Afishwithabike Posted August 4, 2011 Posted August 4, 2011 We met in college. We both worked at the same small part-time job on campus. There were a lot of other students who worked at the same job. I had seen him around, but I was dating someone else at the time so I didn't pay too much attention even though he definitely made me do a double take. In time we became good friends. It was very easy to talk to him. We had many interests in common. My boyfriend at the time decided he wanted to join the Marines and I didn't want to move. I broke up with him and I started dating my now husband. Ok..now your turn.
make me believe Posted August 4, 2011 Posted August 4, 2011 He worked with my best friend (well they still work together) and she invited me out with her & her work friends. She had told me about him before & what a great guy he was & that she thought we'd be good together. She was right!
Linda9999 Posted August 4, 2011 Posted August 4, 2011 We met through a mutual friend. The friend and I had birthdays two days apart and planned an outing together and invited our other friends. He was one of her other friends
Stung Posted August 4, 2011 Posted August 4, 2011 I love hearing all your stories. And I love my own story, if I do say so myself. I had just moved to another city in another state, and so I joined OkCupid in a bid to meet new people in the area. My husband, who lived in the metro area I had just moved AWAY from, was also on OkC and one day, dismayed by his local prospects, he ran a search to find his highest match in a 1,000 mile radius, which turned out to be me at a 98% match and 800+ miles away. He wrote to me but we both just considered it kind of a lark, neither of us really believed in LDRs. We communicated easily and really enjoyed each other's wit, and basically became pen pals. Over the next year, we both dated other people casually but nothing got serious as we were really focused on each other, although we tried to convince ourselves we were just friends. We IMed every day, and were in frequent email/phone contact as well--strange for both of us, as neither one of us likes phones very much. He wanted to come and meet me, but I put him off because I was afraid of ruining things, I didn't really think we could get along IRL the way we did virtually. Eventually I went back to my home city to visit my family, and I agreed to go out with him one night while I was there for dinner and a concert, as long as we approached it as "just friends". That dinner date lasted for two and a half days with him calling in sick for work, so much for that just friends thing . For the next six months we carried on a whirlwind LDR, we flew back and forth between our cities every other weekend, he brought his daughter to visit me, I took some time off and stayed with him for a couple of weeks, we took road trips together and spoke for hours on the phone every day when we were apart. At the end of that six months, I moved back to my original area to move in with him and his daughter, and a few years later we were married and had a son together. Looking back on it, it's funny that we never met until after I had moved away and tried to start my life somewhere else. We knew some of the same people, frequented the same venues, went to the same campus (at different times). We grew up in different cities, but at one point I was taking classes right across the street from his work, and at another point we lived only five blocks away from each other.
NoReallyThatHappened Posted August 4, 2011 Posted August 4, 2011 Stung! I love your story!! That should be a romantic comedy! I met my SO on Match, which is the last place I ever thought I'd meet anyone. Five minutes after signing up I felt like I threw myself at the mercy of a meat market and wanted to delete my account. I decided to do a search for what I wanted in a partner and came across my now BF. I was a bit skeptical that such a good looking, smart, witty man was still on the market (and why he was using Match...then I remembered I was those things and I was on Match! ha!) Anyway, I sent him a message, which in hindsight was very lame. Lucky for me he responded anyway. We emailed every day after that and met up about a week and a half later. We got to know each other as friends through email, texting, and weekly dates for a bit and then one day he kissed me and we've been inseparable ever since. Lately we've been focusing on the future and what it may bring so who know, maybe one day he'll be my hubby. Oh, and he works two buildings over from me! We now carpool to work and eat lunch together a lot.
quankanne Posted August 4, 2011 Posted August 4, 2011 met when I was in college, and he was a hotel guest at the place I was a desk clerk. We'd gone out briefly, but nothing came of it, but about 15 months later, his work brought him back to my college town and we tried it again. I graduated college, but his job took him back to Florida; then he got on with a civil service job that took him to Saudi Arabia, so we dated long-distance for nearly two years. He brought up the subject of marriage on one of his trips home and we eloped while visiting his family in 'Bama. that was 19 years ago!
Author Afishwithabike Posted August 5, 2011 Author Posted August 5, 2011 Thanks for sharing your stories.
Finch Posted August 5, 2011 Posted August 5, 2011 Such great stories! Mine is another online dating success. About five or six years ago I had been through a rough breakup. I spent over a year and a half getting myself pieced back together and was finally having a good time. I felt strong, happy, and was pleased with the direction my life was going. I wasn't really interested in dating seriously. I'd gone out on a few dates, but was actually happy on my own. My sister decided she thought it would be fun if I gave online dating a try. I agreed - I figured what did I have to lose? Things were going well for me, and if I met some interesting people, great. She set up a profile for me on OKCupid. I checked it once in a while to see if anyone had sent me a message, but didn't send out any messages of my own. About three months after my profile was set up I received a message from a guy in my city. He seemed really funny and sweet and I agreed to meet him for a drink. We had a great time - talking and laughing for a couple of hours and then parted ways. I think I skipped all the way home. The next day I called my Mum and told I was pretty sure I had just met the man I was going to marry. And I've never wanted to get married. Well, we aren't married yet, but we've been together for three years and it's lovely.
Pyro Posted August 5, 2011 Posted August 5, 2011 for those who aren't aware we met through here. Mrs. Pyro and I are the LS power couple.
scaredandalone1223 Posted August 6, 2011 Posted August 6, 2011 After I graduated high school I became good friends with a group of people in a nearby small town. Since the town was so small we usually just all hung out at someone's house and many times the one where my husband was living with another family. We knew each other but at that point I wouldn't have really called him a friend. Super Bowl Sunday one year everyone was out in the yard. I walked in and he was sitting on the couch watching the game. The team made a bad play call, which I questioned and I being a football lover sat in the LR with him and finished watching the game. He knew at that moment I was the one for him!
Orianne Posted August 8, 2011 Posted August 8, 2011 I met my husband at work. We became friends almost instantly, but we both kind of had this attitude that we would not date our co-workers... Anyways, we spent ten months pretending we didn't 'like' each other, and then one day, he just asked me to be his girlfriend. It was very cute.
Kelemort Posted August 9, 2011 Posted August 9, 2011 When I met my partner, I was 19 and a member of a message board for the city in which we both lived. I'd been there for 4 or 5 years. There was another poster on this message board, an old man under the nick "Magoo," who frequently posted hilarious but inciteful posts. I noticed that another user had created a web page devoted to all of Magoo's best lines. So I messaged this poster - who turned out to be my current live-in partner - and complimented him on his work. He was 4 1/2 years older than I was, but I was in a relationship at the time and he was 7 months out of a long-distance, one-year relationship. We continued to talk since we were the only teens/twenty-somethings on the board for the next year. My boyfriend at the time was insanely jealous of me - to the extent that he would purposely exclude my obviously gay friend because he was convinced that we were sleeping together. I finally broke it off with him in 2008 after little more than a year (I hear from time-to-time that he still gripes that I cheated on him - which I never did. He made it all up. I guess maybe his own thoughts of cheating on me were eating at him?). Three days after my break-up...since my ex had always said he didn't want me going out to lunch with the new guy (even with him present), I finally met my current boyfriend in a little diner. It was a terrible date, to be honest with you - he was so incredibly nervous and kept letting his eyes go to the T.V. He told me later on that he was really nervous because I was pretty (he hadn't seen pictures of me, really) and he was scared to death to look me in the face. I can say over the last 3 years I have put up with a LOT of crap and he did some INCREDIBLY hurtful things...but that was all part of the process of growing up for him (he was 25 when we started dating) and learning how a woman deserves to be treated. I told him that if he were still the way he was during the first year that we were together, I would've dumped his butt for his constant attitude alone. I'm fairly happy in our relationship now. Still plenty of work to do, but that's how we met. I'm glad I gave him a second chance after that first date. We ended up having many lunch dates and he would always end it by asking when he could talk to me next. I think he was infatuated from the first meeting or two!
sunshinegirl Posted August 10, 2011 Posted August 10, 2011 We were set up by mutual friends. I worked with a woman whose new boyfriend was a friend of H. When the boyfriend met me one night at a work function, he immediately thought of H and texted him "You need to meet this woman! Oh and break up with your girlfriend." Months later my work colleague + boyfriend hosted a BBQ so we could meet each other (H had broken up with his girlfriend by then). I had no idea it was a setup but everyone else present did. It took a few months for us to start dating, but once we did there was no going back. We were married about a year after our first kiss.
climbergirl Posted August 10, 2011 Posted August 10, 2011 Wow...a lot of us have met our SO through mutual friends. We did too, but I hadn't seen this mutual friend for over 20 years and only messaged each other (catch up on each others lives) on facebook a year and a half prior to her new message that she wanted me to meet this friend of hers. We have no idea what possessed her to set us up. We asked and she said she just had a gut instinct. He and I emailed for a week or so and then met up to go for a hike. This mutual friend's instinct was spot on. We are getting married this Saturday!:love:
sunshinegirl Posted August 10, 2011 Posted August 10, 2011 This mutual friend's instinct was spot on. We are getting married this Saturday!:love: Congratulations!!! I hope you have a fabulous and memorable celebration.
climbergirl Posted August 10, 2011 Posted August 10, 2011 Congratulations!!! I hope you have a fabulous and memorable celebration. Thank you Sunshinegirl!! :bunny:
linwood Posted August 13, 2011 Posted August 13, 2011 At a strip club. She kept pestering me to buy lap dances from her.
linwood Posted August 14, 2011 Posted August 14, 2011 Is that how she met all her boyfriends, too? Yeah, pretty much. She stopped dating shortly after we got serious though.
linwood Posted August 14, 2011 Posted August 14, 2011 LOL yes I'm sure your "magic penis" instantaneously and forever weaned her from other mens'. Don't think it was my penis. She says it was the chicken soup. Whatever it was it worked, 13 years, 3 kids, and a happy life so far. Now I get those lap dances at home.
Mme. Chaucer Posted August 14, 2011 Posted August 14, 2011 Match.com! Between the experiences each of us had with online dating (some bad, some disheartening, and others just not happening), it still surprises us that we did find each other this way. We are getting married on September 7; we've been together for 2 years now.
Kalilah Posted August 16, 2011 Posted August 16, 2011 On holiday ... I was a tourist and he was a young worker in the hotel I was staying. We then stayed in contact over the internet and phone, convincing me to book up a flight to go and see him two months later. Four years on we're married and I get to spend 6 months a year in the Sunshine with him, and the other 6 months he comes to rainy Scotland with me mwaha!
Radagast Posted August 16, 2011 Posted August 16, 2011 In a professional context. I noticed her immediately - bright, beautiful, challenging - but we only followed up on it years later when we met up again at a conference.
Author Afishwithabike Posted August 17, 2011 Author Posted August 17, 2011 In a professional context. I noticed her immediately - bright, beautiful, challenging - but we only followed up on it years later when we met up again at a conference. I like your username. I'm a LOTR fan too. I've read all the major books, the HoME, even Tolkien's Letters. Yes, I'm very geeky.
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