You guys are all so cute, and I love your stories!!! Love titting like a mad woman over here!
AFM: H and I met through my neighbour and my parents, as fun as that sounds! I had just left my previous college and planned to move to Virginia Beach because I loved the atmosphere and everything I experienced while there with my brother and his ex-wife. But, I wanted to join the military first, so I was doing my damnedest to lose weight and get in shape finally.
Well, one day my mother decides she wants to go for a walk with me when I would normally be jogging. So we start on our walk and she notices that the next door neighbor has a strange car in front of her house, and that it's parked kind of haphazardly (we're on a dead-end side road, so not unusual, but the neighbor had just had someone break in like two months prior). So she stopped in to make sure that everything was okay, and there's this cute guy in her house (H), and we get this whole back story about how he was dating her niece, and her niece trashed his house and stole his mail and wasn't giving it back. So she was going to drive with him to her brother's house to meet this niece/his ex-GF and get his mail from her. And he comes out of the house and I'm an awkward 19 year old and I didn't utter even one word other than talking to my dog because that's what normal people do when cute guys are around!
So we continue our walk, and they leave, and then a week later my father comes home telling me that they ran in to our neighbor and H was at her house, and my mother was going to go hang out with this neighbor and wanted me to go with her so I could meet H. (AKA: my parents were trying to set me up) So I'm still an awkward person and say heck no, so my mother goes to the neighbor's house and hangs out for a couple of hours, and when she comes back she gives me this guy's (H's) number! And I'm anti-phone, so I'm not calling him, so my mother calls H and tells him I'm shy and won't call him first, and gives him our home number and my cell number, to make sure we can talk no matter what.
So he calls me the next day because he doesn't have a home phone and no cell service at his house, and we talked for hours on the phone, and decided to go on a date at the end of the week. But, he works every day but Monday, so our first date was literally us watching Batman Returns on BluRay at his house and then him dropping me back off (we lived 10 miles apart, on basically the same road) at home.
And I feel like the rest is history. Our second date was also semi-awkward, but by the third date it was like we'd known each other for years, and he was bringing me to meet his grandmother (who was the most important person in his life parent-wise), and a year later he proposed. We got married in 2014 the day after our 2-year anniversary from our first date. Needless to say, I didn't end up joining the military, and I also did not move to VB!
And the only wedding picture I have of just us on this computer, apparently:
I love these! Everyone looks so happy and beautiful.
DH and I don’t have an exciting story really. We met in college through friends and were friends for a couple years before we started dating. I had super casually dated a couple of guys in our friends group (ahh, I’m that girl) when we started just chatting more on AIM. Which lead to us hanging out one on one. We had one sorta date/hang out then I went home for Easter and dislocated my knee pretty badly. My mom had to drive me back to Orlando to pick up stuff and DH came over to check on me. My mom was all “Ooh that guy is someone you should date” but I was still unsure. Well we hung out a lot more when I came back to school and the rest is history. We’ve been together 11 years and married for 5.
Eta MH and I met on my 16th birthday. A week later I left to spend 5 weeks studying abroad. We emailed often over those 5 weeks and when I came back we were inseparable. A year later at 17 (and 1 week before our 1st anniv) my father suddenly died. MH drove me to the hospital that night and never left my side through the memorial and services. Years later I asked him why he stayed. At 17 it was a lot and leaving would have spared him. He said it never once occurred to him.
We went to different colleges and spent 3 years living apart, sometimes on different continents. We stayed together. Did the long distance thing. At the end of it we backpacked Europe for a while and came back to the US to figure out the rest of life. Still working on it.
We dated 8 years before getting married and we've been married 9. Time is flying. We've spent more than half our lives together.
I have struggled with understanding so much in life, but not this. Somehow at 16 I just knew. That being said, we do have a few rules we live by and annual check-ins on the state of the relationship. As funny as it sounds, the reality is we aren't the same people we were. Life is weird and messy and confusing... you ladies know. Fortunately though we've grown together. Added bonus we have some hilarious photos of us from our teen years which are always a hoot at family gatherings.
All these photos!! Can't wait until we finally decide to set a wedding date!
SO and I met in July of 2013 through a mutual friend. I was helping her pick up some patio furniture from him. We were both seeing other people so there was no interest at first. Fast forward to May of 2014, he was on the outs with his GF, I was casually dating a guy. He had a Memorial Day BBQ and after a LOT of beer and flirting, we realized what was there. He broke go with the GF and we started talking more.
What closed the deal for me was he brought me a coffee to my job...that he had to Google the address for because I wouldn't give it to him! We went on a mn official date and the rest is history! We had DD in Feb 2016 and he proposed on her first birthday in 2017 and second DD is due in June of 2018!
We are in the process of opening a business so were hoping the wedding will happen sometime next year! He didn't have a big wedding the first time around, so its really important to him this time.
I love all of these stories and pictures! My internet friends are hotties!
My SO and I met at work about 6 years ago. We worked in different departments. I knew name and face, but nothing else. We never talked. We had a company outing at a baseball game and he spilled his beer all over me. Now he likes to claim it was all part of his strategy, but he was absolutely mortified that day.
I was just in the process of getting out of a dead end relationship and he was too. His more drama than mine, so the timing wasnt right. Every other week, a large group of people would go out after work and he told me I should come one week. I never went to those things, but agreed. The first time we both just talked about our crappy situations and how we could relate to one another. As I got to know him over the next couple months, I knew I was in trouble. After a few months of group outings, one night we sat in his car and talked until the sun came up the next morning. We continued to do that pretty often until he finally kissed me in the car, as if we were 16. My first words after that were, "what took you so long?" I knew it was something special after realizing he brings out something in me that no one else ever has. I went from a shy, introverted, not very social person (which I still can be) to someone who enjoyed going out, and doing things I wouldn't normally do. He made me see life differently. I wanted to really experience it. There could never be 2 people more opposite, yet so similiar we scare each other sometimes.
Weve been together for 5 years now and the rest is kind of history. Our company didn't have a policy on dating internally, but there are definitely some funny stories there on how it all transpired.
While my commitment to my relationship is a permanent one, I don't have a really strong desire to get married, probably due to family history, experiences, etc, but you all look stunning on your wedding days! Maybe one day I will change my mind, but for now here's a pic of us at someone else's wedding. Long story on the baseball hat, but I was actually 2 weeks pregnant here and didn't know it.
@becca_123 SO and I are the same height when I'm not in heels, so he's shorter than I am sometimes. I agree; you get over it fast and it becomes normal.
@amys614 One of my closest friends says she got married in a "moment of weakness" because they were in a long committed relationship with kids and had no desire to actually get married. Family persuaded but she says she would have been perfectly happy forever without.
DH and I went to school together starting at age 12, but didn't really notice each other until senior year of high school. He asked me to prom, and we dated for that angsty, all-too-brief summer between the end of high school and start of college. We broke up the night before I left for school.
The next 7 years were full of drunk dials and half-fledged attempts to get back together, but it wasn't until I moved to NYC to start practicing law and he was established in Phoenix that we found ourselves both single, back home for Christmas, and just enough scotches deep to say "screw it, let's do this." We dated long-distance for a year-and-a-half (soooo many red-eye flights and sleep deprived weekends, y'all) and then packed up our lives and both moved to Houston, where we've been (mostly) happily building a life since.
My DH and I met my first semester in college. We were both in ROTC together and we were sitting in the ROTC section at a college football game. Apparently he made a comment to one of his friends about me and they (very noticeably) shoved him down the bleachers so he had to stand next to me. Then he sat there and didn't say a word. Very awkward. At one point in the game everyone was booing and I didn't know what happened. I leaned over and asked and he answered and we never stopped talking.
I was very hesitant to pursue this relationship. I was 18 and he was 26. He had two kids and an ex wife. Somehow all of that was pushed to the side and we became really good friends and then started officially dating about two months after we met. We have been together ever since.
We were in the same town for the first 2 years of our relationship and then we did long distance of and on for the better part of 3 years. We got married on our five year anniversary and we have been married for four years. SS1 15, SS2, 13, DS1 3 and DD expected in June.
Short version - DH and I met in a bar. We're now married and have 2 kids with one on the way.
Longer version - I was 24 and he was 29 and in the band (drummer). Turns out one of my friends knew DH from their high school days, so DH came to our table during his breaks. At the end of the night our mutual friend asked me what I thought of DH. I said he was okay, but I was sick of the dating game and wasn't really looking. He asked if he could give DH my number if he was interested. I said "sure, why the hell not." He then returned to the bar where DH was tearing down his drum set and gave him my number.
5 days later DH called and asked me on a date. 6 years later he proposed. We married after an 18 month engagement. Married in 2012, DS1 arrived in 2013 and DS2 in 2014. Now DS3 is due. DH and I have been together over 13 years total.
First Son - born 2013
Second Son - born 2014 - Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) and Double Outlet Right Ventricle (DORV). First open heart surgery at 5 days old. He's had 3 open heart surgeries and several other procedures and is currently doing amazing. Third Son - due June 9, 2018
This is one of my favorite threads. I love reading all your love stories and seeing the photos. I agree with whoever said, I feel like we are "real friends" now seeing your faces.
AFM: Hubby and I met online. I was super hesitant about signing up for a dating site, but we joined within a week of each other started talking then dating and had cancelled our accounts a couple weeks later. He was a student at the time and lived about 40 minutes away but he worked weekends at the the same mall where I was working at the time. Its so funny how these things work out sometimes.
We started dating in January 2012, got engaged December 2013 and married September 2014. We are opposites in so many ways: he's an introvert, very easy going, super smart and interested in science and technology where I'm an outgoing big time planner with anxiety and am more interested in arts and pop culture. But he's my best friend and I couldn't imagine being with anyone else. He's also 11 months younger than me and likes to call me a cougar *eyeroll emoji*
One funny story about my wedding: I got my first, and hopefully only, black eye the day before the wedding. I was playing with my 2 year old nephew the day before and somehow he bonked his head right into my eye. It was a serious shiner - blue/purple and swollen. Thank goodness for airbrush makeup, you mostly couldn't tell by the wedding. Here are a few pictures I grabbed off Facebook (I only bump on my phone and no good pics on here)
@katelynrae86 Great pics! Just FYI, it looks like your full name may be on the middle one. Not sure if you care, but in case you missed it, I wanted you to know.
@LaceyBee522 Oh jeez, how did I miss that? The sad thing is, I realized the arrows were on the sides after I took the screenshot but somehow missed my name across the middle of the photo...wow. Thanks for letting me know!
What incredibly fun stories, gorgeous dresses, and lovely ladies! I am amazed at how many of you all met online! I have never met anyone in real life who met their SO online, so this was really fun for me to “hear” about!
AFM, I was starting a new job as a bartender at Buffalo Wild Wings while going to college. We still to this day disagree about who sat down next to whom, but I truly believe that he (this old, fat, and ugly guy as I described him later to my BFF) sat down next to me during the first night of training. We started hanging out with the same crew, since not a ton of people were awake and wanting to hang out around the time that we all got off of work around 2 in the morning. We both love board and card games, as well as Texas hold ‘em, and would stay up all night hanging out and playing games and drinking...eventually, we both just kind of knew.
I think most people have moved away from board games and card games...anyone else here or just me that is silly excited to brainwash my kids into loving rummy?!
We dated for three years before he proposed on a white water rafting trip in the Grand Canyon. We got married six months later. It’s been nearly ten years since we got married, and we have three daughters, 5, 3, and 2 years old. Baby boy will complete our six pack!
Not it sure how these will upload from my phone so I apologize if they are enormous!
,. *edited to add a question and detail for my question!
Just catching up on this, I love everyone's stories and pics!!
We met during our last semester of college. We had mutual friends but had never crossed paths until then. We hit it off pretty much right away and started dating in April 2012. I was skeptical to get involved at first because who starts dating right before graduation? Glad I changed my mind :P We graduated in May, then had the summer living close to each other. He was ROTC in college so in October he moved to go to his first training school. We were long distance for the next 3 years while we both moved for work/Navy and he went on deployment for 6 months. Finally in June of 2015 I moved to where he was and we got engaged. We were married in April of 2016 and shortly after he went on another deployment. Now we're on shore tour and so glad to have tons of time together and baby 1 coming soon
@meg95995 - I LOVE cards and games as well. Shortly after I started dating DH I asked if I could crash guy's night and join them in playing texas Hold'em. That was our weekly thing for years. We hardly play anything anymore, but DS1 is 4.5 and I've brought out Candyland and Memory. I'm looking forward to more advanced games with the whole family.
First Son - born 2013
Second Son - born 2014 - Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) and Double Outlet Right Ventricle (DORV). First open heart surgery at 5 days old. He's had 3 open heart surgeries and several other procedures and is currently doing amazing. Third Son - due June 9, 2018
@becca_123 lol I watched my brother play that a ton! DH has played a ton of various Call of Duty games but he stopped because it gets him too amped up.
DH and I met in 2010 - I had seen him around town and always did a double take (which I rarely do) - it really was love at first sight. We met at a design/arts event and he added me on Facebook but I saw he had a girlfriend and was like cool that’s the end of that. Fast forward a year later in 2011 and I saw him the same night at two different places - my favorite restaurant and favorite dance spot (which turned out to be his favorite spots too). The next day he messaged me on Facebook to ask me out which is weird because he claims he didn’t see me the day before, he just decided to ask me out if the blue but maybe his subconscious was working overtime. He had broken up with his girlfriend a few months before but I hadn’t been stalking him so I had no idea. We went on a picnic date and pretty much knew within the first few weeks that we were totally in love. We have so much weird stuff in common (like making up silly songs and liking the same really bad 80s movies) and we finish each other’s sentences. I loved how relaxed, generous and easy going he was (is) especially compared to my crazy ex. We got engaged a year later and married a year after that in 2013.
Weird side note. A few years before we met my friend told me I should meet her cute duplex neighbors who liked to play Rock Band. I declined as she had really weird taste in guys and had tried to set me up with weirdos before. Turns out it was my future husband and his best friend. We laugh about that now. I’m glad we both had a few extra years to mature before dating.
Some wedding pics. We got married at his grandma’s horse ranch:
@meg95995 I am all about card games and board games, but DH sadly is not*. My birthday's coming up, and every year I request a game night instead of a boring-ass party. This year, I have Speak Out, Scattergories, and Left Right Center on the schedule. *Although, a year or two after we started dating and I was still living at home, he would play Sorry with me and my little brother for hours. We would drink and listen to Kanye West and Twista on repeat. Good times.
Yay @kfren and @mytinc!! I try to get a game night going every few weeks. No poker in years, as we have too many kids to go out anymore. But, candy land, memory, and guess who are big guys with my 5 and 3 yo. They’re starting to get jealous of the adults playing games without them so they have more motivation to learn.
@meg95995 We love games! When H and I get to send DD to her grandparents for an overnight every now and then, we sometimes like to stay in an play Scrabble and have drinks at home! My family is also UNO obsessed! DD was totally into it this year at Christmas so we played round after round. She's also into the classics (Candyland, Hi Ho Cherry O!, Chutes and Ladders, etc.) and some new favorites too (Pop the Pig!).
My DH and I met in April 2008 at a party which happened to be at his parents house (they were gone) and I asked him to chug a beer with me lol, real classy. We officially started dating in May 2008; we are high school sweethearts. I assumed our relationship would not last as he was leaving the entire summer (June - August) to live with his Dad in Washington state (we live in midwest). We talked on the phone daily until he came home in August 2008 and we have been together since!
We got engaged in December 2013. He took me out to dinner at our favorite place and then on a horse drawn carriage ride through the park. We stopped in the park and walked up to a beautiful white gazebo where he proposed. We got married on June 7, 2014 in the church we both grew up going to and also where my parents and grandparents were married as well! We will be together 10 years in May and married 4 years in June. Our first baby together is due June 22!
Sorry if the photos are huge or don't show up correctly; i am a mobile user and I don't know all the tips and tricks.
26 y/o FTM (biologically)
1 Child - Son - 9 y/o Married - DH 27 y/o BFP: 10/13/17 EDD: 6/22/18
I love reading all of these stories! It also amazes me how many in this group met their SO's so young!!
I met my H during a college fraternity party (in 2002!). I was a junior and he was a sophomore. I knew of him previously because he was a friend of a friend but we never interacted. He approached me during the party and asked for my lollipop - I said no. He then asked for a kiss - I again said no. I walked away and watched him with another friend as he stood their perplexed because he was so sure that something would work. We ended up hanging out at the party the following weekend and were inseparable shortly thereafter. We did long distance for a year after I graduated before he moved in with me. We got engaged in 2006, married in 2007 and DS was born in 2015.
I'm going to have to hunt down photos since I got married pre-iPhone, pre-Facebook!
My husband and I are the least traditional couple around. He is a literal 20 years older than me (feel free to make jokes, we've heard and laughed at them all ). We met online and honestly tried to stay away from each other for so long but just couldn't. I know he's going to die before me but the years we've had together and will have are SO worth it. He has two daughters that are 20 and 22, I love them dearly.
Everyone's stories are so sweet, and I love all the pictures!
MH and I have technically known each other forever. My grandpa hired his dad for his first and only job, and they were friends for about 35 years (until my grandpa passed away). We grew up about 2 blocks from each other and went to the same schools, but he was 3 years ahead of me in school. So when I was a freshman, he was a senior. He claims he had a huge crush on me but was afraid to say anything. We never hung out but crossed paths a few times over the years, and local bars and such. He was always very quiet, but says it's because he was to afraid to talk to me, which I think is hilarious.
In 2012/2013, I was going through a very long, stupid divorce. He friended me on FB one day and I remember thinking....he must think I'm a different person, I doubt he knows who I am? He says he saw me comment on a mutual friend's post and almost passed out because he just knew it was me (I only had my first/middle name at that time on my profile). He messaged me about playing tennis or getting coffee sometime, and my awkward self was like "I can only be friends, I'm in the middle of a divorce". LOL. We chatted once in awhile and met up a few times, and he was a super gentleman. We found we had a ton in common between music, shows we liked, general outlook, etc. When my divorce finalized, we basically started dating right away. Some people thought this was super weird, but I had been in a terrible relationship forever, and we were separated officially for a year before the divorce and we had not really been in a relationship for quite awhile, so I see nothing wrong with it.
We dated about a year and got engaged on NYE at a small concert in which the guitarist of our favorite band was playing with our friends' cover band. He brought us on stage and he proposed on stage. It was a great night. We got married in August 2015. The same cover band (sans the guitarist from the actual band) played at our wedding. We pretty much started TTC right away since we are a little older, can't believe it took 2 years! He's my best friend and we are so excited for our little girl.
I haven’t posted to much yet, other than pgal and ultrasounds, so it’s been fun to see all these beautiful stories It’s funny that Dh and I did not meet sooner. We were constintly in the same circles but seemed to miss meeting each other for most of our teenage years. Until one night we met at a bar with mutual friends. He ended being my fake boyfriend to save me from a creepy ex. He came back to my place as just a friend and I said we were watching transformers whether he was wanted to or not.. We spent the next 7 months together, almost everyday. But didn’t seem like he was at the same place I was and we parted ways.
4 months later we crossed paths again, he came to drop of a frying pan and I introduced him to my puppy. and we realized what a mistake it was and got back together. We’re celebrating 10 years together, 8 year anniversary and 2 with one on the way this year. Edit to add photos
Re: GTKY: You and your SO!
AFM:
H and I met through my neighbour and my parents, as fun as that sounds!
I had just left my previous college and planned to move to Virginia Beach because I loved the atmosphere and everything I experienced while there with my brother and his ex-wife. But, I wanted to join the military first, so I was doing my damnedest to lose weight and get in shape finally.
Well, one day my mother decides she wants to go for a walk with me when I would normally be jogging. So we start on our walk and she notices that the next door neighbor has a strange car in front of her house, and that it's parked kind of haphazardly (we're on a dead-end side road, so not unusual, but the neighbor had just had someone break in like two months prior). So she stopped in to make sure that everything was okay, and there's this cute guy in her house (H), and we get this whole back story about how he was dating her niece, and her niece trashed his house and stole his mail and wasn't giving it back. So she was going to drive with him to her brother's house to meet this niece/his ex-GF and get his mail from her.
And he comes out of the house and I'm an awkward 19 year old and I didn't utter even one word other than talking to my dog because that's what normal people do when cute guys are around!
So we continue our walk, and they leave, and then a week later my father comes home telling me that they ran in to our neighbor and H was at her house, and my mother was going to go hang out with this neighbor and wanted me to go with her so I could meet H. (AKA: my parents were trying to set me up)
So I'm still an awkward person and say heck no, so my mother goes to the neighbor's house and hangs out for a couple of hours, and when she comes back she gives me this guy's (H's) number! And I'm anti-phone, so I'm not calling him, so my mother calls H and tells him I'm shy and won't call him first, and gives him our home number and my cell number, to make sure we can talk no matter what.
So he calls me the next day because he doesn't have a home phone and no cell service at his house, and we talked for hours on the phone, and decided to go on a date at the end of the week. But, he works every day but Monday, so our first date was literally us watching Batman Returns on BluRay at his house and then him dropping me back off (we lived 10 miles apart, on basically the same road) at home.
And I feel like the rest is history. Our second date was also semi-awkward, but by the third date it was like we'd known each other for years, and he was bringing me to meet his grandmother (who was the most important person in his life parent-wise), and a year later he proposed.
We got married in 2014 the day after our 2-year anniversary from our first date.
Needless to say, I didn't end up joining the military, and I also did not move to VB!
And the only wedding picture I have of just us on this computer, apparently:
Me: 30 | DH: 34 | DSS: 14 | DS: 4
PG #2, EDD 10/12/2023
DH and I don’t have an exciting story really. We met in college through friends and were friends for a couple years before we started dating. I had super casually dated a couple of guys in our friends group (ahh, I’m that girl) when we started just chatting more on AIM. Which lead to us hanging out one on one. We had one sorta date/hang out then I went home for Easter and dislocated my knee pretty badly. My mom had to drive me back to Orlando to pick up stuff and DH came over to check on me. My mom was all “Ooh that guy is someone you should date” but I was still unsure. Well we hung out a lot more when I came back to school and the rest is history. We’ve been together 11 years and married for 5.
I hope these aren’t huge (mobile posting)
Eta
MH and I met on my 16th birthday. A week later I left to spend 5 weeks studying abroad. We emailed often over those 5 weeks and when I came back we were inseparable. A year later at 17 (and 1 week before our 1st anniv) my father suddenly died. MH drove me to the hospital that night and never left my side through the memorial and services. Years later I asked him why he stayed. At 17 it was a lot and leaving would have spared him. He said it never once occurred to him.
We went to different colleges and spent 3 years living apart, sometimes on different continents. We stayed together. Did the long distance thing. At the end of it we backpacked Europe for a while and came back to the US to figure out the rest of life. Still working on it.
We dated 8 years before getting married and we've been married 9. Time is flying. We've spent more than half our lives together.
I have struggled with understanding so much in life, but not this. Somehow at 16 I just knew. That being said, we do have a few rules we live by and annual check-ins on the state of the relationship. As funny as it sounds, the reality is we aren't the same people we were. Life is weird and messy and confusing... you ladies know. Fortunately though we've grown together. Added bonus we have some hilarious photos of us from our teen years which are always a hoot at family gatherings.
Driving our Austin Mini on our wedding day.
Husband: 35
Married: June 2007
Son Max born 1/10/17
BFP #2: 10/5/17; EDD: 6/11/18
SO and I met in July of 2013 through a mutual friend. I was helping her pick up some patio furniture from him. We were both seeing other people so there was no interest at first. Fast forward to May of 2014, he was on the outs with his GF, I was casually dating a guy. He had a Memorial Day BBQ and after a LOT of beer and flirting, we realized what was there. He broke go with the GF and we started talking more.
What closed the deal for me was he brought me a coffee to my job...that he had to Google the address for because I wouldn't give it to him! We went on a mn official date and the rest is history! We had DD in Feb 2016 and he proposed on her first birthday in 2017 and second DD is due in June of 2018!
We are in the process of opening a business so were hoping the wedding will happen sometime next year! He didn't have a big wedding the first time around, so its really important to him this time.
Here is our very first pic together!
My SO and I met at work about 6 years ago. We worked in different departments. I knew name and face, but nothing else. We never talked. We had a company outing at a baseball game and he spilled his beer all over me. Now he likes to claim it was all part of his strategy, but he was absolutely mortified that day.
I was just in the process of getting out of a dead end relationship and he was too. His more drama than mine, so the timing wasnt right. Every other week, a large group of people would go out after work and he told me I should come one week. I never went to those things, but agreed. The first time we both just talked about our crappy situations and how we could relate to one another. As I got to know him over the next couple months, I knew I was in trouble. After a few months of group outings, one night we sat in his car and talked until the sun came up the next morning. We continued to do that pretty often until he finally kissed me in the car, as if we were 16. My first words after that were, "what took you so long?" I knew it was something special after realizing he brings out something in me that no one else ever has. I went from a shy, introverted, not very social person (which I still can be) to someone who enjoyed going out, and doing things I wouldn't normally do. He made me see life differently. I wanted to really experience it. There could never be 2 people more opposite, yet so similiar we scare each other sometimes.
Weve been together for 5 years now and the rest is kind of history. Our company didn't have a policy on dating internally, but there are definitely some funny stories there on how it all transpired.
While my commitment to my relationship is a permanent one, I don't have a really strong desire to get married, probably due to family history, experiences, etc, but you all look stunning on your wedding days! Maybe one day I will change my mind, but for now here's a pic of us at someone else's wedding. Long story on the baseball hat, but I was actually 2 weeks pregnant here and didn't know it.
@becca_123 SO and I are the same height when I'm not in heels, so he's shorter than I am sometimes. I agree; you get over it fast and it becomes normal.
And oh yeah, baseball games are still our thing
DH and I went to school together starting at age 12, but didn't really notice each other until senior year of high school. He asked me to prom, and we dated for that angsty, all-too-brief summer between the end of high school and start of college. We broke up the night before I left for school.
The next 7 years were full of drunk dials and half-fledged attempts to get back together, but it wasn't until I moved to NYC to start practicing law and he was established in Phoenix that we found ourselves both single, back home for Christmas, and just enough scotches deep to say "screw it, let's do this." We dated long-distance for a year-and-a-half (soooo many red-eye flights and sleep deprived weekends, y'all) and then packed up our lives and both moved to Houston, where we've been (mostly) happily building a life since.
A few wedding pics below!
My DH and I met my first semester in college. We were both in ROTC together and we were sitting in the ROTC section at a college football game. Apparently he made a comment to one of his friends about me and they (very noticeably) shoved him down the bleachers so he had to stand next to me. Then he sat there and didn't say a word. Very awkward. At one point in the game everyone was booing and I didn't know what happened. I leaned over and asked and he answered and we never stopped talking.
I was very hesitant to pursue this relationship. I was 18 and he was 26. He had two kids and an ex wife. Somehow all of that was pushed to the side and we became really good friends and then started officially dating about two months after we met. We have been together ever since.
We were in the same town for the first 2 years of our relationship and then we did long distance of and on for the better part of 3 years. We got married on our five year anniversary and we have been married for four years. SS1 15, SS2, 13, DS1 3 and DD expected in June.
TTC: 08/2017 EDD: 6/11/2018 FTM
Longer version - I was 24 and he was 29 and in the band (drummer). Turns out one of my friends knew DH from their high school days, so DH came to our table during his breaks. At the end of the night our mutual friend asked me what I thought of DH. I said he was okay, but I was sick of the dating game and wasn't really looking. He asked if he could give DH my number if he was interested. I said "sure, why the hell not." He then returned to the bar where DH was tearing down his drum set and gave him my number.
5 days later DH called and asked me on a date. 6 years later he proposed. We married after an 18 month engagement. Married in 2012, DS1 arrived in 2013 and DS2 in 2014. Now DS3 is due. DH and I have been together over 13 years total.
First Son - born 2013
Third Son - due June 9, 2018
AFM: Hubby and I met online. I was super hesitant about signing up for a dating site, but we joined within a week of each other started talking then dating and had cancelled our accounts a couple weeks later. He was a student at the time and lived about 40 minutes away but he worked weekends at the the same mall where I was working at the time. Its so funny how these things work out sometimes.
We started dating in January 2012, got engaged December 2013 and married September 2014. We are opposites in so many ways: he's an introvert, very easy going, super smart and interested in science and technology where I'm an outgoing big time planner with anxiety and am more interested in arts and pop culture. But he's my best friend and I couldn't imagine being with anyone else. He's also 11 months younger than me and likes to call me a cougar *eyeroll emoji*
One funny story about my wedding: I got my first, and hopefully only, black eye the day before the wedding. I was playing with my 2 year old nephew the day before and somehow he bonked his head right into my eye. It was a serious shiner - blue/purple and swollen. Thank goodness for airbrush makeup, you mostly couldn't tell by the wedding. Here are a few pictures I grabbed off Facebook (I only bump on my phone and no good pics on here)
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AFM,
I was starting a new job as a bartender at Buffalo Wild Wings while going to college. We still to this day disagree about who sat down next to whom, but I truly believe that he (this old, fat, and ugly guy as I described him later to my BFF) sat down next to me during the first night of training. We started hanging out with the same crew, since not a ton of people were awake and wanting to hang out around the time that we all got off of work around 2 in the morning. We both love board and card games, as well as Texas hold ‘em, and would stay up all night hanging out and playing games and drinking...eventually, we both just kind of knew.
I think most people have moved away from board games and card games...anyone else here or just me that is silly excited to brainwash my kids into loving rummy?!
We dated for three years before he proposed on a white water rafting trip in the Grand Canyon. We got married six months later. It’s been nearly ten years since we got married, and we have three daughters, 5, 3, and 2 years old. Baby boy will complete our six pack!
Not it sure how these will upload from my phone so I apologize if they are enormous!
Who asked who out first? I made my sister set us up.
How long have you been together? It was 17 years on January 13th (married for 15 years).
We met during our last semester of college. We had mutual friends but had never crossed paths until then. We hit it off pretty much right away and started dating in April 2012. I was skeptical to get involved at first because who starts dating right before graduation? Glad I changed my mind :P We graduated in May, then had the summer living close to each other. He was ROTC in college so in October he moved to go to his first training school. We were long distance for the next 3 years while we both moved for work/Navy and he went on deployment for 6 months. Finally in June of 2015 I moved to where he was and we got engaged. We were married in April of 2016 and shortly after he went on another deployment. Now we're on shore tour and so glad to have tons of time together and baby 1 coming soon
DS born 9/24/2020
First Son - born 2013
Third Son - due June 9, 2018
Weird side note. A few years before we met my friend told me I should meet her cute duplex neighbors who liked to play Rock Band. I declined as she had really weird taste in guys and had tried to set me up with weirdos before. Turns out it was my future husband and his best friend. We laugh about that now. I’m glad we both had a few extra years to mature before dating.
Some wedding pics. We got married at his grandma’s horse ranch:
*Although, a year or two after we started dating and I was still living at home, he would play Sorry with me and my little brother for hours. We would drink and listen to Kanye West and Twista on repeat. Good times.
We got engaged in December 2013. He took me out to dinner at our favorite place and then on a horse drawn carriage ride through the park. We stopped in the park and walked up to a beautiful white gazebo where he proposed. We got married on June 7, 2014 in the church we both grew up going to and also where my parents and grandparents were married as well! We will be together 10 years in May and married 4 years in June. Our first baby together is due June 22!
Sorry if the photos are huge or don't show up correctly; i am a mobile user and I don't know all the tips and tricks.
Married - DH 27 y/o
BFP: 10/13/17
EDD: 6/22/18
I met my H during a college fraternity party (in 2002!). I was a junior and he was a sophomore. I knew of him previously because he was a friend of a friend but we never interacted. He approached me during the party and asked for my lollipop - I said no. He then asked for a kiss - I again said no. I walked away and watched him with another friend as he stood their perplexed because he was so sure that something would work. We ended up hanging out at the party the following weekend and were inseparable shortly thereafter. We did long distance for a year after I graduated before he moved in with me. We got engaged in 2006, married in 2007 and DS was born in 2015.
I'm going to have to hunt down photos since I got married pre-iPhone, pre-Facebook!
ETA photo
MH and I have technically known each other forever. My grandpa hired his dad for his first and only job, and they were friends for about 35 years (until my grandpa passed away). We grew up about 2 blocks from each other and went to the same schools, but he was 3 years ahead of me in school. So when I was a freshman, he was a senior. He claims he had a huge crush on me but was afraid to say anything. We never hung out but crossed paths a few times over the years, and local bars and such. He was always very quiet, but says it's because he was to afraid to talk to me, which I think is hilarious.
In 2012/2013, I was going through a very long, stupid divorce. He friended me on FB one day and I remember thinking....he must think I'm a different person, I doubt he knows who I am? He says he saw me comment on a mutual friend's post and almost passed out because he just knew it was me (I only had my first/middle name at that time on my profile). He messaged me about playing tennis or getting coffee sometime, and my awkward self was like "I can only be friends, I'm in the middle of a divorce". LOL. We chatted once in awhile and met up a few times, and he was a super gentleman. We found we had a ton in common between music, shows we liked, general outlook, etc. When my divorce finalized, we basically started dating right away. Some people thought this was super weird, but I had been in a terrible relationship forever, and we were separated officially for a year before the divorce and we had not really been in a relationship for quite awhile, so I see nothing wrong with it.
We dated about a year and got engaged on NYE at a small concert in which the guitarist of our favorite band was playing with our friends' cover band. He brought us on stage and he proposed on stage. It was a great night. We got married in August 2015. The same cover band (sans the guitarist from the actual band) played at our wedding. We pretty much started TTC right away since we are a little older, can't believe it took 2 years! He's my best friend and we are so excited for our little girl.
@bearmoons - I love your awkward response.
@ashleymar1e - if he can pull off a french braid age does not matter
It’s funny that Dh and I did not meet sooner. We were constintly in the same circles but seemed to miss meeting each other for most of our teenage years. Until one night we met at a bar with mutual friends. He ended being my fake boyfriend to save me from a creepy ex. He came back to my place as just a friend and I said we were watching transformers whether he was wanted to or not.. We spent the next 7 months together, almost everyday. But didn’t seem like he was at the same place I was and we parted ways.
4 months later we crossed paths again, he came to drop of a frying pan and I introduced him to my puppy. and we realized what a mistake it was and got back together. We’re celebrating 10 years together, 8 year anniversary and 2 with one on the way this year.
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