GTYK 1/23

calimom2524 · January 2018

So I love a good love story. Where did you meet your SO and how did you get to where you are today?

scottishlass1213 · January 2018

I was DH's rebound girl - he had just been dumped a few weeks earlier by a girl he had gone out with for years, that actually graduated with me. We had a group hang at a Karaoke bar, got slightly drunk, he let me wear his precious Boston Red Sox hat, bought me a rose and there you have it. I suppose we really fell in love a month or so later, he was in GA for some Army school for 3 months and we fell in love over the phone. He came back and a month later we were engaged. We've been together 13 years, married nearly 11!

Funny side note, I am also the first white girl he ever dated. DH is white but he went to high school in Hawaii and dated all Asians before me LOL

jmcooke25 · January 2018

My hubby and I have known each other since 8th grade. We were friends but were always dating other people. In our senior year "the stars aligned" and we started dating. We've been together ever since! We'll be celebrating 10 years together in February! We've been married 6 and a half years.

calimom2524 · January 2018

I don't have a traditional love story at all. At the beginning of 2017 I had decided one night my abusive ex husband had pushed me too far for the last time so I packed up my car and drove across the country with my 2 boys. After about 5 months I decided I truly wanted to start dating, like just having fun, so I signed up for Tinder. My goodness that was quite the experience. It was like online shopping but for dudes.

Anyways, I saw my now SO and immediately swiped right, he was SO hot. We were a match! I messaged him (I NEVER messaged first but he was too hot to not talk to) and we started talking immediately. Some Tinder flirting turned to texting. He asked me out a couple of times but I was having fun dating other guys at the same time so I kept turning him down. I was also starting to see a potential relationship with another guy so I ended up ignoring SO for two weeks. Potential relationship guy turned out to be a total D bag so the day I decided I was done talking to him when SO messaged me again I decided the timing was too perfect to not give him a shot. We hung out that night and have been together ever since. We had an instant connection and I knew he was going to be in my life for a long time. We've been happily dating ever since and while baby bean is a total surprise, everything feels like it's happening for the right reasons.

lolog531 · January 2018

I had just moved downtown Chicago after finally getting out of my hometown (which I had moved back to for a dbag ex boyfriend). My cousin's friend from college brought DH, who also went to college with them, out one night to tag along since he'd just moved to Chicago, too. I didn't think much of it because I was casually seeing someone else (who also turned out to be a dbag). Forward 2.5 weeks later the friend and I are smoking outside a bar while we're all out and she asked what I thought about her friend because 'he'd been asking about me'. So, a little tipsy, I asked for his number, texted him right then and there. We continued to text all night and the next day. 2 days later he and the friend invited me out to watch their college's basketball team with a huge group of people, so I went. DH and I ended up getting late night food at a diner until and sat there talking until about 2 am (on a Tuesday). We haven't gone a day without talking since and that was 8 years ago this month.

juliebird6 · January 2018

DH and I met so randomly. I thought I was meeting a girlfriend for dinner at B-Dubs, and when I showed up, she had this dude in tow. She swears it wasn't a set up, but we clicked instantly. She says she felt like the 3rd wheel on our first date. When we all left after dinner, he and I made plans to go to the bar with my friends the following night (LOL back when I was still cool and did social things), and we literally have spent like every day together since then. We met in 2011. I actually was casually seeing someone else when we met, so I immediately texted this other guy and just told him, no hard feelings but I think I met "the one." And then I set up the guy I dumped with a mutual friend and now they are talking about getting married. Wild.

lalala2004 · January 2018

We met on the dating website “How About We” but once we started talking, found out we actually knew a bunch of mutual people, imcluding my own brother. It is definitely a small world.

princesslockness · January 2018

If you ask him I was his substitute teacher. We actually met when one of the freshman girls I 'adopted' my senior year introduced me to her SO, which is my now H. I subbed his classes his 9th &10th grade years, then we started dating his senior year. We were off and on for 3 years, mostly on he just didn't want to be labeled as engaged at 18-20. We got married a month shy of our 3yr anniversary, and have been married for 3.5 years.

Its always interesting to see peoples reactions to 'She was my teacher.' Makes for some fun conversations.

mrsbubbles-2 · January 2018

This thread is making me all teary eyed at work... awwww!

DH and I met at work. Womp womp. In fact, we were on sister programs for a while and he was the new guy learning the ropes when we had our first... erm... encounter. I yelled at him. A lot. For not doing something rightthissecond. So he hid from me for like a year. But then we started talking randomly, realized that we had a ton in common and were pretty awesome together. We were quite the source of workplace gossip for a while! Oooh those rumors would fly when we carpooled together lol!

nepatsgal · January 2018

DH and I met when at a private Christian school. The whole school had less than 20 students. We didn't really speak to each other and definitely weren't friends. I was 12 and he was 13. I only attended the school for 6 months until I moved from NH to Florida. A few years later I tried to find him on Myspace and couldn't find him. A week later I got a friend request from him and we starting IMing each other.. we were 15. haha We then began long distance dating. We've been together over 10 years and married for 8 years in July.

mrslittlemac · January 2018

I was laid up in bed with shingles and Lyme disease, trying to hide from the real world and a d-bag ex-boyfriend who wouldn't take a hint. I started playing this cool new casual game called Evony and once I figured out the mechanics, I created an alliance and started recruiting. H was one of the first to join and we spent weeks building up this alliance, warring with others, defending our own. We were both at the top of our server and fell into a mutual respect/friendship. I expressed interest in moving across the country, and had looked into a littleish town in Montana. Turned out that it was two hours away from where he grew up, and he wanted a change of pace as well. We spent the next few months chatting and getting closer, eventually decided to give the long distance thing a try. After a few months of that, he took a Greyhound bus up from the deep south and moved in with one of his high school friends to start over. I took a one-way plane ticket a few months later. We of course clicked immediately, moved in together, and were married just over a year later. It'll be our seventh wedding anniversary this summer

tl;dr: NERDS.

jsnakehole · January 2018

We met on OkCupid. When I met DH I was pretty close to giving up and adopting a million cats. I made four last dates- one for each Friday and Saturday in the last two weeks of March. DH was my week two Saturday date. Prior to making the date, he had been trying to call me, but I hate talking on the phone so I avoided all his calls. Like two days before our date he finally got me on the phone and we chatted for two hours.

We were hooked from the moment we met. We moved in with each other about a month later, and got married just over a year later (just in time for him to deploy for a year). We'll be married for two years in June!

melprop · January 2018

DH actually dated my high school friend before me. We got to know each other in the acquaintance sense. He asked me out after they broke up, and she was cool with it, so yeah. We’re still going strong almost 12 years later. Ironically, that high school friend ended up dating my ex after hs and had a baby with him. They’re not together anymore though. (Small town living = I still hear the dirt on all my ex’s.)

ecwk · January 2018

DH was studying abroad in Ireland when I was in my first year in college back in ‘03/‘04. Been together ever since, lots of long distance and living in different countries but settled here for now!

neeraja_k · January 2018

Hubby and I met in an online German chatroom in 1997 of all places. He was in his first year of college, I was still a senior in high school. We immediately hit it off and were soon chatting non-stop. I'd run home from school and hop online, yay dialup, and we'd chat for hours. Come to find out we played on the same MUD (multi-user dungeon), a text based online multiplayer game as well.

The next summer, after I graduated from high school he drove all the way from Montana to my tiny little town in Southern Indiana, in his 1979 Camaro and stayed for a few weeks before I went to college. I'd never had a boyfriend, never really wanted one so it was a surprise to find myself falling for him. He was kind of the same, and we just "clicked".

My parents hated him. Looking back with more life experience under my belt, I think that was more because I was their only daughter and they didn't want to see me grow up and move away.

I went to college that fall and he came to stay with me for a month after the Christmas break in my dorm room, co-ed dorm so rules were whatever. My folks still don't know about it. lol

After my first year at college, I hated it. It was more expensive than I could afford and ultimately I learned nothing that I didn't already know, so I left. I wrote this big long letter to my parents and left, I moved out to Montana with him. Eventually we moved back here for work, and now we're contemplating moving back because Indiana sucks.

All the crazy things you do for love. Nearly 15 years later....here we are.

mrslittlemac · January 2018

@neeraja_k Okay now I must know! What MUD? DH and I spent like a bajillion hours on Medievia when Evony started fizzing out. We still go back on for nostalgia's sake.

neeraja_k · January 2018

@mrslittlemac LOL! It was Aliens VS Predator. We still log on our old characters now and then for nostalgia.

We also played Evony for a while, but it got too many drama llamas and we left. Now we mostly play Minecraft together with our nephew.

We played a lot of the same games over the years, but he gets bored easily. I still mostly play Eve Online and Warframe.

mrslittlemac · January 2018

Ah! Cool!
That was our experience too, with Evony. And when they merged servers it just turned into a bucket of Nope. We mostly do LAN games together, the only MMO we still get into now is GW2. Yay for quality time together! Lol.

hezzer78 · January 2018

@neeraja_k @mrslittlemac OMG I used to play on a MUD too - it was a Star Wars one but I can't remember the name. I play a lot of Civ 6 right now - I used to play a ton of WoW (and still have my account) but with work and grad school, I couldn't devote any time to it anymore.

H and I met online - I think it was through Yahoo Personals? Back when that was a thing. I did a lot of online dating and literally went out with every guy who asked. Looking back that was dumb, but I was young and wanted free dinner, so I did it. A lot of them were duds or weirdos. H I actually spent time talking to for weeks before we met up - and I really liked him. He was smart and silly and cute. The rest is history - we've been together 10 years and married for 5.

princesslockness · January 2018

mrslittlemac said:

Ah! Cool!
That was our experience too, with Evony. And when they merged servers it just turned into a bucket of Nope. We mostly do LAN games together, the only MMO we still get into now is GW2. Yay for quality time together! Lol.

H plays guild wars all the time! Interesting how small of a gaming world we have here.

neeraja_k · January 2018

I really, really tried GW2 I did...and I hated it. I played GW from the day it came out and it felt like it sold itself out to the WoW crowd, which I always enjoyed that Guild Wars felt more adult. I'm still sad. Lol

brannok · January 2018

My husband and I met online through Plenty of Fish. His employee was pushing him to get back out there after a failed marriage and I was looking for something more serious than was the fella I was dating. Husband was super secretive about his work and rolled up to our first date in a giant van, setting off my creep alarm. But we hit it off immediately at dinner. (His job involves bed bugs and he didn't want to turn me off before we met in person - and the van was for transporting his working dogs.) The restaurant closed so we ended up having coffee at a Denny's until 2:30am on a work night. We both cancelled the future dates already lined up with others - there was no question about whether we were going to be together. That was early 2014. We married in early 2017 and here we are having our first babe. He has two sons from his previous marriage, who I met about seven months in. We're telling them about their new little sister this weekend!

ACarey258 · January 2018

My husband and I both went to school for marine biology so we were in a lot of the same classes together. He chose me as his lab partner in organic chemistry lab and the rest is history! I like to tell people we met over a Bunsen burner. We’be been together for 13 years and married for almost 11. He’s my rock and I wouldn’t be able to get through life without him ❤️

Love all these love stories! Especially the geeky ones

F47 · January 2018

Back story: my stepdad is from England.

So, my stepdad’s friend (spoiler: my now FIL) came to the states to stay with my Mom and stepdad for a week to visit. I still lived at home. While he was over, he mentioned that I would get on great with his son. I shrugged it off, but the next day he showed me a picture of his family (including said hot son) and I was all, “You know, I should meet your son!”

He he gave me his email address and I emailed (now) DH and we went back and forth for a few months. Three months later, he booked a flight to come visit and stayed at our house. Needless to say, we hit it off. Instead of staying two weeks and, “traveling the states,” he changed his flight and stayed almost two months and never left our town - or my side.

We did long distance (super long) for two years, then he moved over here and went to school. A few years after that, we got engaged.

melissaf22 · January 2018

I met my husband in Israel while I was on the birthright trip (free trip for Jews that are 18-26) he was one of the Israeli soldiers that were with us on the trip. What I thought was just a fun fling at the time turned into a relationship. We talked on the phone everyday and I came to visit every 3 months. About 10 months into our relationship I found a program where I could get my masters degree in Israel so I jumped at the chance. After the program we got engaged and I finally was able to get him into the US. We have been together now for 9 years and married for 5

scottishlass1213 · January 2018

I love how different everyone’s stories are!!

hfooter · January 2018

DHs girlfriend was one of the first girls I met when I moved to the area. Everything i heard from her about him made him seem like a major asshole and I never understood why they dated. They were always breaking up and getting back together and it was a drama filled thing.

Well eventually her and I grew apart and we weren’t really friends anymore. I actually saw DH on a weekly basis from a core group I hung out with. But still never had any interest in him.

I was about to graduate college and was thinking about grad school. He was the only person I knew that was getting his MBA so I reached out to him via FB messenger to learn about the application process studying for the mcats etc. And from there it just organically grew into a relationship. I still was not sure about dating him but he kept proving over and over again he was nothing like I thought! About a month in we knew we’d get married and moved in together around 6 months and got engaged at a year or so. Been married for almost 7 years now!

derbysquirrel · January 2018

DH and I met when he first moved to Oregon and came into the local game store looking for a group to play Dungeons & Dragons. I invited him to join our group. That was July, 2005. At the time he was married with two small kids (7 and 5), and I was in a LTR. We were gaming friends for several years before a relationship was ever a thought. A few years later I moved away for school, and he ended up getting divorced. When I moved back to town a couple years later he got back in touch with me (over MySpace) and we started hanging out again. He asked me out, but I turned him down because I was 23, and he had two kids (now 11 and 9). I didn't want that kind of commitment. I had recently dated a guy with a kid, and it kind of sucked. Eventually after spending more time together with our common friend group I decided he was worth the risk and I agreed to date the third time he asked me out. I'm really glad I went for it because I really couldn't imagine what direction my life would have taken if I hadn't joined into the family when I did. We've been living together since my 24th birthday, so just over 8 years, and my step kids are now 20 and 17. We were married in 2012 and the kids were our best man and maid of honor.

pghctwife · January 2018

We met in college. He likes to remind me we met prior in college and he was trying to hit on me but I was too into a different dude. My senior year we were both RAs in the same very small upperclassmen dorm and share dinner a duty night. We’d drink and hang out the whole night which quickly turned into messing around. We started being ‘exclusive’ and both stuck around for postgrad. We got engaged after about 2 years and married at 25.
We had growing pains as we truly grew up together and struggled in our marriage the first few years. We stayed the course and worked hard and our marriage is strong.

We we decided to try just before 30, and had our oldest in 2011, then 2013, and 2015.

The last 2 years have been challenging with stress from trying (for 9 monthsssss) to sell our house then scrambling to get one that was right for us, so so horrible and stressful. And meanwhile disagreeing on a 4th. Surprise led to a loss literally the day before the moving truck came.

And that was an incredibly dark time for me and more struggles bc he didn’t want to try again. He finally agreed. Another pregnancy and loss. He was more reluctant this last time but here we are, and we are both happy to be getting the girl we’d both wanted. He’d always said ‘if we could know for sure it would be a girl Id definitely agree’

financial and kid stress lately but we are in the weeds right now and ultimately because of the work we put into it 10 years ago, our marriage is very solid and I know we can weather the harder times.

Hes is very much looking forward to getting snipped though lol and we are both ready for the next phase with our nuclear family COMPLETE.

that mighta been more than you were looking for lol

hardlyhannah · January 2018

DH and I met several times fleetingly during high school - he was dating my best friends best friend from grade school (if that makes sense). We didn't get along and I distinctly remember calling him a douche bag to his face on one such meeting. But then the summer after we graduated high school something clicked and there was some attraction. He courted me all summer even though I was still with my high school boyfriend, and ultimately the September of our freshman year in college I finally left my ex and the rest is history!

We dated for 7 years before getting engaged, which drove me nuts after we graduated college. But we got engaged on Christmas and married the following October because I wasn't waiting another year :-)

We've been together for 13 years now and married for 4 which is crazy to think about. We had DS two years in.

roadspeckle · January 2018

I had recently ended a 2 year relationship with a verbally abusive psycho path, and had a string of bad luck on Plenty Of Fish. I had given up and randomly got a message from DH. We met, and he talked my ear off and he was very forward. “So, what do you think of me?” was his first question - I also think it was the first time he took a breath. He was super nice. I wasn’t used to that. We played COD, and at the time, I had been single for awhile and was enjoying my alone time so he would come over for a bit and then I would make him go home and we would play COD for hours. He always wanted to hang out and he had started to annoy me. My mom said something to me, like... “he’s not the type you would normally date. Maybe this is a good thing.” We fell in love quickly! We dated for 9 months before he proposed and then were married 9 months later. This our 3rd together, and he has a 8 year old from a previous marriage.

dirtanddiamonds · January 2018

We met in elementary school. He says he always had a crush on me. In junior high, his family moved a few miles away and I heard of him occasionally. My sister actually went on one date with his older brother 20+ years ago. But, I never paid attention.

I joined the military and met the man who is now my ex-husband, we were married for 14 years and had three girls.

I moved back home after the divorce and I wasn’t here a few months and he hit me up on Facebook. I totally gave him the runaround because I wasn’t really interested in meeting anyone but he persisted and after a couple months of talking we finally went out.

He was married after high school for a few years and him and his ex-wife could never have a baby, and his ex-wife had led him to believe that it was his fault. He had come to terms that he would never have a child and is absolutely amazing with my three girls because my ex-husband lives across the country and never sees them.

Well surprise surprise about eight months after we started living together we found out we were pregnant and him and his entire family is super excited.

We talk about marriage but I’m not in any hurry to get remarried anytime soon and we already live together so we basically are married. Lol. He gave me a diamond ring on my birthday this year (1-1, right after we got pregnant) but he assured me it was not an engagement ring but more or less a promise ring and that when we were ready someday he hoped that we would get married. I definitely see that happening. But I’ve told him I need at least a year postpartum. Lol. Maybe fall 2020. Idk. No rush. I love him so much. He’s my rock. And I’m incredibly grateful that we are having this baby.

Mkrosieo · January 2018

My Mom met my husband in a bar and was like find my daughter in fb! She will love you! And he did, we talked for a month before I came down to visit for a family event. And I went back for a weekend packed up my apartment and moved here to be with him. I knew I was going to marry him as soon as I met him. We have been together for 6 years.

tops-2 · January 2018

Aw this is a nice one

Hubby and I met at the birthday party of an ex-mutual friend. I really liked him, we started chatting on MSN and our relationship grew from there. We've been together almost 9 years now and married for almost a year and a half

satin_doll · January 2018

All of these stories are so beautiful. Hearing about couples standing strong through hard times and the serendipity of it all really bring me to tears.

Well, my SO and I met at a bus station in IA. Neither one of us lived in IA. Serendipity! Lol He was too shy to talk to me, which was so endearing. He had the nerve to ask for my phone number, though. We dated long distance for 6 months and have been living together for the past 2 years. I must say, we managed to change each other for the better and learned to thrive during tough times.

Highlight Reel... We've travelled the country for at least 3 months/year since we met. We have a Border Collie pup named Lyla, we just got engaged, and we're 11 weeks pregnant. Yay!

nll0803 · January 2018

I messaged DH on okcupid, as a last ditch effort at dating. At the time, I was living 2 hours away from my hometown, in the middle of farmland. DH and I soon realized we were from the same hometown, just missing each other in high school due to being five years apart. I was best friends with his cousin in high school, and even went to college together, not paying any attention to her older cousins. We had many mutual friends in common, and always just seemed to miss each other.

It also turns out that DH and I work in the same field, and had attended the same large trainings and meetings, just never realized it. It times like this that I believe the universe puts people in your life at particular times for particular reasons. We started dating in 2014, moved in together in 2015, bought a home in 2016, and eloped in 2017.

Secretstapler · January 2018

DH and I went to middle school together. He was friends with my twin brother, they played yo-yos together. I don't remember a whole lot about him from middle school, except that I refused to work with him on a project in 8th grade English because, as I announced to the whole class, he was mean.

We ended up with the same group of friends in high school, and became good friends. I got a crush on him junior year because I thought he was smart and funny and really brave to wear tights and a short little tunic in a play in front of the entire school. Senior year, I finally got the nerve to ask him to prom. A couple days later (before we had gone to prom) he asked me out on a date. We started dating, but I went off to college out of state. After two years of driving 4 hours to see him every other week, I transferred to his school and we moved in together. We've been together 15 years in April, married for 6 in June. DS just turned 2. People thought it was strange that we waited so long to get married, but I think we did it at the right time. We got together so young, it was good for us to grow up a bit first.

windywoman · January 2018

These stories are great!

DH and I were friends in high school. He was my best guy friend and the year after graduation we both wanted something more but were two scared to do anything about it for fear of losing our friendship. One night his older brother had a party and DH, with the help of some liquid courage, made his move. Basically after that kiss we have never been apart. We have been together for 17 years and will be married for 8 in June. We have grown up together and have had hard times but it has all led us to where we are today so I wouldn't change a single thing.

melbel0824 · January 2018

DH and I met on Okcupid. We texted every day leading up to our first date a week later. I already had a good feeling about him, but when we met he told me that he was technically still married. He was in the Marine Corps and got married young, but he was going through a divorce. He reassured me that it was definitely over and his soon-to-be-ex was even out of the country. I took a chance and we had a great time talking all night. We walked back to my place after and he became the first guy I ever slept with on the first date. We've been together pretty much ever since then. I basically moved into his apartment after the first week, we bought a house 6 months later and were married a year after that. We'll be married 4 years in May.

marafox · January 2018

DH and I grew up in the same small town, but didn’t know each other then, just had mutual friends. We met after living in San Francisco for years and being in the same friend circles. We always had chemistry but I always had boyfriends and at the time DH was too wild and immature for me, he was the life of every party. I moved to New York after a bad break up and eventually came back to SF. The moment (the actual night) I got back to SF, DH was calling me to hang out. He and a bunch of friends and I went to a show and I knew then that I was ready to see if this chemistry could turn into more than a friendship. We’ve been together ever since, 1 year married, 7 years together.

westphilly · January 2018

I was out with a few girlfriends for dinner. One of my friends was going to meet up with a guy she had gone on a date with the week before. He and his friends were at a bar watching a Radiohead coverband. I thought he looked cute, and told my other friend. She basically shoved us together and grabbed his other friends and occupied them so we would talk. We ended up talking all night, and making fun of the band a lot. My friends slipped out without me, and so did his friends. At the end of the night, the lights came on, and we realized it was just us talking! We also realized the band had a video camera behind us and we probably screwed up their recording by mocking them all night. He asked me if I wanted to get another drink somewhere, and I was like, uh, it's 2am, and everywhere is closing! He didn't realize how late it was. Then he said, "well, I don't know if we're on the same page here, but maybe I can call you sometime." I still laugh at him for this line. I was like, uh, yeah, I would have left hours ago if we weren't on the same page. So cute.
We're not married, although we own a house together, shared finances, and have a 2yo son. So, all but the ceremony I guess!

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