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!!
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
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...
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.
Last edited by tamaralynn; 02-07-2008 at 10:20 PM.
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!
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