How did you meet your other half?

[brown_eyes]

We met in the dorms freshman year of college. One of his roomates knew one of my roomates and we lived down the hall from each other. It''s hard to believe that was over seven years ago!

 

[misskitty]

I crashed his birthday party. He was throwing a huge BBQ/kegger in his backyard, and my old roommate and I dropped by. I didn''t expect him to even remember who I was after that night, but he found me on Facebook a few days later, and asked me to go out for wings and beers.

 

[Luckyeshe]

I had 2 college roommates that were older than me by 2 years, M and C. We all went our separate ways but remained friends. When C got married in 05, M and I were BMs. So when M got engaged, C and I were BMs. The wedding was in Oct. 07. I live in FL and drove to GA to attend her wedding. I had never met the groom and before the wedding, I got the chance to meet him. He was standing next to the best man, and I walked up, introduced myself, and told him not to hurt my roomie or I'd break his legs.

(What can I say! I'm protective of my friends!) The best man, happened to be my now FI...so his first memory of me is threatening the groom!

Also I did catch the bouquet at their wedding! Nothing really happened when we first started talking, since I knew he was going back to WA, we spoke on the phone for months. Then we got together in the same city and decided to give it a shot. I'm a prime example that LDR works! At least for some couples!

 

[ladyciel]

He was in the same grad school program as my roommate, and she invited him to our holiday party. However, we didn''t really meet at that party beyond me answering the door (already buzzed) and taking his coat; I was too busy flirting with our neighbor from across the hall to talk to many other people that night. Poor DH spent the whole party wondering if I was dating the neighbor, hoping I wasn''t, and wishing the guy would leave so DH could talk to me. However, as drunk as I was by the end of the night, I was able to remember which coat belonged to DH when he was ready to leave. That''s my proof that even though I was, erm, distracted, he must have made some kind of impression on me! A few weeks later, after new years, my roommate invited a large group out for dinner. DH planned to skip it, but then he noticed this name he didn''t recognize on the email-list, deduced it must be me (the roommate), and changed his plans. My roommate and I were late to the restaurant, so he positioned himself at the table across from what was pretty much guaranteed to end up being my seat (it did). When I sat down I had this really weird feeling of "gosh, I THINK I''ve met this guy...but I''m not sure" paired with nervous butterflies I didn''t expect. We talked throughout dinner, and before we all left he asked if he could take me out sometime. I said sure, and he gave me his number.

Now that we''re married, all I can think is it''s a good thing he tried so hard!! What makes his chasing me extra funny/special is that this is a guy who went several years barely dating because he hadn''t met anyone he felt was worth asking out. Meanwhile, I was on E-Harmony at the time actively searching for the right guy, had been on dates with several "matches" with no real luck, and then I spent a whole night flirting madly with one guy while my future DH was in the very same room. Whoops!

 

[vc10um]

Date: 11/6/2009 8:03:03 PM
Author: ladyciel
He was in the same grad school program as my roommate, and she invited him to our holiday party. However, we didn''t really meet at that party beyond me answering the door (already buzzed) and taking his coat; I was too busy flirting with our neighbor from across the hall to talk to many other people that night.

I don''t remember your hubby being there either...but I definitely remember the hottie neighbor.

 

[HopeDream]

We became friends at a summer job in a little town, and then at it turned out we were both actualy from the same city (4hrs away) and went to the same university, but had never met each other. It was a crazy coincidence because people at the job were from all over the place - they had come from hours away in all directions). At first I kept him totaly in the "just friends zone", but eventualy we took a course together and ended up going out. I''m glad he was persistant!

 

[brandithib]

We met in a creative writing class our junior year of college. We sat at this large table across from each other. I spent a lot of time looking at him since he was so cute

One afternoon I asked him if he wanted to grab some sushi with me and well, the rest is history...

 

[babycush]

We met at a Thanksgiving potluck dinner thrown by a mutual friend. During dessert, I had the greatest cookie I''ve ever eaten, and I asked "Who brought these???" Turns out, it was my future man We talked for the rest of the night and he got my number and told me he would call me. He did, about 12 hours later

!

The weird thing is that we had both been friends with the person throwing the potluck for about three years, but our paths had never crossed. Our friend''s roommate was M''s best friend growing up, and I knew him through that time. Fate works in mysterious ways!

 

[PatienceIsAVirtue]

I met my other half through work. He was a business associate. We kept it under wraps until we got serious.

 

[fuzzers]

Online!

 

[bee*]

I debated against his school and we all went out to celebrate afterwards.

 

[Mannequin]

Match.com! I was his first choice.

 

[Lilac]

I was a sports counselor at a day camp and DH was a counselor. Neither of us were supposed to be there that summer (I had tried my hardest to fight my mom not to force me to work there, and he had started out at another camp and hated it and finally left to look for a new job and found one at the camp where I was working).

The day he started working there, a friend of mine (another sports counselor) realized she had spoken to him online and thought it would be fun to pretend she was someone else and I would pretend I was her. I figured, "why not? I''ve ever met the guy in my life and I''ll probably never talk to him again.." so I went along with her "plan." We went up to him and I introduced myself as her! So the first time we met, I literally pretended I was someone else

Eventually we told him we were joking and told him who we really were, and my friend decided DH and I would be perfect for each other so she introduced us and kept finding excuses for us to hang out alone together. He told her later on that night that he thought I was cute, so she kept finding reasons for us to hang out during the day at camp (switching shifts with me so I had his bunk for sports so I could talk to him, or switching lunch periods with me so I had lunch the same time as him and we could talk in the cafeteria, etc.) After talking and hanging out for a couple days, he asked me out, we went on our first date, and knew we were perfect for each other

That was over 5 years ago and I still love thinking back and remembering that summer...

 

[sba771]

Online also! Jdate, but I wonder if we would have met anyway. It turned out we lived 4 blocks from one another in a very small NY neighborhood

 

[Parsley]

Aw these stories are so cute! It''s weird when you realise the little choices you made that meant you met this person isn''t it?

I started a course at uni, but left after 3 months because I hated my course. I loved my housemates though, so would visit them regularly. One day a friend invited me to her birthday there, and I was about to say no when I decided to shake it up and say YES. I''d just read Yes Man by Danny Wallace (the basis of the Jim Carrey film, and a million times better) and thought why not?

So I went down, and on the bus into town with the other people going out, I saw H and could hardly keep my eyes off him. Told myself not to be stupid and get a crush on someone so far away, and decided to forget him. He doesn''t remember this encounter. Awhile later a friend dragged me over to H to feel his hands cause they''re ridiculously soft, so his first memory of me is me gazing up at him in astonishment, stroking his beautifully soft hands. A little while later still, the same friend came over and said "Do you fancy H?" I got all flustered and was like "er, well, he is kind of, if you like that kinda thi.." until she cut me off saying "cause he likes you." Which made my evening.

A couple of days later after I left, I was sitting at home on my bed, up unusually late for me, when my phone went off. I was so confused cause no one texted me ever, let alone that late. It was a message from H, he''d got my number from a friend (who had also crafted this text for him cause he had no idea what to say). I danced round my room like a lunatic for awhile, and you couldn''t get the smile off my face for days. About a month or so later, I went down to celebrate my 19th birthday with my friends down there, he met me at the train station and we officially became bf and gf.

Best two and a half years of my life, hands down. Still can hardly believe the fitty on the bus fancied me!

 

[SparklyRing]

Hahaha, if it weren't for Facebook, we would have never really known each other. It's kind of a long story...

I was browsing through FB one day, saw his profile, thought that his pic was cute, so I friended him. Mind you, I was a freshman in college when FB came out. I also went to a small liberal arts college and, back then, only students had FB access, so it wasn't abnormal to randomly friend other students at that time.

So we exchanged a few flirty FB messages and saw each other around campus, but we never talked to each other in person. We kind of forgot about it until about a year later, when I went on a summer study abroad program and became very good friends with one of his best friends. I didn't know that they were close friends at that time, so when I came home, I posted a photo of myself and his friend as my FB profile pic. He saw it and messaged me. When we were all back on campus, his friend finally introduced us. It was instant mutual attraction.

The FB saga did not end there. I had made plans to study abroad for an entire year. We kept in touch via FB messages and by checking each other's profiles regularly. While we did date other people during this year, we had also seen each other during winter break when I was back home. It wasn't until the end of the summer, when I came home for good, that we began dating.

And that is the story of how we met and started dating. Oh, good old Facebook. Who would've thought that Mark Zuckerberg's creation would have led me to the love of my life?

 

[4ever]

We met in an online game over 4 years ago.

I was on holiday from school at the time and bord so took up playing an online game my brother played and generally goofing around on there when BF and I met. He was bord and messing around too and we had the same sence of humor. We began playing just to talk to each other.

Eventually I let him email and then later call me and we really liked each other. Only problem was, he lived in the UK and I lived in New Zealand (Yes, I literally couldn''t have picked someone that live any further away).

After we''d been talking for about 2 years I had saved up enough money doing part time work while I was at uni that I flew to London to meet him in person. We ended up spending three months together traveling the UK and I had the best time of my life before I had to fly home to go back to uni.

Being apart agin was very very painful (anyone who has had a LD relationship will know what I mean)

Long story short he left his job in the UK and moved here to NZ to be with me and we now live together.

It hasn''t been an easy journy, but good god it was worth it.

 

[vip0802]

what a great thread! i love reading stories like these.

C and i met 8 years ago (holy crap!) at a local watering hole/pool hall. my boyfriend at the time introduced us to him and his then girlfriend. it turned out that we had a lot of mutual friends and in turn, we became fast friends as well. fast forward 2 years later, we''re both single and C gets me an interview at his company. it turns out that i got a position in his department and we end up sharing the same office space for the next 5 years.

somewhere in the middle of those 5 years, we became extremely close friends and eventually became "bed buddies". it took us 6 months of being "buddies" to realize that we were madly in love with each other, and we''ve been together now for over 3 years. at first, the transition from friends to being in love was a bit awkward since we had been friends for so many years. on the other hand, our relationship is so great since we were friends before. i can''t wait to be engaged and married to my best friend...literally!

 

[AustenNut]

Chalk another one up to match.com. Considering how many people in this thread met that way it''s interesting that Match never advertises the people getting married who met from it.

Loving everyone''s stories!

 

[JustLikeYou]

A mutual friend's birthday party over an hour and a half away from where we both lived. He was the doofus in the bob marley shirt and I was "the cute girl with the corona hat".

 

[jjdav]

Match.com

I saved his profile as one of my favorites, he beat me to it by emailing me after he saw me in his ''Who''s Viewed You'' list

 

[jcrow]

at a wedding

he was the best man. i was the maid of honor. his brother was marrying my very good friend + coworker.

 

[AllieGator]

We were set up by a friend. She goes to a large university in the same town that I go to college in, and they went to high school together. He''d recently gotten a job at another college in the area, and we had both been whining to her about how we needed significant others. She thought we''d like each other, and asked us both if she could give my e-mail address to him, and that got the ball rolling. And the rest is history!

 

[MagsyMay]

Law school, probably because we both hated it and bonded over that! Although we were both dating other people at the time so we were friends for a while first.

 

[stepcutgirl]

AOL instant messenger. He likes my sarcastic profile and after ignoring him once apparently about a year prior I talked to him one night. We talked online every single day and night for five months before we met for a date. We''ve been together ever since and that was four and a half years ago!

 

[mochamamasita]

My sorority had a bbq and his fraternity went to it. He approached me at the bbq and the rest is history.

 

[Asscherhalo_lover]

Technically I met my now husband when I was about 12 years old on AIM people finder, I was bored and looking for kids my age to chat with, this was in the pretty early days of the internet and things were quite different.

We officially met by chance about two years later in high school, he was a year older than me. We started hanging out when I was in tenth grade and he was in eleventh, now almost 12 years after we talked online for the first time we are approaching our ninth dating and second wedding anniversary! (they are the same day!)

 

[jenmarie]

We went to high school together, but didn''t really become friends until our senior year. Right after our freshman year of college started, he told me he was in love with me, but I didn''t see our friendship turning into a relationship. After a rough year, and spending more time with him one on one (as opposed to the rest of our group of friends), we got pretty close, and I realized that I had feelings for him too.

We''ve been together ever since, it was four years in August!

 

[Callisto]

Date: 11/6/2009 10:26:17 AM
Author: lilyfoot
Our best friends date each other.


We''ve been hanging around each other in group situations for a few years, but just started dating earlier this year (we were both previously in relationships).


I always thought he was cute

Well that''s just a double date opportunity for life. SO and I have been searching for the perfect couple friends... harder than it seems cause now you have two people with opinions about TWO other people.



But answering this thread: He moved to my town his senior year of high school (my junior year) and we were in marching band together (nerds, I know). I always thought he was REALLY cute throughout that year but we barely knew each other. We then ended up sitting next to each other at a mutual friend''s birthday dinner and the rest is history hehe. Three and a half years going strong

 

[mariewest]

We met the very first day of college orienation our freshman year. We were both hanging out around the "park" ourside of my dorm building. I don''t think we even really talked to each other, but we definiately noticed each other (He told me his first impression was that he thought I was weird, haha.) We started hanging out a little bit going to parties and meals together, mostly in groups. I had a boyfriend from back home so "nothing" really happened, and then we just kinda stopped hanging out because I had a boyfriend at the time and SO didn''t want to waste his time hanging out with me, if he could try to get laid, haha (a typical college guy.) Our junior year of college, my (then) boyfriend and I broke up and my now SO sent me a message on Facebook like that same week saying that we should hang out and catch up. So we did, and started hanging out for about a month or so, then official started dating. We are going to be going on three years in January.