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How did you feel? Was it love at first sight... elementary school... blind date... online?
The first time I saw my DH, I was in the middle of an apartment parking lot, a door opened on the far side, across from where I was facing, about to get out of my car. This man stepped out and filled the entire doorway and I just sat there staring at him. He looked like he had just woken up and was in a hurry, because he had stopped in the doorway trying to pull his jeans out of his boots. And, I kid you not, he looked up and saw me staring at him like an idiot, and he smiled this sweet grin that just floored me. I had my hair in a bun and no makeup on... grrreaatt.
But wait, there's more. Having been single for a few years, and struggling with serious anxiety, I refused to date. A friend suggested online dating, to just start talking with men again without the pressure of meeting anyone... which led to another friend who "knew someone, who knew someone" who was also trying the online dating scene. I agreed, at the very least, to give out my email address. I wound up emailing this man for the next year, with no specifics about where we lived, other than the names of the town, which were a few minutes apart. He was obviously intelligent, very funny, insightful and.... patient. I can't tell you how many times I turned him down for coffee, dinner, a drink... bowling?
I ended-up moving the few minutes from my town to the same town he lived in, not by choice, but neccessity. I needed a roommate and my friend had an extra room. That simple. An extra room in an apartment complex, where I pulled into a parking space one day and a man opened the door.
So that's how it began. And yes, I can still remember that his T-shirt was black, his jeans were worn out, and his boots were brown Doc Marten work boots (no laces). Ask him the same, and he says I was wearing a brown skirt (it was a green Old Navy maxi-dress). But oh well, I think he was in love with me already from my (thoughtfully written and witty) emails and he still doesn't complain about the bun on my head.
So, what's your love story?
(just want to be sure y'all caught the part where Mr. Sweet Grin in the doorway turned out to be Mr Amazing emails for the past year.... fate, anyone?)
I though holy crap that man is tall! Then I thought, wow he is handsome.
He is 6'9" if not 6'10" (his mom said he is an inch taller than he admits)
It was in a grad class.
Aww I love this thread!! Real life love stories :)
We met while we were working together at the same restaurant in college. My roommate, who worked with us, introduced us and told me that "she liked him for me." I secretly crushed on him for months, and I think everyone knew but him. We found out we lived right down the street from each other so we started hanging out with mutual friends. Then, he finally asked me out, and the rest is history!! I cannot wait to marry him in a month!
@lefeymw: Funny, that was pretty much my first thought too! But wow, 6'10" is really tall!
@abnorris What a sweet story! Reminds me of working in a restaraunt and all the flirting and laughing going on... congrats!!
@jjmomma: Aww, that's so sweet! I met mine in a bar on a Thursday night among mutual friends. The mutual friends showed no interest in me. If I remember correctly, I went to find my friend who was dancing with one of our mutual friends (whose wedding I attended last year). Next to him was my DH. We locked eyes immediately, danced together, then went downstairs to an adjacent bar to talk. We talked and danced up until the friends were ready to leave. We set up a date for Sunday and talked in between and when he had time away from the wedding he was attending.
I met FH in high school - I was a sophomore, he was a freshman. I thought "dang he's tall! he's cute, but is he Russian or something?" His last name is latin, and for the life of me I couldn't figure out what his nationality was. He had this super thick curly hair, gray/blue eyes, and a deep voice. I was team manager of the men's basketball team, and he had just got on the team. I had a crush on him, but we just became really good friends.
Fast forward 5 years later, I saw him in the mall one day, and thought "Holy crap!!! Is that T*****?? Wow..he's a MAN now!!!" We had our first date that day and have been together since then!
@jjmomma:That's so cute!!!
I was at a work conference. I was a manager so I was getting my team organized. A manager that I knew from another office was arriving so I looked up to say hi to him and my now DH was right behind him. I thought he was so good looking! We did a mixer later and I used it as an excuse to meet him :) I saw him at another conference a few months later and sat next to him to strike up a conversation. A few months after that we were in Phoenix for something and I ended up giving him a hug good bye. Apparently he wasn't sure if I was interested before but as we were getting ready to leave he told himself "If she gives me a hug good bye I'll know she likes me." Well I did, the week after we got back he graduated college and moved back to his hometown/the town I was currently living in, we started talking and the rest is history! 3 years later I'm very happily his wife.
We set up a meeting through Craigslist - I had a spare ticket to a concert and was in the process of reviewing and interviewing applicants (no joke, it was me and a group of friends with a clipboard). He walked in the door of the Irish pub and I thought "welp, there he is --and he doesn't look like a serial killer". I didnt think much of him romantically because I wasn't looking for a date, but that quickly changed as my interest grew exponentially as the night went on.
Turns out he was not only the best person to have chosen to go to the concert with, he also happened to be the love of my life, the perfect partner, and the best friend I could ever ask for. <3
I wouldnt call it love at first site but the attraction was there 10 fold - unfortunatley i was in a relationship when i met my husband. I can't say i didnt think about him but i was loyal to my boyfriend and a few months after i met him my boyfriend broke up with me (thank god - for i would have probably held on for much longer) and since i was newly single and my husband was new to town we started hanging out here and there - i really really loved hanging out with him, he was funny, nice, smart and oh did i say attractive? i was on a high after such a sudden low but i was not ready for a title, i mean i had just gotten out of a 3 year relationship - a few months passed and i just couldnt get this guy out of my head, we contiued to see each other frequently and after a few months of constant "talking/dating" i finally gave in and committed myself to him - Im so lucky he stuck around till i was ready to commit,
We met at work at a call centre, back when he was 19 and I was 20. I was worried about my ex joining our team, and my co-worker was curious to know which guy my ex was. She pointed to Alex (my now FI!) and thought for sure he was the ex. I had just sworn off guys maybe 2 weeks before, but...
I looked at him, and he looked at me, and it was like lightning struck. The world stopped. Clearly the feeling was mutual because he decided that his computer was "broken" so he could switch seats and sit by me. We sat side by side and talked and flirted for weeks, he asked me out, and the rest was history. I will always remember that first summer <3 and the next, when we moved in together. I know our marriage will work because we were able to live together and work together in complete harmony.
I was in a bar for a friend's birthday and he had known her and came over to say hi, he started talking to me and I thought he seemed nice but I was there to have fun and not meet any guys...well we went to exchange numbers and I had called him the wrong name and everything. Oops. I guess he took it as a challenge, because after a lot of time since that night, two deployments, and many letters, e-mails, and phone calls, he became my boyfriend, best friend, fiance, and now husband! We still joke around and I'll call him the wrong name but I promise, I'll never forget it again lol!
We were at an Ugly Sweater Christmas Party. Everyone was dressed up in horrible Christmas clothing except him. He got the invite too late to find something. He had on a black and yellow t-shirt with some weird picture on it, and I thought, he's really cute, but we never talked at all. He actually won the costume contest too, because so many of our friends sarcastically voted for the guy not dressed up. A later meeting however, had me convinced we could never date. He was talking about music he liked and things of that nature and I thought "Oh gosh he would never like me. He hates everything I like!" Now here we are almost 2 years later and I couldn't imagine someone more perfect for me. Different taste in music and all.
Well for me I met him first on a blind double date. My friend knew both my FI and his friend. My friend was interested in my FI, but didn't want to go on a date with just him right away so she asked me to come along on a double date with my FI's friend. Well, anyways, it so happened that I caught my FI's attention (and he caught mine!!), but I also caught his friend's attention. They both asked me out the week after and I had to choose. Luckily, I made the right choice :)
I don't remember much about the first time we saw each other. Since it was at my family's cottage, I happened to be a bit gunned. I do remember being around the campfire and him lying down on the sand wanting to pass out. The next night, though, I remember thinking he was pretty cute, but that he was probably too old for me (I was only 18 at the time and he was 25). He was teasing me a bit as well that night, but I figured he was just being a bit of a jerk to his friend's little cousin. Still unsure of whether he was flirting that night, yet.
Our mandatory " Exploring the Bible" class for college. I sat behind him in the last row. He knocked all my sour patch kids on the floor accidentally that I had up on my desk/ arm thing ( stadium type auditorium) and I was short a scantron for a pop quiz. He felt horribly embarrassed and also gave me a scantron ;). The rest is history!
It was FI's first day of work at my company. He walked into the building looking for the HR people who were in a different building, and I wasn't overly nice to him. He wasn't fond of me because of that either. Fast forward 3 years and he asked me to marry him.
And we still work together.
I saw him at a house party and thought ‘that guy’s cute’. Someone introduced us a few weeks latter, we started chatting on MSN, he had a crush on my BF so started asking me for advice. We became good friends and really close. BF rejected him, he got over it but our friendship remained, a few months later I realized I developed a crush on him (a huge one. What’s wrong with me? Can´t I have a healthy relationship with a guy without falling for him?).
As best friends we were he started telling me about this girl he really liked, as jealous as I was I avoided the subject, a couple of weeks later he got all annoyed and just said: When are you going to realize you’re that girl? I was 14, he was 16. And 7.5 years later we’re engaged!!!
I had just gotten back in town for work. It was the morning, and I was talking to my team's admin. He walked down the hall behind her, and I knew that I didn't recognize the profile. I knew everyone in the office (small...25 people). And I asked the admin, "Who's that???" And she introduced us. I thought he was so cute!
I was dating someone else at the time, but I definitely remember him being very cute.
We used to go to lunch together almost every day, but were just friends. A few months after I left the company, he called me up and asked me out. And the rest--as they say--is history :)
Well, met online and then arranged to meet up to see a band I liked at a local bar. I remember worrying that I wouldn't recognize him from his pictures, but as soon as he walked in, my first thought was "Oh! That's him!" and my second thought was "He seems really nice." Definitely not love at first sight. :)
@lefeymw: I come from a tall family (my younger sister is 6'1, brother is 6'6, dad is 6'9, and me and my mom are shrimps at 5'9!), so hubs only being 6'1 is actually kinda short for me. But of course, height really makes now difference, at least to me.
Neither of us can remember how we met. We grew up in the same neighborhood, and hung out with a lot of the same people. He was a grade ahead me in school, and I remember I had the hugest crush on his friend, and they used to come get me from my house on school nights, and we would go back to the friends house and drink and listen to music. I like to tell people hubs was the one who taught me how to successfully sneak out of my parents house at the age of 14 :) But, we were not attracted to each other at all until about 10 years after we met. If you would have told me growing up that I was going to marry him, I think we both would have made a horrible face, and busted out laughing and told you you were crazy.
I'd met mine on a dating site. I had filled out this endless online questionaire and plugged it into the dating sites database and did a search within 200 miles and no one matched even close. So I expanded to search within 400 miles and he popped up, matching me at about 90 percent. It would have been 100 if he had not been a smoker, and he was catholic. I decided I could live with that difference, and messaged him, he messaged back. I read his profile and I thought he was just to good to be true. Nobody could be this interesting and funny and adorably quirky. True his pictures showed a guy who was not my usual type. I always went for the tall, skinny, long haired guys (my sister accused me of only dating men who looked like Jesus) and he was short, just an inch taller than me, a little chubby, and balding. Still, he was just cute. We started talking on the phone right away, and I asked if he wanted to meet. He offered to come out on the amtrak to see me, and so he got a ticket and two weeks later I was waiting at the amtrak station for him. I was really nervous, wondering what I was going to do if he turned out to be a creep, or I didn't like him in real life. When he got off the train, I have to say I had this surreal moment, as if I'd been looking for someone forever and then there he was. A real "Aha! there you are!" feeling. I just remember him walking up to me and he was smiling, and I was smiling and then he said "Wow, you're really pretty." and I started laughing. And so I drove him to his hotel and we sat down in the lobby bar for hours talking and then when they closed we went to his room and talked some more, and then he finally kissed me and it was like hitting the jackpot on a slot machine. Yep, he was the one. Later he told me he knew he wanted to marry me when he stepped off the train and saw me. I knew I wanted to marry him the first time he kissed me. As first dates go, it was pretty awesome :-)
First time I noticed him, we were in grade 10 English Class and our teacher said that everyone in the class would pass so don’t stress out too much… then he said “oh crap” and motioned for this poor kid sitting behind me to leave the class room… He then said “OK so now everyone in the room is going to pass this class” So yea my first impression of him was not a good one 
A year latter he asked me for my number and we ended up dating for 2 years! He was my highschool sweetheart and my “first” of many things…
At the end of highschool we decided to break up because we were going to live in 2 different cities and I didn’t want a long distance relationship because I wanted to “enjoy” my college experience.
Over the next 4 years we would try and catch up a few times a year (several times almost getting back together) but finally got to the point where we lost touch and didn’t speak for 3 years.
I was at my parents visiting one day and he called my mom asking is she knew how to get a hold of me. She said “I can do one better, here she is” and handed me the phone.
He said that he was back home visiting from where he currently lived ACROSS THE COUNTRY!! We went and grabbed dinner and drinks and we picked up right where we left off. He flew back home the next day but before he left he asked me to consider moving out west with him.
One month later I dropped everything, took a huge leap of faith and flew out to join him. The rest is history :)
Exactly 13 years and 2 days to the date we first went on our first date we got married.
Haha our first meeting is hardly a love story...
I was a freshman in college, casually dating another guy. My friend and I were crossing campus and heading to grab a bite to eat. It was January and it was freezing.
We're halfway there and we run into my now FI. My friend stops and goes "oh that's my friend, lemme stop and say hi!" Grrrrrr, I was so cold... I was not happy about the detour. So we stand there for 15 minutes chatting, and I am like why am I standing here with a guy who looks like a serial killer when I could be eating chicken fingerssssssss?!? (Seriously, black shirt, LONG black hair, goatee...scary looking dude)
We finally part ways, but would bump into each other on campus from time to time (small college, mutual friends, it's bound to happen). We started hanging out more frequently over the summer... I had finally dumped the tool I was dating by that time, and we found ourselves staying up all night talking to each other. And well you know, the rest is history... :)
I was at his parent's house because I was friends with his sister and we were hanging out in their living room. He came upstairs and overheard the conversation we were having, and we got into a HEATED argument over whether Happy Potter or Star Wars was cooler (HP, obviously). The rest is history:)
Oh gosh, this is SO corny but my eyes met his and his met mine and it was pretty instant. It only got better : )
It was first day of 9th grade in public school for me- he didn't know me because I was new and a year younger...we wound up in the same Spanish class. I noticed him right away.
the first i saw my oh was in a bar in a local night club, he had come a long with his cousin, who was one of my college friends, he told his cousin that the first time he clapped eyes on me he knew i was the girl for him (we were only 18 and 20 at that time, he was really sweet and kind, not used to that in lads where i come from and i fell for him quite quickly, we date for a little while, but things seemed to dwindle for no particular reason and i didn't see him again for almost 2 years...i had sat at home one day thinking what shall i do, i still had his number on my phone but doubted very much he still had the same number.... but for some reason i decided to ring it and he answered..... we went for a drink in town and sat and talked for hours, it was lovely, when it came to coming home i walked away in the opposite direction (as we lived in different part of te city) he ran after me and kissed me in the street (i remember this like it was yesterday... i tried calling him again a few days later but nothing... i was so upset and thought i had done something wrong.....
.... well didn't see eac other for 5 years after that......
in the meantime i met someone else not a whirlwind affair i admit but i have a beautiful son from this relationship... the realationship turned very sour.... after the split, i went for a catch up drink with some old college friends and his cousin was there, we started talking about my oh, and we meet up once more....
.... turns out he left his phone on bus (so he says, but i believe him as he is just tat doppy) all those years ago...
the rest is history and hopefully a very long one, i can't wait to be mrs jones
I was sitting in my college calculus class reading a book (nerdy, yes, whatever) waiting for class to start. FI walked in and I still remember my first thought being "holy crap." I'd just never seen anyone look quite that cute. So I thought, well I'll just sit here and see if he tries to talk to me or whatever. He sat down a couple rows ahead of me, turned around and looked, got up and moved behind me. I knew then that something good was going to happen. :)
My FH and I met one summer's night in downtown Gwangju, South Korea (I lived in Korea for a few years). He was the tallest Korean I'd seen (he's 6'1") and beautiful. I was meeting a mutual Korean friend for drinks who brought along my FH. I was the first 'foreigner' he'd ever met so we chatted (as much as we could with the language barrier) the whole night and ended up setting up a date for the next day. He studied hard and became fluent in English after 4 months of dating (genius) and moved back to Canada with me. We've been together now for 3.5 years.
Such a fun thread!
I thought he was cute, but he was a football player walking into my summer school class. I had written off football players way back when and I was not interested. He was super nice, chraming, and persistent so I eventually gave in. :) I'm glad I did!
I first met my FI during a phonecall. I had called our friend to have him meet up with a group of my friends and I at a bar. The group of us knew each other from work. He said he was hanging out with his friend (FI) and maybe another time or something like that. I said, quite ballsy, 'get your friend on the phone'. He did and I spoke to future FI. It turned out he lost his license so he couldn't go the bar w/o risking getting carded and have no ID. I guess he liked the way I joked around with him or something. Then weeks later, our mutual friend called and asked me to stop by and 'meet someone'. I had a hunch it was my now FI. At this time, I was single and figured why not?! So I did meet him at friend's house. I don't remember what we actually spoke about but I did not feel love at first sight. It was more like 'he's cute'. We ended up being left alone by our friend and again, I was ballsy enough for him to drive me around our neighborhhood (late at night mind you) and we talked for a while. Maybe a week after that, we went on our first date and sparks flew. 8 years and counting. :)
We were partying in his grandparents basement for New Years, and I don't think I said two words to him. I *might* have kissed his friend. Also there is a small chance I puked in his grandparents trashcan. Really sweet stuff there.
I was actually already intrigued with my DH before I ever laid eyes on him. We worked for the same company, both hired right out of school but in different cities and were to attend a 3 week training session in the fall. I saw his name copied several times on preparation emails and let's just say his last name (my current last name) is very memorable so he definitely stuck out in my mind.
So when we were all introducing ourselves to each other on the first day of training when he said his name I immediatley perked up and said "So you're Mr. Moderndaisy!" Which I'm sure happens to him all the time, because of his name. I immediatley thought he was very cute, but when I heard him speak I was floored by just how hilariously funny and masculine he is. There was an immediate chemistry that I have never experience before and even after years of not speaking to each other did not fade away in the least.
We had been flirting on our game, and I told him to add me on Facebook so I could "stalk him." He already had a huge crush on me, so of course he added me right away! The only pic on his FB was a tiny pic where you could barely see him! I teased him about it for awhile, and eventually he posted a real pic taken from his phone while he was driving, haha. I was so excited to see what he actually looked like, and proceeded to have dreams about him while we flirted and talked over WoW almost constantly. He eventually professed his feelings for me, we started talking over webcam/Skype, and he came to visit me a few months later. Now we are engaged! Yay!!!!
@Natalieh86: haha but it's memorable! ;) Did he at least hold your hair while you were puking? just kidding
@TinyTina: Duh ;)
EDIT: WTF "Happy" Potter from my first post? I must have been in a serious hurry...for shame...
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