How did you and your FI/ spouse/ boyfriend/ girlfriend meet?

jdluvr06 · April 2014

I had just broken up with this guy and when I told my BFF he said "good he was an asshat. I have the perfect guy for you. We'll studying here tomorrow you can meet him". So I showed up at the library the next day and we clicked.

shaylagirl · April 2014

Met online.

In his contact, he stated he was looking for something serious; after lots of time together, he admitted he was really only looking for a hook-up, and kinda-accidentally fell for me.

Our first 'date' was at a fairly well-known biker bar near my home. Grabbed a few beers, ate some tasty burgers, and talked.

emmaaa · April 2014

FI and I "met" at daycare when we were 3 years old and really met in kindergarten. We grew up five miles apart and were good friends all through school. Partly because FI's best friend is also my best friend since he is like another brother to me. We didn't start dating until senior year of high school though.

msuprincess04 · April 2014

Match.com. Though for the first few months, we were on opposte sides of the planet as he was deployed literally a day after he sent me a message. Got to know each other over Skype, but decided we were better just as friends. A year later, got drunk, hooked up, getting married in 3 weeks.

penguin44 · April 2014

We met my freshman year of college at a party. We were both with other people, and he wasn't completely drunk. He doesn't even remember that night. But throughout that year my BF and I became friends with him and his GF. Then both of our relationships ended around the same time, and they were very bad breakups. He started texted me all the time, and then he asked me to go to Dairy Queen with him. It was supposed to be a casual relationship. Apparently neither one of us is good at that. Oops!

CMGragain · April 2014

Church. Yes, really!

KatWAG · April 2014

At a bar. I hit on him. Then we got drunk and had sex. Yup, I am classy like that.

AuroraRose41 · April 2014

My BF and I met in college during my sophomore and his junior year. We went to a small engineering college in Upstate NY, and many classes had students from different graduating years in them. We both had to take a C++ programming class, and I was one of 2 girls in the class. I was also the only blonde female student in the engineering department, so I stood out, a lot. Well, one day right before lecture starts, my BF and his friend sit down next to me, and BF cracks a sarcastic joke to get my attention. I give him a witty response back, and we are instant friends. We would do our programming homework together, and then we started hanging out a lot and eventually started dating.

However, what he later told me, is that his friend bet him to go sit down and talk to the "pretty blonde", and if he didn't, his friend was going to. What he also didn't tell me until later is that he had previously taken a C++ class at his community college (he transferred to our private university his junior year; the credits for that class didn't though), and would make mistakes on purpose in his coding homework so that he could spend more time with me by asking me to check it. We laugh about it to this day.

ETA: words are hard without enough coffee.

cupcait927 · April 2014

At a bar. I hit on him. Then we got drunk and had sex. Yup, I am classy like that.

I am so happy that I'm in good company with you and @swazzle Our first date, which was just a premise to having sex, was at a bar where I proceeded to get very drunk, stayed until 2 am and went back to his place where I remember very little of the evening. Luckily he still liked me the next morning and we went on a proper date after that. I can only imagine how sloppy the sex was...

afox007 · April 2014

We met at work. I just got out of a shitty relationship he had just seperate from his wife. We decided to have use each other for a one night stand as a "pallet cleanser". I got too drunk to drive home after hooking up so reluctantly stayed the night. When we woke up next to each other it was the most normal feeling ever and 2 years later we're still together.

BreMR · April 2014

My best friend since first grade had the biggest crush on my cousin, but felt really guilty about it, so she said "it'd make me feel a lot better if you liked my cousin." Half kidding of course, but then she introduced us when we were in 10th grade and we've been together ever since.

Fun fact: her and my cousin never dated... it never went beyond the crush for her...

lightningsnow · April 2014

BF and I worked together and knew each other about a year before we started dating. When we first met, I was in a somewhat relationship with another co worker. When that went nowhere, I broke it off with that asshat. I then developed a huge crush on BF's best friend. I decided to give his best friend my number until he informed me he was already in a relationship.

BF's best friend and his GF, now FI, convinced BF to give me his phone number. Later that day I asked him if he wanted to do something Saturday night. Our first date was bowling and dinner and we found out we had so much in common and both felt so comfortable with each other. It's been almost 5 years since then.

SBmini · April 2014

We met at a party after a car meet. I was just 17, it was my first ever time going to a meet. After the meet, my friends were going to a friend's house for his 30th birthday party. My FI thought I was someone's girlfriend, it wasn't until pretty late into the evening that he realized that I wasn't with someone.

Interestingly, that night, I was introduced to my FI's long time friends Mariano and Julie. They had just been married and Julie kept introducing herself as "Mrs. last name" with a big smile on her face. They now have two kids and will be at the wedding. As will the guy whose house we met at and the people who brought me to the meet in the first place. I had the fortune of matching the guy whose house we met at up with a really great girl about six years ago. They are still together now.

mbross3 · April 2014

We met at work. We were friends for about a year (he was getting out of an 8 year relationship and I was in the midst of a really messy relationship). I don't even know when it happened, but one day our relationship just changed. We can't even really decide when our first date was, we've picked this random weekend trip near the beginning of our relationship where we ended up getting three cars and a boat towed--quite the adventure. We decided since we didn't strangle each other over all that frustration, we could try for a relationship. It's worked out so far!

flyingfoxes · April 2014

eHarmony.

MuppetOverlord · April 2014

Plenty of Fish ---which I find to be the worst dating site...ever...but I liked this one guy

phira · April 2014

MuppetOverlord said:

Plenty of Fish ---which I find to be the worst dating site...ever...but I liked this one guy

It really is a terrible dating site, and most of the people on it ... I just can't even. Glad it did work for you!

I know a lot of people who tried OKCupid and had no luck. I was one of those people for a long time. Lots of unreturned messages, creepy IMs from creepy guys, almost no 3rd dates, etc. I really lucked out finding my partner's profile, especially since he also was having no luck and was days away from deleting his account.

CMGragain · April 2014

I like my daughter's story. She was at a party, unloading on a male friend about her failed relationship, and what she wanted in a mate. After listening to her for a while, her friend said, "See that nerdy looking guy by himself over there in the corner? He is what you want! Go get him!"

sassyfrass2014 · April 2014

Summer Camp! We were both campers there for our whole lives, and then we both ended up working summers there in high school and college. One summer, I had just come off of a really weird relationship, and he made his move. He later told me that he'd liked me for years, and was sort of waiting for me to be in a place where I'd be ready to be serious with him. The camp has a bit of a reputation of bringing spouses together!

chibiyui · April 2014

phira said:

MuppetOverlord said:

Plenty of Fish ---which I find to be the worst dating site...ever...but I liked this one guy

It really is a terrible dating site, and most of the people on it ... I just can't even. Glad it did work for you!

I know a lot of people who tried OKCupid and had no luck. I was one of those people for a long time. Lots of unreturned messages, creepy IMs from creepy guys, almost no 3rd dates, etc. I really lucked out finding my partner's profile, especially since he also was having no luck and was days away from deleting his account.

Plenty of Fish was terrible. Okcupid certainly has low nores, but PoF seemed to be only low notes.

pinkshorts27 · April 2014

We met playing soccer in middle school. I knew his dad before I knew him and he knew my mom before he knew me. I thought he was a stuck up jock (he was just shy), he thought I was a year older and part of the "in" crowd (I wasn't, just soccer-friends with a girl from the "in" crowd at his school). Finally we started talking. We played every friday together for years. I got his phone number in high school to invite him to paint ball. We exchanged thousands of texts and I was royally grounded. Started dating as juniors when I asked him out.

Now, seven years later, we are getting married.

selenathegreat · April 2014

Clean version: He was a film production major and was assistant director for his friend's dumb senior project movie. I worked at a humor mag with his friend and volunteered as an extra for the movie. Out of all the egotistical actor and filmmaker types, my FI stood out as being really sweet and decent.

Dirty version: After filming one night we went out for one if the actor/humor writer's 21st birthdays, we both got SUPER drunk, made out on this other guy's couch, and ended up in my twin bed in the laundry room/my room where I unfortunately lived. I was totally nervous asking my one-night-stand the next day if he wanted to go out sometime, and he did!

manillabar · April 2014

I also met my FI on OKCupid... I had been on and off for a few years and so had he when he finally messaged me.

Our first date started off really well, we had dinner and didn't want the night to end so we ended up back at my apartment to watch a movie. Well, right after Sleepless in Seattle finished, we were just watching TV and talking when I puked. Suddenly, without warning, all over the couch, coffee table, carpet, and his keys. Luckily, I didn't get any on him, and he was sweet enough to stay while I got cleaned up and even hung out for a while after that. When he finally left, however, I was still certain I would never hear from him again. Boy, was I surprised when he called me for another date the next day!

manillabar · April 2014

chibiyui said:

MuppetOverlord said:

Plenty of Fish ---which I find to be the worst dating site...ever...but I liked this one guy

It really is a terrible dating site, and most of the people on it ... I just can't even. Glad it did work for you!

I know a lot of people who tried OKCupid and had no luck. I was one of those people for a long time. Lots of unreturned messages, creepy IMs from creepy guys, almost no 3rd dates, etc. I really lucked out finding my partner's profile, especially since he also was having no luck and was days away from deleting his account.
Plenty of Fish was terrible. Okcupid certainly has low nores, but PoF seemed to be only low notes.

OMG yes! PoF is the worst of the worst when it comes to dating websites

SBmini · April 2014

CMGragain said:

I like my daughter's story. She was at a party, unloading on a male friend about her failed relationship, and what she wanted in a mate. After listening to her for a while, her friend said, "See that nerdy looking guy by himself over there in the corner? He is what you want! Go get him!"

Awww! That's awesome!

JCbride2015 · April 2014

A high school girlfriend of mine worked at the same summer camp as Fi. He went to the high school one town over from us. Friend was dating a guy from the same school as Fi. A few months later, my friend's BF was grounded and she enlisted Fi to sneak her BF out of the house, pick up the two of us, and drive us to the movies.

Before he came over, I asked my friend if he was cute. She told me he wasn't my type! We bonded instantly with our first conversation about gummy bears, and have been together ever since. 11 years!

buttercup1958 · April 2014

I met my guy in mineralogy class! I didn't talk to him at first, way too shy. Luckily I had trouble carrying a large tray full of heavy minerals and he came over to help me. I asked my coworkers if he was single and they said yep! He asked me out a few days later! He thought I didn't like him at first but I was nervous to sound stupid so I barely talked haha. We learned nothing from that class but it was completely worth it. we just had our 8 month on the 21st!

LadyMillil · April 2014

Short story - eHarmony

Long story - A friend convinced me to try online dating to get over my asshat ex. I signed up for 1 month, went on a lot of dates with a bunch of nice guys, but didn't meet any one I wanted to start a relationship with. I was going to cancel my account at the end of the month, but a different friend convinced me to keep it. Her logic was that if I went out on 2 dinner dates a month and the guy paid I would be getting my money worth. Lucky for me, this logic worked on me. On the last day of the first month I was matched with DH. I immediately closed the match because he lived in a town outside of the city I was living in, and I didn't want to leave the city to meet a guy. He asked me to reconsider and we had our first date 2 weeks later.

Vivandiere8 · April 2014

We were both ballroom dance instructors when we met. I was hired into the studio he worked in, but at the time we were both dating other people and never looked at each other in a romantic way. We worked in the same studio for years, hung out with the other instructors, I was some times dating, some times single, he was always with the same person. Eventually he and his long term girlfriend broke up, she behaved very badly through it all, harassing him at work (she also worked at the same studio) me and the other co-workers began taking him out for drinks, or a movie after work to cheer him up and get him away from his crazy ex. as time went by he and I grew closer, though it wasn't until about a year after he had broken up that we became an official couple because he was trying to make sure he wasn't just rebounding. I can't say he was then the last person I dated because in the five years we dated we did break up and briefly saw other people, but both of us found we were just wishing the other was with us because everything was more fun that way.

amakayeb · April 2014

One of my college roommates took a teaching job back in her home state. I was attending her wedding, and she and a couple other people told me about this guy from their church who was going to be doing his 'internship' in the town where I live. Ironically, this church always has an 'intern', and every year people would tell me they hoped he would be single, but every year the guy was either engaged or married.

I sent him a Facebook message over the summer, (which was one of the most difficult things I've ever done--I'm super shy!) and we sent a few back and forth. He told me he would let me know when he got to town. Fast forward to the end of August...I knew he'd been here for a couple weeks, but hadn't heard anything so I pretty much gave up. The next day, I got a message from him, and we set up a first date that neither of us was sure was a date.

I didn't find out until after we were engaged that my friend also sent him a really nice e-mail telling him about me and that she never does things like this, but she really thought we would be good for each other. (She is one of my bridesmaids.)

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