Do you have a good 'how we met' story?

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Since I'm experiencing a rare moment of sentimental gushy-ness (must be left over from our romantic night last night), I figured I'd post a fluff thread and see how ya'll met your special someone.

FI and I met on a blind date (yes, one that actually worked out). I worked for his best friend's wife in a different town over the summer (though we both lived in the same city). Our friends kept telling us we needed to meet, but neither of us were looking for a relationship at the time. She bugged me for about 3 months to let her give FI my number, and her husband kept trying to get FI to stop by my place for a date.

So, one day after being irritate by her persistance I caved, not expecting he'd call. 2 days later he did, and we talked for like 2 hours on everything from politics and religion to whether or not we wanted kids (no sense wasting our time if we believed and wanted different things). I think I fell in love with his voice, so deep and manly, and I was seriously hoping he had the hottness to back it up (I admit, I'm a little shallow). The next day we went out, and 4 years later we're getting married. FI's best friend and Cupid counterpart is the best man.

kttest

My FI and I were born about a month apart we grew up within 15 minutes of eachother. We both attended catholic high schools in Queens, FI's HS being an all boys school, used to host Friday night dances.  I  attended quite a few of these dances.  Who knows, we may have passed eachother by or exchanged a look before we ever even met.

In October 2004 after we had both met lots of people through online dating sites, a hello was sent and emails and IM's started to flow.  After a week of chatting, we decided to meet for lunch, that was October 18, 2004.  From that day on we talked daily and saw eachother very often, almost everyday. The more time we spent together the more we realized that we were good together and shared common interests, including a love of travel. 

5 years later we are ready to start the next chapter in our story.

goheels05

DH and I also grew up 15 minutes from eachother and never met.  He worked for a large accounting firm in our hometown.  I worked for the same firm in another office an hour away.  The year I finished grad school, his office was closed and all the employees were transfered to my office.  I was scheduled on all of his engagements.  We worked together for 8 weeks during busy season, and decided that seeing eachother at work (even if it was 60 hours a week!) wasn't going to be enough.  We finished up our deadline work early and skipped work and went to the beach one day.  When we got back, he talked to HR and got me removed from his engagements so that we could date openly. 

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Yeah there was no chance of FI ever crossing paths, we grew up in different states and he was in college while I was still in middle school.

kttest--it's always nice to hear a nice 'how we met online' story. usually it's horror stories. FI's dad and his girlfriend met online too, so I guess it really does work.

goheels--FI and I did many days of playing hookie to go to the beach. Then I ended up working for him for a bit, but he was the boss of his own business so it worked out nicely (can't get yelled at for taking a long lunch break when you cook dinner for the boss!).

jesi_nickles

We played softball together about 10 years ago. Like typical young teens we both denied liking the other one. We just recently got back in touch after being apart for 2 years and I am soooo happy!

I love him to death, (when he isnt bugging me) and am actually moving out to Edmonton to be with him this summer, and I can't wait!

Jesi

Classic_amity

We were in our first year of high school. On an immature girl dare, I approached him at a party, tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Hey, me and my girlfriends over there just want you to know you look like John Mayer." Awkward pause... and then he turned around and ignored me!!!!

His friend just looked at me and said "My friend is not into that crap music, he likes real music" and walked away. Being scorned young females, we saw my FI from time to time throughout high school and would call Johnmayerboy after him, trying to embarrass him. Yes, we were dumb girls. Then I never saw him for about a year.

Anyway, I finally found his real name in my final year of high school. He had graduated and we started chatting about a project we was filming via the web. I offered to help and when we met, he realized and remembered who I was. Then it all went from there...

He still feels bad about that party. He said he was nervous. Whatever... I jokingly use it as bargaining tool for when I want shoes. 

cukimerrydoll

The first time we met was before I ever knew Tony.  When we were little, if we didn't bring the dog inside quickly enough, or if it were storming, she would run off.  Shadow would spend her free time with Tony's dogs, Lightning and Nakita.  I remember her playing with Kita when she was a puppy, and Tony became the boy with the huskies.

We formally met when I was in high school through mutual friends, and we hit it off instantly.  It wasn't until I was in his backyard when I realized how I had known him. And Lightning is still alive - he just turned 15.

Moscow04

My FI and I have known eachother since kindergarten so I don't remember the first time that we met. ( I wish I had that "the first time I saw him I just knew" feeling but we were 5 lol) We met eachother because we were both in the same homeschool group and were friends all throughout elementary, middle and high school.  We each left for college (him a year earlier) and he went out of state.  We lost contact for several years until after I graduated we reconnected through a mutal friend and have been together ever since.  We knew within two weeks of dating that we were it for eachother so the whole dating process we spoke in terms of "when we get married..."  It took a ton of stress and pressure off knowing that we could talk openly and freely about our future straight from the beginning without scaring eachother off. 

Kaydon_the_dino

My fiance and I met one of the first days at college. I went in knowing no one and as such was taken up as a charity case by one of the dorm's leadership and was dragged around by her. He was being dragged around by another member of dorm leadership and we ate lunch together.

I thought he a creepy guy with a unibomber beard (in my world no 18 year old had a beard) and he thought I was an immature freshman girl (he had taken a years worth of college credits in high school and made sure everyone knew that he was technically a transfer student, not a freshman.

We kept crossing paths occasionally but only started talking when he was a roommate of a good friend junior year. He started making dinner for me whenever I'd come over, which was awesome because I can't cook for crap. And we went from there.

Huskerfanz

We lived in the same dorm my freshman year/his sophomore year.  I was down on his floor visiting some other guys I knew and heard a football game coming from his room so I poked my head in to check the score.  Made plans to watch football together and our relationship grew from there.

aggiebug

the funniest part about our story is neither us know when we actually met!

We know it was through a mutual friend and we presume it was at an athletic event at school, all I remember is him randomly started IMing me (he swears that is not the case).  He got me a ticket to a sold at b-ball game and took me to dinner with his gift card he just won, that was our first date. 

We actually broke up after a month of dating but stayed friends and he would ask me for advice on his other gfs. hehe I guess it worked out in the end!

saxy414

My FI transferred to my high school half way through our senior year, and became good friends. We went off to college, and a few years later, he and I reconnected as friends (we'd lost touch a bit through the end of college).  He came to my graduation party, and told my best friend he'd thought he may have had feelings for me for about the last year (since about the last time I'd seen him)--and two days later, as I was literally walking across the bridge-thing to board a plane to London, he told me the same thing. Through a text message. Awesome, right?

When I got back, everything felt so wonderful and right, and a little over a year a half later we're engaged :-)  We talk about how funny it is we were such good friends, and never thought to date--but I guess we see things when we're ready!

kkrissel

We met in college, his freshman year, my soph (yes, I am a cradle robber!).  We played in the wind ensemble together, he sat behind me so it was always very obvious when I was trying to sneak a peek!  We were both dating other people at the time, but that didn't last long.  It was one of those attractions you just can't ignore, so we didn't.  We stayed together for the next 3 years, then it came time for me to graduate.  I had this amazing opportunity to go study music in Europe, and he, being the wonderful man that he is, wouldn't have me miss that chance.  So I took off, we split (the time and the distance were too much) and broke off all communication because it was just too hard.

Finally, 3 years later, when I was finishing up my Masters, he started IMing me out of the blue.  It took us all of 5 minutes to realize we were still madly in love with each other.  So he flew out, proposed, and here we are!

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Wow, you're right. We do have very similar stories! When FI called me, he said 'So apparently I'm supposed to ask you out on a date.' So I said, 'So ask...wait, you're not like a serial killer or some other kind of psycho, are you?' When he said, 'I don't think so, why is that a problem?' I knew he was a keeper.

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FI and I met during a community theatre production of "Cannibal! the Musical".
Very romantic, if i do say so myself.

megk8oz

We keep saying we need to "invent" a better "how we met" story, because we always sound like jerks. Even though we're not the jerks:

The first time we met was on a double date with our [at the time] long-term S/Os. DH, his ex and my ex all went to high school together and they were really good friends. DH and I immediately got along really well, we share the same sense of humor, so we became good friends as well.

Both relationships wound up going south about a year after we met (Their fault, really, I swear!), and we started hanging out to cheer each other up. We wound up healing and once we were "over it", we realized how much we really enjoyed being around each other (We actually tried seeing other people at one point saying "No, this would just be a rebound") ... and it just kind of took off from there.

526SadieSadie

I met my guy in kindergarten, too!!  We had all the same friends growing up and never ever saw each other in a romantic way until three years ago!

FutureMrsBoucher

It's on my wedding website, but i'll try to keep it short and to the point [:

FI and i both play guitar and sing, though he's much better at it than i am. (he's a worship and music studies major, i'm a business marketing major.) we met at open mic night at our university. he had come in a little late and i was already on stage. apparently i struck him as cute and he liked the fact that i played guitar, too. then he played and i was like, "whoa!" then afterward he came up to me and said that i did a good job. i'm sure i blushed and giggled and said the same thing back to him, then later that night he added me on facebook. the rest is history [:

Jenni83

I got out of work early one day and my mom asked me to go to her friends house with her to take care of her cats(her friend was on vac). while there my moms friends son and his friend came home from work. i talked to the son for a bit and then left.when my moms friend got back from vacation she called to tell me that her sons friend was intrested in me and wanted my number, at first i was very shy but after a few weeks i agreed, he called and we were all set to go on a date that fri night, on wed i got a call saying "if Jeff doesnt call you for the date ts not bc he doesnt like you its bc he away for work"  i thought to myself yea right i should have never caved and gave him my number. that same night Jeff called he was at his hotel on his way to La for hurricane Katrina relief efforts we talked all night. & from that night on he called me everynight and we talked for hrs, 3 weeks later he came back to NY and that same night even after driving 18 hrs back we went on a date & the rest is history.

EStar73

We met through ballroom dancing. When I transferred to the University he was getting his Ph.D. at I needed a new partner and he was the only boy on the team who competed at the same level as me so we started a partnership, then a friendship, then a relationship!

nefariousmango

FI and I met online.  We were given a <40% compatability rating, but I was a 98% with FI's roommate at the time and one way or another I ended up chatting with FI instead of the roommate.  We e-mailed etc for about a month before he got up the guts to call me, and we finally met a couple months after that. 

He was going to take me to the zoo for our first date, but he showed up hours late, hungover, and looking like an ax murderer with an unkept beard and bloodshot eyes.  I think the no-zoo decision was mutual, but we ended up walking around downtown and then sitting in the park for ages, just talking about everything.  When he dropped me back off, he (awkwardly) asked if he could come in for a glass of water.  He never got the water but we did sit in the kitchen and talk for another couple hours. 

I'm glad I didn't judge him based on his appearance, as it turns out he doesn't drink and he's the most prompt person I've ever met!  His roommate had taken him out the night before and somehow convinced him the everclear shots would be awesome.

Oh, and we travel a lot and make a point of going to new zoos every chance we get!

SAHM711

My FI will tell you that I "stalked" him.  In reality, I guess I sort of did!  A little over a year ago I had just joined facebook, and I was playing around on my profile, clicking on the words in blue.  I discovered that brought up profiles of other people who had the same words in their profile.  I decided to click on "looking for a relationship" to see what came up, and it brought up an option of narrowing a search (not even sure if it still does this).  FI came up in the search.  I thought he had beautiful eyes and a great smile.  In his profile he said that even though he didn't have kids of his own he was the cool uncle to some wonder kids.  I consider myself the cool aunt to my nieces and nephews so I liked that.  It also said he was single and actively looking.  I decided what the heck - a year of eHarmony had gotten me nowhere - so I sent him a very brief message saying he didn't know me, but I found his profile interesting - Go Steelers (he was at a game in some of his pics).  He messaged back that while he hadn't thought of fb as an interest site, why should he limit himself.  We started chatting via fb, three weeks later we met, and we hit it off.  We've been together 13 1/2 months, and we've been engaged for a month and a half.  The funny thing is we know a bunch of people in common and lived about 2 miles from each other for a few years, but never met.