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Elle1036
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Your Relationship Timeline
Elle1036
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I love hearing the stories of other couple's relationships... so share your timeline including when you met and any other significant events that got you to where you are now.
Mine:
January 2006: H joins my judo club. We meet. I promptly forget about him.
March - July 2006: Develop friendship with H. Break up with ex.
August 2006: Get drunk and make out with H at a "last bash of the summer" party.
August - October 2006: Explore FWB relationship.
Somewhere around there: I find out ex cheated on me during our relationship and freak out, drive to H's house, and demand that we be in a real relationship or nothing. Decide to be exclusive.
Summer 2007: Move in together (officially).
August 2008: Move to Houston together.
October 2008 - February 2009: Serious rough patch. Almost break up.
July 2010: Become sort-of engaged (I know, flame me) while floating in the lake during an on-the-water Brad Paisley concert.
August 2010: Start working with jeweler to design e-ring. Also, H moves to Ft. Worth for a masters program and our one-year LDR begins.
October 2010: H receives finished e-ring. Tortures me with it.
January 2011: Fully engaged in Taos, NM.
July 2011: H moves back to Houston.
August 2011: Move to MS (yay.)
June 2012: Married!
Now you?
Mine:
January 2006: H joins my judo club. We meet. I promptly forget about him.
March - July 2006: Develop friendship with H. Break up with ex.
August 2006: Get drunk and make out with H at a "last bash of the summer" party.
August - October 2006: Explore FWB relationship.
Somewhere around there: I find out ex cheated on me during our relationship and freak out, drive to H's house, and demand that we be in a real relationship or nothing. Decide to be exclusive.
Summer 2007: Move in together (officially).
August 2008: Move to Houston together.
October 2008 - February 2009: Serious rough patch. Almost break up.
July 2010: Become sort-of engaged (I know, flame me) while floating in the lake during an on-the-water Brad Paisley concert.
August 2010: Start working with jeweler to design e-ring. Also, H moves to Ft. Worth for a masters program and our one-year LDR begins.
October 2010: H receives finished e-ring. Tortures me with it.
January 2011: Fully engaged in Taos, NM.
July 2011: H moves back to Houston.
August 2011: Move to MS (yay.)
June 2012: Married!
Now you?
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Re: Your Relationship Timeline
Married Bio
June 2008 - Chatted a few more times on occasion. He suggests getting together for practice. Practice was so awkward. We tend to high-five in league, and his hands were sweaty! He asked if I wanted to get food afterwards, and I said sorry, I have to go. Later on he emailed me to ask if I wanted to go out (he didn't have my phone number, just my business card). Still weirded out by the relationship with my ex, I said no.
early July 2008 - We stayed really late after league chatting. He mentioned his friend's band playing that weekend, and I said I'd come by. I went, we hung out, and went to Denny's at 2am afterwards.
July 8, 2008 - We went on our first real date (pizza and ice skating).
July 17, 2008 - I sort of got him to actually ask me to be his girlfriend.
May 1, 2009 - Moved in together. That first month was tough.
February 2010 - Went to Hawaii to meet his parents for the first time.
September 2010 - Got engaged at Disneyland.
September 2011 - Got married.
I haz a planning bio
September-December 2005- hang out as friends/casually "date"
December 2005- decide to be exclusive shortly before winter break
March 2006- "I love you"
May 2006- meet parents
June 2006-March 2009- dating (brief rough patch summer 2008)
March 2009- engaged
August 2009- move to DE (first apartment together) and start grad school
November 2010- married
January 2009: Flirt over texting that leads to our first date.
August 2009: I leave for Germany and our 4 month long distance relationship starts. It was horrible.
I feel like I should have more to say in here but I don't. Life was good?
August 2011: We get engaged.
May 2012: We get married!
Married! May 27th, 2012
18 February 2008: The first anti-Scientology protest in Nashville. I'm wearing a black veil and he's wearing a Richard Nixon mask. He'd brought friends and his then girlfriend. Over the next year-ish, we see each other every month at protests.
April 2009: We bond over the fact that we both received cease and desist letters from Scientology's lawyers in California within a week of each other.
Late April 2009: Scientology's local security assaults a protester and threatens us at a regular protest. He drives down to meet with the rest of us and discuss strategy. Strategy continues into Skype, which we all begin to use daily to discuss Scientology and life in general.
September 2009: Horrible date with another protester; vow to never date another protester.
October 2009: Tyler messages me on Skype to ask if I'd be interested in going on a date. Long pause, think about that horrible date, think about how much more congenial than that guy Tyler is, respond with 'why the hell not'. Tyler isn't sure what to think, but we agree to go to a movie and dinner that weekend.
A couple of days later, October 2009: Good date. Very good date.
18 October 2009: Decide to make it Facebook official, to great critical acclaim.
January 2010: Tyler moves in because driving an hour and a half to see each other is lame.
May 2010: Our friend and fellow protester Zola moves in with us!
July 2010: Tyler meets my best friend, Casey. Casey approves. All's right with the world.
September 2010: We move to our house and begin the process of purchasing the house.
May 2011: I take Tyler out to California to meet Daddy's side of the family. Grandma apparently approves, as she gives us her wedding ring to use as an engagement ring.
July 2011: Zola moves back to Mississippi. I panic, as I've never lived alone with Tyler before. It turns out everything is okay.
August 2011: We buy the house! Yay!
November 2011: We open our first joint accounts.
February 2012: I have a meltdown and ask him through tears if our relationship is ever going to progress. He says that we'll be engaged by the holidays but won't say which one. He also says that he doesn't care how soon after engagement we get married because he just likes the pre-engagement trolling.
March-April 2011: See him online, and pine over him for a few weeks. Show friends his profile, and they are convinced he is the one.
April 22, 2011: We meet for the first time, and he goes home with me that night.
April 2011 - present: Living in lovely, domestic bliss.
Thundah buddies fo life.
February 2008- I go to visit my friend, her BF & some of his coworkers who are out bowling, I only stop by for a few minutes and leave. BF was there but I don't remember him, he said he remembered me and was worried I was so tiny and walking to my car alone at night.
October 2008- we were at the same Halloween party. I was dating someone else I don't remember him being there actually
June 2009- I break up w/ BF I'm bowling w/ friends and I complain to my friend ( same friend as above) that I need a new BF. She mentions she should set me up with her BF's coworker who is a really nice guy. I still remember her description of him to this day.
July 2009- Go on a group date with friends to see Avenue Q in the city
August 2009 we begin talking, at the end of August we go on our first date
October 10, 2009- we decide to be exclusive and are BF & GF. yay
November 2009- we meet each other's family at thanksgiving
march 2010 first vacation to the Bahamas
????????
The rest is unknown except that he moving in at the end of the month.
February 2004: Then BF goes to Ranger School for 2 months. We can only communicate through letters and phone calls once a month.
May 2004: Say I love you.
August 2004: Go to PA to meet BF's family. BF moves to Germany for 4 years, being deployed to Iraq twice for 15 months and 8 months. Lots of hard times during these years. Take a break twice, but talk regularly and get back together.
August 2008: BF gets out of the Army and moves to FL to start civilian life (I lived in SC at the time).
August 2009: Move to FL with BF.
November 2009: Purchase home together.
July 2011: Get engaged.
May 2012: Get muuurrrriedd!
[QUOTE]18 February 2008 : The first anti-Scientology protest in Nashville.<strong> I'm wearing a black veil and he's wearing a Richard Nixon mask.</strong> He'd brought friends and his then girlfriend. Over the next year-ish, we see each other every month at protests. April 2009 : We bond over the fact that we both received cease and desist letters from Scientology's lawyers in California within a week of each other. Late April 2009 : Scientology's local security assaults a protester and threatens us at a regular protest. He drives down to meet with the rest of us and discuss strategy. Strategy continues into Skype, which we all begin to use daily to discuss Scientology and life in general. September 2009 : Horrible date with another protester; vow to never date another protester. October 2009 : Tyler messages me on Skype to ask if I'd be interested in going on a date. Long pause, think about that horrible date, think about how much more congenial than that guy Tyler is, respond with 'why the hell not'. Tyler isn't sure what to think, but we agree to go to a movie and dinner that weekend. A couple of days later, October 2009 : Good date. Very good date. 18 October 2009 : Decide to make it Facebook official, to great critical acclaim. January 2010 : Tyler moves in because driving an hour and a half to see each other is lame. May 2010 : Our friend and fellow protester Zola moves in with us! July 2010 : Tyler meets my best friend, Casey. Casey approves. All's right with the world. September 2010 : We move to our house and begin the process of purchasing the house. May 2011 : I take Tyler out to California to meet Daddy's side of the family. Grandma apparently approves, as she gives us her wedding ring to use as an engagement ring. July 2011 : Zola moves back to Mississippi. I panic, as I've never lived alone with Tyler before. It turns out everything is okay. August 2011 : We buy the house! Yay! November 2011 : We open our first joint accounts. February 2012 : I have a meltdown and ask him through tears if our relationship is ever going to progress. He says that we'll be engaged by the holidays but won't say which one. He also says that he doesn't care how soon after engagement we get married because he just likes the pre-engagement trolling.
Posted by ahstillwell[/QUOTE]
I love this story and you. Hilarious.
[QUOTE]2003-2007 : See FI randomly at my roommate's house (he's friends with her brother). Ignore him. June 2007 : Go to roommate's graduation party<strong>. Ignore FI's attempts to talk to me. Get drunk. Make-out with FI in the bathroom. Skinny-dip with FI in the pool. I will spare you the rest of my hoe-fo-sho-iness. </strong> August 2007 : Decide we're "exclusive". September 2007: Say "I love you" for the first time. October 2007: I move into my new apartment. FI stays over every night. We decide he should just move in. Adopt kittenbabies. October 2008: Move to a new apartment. September 2009 : Move to yet another new apartment. January 2010 : Adopt puppybaby. June 2011: FI suggests we look at rings together (SQUEE!). I try a ton on and narrow it down to a few for him. August 2011 : FI proposes! We're engaged! OMG! Present: Wedding planning May 2013 : Get married!
Posted by rdr716[/QUOTE]
LMAO! I love how you ignore him for 4 years and then slut him up. I would expect nothing less! <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-kiss.gif" border="0" alt="Kiss" title="Kiss" />
[QUOTE]January 2011: I move into my very own apartment. March-April 2011: See him online, and pine over him for a few weeks. Show friends his profile, and they are convinced he is the one. April 22, 2011: We meet for the first time, and he goes home with me that night. April 2011 - present: Living in lovely, domestic bliss. Thundah buddies fo life.
Posted by BriSox81[/QUOTE]
I think you should make a FUTURE relationship timeline.
Like:
Tomorrow: Randomly meet hunky dude at Dunkin' Donuts. Exchange numbers.
Day after tomorrow: First date and luuuurve.
Etc.
Late April 2011: SO winks at me on Match, which I think is a lazy way of showing interest. I tell my friend the same but she says I should wink back so I do. He then proceeds to email me and asks to go out.
April 30, 2011 (I had all my dates in my Outlook because I went out on a LOT of first dates): SO and I meet up at a wine bar. I was early (as always), he was a little late (as always)...I saw him walk in and my stomach dropped and I thought "This is going to be trouble"...never felt that way before.
May 3, 2011: Second date...he tried to get invited to my place. I said no.
May 7 and 14th, 2011: Third and fourth date.
Mid-late May 2011: We make it exclusive.
July 4th 2011 weekend: First trip together (San Fran and Napa).
Mid-July 2011: He meets my family.
Late-July (I think): First "I love yous"
September 2011: Trip to Vegas (had a conference so he kept me company).
November, 17, 2011: Trip to Cancun for my 30th where the whole "I want to spend the rest of my life with you" talk came up.
Mid-January 2012: Trip to India to meet his mom and brother.
End of April 2012: Trip to Austin for his 35th.
June 27, 2012: 99.99% positive SO bought the ring this day.
August 18, 2012: SO moves in.
August 22, 2012: SO's mom and brother come from India/England to meet my family.
2003-2007: we go off to college. BF & BFF break up. And get back together. And break up. And this cycle continues for like...well, a while.
2007: I move up north.
Nov 2007: BF & I decide it's a good idea to date. He lives down south, so this is super long distance. Oh yes, and BFF gave me permission to steal her ex. She's awesome.
Nov 2007 - Dec 2010: LDR. Awesomeness, obviously.
Dec 2010: I get my butt outta school with a degree and move in with the newly employed BF
Mar 2011: I finally get a job. It took forever, seemingly.
Oct 2011: We get scuba certified! I have my 2nd (of many) panic attacks - he's since learned to basically ignore them.
Yesterday: I woke up screaming and scared the crap outta him. I'm reading a Dean Koontz book - that is my only excuse. I'm not normally this psychotic.
Today: I'm not sure - I haven't seen him yet
[QUOTE]Yesterday: I woke up screaming and scared the crap outta him. I'm reading a Dean Koontz book - that is my only excuse. I'm not normally this psychotic. Posted by Blue & White[/QUOTE]
I don't blame you. His books are so scary! But un-put-down-able too. The last one of his I read made me unable to walk in front of windows at night for weeks. So I'm not reading any more!
September 2007 break up with exbf, start to hang out with bff at the time a lot more and FI hung out with bff's bf
October 2007 actually met FI but we hated each other
March 2008 we started hanging out with the same group of people all the time
April 2008 I got the nerve to finally tell him I liked him
May 2008 it became offical
November 2009 FI buys house and we move in together
January 2010 we get our furbaby Maggie
August 2010 we talk marriage (FI said within one year we'll be engaged).
March 2011 FI buys E ring
Aug 2011 FI proposes.
Labor day weekend 2004: everyone else in our dorm goes home for weekend. We bonded over Super Smash Bros and doing laundry.
All of our freshman year: we date other people, but end up being best friends.
May 2005: Move out of dorms and I break down crying when it came time to say good bye.
July 2005: we both are single and I convince him to drive 6 hours across Michigan to come visit me. We use alcohol to break through the friendship barrier and start dating.
All of our sophomore year: happily dating and essentially living together in my dorm room because my roommate was never there. We can still share a twin bed if needed.
May 2006: I transfer to a different university. Long distance relationship begins.
October 2007: FI gets a transfer at work and moves into my studio apartment
May 2008: we get our first real apartment together
December 2008: I graduate from college, yay!
2010-2011: my sister, cousins and friends all seem to be getting married. I get a little bit BSC. FI and I have a long talk about where our relationship is going and when. This timeline had us getting married in 2014.
July 7, 2012: FI proposes a "year ahead of schedule" and I am shocked!
Hopefully August 2013: married
[QUOTE] July 7, 2012: FI proposes a "year ahead of schedule" and I am shocked! Hopefully August 2013: married
Posted by lovelyheather[/QUOTE]
Heather, I feel like I missed your proposal story. . . can you link me to it if you made a post or tell me nowwwww! :)
Married Bio
January 2008- I ask H if he wants to work with me on a semester-long group project. He says yes and we find another group member. We start talking online, at first about project stuff which transitions to non-project stuff. I realize he is very funny and he makes me laugh. A lot.
May 2008- We graduate and I move to PA while he stays in OH to work on his master's degree. We continue to talk online and occasionally flirt, but I tell myself there is no point in taking it any further since we live so far apart.
Fall/Winter of 2008/2009- We make plans to hang out whenever I return to OH to visit my family. He gives me a cow magnet (I collect cows) from his trip to Switzerland/Europe. We continue flirting online.
March 2009: One time when I return to OH we get Thai food and he pays, which is a first. We go see a movie and talk for an hour in the parking lot afterwards. We share an awkward first kiss and bemoan that we didn't realize we liked each other when we were living in the same state.
March 28th, 2009: We're talking online and I ask him what he would think about making it facebook official. He says he would like that so the 28th becomes our arbitrary anniversary.
April 2009: He comes to visit me for the first time in PA and we have a really great time.
March 2009- August 2010: LDR. We see each other once or twice a month. Suckiness.
August 2010: H leaves for his four month trip in Asia. LDR suckiness continues.
December 2010: I fly to meet H in Thailand and we spend two weeks there. H proposes!!!! And he returns to the U.S. with me :-D
February 2011: H moves in with me.
August 2011: We move to a bigger apartment.
May 2012: Murried!
Married!
"You're our early 20's BSC scarecrow. They cower at your maturity." - lennonkdc
March 2007 - become FB friends and talk through FB messaging for a while.
April 15th, 2007 - first date. Bowling, pizza/movie, I spent the night and did things out of character for a first date, but real sexy times did not happen.
May 2007 - spend a weekend in WI Dells together. Begin staying over at each other's houses more often and call it official, though we can't remember the exact date so we use 4/15/07 as our dateaverssary.
October 2008 - we take a break for a month and he decides before Thanksgiving that he wants to come back. I let him.
June 2009 - first "real" vacation together in Orlando, Fl.
September 2009 - move in together.
2010 - more vacations to Ohio and St Louis.
2011 - adopt kitties together and go to California.
Present - trying to decide if we are right for each other forever and me questioning if our relationship is really ever going anywhere. Told him maybe we should live as roommates, but feeling really conflicted about what I actually want.
What a depressing end to my post
September 2010 = we become officially exclusive
November 2010 = i make a move id been planning on for a while that conviently places me in his area
March 2011 = we start our official first joint accounts
May 2011 = he officially moves in with me
September 2011 = I start to get the wedding itch
October 2011 = we send out our first christmas cards
December 2011 - January 2012 = we have real rough times
March 2012 = we break up and I move from ny to nc to be closer to my family
April 2012 = we decide that we don't want to live our lives without each other
May 2012 = FI proposes
August 2012 = FI is making plans to move to NC with me
our wedding is August 2014
Life is good today.
[QUOTE] December 5, 2009 - snows for the first time in years, first date in park. I slip and almost bust my a$$, but FI saves me.
Posted by audrewuh[/QUOTE]
Hey, I had a job interview the day you had your first date. I remember because of the snow.
Sometime early 90's: we meet, in passing, at the school my mom taught at. It is a one time thing and we only exchange forced "hellos" at the urging of our mothers who are talking.
September 1994: Meet in choir. Become fast friends.
1994-1998: Become the best of friends. Spend tons of time at each others houses. Donald spends the time wanting to murder each and every one of my shitty ass HS boyfriends. Oh, and we both are picked for show choir and spend a couple years singing and dancing our hearts out. We were gleeks before it was cool.
1998: Donald joins army right out of HS and leaves for boot camp.
1999: He is stationed in Germany. I spend time with his mom and family during his few and far between allowed calls home.
December 2001: I get knocked up by some other dude. Donald is there for me.
September 2002: The Bean destroys my vag on his entry into the world.
2002-2004: Donald does 3 tours, including Iraq. We write frequently.
2004: He comes home in one piece but traumatized by his experiences.
2004-2009: We continue to date other people, all the while remaining best friends and never quite approving of either's choices in the opposite sex. He moves to North Carolina, but has re-inlisted in the Reserves in VA, so he crashes on my couch during duty weekends/weeks.
September 2009: Donald comes to VA for Elijah's bday party. We get drunk and do the dirty deed. He moves to Atlanta.
September 2009-July 2010: Shiz gets awkward and we barely talk.
July 2010: He comes for a short visit. Nothing happens.
September 2010: He comes for Elijah's bday. We bone some more.
February 2011: I travel to Atlanta to visit for the weekend. We spend the weekend boning and go to see George Lopez live and to an awesome dinner. First real date. It was amazing.
May 22, 2011: He texts me and says "It's getting harder, every day, to be away from you and Bean." I call, we talk, he confesses his love for me and says he can't bear to be apart. We begin a LDR.
May-December 2011: Continue LDR with trips back and forth.
December 29, 2011: He moves back to VA and moves in with me.
June 1, 2012: We find out we are expecting, but unfortnately lose our little one a few weeks later.
August 1, 2012 @ 3:39pm: I compete in a one woman, wet t-shirt contest, at my desk.
"His farts smell like Satan's asshole mixed with a skunk's vagina. But it's okay, because I love him." -CSousa
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Your Relationship Timeline : Hey, I had a job interview the day you had your first date. I remember because of the snow.
Posted by Elle1036[/QUOTE]
<div>Haha! That's awesome. My mom called me pannicking because I was going to be out driving in the snow. I had to go buy gloves and a wool coat. I had NOTHING appropriate to wear on our outdoors date. I ended up wearing a tank dress and tights because that was all I had. </div><div>
</div><div>Then I slipped on the frozen over "boardwalk" in Discovery Green. He caught me in mid air.</div>
"You're our early 20's BSC scarecrow. They cower at your maturity." - lennonkdc