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My story-
Fi and I met Freshman year of high school in acting class. I took the class because I loved acting he took it for the "Easy A". Mind you he only got a B lol... There are claims that I pushed him off the stage in that class but he has no proof. But I say IF I did do that I would have had a pretty good reason to do so...
I met my FI online, on a website called OKCupid. We talked for a week or two before we met up in real life, at a Scottish pub. We talked for hours and took a walk along the water, and have been inseperable ever since!
We met at a mutual families engagement party. I was also SUPER drunk and barely remembered anything about the evening. At one point I grabbed his phone and added myself to his facebook. Weve been together ever since :)
Oh, I love these threads!
I got a random msg on myspace one day from this soldier in Iraq- not a pick up "hey cutie" kinda msg, but just a random convo. We started emailing, then IM'ing, then non stop videos chats lol. 5 months later, 2 days after he was state side, my buddy and I drove 3 hours to see him (we always did late night road trips anyway lol). 1 month to that day, I pulled into his driveway with a car packed with all my stuff! It's amazing to think that was almost 3 years ago, I'm so thankful I ignored my friends warnings and took the biggest risk of my life! I love my dork <3
When we met, I was dating his best friend. FI became good friends while I dated his best friend for 2 years. When I ended that relationship, my ex broke ties (to put it mildly) with my now FI because he thought my FI had something to do with the break-up. (he didn't)
After I broke up with ex, FI dated a HORRIBLE girl for 2 years. She abused him, cheated on him, stole money from him, and drove him away from everyone in his life, which resulted in him not speaking to me for 2 years. Bitch.
When he finally got the courage to break up with her, first thing he did was apologise to me for giving me the cold shoulder for 2 years. I ALMOST ignored his apology because I was hurt, but in the end I agreed to meet up with him and catch up.
We started meeting on a regular basis as friends, and he confessed that he'd had a crush on me for years. But I still wasn't interested at the time. Fast forward a year or so, and I FINALLY realised that the man I was looking for was right under my nose the whole time - I confessed that I had fallen in love with him and we've been inseparable ever since. :)
At work.
I was doing work experience and he spotted me. I only vaguely remember meeting him but he asked a collegue to give me his number and we started texting. Met up with him soon after and the rest is history :)
@JessieK: That takes guts, well done you! Congratulations.
At a mutual friends poker party. I'm good friends with a woman I work with, as well as her husband and their 6 year old daughter (love them all). Well, she invited me to one of the poker parties her husband throws. He invites like 6-10 people over and they play poker, have food and drinks, etc. Well she was always on the lookout for a guy for me hahaha, which I don't even know why! So she kept talking about the guys that would be there and would name them and then say "nah, you probably wouldn't like him", then she finally is like "Then Grant will be there...oh! You'll probably like Grant". I was 22 at the time, her and her husband are older than me..mid thirties. SO I was like "How old is he? If he's older than 30 then no!". Well she said she was pretty sure he was early 30's. So in my head, he's out of the question (Just because I'd never dated anyone that much older than me).
So, I go to the poker party..I'm sitting in her kitchen while she's prepping food...and Grant walks in. She introduces us and what not...and I am just DYING FOR HIM TO LEAVE THE ROOM. Because as soon as he did, I was like "HELL YEAH!!!!!". He was so tall and gorgeous, he does NOT look 31 at all (his age at the time), and polite from the moment I met him.
Anyways, after a night of playing poker (him teaching me)...everyone is leaving. I'm talking to my friend and her husband and tell them how interested I am. Come to find out he has a girlfriend of 7 years. I was so sad!!!! Anyways, the next day I wanted to find him on Facebook (yeah, yeah)..but I didn't know his last name..so I text my friend and I jokingly say "What's my future boyfriend's last name". hahahah. Anyways, fast forward..he finds out i'm interested and breaks up with his GF. Turns out they'd been on and off multiple times, they both wanted completely different things, every one of his friends hated this girl, and it was just a bad relationship all around that they were both too lazy to end for good. So we started dating, and it's funny because everytime I'd meet one of his friends for the first time they'd be like "Thank god she's gone" (the ex).
And now we've been together a year and a half, we live together, have two dogs together, we both want the exact same things, and we're super happy.
Sorry that's a book!!
We lived in the same dorm our freshman year, on a community floor that had a lot of outings and programs so we saw each other a lot. We were friends for over a year before we started dating.
On eharmony. I had been single and at complete peace with it for a year and signed up for the 3 month membership over the summer, thinking what the heck....I would start work again in September (teacher) so I figured I would be ok if the membership expired by then and I didn't meet anyone.
I was on it for about a month and went on a few coffee dates with guys, nice people but no one I really clicked with. I remember seeing his profile in the morning before work one day, and thinking that if he doesn't contact me by the end of the day, I'll contact him. Well when I got home, he had contacted me. We clicked instantly. I was the first and obviously only girl he met on the site!
Aw thanks for starting this thread! I love reading all the stories!
FI and I met at a basketball outreach hosted by my church's youth group. He's been going there for years but under a different church, then my church took over.
During the course of the night, our youth group leader ran towards me yelling "Nurse Karen! We need you!" and saw him being escorted off the court by his friends. I groaned inwardly thinking it was another rolled ankle, so when I went over to him, I immediately directed all my attention to his ankle. I'm all like "Ok let's get ice, let's elevate, blah blah" and he's like "Uumm, I hurt my knee."
Well that was embarrassing.
I stayed with him for a bit and we did the small talk. Then when I got up to leave, his friend said "Aren't you gonna ask her for her number?" as I walked away.
Well that was awkward.
Anyways, from then on we would talk every Friday at the youth group, even though we didn't know each other's name for months! We finally got each other's number because we had planned to find jobs together.
We met in January 2005 and started dating in June 2005. And now 6 yrs later, we're getting married this September!!
Fi and I met through Facebook. I had just finished creating a group for ppl with my last name (very popular name & yeh I know lame lol), and he sent me a random msg asking me how the group was going. We started talking and 3 weeks later we met in person. The rest is history, it will be 4 yrs this april that were together and in 289 days I say I do to the most awesome man ever!!!
Starbucks. He was my customer and he came in all the time when I was working. He would dress up more and more... mind you my FI works on cars and there is no reason to be dressed up haha. That was 3+ years ago and we will be married in a little less than 3 months!
P.S. I love these stories! So sweet
We met on plentyoffish, although only about half the people we know are aware of that. He had just got out of a 6 year relationship (including 10 months of marriage) and I had just moved back to my hometown and left a strange 6 month online... fling? Anyways, we chatted online a few times and then he asked if we wanted to meet up. He tells me now that he was SURE that it wouldnt' work because I was too young, but he figured he'd meet me anyways. I thought he was nice, but was wary.
Well, when I first met him I fell head over heels. Bright blue eyes, tall, handsome.. I don't think I could have asked for more. He and I went on our first date and just kept extending it! We went for dinner... then Dave and Busters.... then Yuk Yuks... then we went to my place and watched the Olympics until 3 am. And from then on out we were inseperable!
FI and I met at work. I had been with the company for about 8 months when he started. We didn't like each other at all for about a year. Then we were moved into the same office building and started talking and here we are 3 years later, counting down to our wedding!
@SweetVanity: Yay date twin!! :) Isn't it funny how things just all work out?
@KeeKalena: It really is great how it works out. I'll never live down the fact I was so mean to him though! I wouldn't be surprise if it was included in a speech somewhere.... lol. 262 days to go girl!
@SweetVanity: Hahaaha I wouldn't be surprised either! Well it's a part of your story and it all worked out in the end, so it's all good!
261 days now!!! I'm like inwardly freaking out.
Our story is pretty dorky - we met in a archaeology camp for high school students at our local university. Our first date was a few months later and about 1.5 years after that, we became "official" (a big deal in high school, but it sounds silly now!). We came to find out later that one of the TAs was pairing us together intentionally... thought we'd be a good couple. I guess she was right - we've been together 9+ years and engaged!
My SO is my bff's brother! My bff forced me to go camping with them and him. I had 0 interest and decided it was way more fun to joke with her SO about how I was going to flirt with his brother the whole time we were there. Well, the brother decided he'd flirt with me and the rest is history =)
We've actually known each other since I was in second grade, but my Sophomore year of high school we randomly both ended up on the Speech Team. Plus, his best friend was dating my best friend.
We met in 1988 when he worked with my little brother at the mall. My brother is still one of his best friends so we stayed in touch over the years. I've had a mad crush on him since the day we met.
In college, doing research. We are super nerdy, and we love it!
I was his boss. I left the job, and we started hanging out a lot more. Then, all the sudden, we were dating!
We met our first year of law school. Some of my friends met him first, and they were going on and on about how hot this guy was, and I had no idea who he was. They had been trying to get him to come out with us, but he was shy and never accepted their invitations. One day a friend pointed him out to me in the law library and said "That's the hot guy who won't hang out with us. Don't even bother trying, he'll just say no."
So, I walked up to him and said "Hi, I'm [MBB], and I'm going to pick you up around 9 to go out to a bar with me and some of my friends." His face got all red, but he wrote down his address for me and was ready at 9 :)
We met online UNINTENTIONALLY. It wasn't on a dating website. I normally frequent chatrooms, especially Anime chatrooms. One of my online friends took me to another one, which he was on (he likes his anime). So we started talking there (I remember we were arguing about religion the first time we PROPERLY talked lol). Then we moved on to Facebook, then MSN, then we spent hours and hours talking.
At that time I was 'dating' an ass who was a liar and a cheat (He had a fiancee in Texas which he never told me about, I found out on Facebook). And my SO helped me through that. After about 6 months talking, we decided that we liked each other (he kept making hints, asking me what I thought of marriage and online relationships and whatnot haha). So on January 27th 2010, we started dating :)
6 months later, in July, he drove a 12 hour journey one way from TN to FL to meet me and my family (he came with a friend). Ah, that was the first time we saw each other :)
Then I spent the entire summer of 2011 with him, and met HIS family for the first time. I love them to bits, and I'm glad they love me to bits too!
It will be 2 years this month, and I'm planning on spending the entire summer again with him and his family. I can't wait :)
I knew his brother for a LONG time before I even knew he existed. His brother promotes punk shows at local pubs, and I went to one of them, Simon was working as a bounce for his brother as a favor. When I saw them talking I was like "well hey, aren't you going to introduce me to your friend?" and he said "this is my brother Simon" I laughed (they are oh-so-different) and they both reconfirmed they were related.
Didn't see him for a few months and then went to another show where he was acting as bouncer again and I found out he owned a landscaping company, my boss needed her front yard redone and I asked him if we could exchange numbers so I could pass his info onto my boss *wink wink*. He called me the next day for a date and it was awesome! (and my boss got her front yard done by him too!)
At a bar 
He was a bartender and server at the bar down the street from where I work. I had just moved to a new town about four hours away from where I was from, so my co-workers would meet me for dinner or we would eat lunch at the pub sometimes.
Anyway, I thought he was really cute, and stuck around sometimes to talk to him. One night I was there with my co-workers and he wasn't working, but the other bartender and his mom were there, and called him to come down. We hung out until really late that night, and have been together since!
We met via OkCupid, a free and somewhat skeezy dating website. I was in an open relationship with someone else at the time, so I thought it would be ok to message a cute guy. When I first talked to him on the phone, I thought he was a TOTAL NERD (Spoiler alert: I was right). I didn't want to do anything else with him, but he found me on skype and we had an hour long conversation. Only problem was that my microphone wasn't working. So it was me miming my answers to him. About a month later, we had our first date. I'm a pretty reserved girl, but I could not stop talking to him. No awkward silences or pauses... it was like we knew each other forever. We've been together ever since!
We met on Myspace. He was looking for someone near his town to talk to late at night and I was just chatting with one of my friends when I got a freind request from him. I looked at his page and wasn't going to add him because I had no idea who he was but I saw we had a couple mutual friends so I figured, why not? A few minutes later I got a message asking how I knew one of the mutual friends and from that branched a conversation that lasted 5 hours. This all started at 3 am on December 20, 2007. We started dating Christmas day, moved in together shortly after, and (other than a couple short break-ups here and there) have been together ever since.
When I finally met my SO, it was a long time coming! We have gone to school together through middle school, high school, and college, but never met until a little over two years ago - my junior year of college. It's strange, because we have over 75 mutual friends (according to Facebook, lol). Anywho, I actually went to my old roomate's party one day (and brought my then-boyfriend), and was finally introduced to my now SO (he is best friends with my old roomate). In retrospect, it is really funny because I spent the whole night talking to him - we had such good chemistry - that I ignored my then boyfriend.
Long story short, we had such a great talk that when I left he told everyone I was going to be "his" as soon as he could make it happen. No one even told me this, but lo and behold two weeks later I dumped the other guy, and he asked me to go bowling within five days.
Overall, I think it is pretty strange that it took us so long to meet - like, why did no one think to introduce us? But fate has a funny way of making things work out, and once we finally DID meet, that was "it" for both of us :)
@GeekChic: I met my SO on OKCupid too! :-)
I had just about given up on OKCupid when I got a message from this guy. He didn't have a picture up so I had no idea he was so cute! That was 9/14/2009, we talked online and on the phone for a couple of weeks and then met on 10/3/09 and although the beginning of the date seemed a bit awkward, we went to one of my favorite spots and took a walk along the water and he stopped, looked into my eyes and kissed me. I fell for him right then and there. We were official on 10/14/09 and I love him more today than I did yesterday :-) He confided in me a couple of months ago that he had had a dream that he was on some kind of haunted ship and the thing about the ghost that was haunting it was that this ghost was his father (he died 6 years ago) and once you saw the ghost the next person you saw was the person you'd fall in love with. He saw his father's ghost and then he saw me (I was working on the boat with him) and then we fell in love. Cute right? well here's the strange part... he dreamt this about 2 years before he met me. I think his father set us up :-)
I met my FI at a cabin party on an island... I never thought I'd see him again after I got on the boat but we rode in boat back to land together and he asked me out for coffee as we got in our cars. I followed him to the mall we had Starbucks and talked for a few hours and then we exchanged numbers. Well that's the G rated version anyway lol.
I was literally the "girl next door" haha. We didn't start dating until I'd moved, though, but we were really good friends by the time I did, and started dating a few weeks after.
We met on eHarmony.com
I had been on the site for a while and was tired of it. So I called to cancel my subrciption and they said they would do it for me but not until after the free communication weekend (Valentines day weekend). FI took advantage of that free communication weekend and we started talking that Sat and met the following weekend. Never left after that :)
I love these stories!
FI and I met while he was in (my old) town on business ... 400 miles away from where we leave now. It was my birthday, and I had 2 friends in town visiting me. I took them up to a touristy town nearby and we went antique shopping and then stopped in to an old "saloon" for a drink. He was there with some co-workers and apparently was staring at me as I walked in. My friends pointed it out to me, but I shrugged it off. I was there to hang out with my girls and celebrate my birthday (in a cheesy tourist dive bar at noon on a Monday, mind you) not to meet boys. ;)
He kept staring and we eventually ended up at the same table, chatting away. I invited him out to my birthday dinner and then we ended up in his hotel room. He was supposed to be a one night stand.
Then a, "oh, just while you are in town" thing.
Which turned into an LDR.
And here we are... living in the same town, engaged and planning a wedding in 6 months!
He was my bf in jr. high. We dated almost two years. we had Every class together except one:)
DH and I met on eHarmony. What's cute is that his younger daughter, age 12 at the time, instead accidentally told one of her classmates at school that her dad met me on eBay! LOL!
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