JUST FOR FUN! How did you meet your SO?

[Pushin40]

OK - yes - we were at the bar next door to work.

I see this guy.... and I say to my boss and my roommate - OMG I LOVE HIM!!

My Roommate says - OH , he works with us at %%%%. REALLY, huh?

So I approached him, said Hi to him and his friend, and aksed him if he worked at %%%%,

I sat with him and his friend and had a few beers. Then we all walked out together and he kissed me in the parking lot!

AWWWWWWWWWWW (I know it was a drunken KISS, but still,,,,)

Then we got toghether for our first date a week later! The rest is HISTORY!

What do you ladiies have for me? Any good stories? BRING ''EM ON!

 

[KCCutie]

Ooooo I''ll play!

As embarrassing as it may be we met on MySpace. Yep, seriously!

I was doing a show in town and some of the younger cast members said I just had to get on MySpace so we could keep in touch, so I broke down and made a profile.

One day I get a message form this really cute guy that says "Finally! How hard is it to meet people your own age here?" or something like that. I thought it was really cute and funny b/c I mostly got weird messages from guys that were not my age (just turned 29 at the time) or my type and just ignored them besides I wasn''t there to find a date. LOL. So I responded and I''m so glad I did!

We continued to send messages several times day for about 2 weeks and decided we should talk on the phone and soon after that on May 27th 2006 we met for the first time. The rest as people say is history.

 

[aliciagirl]

This is a cute thread!

I met my SO in junior high! I had homeroom with his friends and we got introduced through them, so we became friends then. We started talking everyday once high school started and we had so much in common! Everyone thought we would be good together. But he thought he wasn''t good enough for me and I thought I wasn''t skinny enough for him (petty, i know, but all of his ex- girlfriends ever were shorter than 5'' and weighed about 90). We stayed best friends through multiple relationships and once we both went off to college, he finally told me he had feelings for me. At that point, he was acting like... well, a typically college guy and I told him that we couldn''t work unless he got his act together.

He was very persistent always saying stuff like "Do you know any single girls who are 5''7" with brown curly hair and glasses and light skin.. because that would be the perfect girl for me" (which is basically me) and stuff like that. He also really started acting like boyfriend material. I finally went on a date with him in Nov ''05 - we had hung out before tons, both alone and in groups but never as a date.

We were perfect together, like everyone always told us we would be, and we''ve been together since. We laugh now about how we had such crushes on each other but were being totally silly about doing anything about it. I love dating my best friend, though. I know so much about him from just being good friends for so long. He''s such a great guy and I kick myself all the time for not giving him a chance before I did.

 

[fieryred33143]

Oh man here goes our drama filled introduction LOL

So I met a guy over the internet…I know, I know. We “chatted” for a few months before deciding to meet in person. By then I had decided he wasn’t the one for me but I was young and single so hey, why not. We dated for about two months…and I mean dated in the traditional sense, he would take me to dinner and a movie, do the kissy faces while walking me to the door, etc. Near the time of our two month mark, I had a get together to celebrate my roommate’s birthday. He said he was bringing over some guys and one in particular he thought would be “good” for my roommate. So they come over, she wasn't interested, and they leave. My FF was part of that group. Then I found out the guy has a live-in girlfriend AND a newborn when she got a hold of my number and called me!!!

Couldn’t believe it. I was totally disgusted and never talked to the guy again.

So about a month after that, I get a phone call from the area code where he lives and think “oh God, this is either him with some garbage or this is his girlfriend.” Turns out it was “R” (my FF). He said that he had just found out what happened and that he was surprised because he thought I knew. I told him I didn’t and he said “I’m glad because you seemed too sweet to be with someone like that.” So we chatted for a little while longer and he ended the conversation with “well, I hope you aren’t at your maximum of friends because I would love to get to know you better.” LOL. So we chatted for a few months, met up for dinner, etc. We never looked back. Six years later and we are going strong…even with the drama we are going through with the whole engagement. That’s how we are

 

[Lauren8211]

I actually met my BF for the first time when I was 19. We had a mutual friend and met at a party. He thought I was cute, but I was dating my jerk high school boyfriend at the time, and stayed with him for about 3 more years after that. The HS BF and I were on a "break" at the time because he had been cheating on me, and we got back together, broke up, got back together, etc, etc until i was about 22 when we broke up for good.

Then.. about 9 months after he and I broke up, I ran into FF at a halloween party that was on my 23rd birthday. I was a lot happier, and of course - single! We had a lot to drink that night -- and had a great time. We ended up hanging out several times a week because we both really liked each other, but were scared to make it exclusive or serious because we had both just gotten out of bad relationships.

After about 2 months of pretending we werent serious, we decided we wanted to date exclusively, and on Jan 7 2006 we were officially dating!

I always tell him how he was the best birthday present I ever could have gotten!

 

[sunnyd]

We go wayyyyyy back. LOL seriously though, check this out. Our families are from Montreal. We lived literally 20 mins from each other. His family moved here, mine moved a few years later to the same city near Seattle. Our moms started working together 14 years ago for a school. We went to middle and high school together, though we were different years so never friends. My brother and his sister dated for a week(they''re 6 years younger). He started working at the job I was at in high school. Then he started working at the job I was at during college, but I had a BF. When we broke up, now FF made his move. Haha. We started talking and his friend let it out that he had a crush on me. We were meant to be I tell ya!

 

[kbarro1]

Oooh! This thread is fun! I have one that I owe all to margaritas!!!

Well, one night I was out at a Mexican restaurant with a bunch of work friends so we could listen to one of the guys that worked with us play in his band. I happened to bring my quite attractive blonde headed roommate (yeah, I''m a little jealous of her

) with me that night and this guy came up to talk to her. He was with two other friends whom he left standing alone at the bar. I had been eyeing one of his friends all night, but hadn''t said anything to him (I just kept telling my roommate that the guy in the visor is really cute!). Well, when the guy came up to my roommate, I guess the mix of that and the MULTIPLE MARGARITAS that I had consumed gave me enough courage to stand up in the middle of the bar of the restaurant, point directly at him and say "You! Come here!"...and guess what? He did! We danced and talked all night, went on our official first date a few days later and have been together ever since!

Keep the stories coming! It is so fun to hear them!

 

[chocolatefudge]

I met my boyfriend in Human Biooligy in college! I was only 16 (almost 17) and developed a HUGE crush on him, I remember telling all my family about ''Biology Matt!!!'' This is really embarassing but I even saved all the sweet wrappers that he left on the desk and took them home because they reminded me of him!!!

Anyway after a few months I admitted my feelings only for him to tell me that he liked someone else! I was gutted! Don''t really know what happened there because a few weeks later he texted me asking me out and the rest in history!

 

[sklingem]

I met my GF on a backpacking trip that I was co-leading. While we did not really talk on that trip we got to know each other better on following trips. On our first "date" (as friends of course) I invited her to celebrate her GRE''s (nice excuse); on our second date I invited her to my place and cooked dinner for her (no, nothing happened) and we finally kissed on our third date when, after going out for dinner, we had my signature homemade cheesecake with strawberries and wine at my place. See a common thread here ... yeah, food.
Always works. She moved in six months after eating that cheesecake! LOL

 

[FrekeChild]

Myspace. I asked him to be my friend (I had had a very traumatic breakup recently and was just trying to meet new people) he accepted and we exchanged a lot of comments. Well he had a live in girlfriend. She saw the myspace comments and got jealous and angry. We began to send messages to each other instead-we were just getting to know each other as friends-there was nothing to hide, he just wanted the conflict to stop. Not long afterwards they got into an even bigger fight and they broke up. That is when we started to IM, and then we talked on the phone. A couple of weeks after they broke up we met in person for the first time. And soon after that, that was it.

It was weird though, we hit it off instantly over myspace comments. And then messages, IMs and telephone conversations. Sitting at the computer for hours waiting to hear what the other one had to say. And that chemistry hasn''t stopped since...

 

[LuvinMyLife86]

i love hearing stories about how people met because they always make everyone smile! Here''s my story:

I was 18 and dating a guy that I had dated off and on during high school and didnt treat me how I should be treated. One of my coworkers finally said that she couldnt stand hearing someone treating me that way for so long and said that her boyfriends best friend was single and looking. I was kind of reluctant because I am extremely shy but i figured what the heck. So me, coworker, coworkers BF, and mystery guy all got together at his house and played some games and had a few drinks... neither of us said a single word to each other! So i went home and thought nothing of it, figured he wasnt my type, I had known of him from high school and he was one of the trouble makers while I was a goodie-goodie. Then my high school BF and I broke up the next week. I was miserable and all I could think about was this other guy. So coworker set us up a second time. Our first date was absolutely horrible!! We hardly said two words to each other, he didn''t seem into me at all, I was so mad at myself because he seemed like such a cool guy and I had lost my chance. For whatever reason, he IMed me the next day and said that there was something about me and wanted to give it another chance. I thought this guy must be insane! We seemed like complete opposites, but after IMing for an insane amount of hours over the next few days we found that we were very similar and wanted the same things. A month later he sat me down on his Moms couch, and asked me middle-school-style if I would be his girlfriend, it was so darn cute, and here we are three and a half years later!

keep the stories coming!

 

[ladypirate]

How's this for weird: my parents introduced us.

Kris worked in the same department as my dad at the local university and they became friends along with a couple of other coworkers through a shared interest in wine. They'd get together every couple of weeks for a wine dinner where everyone would bring a bottle and spend about 4 hours eating, drinking, and learning about wine.

I was in college at the time and studying abroad in England, but when I came back, I started participating in the wine dinners and my dad introduced us. We sat next to each other since we were the two "kids" at the table and started talking only to find we had a lot in common. We really bonded over a shared love of MST3K.

We stayed friends through my last year of college and hung out whenever I came back to town. I dated various other people, but we were always friends. After college, I moved to Los Angeles (about 100 miles away from home), but we'd still talk a lot, he'd come visit me, I'd see him when I went home to visit my parents, etc. Finally, one day he asked if I thought there was more there.

I was floored, actually. I'd just decided that I was going to be single and not date seriously for a while and then came this! I said I needed to think about it. A month later, I'd done enough thinking and had realized that he was everything I had ever looked for in a partner, and he was already my best friend. (Awwww) I let him know this at another one of the wine dinners (fitting, I suppose) after we'd spent the day riding our bikes and talking. Rather than just telling him, though, I held his hand under the table. He was BRIGHT red all through dinner because my dad was sitting next to him. Amusing, since he was in his late 20s, not 13. Later that evening, I made my reply a bit more clear. He was thrilled, although he said he was surprised I had said yes--he thought me saying I needed to think about it was a line, when really I was telling the absolute truth!

ETA: For the record, my parents are thrilled. They already thought of him almost as a son, and now they get to have him as a son-in-law!

 

[KCCutie]

Date: 6/3/2008 4:58:28 PM
Author: FrekeChild

It was weird though, we hit it off instantly over myspace comments. And then messages, IMs and telephone conversations. Sitting at the computer for hours waiting to hear what the other one had to say. And that chemistry hasn't stopped since...

LOL I was convinced I would be the only one with a MySpace story! Funny but So and I were the same way we had this amazing chemistry over MySpace and it hasn't changed at all.

 

[absolut_blonde]

I'll play! I like telilng our story because- and I am a bit biased- I think it's kinda cute.

We actually met for the first time when I was about 14 and he was 16. He is friends with my older cousin and my older cousin always had a ton of people over at hs place. We continued to see each other in passing throughout the years, but never really talked.

As it turns out, he had a crush on me even back then! He'd ask my cousin about me every so often. My cousin's family (who know SO well) would even tease me about it, especially my aunt. I'm still somewhat amused by this because believe me, I was an awkward 14 year old! I don't think I really came into my own til at least 17 or 18. So not sure what he saw, LOL, but it's sweet nonetheless.

My cousin, being your typical overprotective brother figure, tried to steer him away for years. Which is probably for the best since SO went through the fairly common bad boy stage in his early 20s. It probably wouldn't have worked out at that point, especially since we do live in different cities.


Cut to my cousin's wedding last summer -- 9 years after we first met. SO was a groomsman and I was singing in the wedding. We started chatting at the rehearsal barbeque the night before and the rest is history. We talked for like 3 hours that first night (basically ignoring everyone else there, though not intentionally) and were inseparable for the rest of the weekend.

It was a bit more complicated starting an actual relationship as we are LDR and we had to gauge each other's intentions right off the bat. But the timing was right and everything worked out brilliantly. As a bonus, he knows and gets along with my dad's side of the family already! He came pre-approved basically, haha.

I do think there was a bit of serendipity involved -- given how we met, the fact that we both broke up with fairly long-term significant others early last year and how everything ended up coming together.

 

[stereogirl]

we met on e-harmony. we emailed for a while and eventually started texting and then talking on the phone. we had (and still have) great chemistry! we went on our first date on May 5, 2007. he took me out for mexican food and we went shopping at a really cool toy store (where we both had an excellent time "sampling" the merchandise). He called me that night and asked me out again...for the next day. We got together several times a week and moved from friendship to love. he is incredible and as you know, we got engaged on May 25th!

 

[smiles]

such a fun thread! i love the stories!

sooo we met kinda through my ex-bff and kinda through a youth group.

I actually met him back in Feb 2003 on this youth group weekend thingy but he and my bff were kinda together at the time. (in the 15 year old sense of the word) lol.
I then re-met him not even remembering or knowing who he was in september 2003 through the same friend. She told me she kinda like him and what did I think? He seemed nice enough and over the next 4 weeks the three of us and one other guy became super close friends hanging out all the time and turned out I really liked him and he liked me too. (although we do joke that if he had known as a 16 year old where we would be now he might have held off on asking me out for a while)
In October I got a phone call... there were a bunch of holidays and so our usual hangout days had to be spent with family so he thought he wouldnt be seeing me for another month. (16... couldn''t drive yet lol). so he called me and asked me to be his gf and he was so nervous because he never had to ask a girl out before and he wanted to ask in person but didn''t want to wait a whole month!! (so cute!!)
fast forward 4.5 years and we are old enough to begin the talks about the future and begin to get all our ducks in a row!

 

[wishful]

Well I met my BF at a party thrown by a mutual friend. At the time I was dating my ex so I wasn''t available but since he had no interest in accompanying me to the party I had fun talking to everyone including my future BF. We had a lot in common including cycling. But I did think it was odd because we were having an awesome conversation and then he excused himself to go use the bathroom and never came back! I was like "uh, ok...whatever." But I ended up adding him as a friend on Myspace due to the mutual interest in cycling however we hardly ever communicated.

About 4 months later my relationship with the ex came to an end and the second I changed my "status" on myspace to "single" my future BF waited oh....maybe a day before contacting me and saying that he "noticed I was now single" and wanted to see if I would like to go for a bike ride. Quite frankly I was surprised since I didn''t think he liked me that much based on his behavior at the party. But I was open to it, and the bike ride ended up turning into dinner instead.

.

Later on I asked him about the night at the party where we had such a great conversation and the he just ditched. He said he really liked me but he knew I had a boyfriend and he felt it better to just not get involved. I asked "even as friends??" and he said that he just wasn''t the type of guy to go after someone else''s girl. He saw that as very shallow. Aww! How cute!

Fortune may reward the bold but good things do come to those who wait.

 

[jojolh]

Myspace too! I was very happy to see a couple of you ladies met your SO the same way. To be honest, I was shy to tell anyone how we met when we first started dating now I just don''t care. I was not on there looking to date, it was a good way to stay connected to a bunch of new people I met in CA and still connected to my friends back east.

I guessed his middle name...chatted for about a month then went on an official first date. We celebrated our one yr. last month and we still still send each other myspace comments once in ahwile.

 

[SarahLovesJS]

I love reading everyone''s stories! I''m not a LIW anymore, but can I play?

We met on a plane on the way to Japan. We were taking a study abroad class together in college, but somehow managed never to meet during the first few weeks of the class until we were on the plane. We only met then because we were seated alphabetically.

Anyway, we talked the whole way there...like all 13 hrs..haha. And hung out together during most of the trip! I was afraid I wouldn''t see him again when we got back, didn''t even get to say good-bye because we were busy meeting up with family and stuff. But, I saw him in class before it ended and gave him my AIM name and cell number. Sure enough he contacted me over our break from school and we kept talking, dating, and now we''re getting married next year!

I almost skipped out the first time we were supposed to hang out together because I was afraid he was too good to be true (I had never met a college-aged guy that was that nice before), that would have been a mistake! Both of our families also told us we might meet someone on the trip and both of us said no way, it''ll never happen. Well there''s a bunch of other twists, but that''s enough I am getting long-winded!

 

[Blair138]

I met my FF when he sold me my car

I was dating my HS BF at the time and went to go pick out a car with my dad...Now BF sells it to us but I didn''t like him because he told my dad not to let me get the car in the color I wanted...fast forward about a year, I take my car in for service, start chatting with my now BF-develop a HUGE crush, break up with my HS BF and start dating my now BF a week later...it''s been 4 years and he''s my FF now!!! (hope you could follow all the BF''s

)

 

[StarvingMusician]

My boyfriend and I were members of the same general group of friends, but we''d never met each other. We met at a St. Patrick''s day party at a friend of ours when I was 21 and he was 32...he was a grad student/teaching assistant, and I was an undergrad at a different college in the same town. Pretty much everybody at the party was a grad student, I came with an older friend. Neither of us were drinking much, and everybody else was sloshed, so as the two mainly sober people at the party, we talked alot, and ended up going out for Indian food at a 24 hour place that night. We were both a bit freaked when we discovered how old the other was (I looked older than i was, he looked younger than he was), but we ended up hanging out alot, and we liked each other right from the start. And we''ve been dating for two years

 

[ladypirate]

I love reading everyone''s stories! Keep ''em coming, girls (and guys)!

 

[Dee*Jay]

I picked him up in a Starbucks while I was waiting for my (then) boyfriend to arrive.

 

[darkeyesredshoes]

My teaching job paid so poorly that I needed to get a second job to pay my student loans.

I decided to work at the Apple Store because I loved the products, and I figured I might meet a guy working there. I did! I can''t imagine how I would''ve found FI if teaching paid well...

 

[Izzy03]

Ahhh.... SPRING BREAK, KEY WEST 2007..... Well to keep it PG, it was a one night stand that turned into the most unbelievable romance.

 

[glitterbug]

We actually met at work!

We worked for the same dept at a major company, but he was in the managerial staff... it started off as a really cute, fun, flirty friendship and evolved from there. I had a total schoolgirl crush on him! One day around Christmas of ''04 he asked for my number and the rest, as they say, is history. We''ve been through a LOT in the last 3.5 years, and no setbacks or challenges have been too much for us to handle together. We love each other so incredibly much, and I can''t wait for the next chapter of our lives to begin.

 

[Jewels305]

I also met my BF through myspace!! Wow, I am glad there are others who met their SOs the same way.

He added me as a friend one night (because he thought I was cute) and I accepted because he seemed nice. I was bored the next night so I sent him a message and we began talking. In all honesty, I was interested in someone else at the time and figured that talking with this "new guy" was just for fun and eventually I would have to tell him that I just wanted to be friends with him. Well, eventually I realized that I liked him too much to not give him a fair chance. So we set up a date (first meeting) and he was supposed to come to pick me up and go to dinner on a Friday night. Unfortunately there was a huge snowstorm and we were both so disappointed that our plans were going to be ruined. He didn''t want to let me down (and was so excited to meet me himself) that he drove through the tail end of the storm anyway to make our date.

That''s when I knew that he was kind of interested in me... we had a great first date and the rest is history!

 

[Snickerdoodle]

Match.com.

A friend had been bugging me to go on Match for a couple of years, but I never thought it was really my thing. I finally decided to sign up because I wasn''t meeting any decent guys on my own and thought I''d try a new "hunting ground." I put up a profile and met four or five new guys within the first couple of weeks (wow! why didn''t I do this a long time ago?!). R saw I was online one day and sent me a hilarious email. I guess I was taking too long to type a response because I received another email (are you stalking me?) that started, "If at first you don''t suceed, then skydiving isn''t for you. But I believe in the world of dating we get second chances..." So we exchanged a few emails and started talking a few days later. The next weekend we met out at a sports bar by my house to do some day drinking. Five weeks after posting my online profile, I took it off permanently.

Our houses were five minutes away from one another, but because of our busy schedules, completely different career fields, and very different circles of friends, we probably would not have met any other way.

June 18th will be our 3 year anniversary.

 

[bobbin]

We play Ultimate Frisbee together.

I started playing in 2004, for a different club but by early 2005 had moved over to his club (not for him). I didn''t notice him much, thought he was a nice guy but that was it. I also was with someone at the time, but that relationship didn''t last long. We started playing on a few of the same teams and spending more time with each other around mid 2005 and at the start of December 2005 I drove with one of my friends to a tournament in Melbourne. She happened to be the girlfriend of his housemate and so he came along too with a few others. During the entire way there (8 hours) we talked, joked and mucked around and I started to like him but wasn''t sure I wanted anything. Anyway, I hung out with him all weekend and then again the next weekend at the christmas party. I still wasn''t sure though but one of his friends came up to me and in a very high-school esque moment said "I think that you like one of my friends". I refused to talk about but that meant I had to make my mind up pretty quickly! Apparently another one of his friends had gone up to him and told him that he thinks I liked him.

Next weekend I had made up my mind and we got together at a party then.

Apparently he had liked me for ages but hadn''t done anything because he thought I still had a boyfriend. I don''t believe him, I think that he wouldn''t have done anythign anyway because he is too shy! Even when he kind of knew that I liked him I had to make all the moves- he kept getting shy and running away!

Wow, this is a long post for a relatively simple story!

 

[Cartwheel]

I LOVE all these stories!

Our story is a bit convoluted. I had amazing floor seats at a Warriors game and no one to go with. I''d asked all my friends and everyone was either out of town or already had plans. These seats were really good, so when it was day of and I still had no one to take the other ticket I started to worry that I might miss the game!

I was part of a marathon training team at the time and was at our regularly scheduled Saturday morning group run when some guy started running next to me. I didn''t even know that he was part of the team since I was usually in the front of the pack (I used to be fast!) and he was usually slower than me (He''s since caught up!

). He reminded me that we''d met a few weeks earlier at one of our team''s social gatherings. After running and chatting for a few miles, I thought he seemed harmless enough and I REALLY wanted to go to the game so I said, "Hey, what''re you up to tonight? I have these two tickets and NONE of my friends can go so would you mind?" He said yes. I was so relieved and thought nothing of it. Just a couple of running partners going to a basketball game. Not a date, right???

As soon as he picked me up, I realized I was soooooo wrong. This was a date. I had butterflies and I was nervous. Both very date-y feelings that I didn''t even think were there. Not only was it a date, it was a really fun date!

That was about four and a half years ago. He says that he knew it was a date the moment I "asked him out." Ha!

Keep the stories coming, ladies!