GTKY - How I met your... father.

charmedlifex3 · July 2016

Because I am a sap, let's share those "how we met" stories! I think we did this once way back in first trimester, but I love reading them, and I think we picked up a lot of new members since then.

How did you initially meet? How did you know he was the right guy to go through this journey with?

Katm89 · July 2016

I met my husband when I was 16. My sister threw a party at our house while my parents were away and he showed up...he was 18 at the time and it was the summer after he graduated... my bf at the time left the party and DH hit on me all night... while I hit on his friend...

Then he hung out with me during the summer trying to get me to break up with my bf and date him...and then my bf broke up with me... so we had like a summer fling... he went off to college... we lost touch and both dated other ppl... when he cam to visit we hung out even though I had a bf and he preceded to tell me to dump my new bf... and I preceded to tell him he was stupid... then he left failed out of college and joined the marines... I was like wow ur dumb... and then moved in with my bf at the time...

DH graduated bootcamp just in time to visit home and find that my bf had cheated on me and broke my heart and was now available... and let me tell u he came back from bootcamp smoking hott... he had a gf while in boot but she cheated on him.. so we were both kind of hurt... available but not ready to have more than a flirtation... then fast forward a yr of talking on and off via cellphone while he was off and training and I was rebounding and partying...

he came to visit me on leave and I was living with another guy...( we weren't dating... just kind of having fun together) and he came in and did the whole peacock thing with this guy... and I'm like come on... ur going to leave again theres no pt to telling me how I should be ur gf because you always leave...he started saying that he has stopped dating other people because he just compares them to me...so then I stopped screwing my life up... moved back in with my parents and went to college.. talking to DH every night on the phone... still not dating him... and then I went to visit him where he was stationed... he flew me out... after that weekend we were officially dating.. we were ready... a yr later we were engaged... and a yr later we were married... 5 years later we got pregnant- THE BEGINNING

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The above photo is right after he graduated bootcamp and we were hanging out as friends.
Below photo is when he returned from his first deployment( we were engaged right before he left)

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The below photo is our wedding

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The below photo is when he returned from his second and final deployment... I was also almost done with school so we would finally be able to live together.

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Below photo is a from a month ago

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bearsandbeets7 · July 2016

DH and I have known each other since we were 6. We went to the same church until I was 11 and then my family moved 4 hours away. 4 years later my grandma got sick so we moved back and started going back to the same church.

I was 15 then and he was pretty much my only friend. He played football so I would go to his games and he asked me out one night by giving me a shirt with our names on the front and his number on the back. We broke up right before I graduated high school(he's a year younger than me) because I felt stuck and needed some time to figure out what I wanted to do. We got back together a few months later and we've been together ever since. I actually posted this picture on Facebook a while back.

mamaqdubu · July 2016

sounds fun. i'll start.
Met my DH when I was 5 (yep... small town). We were in the same gymnastics class, kindergarten class, and 2nd grade class. He says he specifically remembers being jealous of me because of how many teeth i lost, and laughs because i've been "over achieving" ever since.

He ended up going to a different school for the rest of elementary & middle, and we didn't reconnect until senior year in high school when I dated his best friend (who of course was the eventual best man at our wedding lol). When it was time for college and his friend and I were mostly breaking up I heard through the grapevine that DH said to his friend "you guys should just break-up, she and I will be the better match some day anyways." Didn't turn true until 4 years later after we got college out of our systems and were ready for what we somehow knew would happen all along.

sorry, apparently i'm a sap today too lol.

mmclark10 · July 2016

DH and I first met when he was visiting my downstairs neighbors in the condo I lived in. He had just broken up with his long term girlfriend and wasn't looking for anything serious. However, I became very good friends with my neighbors during that year and spent a lot of time with that group and by default him. We may have had a couple of "dates" that year but he finally got his act together almost exactly a year after we met and asked me out. He nursed me through mono two months after starting to date, moved in after six months of dating and we were engaged the day after our one year anniversary and married 9 months later! We will be married six years this August! He counters my Type A control freak and serious streak with some serious relaxation and I think I help him not procrastinate quite as much as he would otherwise. We are a good team.

cait5413 · July 2016

DH and I met when he moved to my city for work. We met online and he had only been in town a few weeks so I got to show him around and take him to all of the fun stuff in the city. We met 1 semester into my PhD program, got engaged a year and a half later, and married not quite a year after that. We started TTC on our 1st anniversary. I wanted us to have a full year to adjust to marriage and have time becoming a family before we added anyone else to it. Since we got pregnant, I finished my PhD, we moved, bought a house, and both got new jobs. What a whirlwind!

charmedlifex3 · July 2016

DH and I met at the farmers market in the town we both lived in at the time. The farmers market there is really a social spot, a great weekly event for the community, and I tried to go more Saturdays than not. I had finished my shopping, had food truck pad thai, and was going to buy some flowers from "Jerry the flower guy" ... Jerry had some really beautiful dahlias that day, like a pink and yellow explosion. I bought a couple of those, and DH was at the same table. As I walked away, he approached me and stammered "Uh... Uh... excuse me?" He had some grand plan to approach me based on our mutual selection of flowers. But... he was so nervous, he snapped his flower in half.

We had a moment of looking at each other, him with this sad, smooshed flower in his hand - and I just knew. This was my husband, the father of my children. He says I responded with "Oh! It's you!" Talking to him was immediately like talking to my best friend I just hadn't seen in awhile.

I was on my way home, so he walked me to the car. I invited him over for vegetable soup that night, and he had effectively moved in within a couple weeks. He officially moved in that winter, and by then we had plans in the works for a wedding and buying a home together. We were married a few months after we closed on the house - a year to the day we met. Jerry did the flowers for our wedding.

What makes this even crazier is neither of us were the type to rush a relationship - He was with his ex for seven years, I had had a five year relationship, with no prior marriage or discussion of children. Both of us were single by choice for well over a year before we met. We were adults, not crazy kids... and we both dropped everything to make a life together almost from the day we met. Sometimes - you just know.

Us at our wedding - the flower in the front of my bouquet is "the" flower.

texasmama2014 · July 2016

I was 26, and had just read the book "Last One Down the Aisle Wins," it was basically a book saying don't get married until you're at least 30. You have time. Towards the end it encouraged you to write a list of things you wanted to do before you turned 30. (30 before 30). I had never been on a blind date, but everyone I knew had hilarious stories to tell about blind dates. I said I wanted to go on a blind date, no prior facebooking no pictures, nothing. A mutual friends set us up (he cheated and looked me up), and after the first date I really just liked him. 14 months later- married, 18 months after the wedding- DD crashed our party. Within a month of dating I found myself realizing I wanted to marry him, not only wanted to but I would (I'm very good at getting what I want!) We talked about marriage about 2 months in, and never looked back.

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Engagement pics- Summer 2012

Curls919 · July 2016

I went out with a friend and her roommate and we went to some bar that was too crowded and young (I was in my late 20s and my friend was in her early 20s, the crowd seemed college age). We left a short time later and tried to get into a few more places but lines were too long (welcome to Saturday nights in Manhattan). We ended up passing a nice hotel and decided to go grab a drink at their lounge bar. I noticed a cute guy across the room who was there with his friends. One of the other guys came over to us and started talking. Somehow DH and I started chatting and our friends paired off to talk. At some point our friends switched who they were talking to then eventually my friends went one way and his friends got their coats and were standing near the door. That's when we realized we'd been talking for a long time. We exchanged numbers, he called two days later and we went out that next Friday. There weren't any games, we obviously enjoyed each other's company. By our 4th date I knew for sure this was it for me. We met each other's families within the month. By 6 months in we were talking about getting married but thought it was crazy to get engaged before we knew each other a year. Around 10 months in he realized he couldn't wait any more so he proposed. We were married 10 months after that.

Bookhousegirl · July 2016

DH and I grew up about 4 houses away from eachother. We were enemies in elementary school, acquaintances in high school and then finally became friends in college. In high school, we were in very different friendship groups, but our groups ended up meshing together once people were home on breaks from college. Initially, all of our friends were trying to get he and my best friend together, because they both had just gone through bad breakups, and I had a long term boyfriend. It never clicked for them, and DH was set on making something happen with me (although I was totally oblivious). Once I broke up with my BF, he confessed his feelings in the sweetest way ever, but I wasn't ready for anything yet, so we just kind of left it. He came home every weekend to see me (I was coming home from college because my ex turned a bit stalkery at school) and I finally realized I had feelings for him. We had a couple of rough patches before getting engaged in 2012, and then married in 2013. DS1 came a short 9 months later (honeymoon baby)!

Fremdschamen · July 2016

We met at the very end of high school. We grew up in the same hometown, but lived at opposite ends of town and went to different schools. A friend of mine was dating a friend of DH's at that other school. I wanted a date for our graduation dance, which was only a few weeks away. My friend arranged for me to meet DH, who had never had a girlfriend. We hit it off right away and we started dating a week after we met.

We dated all through university, with several stints of long distance, and DH proposed the day I got my BA (I always said that if he proposed before I had a degree, I would say no). We were married a year later, five years to the day from when we started dating.

We've been together now for over 16 years, married for over 11. So, I got my grad date and a date for everything else!

No wedding pic, because it was so long ago, but here is one from a couple of years ago.

beenabee · July 2016

My twin sister, her fiancé, my niece and I all lived in an apartment together until I moved out at the ending of the year but I was still over there all the time. My sister and her fiancé were trying to set me up with fiancé's best friend but I had no interest in wanting a boyfriend at the time. They were having a party one night that they wanted me to come to so I could meet the best friend but I didn't end up going. I went over there the morning after the party and he was still there but wouldn't even look at me and as soon as I walked in he ran into the kitchen (I now know he was erasing his number he had wrote on the fridge for me to text him lol). Come New Year's Eve they were having another party that I went to and he was there. We ended up kissing when the ball dropped, our first kiss, and the rest is history. It took a while to start dating because a couple years prior he was in a long term relationship and told himself the next girl he dated he was going to marry and he kept that promise. We started dating 4 months after we met, he moved in with me a month after dating even though he was already staying over every night before we started officially dating, got engaged 5 months into dating, got married a month after being engaged, and found out we were expecting 2 months after being married. I wouldn't change any of it for anything, it was fast and unexpected but perfect in every way.

ETA: Pictures!!! and yes we're pretty young, I just turned 20 and he'll be turning 22 in November.

KMeredith82 · July 2016

We were good friends in middle school, and during the summer before freshman year, one of his friends sent me an email from his account, pretending to be DH and asked me out. I called DH out on it, at first he denied liking me, but eventually admitted that he wanted to be more than friends. I hadn't even thought about dating him at the time, but figured that it was worth a shot. We ended up dating all through high school, were named the "cutest couple" our senior year, and stayed together throughout college. We broke up a few times during all that, but it was for very short periods of time, and usually bc one of us freaked out about how long we had been dating. After college we both moved back to our hometown and got engaged 1.5 years later, married 1.5 years after that, when we were 25.

We have technically been together for 20 years, which is crazy to think about when you're 34. We've been through so much though. It's amazing that we rarely argue bc we have very different personalities. Our 3yo son is just like his dad, it's fun to watch them interact. We're all excited for this baby girl, even though DH claims to be terrified about having a daughter

Mrsrundell · July 2016

I love everyone's stories

I met hubby in college. We were both journalism majors and had our first/intro upper level class together. I was sitting front row center and he walked in and a little voice in my head said "you will be with him". He walked to the back row corner and I just thought Hmm he's cute but went back to setting up my laptop.

I saw him at the bookstore later that week and went up to start a conversation about our class. We slowly became closer friends, getting lunch together, studying in the library but nothing remotely romantic the entire semester. While we were creating our class schedule for the following semester and he convinced me to take a few of the same classes as him. Winter break came and went and we started ️spring semester. I asked him to my sorority formal and we had our first kiss that night. He moved to a new place shortly after the dance and I came over to help him organize/decorate and we were inseparable ever since. This was 9 years ago.

After we graduated, he was accepted to law school and we decided to move in together (2 years into our relationship). He got through law school while I was focusing on my career, which was probly the most difficult time of our relationship. After law school, finding a job was difficult for my hubby so we moved in with his mom to save money. Luckily he received an opportunity to clerk for a judge shortly after and we packed up and moved to Las Vegas.

We were finally settled into our careers and no longer students so we got engaged a few months after moving to vegas. We were tired of waiting and pulled our wedding together within 6 weeks!! I ran my own wedding planning company so had a lot of friends in the industry that made it happen and It was such a fun whirlwind.

We moved back to Los Angeles about 6 months later and received a BFP a few days after our 1 year anniversary. We have been together since I was 21 years old (I'm turning 31 at the end of August) and I can't believe how far we've come. I'm soooo excited to finally be a mommy!!!

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kristynmac · July 2016

I was a bartender and DH played on the college hockey team. The team would all come in after games and there would be girls with them (puck bunnies). At the time DH had a girlfriend and another couple "friends," but one night his girlfriend was fighting with him and of course everyone in the bar sees that, so I was judging him pretty hard. A couple of weeks later (he had broke up with the gf) and he was in with a few guys from the team and the one guy was trying to help him out, but I kept saying no. Finally I did give him my number and he asked two different bartenders that I worked with if I gave him the right number (which I did). He called the next day and we started going on dates almost every-night. After about 2 months of dating, there was a flood in our hometown and the hockey house that he lived in with the team flooded, so he moved in for a couple of months and never moved out.

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ashleybaker712 · July 2016

We started dating when I was 14 and he was 15. I had a group of 4 really good friends; he met one, almost dated her, and then moved on to the next. I didn't meet him until the last one. I thought he was kind or corny but decided he would be a good match for my friend. I tried to help them get together and he actually doesn't remember actually meeting me for the first time because he was so focused on her. They didn't work but we stayed friends. After one late night deep conversation (deep for 14 and 15), I started falling for him and he realized how much he liked me. We officially started dating a few weeks later. We got engaged after 4.5 years, married 2 years after that, and had DS 4 years after getting married. We've been together for 13 years and married for almost 7.

Last summer:

mbelcourt89 · July 2016

We meet on MySpace 8 years ago lol. I got this instant butterflies in the stomach feeling when I saw his picture. He friend requested me after he did a search of people in the 10 mile area. But I was 15 miles away so some how I was in his search. We talked, mostly trash talk because I'm a gator fan and he's a Seminole fan. Then after a few weeks I meet him at a bar that his friend's band was playing at. We laughed, talked a lot, played pool, and I fell head over heels for him. A month later we kept hanging out, meet up at the beach a few times, and then we asked each other out at the same time and we've been together since. There is no one else I would want to go through this journey with but him.

ginger819 · July 2016

DH and I met 3 years before we started dating when I transferred to the same store as him to work PT while I went to school. I knew of him, but was very shy. I was 19 at the time. I turned 21 and started hanging out with more of our coworkers and became friends with him. I actually liked another guy and had no interest in DH, because I knew his history of being a little bit of a player. We went to volunteer at an overnight fundraiser with work and DH confessed he liked me while playing a game with me and some coworkers. I laughed him off. He continued to flirt outrageously for 6 months before I told him I would come over to watch a movie with just him. From that night on we were inseparable, much to many of our coworkers surprise (DH was a huge flirt and no one thought he was serious and he normally went for very high maintenance women, while I'm definitely not). I graduated shortly after that and we both left that job and moved to better ones.

I basically spent every night at his house until his roommate told him I couldn't come over anymore and DH and I went that's fine and DH moved in with me. We'd been dating for about 5 months. I knew for sure I would marry him when he moved in and spent a month winning over my lab who had been severely abused by a man before I adopted her and was terrified of men. She's now basically DHs dog and actually goes up to our male friends for pets now.

DH said he wouldn't propose until we'd been together for a year. We started talking about marriage and DH was getting excited about kids well before he proposed almost a year to the day after we started dating. I told him I wanted a house before we had a baby and he started looking and going to open houses without telling me. He found our home now and brought me to an open house and we put in an offer that week (he wanted kids pretty bad lol). We got engaged in April, moved to our new house in January, got married in August, and got a bfp when we got home from our honeymoon (she was conceived just a little before the wedding when I said we could start trying, but if DH had had his way I would have been very pregnant for our wedding) for DD who is 14 months now.

We've been together for 4 1/2 years now and only been through one rough patch after DD was born. We're usually on the same page about everything and get along surprisingly well for two only children

A picture from our newborn shoot with DD.

carstekj · July 2016

DH and I met in college at a house party (very romantic ::sarcasm::). But I remember seeing him walk in to the house and thinking "he's big and cute!!". Later I found out he was friends with the girl I went to the party with. He and I tried to make small talk, but it was loud so he kept bending over to hear me (I'm 5'0 and he's 6'0) and his friends thought he was going to kiss me so they yelled out "JUST KISS HER!!!" and so he did! I gave him my phone number (I had to call and leave him a vm on his phone because his screen was cracked) and I told him that would be the only time I call him. He would have to call, because I don't call boys. Well, he did! He was a party boy and his friends mean a lot to him. So we've had our frustrating times, but he makes me smile and laugh. He is the hardest worker I've ever met and is loyal (whether it be to me, friends, work etc..). Plus, he's still big and cute!

We met in 2004, married in 2008, baby boy in 2011, baby girl 2013 and now we're having another baby girl!

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Left: Our first picture together
Right: Me preggo with our 3rd a month ago!

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lotsofsunshine · July 2016

I had come to ND to visit my family and ended up going out on my last night in town. I never go to bars so I was super uncomfortable but I liked the band that was playing, so I stayed. Pretty soon this guy started talking to me. He was great but I was heading back to Az the next day so I sort of blew him off. We exchanged numbers even though I had no intention of ever talking to him again. I talked to him a few times over the next couple of months and never told him I was planning to move to ND soon. I really liked him, but I was divorced and had no intention of marrying again.
Anyway, I packed up my stuff and moved to ND to be closer to my family. I was about 30 miles from town and ran out of gas. My mom was at work and my brother wasn't answering his phone, so I decided to call that guy.
He came and put gas in my car then asked if he could take me to dinner. It was the best night. I knew that night that there was no way I could let this guy get away. Things moved really fast after that, but here we are, 7 years and 3 kids later and I love him more and more everyday.

ballofmeat · July 2016

DH and I met at work. We started our job about 5 years ago and worked a lot of night shifts together. We used to crank up the music and jam about in the lab like idiots. We became really good friends working those late nights and that friendship turned into a relationship.

I randomly kissed him one him one day and his response was, "what was that for?" It took him about 60 more seconds to realize I kissed him. The rest is history.

slycat · July 2016

I met my DW 18 years ago through work. We didn't instantly hit it off because she was my boss. She was a very bossy boss. I ended up being promoted and transferred within the company and she was so supportive through the transition. We fell in love slowly them all at once. We were legally married in October of last year and have been on our family planning journey for a few years. There are lots of precious moments burned into my mind...first kiss...first dance...I do's...the first ultrasound at 6 weeks and seeing that tiny flash and realizing that we are moms. It's been incredible!

JournoGrl23 · July 2016

I love this thread!

DH and I met at a party in college in 2008. It was the spring semester of our freshman year and the day after my birthday. I wanted to celebrate my birthday, but all my friends were busy with exams since spring break was the next week. However, one friend, who was trying to pledge DH's fraternity, said he would take me out for my birthday if we went by that fraternity's party. I agreed. When we arrived my DH ran up to us with a handle of Captain Morgan in his hands. He tried to get my friend to take a shot with him, but since he was driving, he refused and said I might like one. DH turned to me and the very first words he ever said to his future wife were, "Do you wanna take a shot with me?" (the words I have inscribed on his wedding ring, by the way). I quickly agreed and we took a shot together. The rest of the night I tried to have fun, but DH kept coming up to me, tapping me on the shoulder and trying to talk. I thought he was so annoying! My friend and I gave DH a ride to his dorm later that night and I happened to catch his name. That night I went home and for some reason still unknown, befriended him on Facebook. We immediately began talking and he asked me out on a date for that Friday. After getting in the car for our date and I made eye contact with him for the very first time, I pretty much immediately fell in love. The whole date we learned we had so much in common and he was the easiest person in the world to talk to. We were officially dating the next day, dated for three years (lived together for two and a half of those), got engaged for two years, and then were married in 2013.

He's the love of my life and I can't imagine being with anyone else. He's my best friend and the only person I could ever consider being on this journey with!

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This photo was taken in fall of 2008. It was one of our first photos as a couple.

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Here's a photo of us this year during our maternity photo shoot.

lindseyb918 · July 2016

We met at a bar when he was 26 and I was 20 (probably shouldn't have been there, but I felt pretty cool). I liked giving guys a hard time when they'd hit on me, so when he asked if he could buy me drink, I was like, I'll have a Long Island, two Chuck Norrises, and the same for each of my friends. Well that didn't scare him off, and once we started talking we had a lot in common. Didn't think much of it, but he called me the next day, and by the end of the week we were spending five hours on the phone together. We've been together six years and married for one. He's supported me through study abroad, college graduation, first real job, first house, and now a surprise pregnancy! I'm fiercely independent, and he's always encouraging me to get out there, whether it's trying for a promotion or going out with my girls. He has a heart of gold and hopefully DS is just like him

Pepper6 · July 2016

Dh hit on me at a bar. Ha ha. We were waiting for drinks next to each other and he started our conversation by telling me I was short. Any other guy and I would have just blown him off, but I liked something about him immediately. We ended up talking until the bar closed, including us joking around that we'd get married in 3 years. He put it as an appointment in his phone as "marry that one girl from that one bar". We went on our first date the next night and were pretty much 'official' right away.

... We got married almost exactly 3 years later (literally within 2 weeks of the 3rd anniversary of us meeting)

gingersnap-mama · July 2016

I met my husband in 6th grade. I had a crush on him throughout middle and high school but weren't in the same social circle or classes until senior year. We started dating senior year, survived college and young adult life. We got married 3 years ago and this year we celebrated 10 years together! We always said 28 would be a great age to start a family. I feel blessed to have the life I have with him. He truly is my best friend!

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This is us the first time we hung out.

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Our wedding

Katienu · July 2016

I love this thread too!!

I met my husband at work. I had just moved relocated for my job and didn't know many people in the area. I was so nervous about my first day but he welcomed me to the team and I immediately felt comfortable. What makes it extra special was that I started working on my birthday so we have 2 things to celebrate.

I never really thought about dating him at the time I started. He was in a relationship at the time and we are COMPLETE opposites. He changed positions within the bank and we exchanged emails here and there. About a year after I started, we ran into each other at a work outing and had such a good time. He asked me to dinner and we have been together ever since. That was 8 years ago. We have been married for 5. He is the best and I am very lucky.

pelorunningmama · July 2016

Love this thread! I read through most of them last night while trying get DD down.

DH and I met when I first moved to Dallas in 2006. He was roommates with one of my co-workers and would crash our happy hours (drinks were free!). I became super close to his group of friends and spent pretty much every weekend with them. DH and I didn't start dating until 2008. Apparently all our friends were waiting for it to happen, but we were oblivious. I always thought he was a great guy and really cute, but it took a while for us to realize how much chemistry we had. After dating for 4 and a half years, we got married in 2012. DH joined our party a few days before our one-year anniversary. I was totally comfortable with starting a family that fast since we had dated for so long. He is an incredible husband and father and I'm so thankful from the gentle nudge from our friends.

This is a photo from our engagements back in 2012. We took some normal ones but then had fun and did a few mid-century style photos in an awesome home in Dallas.

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ballofmeat · July 2016

@LWC1112 you guys look like you could be posing for a new tv series. What a great photo!

pelorunningmama · July 2016

midwestbaby said:

@LWC1112 you guys look like you could be posing for a new tv series. What a great photo!

Haha thanks! We had been binge watching Mad Men during that period and so we thought it might be fun.

emmeline714 · July 2016

Well my DH and I met back in our childhood days, my dad would never let me go to the park right next to the house when DH would tell me to go talk to him, Dad would rush me in the house which was funny, few years later my best friends bf at the time introduced us and we started talking and once we talked about where we grew up at and schools we went to we put all puzzles together now my dad could not rush me into the house anymore lol We started dating, fell in love and now married and having our first child together but his second, my step son is 4yrs old and we are happy to have our first daughter together, he is a great dad and I know baby girl will have him wrapped around her fingers. We love to be goofball and always tend to make each other laugh at the end of the day with any issue or problem. Love him lots can't wait for our baby girl to be here

Sekerambo · July 2016

I met my dh while I was out watching a local band, at a bar, with my girls. He had been living in Dallas and moved back to the area that day. I had a good friend who was dating his ex and she refused to let my friend hang out with me. For some reason I thought I would make her even more upset and post pictures of me and her ex (dh), that I didn't know, all over Facebook. I asked for a couple pictures and thought I would never see him again. By the time I got home he had figured out who I was and friended me on fb. He asked for my phone number we started talking. Went on a date a week or two later and that was it. The pictures never did end up getting posted.

He was a professional poker player and eventually taught me to play, so we could travel whenever and wherever we wanted. After the Black Friday of the poker world, in 2011, we moved to Canada to play poker. Several months later we decided to move back to the states and get "real" jobs. He has said that me moving to Canada is what sealed the deal for him. We were engaged the January 2012, married in May that year, and had dd1 almost two years later. We've been together for 8 yrs, married for 4 and dd2 will make her appearance in a few short weeks.

AMCooper000 · July 2016

All of these love stories make me tear up!

DH and I met when we were 5 years old in kindergarten. I instantly fell in love with him and he hardly noticed I existed. I continued to crush on him for 10 years until he noticed me in high school. We went on a few dates and he was really interested in me, but I wasn't feeling it and moved on and dated other people. Fast forward to 10 years later and DH and I ran into each other at a bar on St Paddys day. We exchanged numbers and that was it - we didn't let each other go that time. Since we are from a small town we grew up with each other's siblings and our parents were great friends. It seemed like it was just meant to be. We were engaged within the year, married 9 months later and then started trying for this baby immediately. I feel so lucky to have known DH my entire life and that we fate brought us together. He is my one and only!

This is from our wedding and then our maternity shoot

Nikkoli98 · July 2016

Our story is a little less interesting, but I couldn't imagine spending my life with anybody else! We met online in 2011, got engaged and married in 2015, and just met our LO in 2016.

At a Hindu wedding when we were dating.

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Engagement Photo

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Wedding Photo

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And from our maternity shoot (just got to look at these this evening for the first time)

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ShanRum3 · August 2016

My DH and I met when I was about 15. He was friends with my step-brother, and he and his brother had come over to take my step-brother spotting for deer. I thought he was cute and asked if I could go with them. As we rode around with the window down, to spot for deer, I got cold, so DH gave me his jacket. Fast forward a year or so, and he asked me out. We went out for just a short time, and he got me a dozen roses and a balloon that said I Love You, for Valentine's Day. I was a little freaked out, and felt like things were moving too fast, so I broke it off. A while later, he started dating one of my good friends, (whom he dated for a couple years) and by the time that ended, I had gotten engaged to another guy, who was good friends with DH. When that engagement ended badly, DH was my rock! We spent days together, and while I spent days crying over my broken engagement, he held me and one night told me he loved me! I wasn't ready to get back into a relationship, and told him so. We stayed close friends, and in August of 2000 we started officially dating. In December of 2003, we got engaged, and I ended up pregnant with DS1 in February of 2004. We rushed our wedding and got married in August 2004. Now, here we are, about to celebrate our 12th wedding anniversary, right on the heels of having our 3rd DS.

MamaKSquared · August 2016

I love reading these!

DH and I met when we were 14. I was in 8th grade and he was a freshman in high school. His best friend and my best friend were sister and brother and we were each spending the night with them to celebrate the beginning of Christmas break. We were both "dating" someone else at the time, but we both had a crush on each other. I told my best friend who swore not to tell. Of course, she told her brother, who told DH. We both broke up with the other people and we eventually started dating the following March. We were inseparable all through high school. He was a grade ahead of me, so I hated my senior year and couldn't wait to join him in college the following year. We went through a rough patch my sophomore year of college and broke up for a couple months, but it made us so much stronger in the end. We got engaged junior year of college and got married exactly 3 weeks after graduation. We had an amazing honeymoon then moved 2 states away the day after we got back. We had an amazing 4.5 years there, then we moved back to our home state last year. We've had an amazing journey so far - moving to where we knew no one except each other, traveling, becoming fur parents, and now becoming parents! This past March, we announced to everyone that we were expecting our first little one on our 15th dating anniversary! We celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary in June.

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The college years - 2007 - we had been together 6 years at this point

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Our wedding day in 2010

When we announced on facebook, on our 15th dating anniversary

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A maternity picture at 36 weeks

AMCooper000 · August 2016

@MamaKSquared that last maternity picture melts my heart it's so sweet!!

Stephanie7693 · August 2016

I met my dh in passing a few times through mutual friends, but didn't really talk to him until he came to a wedding of a mutual friend in December of 06. He's a mechanic, and the wedding was the first time I saw him cleaned up, and he cleaned up nicely! The second my friend realized I liked him, she decided she did too. I was young, 20, but a single mom to my 1 year old, so I didn't try too hard. After a few weeks of talking we started spending a lot of time together. By the new year we were a couple, by February he was at my apartment every night, and on his birthday in july he asked me and my daughter to move in with him. We closed on our townhouse at the end of August 2007. Our son was born in march 2010, and we married January 2012. This winter we will celebrate 10 years together, 5 of them married.
He has been my rock, and we've done a lot of growing up together being 20 and 24 when we met. He took on me and my daughter without a second thought, doing whatever he could to help us and love us both. I could not have found a better man, and I'm blessed to have found him so young. We have taken the time and effort to learn each other, and for that we hardly argue. It took years, but our kids have taken notice and I'm happy we are able to model a healthy marriage for them. It is not something I ever experienced in my childhood and something i never thought I would have. He's become a better dad than I've ever could have imagined, and I'm excited to add one more to watch him with

this is March of this year

Snaps816 · August 2016

I waited tables while I was a student, and there was a neighborhood bar where a lot of service industry people hung out after our shifts. DH was a sous chef at a different restaurant, but we got to know each other by crossing paths at that bar now and then for a couple of years. I always thought he was friendly and cute, but he had other girlfriends and I didn't really think of him "that way." Eventually, he broke up with his girlfriend and was single, and apparently had asked about me to some mutual friends. They gave him my number and also told him that it was my birthday. So while I was out celebrating my birthday, I got a call from DH wishing my a happy birthday and asking if he could take me out some time. I thought it was sweet and kind of old-fashioned, since most guys my age at the time (mid-20's) were all about "hanging out" and acting like it wasn't a date, then maybe hooking up.

I had some travel planned right after that birthday, so our date didn't happen for like three weeks. Also at this time, I was graduating school, moving, and looking for a job. I had a lot on my plate and wasn't all that into dating. I had also had some crappy dating experiences recently. I almost cancelled the date with DH because I didn't feel up to it, but decided not to just because I'd made him wait three weeks and because he was a friend. I'd feel like a bitch if I cancelled. But then I went on the date and we just clicked, had a great time, and from that point on we were inseparable. I was practically living with him in just a few months. I think what changed my mindset about him was that he was always so open and up front about how he felt about me, there was no game playing. He has always let me know that is crazy about me, and it's not just words, his actions and his treatment of me reflect that. For a long time I worried that this was too good to be true and I was kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop. But we dated for 7 years before getting married, so I think I tested the waters plenty!!

We got married last summer and initially planned to wait about a year for before trying for a baby. We were going to do some travel just for fun (rather than always visiting family) and enjoy just being a married couple. But I am in my 30's, and after spending Thanksgiving with family and having fun with our little niece and nephew, we were feeling sentimental and decided why wait? By Christmas we were pregnant!

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