GTKY: How did you and your SO meet?

saltedcaramel518 · July 2018

What’s the story on how you and your SO got together?

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ladystout08 · July 2018

We were in the same unit in the military.

ETA - I was actually sleeping with his best friend but it was super secret because of fraternization rules, the three of us hung out as a group all the time. His friend got sent to his next duty station so now H and I continued to hang out without said friend and here we are.

kaf1788 · July 2018

We worked at the same company and also happened to live in the same neighborhood right at the outskirts of Boston. We got to know each other pretty well on the loooong bus rides home.

emmaaa · July 2018

DH and I met in Kindergarten (actually probably before because we did the same preschool and his BFF was like my third brother growing up - and still is - so we probably crossed paths then). We were good friends all through middle school and high school. I made him go to prom with me Junior year but wouldn't date him because I was going to be gone to Governor's School all summer. We started dating the beginning of Senior year. I totally made all the moves. Sitting on his lap at a field party "because all the chairs were taken" to calling his HOUSE phone to ask for a ride to and from school some days because I had surgery on my shoulder and couldn't drive (even though previously mentioned BFF lived across the road from me and would've taken me).

We've been together almost 10 years now and will have been married 4 in December.

DLpanda08 · July 2018

We met at a mixer between his fraternity and my sorority at the end of my freshman year/his senior year of college. We didn’t talk that night for a variety of reasons, but when I saw him again the following fall at a house party I ended up sitting in his lap and talking/making out all night. He held my hair back after I got sick from all the booze and got me to a safe place away from drunk friends with sharpies when I fell asleep. I woke up to a note saying he needed to leave for work but to please call him because he wanted to see me again. I called and set up a date for a few days later and we’ve been together ever since.

pttomato · July 2018

We were both on the swim team in college. I was reluctant to date anyone, particularly another swimmer, but after hanging out a lot, and a lot of “help” from my friends, I agreed to go on a date with him.

KLS123 · July 2018

We met in college while we were both on spring break in New Orleans. It was St. Patrick's Day and I had dyed my hair green. One of his friends approached our girl group was hitting on one of my friends and DH and I were just chatting/dancing/drinking and watching it play out between the other two all evening. We kissed and exchanged numbers at the end of the night thinking we wouldn't see each other again (we went to school in different states). We continued to talk and text the next day and he had a race in the state I went to school two weeks later and asked if he could see me and take me on a proper date, I said yes. One year long distance dating, one year living together post-grad, engaged, married for 5 years now with our first LO on the way.

skilouise · July 2018

We met on Match when I was in law school. I had been skeptical of online dating, but was even more skeptical of dating another law student, so I decided to give it a shot.

He hadn't logged in to Match for months, but some technical glitch (or fate lol) caused the system to say he had recently been online. He actually had to renew his account to read my message, and thank goodness he did!

Our first date was on a Friday night, which quickly turned into three dates in three days. When I told a friend in class on Monday, her response was "ok, what is this boy's name? Because I'm clearly going to need to know it."

blueowl08 · July 2018

We met on the board of our law school journal (the only good thing that came out of being suckered into that role. It was the worst). We had an instant connection but I was dating someone else and he was newly single after a serious relationship. We ended up not dating until after graduation when we were living in different states. I had just broken up with my boyfriend of 3+ years and flew out to visit him as a fling before my new job. It was never supposed to be serious. We’ve been together almost 7 years and married over 4. Whoops.

UnbreakableKimmySchmidt · July 2018

My friend from college was living in California at the time, she took my now DH's phone one night and texted me. I got the text and promptly deleted it (didn't know the number). I later put two and two together and messaged now DH on facebook, apologizing for deleting his texts. haha! We messaged on facebook for a few weeks, talked on the phone a few times and then I booked a ticket to go meet him.

Figured I could at least hang out with my friend if the meeting didn't go well. Well, it went well and we did long distance for 6 months and then he moved to the Midwest to be near me. We got engaged 6 months after he moved and then married 6 months later. It was a whirlwind and we have a lot of mutual friends from before we got together which is pretty crazy. Have been together 6 years, celebrating 5 years of marriage this fall and Baby #2 is coming in January!

LauraK33 · July 2018

We were in preschool and our moms were a part of the same babysitting co-op...seriously! Haha I grew up best friends with him and two other guys. In high school we started dating after seeing the movie Troy together. We got married during college and have our ten year wedding anniversary coming up in January!

saltedcaramel518 · July 2018

The TL;DR version is that DH was friends with my cousin.

The longer version:

My cousin and DH grew up in the same small community/school/church. When she was in high school, my cousin had the biggest crush on him for years. I remember listening to her go on and on about him.. he didn’t reciprocate her feelings, though.

Fast forward a few years and I went on a church college trip with my cousin. This was when *I* started crushing on DH (my cousin was engaged to her now-husband at this point and over her infatuation with DH), but I didn’t say anything to my cousin because girl code.

A few months later, I was staying with my cousin, and she said (out of the blue), “Would you ever consider going out with DH?” I tried to play it cool and just shrugged and said, “Sure, why not?” She basically set us up and we went on our first date that night.

sweetyjenj · July 2018

We both worked at Target together

We met when I was 16 and he was 19. I had a crush on him from the start, but we were friends for a few months before dating. DH was pretty shy back then, so I made most of the moves. He was really obvious that he liked me, so one day while on break together he was telling me about a movie he bought and I said, "Wow! That sounds good! Maybe we can watch it together?" His face lit up and was excited at the idea. We never did get together to watch that movie, but we did go out to a movie and the rest was history.

katethemom · July 2018

We were in high school marching band together. I was in the color guard, and DH played trumpet. We met when I was a freshman, but we didn't start dating until the next year. DH actually started going out with another girl that I was in color guard with and had no idea I liked him (even though I flirted with him all the time - how oblivious teenage boys can be). When a friend of mine mentioned to him how upset I was when I heard that he was dating this other girl, he broke up with her after they were only "together" all of a weekend. He asked me out while we were riding on the bus together on the way home from our last band competition. We went on our first date 3 weeks later to see "The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie," lol. We've been together now for almost 14 years and married for 7.

mrsmang · July 2018

We met in college. We were in a class together senior year where the professor assigned random groups, and we got put in the same group. We spent a lot of time together for the project, and then started talking more. A couple months later, time to register for spring classes came around and I asked if he would want to take another class together the next semester with the same professor, which was basically a semester long team project. He agreed and we started talking even more. A week or so after that he asked me out on our first date. We moved in together right after graduation, and then got engaged and married a few years later. We’ve been together 6.5 years now, and married 1.5 of those.

CoastieGirl79 · July 2018

We were both in the Coast Guard, I'm out now and DH is still in, but assigned to different units. Our jobs had us cross paths during a change of command ceremony and the rest is history.

alexandraseattle · July 2018

I have to first say that I love reading all of these!!

We met on Match.com. We were each other’s first (and last) match date. A six hour amazing first date turned into many more. Next month will be 5 years together and 1 year of marriage.

achays11 · July 2018

@katethemom your story is almost identical to my ILs!! They’ve been married 32 years.

MH and I met at a country bar. He was working security and I was there to dance. We were friends for about 6 months before we started dating because he had a girlfriend and I didn’t really look at him that way. This September will be 7 years together, five of those married, and this is baby #3. We work fast!

drabong88 · July 2018

We both worked at Jcpenney! I was a senior in high school and he was a junior in college ( I think, there is a 4 year age gap) we did some heavy flirting but that was it for a while. He didn't ask me out for about a year. I was dating some terrible guy and luckily hanging with DH made me realize how terrible my then boyfriend actually was. We have been together for around 11 years and will be married for 4 in november!

I should mention that everyone we worked with warned me to stay away from him, as he had a bit of a reputation. His nickname was "the store whore" lol. So when we first started seeing each other I never thought it would be anything serious. I guess you just never know.

sareej521 · July 2018

Mutual friends thought we would be a good fit and introduced us. We didn't start dating for a while but would dance and talk whenever we would see each other out. He always would tell me to look him up the next time I was in the area and I finally got the balls to get his number from the friends and make the first move! That was 10 years ago now and we've been married for 6

libertymomrn · July 2018

I was a roller-blading car-hop at Sonic during High School and for about a year afterwards during my first year of college. My husband worked for his dad’s construction company and was building a house near the Sonic where I worked. He came in for lunch one day and I brought him his food. He noticed me, but didn’t ask me out or even do or say anything of note that day. He didn’t come in after that because they were finished the job they were doing not too long after that. He went on to date another girl for a few months, and had just recently broken up with her. He and his best friend were at their favorite burger place (not Sonic) commiserating about women and dating. His friend mentioned “You know, you’ve brought up this ‘Sonic Girl’ several times in the last few months. If she’s still in your head, let’s drive there and see if she’s working.” They did and the only reason i was working was because I had agreed to pick up a shift for a girl so she could go to her prom (I was graduated at this time and I’m my first year of college.) He hadn’t really thought through how he was going to see if I was working as he didn’t even know my name. However, he had parked right next a very similar car that had just asked for some extra spoons and I took them to the wrong car, walking right up to his window. He said, “I don’t need any spoons. Actually, the only reason I came here was to ask you out.” I kind of thought he was just dropping a line, but his friend leaned over and said, “He’s telling the truth. He was here 6 months ago, and I convinced him to come here again.” I generally had a rule against giving my number out at work. You’d be surprised at the number of weirdos who ask carhops out. However, there was something different about him. I gave him
my number and almost immediately second guessed myself. He called a couple days later, and my dad had me ask what church he went to. My dad then looked up his bishop (like a minister or congregation leader) online and called the bishop to ask about him and if the bishop thought he was a good guy before he was okay with my dating him. I was only 18 at the time, and still a pretty naive girl, and had an over protective dad.

We went out and and immediately hit it off. 3 months later we were engaged and 3 months after that we were married. We’ll celebrate our 16th wedding anniversary later this year.

wkuandrea · July 2018

we met on Match! Both of us had tried it on and off over a few years, been on a lot of first dates, just never hit it off with anyone. I kept trying because I had several friends that had met their SO's online. I was at the point in life that I had started the process of having a baby on my own -- just needed to pull the trigger on a sperm donor, but had put it off for a few months. Luckily DH and I found each other (no sperm donor needed, AND I get a best friend and partner)! I wasn't sure about him being more than a friend on our first date, but he was persistent and by the end of our second date, we both knew that this was it. Of course it's one of those tales that we have a lot of mutual friends despite having grown up in completely different cities, then living in different parts of the country (and a 6 year age difference). Dated for about 9 months before getting engaged, married 4 months after that. We'll be married a year in September, and of course are expecting our first baby in January

parentingishard · July 2018

DH was my RA in college. Broke some rules but it all ended well!

julesf817 · July 2018

I met my husband the old fashioned way, at a bar. He was out with his buddies, one of whom had recently been broken up with. Their plan was to show newly single guy how fun being single was. DH came up to my friend and I and made a joke. I thought he was hilarious, my friend thought he was a jerk. We spent the rest of the night together. I called him that following Monday and invited him to a Celtics game, which was our first real date. A week later he brought me to a family party and I remember seeing him hold his baby cousin and thinking “I’m going to marry him.” That was 9 years ago and we’ll be married 6 in August. My friend who didn't like him and I drifted apart haha.

greenhillgirl · July 2018

We worked together at the same museum but different departments. We were friends for a year and a half and he liked me but I thought maybe he just wanted to hook up and we just stayed friends. He was always the one I would go to with work problems for support and advice. I ended a toxic relationship and was single for almost a year and then I finally agreed to go out with him. We made ourselves late to our first date talking on the phone and at the end of the night we walked to the park. He told me a lot of history of his life and that he wanted to get married and have kids and thought that wouldn't happen (43 yrs old then) but now he saw it was a possibility with me. He wanted to make sure I was on the same page. I was and we have been a couple for 5 years and married for 3 years. He claims when he saw me on the elevator at work for the first time I was wearing a green dress and he knew he wanted to marry me, he just had to be patient.

DLpanda08 · July 2018

@drabong88 I am cracking up so hard at your H being known as the “store whore”!

My DH’s nickname was “grandpa” in his fraternity because he didn’t ever go out. His brothers still tease us about the party where we got together because he hadn’t been to a party in months before the one where I practically jumped him.

sarahsaurus-2 · July 2018

We met through an online video-game. He was working night shifts at the time, and I was in school with a lot of afternoon/evening classes. I pulled a lot of all-nighters that semester (since I could get away with a nocturnal schedule) to work on my projects for art classes. Him and I would message eachother and keep eachother company since we both were awake in the middle of the night.

molosmiles · July 2018

I love reading these!

There was a local music festival so my coworker and I tried to get a few people from work to go together. A few people showed up, and my coworker brought her brother. We hit it off right away. We both joke around and talk a lot of shit so we were just cracking up and drinking beers. By the end of the night I grabbed his phone and text myself from it. I realized the next morning that I didn't have the text I sent myself. So drunk me added way too many digits. He wasn't sure if I did it on purpose or not. He tried to figure out what my number was and to find me on Facebook. However, I didn't do Facebook at the time. In a couple days he finally mentioned it to his sister as a joke how I gave him the wrong number. So she brought it up to me and I said that I definitely meant to give him my number. So he told his sister to give me his number. I'm not a take charge kind of girl so it took me a few days to text him but we hit it off and moved fairly quickly from there! We totally consider the day we met as our anniversary, lol

BitterBetty12 · July 2018

This was so much fun to read!

H and I are high school sweethearts. We met at the beginning of his freshman (my junior) year. We really connected in the spring of that year when we went on a Model Congress trip together. From there we became BFFs and spent basically all of our time together (and a ton of time messaging on AIM of course). In the fall of my senior year I told him I had feelings for him and he gave me the ‘I don’t want to ruin our friendship’ talk. I was a bit pissed because I knew he did have feelings for me. After that we both dated a couple of different people. Broke up with them. Went to my prom together. Etc. Then one night he kissed me and then said ‘we can’t do that again’. Then a month later we did it again. He eventually told me his true hang up was that I was going away to college and he didn’t want to hold me back. But we started dating anyway. And 10 years later the rest is history.

rooonilwaazlib · July 2018

We were set up by our best friends! We were supposed to meet back in Feb or March but she was a cigarette smoker at the time, and when I heard that I immediately said no -- gross! Then we briefly met later that May in a big group of friends, but I could only stay for a few hours. We chatted and flirted online/phone for the next few weeks. She was away on vacation with her family, and we just kept chatting. We were supposed to meet up for the LGBT Pride Parade in NYC when her friend flaked out on her so she didn't come. I teasingly texted her and said if we can't get together after this then it's basically a lost cause. We went out a few days later and the rest is history! Today is actually the 9-year anniversary of us becoming "official" girlfriends! We've been married for 3 years (this past April) and now a babe on the way. Our 10-year anniversary is going to be pretty dang special next year.

kns1988 · July 2018

We met at church camp when I was 9 and he was 11, and he was my first crush. I tracked him down in college. We got married at the camp, and now he runs it

Jackiemxoxo · July 2018

DH was actually one of my best friend's roommates. I heard about him all the time but I didn't meet him because he was deployed a lot. I started hanging out at my best friend's house one summer after a horrible breakup. DH was there too and eventually we started hanging out. I love how we have the same best friends now but it sucks because they live far away due to us moving (Navy). We celebrate 10 years married next year.

LCRbelle · July 2018

These were all a lot of fun to read!
My husband and I met through an online iPhone game! It’s so crazy to think about because the odds of us finding each other the way we did are so small. I was just getting out of an awful marriage and dating was the last thing I was thinking about. We started talking one day and never stopped! We met each other in person about six months after we first started talking then I moved across country for us to be together six months after that.

merostomata · July 2018

These make me happy

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We met at our college study abroad program to Kenya and Tanzania. (We did technically know each other before then too, from similar friend groups!). We got pretty close as friends pretty quickly through the trip, and hung out all the time, both alone and with a few other close friends. He was always the realest though and talking with him really helped me through some hard times I had. I have some precious memories of us staying up late by the Indian ocean beach and smoking crappy pot, talking about life! About halfway through the trip during our 1 week break we kissed...which turned into major making out, etc... (drinks were involved). We were a little unsure what to do about the other for the next few days, but then we ended up holding hands under the sunset and continued through the trip, keeping things under wraps. When we got back home for the next semester we kept up our relationship and did it 'for real' in the open. We moved in together after graduating, moved states, had some good times and the rest is history! About 9.5 years together now and 2 married!

sfgiantsgamerbabe · July 2018

We met in college sophomore year through a mutual friend. We actually had the same friends for over a year and never met. I had a class with his roommate and he even took a girl on my freshman hall to the winter dance. DH and his roommate were hosting a small super bowl party at their on campus apartment and our mutual friend invited me. We started off as friends because I was hung up on some guy I worked with. Fast forward a couple of months and I was over Jerky McJerkface and DH and I had our first date. We went to dinner and ice skating. We got engaged in December of our senior year and got married the following September. Our wedding pictures are funny because we look like we should be going to prom. We were 22 when we got married. We’ll be married 11 years in September!

jandd2014 · July 2018

These are all so sweet.

DH and I met on a band field trip in 7th grade. (Technically we also went to preschool together for a few months but neither of us remembers meeting then.) We were together all of 8th grade, went to different high schools, dated for a few months senior year before I left for college, then ended up being just friends for a year or so at the end of college again. Finally got together for a real grownup relationship seven years ago and been married for four years.

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