How did you meet?

lyndausvi

beethery said:

lyndausvi said:

On a Sunday, drunk at a bar, watching NFL football.

I told him I wasn't going home with him.  I did.   He threw up on my couch.  The next morning he left without getting my phone number.    Then has he was walking home it started pouring down rain.  Haha.

Then I went to check my email.   Some how that little fucker broke the charger on my laptop.  The one that was JUST fixed after taking 6 WEEKS to get a new one in the islands.   I was PISSED!

I get to work. We worked at the same place, but the resort was going through a reno. I wasn't working much and he was new and we just had not connected yet.    I see him at the EDR and I yell "I can deal with a one night stand, I can deal with you throwing up on my couch, I can even deal with you not even pretending you are going to call me again.  BUT HOW THE FUCK DID YOU MANAGE TO BREAK MY CHARGER THAT JUST TOOK 6 WEEKS TO GET HERE".   Then I stormed away.

DH went to his BF who was his boss to and said "I'm going to marry her."

After I calmed down I did end up helping get his car registered. Which is no easy feet and with his stereotypical NYC  attitude, yeah, it would not have been good.  Seriously getting a car registered is hard enough.  Getting one registered that was shipped in from the states is a nightmare.

Rest is history.

This is my favorite story.

I know right?   Filled with such romance that it belongs in a  Nicholas Sparks novel.

flyingfoxes

Wegman's is awesome!  My friend that lives in DC took me there one time when I was visiting her. 

NowIamMrsKlein

A mutual friend fix up! 

Although the series of events that got us both to be mutual friends with this girl is kinda ridiculous and 'fate' like we like to say.

I dated this guy in my early twenties for a short period of time. We had been friends for years and it just didn't really work out timing wise for dating. Anyways, I went to a couple parties with him and met some of his friends, one being Kathy. Kathy and I really hit it off and I was excited for this new friend. after a few months the relationship with boy fizzled and he stopped calling. I tried to keep up the friendship with kathy but being young, it was just to hard because of the ex. We lost contact.

Several years later I wasn't in a very good place mentally as pretty much everyone was getting married around me and I had never even had a serious boyfriend. Very woe is me. Somehow I managed to reconnect with boy and started a friends with benefits type thing. This went on way too long but because of it I eventually reconnected with Kathy.


FI was in a long term relationship and engaged to another woman. It was a very toxic relationship which ended with him giving up his dream career to work menial labour because it gave a better paycheck. Which is where he met Kathy.

Kathy ended up being his sounding board while he went through with breaking off his engagement and sorting his life out and re-pursuing his dream career.

Kathy ended up being the one to convince me that this friends with benefits situation I was was not healthy and that I deserved better.

FI ended up seeing me comment on something on Kathy's facebook and asked her who I was and she immediately realised that we would be both so good to and for each other so she arranged a group hangout. 

We hungout of a couple hours with a couple other people. Exchanged numbers. Texted pretty incessantly for a month (he was living about 2 hours away at the time). Finally went on a first date. By the second date we both knew that we had something special. By a month and half we were in love and the rest is history.

So because of the two people that hurt my FI and I the most, we ended up meeting the woman who would introduce us.

amelisha

levieenrose said:

Yeah, that is amazing and so sweet. I think it's pretty romantic! Sounds like he really had you figured out before you had yourself figured out. 

Definitely. He claims he was in love with me from the day he laid eyes on me and so was in fact patient for seven years, not just three, but I think he just says that to make himself look better, haha. I also know that if I'd started him dating him younger we would not be together now, as he needed to grow up a bit and I wouldn't have recognized a good thing when I saw it. Sometimes I get frustrated that could have had ten years with him already but I know it wouldn't have happened that way at all if 18 year old me had actually gone for the skinny nerd over the boy-band handsome older guy way back when.

He likes to tell me about every time I ever spoke to him back then, too, because he remembers each time. We'll be lying in bed and he'll say "I wish I could go back and tell my teenage self about this, because he'd never believe it. Do you remember that time you and I sat alone at a table together at that little cafe by the lake when we were on tour singing at that Shakespeare festival?"

And then I'm like "no, you little creep, I can't believe you remember that," but he honestly does. It's really sweet, but I'm really grateful that I have him now, as a fully-formed adult with his head on straight and minus the silver chain necklace and baggy jeans and frosted tips, haha.

plainjane0415

Maggie0829 said:

levieenrose said:

Ooh, here's a quick story of my great-grandparents. They first met as future in-laws when my grandparents married. 

My grandfather's mother had been single for a long time. Eventually, my grandmother's mother passed away. When my mom was about 10 or so, her mother's father and father's mother decided to get married to each other. She attended her own grandparents' wedding. They would have never met, if not for their kids' marriage!

My Mom's parents met in a candy store back in the 40's.  My Grandfather took my Grandmother out to dinner that night and then told her he was being shipped out the next day and asked if it would be okay to write her.  She said of course.  Can't quite remember how long he was gone for but he wrote her all the time.  When he found out he was going back home he wrote her and asked if she would marry him.  So she told her Father, packed all of her stuff into a paper bag and they were together ever since.  Both are unfortunately gone now, but when my Mom told me that they met in a candy store I was overwhelmed with cuteness.

That is so cute! 

I don't know how my grandparents met, which is really sad I know, but they started dating prior to him being shipped off to Pearl Harbor with the Army.  They wrote back and forth all the time, and my grandpa sent my grandmother a hula skirt and a lei from Hawaii when he was there.  She was so proud of that and would show it off to all of us all the time. 

I was very close to my grandparents, but they both died when I was 16, and I wish I knew more about them, and I get really sad when I think about not knowing how they met.  

**Did not mean to thread jack!**

flutteringinfl

We met in a line trying to get tickets to see Obama speak. We chatted awhile, talked about ourselves, I told him the school I worked at, turns out he took classes there awhile back. We didn't get the tickets, so I asked the volunteers if they had bumper stickers since I had donated to the campaign and was supposed to get one. They didn't have any. He said, "That sucks. Bye!"

The next day he showed up at my work, handed me an Obama bumper sticker, and asked for my number.

hellosweetie1015

I honestly love this thread. I love meeting stories. I don't care how he popped the question, I care how you guys got there.

These are all absolutely adorable.

anjemon

FI and I met through mutual friends. I have a friend from high school who went to college with FI's best friend. My friend from high school was getting married to a guy from Ireland who we hadn't met. So FI's best friend decided to throw a game night for everyone to meet the Irish guy. Since he still lived at home, he asked FI to host since he has a nice condo. I was invited and that's how we met. I thought he was really cute and funny and smart. I don't think he really thought about anything like that for quite a while.

After that first meeting we hung out a few times in a group. I'm actually really thankful my friend didn't move to Ireland until a few months later because I probably would have never gotten invited to hang out with everyone without a her. A few months after we met his best friend arranged a Halloween night out. We both went and I spent about half the night wearing his hat - which was apparently his first big clue I liked him. We spent the whole ride home sitting in the back of a mini van singing along to 80's rock tunes and flirting. I had planned to stay at his place because it was closer to work and I didn't want to drive home. Also I liked him. That night he asked me if I wanted to sleep in his bed instead of on the couch. Some make out and other stuff happened.

And then we didn't talk for almost two weeks. Apparently his last girlfriend before me was a little crazy and he had sworn off of girls for awhile. I think he freaked out, he says he was playing it cool. We texted a bit and then around Thanksgiving I drunk dialed him and told him I wanted to get together for drinks some time. And that was our first date. We've been together for four years and we get married in two months!

anjemon

plainjane0415 said:

Maggie0829 said:

levieenrose said:

Ooh, here's a quick story of my great-grandparents. They first met as future in-laws when my grandparents married. 

My grandfather's mother had been single for a long time. Eventually, my grandmother's mother passed away. When my mom was about 10 or so, her mother's father and father's mother decided to get married to each other. She attended her own grandparents' wedding. They would have never met, if not for their kids' marriage!

My Mom's parents met in a candy store back in the 40's.  My Grandfather took my Grandmother out to dinner that night and then told her he was being shipped out the next day and asked if it would be okay to write her.  She said of course.  Can't quite remember how long he was gone for but he wrote her all the time.  When he found out he was going back home he wrote her and asked if she would marry him.  So she told her Father, packed all of her stuff into a paper bag and they were together ever since.  Both are unfortunately gone now, but when my Mom told me that they met in a candy store I was overwhelmed with cuteness.

That is so cute! 

I don't know how my grandparents met, which is really sad I know, but they started dating prior to him being shipped off to Pearl Harbor with the Army.  They wrote back and forth all the time, and my grandpa sent my grandmother a hula skirt and a lei from Hawaii when he was there.  She was so proud of that and would show it off to all of us all the time. 

I was very close to my grandparents, but they both died when I was 16, and I wish I knew more about them, and I get really sad when I think about not knowing how they met.  

**Did not mean to thread jack!**

**continuing thread jack**

My grandparents' story is really cute too. My Grandma was going to school at the Swedish Nursing Hospital (I think I got the name wrong. Swedish and nursing something). My Grandpa was going to law school and started dating one of Grandma's roommates. That's how they met.

A while later Grandpa had broken up with the roommate and was working maintenance stuff at the Nursing School. My Grandma says she was just walking through this school building and hears this voice say "Carol Aagard, will you go out on a date with me?" It was Grandpa up on a ladder cleaning the lighting fixtures. I am obviously biased. But I love it.

LadyMillil

We met on eHarmony. I was going to close my account because I had been on a lot of dates and hadn't found anyone I wanted to pursue a relationship with. My friend convinced me to give in one more month. I was matched with DH the day after I renewed. I closed the match without talking to him because he lived outside the city I lived in. He sent me a message asking me to reconsider because he thought we had a lot in common. I had never had that happen before so I thought he must really be interested in me so I gave him a chance and our first date was amazing. I found out later that he sent that message to all the pretty girls that closed his matches, but I was the only one that actually gave him a chance. It was 6 years ago this week that we were matched.

falsara

These are all awesome stories.


FI and I met at the last Pep rally of the year, senior year of High School. I was friends with his best friend Randy, but I hadn't met FI yet because of FI'S weird schedule and stuff. Well that pep rally was also a talent show so FI did his comedy thing and then came and sat down with me and Randy on the bleachers.

We got introduced and then when it was over I fell down a large portion of the bleachers when trying to leave the gym. I have no concept of grace. He tried to catch me but couldn't move fast enough. We became fast friends and stayed that way for 2 years even when I moved away for 6 months.

One night after I had moved back. Our group got really drunk and he admitted that he had had a crush on me since when I first met him and fell down the bleachers. After we all sobered up he drove me home, and I admitted I had a crush on him too.

We kissed that night when he dropped me off. After that we just started dating. Here we are almost 3 years later.

AlexisA01

I got my husky, Snow, from my neighbor who left him after they moved. I never had a dog while I was in my own so my mom suggested I take him to the dog park, so he can meet some friends. I get there and head to the big dig section and this dreamy Asian guy was in scrubs with his beagle puppy. I was watching him and being a bit of a creep. My husky went over to the fence that separated the big dogs from the little ones. His beagle started playing with my husky, running up and down the fence.

He came over to the fence to pick up his puppy and placed him over the fence to play with my Snow. He joined me and eventually he asked me to do a double date with the dogs.
He told me transferred from Japan to study overseas to become a Veterinarian. The beagle he had was from an emergency c section he did and the owner begged him to keep the puppy as a thank you. His beagle, Yum Yum was one of three that he brought back to life. Three years later, here we are :-)

morewineplease

I went to see my friends SF who worked in the same Hospital I did (how I knew to apply there actually). Now FI was a student hire working for him sitting in a corner of the office I could not really see. I am talking with my friends SF about this horrible date I just went on; then he introduces me to FI.

 

I had actually forgot about this first time till he reminded me a few weeks ago. 

levioosa

We met at work.  He liked me from the start but I was in a relationship so we just became friends.  After my ex and I broke up, he could hardly wait to ask me out.  I turned him down repeatedly because I knew he wasn't just a rebound, and I didn't want him to become one by dating before I was ready.  I gave myself a couple months to heal, and then I let him know I was ready to date.  The rest is history and I have never been happier. 

AddieCake

We met in a game on Pogo games about 14 years ago.He was going into boot camp, and I got scared of a potential military life, so I was that bitch who dumped the guy in boot camp. But in my defense, we had never actually met in person. 

He married someone he met in boot camp. We tried to stay friends, but one day I got an email from her telling me to leave him alone. Since I didn't really know him in real life, I decided to respect that and just faded away. But I never forgot him. 

Then one day many years later I was online and decided to see if he had a MySpace. He did. It said he was separated, so I messaged him "Hey. What's new?" 

He came to meet me the next month, we dated long distance for a year, and then he moved to be with me. Now we live in the same place he had been stationed and had been living, the same place I had driven to for a job interview nearly 20 years ago and had declined.

One way or another, we were destined to end up here together. 

sarawifenow

H and I met at a pizza parlor. I was out with some of my friends after work and he was with his best friend. At the time, he was living a state away and would just come down on various weekends.

 

He came up to me and said he just had to say hi. We got to talking, hung out that night, and then he started coming down every weekend to see me. Eventually he moved and we have been together ever since.

stefuhknee

I met my SO in 6th grade where I was bombarded by a group of his friends who tried to get me to date him, 11 year old me was definitely not interested and we never became friends in JHS.

7 years later I'm working at a Medical Pavilion as a file clerk with one of my best friends. After the doctors and secretaries were gone we would people watch from one of the office windows that overlooked the avenue and there was a high school right across the street from us and who do we see? My SO of course all grown up and looking mighty fine, he was working at an afterschool program at the high school at that time.

I recognized him and wanted to talk to him but I was too shy to actually go up to him. A couple of weeks later my friend calls me and says that her friend is friends with him on MySpace. So I sent him a friend request and he accepts. I then message him asking if he remembers me and he said "Of course, how could I forget my 51's (name of our JHS) crush?" He asked me out on a date a couple of weeks later and we've been inseparable ever since.

princessleia22

He stole my parking space and I almost had his car towed.

We lived 3 apartments apart.  He had lived there for 8 years, I had been there for 5 years, and we had never met.  I don't even remember seeing him until about a month before we met. But, the complex screwed up and gave away my assigned parking space.  The new space they gave me ended up being the closest space to our building.  For the next couple days, every time I came home there was a car in my space.  So, I went to the office and they tagged the car to be towed the next day if it wasn't moved.  The next day as I came home, the space was open.  As I was walking to my apartment he's sitting out front of his and starts yelling that I nearly had his car towed. I yelled back that he shouldn't be stealing other people's parking spaces. That turned into a 1-hour conversation.  After that he just happened to be sitting out front everyday when I came home. So, we started hanging out and talking every evening. I liked hanging out with him and he was nice, but he was totally not what I was looking for in a relationship. He was unemployed at the time and very rough around the edges type.  I knew he liked me, but I was dreading having to turn him down, especially since I did like him as a friend. It took about 6 months before he finally made a move to kiss me and ask me out, which was good because by that time I actually missed him when he wasn't around and really didn't want to hurt him by saying no.  So, I figured I'd give it a chance, but didn't expect it to really go anywhere. Within a month he moved in with me. 3 years later we were engaged. We got married a couple days off from the 5-year anniversary of him asking me out. And I couldn't be happier.

[Deleted User]

Love these stories.  My fiance sent me an e-wink on Match.com (ironic b/c he can't wink IRL).  I read his profile and found it funny; told him so and we started emailing / texting.  We only spoke on the phone once before we met in person about 2 weeks later (I was in a walking boot from a broken bone in my foot and he didn't want me going out like that).

First date was at Chili's.  We talked for about 2 hours at the table then about 2 more while standing in the parking lot.  Second date the following day.

About 13 days from date one, he asked me to be his GF; he proposed on 3/30 last year and we're getting married on 10/11 this year.

Cookie Pusher

DH and I don't remember how or when we met. We just sort of magically appeared in each other's lives.

chloe97

My FI and I met at mutual friends' wedding. I caught the bouquet and he caught the garter. Fifteen minutes later the groom came up to me and introduced us and told us that we needed to dance together. It turns out that FI had asked him to do that because he was too shy to ask me himself.  We are getting married almost 3 years after the day we met.

Needless to say we will not be forgoing the bouquet/garter toss at our wedding. :-) 

redheadbride15

OK Cupid for us!

It was only my second online date ever. He tells me he had had so many online dates he had lost track and almost lost hope (I have NO idea why all those other girls didn't see passed his shy awkwardness and into his heart of gold!). It was very intense from the start. Our first date was 8 hours long - we just kept finding another place to go to until everything was closed down for the night. For two shy people with strict 10pm bedtimes this was extremely unusual. I ate food off of his plate, which he later told me he viewed as a sign. About 3 dates later he joked that he was going to marry me, but I knew he wasn't joking.

tcnoble

This will make me sound really young.. but we met on MySpace.

I had just moved to town and literally did not know a single soul. And remember (or not) on MySpace your profile had bands you liked and interests and stuff? So I was browsing Vegas locals and legit messaging randoms like "Hi I just moved here and don't know anyone" (I was 19 ok!). When I came across FI's profile, he had one band in particular listed that was not very well known but one of my absolute favorites, so he really sparked my interest based on his music choices alone. We started messaging and I found out his parents had horses (I've been riding since I was 10) and we ended up texting for hours on end.

We went out on a date the day after Fourth of July - we met at a movie theater and it was, in hindsight, a horrible choice for a first date because we went from "Hi nice to meet you" to sitting quiet and awkward through a movie. Then I declined his dinner invitation because I thought he was too short. I'm 5'10" and he's barely 6'0". I suck, I know. He asked me out again two nights later but I was babysitting my sisters - he invited them to come along. We went mini golfing, then down to the strip to play tourist, lost my car in a parking garage, it was fun.

And the rest is history! 31 days till he is my hubby!!! 

lovemyrunner

We met on Plenty of Fish.  We messaged back and forth for a few weeks before finally meeting in person on August 24, 2012.  We met at a sports bar for pizza and beer and spent several hours discussing our favorite football team.  On-line we had a running joke about who would be worse at darts since I mentioned my lack of hand-eye coordination in my profile.  So we continued the date at a different bar across town to find out who sucked hardest at darts.  I lost... which means I won!  We kept seeing each other, and he eventually asked me to be his GF that November.  He proposed last August 29th, and we'll get married on August 29th this year.

My parents met when my dad's sister started dating my mom's brother.  When my aunt and uncle got married, my mom and dad were both in the wedding party, and they were each the shortest on their side, so they walked down the aisle together.  And 11 short years later, they walked down the aisle together again

My grandparents met in a bar.  My grandfather had a business placing and maintaining machines like jukeboxes and candy and peanut dispensers in bars.  One day he saw my grandma at the bar having a drink and he walked up to her and said, "I'll buy the peanuts if you buy the beer."  And the rest is history.

dolewhipper

I tell people who don't need the whole story: I met him through mutual friends at a party.

The real story: It was Valentines Day 2009. Ex had just broken up with me to move back home (he refused to do long distance) so what's a girl to do? Go to her hometown and hang out with her (then) bff. ExBFF was a bit of a...well let's just say she enjoyed her men. She was hooking up with this guy for a couple months who was purely just supposed to be a f***buddy. Well, girlfriend got her heart into it and wanted me to meet him at a local bar to "approve".

F***buddy brought his roommate (Fi) and another friend, and they had been there for a bit before we did. Like 3 shots and 2 long islands bit before.  What I didn't know was when we all got introduced, Fi tells the other guys, she's cute, don't even think about it. The rest of the night the boys ridicule and mess with him ("Have you met Fi? I heard he's got a big dick") while all being extremely intoxicated. Fi has/had no game, and was sheepishly cute.

'09 was the year of the Cupid Shuffle. It comes on and instantly me and ExBFF start dancing. Within 30 seconds Fi starts drunk dancing/grinding on the side of me. If he's willing to make an ass out of himself, he can put his arm around my shoulder, sure. Liquid courage at it's finest.

We went back to their apt for ExBFF and Fi roommate to do what they do, other friend leaves, and Fi and I are left watching Zack and Miri. We end up talking for 5 hours on his couch, until the sun came up. 

The next weekend he drove from Ft. Lauderdale to Orlando and we would make that trip back and forth every other weekend for 3 years. Been together for 6 years, getting married in 10 days. His old roommate is a GM in the wedding

twoleighs

My 25th birthday present from my Mom was a year subscription to eHarmony.  Apparently she was tired of me dating losers.

FI and I were matched the next day. 10 days later he "smiled" at me and we started messaging.  3 weeks later we had our first date a year and a half after that (Christmas) he proposed.  

What's funny is where we *DIDN'T* meet.  We went to the same university in the same major at the same time.  We lived less than a mile apart.  We share the same profession.   

anemone137.defunct635825918192908843

These stories are great!

I was the hiring manager for my office location.  One day, one of my employees ("Tom") stopped by my office to let me know that I should hire his friend if we had another position open anytime soon.  The two of them had served together in the military.  Future FI had been in an online forum asking about where to get industry-specific t-shirts when Tom recognized something about his profile.  They re-connected and chatted on the phone for a bit.  Future FI was about to re-enlist in the Army.  Tom told him to skip that and come work with us. 

I did end up hiring him.  For the next year or so, he worked at my project location and was in a LD relationship.  They eventually broke up.  Then I was promoted and about to be relocated. 

Before I was scheduled to leave town, future FI offered to help me pick out my new car, so we set that up for a Saturday morning.  Friday night, I texted him to ensure we were test driving cars the next day.  He said yes, but suggested that we go to the city, get a hotel room, and go clubbing that night; then test drive in the morning.  I never would have agreed, but while I was texting him, I was hanging out with 5 women that were 15 years my senior.  They were all miserable.  The one thing they had in common was that they never took a chance; never got out of their comfort zones.  I didn't want to become them. 

So, we went clubbing.  I didn't realize it was a date until much later that night.  I honestly was just going because it sounded fun.  I figured he'd hook up with some other random girl and it'd be  awkward at some point while we tried to figure out the hotel room.  The date lasted all weekend and we've been inseparable ever since.  I turned down that job relocation.

sassyfrass2014

Summer camp!

FI and I attended the same summer camp for years and years (for him, since 1st grade, for me since 4th grade). We knew of each other, but didn't travel in the same friend group. The summer before our Senior year in high school, we both attended a week called Work Camp, where we beautified the camp in the morning when it was cool, and then had the rest of the afternoon to relax and do fun summer camp activities. 

We were paired together for the same work project, and we hit it off as friends. I was crushing hardcore on a guy I went to school with, and little did I know (future) FI had started crushing hardcore on me! We went a whole year of just being friends. The summer after Senior year of high school we both started working on the staff of that summer camp. That's when I fell in love with him. 

Lucky for me, he still liked me, and we have been together ever since! He later told me that he knew that he was going to marry me the summer we worked on the project together, when I was singing while ripping boards out of a boardwalk with a crowbar. 

madamerwin

We met on a local, kind of hipster-ish dating site called LoveLab. I was new to the city and didn't really know anyone other than my sister and my neighbor. He was my second date through the site, I was his first. We talked via email for a week or so, turned out we had a lot of similar interests and tastes in music/sense of humor/lifestyles.Then we met at a dive bar that was exactly half way between our houses.

We ended up talking for hours, and at the end of the evening he asked if he could take me out again the next night. Our first real outing was to a swimming hole a week later, where I accidentally splashed river water in his mouth (not my fault his mouth was open when I splashed him!). He still teases me about that.

We will be on our honeymoon during our 5 year anniversary this summer.

OliveOilsMom

H & I met on match.  Our first date was out to dinner.  Waitress comes over, I order a beer and he orders a root beer.  So I immediately start freaking out on the inside that he is going to think I'm an alcoholic or something.  I talked entirely too much during the entire date.  H is a quiet guy, so I felt the need to talk when he wasn't.

The check comes and I offer to split the bill, he refuses and pays for dinner.  Walks me to my car where we hug goodnight.  The drive home I was just so intrigued with him but felt he wouldn't call because I was a talkative alcoholic.  But he called, the rest, as they say, is history.

We do tease each other about our first date.  I tell him he only got a second one because he paid.  And after I explained to him my uncertainty of me ordering a beer and him a soda, he calls me his little boozer.