Where did you meet the person you are currently seeing (or SO)?
 

I'm hoping there are some good stories out there? I suspect it's mostly going to be through friends.

We work together.

Ditto the first wife.

I'd bet most people meet either via work or school.

not through friends. I was drunk at a football game.

I was dating her roommate.

a bar.

We used to beat the crap out of each other as pre-teens.

I met my wife in a judo class when we were 11 or 12. She dated, married, and divorced a friend of mine in her teens. We never dated until our 20's.

I met my husband on the internet.

Where else? :)

I met my husband on an online personals site and we've been blissfully happy since the day we met, a little over 4 years ago

On a mailorder bride website. Paid $3000 for her. I would've gone for the $1500 column, but teeth weren't guaranteed. I'm not an idiot. I'd have ended up paying a lot more than that for new teeth.




I met her at a former place of employment. She was temping there, and jammed up the postage meter but good. I happened to be in the same room getting a cup of coffee when I noticed her dilemna. I "unjammed" the machine, and told her that she "owed me". When she inquired as to just what she owed me, I replied; "How about dinner and a movie tomorrow night?" The rest is, as they say...history.

She was best friends with my best friend's ex. The three of us collectively refer to that friend as "Crazy Old Lisa", or COL for short.

Met her, chatted her up for two hours, failed to get the digits. Ran into her at another party about 8 months later, remember her, asked for her number within the first 15 minutes, been together ever since.

I met her here.....

I thought everyone met their wife at a frat party where she was 18 and wearing only a bathing suit.

Live and learn I guess.

I met 2 of my major 3 girlfriends of the past where I was working. The other one I met online, and that was back in high school (98, 99)

Hilarious. I was believing it until the last sentence.

Everything up to this point is the start of a porno. lol

Her grandparents have a cabin on a lake where I worked and played for my formative teenager and early adult life. It was a sizeable circle of friends, but we eventually came to the conclusion that we worked very well for each other and together.

First on the internet, then in front of the 7-11 after which we hung out for 12 hours...

Together for almost 2 years.

My most recent SO, I met on the net, another board that has nothing to do with dating. Strange how so many people met at sites that have nothing to do with "dating"........:orly:

Not surprising or all that interesting, just true. :)

That's where we all met YOUR wife, mate... :paranoid:

First wife - school

Various girlfriends - college, work, through friends etc.

Second Wife - via a messageboard where we took the same line in a long running flame war. (True story)

I met my SO in a bar.

Ha you wish, but I snagged her before classes even started when she was a Freshman, she was too clueless to know she could to better.

Poor thing didn't have a chance.

online dating site.

He had a hideous picture posted and intelligent, hilarious information about himself. Naturally, I decided to screw with him and we ended up "talking" on Messenger for a few weeks about religion and politics. He got me to go out with him by admitting that he was wearing a Snow White costume during one chat... and letting his three year old put the coordinating makeup on him at the time. I thought it was sweet. Met for coffee, ended up doing a walk on the beach, dinner, drinks... 18 hours later, I went home, he went to his home. Four very bumpy years later we're happy and committed.

I still crack up at the look on his face when people ask him how we met.
Especially his coworkers.

Grad school. My roommates (randomly chosen for me) happened to be international students and they hung out with the university's "European" club (though it had people from all nationalities). I went to parties with them, and they were friends with ktspktsp's friends, and eventually we all became friends. After several months, our whole group always ended up doing things together, playing in the snow, going salsa dancing, playing board games, watching movies... it was all very platonic and casual. I joined MSN chat at some point, so ktspktsp and I started chatting ALL THE TIME and, I suppose, starting to fall for each other. :love: There was one really intense week where I had to decide between him and another guy (who ended up being our best man!), :D and then we took the big jump at his 24th birthday party... haven't looked back since. :icare:

Beat me to it.

Prior SO.. through my brother.

Same here!

I dunno why, but I was convinced I had to go to this show downtown. It helped that it was at "my" bar. While there, I ran into a friend I hadn't seen in a long time who introduced me to his on-again, off-again girlfriend. M. in turn introduced me to a table full of good-looking, friendly guys--mostly townies. I sat down, and promptly started talking to the guy to my left, who I had had a philosophy class with. While we were chatting, I was checking out the guy to my right, who seemed very cool and aloof. He had this shaggy hair that hung in his eyes. I seem to recall he was wearing a polo shirt and some kind of necklace, and I thought he seemed interesting. I also noted that he had an enormous nose--I love enormous noses. At some point, my conversation partner offered to buy me a beer, and I agreed. While he was gone to the bar, I took the opportunity to make a few comments about the band on stage to the guy on my right, and to my amazement, he laughed. We started talking, and by the time the first guy made it back with my beer, I had pretty much made up my mind.

To make a long story short, I offered to buy him a Dewars and water over at the other bar I frequented, and he accepted. We've been together for over two years now. Crazy.

^Perfect example of why you never offer to buy a girl anything before you start dating.

Man don't start that mystery method shit here

il: i sometimes think you're the most bitter person i know

met the girl i'm dating now: because we worked near each other. we now work more closely together, which is proving to be interesting.

I'm not bitter in the least. I simply don't see the point in trying to buy a girl's affection before you start dating. If it were me, said exchange would go like this:

I accept any offer to buy me a drink, regardless of sex, and I generally buy drinks for others, regardless of sex. It's not about buying affection or attention. It's about buying alcohol.

Relax. I was only joking >_>

I met my husband through a mutual friend. We all worked for the same company, hubby at a different location, and he transferred to where I was working. It didn't take long after that before we were dating.

#1 At a bar. He was told about 'this chick who looks like a librarian but with a body like a porn star" so he decided to check me out. Asked me for a piece of gum, I showed him the last piece in my mouth, he took it.
#2 Car club chatroom. He saw a photo of me, told me "you ever get out here, you are SO mine". He was right.
#3 At a motorcycle escort staging for a military funeral.

We had a class together.

I met my current SO through work. We were both so lacking of direction that we made the mistake of stretching a 6 or s month job of schlepping books into a several year torture test. We chatted, flirted, and ate lunch together for months - both us seeing someone else at the time. One night I threw myself on her while on the sales floor and we've been together ever since.

Summer camp. We were 12. One boy followed me around for hours, talking non-stop. Would not go away. I went into the girls' bathroom, left him waiting outside, and I sneaked out the door on the other side. I found my friend Terry and asked him to hide me from the guy. I told him I could kill the guy, but then they'd send me home. Terry turned to his friend J and told him to hang out with me and tell the other kid to buzz of if he showed up again. J and I got married 17 years later.

The north pole?

I tried to make it one pixel off center to specify the Northwestern hemisphere.

James and I met through a mutual friend. Now that mutual friend is no longer my friend but somehow still his friend, dunno how that works. (She has a thing for him, and hates me for dating him) Well we met this way...

**Dream Sequence**

On the way to my very first Texas Tech Football game, mutual friend, myself, and two other friends were walking to the very cold, very wet game. On the way to the game we all got splashed by a car. We happened to be by James' dorm, so Madonna calls him up and we all go up to dry off with a borrowed blow dryer. We go to the game, we kick SMUs butt and then we head back to go to IHOP. Madonna invites James to go. I thought he was pretty cute when I first met him, but of course I was a freshman and he was a grad student. I didn't even know if I'd see him again after that day. I also noticed he didn't wear shoes for the first time, lol. But below and hold, I did. So after IHOP we all go back to Madonna and Zanetas room to watch Silence of the Lambs. I remember making a comment about how gross nipple rings were. Of course James was making faces on the inside, since he has a nipple ring. (I've changed my tune since then ;-) )

So of course there comes the flirting and such. We all go to the movies, James drives us because it was cold and kind of not great weather. We go see that movie Accepted. James and I went into the theater alone and I sat on the end and he sat next to me. It turned out everyone sat to the left of James and I sat just next to him, which I liked a lot. I did notice him picking at his toes throughout the movie which was kinda weird lol.

So moving on...

We end up throwing cards at one another and flirting, I asked Madonna for his sn and she wouldn't give it to me. So the next time I saw him, I asked him for it. I had a project where I had to draw threes and needed to take pictures...and he offered to go around campus at night with me and take pictures. I think we ended up actually take one picture, and then hung out on the Double T bench for a long time. It was pretty chilly that night so we ended up cuddling together on the bench. Then we pulled his jacket over our heads and that was our first kiss. And from then on...here we are now.

Pretty cliche...but with details :-p

I felt like writing a lot, plus I like to relive when we first got together.

My last SO, met through a another girl I knew that used to come over our house all the time. Showed up with her in tow, and we spent a month with her glaring at me and me leering at her, ended up talking, and fast friends for 12 years, dated for 1 year, then she decided to fuck some cook she met online.

9 years ago...high school band/orchestra/choir (pick one)

Met first wife on the job, she was a customer.

Ditto with second wife...we worked at the same place.

Met immediately prior SO on an internet dating site. Resulting in a mutually enjoyable, four year relationship, living together the final two years. It was a wonder to both of us that we met without knowing a soul in common, and she was Manhattan born and in residence, and I lived in a 'burb. On our fourth date, we discovered that both our deceased mothers shared the same birthday, and at the time, it seemed less than a random coincidence, as it does now.

Met third, present wife when she was a co-worker at the place where I met first wife.

Present wife and I dated and ended up living together during the summer before I started dating first wife.

Present wife and I split after that summer, and she returned two years later, just weeks before first wife and I planned to wed.

After a tearful good bye, in 1974, present wife and I had no contact for 27 years. I came across her listing on classmates.com and paid to join that site for the privilege of sending her an email via a blind address. Although I had maintained "a thing" for her, throughout our long separation, I still deliberated for seven months before I sent that initial email to her.

While I deliberated, "met on the net" SO of four years was pressing for marriage, but I had taken a bite of the apple, and reluctantly accepted that I had to send that email, or always wonder about what would have happened if I had sent it.....

Third "wife to be" remembered me and immediately and enthusiastically replied to my initial message; we've been reunited for six years, as of this month.

I've married exactly every 14 years. I'm hoping the cycle is now broken.

wow, same here pretty much. not exactly 9 years ago, but close to it.

First Major GF was in school. I dropped out senior year and went to a charter school a year later to finish up. There I met the girl I'd be with for 5 great years. I broke up with her to see what else was out there, she was pushing for marriage and kids..I regretted it and it was hard for awhile but I'm happy where I am. We maintained contact off and on for a bit but last talked at the beginning of this year. She has a couple kids and is married now.

Next GF was someone I met while I was in physical therapy for a work injury. She helped me heal. I don't know why we broke up it just happened one day and We didn't talk for two years and I recently ran into her again and we went to the movies last night lol it was pretty damn awkward but really fun at the same time lol

Next GF I met while drunk off my ass at a bar. I didn't remember her the next day but my friends said she was nice. We went out for a bit, but I realized I didn't wanna settle down with her so we are now just occasional friends with benefits.

Next GF is one of my best friends sisters! I known her for many years but never really talked to her cause she was my friends sister. Ran into her one night at the club and she asked for my number. We talked that night for like six hours on the phone. Great chemistry and had a secret relationship for six months. We both got too attached and broke up cause we both realized that her family would never accept me in that way. She felt that she couldn't stay with me if we had no future. Next family gathering will be fun lol

Haha now I'm just waiting for the next Ms. Right :)

I met my wife in High School. We met in 10th grade. I was going out with a friend of hers for most of the year. She (my wife) was always part of the group i was hanging out with as a result of her relationship with my girlfriend. When my girlfriend and I broke up there was about 3-4 months where I was just hanging around. I got invited to the ex's house one night by my wife. Funny thing was I thought this was an opportunity to get back together with my girlfriend. By the end of the night I was holding hands with the woman that was to become my wife and gave her a kiss good night. That was 1986. We've been together ever since, married her in 1993. 21 years, 2 kids and a pretty good life. I'm happy.

I met my wife while I was pretending to be a vampire. She was a human and I saved her from a pack of roaming gangrel. It was love at first sight. Er, well, lust at least.

After many furious games of RPS, we went to the goth bar where I was strapped up and beaten.

8.5 years later. we've been married for years. we are mostly normal aside from quietly laughing with the emo kids and telling one another how very very cute they are.

Cool story host. I hope the 14 year cycle is over too!

I met my wife in first year University when we were both cast in the same play.