GTKY- How did you and your SO meet?

MIssSally25 · January 2015

*child mentioned*

DH and I met on a super sketchy dating app!! ....totally embarrassing. I have a 5 year old daughter from a previous marriage (I was really young and really stupid), so I wasn't exactly getting out to meet people.

My friend had told me to just put the app on my phone - not really thinking anything of it. It is supposed to show you people that live in a 10 mile radius or something. I never even really went on it! So I ended up getting a message from him, and after chatting for a little while we realized that he was in Pittsburgh, and I was in Virginia. Not sure how that happened. Anyways, he ended up flying down to see me, and we hit it off so well that I ended up moving up to PA about 6 months later! I know I'm crazy.

We got engaged last Christmas, and married in September! We are really excited to start a family together!

Anselser · January 2015

I love these stories...

laxdixdar you have me curious now, what game did you guys meet playing?

I only ask because that DH and I met playing an online game as well. We met playing World of Warcraft. I was actually engaged to someone else at the time (who was the whole reason I started playing) and our relationship was slowly falling apart. I realized that I didn't want to spend the rest of my life with someone who was content to work whatever dead end job he could find. Well DH had recently joined our guild in WoW (guild= group of people that play together) and we started talking late at night on Ventrilo (a voice chat program.) He spent some time trying to help me fix my relationship with my now-ex. Within 2 weeks of me breaking up with my ex, DH and I were dating. We lived 1200 miles apart and spent the first 6 months of our relationship talking on the phone and on skype and in game.

I came to visit him for the first time for Christmas our first year together. It was the first time we would meet in person and I was terrified. If I were a more superstitious person we probably would not be together with all the problems that I had getting down there. I got to the airport on Christmas afternoon and they had no record of me on their flight (even though I had a confirmation number and everything.) So they got me on a flight and I flew to Memphis for my layover to Columbia. I got there and my flight had been cancelled. There was a problem with the plane that was headed to Charlotte so they took our plane instead. So I got in line to fly standby to Charlotte (which is about 2 hrs from where I was supposed to fly into.) I was one of 2 people in line and there were 2 seats left on the plane. Right before they were about to call for standbys the last 2 people showed up. So I got back on the phone with DH and my parents to figure out what I was going to do. I ended up flying into another airport in SC and DH drove over 3 hrs to come pick me up. I was so afraid that he would walk in the door at the airport (at 11pm) and take one look at me and walk back out leaving me stranded with nowhere to go. Obviously not the case.

We dated long distance for about 3 years (alternating visits, he was not too sure about the piles of snow in MN when he came in the winter.) Finally in 2011, I moved down to SC to be with him. I stayed with him in his parent's house (they travel for work so they were never there) and moved into my own apartment (he proposed the night before I moved out.)

We got married in 2012 and have been happily married since then.

Nikolie93 · January 2015

@MIssSally25‌ it seems many have met in similar situations! It seems the days of meeting in a grocery store is over lol. Btw, can you please add a "child mentioned" warning before your story? If you have any questions feel free to PM me!

@Anselser‌ wow, glad you weren't superstitious! Some may have said screw this lol

I am so glad that dating sites have happy endings!

Km380 · January 2015

I basically just love titted this whole thread, thanks for the smiles ladies!

nikiswimr · January 2015

MH and I met our senior year of undergrad at a date party on my birthday. I was dating one of his friends, he was dating one of my friends, and they introduced us because we were starting med school together. We became study buddies and good friends. The other relationships ended and he kissed me out of the blue one day when we were studying bones and joints

Our first real date was to a concert and we stayed the night at his parents house afterwards. And we're still going strong 10 years later!

Edit: because I can't spell

bansel92813 · January 2015

My hubby and I are high school sweethearts who started dating when I was 14 and he was 15. We then went off to different colleges freshman year and he ended up transferring to mine sophomore year. We got engaged junior year and married the fall after our senior year. When I first met him I didn't really like him and I thought he had a funny last night. Now I hear my students call me it 50000x a day but of course I love being called his last name now lol. I couldn't imagine my life without him!

schuebja · January 2015

@Nikolie93‌, this is an awesome GTKY. DH and I actually met in a Wisconsin chat room my freshman year of college. I was going through a really tough time ( I had been engaged to my high school sweetheart who decided to just up and dump me). I had a friend who was trying to set me up on a blind date, but I had no desire to get into another serious relationship so fast, so I was doing my own thing.

I was home one night and went on yahoo and DH started chatting with me. We had a ton in common and he went to college about 20 minutes away from me. That night we exchanged AIM screen name and started chatting a ton. After about a month or so, he was in town and decided that we should meet. He came to my dorm and we hung out all night, just talking and watching movies. We pretty much started dating after that night and have been together for almost 11 years. It makes me laughs though because my friend who was trying to set me up on a blind date, was a mutual friend to DH and was actually trying to set me up with him.

TashaCN · January 2015

We met at a Halloween party. We had mutual friends and he had a girlfriend. I was Raggedy Ann and he was a Ninja Turtle. I didn't really think much of it until a few months later when I heard he and his GF had broken up.

After they broke up we "coincidentally" kept running into each other at the gym. After a drunken night of drama, when we found out his roommate had a thing for me, he asked me out on Facebook (He didn't have the guts to ask any of our friends for our number)

When we first started dating I wasn't very sure about it and thought we would break up as soon as I graduated college. 7 years later....

Edited: we met. Not MEAT at a Halloween party.

beckynsean11 · January 2015

DH & I met online in a AOL Metallica chat room fall of 96, he was a senor in high school & I was a junior. He send me an IM after some back & forth in the room & we chatted until like 5 am that night. We both knew there was something there, I was sure I'd marry him one day. Since I was in New Orleans & he was in South Jersey, we were just long distance friends for a long time. After years of chatting, spring of 2003 he decided that he was going to come down to meet for real. He came in for our birthdays, which are 10 days apart in September. It was an amazing week together, before he left he gave me a past, present & future necklace that he had bought just in case the connection we both thought was there was real. After that we attempted a long distance relationship, but after about a month he decided it was too hard & he broke it off, which crushed me.

We didn't talk for about a year & a half. Then the Summer of 2005 we started chatting again, we were both casually dating other people. After Hurricane Katrina, he flipped out, realized that he had made a huge mistake letting me go. We decided to stop seeing other people & give the long distance thing another shot. That Christmas, he asked me up to meet his family. I did & we decided to officially be a couple. NYE, he asked if I'd move to NJ & in March of 2006 I made the move. We lived with his parents for a year, moved into our first apartment in 2007, got engaged in 2010, married in 2011 & 18 years later here we are.

rae80407 · January 2015

I met my SO when we were 16. I was really into hair and braiding hair and my aunt worked with his dad. His dad said his son needed his hair done so my aunt set it up. Little did we know he lived right behind me. We sparked right away...I might have stalked him a bit lol jk I did however live every second just to see him though. We got to know each other and had lots in common. We've been going strong every since and its 7 and a half years later!

LittleMrsW · January 2015

I met DH in high school, I was 14. He was in a punk rock band and I had a huge crush on him. We had mutual friends so we occasionally hung out and became friends. Both of us were in serious relationships that were pretty toxic. Right before my 20th birthday I kicked my fiance to the curb. He and and his gf had a mutual break up shortly after. A few months later we ended up getting together and haven't parted since.

Nikolie93 · January 2015

Reading these stories it really amazes me how things end up working out. Especially the ones that dated, broke up, and eventually ended up together years later. It warms my heart

rmpar29 · January 2015

I'm loving this thread! DH and I are another Plenty of Fish success story. I had been on EHarmony and Match and didn't want to be in touch with the previous guys that I had dated from there, so I looked for a new site. DH apparently tried to catch me on there for a week and was about to give up when he saw me pop up again. This was on a Monday and we talked for the entire day while I was at work, then the next day, on Wednesday I gave him my number and we talked all day and all night, same for Thursday. On Friday, he asked when we could meet. He lived 3 hours away, so we met halfway and as soon as he saw me he kissed me. We had a wonderful date and I didn't want to go home. A friend of his had a tragic event happen, so he was away the whole weekend, but we talked as much as we could.

He quit his job and moved in with me the next Friday. Yep, after knowing each other 10 days he moved in with me. The thought was that within a couple weeks he'd have a job and his own place, but he just never left. 3 months later we were engaged and 18 months later we were married. That was 8 years ago...

Looking back at it now I say to myself "what was I thinking?" Something about him just told me that it was right though.

bumpuser10605721 · January 2015

We met in highschool, he was actually my older brothers friend, but we never really hung out or had a interest, he was my brothers friend and I was the "little sister". We connected back up after highschool via Facebook! been together ever since......almost 10 years (almost 4 married)

imnotfancy · January 2015

We met at a New Years Eve party at my college. He went to a different school but his brother (who went to the same school as I did) invited him. I wasn't looking for a guy because I had just gotten out of a long, bad relationship. But he started talking to me and asked for my number at the end of the night. He was so hot and nice that I called him as soon as I got home. (I know, lame). But he fell for me. I ended up depressed from my last break up, my dad in an accident/getting sick, I was in a bad car accident, and I started my junior 1 semester of nursing school. Too much stress. I was not very nice to him and had no idea why he stayed around. I broke it off with him twice during the first couple months. But I finally snapped out of it about 7 months in and fell immediately in love with him. I've known him for 6 years and we have been married for almost 3 years.

Turns out we were born in the same hospital, in the same large city. But we had both moved to many different states growing up. Somehow we found each other again at the right time. He is my rock and I love him endlessly!

MellyMel15 · January 2015

agpjt413 said:

@MellyMel15‌ - I had a JDate profile too!!! I did it out of solidarity for my BFF (she's Jewish). And gurrrrl...I was living in MoCo at the time so you know I knew everyone that popped up within a 20 mile radius! Lol!!!

Haha, that's awesome! I bet we did run across some of the same guys. DH was actually living near Baltimore at the time. Before he and I became exclusive, I went on dates with two other guys. One was kind of cute, but not the sharpest tool in the shed— there were at least three words I said during the date that he had to ask me the meaning of (and they were not big words)!

jordangoodnight · January 2015

We met in accounting class in high school. I didn't even know we had accounting until I was put in that class. I almost switched to another elective but didn't want to mess up the rest of my schedule. It turned out to be a good thing I didn't!

megcamire07 · January 2015

My SO and I actually met on MySpace, I know lol.. We talked a few times on the phone and finally met up for a movie date. 6 years after and we got married. Been married for 1 year now. Best decision I have ever made

this+gamer+chick · January 2015

My husband was my karate instructor. Haha! Not super romantic, but we fell for each other and have been together for over 6 years.

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