I had just turned 21 and I started hanging out at the gay bars with my friends. My SO was the DJ at the main bar I would hang out at and I was interested in one of the bartenders. I would go look for the bartender after the bar closed but he wasn't as interested in me so we never got to hang out. One of those nights my SO and I left the bar together (both pretty drunk). We went back to his house (with an $80 taxi bill!) for what we both expected to be a one night stand. I ended up staying the night and when we woke up the next morning we started talking as if we'd known each other forever. I spent the day in bed with him and we haven't been apart since then. We've been together for a little over 2 years and I can't see myself without him.
We met on a BDSM website and chatted for a couple of years without meeting. We became really close friends, though, and talked on the phone a lot.
I moved back to my hometown and started a new job. One day I was walking from the cafeteria to my training room and I locked eyes briefly with a guy going the opposite direction. It was electric and thrilling.
Turned out it was DH. We were working at the same place without having realized it! Needless to say, we hooked up that Thursday and never looked back. Took our time dating and romancing and then got married in 2011. Now we're expecting our first baby!
We met in Youth group at our church 13 years ago. We made eye contact and several months later we discovered that we had the exact same thought, "Hot... But way out of my league." ">
We started dating several months later (we group dated for FOREVER with other people from church) and after three years we decided to get married. Ten years and 3.5 kids later, life is good. :x
ETA - I chose my husband because he was such a good person and I had serial dated a LOT of duds up until that point. I was looking for a better life and just felt like that life was somehow connected to him. All that being said, he was super hot and kept checking me out... I just couldn't help myself... He was the whole package.
The FI and I met while working together at six flags circa march 2010. He was my supervisor (ooohh what rebels we are). We hit it off after two months of very friendly friendship. It's so funny that everyone knew we were together "illegally" but they didn't care. We were such great workers and never let our relationship get in the way of work. Needless to say a lot of other team members despised our relationship because rules that applied to them didn't apply to us. I did end up becoming a supervisor eventually so our illegal relationship became legal.
So how we met? I loved his face. he couldn't get past my bowl haircut and high waisted khakis so he never noticed how "cute I was". I asked for his number on a whim. He didn't respond to my text for weeks. He was then attracted to my willingness to get dirty at work. He responded to my text finally. BAMM success in the making!
I really want to know what you mean by "willingness to get dirty at work." Do you have a messy job and I'm just a gross perv or did you mean it like that?
I met my H though my SS mother (yes, his ex GF) Her and I were friends at the time and she hooked me up with her son's father thinking we would maybe just hook up and move on. He and I were both weird about it, because would it be awkward if things didn't work out? We took a chance. Started talking, dating I moved in with him and my SS 6 months after meeting him. We bought a house one year after meeting. Things with my "friend" have been rocky at best. I could write a book really. We only get along for my SS's sake. She left my H 3 years before we even met and she was (unhappily) married to another man when she hooked us up. She quickly regretted her decision to leave my H when we hit it off and our relationship moved quickly. She tried to "seduce" him many times and came up with many nasty lies to try to get him to leave me, but luckily my H is a smart man
I met my H online about 7 years ago after moving to a new city to go to school. I had just broken up with my long-time boyfriend and needed a distraction. After a few days of staying up all night talking on the phone, I finally worked up the nerve to meet him in person (the thought of meeting someone online kind of freaked me out at the time). We went out for dinner and drinks then he came back to my place and spent the night. We clicked instantly and have been inseparable ever since.
I met my H at my 15 year high school reunion. He was the current dean at the school. I lived almost 1,000 miles away, but I knew the night I met him I would move back to that town and marry him. He flew down almost every weekend to visit me and actually left his job and moved in with me 2 months later - I didn't have to move. We got engaged a year after we met and then married 6 months later.
We worked at Academy in the footwear dept during the summer of 2005. We were both 19. We became friends and a year later we were officially boyfriend and girlfriend. We got married in 2012, and we have our first LO one the way in 2015, 10 years later. Pretty crazy
I love all these stories! Mine is similar to @khansil5 I had met a guy named "N" through FB, we started talking and hanging out and pretty much considered ourselves "casually dating" just without a label...probably because he was one of those, really into clubbing- meeting new people-no commitment, kind of guy. One night he said he wanted to go meet up with "a few"of his friends. We meet up in a Walgreens parking lot with 15-20 of his friends. He hops out of the car and me being all awkward, not knowing anyone and whatnot decided to stay in my car, and just roll the window down. N never asked me to come meet his friends and seemed so into his conversations I just kind of slipped into the background. Then some other guy shows up, who coincidentally is also named "N". He was clearly the "joker" or "class clown" of the group, as he walks up cracking jokes on everyone. Apparently N and N were close friends. After only 2 minutes of being there N#2 noticed me sitting in the car and came over to say hi, he was the only one who made an effort. We got into a debate over energy drinks, as I was a big monster drink fan and he had a red bull in his hands. We just kept talking and eventually I guess N#1 got bored and walked away, he wasn't concerned about what I was doing so I just hung back talking to N#2. We ended up talking for hours and he made me laugh so hard, he was so funny, naturally funny. We automatically hit it off much better than me and N#1 ever did. Later that night I realized I had so much fun with N#2 I friended him on FB and we had exchanged numbers and made plans to hang out again a few days later. I initially intended us to just be friends as I was still "seeing" N#1, but N#2 and I couldn't help ourselves, we just really clicked. The next time we hung out we discovered our families were friends. He knew my father, uncle, grandfather. And I had been to his families bakery/deli a bunch of times. And the rest was history :x we're now expecting our first child together, and he still makes me laugh every day.
(oh and N#1 was pissed at both of us when he found out, and he's still convinced me and him will be together one day. It's one of those want what you can't have things, oh well lol)
@hollmb your story is definitely the "coolest" lol bands, rock music and wolverine? some of my favorite things!
Aww thanks! We're a whole lot more lame and boring now, and he never did get his wolverine endoskeleton, but at least nobody can say we didn't enjoy ourselves while we were young!
We were in a judo class together first year in college. He asked me out, and from there it was history. We've been together 6 years now, and got married in June
He was friends with the boy I dated in high school. I actually thought he was annoying at first. When my boyfriend decided he needed two girlfriends at once my husband decided to take a chance and ask me out. I said yes because he was older and I thought it would make sleaze ball jealous. Don't know if it worked but it didn't matter since we hit it off so well. That was 13 years ago.
Online 15 years ago. Love@aol. He was in the Navy stationed in San Diego and I was quite the promiscuous 17 year old pretending to be 18. He is 4 years older than me and was very respectful not to get into bed with until I was 18 (no matter how bad I pushed the issue). I swore I would never date anyone in the military because my dad was a marine and that was just a bad situation, but I have since realized they aren't all crazy and violent.
We met at an anti-Scientology protest! He was there because of what the Scientologists did to Paulette Cooper and I was there because of their anti-psychiatry stance. We became really close friends then started dating a year and a half after our first protest. We got married four years later.
We met at church Made eye contact during the service the first time he came after moving to the city, and my H is the handsomest guy ever (biased? no!) so I remember thinking "who on EARTH is THAT?!" We talked afterwards, and long story short: we liked each other a lot
B born 7/15/13, C born 3/2/15, #3 on the way May '17
I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.
DH and I met in high school, but we were both dating other people at that time. He was a basketball player and I was a cheerleader. He started and was good, so I knew who he was and thought he was cute, but had a BF.
Fast-forward to college when we both majored in secondary education (PE/Health) and had lots of classes together. We were both single then and I started asking him for rides to the other side of campus after a class, every week. Then we started going out and drinking together...yep and now we are married with #2 on the way
PPD/PPA Mom...it has been super hard, but I'm making it! Slow steps... Mom to Carter (6), and Calianne (1). Proud VBAC, natural birth, breastfeeding, cloth diapering momma!
I met my dh at my first job right after high school. He was quiet around everyone else, but he started talking to me everyday. He told me he didn't know why, but something kept telling him to talk to me.
I met my H though my SS mother (yes, his ex GF)
Her and I were friends at the time and she hooked me up with her son's father thinking we would maybe just hook up and move on.
He and I were both weird about it, because would it be awkward if things didn't work out?
We took a chance. Started talking, dating I moved in with him and my SS 6 months after meeting him.
We bought a house one year after meeting.
Things with my "friend" have been rocky at best. I could write a book really. We only get along for my SS's sake.
She left my H 3 years before we even met and she was (unhappily) married to another man when she hooked us up.
She quickly regretted her decision to leave my H when we hit it off and our relationship moved quickly.
She tried to "seduce" him many times and came up with many nasty lies to try to get him to leave me, but luckily my H is a smart man
We met in college, my friend was cheating on her boyfriend with him (he did not know). I broke the news to him & we became friends. Over time we figured out we had met a few times before but did not remember each other. A year later we were inseparable. Now it's 15 years later, married for 9 years, with DS who is 3 & LO on the way.
We met through a mutual friend, DH's best friend actually. Friend gave H my number and we set up a date to go hiking (yup, I'm aware this sounds like a bad idea). We had a good time, and I invited him to go to a Fourth of July (2012) party at a friends a few days later. We were pretty inseparable from that point on. We moved in together that November, a year after that got engaged, and then bought a house this past May, got married July 5th, and found out we were expecting on July 15th! He's the complete opposite of me in so many ways and yet it works perfectly for us. I can't imagine spending my life with anyone else.
Love everyone's stories! DH & I met when I was 16 & he was 17 in high school. My best friend was dating his best friend & they kept trying to set us up. I said I just wanted to be friends but he says it was love at first sight for him. About 6 months later we had become best friends he asked me to his senior prom but I already had another date for my junior prom. Well around that time my feelings started to change & he was at my house for an after prom party along with my date. He was so cute sleeping on the floor, 5 days later & after my friend telling me he was giving up on us dating I said I would be his girlfriend. 17 years later & married for 9 & can still say we're best friends! Our friends that were dating ended up breaking up a few months later, we still talk to his friend & he likes to take credit for our relationship:)
Met my DH when we were 15 (2008); I had just moved to this town, so I was the new girl at church, and not fitting in with any of the girls, I decided to hang out with the guys that played soccer (my sport!). We became good friends and I kept my distance because I wasn't sure what he thought of me and I didn't want to ruin our friendship, but we finally realized we both liked each other a year and a half later on a mission trip and the rest is history. Dated for a year, then got engaged, and 11 months later married my first BF. I found out later that all the guys in that group had a major crush on me, but he's the only one I have ever felt a spark with when we have touched, and connected with on a deeper level. He's such a sweet guy and I'm so blessed by him; just super lucky to have gotten such a great catch on my first try, and married my best friend!
I have known DH for most of my life. His family moved here when he was 13 and I was 6, and we went to the same church as one another. We were always friends, but I never saw him as more than that. When I was 19 we decided to give dating a shot, and what do ya know, it worked. We dated for five years and have been married for six years.
24 years later and we still attend the same church that we met at.
It was seven Halloweens ago (6 if you don't include this one). I was a slutty sheep, my gf Bo Peep. We went to a Finger 11 concert, got drunk, and I met a cute mummy. Bo Peep told told me to kiss him, so I did (what can I say, I was a tipsy sheep). We hung out the next day, and pretty much every day since then. Now we're married, have a couple fur babies, and a tiny human on the way.
DH and I met freshman year of high school. We both wanted to date each other, but he ended up not asking me out until Junior year. We got engaged 2 years later and married in 2012.
@etoille I still play WoW with my husband. It's a great game.
I met my husband at band camp my freshman year of high school. We became friends. After he dumped a truly horrible person and the same for me; we danced together at the band Halloween party. He kissed me on the forehead, and we've been together ever since. Today is our 12 year anniversary of being together!
Online, a dating site called PlentyofFish.com . When we met for the first time, I thought he sent me to the wrong restaurant. It was just my bad navigation skills.
We met in high school when I was 15 (I'm now 22 and he is 23). I actually just started "dating" this other boy at the time. I had just finished showing my pig at the fair and was walking around with a friend. I had always thought Zac (hubby) was cute and we ran into him and his friend. We rode rides together, he won me a teddy bear, and exchanged numbers. You are probably thinking she sounds like a total redneck! Lol we get picked on all the time about our love story but I think it's cute and special! We have been dating ever since and got married last October! BTW I broke up with the loser the next day lol!!
Re: GTKY: How did you and your SO meet?
I moved back to my hometown and started a new job. One day I was walking from the cafeteria to my training room and I locked eyes briefly with a guy going the opposite direction. It was electric and thrilling.
Turned out it was DH. We were working at the same place without having realized it! Needless to say, we hooked up that Thursday and never looked back. Took our time dating and romancing and then got married in 2011. Now we're expecting our first baby!
We started dating several months later (we group dated for FOREVER with other people from church) and after three years we decided to get married. Ten years and 3.5 kids later, life is good. :x
ETA - I chose my husband because he was such a good person and I had serial dated a LOT of duds up until that point. I was looking for a better life and just felt like that life was somehow connected to him. All that being said, he was super hot and kept checking me out... I just couldn't help myself... He was the whole package.
Do you have a messy job and I'm just a gross perv or did you mean it like that?
Her and I were friends at the time and she hooked me up with her son's father thinking we would maybe just hook up and move on.
He and I were both weird about it, because would it be awkward if things didn't work out?
We took a chance. Started talking, dating I moved in with him and my SS 6 months after meeting him.
We bought a house one year after meeting.
Things with my "friend" have been rocky at best. I could write a book really. We only get along for my SS's sake.
She left my H 3 years before we even met and she was (unhappily) married to another man when she hooked us up.
She quickly regretted her decision to leave my H when we hit it off and our relationship moved quickly.
She tried to "seduce" him many times and came up with many nasty lies to try to get him to leave me, but luckily my H is a smart man
Married the love of my life: 5-17-14
BFP:6-27-14
EDD:3-11-15
Step Mom to Z: 4-11-06
IT'S A BOY!!!!!!
Mine is similar to @khansil5
I had met a guy named "N" through FB, we started talking and hanging out and pretty much considered ourselves "casually dating" just without a label...probably because he was one of those, really into clubbing- meeting new people-no commitment, kind of guy. One night he said he wanted to go meet up with "a few"of his friends. We meet up in a Walgreens parking lot with 15-20 of his friends. He hops out of the car and me being all awkward, not knowing anyone and whatnot decided to stay in my car, and just roll the window down. N never asked me to come meet his friends and seemed so into his conversations I just kind of slipped into the background. Then some other guy shows up, who coincidentally is also named "N". He was clearly the "joker" or "class clown" of the group, as he walks up cracking jokes on everyone. Apparently N and N were close friends. After only 2 minutes of being there N#2 noticed me sitting in the car and came over to say hi, he was the only one who made an effort. We got into a debate over energy drinks, as I was a big monster drink fan and he had a red bull in his hands. We just kept talking and eventually I guess N#1 got bored and walked away, he wasn't concerned about what I was doing so I just hung back talking to N#2. We ended up talking for hours and he made me laugh so hard, he was so funny, naturally funny. We automatically hit it off much better than me and N#1 ever did. Later that night I realized I had so much fun with N#2 I friended him on FB and we had exchanged numbers and made plans to hang out again a few days later. I initially intended us to just be friends as I was still "seeing" N#1, but N#2 and I couldn't help ourselves, we just really clicked. The next time we hung out we discovered our families were friends. He knew my father, uncle, grandfather. And I had been to his families bakery/deli a bunch of times. And the rest was history :x we're now expecting our first child together, and he still makes me laugh every day.
(oh and N#1 was pissed at both of us when he found out, and he's still convinced me and him will be together one day. It's one of those want what you can't have things, oh well lol)
B born 7/15/13, C born 3/2/15, #3 on the way May '17
I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.
Mom to Carter (6), and Calianne (1).
Proud VBAC, natural birth, breastfeeding, cloth diapering momma!
24 years later and we still attend the same church that we met at.
@etoille I still play WoW with my husband. It's a great game.
I met my husband at band camp my freshman year of high school. We became friends. After he dumped a truly horrible person and the same for me; we danced together at the band Halloween party. He kissed me on the forehead, and we've been together ever since. Today is our 12 year anniversary of being together!
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