How did you meet your significant other?

Hi Guys-

I was just wondering how everyone met their spouses/BF's or GF's.

I have had such a rough time with guys and dating that I am just looking for some nice stories.

I have lost all hope of finding the one and have come to the conclusion that romance is dead. I have become synical at the age of 28 which is sad

So prove me wrong guys! I wanna know that there are still decent men out there...

I met my husband at work. I was waitressing/bartending during my summer break and he was working his way through college waiting tables/bartending. I knew he was "into" me because I never had to run my food or do the nasty closing duties!

Aww, Crystal - romance isn't dead - your perfect man is out there!

I met John @ work

I had moved here for my then boyfriend, which turned out to be horrible. We were together for 6 years, and I broke it off to him cheating and being a very abusive guy to me. Emotionally, not physically, which is almost worse.

I got this job and John was a worker here and I had an instant attraction to him, but we didn't talk for almost the 1st year I was here Once we got to know eachother, things moved very quickly and we started dating only a month after I broke it off with my then boyfriend. We moved in together about a month after we started dating, and have been together for a little over a year now And I'm very happy!

My friend Alex was setting up his friend (Rob) on a blind date. Alex wanted to tag along to see if Rob and this girl would click so asked if I would join him so he didn't feel like a third wheel. The girl never showed up, but I did and the rest is history.

Rob and I have been together for ten years now and that was the best non-blind date I ever had.

I really think you find your partner when you're not looking. I just came back from Europe when I met Rob and wasn't even thinking of dating. These relationships seem to sneak up on you when you least expect it!

So sinical at the tender age of 28. Don't worry there are still some good guys out there. I met Mike at a bar, but we were introduced by the lady that owns the bar and she knew both of us. It was instant attraction for both of us. I had given up and really wasn't looking for anyone special when i met him, but I joke with lady that introduced us that we would have her be are matron of honor, she said no thanks as everytime she stands up for someone they end up divorced and she didn't want to jinx us.

I met Mike on msn through some friends. My friend invited me into a conversation with Mike and his friend and then he added me and we started talking. A couple years later, we started to fall for each other but had never actually met. He came to my dance recital and we met and a month later started dating and now we've been together for over 4 years.

I'm 39 and still single, so I can't help here.

Well, I'm 25 and have been with my Boyfriend for almost 2 years. I have a livejournal (which is a blog), and I did a random search for people who share the same interests as me. I wasn't expecting for find anything more then a few friends to add to my friends list. But I found him and added his name to my friends list and I just started reading his journal. We commented back and forth on each others journal and then we started talking through AIM. Turns out we went to the same high school together and we both live in the same city. So we met up and just hung out all the time with each other. Eventually I fell for him and here we are together for almost 2 years.

I was working as a secretary/receptionist, and my husband owned a newspaper and came in where I worked to sell advertising. He always stopped in my office to talk whenever he came in.

I found out about a year later that he was engaged and the wedding was in a couple of months. I was shocked I couldn't figure out how we talked so much for that year and he never mentioned it. I invited him to lunch, asked him why he was getting married and he said he felt he didn't have a choice.

Long story short... he called off the wedding and we were married 7 months later (his ex fiance was married 6 months after he called it off)

That was 22 years ago, we are still happily married (his ex fiance is also still married to the same guy as well)

Wow, that's amazing jeanor!!!

I met my hubby through an online dating site

I'd been backpacking overseas, and lost contact with a lot of friends while I was away, and was going out nightclubbing with one friend in particular, and only meeting guys that way, and I wanted to meet someone who was friendly and had interested outside nightclubs and drinking!

So the internet dating site was great, I could search for people who had similar interests, and meet in a better environment!! Andrew was the first person I'd met online, and he'd just broken up with his g/f of a few years and moved cities, so didn't know many people also.

We were both at a point where we wanted a fun relationship without anything too serious since I was looking at moving cities in a few months time and he'd just come out of a serious relationship.

That was about 5 years ago, and now we're very happily married!

Actually, my brother met his wife through an online chat site, and they've got their second child along the way, and he's so much happier than he's been in a long time. My mum also decided since we'd both met nice people online, she would try it as well, and met her partner who she's been for 4 years now as of yesterday!

Crystal,

From one who was engaged and then disengaged about 6 months prior to our wedding date, in my late 20's..and who did the drastic bit of not dating at all for most of my 30's (!!), I'm happily married now. Celebrating our 11th anniversary this Fall.

We met online, both of us were moderators on a pets forum, he was new, and I liked the way he wrote, the kind of comments he'd make in a special for moderators only lounge. I was just deciding to try again - to try flirting, dating, finding what I wanted, afterall I was 39 (!).
Within a couple of months we had our first phone call - and after that call, which lasted hours, we only missed maybe 3 days of talking daily, and were married within the year.

We are not your usual folks, I'd call us a bit eccentric, certainly eclectic in our interests, and most def. meant to be. We were engaged before we were even in the same state together - and frankly not something I'd recommend - but it was just right, more right than even I knew, as I've learned over the years.
It shocked both families, I'm sure there was much concern, certainly the nurses I worked with for almost 13 years on one unit, thought I was nuts, and we'd never actually marry, or if we did, it wouldn't last. We have a good age difference - I am almost 14 years older (yes, that means since I turned 40 prior to the wedding, and he turned 27 several months after, I married a 26 y.o. ).

My point...it was so hard for me to trust and have faith, that if I lived my life, pursued my interests, continued growing as a person, someday I'd meet my soul mate. I hated my grandmother's advice to just have faith (to me it was just a loving gram being supportive, I didn't really believe her) that it would happen - since this was what I wanted, NOT because I feel every woman should be or wants to be, married. It simply was my choice, my wish.

The odds were enormous that we'd never meet as this Jersey guy was living on the opposite coast, but I can trace the steps, all of necessary for us to have met, all related to my true love of cats, and I realized it was a "meant to be' relationship, and for me, I believe guided by the hand of God. It renewed my faith that had gotten pretty shaky.

If you want a committed relationship, I believe it can happen, at any age, if you are open to it.

I wish you all the best

A cute, true, love story for the cynical.

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DH was my movie, beer and cigarette delivery driver in college. I didn't even realize he was interested in me until one day he said "um.. you wanna get a beer sometime?" The only reason I said yes was because I KNEW it couldn't be worse than the last date I'd been on. To be honest, I almost said no.

The longest period of time we've been apart since that beer has been 4 days. That was seven years ago.

I met Pat at work. It was NOT love at first sight. He was a salesman, and I was the sales assistant. I thought he was an arrogant womanizer. (Fortunately, I got to know him better, and he kinda grew on me. )

Not too long before I met Pat, though, I had been engaged and broken up with another guy. I was pretty cynical myself and had completely had it with men. Pat made me decide to give it another try. (But it did take him 10 years to convince me to get engaged again.)

Chris and I met at the cappuchino bar on Camp Bondsteel, in Kosovo. He's a soldier and I was a contractor. My roommate had dragged me with her to go find her boyfriend and Chris' friend had dragged him out too. It was almost exactly five years ago, the day after the President visited. It's tough to date on an army base, where going out to dinner consists of the dining facility. We managed and married three years ago.

My kind of question!! I love questions about relationships.


Here is my story


Basically my best friend, Sarah, has known my husband, Jason, since they were 5 ...he is pretty much like her brother..since she was a only child.

I have known Sarah since we were in 6th grade but I did not "meet" Jason until I was a senior in highschool.

Our story is based on fate that brought us together (I know corny but true!!) Since Sarah and Jason were like family, Jason came to all of her birthday parties in middle school...and since I was her best friend, I was also there but I never knew of Jason. It's funny there is a pic I have where Jason and I are standing next to eachother (Age 11 and age 12) and we didn't even know eachother

When I was about to move in the summer of my senior year I went out with all of my friends including sarah to the bowling alley. And lucky me Jason was there also with his older brother. (who sarah had a crush on!). At this time Jason had just graduated highschool and he was hotter than ever ....well we ended up bowling with Jason on the same lane since there were none others open. Jason and I talked for a while and I got my crush on him!! But I was leaving for ohio the next day, so I didn't move on it.

Well we ended up only moving to ohio for the summer and then we came back in august!! I had kinda forgotten about Jason until I saw a picture of him at Sarah's house...and that got me thinking!! I kinda plotted to get him!! lol



Long story short it was about 5 months later and we started going out!! Ever since then we have never left eachother's side!!

these stories are so cute!!!! keep going!!!

I have to agree, 28 seems to be a sort of cynical age for me (despite having a boyfriend)...

Anyhoo B and I met through our local Jaycees chapter.

Originally Posted by JESSIEnKITTY

these stories are so cute!!!! keep going!!!

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You are such a cool kid.

I met Ted at a roller skating rink,I was outside with some friends,he pulled up to talk to one of them,(he was drunk) I would not talk to him,re-met him a couple of days later( he was sober),went to the movies,married him 3 months later! Been married 33 years.