New topic! I'm bored and feel like repurposing my repeat post.
How did you and FI meet? When did you know your FI was "the one"?
My FI and I met at summer camp. I was 13 and he was 17 when we first remember meeting, but we had both gone to camp as camper for a number of years prior. We both worked there for a good number of years and were co-workers and friends the whole time. It wasn't until my best friend from camp and his best friend started dating that we ended up hanging out just the two of us. We went up to his friends apartment for a night to party and after our two dating friends went to bed we were left alone. We stayed up all night talking. The next night the four of us plus a bunch of other friends all went to my place to party and again we stayed up long past everyone else. He kissed me that night and we've been inseparable ever since. I was 20 and he was 24 when we started dating. The two dating friends are now our MOH and BM. He even opted to go to grad school where I was finishing my undergrad degree. In the four years we've been together the longest we've been apart is ten days while he gone at a national conference.
Not sure when I knew he was the one. Maybe when we took our first big road trip together. We'd been together about five months and the end destination was his family in Chattanooga. I got to meet all of his extended family and they loved me!
I have his late grandmothers ring as my engagement ring. When she passed and his mom and her siblings were splitting her belonging, his mom swiped the ring fast knowing she wanted him to have it for me. They had the ring and were in cahoots about the proposal for like a whole year before he actually asked.
Re: How you met stories
No, seriously. He works with my brother and about 4 years ago I stopped by their work to talk to my brother and he said he was staring at my ass through the shop doors!! He asked my brother WHO was that??!! and my borther said "My SISTER! don't even think about it!!" lol he had his eye on me though! (I was dating my douchebag Ex though so I was not even thinking about dating someone else... )
Fast-forward to December 2010- my friend and I wanted dates to our work's Christmas party- my brother said he'd go with my friend and he was going to bring me a date (I had left my Ex about 3 months before) My brother told FI I needed a date and he JUMPED at the chance... so technically it was a blind date...
it was about 3 weeks later my brother texts me from work and said "A**** wants to go on a real date with you" I responded "hahahahaaaa seriously?" (lol) so we went out on Jan 2nd and it's history!!
He popped the question on Feb 10th 2011 using his grandmother's diamond and our wedding date is June 1st 2013!!
BTW- I had a 10 month old baby when he wanted to "go on a real date" thats why I was so taken aback about him REALLY wanting to date me! well, he's been the best thing for my daughter and I- better dad to her than her Bio-dad ever would have been!!! Couldn't ask for a more dependable, hardworking, family oriented, loving, fun guy!!
The friend who had initially invited me over all the time wanted to introduce me to one of his roommates who was single (with all the parties and gatherings there I wasn't formally introduced to FI for a few months even though he was one of the house residents!). At the time of introduction, FI was drunk and having a cigarrette to which I turned to my friend and said "uhhh you know I don't date guys that smoke." Future FI heard this and replied with "uhhhh well I wasn't asking you out, b*tch." I learned later on that he wasn't a true smoker and only had a cigarrette or two when he drank, and after my comment never had a cigarrette again b/c he wanted to date me. We ran into each other at a bar a month or so later and started talking. He asked for my number, we went on a date the next evening and have been together ever since, and of course laugh about how we got off on the wrong foot all the time.
I knew he was the one when it took him a full 365 days to say "I love you." By that point we had been living together for quite some time and he had seen every side to me there was to see and I knew that he truly meant the words and we'd end up getting married. He proposed 9 months after saying I love you, and as it turns out he had started saving to buy me a ring when we were only dating for 6 months, which is even sweeter because he had been thinking about it for really long time before it happened.
The night after our first date, I called my best friend and said that I thought I could marry him. I am not sure when I 100% knew for sure, but it didn't take long. Our relationship was so different than any before him. I previously dated jerks and spent the whole time stressed and full of anxiety - always fighting. With FI, we rarely fought and just had fun all the time. Tons of laughing and it was all just so easy. I finally realized "oh! this is what it's supposed to be like!" We said I love you at Christmas.. so a few months into the relationship and moved in at about the 1 year mark. He proposed a month or two after our 3 year anniversary.
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These stories are so sweet. I am so glad I took a break from work.
I met my FI online- Here is the backstory: My first husband died when I was 29 from cancer. About a year after he died all my friends, family and my late husbands family were pushing me to date. But I was like no, I don't want to meet anyone. Just shortly before the 2 year anniv. of his death, on Christmas Eve (which was late husbands birthday) my daughter who was 7 says to me right out of the blue "Mom, do you know what I think Daddy would want for his birthday", and she says "I think he would want you to find a boyfriend" And I responded "why do you think that" and she said "Daddy loved you so much he wouldn't want you to be alone." So I think that was what I needed, to know that she was ready too. So I gave my friends some ground rules- Never married, no crazy ex wives, no kids, cant want to have kids but has to be ok with mine, good paying job, own his own home, can't smoke and can't work in construction (not being a snob- at the time I was working in construction and just didn't want to come home to it) dark hair, dark eyes, in good shape, likes cats and dogs and Christian. My sister is like good luck with that! So she suggested I do an online dating site. And that is how we met. And I knew he was a good egg when he didn't even react when before our first date I asked to run a background check on him...seriously I did, even though I knew for his job that he gets background checks and has high level govt. security clearance.
So we dated for a few months before I let him meet my daughter. As he is on his way over to meet her for the first time she pukes all over her bathroom floor. So when he gets to the door I am like this is not a good time. And he says, let me come in and help you. So, he sits down on the couch with my daughter, holding her hair back and handing her a wet washcloth as she pukes more in a bucket and I am upstairs cleaning the floor. And the whole time I can hear her talking to him in between puking, basically interviewing him-what do you do, where do you live, do you have any cats, whats your favorite color, etc.etc. Then he played Disney trivia with her. So, that night I had a feeling he could be the one.
We have been together for 11 years. FI was the first and only guy I dated and everyone is convinced my late husband sent him because he met every single one of my qualifications and he and my daughter have a great relationship and his first name is Scott and my late husbands best friend is named Scott.
I WAS WRONG. After i became single i spent ever single second with Austin we did everything together we enjpy doing the same things and just loved being together. He asked me to go to the school dance with him my junior year of highschool. I remember he asked me to go as friends because he knew i just got out of a tough relationship, however by that time i had totally fallen in love with him, as much as you can fall in love at 16 anyway. We hung out about a week before the dance and he ended up kissing me and i have never looked back! That was five years ago!
We dated my junior and senior year of highschool flawlessly really, we are perfect for each other. Compliment each other very well. Won cutest couple senior year, the whole nine yards. Once we graduated high school he went to the Coast Guard Academy which is in Connectuict and 6 hours away from me. I remember thinking back to how horrible Long distance was but there was no way i could give him up just because thats what he wanted to do! He has been in the coast guard and us long distance 3 years now and it has been such an incredible experience. He is currently finishing his last year this year before he will graduate an Officer and we will get married a week later! Its amazing seeing all these things we talked about when we were "just kids" dating at 16 and going into a long distance relationship fresh out of highschool actually happening!
I moved to Coventry when I was starting 7th grade and on the bus there was this hot guy on the bus but he sat in the back cuz he was in highschool (highschool and middle school shared buses) I found out that he was my next door neighboor and for 5 years even when he wasn't there anymore cuz he went off to college I would go by and tell my friends. that he was my boyfriend and he just doesn't know it yet. that 5th year I got a job at a cvs down the street from my house and sure enough I found out he was back and he would come and talk to his friend that also worked there. SO I got some information from him. Then a couple weeks later he came in to get moutain dew but his friend wasn't there so i checked him out and told him that I was his neighbor. He told me that i freaked him out hahaha. But it worked and he found me on myspace through his friend and asked me out on a date. And we have been together ever since and are going on 6 years together and haven't spent more that a day without each other!
FI met when I was 19 and he was 24. He was in a fraternity with one of my good friends boyfriends. One night, he invited a lot of his friends out, she invited her friends. It wasnt even really a set up, and I was just coming off a 4 year relationship and had a horrible break up, I wasnt really interested in dating or meeting anyone. Well we started talking, and never seperated after that night. I actually moved back home and transferred colleges because I hated being away from him.
My FI and I met by fate I believe. I was just getting out of a bad relationship and was swearing off guys. I was hanging out with my bff before she left for college, as we were so used to seeing each other since I was going to the community college while she was in her last year of high school. She was crushing hard on one of her co workers at her summer job. She wanted to see him before they both went back to school and asked if it was okay to go to the town he's from, which was 45 min away. The catch was for the guy if he could find a friend to come along so it wasn't awkward for me. My FI was that friend. We found out we went to the same comm college and spend many hours walking and getting to know each other. He was very patient in letting me take my time before we started dating. I find it funny that my bff and his friend were practically dating and they ended up never dating and now my FI and I are getting married. It was like a blind date set up sorta! My bff is pretty dang proud to be my MOH and share this story at our wedding how she played a HUGE role in us getting together since if it wasn't for her wanting to see that guy, I probably wouldn't have met the love of my life.