GTKY: How did you meet your SO?

jenotontx · August 2017

How did you meet each other?

How long have you known each other/dated/married?

klburke88 · August 2017

I met my husband on Twitter, of all places. We are fans of rival hockey teams and there was some playful back and forth ribbing going on. Eventually, he invited me out to a bar to watch a game and we've been together ever since!

Our first official date was 1/20/12 and we were married 5/3/14.

pghren · August 2017

We met in college doing theatre together. Despite flinging black paint brush water all over him within a week of meeting him, he still fell for me. We've been together for 6 years and married for 2.

lauranicole91 · August 2017

High school sweethearts checking in.
Biology class my freshman year/his sophomore year in 2006.
We found we had mutual friends later that year and started hanging out.
We got together in May 2007.
He proposed when we were 16 and 17 in March 2008.
We got married May 2010.
So, together a total of 10 years now, married for 7. Had our daughter 3/12, our son 6/15, and now here we are on our 3rd.

maureenmce · August 2017

We're both musicians (as a hobby) and we met on the 4th of July when we played at the same venue. We struck up a conversation after we both played and made a music related bet, which I lost, and when he texted me to tell me he won he asked if we could go out on a date. This was all the way back in 2008! We got married in 2013 and had our DD in Jan of 2016.

hedgepig · August 2017

More HS sweethearts here! We met in 6th grade, started dating in 10th grade, and were together for 10 years before we got married, which was 4 years ago now.

Loganswife · August 2017

We met at work, and he was technically one of my superiors. We started dating in early 2004 and were married in September of 2006.

kmalls · August 2017

We met at a bowling alley, of all places (candlepin bowling, so it's awesome

) He was in a league with friends of mine, and those friends encouraged me to come and hang out and drink some beer (say no more). There was an instant attraction, but it took literally months for him to ask me out. It turned out he thought I was younger than I actually am, which made our already-large age gap seem even bigger.

Once he figured out my actual age, he asked me on a date. We went night skiing on Valentines Day 2013, and one date was all it took. Instant love. We were engaged three months later and married a year after that.

jenotontx · August 2017

My H and I met online dating on POF in 2013. He had actually messaged me a few weeks before I even responded because I already had a few dates set up with other guys. Needless to say none of the other guys panned out so one night I was at a friend's wedding (literally the only single person there) and I messaged him during a slow song! We ended up talking over the phone for almost two weeks before meeting in person because we both had vacations planned that prevented us from scheduling a date. I know this is super cliché but I knew the first day we met he was the one. Went on to date for 3 years and 3 days before getting married 7/16/16.

cseley321 · August 2017

We met in 2001 at work, a video game store in the mall. It was a part time job for me (I worked my real job 8-5 and worked this job 6-10 pm.) I actually hated him at first but we grew on each other. We officially started dating around 2002 and got married in 2010

ChloandCoco · August 2017

DH and I met in a bookstore. I was working there and he ended up buying a membership just so he could talk to me a little bit more. We ended up dating long distance for two years, then I moved in with him for a couple of years and then we got married 6 years ago! So we've been together for 10 years!

ngolimento · August 2017

@JJMNO1616 POF marriages represent!

I met my husband there too. He was too shy to message me, so when I reached out, he got disappointed that it took us so long to arrange a date (I had a strict one dude at a time rule to minimize drama, and was dumping the most recent dude). We finally went out, and since we are both uber nerds, we fell into uber nerd love.

We dated about two years, got married in 2012, and then two years after that had our daughter. We are coming up on our 5 year wedding anniversary. I was planning on a romantic tour of CA wine country or the OR coast, but that's out the window now

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zombiemom1318 · August 2017

We met in 2011. I went on vacation to California and met him there. We dated long distance for two years flying back and forth monthly. Then he moved to me and we had our first child. We got married this past June and going strong with baby number 2! To think I almost didn't go to California too! Thank God I did!

jenotontx · August 2017

@ngolimento My H had a one girl at a time rule! Hence why I feel in love on our first date! lol I thought that was so mature and it made me way less anxious early on. I also immediately stopped seeing anyone else. So we were basically monogamous from day 1 which is nice.

luna8433 · August 2017

@kmalls we met at the bowling alley too. It was a church event though. We had an instant connection ended up talking all night.

Dumbgurl04 · August 2017

Me and DH meet on Match.com on our first date we went bowling. Afterwards when we went to dinner we were watching game 1 of the NBA finals and I asked him what his favorite teams were. He told me mostly Boston Teams. Once he said he liked the Patriots I said "you are lucky this date has gone so well, or else I would have left just now" as an avid Colts fan it feels like I'm living in sin lol. That was June 10, 2008, we have been married since October 1, 2011.

danjoly · August 2017

We met on eharmorny. I was in Canada, he was in the US. We did long distance for 1 year, visiting each other every weekend, then he proposed and I applied to a fiancé visa. My visa was granted in December 2014 and I moved in March 2015.

kimmerann3 · August 2017

My DH and I met at Applebee's in 2009. We both worked there (he was a cook and I was a waitress). We moved in together after 6 months. Then got married in 2013. Still going strong 8 years later! : )

holly321 · August 2017

We met on Myspace. He had added me when I was dating my high school boyfriend, we talked on AIM a few times, it didn't go anywhere, since I had aforementioned boyfriend. I had broken up with my boyfriend, and a few weeks later, DH saw me at the carnival in our town and messaged me that night saying he recognized me. We ended up going out on a date about a week later.

Dumbgurl04 · August 2017

Got to love MySpace @holly321

kindbytealikat · August 2017

DH and I had started attending the same care group at church. At that time I was just figuring myself out and he was getting a divorce. We became good friends over the next three or so years. Then I kind of asked myself out for him. He had mentioned a concert he was going to at a local fair and I said that sounds like so much fun and he asked if I wanted to go also. The weeks leading up to the concert we talked every night via FB messenger, we'd never talked outside of our care group meetings before. We married a year and two weeks later. Has our son 1.5 yrs later, he'll be 3 in November. It's also been a joke for us because the care group was new when we both started going and dissolved shortly after we got together, so we say the care group was just Gods dating service lol. The care group leaders had tried to get us to go out a year before we did because they saw something as did my parents who saw us interacting at church.

jenotontx · August 2017

@holly321 I love that you met your SO on Myspace. I was obsessed with Myspace for the longest time and it cracks me up now thinking about it.

tgortney · August 2017

You guys ready?

Hollister.

We both worked there as teens over the summer. I never expected to meet my future husband there but here we are, 8 years together and 4 years married with baby #2 on the way.

merrypotter · August 2017

We met in high school but aren't high school sweet hearts. My husband doesn't even remember that we met in high school. I had a little fling with his best friend but then after a week we decided we should just be friends. So I had become pretty good friends with my husband's best friend. My husband says we actually met in October of 2010 when I met up with him and his best friend to complain about my boyfriend at the time ditching me. When I saw my current husband that night I thought he was sooooo cute. Needless to say I broke up with my boyfriend a week later and started dating my husband the next month. We were together for 4 years before getting married and will be together for 7 years total come October.

tj528 · August 2017

We are college sweethearts! At 19 we got set up on what was essentially a blind date (I guess we knew what each other looked like but that was it!) We've been together for five years and been married a little over one!

1fish2fishredfish · August 2017

We met at a friend from college's wedding. He is the friend's brother. Friend always said we would get along and that we should meet but I had a boyfriend throughout college and afterwards. Met at the wedding and BOOM. Broke up with boyfriend and started dating. Happily ever after (so far;) )

lolablue3 · August 2017

I met my husband in college. He played football and I played softball, and the athletes all hung out together. We were really good friends for two years before we started dating our junior year. We've been together for 11 years and married for 8.

beenabee · August 2017

I met my DH through my twin sister and her fiancé, we met at a New Year's Eve party. We started living together almost 4 months after meeting, got engaged 5 months after living together, and got married a month after getting engaged. So we got married 10 months after we met, yes we moved very fast. We'll be married two years this October.

Apthor02 · August 2017

My husbands mother was actually my teacher in high school. He is 4 yrs older then me so I only saw him a handful of times if he visited her. We really didn't didn't meet till after I graduated when I was doing my last high school competition that summer. It was in Disney world so his family used it as a family vacation. That's when we really started talking. It helped out that I knew his siblings really well before hand, I even knew his dog before him! Haha! We jokingly say now that his dog picked me. That following week we started dating, 7/3/10, got engaged 10/12/13 my senior year of college and then married 7/3/14. Baby#1 was 1/16/16 and Baby #2 on the way now.

Mattel · August 2017

According to me, he was my cousin's best friend.

According to him, "she farted in a bar."

Both are accurate.

We started dating March 2008, engaged January 2010, married November 2010.

lemr13 · August 2017

We met at dollar beer night at Double Dave's pizza through mutual friends. We were friends for about a month before we started dating but all our friends would tease us that we should just date already because our chemistry was so obvious from the start! We've been together since 2010, only will have been married a year this November.

ndgraham · August 2017

My husband and I met in high school math class.
We were both dating other people, but everyday we'd talk to each other for the whole hour of class. We had other friends in the class but some reason we were drawn to each other. Anyways, fast forward a year, both became single. We were hanging out more & more, started texting when we were both single, he finally asked to be boyfriend/girlfriend after we hung out alone & went on a few dates.

We dated for 6 years, you know, so we could finish hs, college, start good jobs, then got married, bought a house, had our first, now pregnant with second. This November we will have been together for a total of 9 years.

AlphabetFish · August 2017

We met in the dining hall at college. A mutual friend was sitting with me, and he saw his "in" to come talk to me. We hit it off that very night and were fast friends, then a few months later, we started dating. We've been together almost 12 years! Married for 6

whatabout2ndbreakfast · August 2017

We went to the same high school, but met at a fast food place where we both worked. We went on one date and then went our separate ways. He joined the Marines and I went to college. Then 5-ish years later we were both back home and ran into each other at a local bookstore. We went on a date and that was it!

psuxray07 · August 2017

We met in an AOL chatroom in 2003, before online dating, and when it was embarrassing to admit you met online. I was 16, he was 17. He lived in GA, I lived in PA. We've been together 14.5 yrs and on New Year's Eve, we will be married 7 years.

allen4tl · August 2017

We met in college. We had an early morning English class together and I couldn't stand him because he talked on-stop. The next year he walked into a psychology class and sat next to me. I was dating someone else (not a good relationship) so we just talked but he pursued me and eventually it worked! We dated for 7 years (both finished high education degrees) and have been married for 4.

tooraloorah · August 2017

We were 8 or 9. My dad was his coach for little league for two years. The one year my mom was also his fourth grade teacher. Flash forward 10 years, we worked together at CVS during his senior year of high school and during my breaks my freshman year of college. He was scared to ask me to his prom, I had kept nudging him. He joined the Marine Corps in 2008 and we parted ways until I saw him during his boot camp leave. We rekindled our crush then and finally over FB we got together.

We've been together since February of 2009 and got married in April of 2011.

kaymaroo · August 2017

We met online on POF. I was a divorced mom with not much time to go places to meet men so thought I'd give it a shot. I almost chickened out about meeting someone from the internet. But when I told him where I grew up he asked if I knew his best friend's wife, who had grown up in the same small town. I did and because she vouched for him we met up. That was in February 2015 and we clicked immediately. When DS eventually met him they became instant BFFs and that sealed the deal for me. We got married this past January.

ekendall09 · August 2017

SO is one of my close friends cousins. We'd known each other for years (i don't know exactly, maybe 6 now) but were only friends. I had an ugly ending to my marriage and dated a little in the 2 years to follow the separation. SO waited me out and finally expressed interest and the rest is history. We've been together "officially" about 18 months.

fishsticks-n-custard · August 2017

We met on OkCupid right after I said, "I'm moving in a year for training. I don't want to meet anyone right now." We had been together almost a year when I moved away, he proposed 9 months after that and we were married two years after I moved away. We spent the first year of our marriage in two different states. Now we've been together seven years and married four.

sarahkate2233 · August 2017

We met at work and were friends for a while. I asked him out - or at least that's what he says - for lunch down the street. We bonded over our mutual love for Star Trek and Chipolte.

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