It was a really random blind date. DH worked summers during high school and became good friend with his boss. His boss was at a family get together and was talking about DH. The bosses SIL said he sounds perfect for a friend of mine. One day I get a call from a college friend I hadn't spoken to in at least a year. She says I have the perfect guy for you, he lives in MD (I was in NYC at the time) but is going to be visiting his grandparents in NJ this weekend, and wants to take you out on a date. I figured, what can it hurt, one afternoon. Well over the course of the next 4 months, he ended up visiting his grandparents a lot.
We were camp counselors together. We first met when I was 17 and he was 19, but he already had a girlfriend so I just had a huge crush on him. The next summer, we got together on my 18th birthday. 13.5 years later, here were are
Me 31 DH 34 TTC #1 5/13 BFP #3 5/2/14 DD born 1/19/15 NTNP #2 8/17 BFP 12/13/18 ED 8/21/19
We met at work. I’m an EMT and he’s a paramedic. He was married and I was engaged so we were just friends for years. His marriage ended because his ex was cray, but I was happily with my fiancé. He met a girl and got engaged. Then my relationship ended with my fiancé, but he was happy with his fiancée, so we stayed friends. Then, his relationship ended and it was the first time we were both single at the same time in the 5+ years we had known each other and he asked me on a date. I knew then that I would marry him. He proposed 4 months later and we were married 2 months after that! We are beyond happy in love and we’ve been married for almost 5 years.
Also match.com here! Our 5 year dating anniversary is Feb 10!
I almost didn’t go on the date because I was super far away and work had been cancelled for the day due to broken pipes. My cousin convinced me to go so I did. I was nearly an hour late (I am never ever late to anything) but he waited. I knew on our first date that this was a guy I could spend forever with but we were both commitment phobes. We dated for a year before we said I love you and really realized how much we loved each other.
Dating app 🙈 which I know is so not a big deal, but I lied to everyone at first about how we met and now it’s 5 years later and I don’t think I can tell them the truth!
@dogmomma096, I did too!!! I said through friends because, then, it was culturally so weird to say an app and I was so young. Now it’s not a big deal but I can’t really go back. My friends know but my family thinks otherwise.
College Halloween party. He walked me back to my dorm and asked for my number (he literally got a cell that day, shows how old we are!). The next day he called and we have been together every since - 15 years this year together and 10 years of marriage!
In a bar. I don't care if none of y'all believe me, but it was love at first sight. I noticed him as I was coming down the stairs of the bar and he noticed me and we walked straight up to one another and started talking. We went on our first date that next week (a baseball game WITH A RAIN DELAY, so it was like a 6 hour date) and have been inseparable ever since.
We lived in neighboring towns our whole lives but had never met. A friend of mine invited me to a party in the next town over. Little did I know it was a total redneck party literally in the middle of public land way way far out of that other town. I'm talking beer, bonfire, guns, dirt bikes, big trucks lol. I remember looking across the fire and seeing this handsome blue eyed guy. We started talking and never stopped. He dropped me off at my car the next morning and asked for my number. He thought it was fake (it does look fake) but my phone was dead and I had no way to prove it. I had been dating a sheriff deputy so I left him a voicemail breaking it off. I invited the new guy to a local race track for their Wednesday Night Drags which was 4 days after we had met for the first time. He asked me to be his girl friend that night. We said "I love you" 12 days into the relationship. We moved in together 6 months later. It always felt right so we just went with it. The only thing we didn't rush into was children. We have been together 10 years this April and married for 6 years this August. Now we are having a baby!
We still have the tickets from the night we started dating.
I was in undergrad and taking a Chem lab class and DH happened to be my lab TA. There was some subtle flirty throughout the semester but as soon as the semester was over, we pretty much spent all our time together. We've been together almost 12 years and married for 8 years.
Me: 31 DH:35 Started TTC in June 2014 Started seeing RE in June 2015 HSG in July 2015 = normal, started Clomid/Ovidrel/IUI cycle in August 2015 Cycle #3 in October afforded 1st month of mature follicles - underwent IUI BFP on 10/27/15 - EDD 7/8/16 DD#1 born on 7/1/16
TTC #2 in September 2018 BFP on 12/2/18 - EDD 8/16/19
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We met on a big group date in college, but we were there with other people. We both ended our relationships a few weeks after that, then ended up having a bunch of mutual friends and spending more time together. I started very casually dating another guy in our friend group, but MH quickly talked me out of that and we ended up together We've been together for eight years now and our five-year wedding anniversary is in March.
@AKuzReve I always just said we met in a bar, which I know sounds fake. But I NO JOKE was out at a bar with a friend the same weekend I started talking to H, and I met a guy with the same first name as my H and we exchanged numbers. Nothing came of the guy from the bar (literally never texted after that night) and I don’t think H would appreciate that part of the story, but it’s totally possible that I could’ve met my real H in the same way! My mom has always been skeptical.
DH and I literally ran into each other on the street in 2006. I was living in a college town and he was at a nearby military base. We went on a few dates but I had been dating someone else and that relationship progressed faster so we casually stopped seeing each other. 2 years later he was walking down the street on crutches and my roommate offered to give him a ride. When he got in the car, we recognized each other. Were still dating other people, but a few weeks later I got dumped so I texted him and asked him to take me out. He broke up with his girlfriend, took me out, and we've been together ever sense. Together 11 years, will be married 9 this year.
We had a mutual friend and a bunch of us got together to go bowling, his friend brought him and we talked (ignoring everyone else) the entire night. We were young, and we didn't exchange phone numbers or anything, so naturally I stalked my friends AIM and Myspace until I found him and messaged him. We only messaged on AIM and he thought I liked him for a long time (bc of the effort I put in to find him again), but I had a boyfriend on and off and then he got a girlfriend. One day he didn't have a girlfriend anymore so I went to his house and it was history after that. We have been together for 14 years on 2/10/05, married for over 4.
Me 32 H 33 TTC#1 January 2016 BFP 5/16/2016 DD Born 1/27/17
Work. He was married so we were just friends then I heard he got divorced and he asked me out and I turned him down. I didn’t want to be the rebound lol. 6 months later he had kept being persistent and I went over to his house to watch a football game and basically never left!
MH and I were in the same lab in grad school. Started dating after working together 3 months. Engaged just over a year later and married the following year. If you can work with someone 10+ hours per day in grad school and enjoy it, marry that person.
We met in high school, but through friends (he didn't go to my same high school). We hung out a lot, but I never liked him as more and he didn't either. We both were in typical high school, "Love you forever, break up every other day" kind of relationships. I went away to college, we started dating summer before sophomore year, so I transferred back home, everyone said I was crazy, but here were are over ten years and three kids later so I guess it kind of worked out!
That said, I don't recommend it! We married very young and had a lot of growing pains in our 20s. We were both committed to making it work, but we came very, very close to divorce at one point. We are happier than ever, but young marriage is not easy.
DH and I have known each other since elementary school, and went to school together through high school. We hung out in the same circles and were always pretty close friends, but both of us were always dating other people. We went out for DH’s 21st Birthday, both happened to be single, and hooked up. We’ve been together ever since, 13 years together, and this year will be 8 years married.
My friend was dating his friend. They were batshit crazy. But one night me and my friend made cupcakes to bring over the her boyfriend's house. And H was there just hanging out. My friend and his friend went upstairs and so me and H got into a silly "argument" about whether the igloo shaped dog house was called an igloo it a dogloo. He later told me it was just so he could keep talking to me.
Both his friend and my friend wanted to break up with each other but we convinced them not to so that we could meet up again. So the day after next we went back over to his friends house and made out under the ping pong table. Then we fell asleep, and the next day he came saw me at work. And the following day we we're basically loving together. And the week after that I found out he was 17 lol. I was 19 so it isn't like a crazy age difference or anything, but he was still a senior in high school, and I was a sophomore in college. So naturally I did the most logical thing and went to prom with him.
my favorite story to tell about the night we met is my friend's sister was getting married. And I said that of I ever got married I would never changed my name. And her boyfriend said "good luck trying to find someone to marry you then." And lo and behold, I met the man I'd marry that night. And I didn't change my name. And we've been married since July 2012 and in March we will have been together for 10 years.
Teeechnically we met when we were really little. Our Dad's both worked for the same company and both families always went to the work children's Christmas party. So we met then. But he didn't speak English, and I didn't speak French. So we didn't really interact 😂
So we officially met at Work. I was in on overtime, and he came in to relieve us (we are paramedics). I stayed after shift and we chatted for an hour. Even though I had plans. Neither of us wanted to date someone at work though. So he never asked for my number, and I left without his. But by the time I got to the grocery store, he had found me on FB through a coworker and messaged me. After a few messages I got annoyed with the difficulties of FB messaging and said "here's my number .you can use it if you want to". Later he told me he had it all worked out and was planning to give me his # in 3 more messages. Haha silly men!
The first time I met H was at a piano bar. I was with my boyfriend and he was on a date with my best friend. I didn’t think anything about. Fast forward to a year later (I was single) and I was complaining to my best friend and another guy friend that there were no good single guys left. My guy friend said that his twin brother would be perfect for me. It turns out that the twin was my best friend’s date from the piano bar. She agreed that he’d be perfect for me. So we all hung out at the piano bar and the rest is history. We’ve been together for 12 years and married for 6.
@dogmomma096@AKuzReve I’m the same!!! 🙈 my H and I met on eharmony— we both signed up for a free trial with a friend— but this was 2010 and we were embarrassed to have done online dating once we were actually together so we told everyone we met at a bar! Now there’s no turning back, it’s been farrrr too long lol
Add me to the list of met online...back in 2010 before it really took off. I was too embarassed to tell people so most people think we met through mutual friends.
My 28 year old sister really wanted to get married and start a family in her early to mid 20s. She has not met Mr. right yet but she still lives with her parents and aside from work, or a few things with family she NEVER leaves home. People suggest online dating to her but she refuses because she is a hopeless romantic. Spoiler alert: your prince charming will not arrive at your front door on a horsedrawn carriage.
11/2010 Diagnosed with PCOS
10/31/11 M/C at 9 weeks 1/12/13 DD was born 4/9/16 DS was born 9/17 CP 6/23/18 BFP EDD 3/4/19
Online here too. We planned on meeting up for coffee and gelato, but the place had closed when we got there. We tried another restaurant, but they were closed, too. So we went to a bar. We dated for about a month and a half, not super serious and he broke up with me. A week later, we started hanging outalmost every day as just friends, and dated other people. About 6 months later, he told me that he wanted us to be together. Here we are, 6 years later. In October, we'll celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary and we have our beautiful daughter and a new LO on the way!
I met him the first week of college. We hung out in the same tight-knit party friend group based out of our dorm for years, but dated other people. He waited out a serious relationship of mine and then went for it, the summer before my senior year (he had already graduated). I was a little worried it was a rebound for me, but here we are 16 years later, had our 11th wedding anniversary a couple of months ago.
I tell people we met through mutual friends. It’s kind of true but really I dated one of his friends briefly. The guy I dated was definitely not right for me but I liked his friends so I kind of stayed in the friend group. DH broke up with his then gf around the same time. We got to know each other better and realized we had a lot in common and started dating. Eta - we’ve been together a little over 5 years and married 4 this May.
We were roommates first. There was always one of us in a relationship. There was an Alicia Silverstone moment, “Wait a minute. I love Josh” for me, but it really wasn’t the right time. We exchanged a kiss and then I had to take off to travel for a few years. At some point during my travels, he became single and fell in love with me. He waited for a year to tell me until I broke up with a guy. When that time came, we decided to meet in another state to spend two weeks together. We’ve known each other for 13 years, together for 8, and married for almost 7. There’s nobody else I’d ever want to do life with and I still get excited when I hear his motorcycle pull up. Short version.
People think we become mothers when we give birth but the truth is we become mothers the moment we start calling our babies to us in our thoughts, dreams and prayers. Some paths are short and some are so long that you can easily forget where you were headed.
How I feel all of the time. My 7 Year Journey ***Tw in spoiler***
IVF IVF #1 - September 2018; Follistim, Menopur, Cetrotide & Lupron/HCG combo trigger; PGS; ICSI Back on Levothyroxine FET #1 - October 2018; cancelled, all PGS aneuploid FET #1 - November 30th, transferred anyway Wondfo BFP 5dp5dt, CB Digi 6dpt, 1st Beta on 7dpt 93 2nd Beta on 10dpt 510!
TTC #1 since 2011. Tried for 5 years before we knew there was a one year rule. Diag w/MS 2016; w/PCOS & IF 2017 New RE 2018; PCOS diagnosis taken away, IF due to ovary adhesions, but prev. RE insists PCOS IF
IUI IUI #1 July 2017 w/100mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts IUI #2 October 2017 w/50mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts IUI #3 February 2018 w/5mg Femara+trigger; low P BFP February; mc March; Subclinical hypothyroid started Levothyroxine IUI #4 March 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN Medicated cycle & TI April 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN Tried several cycles on our own; all BFN
I love how many of you met online! Add me to the list --- H & I met on Plenty of Fish in 2008, ha! I wasn't really taking the online dating thing very seriously, but my sister did some pushing and he was the first & only guy I met in person. I liked him right away!
@suzycupcake I love that you are still excited when you hear his vehicle. I feel the same way. My heart skips a beat when I hear his truck at the end of our driveway. It just makes me so happy to see him again! We have been together almost 10 years so I think that says a lot about the quality of the relationship.
@lilmamabebe3 I so agree with your "young marriage is hard" sentiment. We were 22 and 23, so not as young as some, but our early 20s were REALLY tough.
We met through a common friend. We had crossed each others paths on nights out but it wasnt until our friend made an effort to hook us up together that we really start talking. We dated for about 9 months, got engaged and married within 6 months and have been happily together for over 6 years now.
I also met DH at a bar—a piano bar—one that is so douchey that no one believes us. On Halloween no less. I didn’t want to go out but my friend guilted me into going since she was sure she was graduating from grad school that summer and it would be our last Halloween together. DH’s roommate was hitting on another friend and I started talking to DH as a good wingman. We spent the rest of the night talking, drunkenly singing along to the piano music and I think maybe playing arcade games (the bar also has an arcade and batting cages—it’s real classy). Then went to get cheese fries at a nearby 24 hour caf/diner. While eating said cheese fries he confessed he lied about his age by 3 years so I’d take him seriously (I’m 3 years older than him and he somehow sensed I would have walked away if I knew he was younger. Which is 100% accurate). I think I got into a cab at 4 or 5am and I had a really good feeling about how it was going to go—though it certainly wasn’t all smooth sailing. We’ll have been married for 6 years in July and together for 10 years on Halloween which I can’t really believe.
We met in college at a party. My friend dragged me along because she was dating his friend. We talked a lot but didn’t exchange numbers or anything. 2 weeks later, we ran into each other at the bus stop. He didn’t usually take the bus, but for some reason did that day. We talked some more and then I added him on Facebook that night. He messaged me, asked for my number and then called me and asked me out on a date. We’ve been together 12 years and married for 5.
I went to watch a intramural softball game because our law school mentor invited our whole group. I saw MH playing shortstop and immediately decided I would pursue him. I told my friends that I was obsessed with his jungle gym arms and wanted to climb them. HA. We had a rocky year or two and finally got together for good after I graduated law school. We've been married 3 years and together almost 9.
We met at a country bar -- with line dancing and mechanical bulls! I approached him because he's 6'9 and gorgeous. The funny thing is that both of us were out with random friends that neither of us EVER went out with before or after that night.
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Re: GTKY: How did you and your SO meet??
One day I get a call from a college friend I hadn't spoken to in at least a year. She says I have the perfect guy for you, he lives in MD (I was in NYC at the time) but is going to be visiting his grandparents in NJ this weekend, and wants to take you out on a date.
I figured, what can it hurt, one afternoon. Well over the course of the next 4 months, he ended up visiting his grandparents a lot.
TTC #1 5/13 BFP #3 5/2/14 DD born 1/19/15
NTNP #2 8/17 BFP 12/13/18 ED 8/21/19
I almost didn’t go on the date because I was super far away and work had been cancelled for the day due to broken pipes. My cousin convinced me to go so I did. I was nearly an hour late (I am never ever late to anything) but he waited. I knew on our first date that this was a guy I could spend forever with but we were both commitment phobes. We dated for a year before we said I love you and really realized how much we loved each other.
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We still have the tickets from the night we started dating.
Started TTC in June 2014
Started seeing RE in June 2015
HSG in July 2015 = normal, started Clomid/Ovidrel/IUI cycle in August 2015
Cycle #3 in October afforded 1st month of mature follicles - underwent IUI
BFP on 10/27/15 - EDD 7/8/16
DD#1 born on 7/1/16
TTC #2 in September 2018
BFP on 12/2/18 - EDD 8/16/19
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DH and I literally ran into each other on the street in 2006. I was living in a college town and he was at a nearby military base. We went on a few dates but I had been dating someone else and that relationship progressed faster so we casually stopped seeing each other. 2 years later he was walking down the street on crutches and my roommate offered to give him a ride. When he got in the car, we recognized each other. Were still dating other people, but a few weeks later I got dumped so I texted him and asked him to take me out. He broke up with his girlfriend, took me out, and we've been together ever sense. Together 11 years, will be married 9 this year.
Me 32
H 33
TTC#1 January 2016 BFP 5/16/2016 DD Born 1/27/17
TFAS: BFP 11/26/2018 Estimated due date: 8/2/2019
We met in high school, but through friends (he didn't go to my same high school). We hung out a lot, but I never liked him as more and he didn't either. We both were in typical high school, "Love you forever, break up every other day" kind of relationships. I went away to college, we started dating summer before sophomore year, so I transferred back home, everyone said I was crazy, but here were are over ten years and three kids later so I guess it kind of worked out!
That said, I don't recommend it! We married very young and had a lot of growing pains in our 20s. We were both committed to making it work, but we came very, very close to divorce at one point. We are happier than ever, but young marriage is not easy.
Both his friend and my friend wanted to break up with each other but we convinced them not to so that we could meet up again. So the day after next we went back over to his friends house and made out under the ping pong table. Then we fell asleep, and the next day he came saw me at work. And the following day we we're basically loving together. And the week after that I found out he was 17 lol. I was 19 so it isn't like a crazy age difference or anything, but he was still a senior in high school, and I was a sophomore in college. So naturally I did the most logical thing and went to prom with him.
my favorite story to tell about the night we met is my friend's sister was getting married. And I said that of I ever got married I would never changed my name. And her boyfriend said "good luck trying to find someone to marry you then." And lo and behold, I met the man I'd marry that night. And I didn't change my name. And we've been married since July 2012 and in March we will have been together for 10 years.
So we met then. But he didn't speak English, and I didn't speak French. So we didn't really interact 😂
So we officially met at Work. I was in on overtime, and he came in to relieve us (we are paramedics). I stayed after shift and we chatted for an hour. Even though I had plans. Neither of us wanted to date someone at work though. So he never asked for my number, and I left without his.
But by the time I got to the grocery store, he had found me on FB through a coworker and messaged me. After a few messages I got annoyed with the difficulties of FB messaging and said "here's my number .you can use it if you want to".
Later he told me he had it all worked out and was planning to give me his # in 3 more messages. Haha silly men!
My 28 year old sister really wanted to get married and start a family in her early to mid 20s. She has not met Mr. right yet but she still lives with her parents and aside from work, or a few things with family she NEVER leaves home. People suggest online dating to her but she refuses because she is a hopeless romantic. Spoiler alert: your prince charming will not arrive at your front door on a horsedrawn carriage.
1/12/13 DD was born
4/9/16 DS was born
9/17 CP
6/23/18 BFP EDD 3/4/19
My 7 Year Journey ***Tw in spoiler***
IVF #1 - September 2018; Follistim, Menopur, Cetrotide & Lupron/HCG combo trigger; PGS; ICSI
Back on Levothyroxine
FET #1 - October 2018; cancelled, all PGS aneuploid
FET #1 - November 30th, transferred anyway
Wondfo BFP 5dp5dt, CB Digi 6dpt,
1st Beta on 7dpt 93
2nd Beta on 10dpt 510!
TTC #1 since 2011. Tried for 5 years before we knew there was a one year rule.
Diag w/MS 2016; w/PCOS & IF 2017
New RE 2018; PCOS diagnosis taken away, IF due to ovary adhesions, but prev. RE insists PCOS IF
IUI
IUI #1 July 2017 w/100mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #2 October 2017 w/50mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #3 February 2018 w/5mg Femara+trigger; low P
BFP February; mc March; Subclinical hypothyroid started Levothyroxine
IUI #4 March 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Medicated cycle & TI April 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Tried several cycles on our own; all BFN