General chatter - How Did You Meet Your Significant Other?

I always love reading about how people meet their significant others. Each one is always so different and interesting.

So, how did you meet your boy/girlfriend, fiance, or husband/wife???

I met my fiance on match.com. Kinda lame I know, but when I signed up for match.com in 2005 when I was 22, it was more out of boredom and curiousity then a real desire to meet someone online. I had just graduated college and had moved to Nashville by myself for a 6 month school to get my paralegal certificate. At that point in my life I had had nothing but bad "relationships" (really only one serious boyfriend in college for a few months) and had met crappy guy after crappy guy. I was basically bored and lonely in Nashville not knowing anyone at all, so I signed up for match.com just to get a kick out of it. I met a couple of guys there, but nothing that sparked any real interest. A week before I moved back to Virginia to start a new job I got a message from my now-fiance. I was planning on just quitting the whole online thing because I was a little bored from it, but I decided it might be worth it to just meet this guy once. I met him for the first time a week after I moved up to Northern Virginia and started my job, and I fell for him instantly. We bought a house together last February, and got engaged in October 2007. We are getting married in October 2008.

I still think it's a bit funny sometimes that I have found someone who I want to spend the rest of my life with. After all of the crap experiences I had with guys in college, I had basically completely given up on the thought of ever meeting someone who could just like me for who I was, and the thought of ever getting married just really made me laugh. But I wouldn't exchange what I have for anything. Meeting someone online might be a little odd, but for me it turned out to be the best experience of my life. :)

I had an electric guitar and amp that was taking up space in the trunk of my car and I advertised it on craigslist. I got tons of responses, but I let him have it because he was first. He met me in the parking lot at neighborhood market to get the guitar, and then asked me out about a week later. He took me to see the Fray on our second date. We've been dating a little over 6 months.

I was 12 and at a church camp. The boys were not allowed to step off the path in the girls cabin area and this 13 year old boy and his friend did. (I always did go for the rebels!) We remained friends for many years, set each other up with friends (I even went to HIS senior prom with HIS bestfriend - that didn't last as said bestfriend was always jelouse of our relationship) Long story short - 23years later we have been married for 8.5 years, have 2 bueatiful daughters, and I love him more now than I did the day we got married!!:val2:

I met my husband when I was 18. He was friends with a friend of my roommate. I'm at my house with mono, feeling like I'm going to die and my roommate throws a party.

Anyway, he started hanging out with the group and somehow comforting me after a bad break-up with a girlfriend a couple years later it turned into something more. We dated off and on for a while after that and eventually decided to share a house. One day, we were packing up stuff to meet a bunch of friends in Vegas for a weekend and he asked if I wanted to get married and I'm still stuck with him for what will be 5 years in May.

We have a weird and independent relationship (such as me sporadically deciding I need to do things like go to Europe for 3 months) which a lot of people don't get, but it works for us and is good.

Haha, my fiance and I had mutual friends freshman year of college and I couldn't STAND him. One of our mutual friends asked me if I wanted to go to the dining hall and I said I didn't want to because HE was usually there that time of the day. She said she'd seen him go in about 2 hours ago, so he surely wouldn't be there again, so I said okay. Sure enough, there he was! And he followed us and wouldn't leave, and I was so irked!

...3 years later, I'm wearing his ring. Yep, that's how life goes.

I met my honey in church youth group. We dated off and on for a while, I even took him to my prom. Lost touch, got back in touch, and have been married 11 years and after all this time, I'm still pretty sure I'm the lucky one. He's definitely my better half!

I had just broken up with my previous boyfriend & was very down in the dumps when my roommate fixed me up with her boyfriend's roommate. One year after their wedding, we were married. Just celebrated 25 years of happiness.

met my dh on yahoo personals. I was working so much it was hard to meet people any other way. I actually was dating another guy at the same time (my dh knew this). We casually dated for 3 months and then we decided to be more serious (aka ditch the other guy LOL). We dated for 2.5 yrs before getting married...the most wonderful guy in the world.

I met dh in kindergarten. Then, I moved around a lot. I then met him again in 5th grade band. We started dating our senior year of high school. We became engaged my junior year of college, and married 1 month after I graduated. That was 29 years ago :)

DH and I met at work. We're both computer nerds.

Anyways, he shared an office with my boss, so I was in his office a lot. One day, he brought his mountain bike to work. It was the same brand bike that I had, so I struck up a conversation with him about it. He asked me out to a Boston Bruins game with next night, then promptly went home for Christmas and told his mom he was going to marry me (he decided this after one date?!).

Well, he was right...it's now ten years and one DD later...

I met my girlfriend on a blogging site (and this was after swearing off the whole idea of dating someone I met on the internet! :dizzy: )

Let's see where do I begin. I met my husband in Japan actually. I was living in Salt Lake with my dad and got pregnant out of wedlock. The guy ditched me when he found out I was pregnant. My mom and stepdad was stationed in Japan (not military but contracted with military) so I moved in with them for the help since I was a single mother and my dad wasn't any help. I was going to school part time and working at the Burger King on the military base part time and so was he. And that's how we met. A year later he got orders (he was in the marine corp) to be stationed in 29 palms, california and left me behind in Japan. I left to go back and live with my dad in Utah and would go down to visit him as often as I could. We got married 7 years ago this May. We've been through a whole lot of crap but I don't think I could do it with any one else but him. He is my foundation and support.

My friend Tammy set Todd and I up. He was dating her sister and became friends with Tammy.

After he broke up with Tammy's sister, she insisted that I meet him. At that time I was trying to break from a very abusive relationship, and meeting someone was the LAST thing on my mind.

Well we met on my 20th birtday (April 26th) and we started dating on his birthday (April 28th) LOL.

We knew from the get go we would get married. He moved in with me about 2 weeks into our relationship (yeah fast, I know).

And now 7 years later, we're happily married with a beautiful son.

My daughter was 2 when she first met him, and even SHE fell in love with him. Heck she used to climb over him all the time.

I was 22 and on vacation in the Dominican Republic with some friends. He was there with some family. We hit it off and remained friends since we lived in different states. We stayed in contact for 4 years and that 4th year, we decided to get together while he was at a conference in California. We were going to this bar after dinner to hang out and play pool and this particular bar had an escalator to the top and our hands magically combined and pretty much the rest is history. I moved across country to be with him, moved in, we got engaged a year later and married a year after that. We will celebrate our 8th anniversary this year!

i met my hubby on an online rpg.. everquest.. i was a lvl 7 high elf cleric and he was a lvl 9 barb warrior.. we just started grouping and talking while we played and some days we would chat /play for up to 17 hours.. after two years of that, he flew to oregon, met me, we got married 6 days later and we have been married 3.5 years... we are now living in england( he's british). i think what has made it last and work so well with us, is we were best friends for a long time before it changed to something deeper... i love him with all my heart, he is still my best friend, and we still play everquest lol

I love reading these!

I was 17 and he was 19. We were at a punk/hardcore show in Boston. I saw my DH and told him I liked his tattoos. At the time I lived about 30 minutes north of the city. A mutual friend of ours apparently saw us talking and told us both that the other only lived about 5 minutes away and gave us each others phone numbers. I think I called him (!) and we started hanging out :)

I love reading these stories! How sweet. :)

Several friends had told me for several months they wanted me to meet this guy. I had been on a bad setup recently, so I just kept saying, no, no, no.

On my 23rd birthday, some my co-workers/friends took me out for a drink after we got off work on a Friday. A hurricane had come through and flooded our building that Monday so we had spent the week ripping out carpet, throwing out moldy files, and bleaching the heck out of our building. It was a rough week, and we were all tired, sweaty, and dirty. But we were all still having fun. I was sitting there smiling, thinking what great friends I had (for once not thinking about being single and wishing for a SO!), when this guy walked in and said hi to everyone. A friend introduced him to me - this was the guy they had been trying to set me up with. We chatted for a minute, he had a beer, and he asked the friend to come talk to him about diving on his way out. They went out to the parking lot and I just knew that he was asking about me. It was pretty instant attraction. The 3 of us went boating the next day, and my dear BF & I took it from there. We call our friend our "chaperone" :p. It's been 2 1/2 years and we're best friends, very much in love. He is still the best birthday present I've gotten.

I actually met my husband online! We met on a Christian dating site and we started chatting. We lived 3 hours away, but starting meeting for dates in the middle. Now we've been happily married 7 months!

My DH (20 years this May) was my roommate's ex boyfriend. I was terrified of him! He asked me out once and I made my roommate go with us! I guess we hit it off! We started dating a little after this and moved in together about 6 months later and lived together for a year and a half, bought a house and then got married.

How I met my dh...

I was a mgr for a hotel and they were bought out so I was let go so I started looking for jobs and found one working in an office so I applied was hired and he happend to be a supervisor at the new job, he would flirt with me & ask me personal stuff and then he finally asked me out (aren't suppose to date mgmt) we dated for about a year - nothing serious and we planed to go on a cruise and they told him he would lose his job if he went with me well he went. He is now 3rd in command of the company and we have been together 8 years and will celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary april 26th. He is my life!

I was 18 and had been working at a pizza place for a few months. The manager said he had hired a new guy and of course all of us younger girls couldn't wait to get a look at him. He came in the back door as I was taking my break with another waitress. The manager had him washing dishes right off the bat and I was trying so hard to get his attention. Nothing was really working though. He was very quiet and didn't give anyone much eye contact.

Anyway, I thought I'd break the ice with him by telling a joke. And don't ask me what joke 'cause I can't remember. After I delivered the punchline, he just stared at me blankly. I was taken off guard a bit and blurted out 'Why don't you go back to where you came from'. Yeah, it was totally mean and I have no idea why I said it. I apologized later that night and we ended up becoming great friends. Six months later, we were dating. Two weeks after that, we moved in together. Two months after that, we were married.

Married 22+ years and we have 6 kids. And I'm so glad he didn't go back to where he came from! :)

My partner and I lived in the same dorm in college...what's funny is, the school we ended up attending wasn't either of our first choice, but was the school we got into, and the DORM wasn't our first choice, but was where we both got assigned. We met when she came to my room to borrow my toolbox to assemble her bed (I will never, ever be able to thank my dad enough for sending me to college with my toolbox...made me VERY popular the first few days of school).

That was September 23rd...we were officially together in December, and the rest is history.

My husband and I worked in the same team for many years in different locations and then in the same location. Well he actually moved to another team (and another state) and I was looking for a job and his new team had an opening so we started talking more and more and more. Well after I was offered the job, he told me he was interested in me (I am oblivious). So I took the new job, started dating him (long distance ugh) and then he joined a different team in yet another state and I was able to transfer to that state with my job so I did. So that is basically the story :)

Ha I like reading these. I think an above poster posted about not liking her husband at first and I really identified with that lol.. When I met my husband it was our senior year of HS, we both went to different HS in towns that weren't even 15 minutes apart.How I met him was through a friend of mine that I had grown up with going to school and she worked at the local Chick Fil A with him. They dated very casually for a month or so. The first time I met him he was so hyper and acted so weird that I seriously thought he was on drugs since he was like the energizer bunny that night. I later found out he had drank a bunch of Mountain Dew and had other sugary things and that makes him hyper. But anyways I met him during that time and hung out with them a lot and talked to him and my friend in chatrooms a lot for about a year. I find out later after me and him started talking on our own just getting to know each other better, that he actually orginially liked me first before he asked out my other friend that worked with him lol. I didn't have the least bit of attraction to him but what attracted to him and got me started thinking "hmm maybe there's a possibility" was his unfailing kindness and him always checking on me since I was going through a very rough time in my life. Then finally I saw him smile and oh my gosh the attraction just hit me. He's one of those people whose smile transforms his whole face and it's a great smile. We've been married for 3 1/2 years now.

I had just finished closing down the restaurant where I was working when my cell phone rang. A good guy friend called and asked what I was doing. I told him I was on my way home. He said I have a drink waiting here with your name on it. I finally caved in and showed up at the pub they were at it turned out to be 9 guys and me (no wonder they wanted me there!). Had some drinks and started talking to some guy I'd never met before. We moved to an other pub up the street and we kept talking. About 2:30 in the morning I went home with him. I had no real plans of seeing him again. Well, I ended up running into him a few weeks later at another friends bday party. We kinda started dating. 2.5 months after we met he dumped me, 2 days after my bday too! I was devistated. However, we remind good friends. We actually hung out more after we broke up, tehen while we were "dating". On boxing day (the day after xmas) about 2 months after he dumped me he cancelled plans to go to costa rica for a week and drove 6 hours back to calgary to meet me at the airport to take me out to dinner and ask me to get back together. I said no and I crashed on his couch. In the middle of the night I woke him up and told him I made a mistake, I do wanna get back to gether. We've been together ever since.

I did find out a few months ago, that while the guys were at their sausage fest, the friend who called me told my bf "I'll call my friend shan, she'll sleep with you" :o:o (where he got that idea from i'm not sure) But, hey it all worked out in the end.

we met on match December of 2006, talked *a lot* but never actually met because i met some other guy at some bar that i was with for a while. because of that, we lost touch.

i had taken my ad off match and so had he, we both went our separate ways. i left san diego, moved to pittsburgh for a few months and had just decided and agreed to a contract to back to san diego in november. i put a new ad up on match in the san diego area even though i was still on the east coast just to put some feelers out there. that same day, he made a new profile on match *specifically* to try to find me. found the ad i had *just* posted, paid for a membership, and emailed me. all it said was "start over?"... my heart jumped in my throat and we exchanged numbers again immediately.
i called him at 7pm that night. we talked until 6am the next morning when i had to go work. we texted all day at work. called him after i got out of work that night and we talked until we both fell asleep on the phone. he explained to me that he hasnt found a woman he felt was such a good match for him and he really wanted a second chance at it. we continued to talk 24hrs a day for the 3 months i was on the east coast. i drove back across the country in november, he showed up on my doorstep 2 days later. complete magic. a click , a feeling, an amazing rush i've never ever ever felt before. he moved in a month later. and here we are - making plans for 2, 5, even 10 years down the road. i met my match.

;):):)

The first time I met my now dh, he was distracting the RA in our dorm so another guy could pour a bucket of water over RA's head during a dorm wide water fight. We actually didnt start dating for about another 18 months, we each had other relationships.

That was ....20+ years ago?

Well I like this topic because it makes me happy hearing others stories and I think the way b/f and I met is cute. ;) We met when I was a sophomore in college and he was a junior in a communications class. This class was known for being a cake class and I only took it for that reason. I hated going to that class because it interrupted my napping after my way too early trig class. So generally when I went to class I looked like crap b/c I would wake up take a shower and go to class in sweats or running pants and t-shirts. I sat in the front row b/c it made for an easy escape :lol: Well little did I know that my boy was sitting right behind me. Apparently I even talked to him before I officially met him, I don't really remember it, but he "dropped" his pencil and I picked it up and talked to him. Anyways, we had this paper to do where we had to meet 3 people in class and right a paper on them. I didn't care about it the particular day the teacher assigned it and started to leave, but I happened to turn around and my boy asked if I would do the paper with him. :) And I said yes. After that things kind of fell into place, we had a few dates, but the funny part was we were both confused about what we were, bf/gf type of thing and finally I had to flat out ask him and he said yes.

What I love is hearing his side of the story. He knew that she was going to assign that paper from people that had taken the class before and he wanted to ask me. He said he had always noticed me in the class and thought I had something special even though I did dress like a bum ;) He was a little plotter :devil: But we have been together now for over 2 years and are going strong again, we have had our ups and downs, but we are made for each other.

My boyfriend and I met on MapleStory, actually. For those of you who don't know, it's an online RPG.

What started with, "Hey, cute character!" has obviously gotten a little more in-depth than that. Almost a year later, here I am making plans to move to Alabama to be with the silly boy. We're total opposite in a lot of ways, and that's what makes me love him so much. He's silly and child-like and gentle, and he makes me laugh like no one else can, even without trying.

He's the only person on the planet I think that can end a three-hour screaming fight by yelling, "If I even remembered what we were fighting about, I'd say something back!"

Hehe, he's silly and I love him.

I met my hubby when I was 14 and he was a bag boy at the grocery store where my family shopped. When I started high school that fall, he went to the same school! We dated all through high school and married soon after. Now 4 kids and 23 years later I couldn't ask for a better husband! I am definately one of the lucky ones!!

My hubby to be and I met online at a game site called Hoyle. We were playing Wordox and he noticed me first the night before we met. I was having a little "misunderstanding" in the chat lobby and he saw the whole thing and thought I was funny. I never noticed him. What's funny is we knew and chatted with the same people but never met. The next night I came on and was telling a friend about the night before when he chimed in. We hit it off, started chatting on Yahoo messenger, then the phone..a few months later I dumped my loser boyfriend, he moved up to TN from Florida and we've been together every since. Six yrs next month and we are getting married in July. I still make him laugh and he's my best friend. :)

Anyone here old enough to remember ICQ? LOL

That's where I met my husband.

I signed up the moment I got internet access, and I added my name to the Star Trek forum as I was a big Trekker back then. I started inviting people to add me to their list that I got off the ST list. My husband was one of them. He'd forgotten he'd put his name on the ST list AND he wouldn't add me except that he found my username intriguing and wanted to find out who I was and why I was requesting he add me.

We ended up chatting every night. I started helping him out with his home business over the computer. He'd send me documents to tweak and proof for him. Then he came to visit and the rest was history. ;)

My brother set my DH and I up; they worked together. Bro said he watched DH for awhile and said to himself 'Hmmm... he might make a good match for my little Sis ~ lol'. Well, then he set out to get us together and it took him a while becuz we both kept saying 'NO THANKS'. I kept saying 'NO WAY'. We didn't know each other at all, but I had been set up previously with someone who, shall we say, had way too many personal problems for my liking!

Anyways, finally after a few+ months, brother asked us both to come over to their place for dinner; supposedly just for a friendly meal. It was a friendly set-up really ~ lol! DH offered to drive me home; we talked for awhile in the car and then he asked me out. After that, he came to my house for a quiet dinner, and he loved my cooking. We dated a year, and then got married; and we've been married for over 18 years now ...

I loved reading this thread! My fiance and I went to junior high and high school together, but we didn't start dating until senior year (I had a crush on him way before that, and he on me, apparently).
Then we went to different colleges, but he transferred after freshman year to be with me. After graduation (last spring) he proposed. He is in law school in DC, and I just moved up here to be with him (my turn to be uprooted) and am having some trouble finding a job. Hopefully I'll find something soon, though!

Met my DH online... moved cross country to be with him. That was 10 years ago. Crazy!

this is slightly OT because we have since broken up, but I have the BEST story about how I met the first (and last) guy I was ever serious about. In college, I was supposed to go to my friend's room to meet up before a night out, and at the lost minute I lost my purse. I called my friend to say I would be late. Being a trekkie nerd, I thought, - employ the power of your logic - retrace your steps - and found it, so I burst through my friend's door late shouting 'I found it, I found it! I used the power of my logic!' and made the Vulcan salute.
Later that night, one of the guys who had already been in my friend's room was sat next to me in the bar. We started talking about our shared subject (English). Then he said hesitantly: 'Um, excuse me, I have to ask, and the answer is probably no, but did you do this earlier?' and made the salute. I replied: 'Yeah, I'm a nerd.' He said: 'I don't believe it.' I said 'What?' He said: 'I thought it was just a happy fantasy, to keep guys like me from getting totally despondant. I just never thought..." I said '"What?" He said: "That beautiful women could be trekkies."

I was SOLD! :D

Well, we met out running around,when we were 21,12 years ago this April 27th,I have to confess, I was drunker than a monkey the night I met DH,and me and some friends were hanging out in the Wal-Mart parking lot when he drove up,I thought he was the cutest thing.lol. Anyway, a mutual friend is basically how we met . If I hadn't been hanging out with one of his friends, we probably never would have met, I always wonder why he asked me out later, because I was an absolute idiot that night!!lol

,I have to confess, I was drunker than a monkey the night I met DH,


LOL I love that! drunker than a monkey!!!

I met my dbf 5... no almost 6 years ago this april..
I was 23, and working full time and taking college classes full time on the weekends.. well for some reason I had gotten out early this particular saturday (i think i had had exams or my 2nd class was cancelled, I can't remember) and it was a BEAUTIFUL day. My friends were having a party later that evening, so I was showering and getting ready when I heard someone making kissy noises at the picture window of my apartment and "talking" to my cat. I assumed it was my crazy downstairs neighbor so I whipped on some clothes really quickly and peeked out the window, fully prepared to yell at him to get away from my window.
Well, it wasn't my crazy neighbor, it was someone in the apartment complex I hadn't seen before, and by that time he was turned around but i still saw the best looking male rear end I had ever seen... he was standing on the shared porch drinking a beer and smoking a cig. I ran into my bathroom really quickly, primped a little, and grabbed a beer out the fridge, fully prepared to go pretend like I was just going to go outside and enjoy the fresh air.
I introduced myself to the neighbor, we got to chatting, I ended up bringing him to the party that I was VERY late for (everyone was mad, i was bringing the beer!) and went "home" with him that very night (home was the apartment next door, lol!) I had gotten him VERY drunk that night and I took terrible advantage of him (or so HE says) all night long, lol.
we had some ups and downs, but here it is almost 6 years later and we're still together, living in a cute little house in the suburbs blah blah blah.
worst one night stand i EVER had!

btw, the cat now likes HIM better than me, the jerk.

I'm an anthropologist and met my partner during an exhumation :lol: not very romantic setting ... it was a pretty big case and we needed extra hands so we got another team to "lend" us an archaeologist. He came to work with us and we've been together since then... Now we work for the same group, he's my boss
:dizzy:

I met my boyfriend of 4 years on Myspace! I had tried all the dating sites and only come out of it with some pretty funny stories about the guys I met. I joined Myspace to keep in touch with friends, not for dating. He emailed me and we started talking. I had NO intentions of anything romantic happening, he just seemed like a cool person to hang out with. But, here I am 4 years later living with him! Our first kiss was horrible! Haha.

We met the old-fashioned way, in a bar! :) He had been helping a friend move and they were celebrating being done with a drink, I was out celebrating getting a job, we started flirting across the bar and yadda yadda yadda, we were married a year later!

In 1975 my friend and I hopped the fence at the drive-in and had to find someone to sit with. We found a car full of boys and one of them has been my DH for over 28 years now.

On an Inka mound in Peru. His brother is an archaeologist and we were working together, and one day his brother comes by to chat with him. We hit it off, but we were only friends for a year, then we just got together. We were married last November after 2 years of dating.

Met my DH online... moved cross country to be with him. That was 10 years ago. Crazy!
You sound like my twin. I moved from WV to NH to be with mine. That was 1997.

I met my hubby at a resturant that I worked at. A friend of mine that worked with me set me up with him...it was one of her roommates....love a first site!! It was a true hallmark moment.....hehe

We are both huge Depeche Mode fans and met at a DM party at a club in the city I lived in. Considering he lived pretty far away it was amazing we met in the first place.

We were just friends at first, later got together (I think it was about a year and a half later), travelled back and forth to come see me (and I him) and then I moved in with him about a year later.

Add another online meeting :) We were on the same listserv and I found her writing and ideas really intriguing. We did the chat thing for a few months and then finally met in person. It would be another year and a half before we would move in because she was in grad school and I had a daughter in HS, but we were close enough to visit very weekend. On the 28th it will be 10 years since that first date :)

My friend (I say friend as in we've known each other since elementary school and we hang out, but I don't trust her as far as I can throw her) was "hanging out" with him and brought him to meet us up at a bar. We met, she started seeing other guys but kept him on the side, him and I started talking more, after I got to know him, I was confused why they were together. He was an educated, polite, successful, Midwesterner and she was a born in Brooklyn (not that there is anything wrong with that, but she had a NASTY NYC attitude), curses like a Pirate, and chews with her mouth open. Turned out she lied about everything to him, her last name, job (told him she was a cop), "sexual reputation", education, etc. He cut her off, she and I had a major falling out over it....fast forward 3 years later, her and I are friendly again and him and I are planning our future together :)

What a great thread! Awesome stories, all!

My soon-to-be husband & I met on Final Fantasy XI online. We ended up joining the same Linkshell (basically a guild of people for all the non-gamers out there).

We just started chatting one day about things we grew up with, and ended up talking frequently for months when we realized we were living a mere 3 hours from eachother. (In a gaming world, that's practically next door.) We met up, had a Spongebob Squarepants marathon and had quite the mutual liking, and have been together for 3 and a half years. (With patience, understanding & love, many many more to come.)

We now play World of Warcraft together. After all, the couple that games together stays together!

I met my fiance by being set up by our friends on a blind date

Tom's mom lives three houses down the street from my parents' house. My dad and his mom went through high school together. His great aunt lived right behind my grandparents, and they were the best of friends. Amazingly, though, we didn't meet until I was 14! I had known his younger brother for a year and one day when the ice cream truck stopped in front of our house, Tom and his brother came up to get an ice cream cone and we totally hit it off. Sixteen years later and we've been married for eight years and have three kiddos!

Aw! Now I want some ice cream!

Kara

I placed an ad in a local newspaper's personal dating ads (no photos). The newspaper had a web page too, so the ad also appeared on the newspapers onling dating page, and I was able to add a photograph. I made it clear I was fat and dieting and wanted to date someone sympathetic or on the same path.

I had a lot of responses, but some of them were really weird. I talked with some of the guys on the phone regularly, and met one guy before deciding that the whole thing was a complete bust (too many weirdos). I pretty much ignored the response from my (now) husband for three weeks. When I finally called him, we talked for like three hours. I thought he was BSing me when he told me that he had met Patty Malone from the Chieftains in a bar after a Chieftains concert in his home town. (I'm a huge Irish music fan). We were dating for months before I saw his autographed copy of the Long Black Veil (still doubting the bar story). We were already married when one of his friends started reminiscing about the time they met the Cheiftains in a bar after the concert.

My husband and i met on an online messageboard geared towards Green Day (even though he wasn't much of a fan, he only stumbled in there because it was on a larger forum site). So that was 4 1/2 years ago. Him in Colorado and me in Virginia. We hit it off instantly online, moved to the phone, then he came to visit... we consumated the relationship (lol!) and we did long distance about 2 years then he moved in and we lived in sin for about 2 years.. and we've now been married since October!

I met my husband at work. He had been there for 5 years and I for 2 years before we ever met. I had seen him, but never had talked to him or had any interest. I started on Atkins and lost 60 pounds, left my daughter's father and moved back home with my parents, which led me to a new position at work so I could have different hours. That's when we started working together. It happened pretty quickly after that. We found ourselves trying to work on projects together and taking breaks at the same time. Then his dad got really sick and I was just there for him and we hit it off. It took a while before I let him really hang out with my daughter too much though. You have to be careful when you have kids. We have been together for 5 years and married for almost 3.

My husband and I met in a chatroom on AOL. It was just a chatroom of online friends who shared stories and a lot of laughs. It was my stress relief after work or on days off work.
He lived in Texas and I lived in Virginia. His children were grown and my daughter was just 15. At first, we were nothing more than just chatroom talk amoungst all the other people. Then, we had private instant message "talks" and that eventually led to phone calls. He quickly became a dear, sweet friend.
He wanted to meet and I had planned to fly to my best friend's house in the summer. The airport I had to fly in to was in the city where he lived, so we planned to meet that summer with my friend with me. He was transferred to Hawaii before my summer trip. He invited me to come to Hawaii, I laughed, I wasn't going to fly to Hawaii to meet someone for the first time. He invited me again, I told him I would think about it. He invited me a third time, and I asked when would be a good week to fly out? So, we met for the first time in Hawaii and fell in love. I returned to Hawaii about 2 weeks later for my second trip.
He continued to travel with his work. He flew to Virginia and I flew around the country so we could be together about every 4-6 weeks for 2years. He changed jobs and was in one place finally. Bythis time my daughter had graduated high school. I moved in with him. We married in 2005 after 5 years together. We are still honeymooning!!!

this is fun!!.....well i met my dh husband 2 weeks after my 16th birthday when i started working at a local steak house. we got married when i was 19 and well still going strong now.

I met my husband on a flight to England. We managed a very tough LDR for a year and then married. I moved to England for several years and then last year we both came back to the US to live. He's got his green card and can apply for citizenship in 2 more years.

I met my SO on IRC (Internet Relay Chat). We managed a network together for about 4months before I decided I wanted him. At this point, I was quite bored of my boyfriend who only ever talked about Politics and School and tbh, it was a bit weird. I struck it up with my SO before I broke it off with the boyfriend, so I was technically flirting when I shouldnt have been, but it was really hard to find a good way to just get rid of the then boyfriend, I didnt know what to do. Eventually, I just got sick of him hanging around me and broke it off. He actually went to my SO for consolation/explaining of my actions, he didnt know I was involved with my SO by that time.

I did a bad thing, I know, but my then boyfriend wasnt picture perfect, and even tried to do "adult" things with me in the line at a public themepark, way before I was ready. I was quite dinky at the time as well, only 145lbs to his 6'1 220lbs. Our first date was actually to a science and technology museum, which I found fascinating, but we nearly got kicked out after the same sort of incident happened again. Even though I made it clear, I didnt want to do it, he never listened.

After breaking it off, current SO and I did the internet LDR relationship thing. We didnt have much choice, really, as he's from the UK and I was 17 in Hillbillyville Illinois. Come round to October of 2005, he was really anxious to meet me, and I him, so he went off and sent me the money I needed for flights to the UK. I met him IRL on December 22nd 2005, and I've only spent a month away from him since.

In March 2006 we got married, June2006 I was granted my Spouse Visa for the UK, and I'm now coming up to our second anniversary. DH treats me well enough, though he's a bit of a sarky cow at times. I love it really :P

We're hoping to move back to the USA eventually. :)

I was freshly broken out of a 5 year relationship when I met Nic. 3 months of being single was all I got. We met at a "social gethering" otherwise known as a bar. He was only supposed to be a "fling"...yes ladies I took him home that night call it what you want. But somehow it evolved into something else. We will be celebrating our 3 year anniversery in April. He is my everything.

I love these!
Let's see, I was 17 and on my home from the gym (before I was fat lol, you know when you weigh 130lbs and you think you're fat lol) in my Dad's brand new car. I stopped for gas and DH was the gas attendant, he offered me a free car wash and I said sure if he'd drive it through for me (I had just gotten my license lol) so he did :) When we were in the wash together he asked me out and we've been together ever since lol. Married almost 8 years now!
We still celebrate the day we met by going through that same car wash every April 8th :rofl: