how did you meet your SO?

[slg47]

so this topic has probably been done...but i'd be interested to know how all of you ladies met your SO!

we met when I was a senior in college and he was a grad student. we were TAing a class together!

 

[MayFlowers]

We met our senior year of high school on a blind date. My best friend dates his best friend and they decided to set us up. The rest is history .

 

[marcy]

I was working at a photo lab and he dropped off a roll of film to be developed. We had a help wanted sign in the store and he applied. He only worked there about 4 months but by then we were totally inseparable.

 

[Indylady]

He was my physics tutor.

 

[princesss]

We had a class together freshman year, we had mutual acquaintances, and we lived in the same dorm. It would have been impossible for us not to have met!

 

[nicoleben]

haha..

I always had a huge crush on him during high school. He was a junior and I was a freshman. His brother was my best friend through most of high school. I actually went to prom with his brother, AS FRIENDS! Then one night a guy I was "sort of" dating (nothing serious) asked me to meet him out for a few drinks with his friend. When I got to the bar, well...he was the "friend" and the rest was history! He said he remembered me always being at his house when we were in high school (this was 7 years ago!), and we talked for a little bit that night. Then two days later he added me on facebook (ohhh that dumb but addictive social networking site!) The facebook then turned into getting each others numbers and talking allllllll day, night, we were inseparable. We would meet up with each other with mutual friends for a few weeks. On my birthday we made it official and I have been crazy about him ever since!! We now live together, his brother is also a part of the current household as well. Weird story, but so totally true.

It is nice because I know his family well, since i grew up with his brother. His mom even stated, "I always knew I would hook you up with one of my boys!" and no... it's not weird that I went to prom with his brother, and No, his friend was not mad at us getting together. He actually is a very close friend to the both of us, and it is not awkward at all!

 

[vc10um]

He sat next to me on a bus to our apartment complex on the way home from work one day.

Two days later, he sat next to me again (after I may or may not have saved the seat in hopes he would be riding the shuttle at the same time), we exchanged numbers, and I asked him out on our first date that very night. The rest, as they say, is history.

 

[Miss Sparkly]

I asked him to dance at a social swing dance I then didn't tell him how old I was (17) and he thought I was his age (21) He found out my age after he fell for me and we are now coming up on our 5 year wedding anniversary in September

 

[Grlsbestfrnd]

It was in high school. I sort of knew who he was before I officially met him because my sister and his brother were friends (and wanted to hook us up). On the first day of class my junior year I walked into the room and saw him sitting next to an empty seat near someone I knew. I sat down, said hi to my friend, and introduced myself him. He was shy so it took a lot of coaxing but we soon became friends and hung out every day in school and the next year he asked me to prom. We've been together almost every day since and that was over 6 years ago!

 

[nicoleben]

I asked him to dance at a social swing dance I then didn't tell him how old I was (17) and he thought I was his age (21) He found out my age after he fell for me and we are now coming up on our 5 year wedding anniversary in September

So cute! and congrats on the wedding anniversary!

 

[beezygal]

we met on friendster. I don't know if you guys remember Friendster. It's like facebook now. He's actually a friend of a friend of a friend of mine according to Friendster. It's the first time meeting ppl off the internet for both of us.

 

[RhubarbPie]

We met in college We were in all of the same classes (same major) - we started hanging out in the library and studying together (he's so smart!!). One thing led to another...

 

[kagordo4]

We met twice actually. The first time doesn't count, I thought he was gay. opps.

The first time he was helping his bestfriend move into our apartment (his bestfriend is my former roommate, yuck terrible adventure.) I actually rode in his car with him and former roommate to pick-up our parking permits for campus. Anyway, I thought he was gay, and he thought I was a "micro-managing bitch" (pardon me, that's a direct quote.) This was August 14th, 2008.

The next time was Halloween '08. We had a small toga party. BUT I had to go to a fraternity party before our's, because I was sort of "seeing" someone, i.e. we went out on like two dates and the guy got all kinds of crazy clingy. So anyway, I ended things with clingy-dude and then at the party at our apartment, we had a few drinks... My bestfriend may have been rolling in a pile of trash (like newspaper,ftr). Things we're tons of fun. SO and I started flirting.

Okay so long story short, we flirted, then kept talking for a few days. SO asked ex-roommate if it was cool with him if he persued me, ex-roommate assured him it was fine he didn't like me, and I wasn't his type. So started super flirting and asked me out to SeaWorld. Ex-roommate got crazy jealous and stopped being friends with SO, even though they had been friends for like 20 years. I stopped talking to SO even though I was totally into him. That was the hardest few days of my life. He called me crying, which he doesn't do like the only other time I have seen him cry is when he walked out of the ER to tell me "my mommy is dead." And we've been together since.

It was sad and hard but SO and I are very happy. I still feel guilty though, even though he assures me he is not the one that burnt the bridge, and will most certainly not try to rebuild it after all the drama, that I spared you all from. : )

 

[PrincessNatalie]

He is my best friends, boyfriends, best friend . He is absolutely adorable and I didn’t know him very well but kept on calling him Harry Potter behind his back because he has glasses. One evening I was over at my best friends house and we were all catching up and had had a few drinks, he called a taxi to go home, we were all a bit tipsy and my best friend had apparently told him I liked him (I later learnt), she was mucking around with him and stole his license and the Taxi left without him because she wouldn’t give it back. Then we were all on the couch and he was rubbing my leg under the blanket (unfortunately we had all had a bit to drink, lol), he ended up staying the night but I was a bit nervous so even though I really liked him I would have like to talk to him after everyone else went to bed I crawled into bed with my best friend at bed time.

Then the next time we had a get together we were flirting like mad. Then the next time even more so and one day he added me on face book, then he got my email and sent me a little smiley face like this :*) and we started talking shyly via email and then I went over his house one day. My best friend was super excited when she found out we had been emailing.

Its two years on now and I couldn’t be happier!

 

[diamondbuggy]

We met at school when we were 14. We were put together in maths class because we were the top 2 students (We're a couple of nerds! ). We became really good friends and started dating about a year later. We've been together almost everyday since then.

 

[kateydid05]

We met on June 8, 2004 when I accompanied my friend to her fire department because I was thinking about joining. I was actually dating someone at the time but it was on the outs. The first thing he said to my friend was "who the heck would let you babysit their kid?" This was in reference to me, who without makeup, hair pulled back, in t-shirt and shorts with my glasses on, looks like I am about 16, if that (well at the time it was probably 12, nowadays I barely pass for 16)! We hung out for a few months and he realized I was unhappy in my relationship but never overstepped the boundary. One night I was talking to him and he said something (i wish I could remember what it was) that was like a lightbulb in my head and realized I needed to break up with my boyfriend. Few more months later we were together and have been together ever since.

 

[AnneTossy]

Ohhhh, i like this post! These are fun to read

I met my FI at Hooters of all places! Ha!

I was his waitress several times, and then I actually asked him out. Totally not my style but it worked!

 

[maebelle]

At a party at the end of Junior year of college. He was at a Hookah(neither of us are smokers, but will go to Hookah bars every once and a while) on the porch and I used that as an excuse to sidle right up next to him. Then his friends actually didn't let me leave until I gave him my number (like they needed to do that )

Apparently for at least a year he thought he had made the first move, not realizing that I had come over because of the cute guy, not because of flavored tobacco

 

[shihtzulover]

I met him on a dating website.

I met several guys from that website and one other website, and I met a lot of frogs. I also met some guys who were nice, but just not my type. Then I finally met him. We went to dinner and a movie, and then went on a few more dates. We took it slow and just kept it friendly for about a month or so, and then it developed into more. After that, our relationship grew quickly, and we we started seeing each other almost every day.

He is truly the most wonderful man that I have ever met.

 

[DuckLovingVegan]

We met online Myspace. He was searching for people who went to his High School and found me although we were there at different times six year difference. We started talking about the school and then eventually decided to meet and the rest was history.

 

[fuzzers]

To make a long story short, we met on a social networking site (not Facebook or MySpace) when we were 16 and 18. I was in the States and he was in Europe. After 7 months of chatting online everyday and webcamming (and ringing up the occasional $300 phone bill... oops ), he flew over here to meet me. For the next 2 years we were long-distance, sometimes 5,000 miles away and sometimes 600, but we saw each other every 3 or 4 months. It was tough, but I think it made us very strong. I wouldn't trade that experience.

Now we are going to college together here in the States. He and I are currently working on a masters degree and doctorate degree, respectively. We've come a long way but we have a long way to go!

Thanks everyone for sharing your stories! They are fun to read.

 

[diva rose]

I still feel guilty though, even though he assures me he is not the one that burnt the bridge, and will most certainly not try to rebuild it after all the drama, that I spared you all from. : )

Now I'm interested in this drama why was his friend so upset if he said he was ok with it from the beginning?

My DH and I met through mutual friend 6 years ago. We became casual acquaintances for 3 years - I think I saw him like a total of 3-4 times.Then exactly 3 years ago he invited me to his housewarming.
We got together that night, got engaged 15 months later & married.
We've been together for total of 3 years now (2 years dating; 1 year married).

 

[Maisie]

I met G in a chat room. We chatted for about 2 months before we decided to meet up. He moved to live closer to me and we worked in the same restaurant. We had our son after 2 years of dating.

 

[Natylad]

I met my dearest husband on the plane, on a flight from Athens-Greece to Canada. He was sitting right next to me. I was travelling to attend my first cousin's wedding and he was moving to Canada (from Lebanon) for his post graduate studies... After nine hours of flight we were already in love!!! We exchanged numbers and had been sending SMS's to each other for days until we finally went out on a date (in Montreal)! After a few days i flew back to Greece, crying all the way back but we kept in constant contact through messenger, cameras, sms's, the phone, letters, etc!!! After 8 months he came to Greece to visit me and he met my mother and brother (he didn't dare meet my dad!!! ). Then he went back and i visited him in Canada after 4 months...This went on for 4 years...Last July, i went to Beirut-Lebanon to meet his parents (his family lives there) and on the night of his birthday, while the entire family was out celebrating, among fireworks etc, he took out of his....mother's purse the box with the ring (he, he, he was hidding it there coz he was afraid i might see it ) and he proposed to me...He said the most wonderful things to me and i knew that he was worthy of all my love, devotion and trust...He is the most amazing man in the world and we got married two months ago, on the 26th of May

 

[diva rose]

Natylad - that is so romantic! It's like out of the movie!

 

[amc80]

We met the old fashioned way- online
According to the new match dot com commercial, one out of five couples meet online. Times, they are a-changing.

 

[Anonymous]

Hmm am I really answering this question?

I really hope it's ok that I keep posting here...just tell me to go away if not, but I love this board!!

So my FI and I met almost exactly 3 years ago - Aug 12, 2007. I have a very dysfunctional family to say the least, and we live about 600 miles apart, so my parents and I play an online game together (a very popular one but I won't mention names...).

Anyhow, it was my dad's birthday, and we were doing something together in the game that needed more people - I asked in chat of a random area for help at like 11:00 at night and he responded. So essentially he met my parents on our first meeting. We did things together in game for a while, eventually sharing email then phone, then skype after about 6 months. He was very different from other people that I'd met in the game (which 99.99999% of the guys I'd met were really creepy/pushy/rude/etc. and were ignored by me). After a year of knowing each other and knowing that we wanted to meet in person, he flew out here to spend the weekend with me. We'd shared a LOT of our lives together, but obviously there were so many unknown things until we met in person. Let's just say that we knew after that trip that it wasn't just a coincidence that we met. It was the best weekend of my entire life, and the next year was the longest year of my life!

In August of 2009, I flew out to New York to help him drive to California to live here. He rented a room for a couple of months from someone, just in case things didn't go quite as well as we expected them to, but never actually stayed there a single night. It's been almost a year of him living here, and I can't imagine going back to not sharing every day of my life with him. We have things that come up (as any normal, healthy relationship does) but we work through them vs. sweeping them under the rug like my past relationships. He's my best friend and teammate in life.

I love these stories, keep 'em coming!

 

[nicoleben]

Great Topic!

I enjoy reading these as well. Some are so sweet it makes a person choke up! haha

 

[kagordo4]

I still feel guilty though, even though he assures me he is not the one that burnt the bridge, and will most certainly not try to rebuild it after all the drama, that I spared you all from. : )

Now I'm interested in this drama why was his friend so upset if he said he was ok with it from the beginning?

My DH and I met through mutual friend 6 years ago. We became casual acquaintances for 3 years - I think I saw him like a total of 3-4 times.Then exactly 3 years ago he invited me to his housewarming.
We got together that night, got engaged 15 months later & married.
We've been together for total of 3 years now (2 years dating; 1 year married).

Haha I'll breeze over it.

First of all I totally don't get why ex-roommate acted the way he did? Maybe he was jealous that his bestfriend was finally happy, apparently everytime SO had a girlfriend in the past exroommate got grumpy, but ex roommate could do whatever he wanted? And I thought women were catty.

Ex-roommate (from now on XR) started distancing himself from SO and me. He would stay at his parents house instead of the apt (like 45 minutes away from campus.) So kept asking what was wrong. The only thing XR said was that it had nothing to do with me he just wanted to be his own person or something? I still don't know.

XR rushed a fraternity that is notorious for making nice guys into jerks. That's all I'm saying on that.

Um things got worse and worse and eventually SO stopped calling XR because all he got in return was angry bs.

I'm glossing over a bunch. But XR started telling me that SO was saying bad things about me, and vice versa. It was a very hard and awkard time. XR was dating one of my sisters who felt helpless and stuck in the middle, so I distanced myself from her, it wasn't fair (even though I never broached the subject with her, at all.)

A year later (this Feb) the straw fell that broke the camels back. SO's mother died totally unexpectedly. I mean, no warning what-so-ever. I helped make a ton of the arrangements and decided to put the past behind me, I called XR and left five messages to call me, I texted him, and wrote on his wall. Finally I called his mom.

XR knew SO's mom for 20 years, she loved him like a son. His family still misses XR, but XR didn't visit the family, call SO (who called him and said "let's forget about the last year, life's too short dude and I miss you."

I made arrangements with XR that I would not go to SO's mother's viewing so he could be comfortable. He didn't bother showing up, so I hurt SO's family for nothing, that was fun. XR didn't show up to the funeral or anything. What was he doing during those times? His brother's (fraternity) even came to the viewing and funeral to pay respects.

It wouldn't bother me so much except for the fact that SO had to face that alone, and he was just so broken. SO is (and I do mean present tense) the biggest mommy's boy I have ever met, but he loves me just as much, it works for him. I don't think he'll ever forgive XR for making him go through that alone. He tried so hard to bring his friend back, but that was the final smack in the face.

5 months late and XR hasn't said a single thing to SO, not even a "I'm sorry your mom died." Nothing, but his parents come to SO's dad's all the time to check in on him (and by extension see me, because I'm always there.)

Sorry that was so long, but that was only highlights.

 

[diva rose]

Wow - that XR has some serious issues. Is your sister still dating him? I hope not.
I'm sorry to hear about your SO's loss.
It must have been terrible for him to lose his mother and his best friend.

Good thing he has you!
Thanks for sharing your story.