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May 2016 Moms
Jenly17
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GTKY: How did you meet your s/o?
Jenly17
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I asked this question in a ticker change post. The responses were really diverse and fun to read! So how did you meet your S/o?
Re: GTKY: How did you meet your s/o?
We eventually got on the topic of sports and I told him I was going out to a bar to watch a baseball game that night. He told me his buddies were also planning to go, so we all went together. My girlfriend ditched me but I still went...well there were about 10 of his buddies, his friends parents, and then me..I got the grand inquisition from his friends about who I was, etc, etc but I held my own. I went home that night and called my girlfriend (who ditched me) and said "I know this is going to sound crazy, but the guy I met tonight...I think I'm going to marry him." I never believed in fate or anything like that, in fact I felt that it was a little wacko...but our 3rd wedding anniversary is tomorrow! Some things are just meant to be.
I think I put this in the ticker change post, but I'll play.
Short story: He was my college roommate's professor.
Long story: My roommate had been trying to set me up since we met. As a nursing student, I was crazy busy all the time and as a theater student she kept trying to set me up with gay guys. Needless to say, it wasn't working. Finally, one night (back in 2007) we were watching a Red Sox game and all the girls (I lived with 6 other girls in a tiny apartment!) were fawning over their favorite player. There were cheers for the "Silver Fox", Manny, etc etc, but when Kevin Youkilis came up to bat and stuck his cute butt out and waved that bat ridiculously above his head, I rushed the screen. Suddenly, my roommate gasped and said "I have the PERFECT guy for you!" She spent the next week convincing me I had to meet this guy and he was just my type etc. Finally, when I showed signs of interest and asked if I could stalk his FB, she kinda hesitated. I was suspicious and finally she blurted out, "He's my theater tech and pyrotechnics professor!" I was immediately turned off, not only because I was a student, but because I was a work study in the Dean's office and it would be super inappropriate. But my roommate wouldn't let up and finally I let her set up a date for a Tuesday night, figuring I would bail at the last minute anyways. The Sunday before, we were all getting ready to watch the Patriots game (I was in comfy sweats and was just about to place an order for delivery fro-yo) when my roommate threw me my coat and said we were watching the game at a friend's apartment. I was bummed, but trudged along after her. I started seeing some familiar people walking up to the apartment...all theater students. I was a little suspicious, but didn't put two and two together until I saw my roommate's nervous smile as we got to the door. I was certain this mystery professor would open the door...but it was his roommate, another theater professor who I knew from working at the Dean's office. After we got over the initial awkwardness, I pulled my roommate aside and told her I wasn't going in, it wasn't appropriate etc. But then I heard him, yelling at the game and criticizing the plays. He was so knowledgeable and passionate and I just had to see what he looked like. And there, sitting on the edge of his gross La-Z-Boy recliner in full-out Pats gear was a man who could've been Kevin Youkilis's twin! From the shaved head, reddish goatee, big broad shoulders, to yes...the cute butt! I was intrigued and we stayed. I remember the look on his face when my roommate introduced me as "Lauren...you know..Lauren". It made me feel like a million bucks. After the game, he insisted on driving me home and my roommate was going to walk with some friends, but I begged her to come with us, just in case. We talked the whole way about the game and Boston sports and everything else until I realized that we had been parked outside my apartment for an hour and my roommate had already slipped out of the car, without either of us knowing. I didn't bail on our Tuesday night date and the rest is history. Yes, it was weird dating a professor, especially when he wanted to take me to a bar to see a band play...but I was only 19! But, when it was just him and me, the age difference melted away and we became best friends, lovers, and now a family.
So I know I'm always bragging about my husband the comedy writer. Well, he is also a performer and teacher at one of the premier comedy theaters in the city. When I first moved to NYC I signed up for an improv comedy class to meet people and ended up really enjoying it so signed up for another, higher level class and he was my teacher. During the class I thought he was adorable although not really my type and he claims he thought I was cute but had a boyfriend although I don't really think he noticed me. After the class ended I reached out to him to get together for coffee to talk comedy, it was NOT a date but we did connect a little bit (I could tell he was nervous and it was so endearing) and he offered to get us a spot performing together. I was floored by his kindness, he was well respected and established at the theater and I was a relatively new student. (insert nerdy humble brag: I eventually became a performer at the theater in my own right although I've been out of the comedy game for years now). It was during the show we did together that my crush developed. He was so shy and sweet off stage, so confident and hilarious on stage. I was totally enamored with this goofball nerd-genius. I knew I'd have to be the one to make a move so when I emailed him the next day to say thank you I casually mentioned that we should get together "outside of comedy" sometime. He apparently had to double check with his roommate that I was talking about a date before officially asking me out. We went on our first date that weekend and we've been together ever since. He is still the funniest, sweetest man I've ever met.
DH's grandfather went to visit my grandfather that day and every day for the next several weeks. Their church members donated groceries to my grandmother and helped babysit so she could be at the hospital (they had 6 kids, and his illness put a financial strain on them). After my grandfather recovered, my mother's family began attending their church, and our grandparents became best friends. DH's father and uncle we close to my mother and siblings' ages, so they grew up close. About 15 years later, my grandfather's job was transferred across the country, and my mom's family moved, but they remained close with DH's family despite the distance. They would visit each other once a year.
I am 9 months older than DH, and we have pictures of his grandmother holding me before he was born. His family has always been like extended family, and they would joke when we were kids that we would get married one day. We finally started dating during my junior year of college. Since we lived in different states, we dated long distance for a couple of months. We were engaged 3 months later, and he did a cross country move to be with me my last year of college. We got married a month after I graduated college, which was about 8.5 years ago.
It's fun to listen to our grandparents tell stories about our parents, aunts and uncles. My grandfather passed away before DH and I started dating, and his grandmother passed away a few months ago. I really wish they could have met our baby because I know it would have been really special for them.
I love hearing "how we met" stories and can't wait to hear all of yours!
We dated long distance for about 6 months when he just bit the bullet and moved to my state. We have been inseparable ever since.
We became great friends and finally started dating in our forth year. And the rest is history!
We met in HS too. He was a sophomore, I was a junior but we both happened to be the same age and only a week apart. I had 2 friends that had 2 different classes with him. We had a class in the same "wing" at school and he used to walk in a group with my friend, and I used to walk with her to class. He used to give me really weird looks all the time, but never really talked to me. One day, I told my other friend who had a different class with him to ask him why he always looks at me funny, and he told her because he liked me. Queue all the butterflies and teenage hormones. I ended up giving him my AIM screen name, where we talked for a while and he asked me out to a movie (Bruce Almighty), and exchanged phone numbers. That will be 12 years ago in May
We had a rough patch of major growing pains when I was in college and he started college, but we've persevered through it all. Honestly, I feel like if we could get through all that we've had to go through growing up together and adapting to our changing lives (neither of us are the person we were at 16!), we can get through pretty much anything.
Fast forward to high school, when J thought of him as more than a friend and developed a HUGE crush. It was at least a solid year of her obsessing over him. She finally got got the courage to tell him her feelings.. And he (gently) told her that he didn't feel the same way. Although he was nice about it, total girl code came into play here, and I decided I didn't like him at all.
Fast forward again to my sophomore year of college. I was supposed to go on a mission trip to Chicago over spring break, but a few things fell through at the last minute and I wasn't able to go. Cue pity party on not having spring break plans. I was telling J about it, and she said she was going with the college group from her church to a cabin in Gatlinburg, TN for the week and invited me to go. Guess who was heading up the trip? DH. I still had negative feelings about him.
One night on the trip, we did karaoke. DH got up and started playing the guitar and singing.. And I melted. I was thinking, "How have I never noticed how cute he is before?! And that voice.. :x " The next day, he saw me in a room by myself in the cabin, reading. I was totally in my element, but DH thought I was feeling left out or something since I didn't know most people on the trip. He invited me to ride with him to go pick up some people on the trip that had gone hiking. To his surprise (and mine), I said yes. As we talked on the way there, I realized I had been completely wrong about him. He was a really caring, funny person. After I got home from the trip, I was the one with the major crush on him.
I should add that J was over her crush by now and engaged to her now-husband. However, I didn't mention my feelings to her because I had no idea how she would react.
In June, I was visiting J for a weekend. She was texting someone and grinning like crazy. I finally asked her what that was all about. She said, "I'm texting DH. Would you ever consider going out on a date with him?" Cue angels chorus in my head. I played it off cool, and said, "Sure, I mean, it's a free dinner, right?" We went on a date the next night, and the rest is history.
DS1: May 2016
DS2: Jan 2019
Baby #3 EDD: 6/18/24
Little brother was born October 1, 2012.
When I was 19, I spent a day at the beach with friends (and some of their friends). There was this guy named Dan who kept dunking me! To be honest, I was kind of interested in his friend, and he didn't catch my eye at all!
A year later, we met again - this time working/living together doing a summer ministry outreach. I knew he looked familiar, but couldn't place him at all. From the moment we started talking, there was a connection and attraction I had never experienced before. I was moving out of the country at the end of the summer, so I didn't think anything long term could come from it. I wouldn't even let him kiss me, since I knew it would be too hard to leave him behind. But we emailed and instant messaged eachother for hours every day for the whole year I was gone. By the time I came back, we were talking about getting married! Oh, and it wasn't until after he proposed that he told me HE was the guy from that day at the beach, and that he kept dunking me because he had fallen for me at first sight. We've been married 11 years now!
We just got engaged on our one year anniversary last month. We've been inseparable ever since!
Our parents are friends so, even though he lived states away, we met when we were little. My family would always drive up there for the fourth of July and Thanksgiving because all the family and my dad's friends lived up there. So we grew up as long distance best friends. We lost touch while I was in middle school. At the end of my jr year of high school he sent me a text. I didn't want him to know I already had his number from his cousin, so I responded, "Who is this?" He'd been a creeper and gotten my number off of facebook. So we started texting nonstop which lead to skyping for hours but neither of us had a crush on the other yet.
When my family went up for the fourth of July all we did was hang out. We were shooting his lord of the rings action figures arrows at each other when I realized I had a crush on him. I hid it till Thanksgiving, told him I had a crush on him, and he told me that'd be weird. Ouch. Fast forward a few weeks, he called me and said that he thought he liked me too.
He waited till my dad and I were in state that December to ask my dad blessing to date me; then he forgot to ask me.
Hard to believe that was almost 6 years ago.
Yep, that's pretty much what we do too now!