How did you and your +1 meet?

[rosiep]

I was on an extended vacation, Vegas for a few days, then Boston....

On the flight from Vegas to Boston, at a layover in O'Hare I freaked out! I HAD TO GO HOME! Complete panic attack, never had one before or again. Once I got to Boston I managed to book the next flight out back to Orlando the next morning.

Once I got home I went to the beach, treated myself to a nice dinner, then hit a club...The Full Moon. He was sitting there, and my opening line....I kid you not...was "Hey, I like em big and stupid"

The next night we had dinner at the California Grill, and as the food hit the table the Fireworks went off over the Castle.

The rest as they say...is history....

It's been 15 years now!

Of course you had a panic attack headed to Boston.......one word: Wally

 

[wallyb]

Of course you had a panic attack headed to Boston.......one word: Wally

It's called performance anxiety.

 

[DVCDan36]

Must completely edit this to keep the details like an ABC afternoon teen movie. It was around Christmas time and I was lonely so I chatted it up and made a "connection". Needless to say, it has been 10 years and I am so in love with "the man". (Of course, we have had our ups and downs, I'm not easy to live with ).

 

[mickeysaver]

We met in a lesbian chat room on the internet a little over 11 years ago. Gabby lived in Florida and I lived in the Atlanta area. I fell in love with her very quickly and I swear we are more crazy about each other now than we were back then. 11 years ago, as of this Sunday, I proposed to her and if our government will ever see fit to give us equal rights, I will legally marry her in a heartbeat.

The first time I saw her, it was like magic. She was exactly what I had always seen in my mind's eye as the type of woman that I always wanted to be with. I can't wait to celebrate our anniversary at WDW. We leave tomorrow morning.

 

[OrlandoMike]

Panic attack aside that is a great story!!!

I'm pretty sure that during that 24 hour period, my mind was being guided by a higher authority! Something told me to get home...NOW!

 

[TagsMissy]

I'm pretty sure that during that 24 hour period, my mind was being guided by a higher authority! Something told me to get home...NOW!

Things happen in mysterious ways.

 

[hematite153]

If you look at our pasts, a case could be made for fate trying to get us together long before it happened. We kept turning up in the same places at similar times. But, my DW is 6 yrs older than I am and there's no way I was ready for this relationship during the earlier near run-ins.

So, in 1999 we both moved to the same city at about the same time. I was single, she was in a committed relationship, but, we both went to the same church. 3.5 years later we were both single and at a birthday party for our Minister she asked me out. Apparently, she'd been working up to it for awhile, but, I hadn't really noticed. Every other person I'd ever dated had been someone that I'd asked out, so, I was a little startled to hear myself say 'yes'.

We've now been married for 6 years and we've been through some rough times together. But, the one thing I always count on is that we are there for each other. She likes to say that "God is on [her] side" and I hope she's right because it's been working for me.

 

[zeitzeuge]

I love all these stories. It also reaffirms the fact of my believe in a "love at first sight" sort of thing. You meet someone and there's this instant connection that cannot be explained and those feelings that you have after they leave your presence, is almost undescribable.

Like that feeling I get when we're at a party or bar, and I see him from far away and he still takes my breath away and makes my heart skip a beat.

*sigh*

I'm feeling all sappy today......

 

[wallyb]

I love all these stories. It also reaffirms the fact of my believe in a "love at first sight" sort of thing.

Sight?! Hell no - He was good in the sack!

 

[Saxton]

Sight?! Hell no - He was good in the sack!

Wally - you're such a romantic!

 

[Sphyrna]

Sight?! Hell no - He was good in the sack!

That's what I refer to as lust at first sight.

 

[Sphyrna]

I don't have a +1

 

[RAPstar]

I don't have a +1

OMG, I was sooooo gonna do this! At least now, I'm comparitively happy being single. More money I get to spend on myself.

 

[DisneyDork1969]

I meet my SO on March 27th, 1995...it was at a benefit viewing party of the 67th Academy Awards show...we meet on Oscar night...it was the year that David Letterman hosted (one of the BEST HOSTS EVER!)...I was with friends, he was with an ex...my friends told me that some guy by the water cooler was checking me out...I turned around to verify...he smiled at me and I smiled back...I went to the water cooler for a drink...after my drink I said HI and he said HI...we talked for a bit, the Oscars had not started yet...the host of the benefit stated that the Oscars were gonna start in 5 minutes...I gave him my number and told him to call me during the week when he could...he called the next day...we went on our 1st date that following Saturday...the rest you can say is history...a semi rocky history, but a long history that has endured...but we know its forever and there's nothing that will ever change that...

John

 

[Mathfailure]

I don't understand how, but it does seem like 'destiny' does put people together sometimes.

My roommate from college married a fellow classmate, who happens to be my husband's first cousin. I was maid of honor at the wedding, met my future mother in law, and my husband's grandfather (who died before I met my husband) When I overheard my future mother in law talking about my husband's singing (music major) I felt a 'something' but carried on being with the wedding and filed it away.

Five years later he literally drove into my life, he dropped off the new assistant at my job. I was immediately attracted to him, and had the memory of the 'something' from years before. This was the first time I actually saw him, fortunately good looking, and we have now been married for twenty years.

 

[wehttamrd]

We met on match.com nine years ago. Back when in the good old days when those sites were all free...

 

[Gypsybear]

We met through a chat room....turned out we lived a block apart, so we met, did some of what Wally loves to do (travel people, travel....get your minds out...), and dated for 3 months before making it official. We've been together ever since...and that was over 9 years ago.

 

[janiebubble]

I had a friend I'd met online, we used to go clubbing together, one day she invited a woman she worked with to come along too - three months later she text me asking to meet her for a coffee (turns out that although she worked an hour away from me we'd grown up on adjoining streets - although in different time zones ... she's 7 years younger than me).

That night we didn't go home :O and that was 7 years ago ... we've been living together for 4 and this year bought a house - and I got to take her to disneyworld for the first time

this is us

 

[Peepster]

In between stints in the auto industry I was crazy enough to buy a restaurant. This customer came in that my staff and I could not get to smile (we had this idea that we were a friendly place) and it got to the point that we were placing bets on who could get her to smile first. I lost, btw. We figured she liked the food because she kept coming back. Then she disappeared for a couple of years and for some silly reason I found myself missing her.

Suddenly she reappeared, smiling this time. I later found out that she had been a grad student getting her Masters at the local college when first a customer of ours and had moved away to Iowa for her job. She then was offered a job in the local school district and decided to move back to the area. We were finally introduced through mutual friends and as they say, the rest is history. We just had a big bash for our 20th anniversary this past April.

As for why she didn't smile? She was a school psychologist who had to visit some very depressing homes. I'm happy to report that she smiles often these days.

 

[SanFranciscan]

I was hitch-hiking in 1984. He gave me a ride. We have been together ever since.