bar across the street from where DH lived - so DH met us there. There was some confusion at first because DH didn't realize that my friend was a guy but we straightened that out. My friend thought that DH was cool and invited DH out with us for that Saturday night (we already had plans with a group of our friends).

DH and I split a cab home that night but it wasn't until we went out the next day to a movie and then back to his place for dinner that we had our first steamy kiss (our glasses fogged up because he had just walked me home in very cold December weather).

We dated a bit and then went out on New Years Eve. I stayed at his place that night and when I woke up the next day, he asked me if I wanted him to go back to my house to get me clothes to hang out in and I fell in love. We moved in together 9 months later, got engaged a month after that and got married a year after we were engaged on 10/10/2004.

Disneygeek77 · July 2014

We met at church. Well...technically we met at a BBQ joint after church, but we tell people we met at church.

We were both in the same bible study group for singles when one day the group decided to get BBQ after church. The first time I saw him was when I walked in the door and he was sitting at a table with other guys from the group. I remember him laughing a lot and I thought he was about 8 years older because he had started to lose his hair. Nope, only 6 months older than me, just unlucky in the hair department.

We were friends but over the course of a few months, we became closer and then he eventually did ask me out.

We have been married for 10 years. Two angel babies, one DD 5, one DS 3 and one on the way.

alibc123 · July 2014

Originally we met in the 2nd grade. We were in 2nd and 3rd grade together and then he switched elementary schools, then to different jr highs. We graduated HS together, but were night/day opposites so we didnt know each other.

We met on Match.com 8 years after HS and will be celebrating our 7 year dating anniversary in 2 weeks.

lilmisssweeti · July 2014

I met my husband at my first unit, we were both military at the time (he is now a civilian). I think it was the trans am I drove at the tile that really got him to speak to me.

kolaczka · July 2014

My husband and I met at work. My colleague and friend from college hired him. My now husband actually had a live in girlfriend at first but we became work friends and bonded over discussions of Kant. Eventually she moved out.

My husband staged a small party shortly there after with a few other couples. He got drunk on wine and threw himself at me. It is funny because I have never seen him drunk before or since that night. We ended up staying up all night talking and went to breakfast together the next morning.

I have since thanked my friend for hiring a husband for me. He should get some of the credit after all.

Rochelle2012 · July 2014

Ours isn't overly romantic either lol.

We met when I was 15, he was 16 and were both "seeing" other people at the time. Both of our relationships ended pretty badly in April of 2005. In early June we were both at a track and field meet and he seemed to be "following" me lol and also tossing dandelions at me hahaha. Afterward he asked a mutual friend of ours to ask me if I was interested in anyone and I said no, not wanting to seem desperate haha. (He was crushed apparently lol). On July 4th he asked me out (on MSN lol!!) and I said I would think about it hahaha. The next day I caved and said yes

! Just celebrated 9 years together and will be 2 years married next month

Want a personalized experience?

How did you meet your partner?

Re: How did you meet your partner?

Choose Another Board

Search Boards