Tell your love story!

Sharpschruter22 · October 2012

I havent been around in a few days and was catching up. I enjoyed reading how some of you met your fiance from your posts in the second weddings thread. So...how did you meet your fiance?

My fiance and I met online. Not on eHarmony or Match. We met on OkCupid.com. Lol. After spending quite a bit on paid dating sites and a couple of failed relationships later, I finally met The One. I find it quite funny that we met on a free site. After one month of talking, he drove five hours from Alabama to my home in Missouri. We knew it was meant to be and two months later we were engaged!

A year later, I am still completely confident that he is the one for me. I always heard the whole "when you know you know" statement and that is exactly what happened. We immediately clicked and neither of us had ever experienced that with any of our previous relationships and boy am I glad!

So tell me how you met your love!

melb2013 · October 2012

We also met online- eharmony. We joke that we're a commercial. I was in college in Boston at the time and he had recently moved to MA from NY. We had both only been doing the online dating thing for a couple of months. We had both gotten out of serious and emotionally taxing relationships about 6 months previous. Our relationship was just so easy and natural. We dated for a little over 2 years when he proposed and will have been engaged a little less than 2 years when we get married.

PJBHL5 · October 2012

We met on match.com while he was stationed in Afghanistan. We begame immediate friends and pen-pals and while we each had feelings for each other, we didn't allow it to become more than that. We talked every single day for hours on end, and we would skype though we couldn't hear each other (we would type while seeing each other) b/c of their bad internet connection. I went back to work and started dating aguy from here, and he got back in touch with a girl from back home. We lost touch for a few months... His situation with her ended b/c she was crazy, and eventually mine ended b/c he, too, was loco.
One day out of the blue, I get an email from P saying "I know, i know, i know. It's been a while..." and he went on to say that he was home, okay, and not to worry, but he'd been wounded on a mission and was sent home early. Turns out they were ambushed and his drug dog that he handled (he was military police, k9) lost it and attacked him, knocking him down a 40 foot mountain side with the 100lb dog clipped to him and no head-gear or flak vest on (he was in the process of changing his shirt when they were ambushed). He sustained several head injuries, a broken rib, punctured and collapsed lung and more. Later we found out he also sustained a brain injury in the fall.
We met up about 3 days after that email, and have been inseparable ever since.
He's always said that since we met when he was so far away, he had made it his mission to be sure that i never again felt like he was a half a world away... so for the first 6 months of our relationship, he drove 2.5 hours ot my house every night after work, then got up between 1 and 4am to drive the 2.5 hours home before work.
Once he even drove from San Antonio to Dallas (5+ hours one way) to sleep next to me for 3 hours because I was sick,then drive the 5+ hours home.

There's a lot more weird fated stuff that always fascinates both of us, but i won't bore you.

Annas2013 · October 2012

My FI and I actually met at a party in March of 2011. I was dating someone at the time (and kind of thinking about just ending it since it wasn't working out, but instead let it drag on for a bit longer). We didn't really talk or anything until August, when he was checking into his apartments where I was an RA (not his RA though). We started hanging out and really getting to know each other then. We started officially dating on September 11th, and he proposed on Christmas Day. We've been inseparable since probably August of last year though. By the time we get married we'll have been together over a year and a half.

turtleslove · October 2012

We met on Plenty Of Fish LOL. Sorry It's a stupid site but hey, it worked out amazing for me

I had gotten out of a relationship about 6 months before and I actually told FI that I wasn't what he was looking for becuase he was way too sweet and I didn't want a serious relationship at the time. About a week later I got another message from him saying hi and how are you? I wasn't sure if he rememeber talking to me before or not, but I humored him to be nice.
We got off to a slow start and finally met a few weeks later. Our first date was the night of daylight savings time and we were having such a good time just talking we ended up staying out the eintire night (including the extra hour).
He's the first guy I've said "I love you" too first and he is amazingly supportive a positive person and even my Dad likes him! haha
We've been inseperable since we had been together 6 months and we moved in together finally at the 1 year mark. Our 2 year anniversary is in a couple weeks and our wedding is 6 months after that!

tlc35 · October 2012

We also met on eharmony. I was matched with him the first week after I signed up and our first meeting was the week of Christmas. Our second date was New Years and we went out with a group. My sister and her friend got in a physical fight in the middle of Bourbon st that was broken up by a cop. I was sure he would never want to see me again because of my crazy friends but he didn't judge me for that and we obviously kept dating!

Danny&Mel2003 · October 2012

Short to the point version lol we met in high school sophomore year, junior year we started dating have been together ever since. We got engaged May 18 2011 and are getting married 2 yrs to the day later, 3 months after our 10 yr anniversary

Nessasaurus · October 2012

We met at church, during youth group, only two days after I moved to Florida from Colombia in December 2007. He was in his sophomore year in college and I was in my sophomore year in high school, I barely spoke any English when we met, but he always made sure to speak slowly so I could understand what he was saying.

Even though we liked each other for a few years he didn’t ask me out until my very first semester in college, because he said he had wanted to wait until I had graduated from high school and he had graduated from college, which both happened at the same time during the spring of 2010. He was my very first boyfriend and the very first guy I had ever been out on a date and I was his first girlfriend as well. He is the sweetest guy I’ve ever met, I am extremely blessed that we found each other

He proposed during a family trip with my parents and a very good family friend to Georgetown, in a park with a wonderful view of the city on our 1 year and 7 months anniversary. Everybody knew about it but kept the secret for a few weeks. We will be getting married exactly 2 years and a half after our first date. It was hard to convince my parents and family, since I am on my junior year in college and all of them wanted me to finish college first, but after some talking everybody was able to agree

Krikin22 · October 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_may-2013-weddings_tell-your-love-story?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20Club%20BoardsForum:ea657a87-d1dc-4588-999f-31c9deeef720Discussion:1143c217-6eea-43cc-973b-c950124146baPost:ff804bb0-1a4e-4e33-bd1a-e254d770299a">Re: Tell your love story!</a>:
[QUOTE]We met on match.com while he was stationed in Afghanistan. We begame immediate friends and pen-pals and while we each had feelings for each other, we didn't allow it to become more than that. We talked every single day for hours on end, and we would skype though we couldn't hear each other (we would type while seeing each other) b/c of their bad internet connection. I went back to work and started dating aguy from here, and he got back in touch with a girl from back home. We lost touch for a few months... His situation with her ended b/c she was crazy, and eventually mine ended b/c he, too, was loco. One day out of the blue, I get an email from P saying "I know, i know, i know. It's been a while..." and he went on to say that he was home, okay, and not to worry, but he'd been wounded on a mission and was sent home early. Turns out they were ambushed and his drug dog that he handled (he was military police, k9) lost it and attacked him, knocking him down a 40 foot mountain side with the 100lb dog clipped to him and no head-gear or flak vest on (he was in the process of changing his shirt when they were ambushed). He sustained several head injuries, a broken rib, punctured and collapsed lung and more. Later we found out he also sustained a brain injury in the fall. We met up about 3 days after that email, and have been inseparable ever since. He's always said that since we met when he was so far away, he had made it his mission to be sure that i never again felt like he was a half a world away... so for the first 6 months of our relationship, he drove 2.5 hours ot my house every night after work, then got up between 1 and 4am to drive the 2.5 hours home before work. Once he even drove from San Antonio to Dallas (5+ hours one way) to sleep next to me for 3 hours because I was sick,then drive the 5+ hours home. There's a lot more weird fated stuff that always fascinates both of us, but i won't bore you.
Posted by PJBHL5[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>Aww I loved reading this. I'm glad he is ok. That is a really scary story about Afghanistan, how's he doing now?

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DivaJenD · October 2012

We met on singlesnet.com. Both of us had done the online dating thing quite a bit. Both of us had also had emotionally draining, 3-yr relationships that both ended in 2006... We both had done some dating, but nothing serious and nothing that clicked... until we met in Dec 2007. TBH, it wasn't love at first sight... The 1st date was solid, but the 2nd date was a disaster... We went to the mall to finish up our respective Xmas shopping... He spilled chili all over his white sweater at lunch (though he handled himself well.. I wouldn't have if roles were reversed)... we ran into my cousins at the mall, and when I apologized for meeting my family WAY too soon, he stated "well I'll have to meet them eventually" which freaked me out... and then at dinner, he asked me "so where is this going?" which freaked me out even further!! ...luckily, I gave him a date #3... haha.

We've certainly had our ups and downs over the past nearly-5 years... We've been living together since June 2009, and adjusting to that was a year-long process for us... but I fall in love with him more every single day.. I trust him whole-heartedly... and I've never been with anyone so sweet and sincere. I'm so thankful I didn't go running after date #2 b/c I really would have missed out on the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Sorry... went way beyond the question at hand. haha.

melb2013 · October 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_may-2013-weddings_tell-your-love-story?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20Club%20BoardsForum:ea657a87-d1dc-4588-999f-31c9deeef720Discussion:1143c217-6eea-43cc-973b-c950124146baPost:dcd5423d-a089-4ab9-91ac-733e1eb90448">Re: Tell your love story!</a>:
[QUOTE]We met on singlesnet.com. Both of us had done the online dating thing quite a bit. Both of us had also had emotionally draining, 3-yr relationships that both ended in 2006... We both had done some dating, but nothing serious and nothing that clicked... until we met in Dec 2007. TBH, it wasn't love at first sight... The 1st date was solid, but the 2nd date was a disaster... We went to the mall to finish up our respective Xmas shopping... He spilled chili all over his white sweater at lunch (though he handled himself well.. I wouldn't have if roles were reversed)... we ran into my cousins at the mall, and when I apologized for meeting my family WAY too soon, he stated "well I'll have to meet them eventually" which freaked me out... and then at dinner, he asked me "so where is this going?" which freaked me out even further!! ...luckily, I gave him a date #3... haha. We've certainly had our ups and downs over the past nearly-5 years... We've been living together since June 2009, and adjusting to that was a year-long process for us... but I fall in love with him more every single day.. I trust him whole-heartedly... and I've never been with anyone so sweet and sincere. I'm so thankful I didn't go running after date #2 b/c I really would have missed out on the best thing that's ever happened to me. Sorry... went way beyond the question at hand. haha.
Posted by DivaJenD[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>I like this story! We didn't have a "love at first sight" experience either. We're both very analytical people, so I don't think that would happen. I felt like you told your story very realistically!

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ameliah19 · October 2012

We met and became best friends freshman year of high school. I had a crush on him the moment I met him. Fiancé not so much lol. 2 years later, our junior year of high school, we started dating. We have been together over 6 years now. We got engaged in August 2011. Funny thing is we actually went to the same middle school as well but never spoke to each other until high school.

TogetherPerfect · October 2012

We met on Match.com (and somewhat Plenty of Fish, lol). He "winked" at me on Match, but I wasn't paying for it (I had already paid for it about a year before and didn't have much luck, so I was still considering it) and I thought his profile picture looked familiar from POF, so I emailed him on there, and we started talking. About two weeks later we went to a Hockey game, which was awesome. Second date was shopping for his neice's bday present and lunch at Panara. Third date was bowling. All went pretty well, but I was interested in another guy that I talked to really well (FI is kind of shy, so I took that as we didn't talk as well, mistake lol). So after the three date rule I told him I wasn't feeling it (kinda a fib to go on a date with the other guy). Hated the date wit the other guy and was crushed cause I missed out on a great guy. Well about a week later he texted me saying he couldn't stop thinking about me and would like to give it another try. I agreed and we have been inseparable since!

CamiB30 · October 2012

It's so interesting to see how many of you met your FIs online! I met mine on PlentyofFish.com, and honestly I went into it with really low hopes, and was starting to give up because I would get the most ridiculous emails. His email was actually the first one I read that made me laugh, so I answered back and we went back and forth for about two weeks.

We decided to meet at a local dog park since we both have dogs. One of my dogs made a horrible first impression, lol. She got into a fight with his dog over a ball and ended up biting her pretty badly. I felt SO awful, and kept apologizing, offering to pay for the vet bills and whatever I could, be he kept telling me she was fine and it wasn't a problem. He was SO understanding and calm about it! We ended up leaving the park at about dusk and spent another hour or 2 talking outside by our cars. The talking continued all that night over text, and he asked me out to dinner for the next night.

We went out for sushi at one of my favorite places, and the conversation never stopped. We started talking about family, and he was explaining to me about his Mom's struggles with cancer, which made him cry. He is still completely embarassed by it, but I was so touched that he was able to show such a vulnerable side. Honestly, it wasn't love at first sight, but I found myself wanting to spend more time with him and had never been so happy with someone.
I'm so blessed to have him in my life, and I can't believe I owe it all to a free dating site! LOL

deviousmuse · October 2012

FI and I met at work. I was already working there when he got a job in a different department (though he sat not far away from me). I thought he was cute when he started, but we were both seeing people at the time.

When I was in Boston for a conference with another coworker (who happened to work closely with FI), I mentioned that I thought he was cute. Weeks later, that coworker mentioned it to FI while they were out drinking... but FI didn't believe him since I was so straight-laced and professional at work.

He and I started talking a little more when he got a puppy -- our office allowed dogs to be brought in -- and our dogs would play together during the day at my desk area. One Friday at the office happy hour, I invited him to watch football with some friends of mine at a local bar. He accepted, and then we both spent the evening trying to decide if it was worth crossing the co-worker line...

Our first kiss was that night, and we've been pretty much inseparable ever since. Five months later, he moved in, and five months after that, he proposed.

mysi019 · October 2012

My Fi and I met at a bar 9 years ago. Honestly. We were both their watching our friends sing karokee. It was by no means love at first sight. Through the years we got to know each other, I kept going back and forth from MI to Illinios for an internship for school, so we would hang out when we ran into each other, mostly at the bars. Then we started hanging out here or there, just as friends outside of bars. After I graduated and officially came home for good about 3 years into knowing him, i moved into an apt in his hometown. All the sudden he was at my apt everyday, and we realized there was more feelings there then either even realized. I joke that one day he came over and I am still waiting for him to leave. We have been together now just short of 6 years, engaged for just less than a year. We bought our first house together 2 years ago. He is my best friend and I cant wait to "officially" spend the rest of our lives together ; )

PJBHL5 · October 2012

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Tell your love story! : Aww I loved reading this. I'm glad he is ok. That is a really scary story about Afghanistan, how's he doing now?
Posted by Krikin22[/QUOTE]
He's doing well! He was medically retired from the Air Force b/c of his injuries and his official retirement date is in 6 days. He's been on terminal leave since the beginning of September.
He has some challenges, but nothing we can't handle.
I

Ggoughen · October 2012

I must admit, I needed to be reminded of this today.... I was finding my fiancé a smidge annoying today. We met on vacation! We are both big cardinals fans and met at spring training in Jupiter Florida. We were both single and not looking ( because of crappy long term relationships ending). He is friends with my best friends (now) husband and was part of an originally large group to head down to spring training. Somehow it ended up just the four of us... I agreed to share a two queen bed hotel room with him so the couple could share, provided he understood there was to be NO hanky panky. We ended up getting along okay and I honestly didn't think much of him until the last night. We spent a little too much time at the bar and he kissed me. I just took it as a drunken mistake and we agreed to be friends. For the next six months we would go on a date here or there or end up at the same social function until we just became inseparable. Two years later, this past March, he proposed when we returned to Jupiter for another week of baseball I just went back and reread what I wrote. It sounds a little drunk and trashy. I swear it wasn't

charbakes · October 2012

He started coming into my bakery when I just opened it. He asked me out not too long after, but I turned him down. I just had too much on my plate, and explained that to him. About a year after I opened the bakery, he asked me out again. This time I accepted.

The rest is history.

mysi019 · October 2012

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[QUOTE]I must admit, I needed to be reminded of this today.... I was finding my fiancé a smidge annoying today. We met on vacation! We are both big cardinals fans and met at spring training in Jupiter Florida. We were both single and not looking ( because of crappy long term relationships ending). He is friends with my best friends (now) husband and was part of an originally large group to head down to spring training. Somehow it ended up just the four of us... I agreed to share a two queen bed hotel room with him so the couple could share, provided he understood there was to be NO hanky panky. We ended up getting along okay and I honestly didn't think much of him until the last night. We spent a little too much time at the bar and he kissed me. I just took it as a drunken mistake and we agreed to be friends. For the next six months we would go on a date here or there or end up at the same social function until we just became inseparable. Two years later, this past March, he proposed when we returned to Jupiter for another week of baseball I just went back and reread what I wrote. It sounds a little drunk and trashy. I swear it wasn't
Posted by Ggoughen[/QUOTE]

NO it didnt! Did you read mine, I met my FI in a bar lol

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