100 lb. Club - How did you meet your spouse?

Just wondering how we all met our spouses. On another thread "where are you from" I noticed a lot of people moving countries or states to be with their spouse. Jim and I met online in late 1997 - which is pretty much back in the stone age for the internet!! :)

I met Kyle online in 1999. Love at first chat! I have had several friends date/marry men from online sources. It is so mainstream now and a great tool to meet others of similar interests you may never encounter in your normal daily routine.

My husband and I met through a computer game we both played online. We never intended for anything more than friendship but, well, we're soulmates. ;) He proposed after a few visits and I moved here from the States to be with him after we married.

Online in 1999 and married the same year.. i was 17..(i am 23 now)
we talk about how we met a LOT of things were going on with me around that age and well.. i KNOW someone had a hand in the situation we just know it!.. to many things happened.. so i came to england at 17..when i tell people they said i am brave for coming over but ya know what it felt right..and i wasnt scared... many people thought my mom was crazy for letting me go and SHE could had stopped me but she told me in her hearts of hearts something told her to let me go..all the while everyone was praying against us..goes to show when things are ment to be there ment to be...end of..

I found this poll kind of ironic. I first saw my husband at McDonald's. I met him later at a friend's house though. The reason I find this thread ironic is because my wedding anniversary is tomorrow (July 4th). I've been married for ten years.:cheers: :cheer: .

I met my husband at 16 at the alternate school we both attended.
We were so young...he was 18 :)

Sweet?...yes...easy?...no
Quite the challenge..but I still believe...
We've made it this far..
Our 9th anniversary will be on Aug. 25th
Will have been together 11 years in Oct.

Linda

Lorraine answered my personal ad a little over 7 years ago. I'd placed it in a gay/les newspaper where it appeared in print and also could be accessed by phone/voice. She responded to the latter because she liked how I sounded and what I said. We talked on the phone a number of times before meeting, I invited her over to my home for a home-cooked, romantic meal. She arrived with a bouquet and a bottle of VERY good quality Chardonnay....and the rest, as they say, is history! Destiny? Or was it the salmon w/dill? :chin:

My husband was the boyfriend of my roommate at college. A few months after they broke up we started seeing each other. We have been married for 28 years now.

It is neat how many have met through the internet. Two of my kids haven't found that "special someone" yet, and we have suggested the internet, but they think we are nutty.

My bestfriend moved away. She introduced me to her new neighbor saying he's be a good bf for me. Turns out we knew each other from school but not well. We were in different grades and didn't hang out in the same crowds. We became good friends but then I moved away. We bumped into each other 3 years later and got married 8 months after that. This Dec will be our 20th anniversary.

My teens first boyfriends and girlfriends have been online ones. My closest friends are online ones. Most I have met IRL.

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I was dating his best friend. He would come over to visit his friend and we would spend hours talking while his friend went to bed. I ended up breaking up with his friend and started dating someone else (old boyfriend). That did'nt work out and I asked dh out on a date and we have been together ever since. 17 years altogether.

Online at 17yrs old (now 21) with two beautiful children :)

I see you're only allowed one vote ... what if you've been married more than once? :p

I met my ex-husband when I was a mere slip of a girl; just 16 and working part-time after school in the shoe section of a department store. He was a 21 year old college student from out of town working at the same store (in sporting goods). It was so exciting to be dating a cute older "man" and very cool to be picked up after school and driven away on the back of his motorcycle. We were engaged by my high school graduation (my parents did everything short of shipping me overseas to prevent it) and married during my second year of college. Two years after the wedding, my daughter was born (the one good thing to come out of it all). I've put the rest of the ten year marriage pretty much out of my mind and try not to be bitter about wasting my youth on him.

I was introduced to G by friends who thought we had the same sense of humour (yes, he's also rather warped). I was only interested in friendship, having just ended a relationship with a man who had become increasingly dictatorial (I used to call him "Saddam" under my breath) and was enjoying my freedom. Having successfully raised my daughter, I was responsible only for myself and rather horrified to be told G had joint custody of 3 small children (one being a special needs child). Also, quite frankly, I wasn't interested in becoming emotionally involved because he was in the midst of a fight for his life. Yes, it was all too much drama for this mama and I didn't expect anything much to come of the meeting. It wasn't love at first sight...I'd say it was at least 10 minutes before I decided I'd be spending the rest of my life with him, at which point I insisted he not die and deny me that pleasure! He acquiesced to my demands and we're living happily ever after. As a bonus, the 3 girls turned out to be charming creatures and we all get along famously! :smug:

Now, Sandiiiii?? I'm daring you to come and tell the circumstances of how you seduced your husband! :devil:

I for one am interested to know how Gardenwife and Howie met. Come on you 2-inquiring minds want to know. ;)

Charles and I met while I was dating an aquaintance of his. My very first memory of him is this skinny guy with shoulder length reddish hair flashing his freshly pierced nipple at me while he said, "Look what I did last nite!" I'd never met this guy before and now he's showing me his nipple! :lol:
A few months later, Ken (my bf at the time), Charles and myself drove to Madison for some Magic the Gathering/role playing related shindig. Afterwards, we stopped to get something to eat. Found out that Charles is a HUGE Dr. Who fan, I also love Dr. Who, but he is a far bigger fan than I am, anyway. We proceeded to annoy Ken by talking about Dr. Who most of the evening while ignoring him-LOL.
Fast forward 5 months: Ken breaks up with me to be with his old girlfriend and I move out of his apartment. Charles and his friend Paul start hanging out with my room mate and me alot. One night in November, Charles and I hang out and listen to The Cure while talking all night for like 8 hours straight! He was at my place almost every night after that, 10 months later we were offically living together in an apartment of our own. Now we have 3 kids and next November will be 9 years we've been happily living in sin.
The goofy thing is how I would grin ear to ear everytime he would show up at the apartment; still grin like that whenever he's around.
P.S. He's still got that nipple pierced :o :D

My husband and I also met online through a personal on Yahoo. I didn't intend to respond to any of them - I was just looking, but I saw his and it was so sincere and he just wanted a pen pal! (He lived in the Bahamas and I lived in Seattle - but he was from here). We emailed back and forth everyday several times a day and started talking on the phone after about a month...he moved to San Fran (Coast Guard) 6 months after we first met online. He had a month's leave and we spent as much of that month together here in Washington as we could. Then we had a long distance relationship for several months. We married exactly one year to the day of our first email! :love: We've been married 6 1/2 years now and have two incredible children. :)

my husband and I were the original high school sweethearts. chemistry class if you can imagine. The morning class was too full so they asked for some people to move to the afternoon class and as I had a free class then I moved and when I came to the class I sat at the same desk as my now husband. We started flirting and playing footsie and he asked me out about a month later. We've been together ever since.

High school boyfriend introduced us. Hubby told me on our first date he would marry me. I thought he was a nut. We dated 6 years before marrying and will celebrate 23 years married next month. 29 years together!!!! I'm only 42, can't remember being single anymore.....LOL

Awwwwww... I love all these "romantic stories"... :encore: I truly am a hopeless romantic!

As for Steve and I, when I first got to Calgary, I didn't know anyone here and spent some time internet chatting through MiRC. We ended up talking for a couple weeks, then my little sister and I went to meet him. Steve looked so good... and we totally hit it off so we drove my little sister home and we ended up staying out until 5am! So, from there we dated for a couple weeks then drifted apart and stopped talking until I was on a date with another guy named Gui, and we ran into Steve at a bar... Steve walked over and said "Hey Man, how's it going?!" I immediately got offended and then realized he was talking to Gui.. yep, they knew each other. So, then Steve stayed with us (3rd wheel :lol: ) on our date for the whole night... and walked me to my Jeep and kissed me goodnight. The rest is history... We've been together ever since and our 5 year anniversary is in October! :D

I'm definitely not married yet, but I have been dating Jeff for over a year, and we are (finally) moving in together in October. I met him online in an AOL chat room. My friends and I used to go to those chat rooms when I was in college to make fun of those who were making fun of other people, if that makes any sense :p Anyway, after college, I was living with my sister and was bored one night, so I popped into those rooms. Now, with the name "jillybean" I did get a lot of jerks hitting on me with reeeeeally cheesy lines, and Jeff was no exception. A little window popped up with a message from him that I will never forget: "What flavor jelly bean are you?" How cheesy is that?! :lol: I decided to humor him and responded with something equally as cheesy, but then the conversation actually evolved into a normal one. After talking online for a couple of months, I went to meet him in MD while I was spending the weekend in southern PA anyway (visiting college friends). That was March 13, 2004, and we have been happily together ever since :D

As a quick side note--Gayle, I can definitely understand why your kids might be a little leery of online dating. There are a LOT of creeps out there. I know--I got plenty of responses from them! I belonged to an online dating site, but I never actually met anyone through there that I would be willing to meet in person.

I met my hubby online over 5 years ago! I had aol instant messenger, to chat with my other friends in the evening and out of nowhere, he pops up and said hi. He found me through a search of people from Pennsylvanina ( I guess you can search through profiles or something.) We were 4 hours away from each other. We started calling, then spoke every night. Its amazing how you can just "fall in love" with someone without ever meeting them. We ended up meeting after 2 months of calling, then we saw each other every single weekend for 6 months, when I decided to move to where he was. A year later we were married...That was 4 years ago, now we have baby Carson on the way. I am so thankful for the internet!

I met my husband online in 1997 when we were playing a online game together. I didn't like him at the time (he was arrogant and generally got on my nerves), but when I was considering going in the navy, a mutual friend wanted me to talk to him as he was just getting out. A year later we met for the first time, and the rest is history.

I met my husband at the bar. He was what I call "visually perfect" He was exactly my type. Bald, Goatee, Thick (shoulders, people, shoulders) I thought he was out of my league.. but after about an hour he was dancing with me and had my phone number. He called me two days later.. and we had our first date on 9/13/01. We have been apart only 3 days since then.

Just goes to show... just because you think someone is out of your league.. doesn't mean they really are.

Love these stories! I had no idea so many of you met your spouses/SO's online.

So, how did Howie and I meet? Back in 1990, our respective churches began singles groups. A joint hayride/cookout was held October 19, 1990 and we met at the event. No sparks flew that night, though. I thought he was a nice guy, but I was not looking, not at all. Plus, I thought he was kind of a good ol' boy with his overalls and baseball cap. We saw each other at monthly singles meetings over the next several months and started hanging out together as friends.

I noticed he had a really fun sense of humor and a true heart. He also gave GREAT backrubs. Oh, my! :o In August of 1991, he went on a date with a single mom. I was alarmed! Not too long after that, we kissed and I blurted out "I don't want to be with anyone but you!". The next day I hemmed and hawed and said I was rash for saying something like that...But it was true, after all.

We were going to get married October 19, 1992 - the anniversary of when we met - but decided to move it up sooner. When my then-boss suggested Leapday was on Saturday, we went for it.

We celebrate on February 28th on the "off years" and 2006 will mark our 14th anniversary!

Another online set up here.

Jeff actually e-mailed me saying he saw my profile and what not. I ignored the e-mail for a long time. His hometown is on the edge of the county and it just has bad karma or something and I was extremely leary of meeting anyone from there. I finally decided it wouldn't hurt to just e-mail him back. I actually still have my response to his e-mail sent on Dec. 2, 2001. We started e-mailing and chatting. One night I was home chatting with him (I actually lived with my parents after my divorce) and my brother and cousin came by. It turns out they went to vo-tech with him and knew who he was. We actually lived about 25 miles apart. I asked my brother what he thought of him and he said he was a nice enough guy so we decided to meet at his house. He cooked me spaghetti, fried potatoes and green beans for our dinner. (I think it's something his family does because I was raised to NEVER have two starches together for dinner :D)
His son met me the same night and told me I was going to be his new mommy. It must've been love because that comment should've sent me running. Jeff wasn't my typical guy I dated (I either went with the slender, well over 6' blond hair, blue eyed guy or the shorter teddy bear types) I ended up staying over there until 3 a.m. watching movies and I did not let him even kiss me that first date. There was something there and we continued to date. I moved in with him in March and got pregnant. We married on June 21, 2002 and the rest is history. :)

Best friend's big brother.... from 1st grade! Next week we celebrate our 29th anniversary!

Wow...I can't believe how many online meetups there are!!

Well, when Steve was a young pup, he worked at the same grocery store as I did. I was 20 years old and the evening manager and he was 16 ;) and a bagger. :lol: I was attaracted to him, but he was WAY too young for me, no way I was going to date him. Then as we started to spend some time together, I thought, well...I can date him, but it's nothing serious, he is WAY too young for me. Then as it got serious, I thought, well...it's not like we're getting married, he is WAY too young for me. And then we got married. (when he was 21) and I adopted the slogan "get 'em young and train 'em right". :lol: We have been happily married for 13 years.

I can't imagine what his mom thought when her 16 year old son brought home a 20 year old girl. :faint: I don't think I would ever let Jacob do that!!!

She never had a chance with prayer and my magic hands involved there was nothing she could do but give in.

AWW, you guys are just too darn sweet! :love:

Linda

I met my husband 13 years ago yesterday, at a mutual friends party.
Talk about a happy 4th! We were married 6 months later and have been happy ever since! :)

Lots of July 4th anniversaries, I'm finding. Wow!

Sandi.. I didn't know Steve was younger! What a cute story. So.. is he fully trained yet? :?: ;)

He was at work.

Awww I love all these stories! I can't believe how many people have met on the internet!

I also met my bf on the internet (mirc Celina... I wonder if I ever talked to YOU on there!). He messaged me one day, and told me I was hot, I agreed with him. Shortly after I headed home for christmas vacation, and I called him almost everyday (we hadn't even met). When I returned to Vancouver we met, January 6th. For him that was the start to our dating, I wasn't so sure, so I continued to date other guys. He was so persistant, and pushed thru my commitment fear and we've been together since. He's pretty close to perfect for me (is there really such thing as the perfect man? His "flaws" aren't big "flaws" to me, now if he chewed louder, it would be over;) ). He's my friend, my companion, and we compliment eachother nicely.

-Aimee

We met at church in a singles group. At first he wouldn't date me because I was too young (I was 23, he was 33). He finally grew up and asked me out :) We started out as just friends and before long we had a beautiful Christmas wedding. Now we're getting ready have our first :bb:. How time flies when you're having fun!

Another online pair here too...met in May 23, 1999 and married Sept 11, 1999 (yeah, yeah, I know). When we first met, we really didn't think it would go anywhere. We are COMPLETELY different politically and generally in attitude. But opposites attract, I guess, and for some reason after the 3rd date we clicked. Almost didn't make it through the 2000 presidential election, but going on 6 years now! :D

Hugs,

M'Chelle

My story is long, convoluted, and rather... unconventional. But here goes:

When I was in my 20s, my friends and I would get together at a restaurant every wednesday and have parties at each others houses a couple times a year, and go to local sci-fi conventions around the area (Baltimore/washington has a very strong sci-fi fandom community).

I very seldom went out with only one guy when I was dating. And a lot of the time, the guy I went out with one weekend out be out with my best friend the next weekend. All very casual and friendly. Some folks were polyamorous, even. Communication was the key to avoiding hurt feelings.

Anyway, Hunter had a bad breakup with one of his girlfriends. He had thought she was The One, but she had other plans. He came to a party I was throwing with my primary boyfriend, and being the good hostess I am, I noticed he was not having a good time and sat down to talk with him. He and I had been running in the same circles for a couple of years, but had never really connected.

A few months later, my best friend, who also was going out with him, was complaining that he just wasn't her type, and that she thought he'd be perfect for me. I tried to shrug it off, 'cause I wasn't really looking for anyone at the time. But I thought, hey, one date won't kill ya. We'll go somewhere real public.

So we met on the National Mall and went through the Hirshhorn Museum of Art, which is the Smithsonian's international modern and contemporary art museum. We spent the afternoon wandering and talking, looking at sculptures. We ended up at the American History Museum at the ice cream parlor having a treat. Then he had to go home because he had a migraine. And he confessed that he hated modern art.

I thought I'd never see him again.

A few weeks later, we were an "item". Two months after that, we both dropped our other dating partners. A month after that we were engaged. By June we had our own apartment (kinda hard to be engaged to one guy while you're sleeping in another guy's living room...), and by November we were married.

Now 14 years later, I thank God every day for bringing Hunter into my life. We compliment each other SO well, and I love him so very much.

The way I met my Sweetieface was kinda sad. My dad died 10 months before and my family and I had become estranged so I had an uncle who asked if I'd come help him open his new restaurant about 50 miles from home. I was 20 years old, between jobs and truly looking for an escape from home. He and my aunt were having a new home built so they were temporarily staying in a motel and and they put me up in another room. The new restaurant was right next door to the motel and a bunch of construction workers were staying there too, in town for work. After the restaurant was opened these construction workers came in twice a day for breakfast and supper and there was one who grabbed my attention. He was from Alabama and the way he described his home was like reading an awesome book. I'd never been there and I was just mesmerized by his pretty words. One night he stayed after the others left. There was no one left in the restaurant but we sat there in that booth drinking screwdrivers and I knew, I just knew, That I could talk to him for the rest of my life. We were married a month later and we've been together for the past 13 years. Sweetieface is still the love of my life and I hardly even remember a time before him.

Awwwwwww! Chills and smiles beset me. More love stories! More!

:love: Kimberley

Awww, what sweet stories some of you have. True love, sigh! I met mine in highschool through mutual friends. He was my first "real" boyfriend and we definitely got married way too young! I think there should be a mandatory waiting period, like you can't get married until you're 30!! ;) And only after you've lived with them for a few years first so you get to see what they'll really be like! :lol: Oh well, you live, you learn.

Beverly