We met at a bar. The one place my mom said you would never meet anyone decent. Actually my best friend ran into his friend and I thought DH was annoying at the time. He was pretty aggressive so I set that straight real quick. After that he grew on me and I love that man more than ever! We dated for 6 years married for 3 this june
Official story is at work. He was there for a meeting and asked me to coffee. This is part true but we also had been chatting online. I didn't have my picture on my online profile and he didn't know I worked there so it was a coincidence, but strange.
Our first date was terrible. I left crying! Then got sick for 3 weeks. The little punk kept calling and texting that whole time so I gave him another chance. I was still sick for our second date but it was great.
After a month I told him I had a song in mind for how I felt about him and he had to guess. The song was "are you gonna kiss me or not" (we hadn't kissed) and he finally guessed it and kissed my in my pantry doorway haha.
Post by rainbowsockmonkey on Jan 23, 2015 22:11:55 GMT -5
Short story is that we met through a mutual friend.
Long story is that he was dating a friend of mine during my senior year in high school. They actually tried to set me up with one of his friends. 3 years after meeting him, he ended up moving in with one of my best guy friends who was having a party and invited me over. We ended spending most of the time talking on the couch. We hung out the next weekend, and stayed up until 6am talking and watching movies, then went target shooting at 10. He asked me out a couple of weeks later, and we've been together for almost 7.5 years, and married for just over 3.
We grew up in the same small town and went to the same preschool together. I already said it, but I need to find the picture of us at our Christmas pageant. We're standing next to each other, and DH is staring at me. We were 3.
We grew up in the same small town and went to the same preschool together. I already said it, but I need to find the picture of us at our Christmas pageant. We're standing next to each other, and DH is staring at me. We were 3.
We've only been together 5.5 years. Friends longer, and acquaintances even longer than that. We started hanging out when we did theater together in high school, but we were both seeing other people at that point.
DH and I met through work in a city where neither of us lived. We clearly hit it off but through a series of misunderstandings, I thought I had just made my new best gay friend! Still, I dumped my then-bf because nobody could measure up to DH (" he's perfect for me, too bad he's gay"). We met up a few times when passing through each other's cities, and always had a great time. Apparently I'm a little slow on the uptake because I didn't realize DH had been pursuing me the whole time. I finally caught on when DH kissed me. We've been together ever since.
I was shopping for my first car and I had an apt with a sales guy. He was so busy with other people at the time I saw a different sales guy that night. When I called the dealership back to talk about a car I liked, I spoke with the original sales guy again. He helped me for two weeks via phone and email to get the car I wanted. Never saw him still by this point but our conversations started getting more personal and less car related... I had an apt to test drive the car with my parents and I was going to meet this guy for the first time. I was so nervous, my Mom was laughing at me! I totally had a crush on a guy i never saw. What if he was 60?!? Gah I was so stressed out! So I finally went, saw him and thought he was SO cute. We went on our first date the day after I picked up my car and been together for 12 years this May. Best new car perk ever
Post by sstwinklinglites on Jan 23, 2015 22:46:34 GMT -5
We met at work. It was love at first sight but neither of us would admit that. I had just turned 19 and he turned 22 within a couple of week of meeting each other. He's the only man I ever dated (I don't count my high school bf because that lasted 2.5 seconds - I was really into school and friends and never focused on having a bf too much). We dated for seven years before getting married. We've been married for three years, so eleven years total.
Post by pinkstarbursts on Jan 23, 2015 22:48:09 GMT -5
We met in Spanish class in high school my sophomore year. DH was new to our school. We ended up dating, but broke up when he went to college in another state. We eventually found ourselves back together five years later, notebook style. That was six years ago.
We were in youth group together in high school, but officially "met" at college. We had hung out in big groups together throughout high school but never really talked to each other. One day I was in the computer lab during a break and he was heading to a class off of the lab, he stopped to say hi, we started talking and he ended up skipping his class to stay & talk to me. We spent the next year or so talking obsessively and hanging out as "friends" like every day. We finally became official the next summer. We've been together almost 7 years now.
We met when we were in college. His fraternity and my sorority were "brother and sister" organizations, and we met at a regional convention. We were walking in opposite directions down a hallway toward different parties, and he turned around and started walking with me. We hung out all weekend and hit it off. We weren't sure if we were going to pursue anything because I am from Massachusetts and he is from Maine, but we finally decided to give it a shot after a few months of texting and talking on the phone.
We commuted back and forth 4 1/2 hours each way to see each other until we got engaged and moved in together in my hometown. I was SHOCKED to learn that there are not street lights in the town he lived in (or many others in Maine). I know that sounds silly, but I am a city girl and that scared the crap out of me!
We met in 2003, our last year in college, when I started working as the assistant manager at the shoe store he worked at. So i've always been his boss. A few months later on Valentine's Day everyone was talking about their plans with their SO, so he asked me if I wanted to hang out. I said sure I've got nothing else going on. He told me he liked me that night. I was still on the fence about him, but he won me over in a few weeks. To this day, and even in his vows, he tells me he's glad I didn't have anything better to do. After graduation he moved back to his little podunk hometown that also has no street lights & I moved back in with my parents. We did the long distance thing for a year before he moved here & we got our own apartment.
DH and I were huge cliches in high school. We actually had the same Jareth/Robert Smith style haircut. He added me and thought I was a dude (real self-esteem booster for a 16 year old girl, right?). He quickly realized I was in fact NOT a dude and messaged me. We started texting and talked on the phone and Stickam (pre-Skype) all the time. Then I decided fuckit, and moved from Minnesota to Oregon to move in with him, probably the dumbest decision I've ever made (we'd never actually met), but I'm glad I made it. We've been together ever since.
We met on match .com. I remember getting his email while I was at work about 2 am on Sunday morning. He was obvs trolling for chicks on a sat night. He's the only man who has ever made me nervous. He was tall, dark and handsome. My perfect match
We met on match .com. I remember getting his email while I was at work about 2 am on Sunday morning. He was obvs trolling for chicks on a sat night. He's the only man who has ever made me nervous. He was tall, dark and handsome. My perfect match
We met on Match.com, too! We saw each other on there for a while because it said that we were a 100% match and thought it was ridiculous. Finally he caved and contacted me and from there it was history. Ahh technology.
Post by Susan0utLoud on Jan 24, 2015 1:44:18 GMT -5
We met at work. He pursued me for 8 months.... asked me out at least once a week, but I wasn't going for it. I thought he was too short. I finaly gave in and told him if he wanted to hang out with me I would be at my office on Sunday doing some work. He showed up and helped me. That was that. We have been together ever since. Moved in together after 6 months of dating, married two years after first date. We'll have been married 5 years this May.
Cute story: During his 8 month pursuit, one time he invited me to a baseball game against the Yankees. He had never been and it was his dream to see the Yankees. I said no and since he had only recently moved here he didn't have anyone to invite so he just gave me the tickets. I took my roommate. He never let me forget that. For our first anniversary (paper anniversary) I bought us tickets to the Yankees/Mariners game.... better seats than the ones he bought way back when!
Long story: Senior year in high school I had my first job at Sears and met DH there. One of his frat brothers got him a job selling appliances there (he's 3years older than me) and I had to a cashier since I was under 18. Once I turned 18 and was of "legal" age, we started hanging out. Just talked at work before that. We weren't really dating, more like friends with benefits for about 4 or 5 months before we actually started telling people we were a couple. Moved in together, then got engaged four months later and married 8 months after that. So I guess we dated for just over a year before we were married. Most of our friends didn't think we would be married long or thought we were getting married too young. I was 19 and he was 22 when we got married, but here we are 6 years later and probably in one of the best places in our relationship.
We were working at the same pub the summer between 3rd and 4th year of university. One of the other girls working there told me on my second day that Joe had a thing for me but it took him all summer to build up to asking me out. When we did finally go out our first date was a series of little mishaps but I still had a great time with him. He's the only guy I've dated for more than 3 months
Post by babybarlow2014 on Jan 24, 2015 6:13:08 GMT -5
Technically in highschool freshman year..1986. We had lots of friends in common, classes. He'd flirt. I found him annoying...lol He dated my best friend after highschool. They broke up. Then in 2009 he friend requested me on FB. We've been together since (like 2 months after friend request...lol). Married since 2010.
We grew up in the same small town and went to the same preschool together. I already said it, but I need to find the picture of us at our Christmas pageant. We're standing next to each other, and DH is staring at me. We were 3.
I met DH while moving into my apartment for my M.A. I had moved from MA to CA to go to school. The apartment was owned by the school (a seminary) for lay students. I was going down the back stairs to take empty boxes to recycling and he's out on his balcony. We make small talk (I thought he was so cute) and he asks me if I need any help. I say that yes, some boxes had arrived for me in the mail today that I couldn't get up the stairs. I didn't tell him they were 70lb boxes of my books...
He finished his degree that fall (M.A. in philosophy) and we started dating at the beginning of February of that year (2006) and we've been together ever since.
Post by mamarazziof3 on Jan 24, 2015 7:46:24 GMT -5
Short story: In high school although we didn't date until after I graduated from college.
Long story: DH is two years younger than me. When I was a junior and he was a freshman we used to pass each other in the hall between classes every day at the same time. I had no idea who he was, but I thought he was cute. One day he randomly smiled at me, and it when on for awhile like that, we would just smile at each other, and then eventually we would smile and say hi. I can still remember going to my next class and telling my friend about the "cute Asian guy" (DH is half Korean) who kept smiling at me. The next year we actually met, but I didn't think it had a chance. I didn't mind that he was a sophomore and I was a senior, but he was one of the "cool" kids- captain of the basketball team, played baseball, etc., and I was very involved in music- band, choir, orchestra, youth orchestras outside of school, music lessons, etc.. I thought there was zero chance he would be interested. Turns out that what I didn't know was that he was actually interested in me, but wasn't going to say anything because I was two years older and he didn't think I would go out with him because he was younger. :-)
I graduated and went to the University of Michigan, and he graduated and went to Taylor University in Indiana. Later on he ended up transferring to a University closer to where we lived, and I had graduated from UM and was going to start my master's degree and teaching license at the same school. I started going to a Bible study at his church and we were reacquainted. We started dating and got engaged a year later, and married five months after that.
DH says he knew I was the kind of girl he wanted to marry the first time he saw me in the hallway in HS. One time on a school trip that we were both going on after we had met and become friends he came and sat with me for a minute on the bus and said, "You have to hear this song! She has such an amazing voice." He put his headphones on me and it was Whitney Houston singing, "I Will Always Love You." He says now that he was trying to drop a hint that he was interested, but it totally went over my head at the time. ;-)
DH and I met at the gym. He was an instructor and I was a student. We officially started dating at my sessions 10 week party, got engaged 9 months later and were married 6 months after that. He later said he had noticed me during class but felt it inappropriate to pursue me while I was a "10 weeker". He decided to attend my session's 10 week party to see if I would show up and we could chat.
Post by BurritosAtEveryMeal on Jan 24, 2015 8:35:02 GMT -5
So many of you have super cute stories! I ordered DH on Match.com. I had just broken up with someone I'd been with off/on for 10 years and all of my roommates were online dating and complaining. I kept saying that it can't be that hard to find someone in a catalog of men! DH winked at me, we texted, then met on a Monday night for dinner for, you guessed it, DH's very first burrito lol. We shut down the place, high fived our goodbyes (since the gentleman didn't want to kiss on the first date) and have been inseparable since. He was the only online date I went on and kept joking that he'd pay the three-month $100 starter fee if we broke up. That was 6.5 years ago. Also, my roommates were annoyed that I only went out with one person and had such good luck. Whoops!
We are another match.com couple and DH is also the first guy that I really dated. He was one of the weekly matches they emailed me so I winked at him, we emailed for a bit then spoke on the phone before deciding to meet in person. We decided to meet at Starbucks for coffee because it was a low time commitment if I wanted it to be. We wound up walking around & talking for quite a while but I still was not convinced that he wasn't some sort of sociopath, murderer so when we were walking to our cars I walked over to a car that wasn't my own so he wouldn't be able to follow my car. I wasn't really paying attention but apparently I walked over to a ridiculously expensive Mercedes so DH was convinced I was a spoiled little rich girl until we wound up going out again. It turns out he's not a sociopath
We met through our jobs but didn't work for same company. I would flirt with him anytime he was in the office. Then after a few years of flirting I asked him out right there in my office. Once the shock wore off he said yes. We knew pretty quickly once we started dating that we'd get married.
Forgot to add that Im 3rd generation to meet spouse through job. Parents met at my mom's job and my grandparents met working together.
+1 more for match.com Although if you ask my parents or anyone in my family, it was a bar. I never thought they would understand so even 9yrs later we still keep it a secret.
Have you seen the movie Waiting? I was the 17 year old hostess and he was the older (22) waiter at the local shitty, cheesy, family restaurant chain (Max and Erma's). This was 11 years ago. Been together since I started working there the summer before my senior year in HS! The movie Waiting came out later and when we saw it, it was so spot on it was scary!!
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