GTKY: Where/How/What/When/Why did you meet your SO

bornmommy · February 2016

I'm bored. Spill on the "meet cute" of you and your SO.

bornmommy · February 2016

DH and I met when I was 14 and he was 16 via my brother who was DH's best friend. DH worked in a grocery store and my brother brought me there to say hi to him. I thought he was soooo cute but my brother was totally against it at the time. A few years later, he asked me out and dated for my senior year in high school where I, rather cold heartedly, dumped him right after my senior prom. My brother was killed in a car accident and, even though DH hated me for what I did, we would meet with another friend at my brother's grave site every year. Flash forward three years with good ole fashion time healing, we decided to give each other another try and instantly realized we still loved each other, got engaged, got married (3 years after getting engaged), had two kids, and here we are, 8 years later.

queen_frostine · February 2016

We went to the same high school - my husband is actually one year younger than me - and apparently even had a class together, which he remembers and I do not. But we never talked until a few years after high school, we were hanging with one of our mutual friends from high school as kind of a last hurrah before he and his wife moved out of the area. My husband was dating some other girl at the time, so we hung out as friends a few times while that dissolved and have been together ever since - even though it did take us ten years to get around to actually getting married.

lovelynda · February 2016

I had been a single mom for 4 years and did not date anyone. Well my sister convinced me to browse online men in our area to date. I found one person on Myspace that was interesting to me (Back when people used Myspace and not Facebook). We talked online for two months before meeting in person at the mall. That day we meet at the mall I walked away thinking this is the man I'm going to marry! A year and half later on Christmas morning he ask me to marry him. Of coarse I said YES! I found my love online.

AmMcc12 · February 2016

DH and I met through 4-H so we have known eachother since 4th/5th grade. We didn't really become friends until I was a freshman in high school (he is a year younger) when we started doing leadership together in 4-H. Throughout high school I was dating another guy but mom and others kept joking how DH had a crush on me. Of course I thought he was cute, but I also thought I was in love with the guy I was dating. Summer after I graduated high school the current boyfriend broke up with me and I was heartbroken. A few days after I felt like I needed to talk to DH so I text him at like 10pm to talk. We talked all night and ended up setting up a date the following night which was 4th of July. We started dating, but after a week or so I had a feeling that he was just a rebound guy so I broke it off with him but we would still hang out together with friends. Well just being friends didn't last very long. We dated for a year long distance while I was at college and he finished high school. After dating for a year he proposed and 3 years later we were married. It will be 4 years of marriage this July

missmaehurt · February 2016

My husband and I met online in 2014. We hit it off immediately and I told my best friend he was the one a couple months into dating. We decided to elope in New Orleans in October 2015 and started TTC. In January we got our BFP.

moosette113 · February 2016

We met in pep band in college. And now 8 years later, we're having our band baby.

ashleyp625 · February 2016

H moved to my city and high school when he was in eleventh grade, and I was in ninth. Even though I play flute, I played horn for one year, and when he beat my friend and me in chair placement, we didn't like him.

Fast forward to tenth grade- I overdid it at band practice one night and started hyperventilating because I couldn't breathe. He took me over to sit down and got me some water. I quickly realized I had been wrong

He is probably actually the sweetest guy ever, but he was a loner because his sister had just died and wasn't into meeting new people at his new school (which I found out much later, of course). He was very shy, so my friend convinced him to ask me to Homecoming. He did, I said yes, and now here we are!

kmalls · February 2016

DH and I met at a bowling alley -- all class, right here. Although it was candle pin bowling so that makes it more awesome. He was in a league with a mutual friend, and I went one night with said mutual friend to watch him bowl (fine, I went to drink). We all went to a bar afterwards and I instantly had my eye on him. It took him three more months to ask me out (he's 13 years older than me and thought I was younger than I actually am, which made him think he'd be a creep to ask me out).

Once he figured out my actual age, he asked me out on a date, then three months later we were engaged. A year after that we were married, and we conceived DS on our honeymoon. 11 months after DS was born we found out we're pregnant with #2!

LGW2015 · February 2016

We met the summer before our senior year of college in a summer class. I'm pretty shy but that day when I saw a girl I had a previous class with walk in I decided to be outgoing and say hi. She sat next to me. Then DH walked in and knew her too so he sat next to her. Well she was a slacker and barely ever came to class (haha) so we got to know each other a bit. I had a bf at the time though. I then studied abroad for the rest of the summer and when I got back bf and I broke up. The following January my friend asked me who I would date out of my fb friends and I said DH. Hehe I commented on one of his pictures and we started talking. I had work study at the law library and he had work study at the regular library so after my morning shift I would go visit him on his shift. After a couple weeks he asked me to a super bowl party.

He officially asked me out on my parents' 25th wedding anniversary so we have that day in common, 25 years apart.

A year later we got engaged and that October we eloped. Exactly a year later we had a "wedding" celebration with all of the family. After 14 months of TTC, we're due with baby #1 three days before our 4th wedding anniversary

JCWhitey · February 2016

Where: International waters
How: We were on the same cruise ship
What: I thought he was an ass and mostly ignored him but then I accidentally cause him to fall down a set of stairs. He broke his foot.
When: March 2010
Why: We were both on the cruise for a wedding

bornmommy · February 2016

@JCWhitey a fairy tale

JCWhitey · February 2016

bornmommy said:

@JCWhitey a fairy tale

Oh, I forgot to include that I was also on the cruise as a way to celebrate my separation (first step of a divorce in CA) and was calling it my "I Hate Men Cruise". I had decided to enjoy being single for a while and focus on my career. Yeah... That didn't last long. DH is persistent and really endearing when he's rolling around on the ground in pain.

JCWhitey · February 2016

@bornmommy Sorry about your brother. Your story is rather sweet and shows you've been through a lot together. I'm sure your brother would approve now.

krzyriver · February 2016

Aww, I love reading everyone's story about meetings their SO!

Hubby and I met online in November of 2011. By the time he messaged me, I was burnt out on dating and so we talked only as friends. After a couple weeks we met in person. He liked me, but I didn't think of him that way. And by that point he had a girlfriend, so I teased him for having a crush on me. But after he said that, I thought about it more.... and realized I liked him too. We fell in love shortly after, but we were both stubborn about it, not wanting to risk our friendship.

But about a year after we met (when we were both single again) we realized that we had spent almost every day together for 2 months (and I spent the night frequently too). So we started talking about moving in together. I didn't know if he meant we should live together as friends or more, so after weeks of trying to figure him out I told him that I was in love with him and that I couldn't be just friends anymore. He was flabbergasted because he thought I knew we were more than that. I didn't know it until later, but he already had my engagement ring at that point.

We moved in together the next month and got engaged two months later. We've been married a year and a half now.

aggiefrau08 · February 2016

We met when we were 16 and 17 at a high school speech & debate tournament. He came up and said, "They're blue right?" I was confused and he clarified, "Your eyes. They're blue, right?" To which I said, "Yeah, that's pretty obvious." And he said, "Not to me. I'm colorblind." I felt bad and we started talking, found out we had a lot in common, and have been together ever since! We are now 29 with two boys and another baby on the way!

MrsHudson2014 · February 2016

DH and I actually met online playing Star Wars:The Old Republic. A couple of months later, I was going to Vegas with one of my friends, and we met up. 9 months later, He moved to California for me, and we were engaged 8 months after that.

MRSCORKER · February 2016

I was bar tending when my H came in with a friend. He asked if I was married/had a bf/kids, etc. I was seeing someone at the time but wasn't really into him but told DH that I was dating someone so he backed off. A few days later, I woke up thinking about him. I reached out to a few people I thought might know him, tracked down his number, and asked him out! That was February 2012. We moved in together in January of 2013, engaged a year later and married in November 2014.

itravelsize · February 2016

Love those stories makes me all warm and fuzzy

DH and I met in high school out junior year. Took us a minute but we became best friends as I attempted to help him get with another friend of mine. That didn't work out very well and we ended up dating for a long time. Breaking up just as he was headed off to boot camp because we thought it would be the smart and mature thing to do. That didn't last long considering that shortly after he was done with boot and I graduated college I went to visit him. And although things seemed really up in the air for a bit but when he came home for Christmas that's year he proposed in Christmas and we got married at a court house 3 days after. We eventually had a vow renewal this past October so we could celebrate with our families. Although we weren't actively TTC just the good old not preventing we are expecting ourt first baby after 5 years of marriage.

TheBeeCharmer · February 2016

We met in high school on a student trip to the British isles. We lived two hours away so we did the long distance thing until we went to the same college. Married for 9 years

JamieK1882 · February 2016

Our is a long story, but I'll try to make it brief.

During my last year of pharmacy school (a 6-year program), I was a dance member for a professional hockey team. After one of the home games, the girls and I went out to a bar/dance club. I'm pretty conservative, but they convinced me to wear this super low-cut slutty shirt. DH was there watching the game with friends, and we hung out afterwards. He had on a mock turtleneck and I thought he was such a dork, and he thought I was such a slut. I kept trying to pass him off to my friends. After that, we became MySpace friends and chatted on there until he found out I had started dating someone else. After I broke up with the someone else (about 7 months later), I got ahold of DH again and the rest is history.

I swear the story is funnier/cuter than it sounds written up there, but it's way too long to type...

katiegeminimoon · February 2016

We met online in 2014. We texted for a month but I actually didn't think I was going to like him much in person so I made plans for after our first date. I ended up liking him a whole lot. I cancelled the other plans and we went to see a movie. We had a second date the next day. He basically moved in with me after a few weeks. We are getting married in April!

iceandsnowflakes29 · February 2016

Ours is a small world story. Our families know each other so, we probably met long before we MET, if that makes sense...

Fast forward years later and my BFF was dating my husband's BFF. They got my husband and I together.

We married in 2007 and 3 years and 3 days later our friends got married, too.

moquat · February 2016

DH moved into a house one block up from me on a tiny 2 block alley, so I'd see him around the neighborhood. I think he saw me at a dance night at a local bar and the next day he saw me on the street and said hi and asked me where I lived. Well I was totally creeped out because this strange, giant (6'5") beardo carrying a huge rosemary plant and wearing an artist's apron was asking me where I lived! So I was like "oh you know I live around here..." *run away*

Then probably a month later he came to a show that I played and introduced himself afterwards. Invited me over for dinner with a few friends and we were pretty much dating ever since. This was summer 2008, we got married in summer 2012. Love him there most.

nsquaredlife13 · February 2016

DH and I met when I was 17 and he was 19. He came down to take some of my friends out during lunch period. My then-boyfriend ditched me so rather than be alone, my girlfriend invited me along. H saw me and thought I was cute and begged my friend for my number. She told him I had a boyfriend, and he said he didn't care that he wanted to know me. Lucky for him, my bf and I broke up about a week later and he swooped in. I was pretty mean to him and played super hard to get for a couple months. He'd invite me over and take me with him to parties, and I'd ditch him for my girlfriends. I honestly was totally into him but thought he was a player, although he gave me NO reason to think that, I was just assuming because of who he was and who he hung out with. Playing hard to get that was my way of putting up my guard so I wouldn't get hurt.

Thankfully, he never gave up and I finally gave him a real shot. Turns out that we were basically the same person, and we became inseparable. I couldn't imagine my life without him, and after 13 years he still gives me butterflies.

quailbeach · February 2016

Long story short:
I was 23 and renting out a house with one of my friends while the owner was living in Austria and 9/11 happened. The owner felt it was in his best interest to move back to the states immediately. He moved back and let us have as much time as we needed to find other living arrangements and we ended up falling in love instead!

mrsman2018 · February 2016

My husband and I met four years ago. I went to a college friends' birthday party and it was a blizzard and cold that day and took me two transfers on a bus and lots of waiting outside. R was there only because he needed to give his best friend (my friend's then boyfriend) something. He stayed for beers and we got to talking. He is 6'9" and I was interested. Anyhow, he was a one night stand and now we're happily married and expecting. Funny how life works out. Love him so much.

depineta · February 2016

We met the night before my bar results came out! I was meeting friends at a bar to get drunk and not think about the fate of our professional futures. He was a friend of a friend who had recently moved into town for work. We hit it off that night and he was one of the first people to text me congratulations on passing the next morning. We got engaged a little over a year later and were married in September 2015. He also convinced me to move from my beloved Columbus, Ohio to Ann Arbor, Michigan. College football fans will recognize how much I must love him!

jeng100 · February 2016

My h and I went to high school together. We were friends throughout, went on one date but nothing came of it. It wasn't until 5 years after high school, and a failed marriage for me, that we started dating. Dated for 7 years and then got married.

westcoastfoodie · February 2016

My husband was my roller derby teammate's roomie. Apparently he saw me on her facebook and asked "Hey who's that sexy vixen". From there we met at a party, I thought he was cute, but I wasn't in the right emotional state for anything serious. But, every practice my teammate would say, "Hey, Marco says hi", I'd roll my eyes and say "yeah yeah". Fast forward a few months, another teammate was saying how she thought he was cute and I felt a tinge of jealousy. I snapped - "Yeah, D's been trying to hook us up forever!" I had to make a move or someone else would.

So naturally, at the next party, I was a tidbit tipsy and spent 45 min telling him why he didn't want to date me because I was bad news and had baggage, you know, because I'm a classy broad. Well, that turned him off, but I begged the teammate to ask him to give me another chance and it worked! Our first date was a breakfast (chili cheese omelet, because if you can't accept that, you can't accept me) and we laid all of our baggage out and still thought we'd give it a go. In all seriousness though, it's been the best 3.5 years of my life. He truly is my other half and we have grown so much together. I never thought I would meet someone who just "gets" me and accepts my like he does.

ejmo68 · February 2016

I was assigned DH's school (he is an elementary PE teacher) to student teach at. I was actually dating someone else at the time (a real jerk who ended up cheating on me) We broke up about 3 weeks into my student teaching. DH and I would spend lunch together in the classroom I was assigned to and we talked everyday. The week I broke up with said jerky boyfriend DH asked me out for coffee. We talked for 4 hours and I came home and told my roommate at the time that he was perfect and I was going to marry him. We have been together for 7 years and married for almost 4 and the rest is history.

Tara0604 · February 2016

I meant to do this the other night but i don't think i ever did.

My husband and I have known each other since we were 6 and 8. Our sisters went to preschool together and then elementary school. Our mothers became good friends and then our families. I had a crush on him as a kid. Then life got in the way and he was a boy and didn't want to hang out with stinky girls so we rarely saw him. Fast forward to college (2003-ish). We started talking online (AOL Instant Messenger), hung out one day and the rest is history. We got married in 2011 and had our son in 2013.

emmaaa · February 2016

DH and I went to Kindergarten together. We were really good friends through high school and started dating the beginning of our senior year and have been together ever since.

EJChapman123 · February 2016

My husband and I met at work 10 years ago. Its a huge company with tons of interoffice dating and marrying.

I briefly left the company (and then went back, and then left again, and then went back, and then left again) in 2008-2009, and we started dating during that time period. The official day we use is 1/1/09, so just over 7 years ago. We watched the Rose Bowl together and drank, and have bonded ever since over our love of football and beer. Super classy!

Since that day we have gone to over 75 sporting events together, and it really is something that keeps the love strong

kmtz89 · February 2016

I've loved reading these.

DH lives two blocks away from where I work and I would walk past his place on my way to work. He was always around and we'd greet each other. I was in a fairly serious relationship with someone else that was actually really terrible and manipulative and the stress just kept building up. Every now and again I would swing by a bar with some coworkers before I got on the bus to go home and sometimes he came along because he was the cousin of one of my coworkers. Well one day he made a joke about teaching me more Swahili (the official language of Tanzania) and started quizzing me on vocabulary words every time he saw me. In the mean time things ended with my terrible ex and I started to realize I was interested in this guy and we were spending more and more time together. We officially got together in May 2015, were engaged Nov 15 and are getting married April 2016.

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