Where/How did you meet your significant other?
 

The opportunity to meet someone that ends up being more than "just someone" is very special, and I assume in many cases the initial meeting is very memorable.

That being said, where and how did you meet your significant other?

In my cousin's apartment building in Ottawa, Ontario. My cousin was having a get together. She was there, and I knew she was going to be there. I introduced myself, asked some general questions about where she was from, thought she was cute... We hooked up for a date at Timmy Ho's a day later... and the rest was history...

My first contact with my wife was online chatting. She was looking through AOL profiles, and thought I sounded "nice". That makes me think, what if my profile was done differently? Who would I be with if anyone?

Anyway, we chatted for awhile, then fell out of touch for a few months. Out of the blue we started talking again. We finally met eachother in the fall around Thanksgiving. My parents were out of town, and she lived about 2 hours away. (I lived in West Bend, WI, and she resided in Green Bay, WI) Her parents were away as well, so I drove to see her, the longest and farthest I had ever been from home on my own at the time, and met her at her house. I stayed the night, (nothing more than some good fooling around going on there) and we have been together ever since. For a year we would drive to see eachother alternating who came to visit who, and we never missed a weekend together. We were engaged a year after that.

In all honesty?

On BMEzine.com.

We were "introduced" by a mutual friend who thought we'd get along, and we were acquaintances and talked once in a while for about 7 months. After a death in my life, we got closer, and met up in December. The sparks were flying everywhere, and we were official as of January 2nd. On February 19th he proposed, and the rest as they say is history.

In the last 13 months, the longest we've gone without talking is 3 days.

My husband and I met at a bar. It was 10 days after I got out of a bad, serious 2 year relationship. I was only looking to have a good time. That night we stayed out real late, closed the bar in fact. Fooled around alot. Never expected to hear from him. I would not even give him my number. His friend exchanged his/mine phone # with my friend. He called me 2 days later. We would talk for hours and hours. Did not have an official first date for about a month, but we kept meeting up at the same bar. A little over a year later, we were engaged. We have now been together for 14 years, married for 11 1/2.

My sisters best friends, roomate. I drove them to the airport a few times... then finally my sister played matchmaker. And now we have been happily married for 20 months.

My wife and I used to beat the crap out of each other in a Judo class. Lost touch with her for a few years and ran into each other at a wedding. We went home together and have been together ever since.

Met at a frat after party. However didn't know anything about her until her friend helped us unite and now we are moved in together.

Weird, I was recently considering starting this exact thread.

I met my girl in a jacuzzi. :D

Now I'm intrigued......

We lived in the same apartment complex. I was taking out the trash one night and noticed a lovely lady in the jacuzzi by herself. So I returned to my apartment, changed into a suit, went to the jacuzzi, got in and introduced myself. We hit it off right away and spent 4+ hours chatting in the jacuzzi that night. I looked like a raisin by the time I got out. We met there again the next week and spent another 4+ hours in there chatting. We've been together ever since.

The God's honest truth? Catholicsingles.com, but we usually just tell people we met at church.

And, in fact, we're getting hitched legal and all at the end of October.

Well...

My SO and I had a couple mutual friends, and both lived in the dorms at our school, so I knew who he was, and he knew who I was for a whole semester, AND We saw one another at small parties in the dorms... buuuut nothing happend for a whole semester. I was with someone else.. going through breaks and break ups, and near the very end of my relationship with my ex...

My SO and I stumbled upon a night of staying in our mutual friends' dorm, staying up playing game boy until 5:00 in the morning, exchanging screen names (I just realized how geeky and cool that is :) ), and THEN continuing to talk that morning for another hour online. We had about three weeks of not knowing where our relationship stood... until I finally gave in to the "commitment." :D

7 months later.. JinnKai and I are still going strong. He's absolutely fabulous.

:icare: :love:

At work. Well, I was working; he worked for the same company and transferred about a month later. Ironically, his best friend asked me out first, and I said yes, but the date never happened. Had it, I doubt my hubby would have gone out with me, him being loyal to this friends and all. Thinking back, I wonder if there was any bad feelings about it, I really don't think so, but I've never thought about it before......

One word... shinkage. :p

I've told the story a bunch of times here

readers digest version:
we met on redpersonals, first date 9-18-03, he moved in 10-03, got engaged...wedding is in 45 days 16 hours and 10 minutes

Alright! Timmy Ho's dates bring back the memories.

I met my girl in high school in my OAC year. She was a friend of a friend and I wasn't interested in her at first. After things didn't work out with someone else (she wasn't interested in me), I heard that my future wife was interested me, after thinking about it for a while I decided to ask her out on a walk in the park. Best choice I ever made.

Shani, you make me feel better about my recent speed dating...

I met my boyfriend in a bar--I went to see a show, ran into an old friend who introduced me to his girlfriend, and his girlfriend in turn introduced me to all of her friends, which included E. We didn't hit it off until another guy got up to get me a drink and I decided to talk to him instead (I knew the other guy from a class). From there we hit it off, and once the second band started we decided to leave (they were way too loud to talk over). So we went to another bar for an hour or so, chatted, and then walked home together (we live on the same street). Went out on our first official date two nights later and I went home with him :D He's had a hard time kicking me out of his bed since. Now, two and a half weeks later, I'm packing up my things and moving into his apartment. Kinda scary, but at the same time really exciting, and surprisingly comfortable and okay :) Wish us luck.

At a phone booth.

Hey, we're 45 out too! Congrats.

By the by, our first date was 6/26/04, I proposed 10/03/04. Our first date started at 7pm on 6/26/04. It hasn't ended yet....

I'm amazed at the fact that several people had a shorter courtship (tee hee, I am all old fashionerd, or just a nerd) than us. We met, officially, on March 31, 2000. I had just moved back to this wonderland after 6 years in the hell that is Kansas.

We saw each other across a parking lot, and we both kind of stumbled, gaped, and meandered. She took the first step, thank God, because I am a collecting data kind of guy and would not ask a girl out until I had several factors in my favor. Yeah, my previous relationship sucked doggy.

I don't know what it was, the traffic lights favored me, the grocery store seemed to cater to me, the library didn't fine me for overdue books. Everything in my life went right after meeting her. We were born four hours apart, we had an entire life in common, but never met.

This, after all the other crapola, this has been the love of my life, and I wouldn't give it up for anything. We married four years ago today, and it's been an adjustment for sure. I had always been a single, couple hating, holiday despising crank. I have always also been somebody who looks for any way possible to celebrate those things that couples celebrate because I know that all the past hate has been a lie.

She's on her way home now. I am happy. It's been an adjustment.

MySpace.com



We're not proud of it by any means...

Happy anniversary Poppinjay.

It's okay, I met my first and current girlfriend on otakubooty.com which is like a myspace for extreme anime nerds ;) .

I'm not as big of an anime nerd as most people on that site, but I found her profile and saw we liked the same anime that had to do with cars. We chatted a bit and she invited me to play the arcade game with her friends. First day we met, we hit it off immediately. We ended up making out all night in her living room and the rest is history :D

oh yeah, this was not even 2 weeks ago :cool: We're completely all over each other, we've been going out basically every other day since then :icare:

-1337haxor

The most romantic way possible...ON THE INTERNET!! I was given his email by a mutal friend's ex-girlfriend, we talked for about a year or so, he moved to Canada, we hung out...and so it began.

Congrats Sir Lance!!!!! YAY two tfp'ers getting married the same day

I met my love at her work. A gas station. :)

Will the world ever be the same.... :)

We met in a bowling league, and we haven't bowled once since we got married 15 years ago... She hated bowling (and still does), and was only there cause her friends 'made' her.

Wow, Owl!!! This is really cool! I guess I've been a little out of it on TFP lately, since I hadn't yet heard this news. Congratulations!! :D And good luck, of course. Let us know how it all goes, living together and all the rest. I am definitely curious. :thumbsup:

We were in college in Buffalo (my freshman yr, his sophmore yr) and we were both watching my boyfriend's final acting class presentation (fall semester). Quadro started chatting me up and made me laugh a lot. That boyfriend graduated and went back to Queens... and when the spring semester started, I went on a double date with Q, his best friend, and my roommate. They did not have NEARLY the evening that we did. I fell asleep drunk in his arms... and have been doing so ever since. October 30, we'll have been married 1 year, and January will be 9 years together in total.

I love that guy.
:D

hey our anniversaries are only going to be a day apart....

Im concerned about one thing though...

Im sure you dont mean that the way that it reads :lol:

I don't know, how does that read??
'Cause I mean that I have been getting drunk and passing out in his arms for almost 9 years!!! :lol:

Hrm......

Martel and I met somewhere along the way our Junior year of high school. We went to a boarding school, and it was our first year, and my hall was the sister hall of his hall. He was friends with some of the people I was friends with, and so we'd just end up in the big group haning out together. I didn't know him *that* well, really- just hung out in his room with our friends on the weekends, played BS for long and loud hours during the afternoons.. that kind of thing.

Honestly, I thought he was a little bit of an ass- conserative and opnionated! BUT I'd always had a HUGE crush on him too.. he was always hot and his arrogance was sexy to me in a way.

Flash forward to my Junior year of college- Martel and I had talked up a storm on AIM since my freshman year, I was eight months out of a really really horrid relationship and living on my own. I went to visit my grandmother who was the next town over from where he was going to college, and I said I'd like to see him. I ended up staying at his dorm room (this was the day before his fall break started, mind you) for like, 7 hours longer than I originally intended! I invited him to see me in Asheville the next weekend, which he did....

Needless to say that saturday night I ened up ripping his clothes off sometime around 3am... and have been doing so ever since :)

this was November 8, 2003- we were legally married Jan 6 2005 :)

The love of my life and I have known each other since kindergarten. We were never freinds until our Senior year of high school. We walked together at graduation ('98). Then off to seperate colleges where we continued to talk off and on and hang out together on breaks. We both moved back with our parents after college and continued to see more of each other. Then one day out of the blue she takes my hand and gives me a kiss and we have been this way since. We consider our first official date 7/26/04, we got engaged on my birthday 2/19/05, and we are getting married 2/11/06 10:50am. Everyone claims they saw it for years, but we each needed time to get our dumb shit out of the way in college. Damn I love that woman.

Kinda surprised there aren't more people that met in high school. Seems to be the thing around where we live.

mandy and I met outside a club. She asked me for a light (without saying please, I might add). She looked, well, intimidating. Big puffy yellow jacket, black jeans and big i'll-kick-yer-ass boots. We didn't talk much that night coz she had just had an argument with a friend of mine. Of course I didnt know that, adding to the "bad girl" thing she had going on.

Some time later I found out we had a few mutual friends and we were at the same Technikon. Went for coffee at her place with said mutual friends one afternoon. I was slow on the uptake (typical guy), oblivious to the possibility that she might even like me.

There were a few more incidents along the way worth mentioning i.e. one day mustering up the courage to go sit at a table in the cafeteria with her and strike up a convo, her wearing CK Crave just so I'd smell her neck (devil woman) and me playing with her hair. The day I finally thought I had a chance was when we went to the Varsity next to our campus and spent the afternoon drinking beer and talking shit in their cafeteria with two of our best friends. I got the obligatory hint-hint, nudge-nudge from my buddy Zander. Again we parted with no action *slaps forehead*

Fast forward to a week before my 21st birthday. She and two of her girlfriends were drinking vodka at her friend's place. I made an appearance, finding them in their pajamas. We talked for a good long time without doing anything - more out of fear than anything else - until the words "would you two just do it already?" rang out from the next room. What came next was the best kiss I'd ever EVER experienced in my life. I left there with such a moerse* smile on my face :)

We been together ever since.

*moerse: Afrikaans for fucking huge.

and the rest as they say is history.

and will be together for a long time to come. another point worth mentioning... as he was walking out the door, he turned back for one last kiss...

needless to say i was over the moon, big eyes, pumping heart, he really scored big on that one... ofcourse, i didnt let him see that:-)

At a friends house after being at the pub all night. Kept in touch as friends for a coulple of years then things moved very fast indeed.

I wa in the Navy and we were on a 6 month cruise to the middle east. Turns out that this was just filled with long nights curled up with books, and longer days doing that navy thing...

The day we pull back into Bremerton (Seattle area) A Friend of mine says "Hey, I have this pen pal that lived an hour down south. I am going to meet her, wanna come?"

It turns out that this pen pal also had a friend that she invited along. So, by a chance blind date we met. It took 6 to 7 more trips down to see them before we really got interested in each other. In fact my friend was more intested in the pan pal's friend that he was the actual pen pal. I do have to admit that out of the two I like the Friend better as well.

After a few dates I told him I was interested in dating the "Friend" and he said "yeah .. that's cool I have this girl up north im courting" .

well.. 4 months after meeting, The "Friend" and I were married.

Needless to say , it has been 12 wonderful years, over 20 jobs, 4 kids, 3 dogs, 7 cats, 3 fish, 2 birds, 1 rabbit and 1 sugar-glider later .. we're still deeply in love.

hope this gives inspiration to all those "love at firt sight doesnt exist" folks.. because I never considered marriage till I met The misses.

Sivler Tiger

She was married to a co-worker, and he decided it would be a good Idea to introduce us to each other. When our eyes met ....Holy Fucking Shit, I cannot explain the experience but we both felt the same thing. We fought the inevitable for a few months but, there was no denying what was there. Within a Year we were both divorced and remarried...to each other.

well, the first meeting was not especially meaningful or resonant at all.

She works for my company, in the office building next to mine... through my job I had to speak to her sometimes but I didnt really notice her for a while. After she'd been there a while I thought she was pretty and she seemed pretty nice, although she could used to harrass me a lot to get stuff done for her she was never rude about it.

The first thing about her that really struck me was - she was promised a free meal by her boss for meeting sales targets, and me and a guy who works for me do a lot of technical work to bring onboard the people she sets up accounts for... and she said she thought we should both be invited to, and her boss said no, so she said she didnt want a meal if we werent in on it. I told her she was being stupid and she should just take it... but she never got offered it again...

Anyway, on the night of my works party - some people may remember a pic I posted, I wore a sarong and won the "fancy dress" prize for it. My prize was some girly bottle of drink... and I gave it to her, and then we drunk it together, and obv both were drunk, and at the end of the night she ended up coming back to mine. In the morning we sort of talkied about it, and I told her that I had been thinking about her for some time (which was true at that point) and we started dating... then we had an argument that kind of spiralled out of control.

IMO she is quite a materialistic person, and she is very ambitious and disciplined. I am pretty much the opposite, Im lazy, not ambitious, and the least driven, most easy going person you could meet, and I also have a depressive streak. She basically said a lot of shit about how my life was going nowhere and i just wallowed in self pity, I didnt nothing to help myself out, I was wasting my potential... probably she was aout 75% accurate in what she was saying, but I took it personally and just sort of said "well, since Im such a loser why are we going out?"

Cos we work in the same place, I made an effort to stay civil and friendly, and so did she... and think she was genuinely concerned about how things were going for me too.. we went to the movies together a couple of times just as mates... and a few weeks back she had a thing at her house, and she invited me, but it was casual. I was supposed to go but I had to work till 10 pm (having started at 7am!) - and she hit me up about 9 and was like "so, where are you?" and as much as I felt like just going home, having a few beers and crashing out, like the last thing I wanted was to be around people... I went over after work, and I wound up being the last person there.

I think I was so worn out, so dispirited and uncertain that night... I wasnt even like "oh Im so depressed" I just felt like I didnt know what to do... I knew I wasnt that happy with my life, but I didnt know why and I didnt know what to do to change anything.... and we stayed up for ages talking, and rather than getting at me and nagging me she was really understanding. A lot of people say Im a good listener, but I felt like it was the first time maybe in a few years I had someone actually there I could actually talk to.

Anyway, I bounced that noght and it was like there was a new kind of intimacy between us to a degree. I didnt speak to her at all that week (not deliberate, just didnt see her) - and then on the FRiday I had to go to a black tie event, in London. I hired the gear, but I couldnt figure out how to do the bow tie... I didnt want to ask any of the people I'd come with cos they'd all the rip the piss out of me, so I called her up and told her she was the only person I couldnt think of who wouldnt laugh at me for asking. So she told me, and we talked for about 15 till I had to go downstairs for the thing... the dinner was pretty dull, afterwards I stood around on my own for like 2 hours just watching people in the bar, then met up with the people I came with again and drank till like 4 am, but I wasnt really that wasted. When I got back to my room I just had all these feelinds of tenderness and was thinking about her, so I sent her a text saying I loved her (tacky... I know). She texted me back at about 8. Everyone from my company got taxi's back (despite being like a 3 min walk from Bond Street Tube Station) Bu tI walked up into town, bought her a little present, and then walked across to Tottenham Court Road and caught a tube to Liverpool street and got the train back. Called her when I got back in around lunch, and on the Sunday I took her to a BBQ I was going to, and we've being going out since that.

So, there you go... no instant spark, no eyes meeting through the crowded room stuff... but a true modern love story.

:)

JJ and I met in college. I was engaged at the time, but having many problems with the long-distance aspect and my ex-fiance's drinking problem. JJ and I were friends for 2 years, but I was always attracted to him in a 'more than friends' way. Then on my birthday, we all went out. I got really drunk and confessed that I really loved him. The next day I broke off my engagement. Two years after that we were married and here we are today 4 1/2 years later. Eight years fly when you're having fun! :)

I remember seeing this hottie in one of my classes in college and thinking that I had to find some way to get to know her. I didn't know how to approach her and felt like a complete fool when attempting any conversation with her. I found out she was engaged and my hopes were dashed. She began confiding in me about her issues and I listened and did everything I could to be around her, even if it meant spending 3 hours in a science lab studying rocks between classes.

Then, about 2 years later, she invited me to her birthday celebration. I almost didn't go because I was sulking over the prospect of her marrying someone else. She called me on the phone and told me to get my ass in a cab and get to her party. I did. She drank a lot and started telling her friends that she loved me. I soared. The next day we met for coffee to discuss what we were going to do about it because it didn't feel right that she was engaged.

She broke off her engagement and we started dating. 2 years later we were married. That was 4 years ago. It seems like 4 months.

She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met her. I picked her out, I shook her up, and turned her around, turned her into someone new.

Now five years later on she's got the world at her feet, success has been so easy for her. She shouldn't forget it's me who put her where she is now... and I can put her back down too.

I was the teacher's aide in Turbotom's senior english class. We were friends for years before we hit it of in a relationship sense. That's not an interesting story at all.

I guess I should add the fact that I was a shy girl who had a crush on him for 2 years before that, just couldn't find the nerve to introduce myself. We were on track together: he was a high-jumper when I was a hurdeler. We were both involved in the music program: he was a band guy when I was in choir. We both attended every football game, and I sat within 5 feet of him nearly every time. Similar interests, but I hadn't put myself in a place to meet him. We didn't really talk, even when I was his TA. I was too busy correcting papers, and I figured he was dating someone. The end of the year came and I had him sign my yearbook. Probably looked odd, he was the only one from that class that I asked to sign. Like a message from heaven above, he somehow decided to leave his e-mail address! It took me about a month to even write! But we became friends through e-mail and ICQ, met his other friends, found a place in his life (albeit minor), and we were still in contact when he went to the bay area for school and I went to another state. Ended up back in town about the same time, we were among the few of the group of friends that was in town. So we hung out nearly every day. Good fun, for a while I gave up on having a relationship, was satisfied with being his friend. But then, unexpectedly, I got attached. It was horrible because he wasn't interested at all. Eventually I started dating other people, at which point he missed having me around, wanted to hang out more. After a few months he finally decided he was ready for a relationship, but I wasn't. Few months of utter chaos for me, constant devotion for him. But that chaos is over, I have figured out what I want. Now, here we are. Together, happy, and trying to figure out life together.

Terribly boring story compared to some. But dang, i love this guy and count myself lucky each day that I wake up and realize it's another day that I get to spend with him.

For a while there I had given up on the thought of a relationship, figured the friendship was good, didn't want to spoil it. So glad it turned out to be more.

Pole-Vaulter!
You don't know anything about me... *runs off and cries*

Don't you want her? You know she can't believe you when you say that you don't need her.

I was working as a waitress at a cocktail bar, that much is true. But even then I'd knew I'd find a much better place, either with or without you.

oh my.... tainted love.

Oh... right... pole-valulting... how could I mix that up?
Don't cry...

I met both my girls on the same night. It was after hours at the comic book store I owned at the time. I was a Storyteller for a Live Action Vampire the Masquerade game, and they had both arrived from out of town to play, having received from a friend one of the mass flyers we had sent out to drum up interest in the game. I was running a Non Player Character that night I had devised to help set up the plot-a hardcore Provisional IRA supporter of the Brujah clan that was trying to undermine the Prince in town (the Prince being The Man of the Vampire world in this game).

I was dressed all in Military BDU's with a bunch of chains and padlocks attached as my costume, and a beret on. Since I speak Gaelic pretty fluently, and have a brogue, it was a natural character for me to play. After the game, we traditionally all went to Perkins to have breakfast at 3 or 4 am, and they started talking to me, as they had a passing interest in Irish politics and culture. The rest, as they say, is history.

Saw my wife across a crowded rink and asked a friend who she was.Next week I asked if I could skate with her and a month later we were engaged. Ten years in, 2 l'il girls later and still going strong. I cannot imagine where my life would have taken me if we hadn't met but I don't ever need to find out either.

One girlfriend I met over the internet. Techinically, we met in a Yahoo chat room. That was back in '97 or so, when it was relatively cool (enough) to chat in a chat room like that (and be 16 years old). We had a great friendship for about 2 years. She lived in Idaho, myself in Florida. In '99, I got with my first girlfriend who I went to school with... that was a nightmare and, after 5 months, finally broke it off (she was abusive and stuff to me). The very next day, while talking to my online female friend, I asked her if she'd be my girlfriend. Three and a half years later, she moved down to live with me. Unfortunately, we only lasted a few months after she moved here, but it's because we "grew up" apart from each other. After a bit, no hard feelings.

Girlfriend number 2, I met at work. From my first day of work, I had an instant love and lust for her... she was wonderful. Well, I worked there for almost a full year before we started going out. She left her (shitty, neglectful) boyfriend to be with me. It lasted 5 months and we broke up for small reasons, basically just weren't compatible (or so I thought... a few months ago, I wished I could have her back, but she's married and moved on and away). After we broke up, we had regular (upwards of 3 or 4 times a week) sex for more than a year. After that, came...

Girlfriend number 3 and I met, again, at work (different company by then). She was unhappy with her boyfriend for quite some time, I tried to help her out, she ended up leaving him because of multiple reasons (one of which being the fact she could all but prove 100% he cheated on her... but he was an idiot, and a bad liar, and it was obvious he had). The day after she broke up with him, I took her to get some food after work and sit and chat, which we'd actually done several times before. She vented, I comforted, we ate, we drank. I can take a lot of alcohol, she's a lightweight. She wasn't feeling up to driving, so I said "let's just go watch a movie or soemthing at my house, you know i'm literally one minute around the corner, and you'll have water and we'll chat some more, and when you're good to go, i'll bring you back to your car. You can't drive 25 minutes home with being tipsy like you are." She very much agreed with me, and accepted.

We got through part of the movie, and we both agreed we were tired. We decided to go lie down. Well... I wanted to have sex with her, she wanted to have sex with me... it'd been like 2 months without it for me, but something like 6 months for her... and after lying there in the darkness for about 10 minutes, things started happening.

We were togther from then on for about 6 months, and then broke up. I still can't figure out exactly why, and right now I'm waiting to see if I can get her back. She's dating someone else right now, only been together for like 2 weeks. I hate to say it, but I hope it doesn't work out... because I think she'd let me come back. I've recently realized that I really do miss her... not just "company", not just "being with someone", but HER.