GTKY: How Did You Meet Your SO?

BumpasaurusRex · July 2016

I thought it would be fun to share stories of how we met the peanut butter to our jelly

BumpasaurusRex · July 2016

DH and I met at work. So romantic!

Initially, we didn't even like each other but one day, we just clicked and never looked back. We'll be celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary in September and have been together for 10 years. We're actually total opposites, which can make some things difficult but it works.

MrsDramaK · July 2016

DH and I met through my brother in college. DH and I had a flirtation, but it wasn't really going anywhere because I was actually sort of seeing someone else in their friends group and one night at a party I was flirting with DH instead and the guy I was seeing left in sort of a huff. I wasn't seeing the guy seriously (it was agreed that it was not exclusive and very casual), but my brother came up to me and yelled at me and asked me what I was screwing things up with the one guy for when I had no shot with DH. I decided I had to prove him wrong and DH and I have been together ever since.

varimama · July 2016

DH and I met at work also. We were both co-ops at the company we currently work for. We went out on a date and it was fun but I was going back to school a few states away and told him I wasn't interested in a relationship. Well he kept asking and I kept saying no until he finally won me over. It was rough being long distance for the next year but we made it through and both started our current jobs and got married this last October. We've been together 4 years and married for 9 months (and still waiting on our wedding album from our photographer grrr...).

Vastra · July 2016

DH came to see a show I was in, directed by his friend from music school. He thought I was cute and we (apparently, oops) were introduced after the show. I can only guess that I thought he was cute, but took note of the blonde woman holding his hand. Three years later, the same music school friend was moving away, and on the way to his going-away party, DH told someone, "if that girl from that show is there, I'm going for it." She was and he did! (He forgave me for not remembering that we'd met after the show, but tends to bring it up when I don't do the dishes.)

silvercamaro77 · July 2016

We met in high school through a mutual friend. I had known her in elementary school and hadn't seen her since and he was in the group she was having lunch with. I actually started off dating another of their friends and a few months after we broke up, DH asked me out and I eventually said yes. (I felt strange with an ex's friend, but it all worked out well.) We've been together for almost 16 years and our 8th wedding anniversary is in October.

poofwok · July 2016

H and I met through a mutual friend at a summer BBQ. We both knew no one else and once we striked up a conversation, we didn't stop talking until 1 am.

We remained friends for a few weeks before we began dating. 3 months later, after BC failed, I got pregnant with DS. It was a very scary and challenging time for us a new couple but we powered through and it only brought us closer. H and I got married last month

jab3-2 · July 2016

We met through a cheesy dating website and were both too embarrassed to admit it at the time so we lied and told everyone we met through my cousin because they were close friends and going to the same school at the time. Only one who knew was obviously my cousin, but we ended up telling people the truth as time went on. My DH was all excited telling my cousin how he was talking to some girl and describing me to him and he was like um yeah pretty sure you're talking to my cousin! Boring story and not romantic in the least, but we've been together 9 years this month and married 7 this past March.

We never ended up having an actual wedding which I'm sad about to this day hah We didn't really have the money and I wanted to put him on my health insurance because the place I worked for at the time offered excellent benefits (he was having some serious health issues and his company had horrible insurance.) You would have thought I murdered someone when my huge Catholic family found out all we did was go to the courthouse. I wasn't looking forward to being the center of attention at a wedding because I had gone from being very thin my whole life to being very overweight and my family was not very kind about it. Plus the drama had already started about who should get to be in it, that we should have it in a church (not outside like we wanted) etc.

grapeskittles4lyfe · July 2016

We both worked in the same research institute, but in different labs. It took us two years to actually get together, though (huge "does he like me/does she like me" soap opera fest. Not proud).

cantalopes24 · July 2016

We had some mutual friends but we initially met in person when I was pregnant with my oldest. He rang me up for a pair of flip flops so I could use my ex's friends employee discount. He worked with a friend of my ex.

ETA: I was 20 when we first met but there was a huge gap between that and the first time we actually hung out. We got married right after we turned 22. We've been married for a little over 8 years.

Partyof6? · July 2016

We met on Match, lol. It turned out he lived in the apartments right across from my condo. I think there are people in his family that still think we met at the pool. Our 10th wedding anniversary is next week!

imalwaysme79 · July 2016

We met on Plenty of Fish! It's the second marriage for both of us.

jab3-2 · July 2016

Partyof6? Early congrats to you! Are you guys planning to celebrate or are you not really feeling up to it?

CoonMom · July 2016

imalwaysme79 said:

We met on Plenty of Fish! It's the second marriage for both of us.

I met my husband on plenty of fish!

Tennis11785 · July 2016

I met my husband in college. We had a mutual group of friends. I had a crush on him for a while, but we didn't actually connect until about a month before he graduated (he's older than me). But luckily we planned to move to the same city after graduation. So he moved, we did distance for a bit, and then I moved. We've been together for 9 years, married for 5.

kswiger06 · July 2016

Husband and I met technically in high school. It was an online school, but the class would get together twice a week for a couple hours so we could ask teachers in person for help if needed, and to make sure the students were actually doing their own work. I saw husband copying off another kid and it drove me nuts so I offered to help him the right way. He basically told me to mind my own business haha. We couldn't stand each other but I had a boyfriend and my husband liked the idea of the hunt I guess you could say. Eventually our relationship went from hate to a weird love/hate. I graduated 1/2 a year early and we kept in touch and quickly started dating. Got pregnant with son 8 months later... scary I know @concreteangell so we got married courthouse style... not what I always imagined. It was rough for a young couple but we've been married 10 years now!! Whew... feeling stressed just remembering it all lol

scifichick09 · July 2016

It's kind of a long story, so I'll try to sum up...

My husband and I are both from a very small town, so we have known each other since middle school. We were best friends for years, but I always wanted to date him. I just thought he was out of my league, so I always dated other guys. Turns out, he was doing the same thing! The week before I moved out of state, my boyfriend at the time and I decided to break it off. That weekend I spent time with my now husband....we got drunk together...and we both spilled the beans about how we'd had feelings for each other for years, but always thought the other was out of our league!! OMG! Needless to say, we felt like idiots, hooked up that night, and two months later he moved to Oklahoma to be with me! We were married a little over a year later and our second anniversary is this September!

Steelerfan78 · July 2016

We met in college. We had both went back to school after already starting careers. He had just retired from the Navy and I was laid off from a job I loved. We sat next to each other in a computer networking class and I asked him out for drinks. It will be the 5 year anniversary of our first date and our 2nd wedding anniversary 2 days before my EDD.

Partyof6? · July 2016

Jab3 said:

Partyof6? Early congrats to you! Are you guys planning to celebrate or are you not really feeling up to it?

Aw, thanks! We had a big family trip to Disney in February so that kind of killed any vacation budget. I am hoping to actually get some kind of date that weekend, but nothing crazy. I am still pretty sick, so that makes it interesting.

Kenya715 · July 2016

We met at work. We sat next to each other and he started flirting but I shot him down every time. When we started talking a little more seriously, we realized we had a lot in common. He invited me to a party he was hosting and I reluctantly went. We ended up hanging out all night and he asked me out on a proper date at the end. We dated casually for a little while before it turned exclusive. We've always just been a go with the flow type and told each other that we have 'no end date'. It's been 6 years and married for 1 and things couldn't be better.

Kashy17 · July 2016

We met online 14 years ago! we have been together ever since and will be celebrating 6 years of marriage in November.

Jlk2016 · July 2016

Ummmm well.... Lol! We met through my ex husband, seriously. It's a long complicated story that could be a really kick ass movie, but I'll leave y'all hanging until we have nothing more fun to talk about!

FromAstarael · July 2016

We met at our college Hillel, the 3rd week of my freshman year of undergrad. My grandma introduced us, which she referenced constantly. We're celebrating 8 of being married in September. Going to do a little trip/babymoon.

catmommac · July 2016

DH and I met on eharmony. We talked for a couple weeks online and then he asked me to meet for dinner. As I was getting out of my car at the restaurant, he calls and says he left his wallet at home and will back in 20 mins. For some reason, maybe our conversations online, I believed him. He came right back! Then, at dinner, we were so engrossed in conversation that it took us 45 mins to order dinner! The poor waiter probably thought we came to this nice Italian restaurant for water and free bread. We met in late August, got engaged at Thanksgiving and were married in June the following year! We just celebrated 2 years.

WinchesterGirl · July 2016

I am going to be the boring one... we met in church.

we had kind of just known each other forever, and I had a huge crush from afar. He dated quite a few other people over the years, but he was my first and only boyfriend. We started dating when I was 17, and we got married when I was 19.

7 years later, we are still happy as clams. We've grown up together, and we're best friends.

jstringfellow19 · July 2016

At a bar......we danced to Purple Rain. I drove him and my brother home and he "left" his phone in my car and had to come back and get it from my house. When he got there he kissed me and I guess you can say the rest is history. We found out a couple months later though that the bar was shut down because people were running drugs in and out. So we will never be able to go back to the place me met.

kirstynikole · July 2016

DH & I met at a bar in downtown San Diego. We both are originally from TX and had relocated to San Diego for work, so we instantly started talking about that. Someone in his group of friends ended up knowing someone in my group of friends, however we didn't know until after we had ordered our drinks & started talking at the bar. I told him I'd buy him a drink if he signed up for karaoke, he did, so I bought him a drink. Unfortunately I never got to hear him sing because my friend had a bit too much to drink & i had to escort her home.

Before we left, he asked for my number, we talked via phone & text for a month(I went out of town shortly after that night) before finally going on our first date to the Zoo. From then on, we became attached at the hip, engaged 5 months later, had a secret courthouse wedding 2 weeks after getting engaged, and then had a big family wedding in TX later that year.

We've been together 5 years now, married 4.5. He's definitely the Yin to my Yang.

Starfish113 · July 2016

That's so cool @kirstynikole!! Did your family ever find out about your secret wedding?

kirstynikole · July 2016

@Starfish113 hahaha only a few people do, like my mom, grandma, and sisters. It's funny because the date is our wifi password so when people ask "Oh what's that date?" I always say "Our engagement.", you'd think by now I'd just admit it already, but I think I'll wait a few more years.

kirstynikole · July 2016

@jstringfellow19
yay a fellow bar meet!

jstringfellow19 · July 2016

kirstynikole said:

@jstringfellow19
yay a fellow bar meet!

Yep! Sometimes a bar is the best place to meet the love of your life.

yogadevil · July 2016

We met on Match.com 6 years ago, turns out we grew up in the next city over from each other and knew a lot of the same people but it took a website to bring us together. I was hesitant to date a soldier since I grew up in an army family and didn't want to deal with all the separations and stress. But I fell in love anyways and 2 deployments later we were married

fourPsinapod · July 2016

We dated on and off in high school. I wanted to go to prom as a freshman and he was a junior without a date. We remained friends through all of our break ups. He was headed to college and I guess wanted to lock me down for realz so he got me a promise ring and we stayed long distance for 2 years and he would come home on weekends. I went to the same college and we have lived together ever since. He proposed to me in 2010 and we got married in 2012. DD was born in the following year. So I guess I married my high school (sometimes) sweetheart lol!

ETA: words

Starfish113 · July 2016

We met on match.com. But everyone thinks we met through friends because he lived in the next town over and that was my story

But I learned the hard way that once you're divorced, it's hard to find good men any other way!

glitterdragon-2 · July 2016

We met at work. We are both sous chefs. He was training me. I wasn't interested because I was seeing someone else when we met. But after a year I wasn't seeing the other guy anymore and we started dating. Been together 7 blissfully un-wedded years.

feelingjovani · July 2016

So cupcakes are my thing...I love to bake but particularly cupcakes, and I used to blog about it. I was at a bar with friends to see a 80's cover band a few days before Halloween and there was a Halloween party there as well. I wasn't dressed up because we were just there to see the band and didn't realize people were going to wear costumes. Across the bar I see this guy dressed as a cupcake so I went up to him and tapped him on the shoulder. We chatted and he asked for my number (which is so unlike him knowing him now and I can't imagine him doing it).

We texted a bit and he invited me to a Halloween party he was having at his house but...stranger danger...there was no way I was going to go to his house when we had only met. So then he asked me to meet for drinks a few days later which was our first date. The rest is history.

PerraSucia · July 2016

An old friend of mine threw me a birthday party and some girl I didn't really know that well stopped by super early with H to say happy birthday on the way somewhere else. They were like 3 hours early and i was in my pajamas with a toothbrush in my mouth and he thought I was a standoffish bitch.

But it then we kept running into each other and he eventually just realized I don't like being put on the spot to be social. It will be 9 years we've been together almost and have been married 5 years as of April.

mrslittlemac · July 2016

Um... we're both into computer gaming, and actually met through a game called Evony when I was in college and he had just gotten out of the hospital after an accident. This was in 2009. He was the VP in the alliance I started before long and we pretty much dominated the server for a looong time until a bunch of servers merged due to lack of players on each one. By then he and I had been playing lots of other games, chatting through Skype, etc.
After my first year in college was over, I needed a change of scenery and a change of life. Decided to move, picked a spot on the map and told him--and he sheepishly asked if he could meet me. Another friend of his was in the same city I was moving to and had been bugging him to come visit. We were quite infatuated with each other and spent most of our waking hours in contact anyway, so I said sure. We met in a public space, instantly clicked, he decided to stay here too, and the rest is history. Had our 5th wedding anniversary about 2 weeks ago!

Most of my friends think we knew each other from my time in another state where he also happened to live, because it's a bit more socially acceptable. But nope, we're just huge geeks.

annewheeler2 · July 2016

We met at work. I was a life guard and he was in security. We went on a date and then just stayed friends for about a year until we started to seriously date.

MonaLisaRalphio · July 2016

Gosh, so many of you met when you were so young! We met when I was 28 and my husband was 34. He was fresh off a very brief marriage to a woman who turned out to be a total sociopath living a double life. It was very traumatic for him, and he did not under any circumstances want to get into a new relationship. I was relatively new to my city and was enjoying being the novel New Yorker dating allllll of the southern boys.

We met through a mutual friend (my sister's college roommate, who is also my husband's... god sister? They have the same godmother, but are not blood relatives). We met at a concert that our mutual friend invited each of us to on a Friday night, then again the next night at a casual porch-hang at her house. He walked me home from that party and asked if I wanted to hang out some time. We went out for drinks the following Tuesday, and within a week, I'd deleted all those other boys' number from my phone. Never once looked back.

grapeskittles4lyfe · July 2016

@MonaLisaRalphio I started going out with SO when I was 27. I had come out of a LT relationship at 25 and am happy the two years in between were for figuring out what I wanted (needed?) in a guy.

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