How did you meet your SO?

[MyManGoofy!]

I have been feeling really down these days. I am tired of being single and alone. I am starting to feel like I will never find that someone. I mean - I am not a little 20-something anymore!

So-help cheer me up! Tell me about how you met "the one". Especially if you met them after thinking you never would. (If that makes sense!)

 

[JESW]

I met my dh when we were both 25 and working at the same small company. We would go out in a group for lunch and then the two of us started talking, hit it off, and that was that. I NEVER thought I would meet anyone and had basically given up on men since most of the ones I was meeting were jerks. So it was a complete surprise with him. We started dating 3/86 and were married 6/87 so it was a quick thing between us. We have 2 kids (9 & 13) and have been married 21 years and have had many bumps in the road but I can't imagine my life without him. And a big plus is that he is also a big Disney fan and we get to go several times a year!

Jill

 

[bicker]

It was over 18 years ago, we were both on the same online chat system -- she was friends with the owner of hub station, and I was the owner of a spoke station. She logged on after a system update and I was helping her learn all the new commands. The owner of the hub station saw the modem lights flashing back and forth, leaped to an erroneous conclusion about the context of our discussion, and sent us both a message saying that she just knew we'd find each other and get together eventually. A mutual friend is often a good source ...

 

[POOHLUV69]

My husband and I met (this is true I swear) at his St Patrick's Day Fraternity Party when we were both 19. We've been together ever since and that was back in 1989 Our anniversary is actually coming up and we'll be married 16 years . At 19 I cant say that I was worried about meeting my "SO", but I wasn't looking for a BF either. I'm a very "fate/faith" kind of person and believe things happen for a reason and when they are meant to(there's a reason for this, but that's a whole other thread).

Keep the faith, you'll meet the peron you were meant to when you least expect it .

 

[LuvOrlando]

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[nkjzmom]

It sounds really bad to say it, but we met at a dance club in Daytona Beach in the early 90's. He was living there...I was visiting friends in FL and we spent a night up in DB. I am a pretty old-fashioned girl and decided that I would not allow guys just to come up and start dancing with me. I told my friends that I would only dance with someone if they introduced themselves first and asked me to dance. (At a club right? I assumed that would never happen and I'd be off the hook.)

So, in comes DH. He walked right up, said "I've never done this before but my name is Rich, do you wanna dance?" I internally rolled my eyes and said yes. A few days later we began a long-distance relationship between Alabama, Utah, Florida, and Connecticut.

We just celebrated 14 years of marriage and we have 5 great kids. There, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

 

[alldiz]

I was 25 single living by myself with my career established. I had no single friends and all my friends had no "money".

I started going skiing by myself every weekend. I met my husband at Hunter Mountain on "holy thursday" March 1997.

It was "love" at the end of that 1st day. We moved in together Dec of 1997. And got married Jan of 1999.
This January it will be 10yrs.

It happens when you least expect it. I met my DH in the bar(at hunter) and he was 17yrs older than me . We skiied together that day but he was off my "radar" because of the age difference.....I was totally "myself" because I never thought I would date a 42yr old when I was 25. By the end of the day I knew he was "the One"
Kerri

 

[WDWBarb]

When I was in college, my roommates and I used to call in song requests to the local radio station. The DJ always played what we asked and dedicated songs to us. Eventually we met him and the rest is history. He asked me out immediately and we were married less than a year later.

 

[xoprincessmomxo]

It was my first year of college and I had become friends with a guy in a band. He was the singer, and I finally got a chance to go see him play live (I wasn't 21, so it had to be an all ages show). Anyway, he introduced me to all the band members, including the guitar player. I said hello, and he didn't even say a word. Just rolled his eyes and walked away. I HATED him. I thought, what a crazy jerk!!! Well, I continued my friendship with the singer, which meant lots of shows, parties, and lots of time with the band....Eventually, I became friends with the guitar player. He wasn't quite as much as a jerk as I thought! Well, one night at a party we talked for hours. I was so intrigued by him and he ended up being the kindest, funniest, sweetest person I knew! That next weekend, they had a show at a local bar. He took me backstage, and had a huge boquet of the prettiest flowers for me! We've been together ever since! 8 1/2 years later I still love watching him play guitar. And so do our daughters!!!

 

[MushyMushy]

I met my husband online on AOL. Neither one of us were looking for anyone -- it was my first time online in 1993 and at that point there weren't really all that many members on AOL. You still paid for the service by the minute back then, but since he was a chatroom moderator, he got free minutes. We met in his chatroom, then started talking on the phone.

All our family and friends thought we were crazy and that we'd never last. But here we are.

 

[DMickey28]

I met my DH on Boston.com/personal in 2002. It was august, I was off of work for the day, didn't want to go to the beach and bored so I sat in my AC and wrote up a profile. I figured what the heck and was completely honest in it. The name I used for it was the same name that I use on AOL IM. That night I got an IM from a guy asking if I was the same soandso from Boston.com. We started talking that night and that was it. We met a week later in person, fell in love within a few more weeks and got married just over two years after we met. I never talked to anyone else from online.

 

[freckles and boo]

I met my husband in a drafting class in college in 1987. We didn't date then. He looked (and acted) like a headbanging stoner, but he was very funny. The next year I lost my grant and had to work, but when I returned to college in 1989 there, in my theatre history class, was this hot, clean cut, serious student. Lo and behold, he had grown up! That was 19 years ago. We have been married for 15 years.

 

[SeeVee]

At K-Mart.

 

[GeorgeG]

My wife used to be the babysitter.

 

[freckles and boo]

My wife used to be the babysitter.

Nosy people want to know

she used to babysit YOU or your kids?

 

[OlderMan]

Albany (NY) "Times Union" personal ads--August 1992.

 

[Lisa_M]

I met DH playing Euchre on Yahoo Games in 2001. We played cards together pretty much every day for almost a year and a half before we decided to meet. It wasn't until about 8 or so months into playing cards that I thought that I might have feelings for him. So we met in person in July 2002, married June 2006 and had a gorgeous baby girl February 2008. I am a firm believer, that you find the one when you least expect it. I hope you meet yours soon

 

[raysnkaysmom]

I had a public blog on myspace, and I guess he caught interest in my writing. Finally one day he emailed me.. We talked online and the phone for about a month how neither of us were looking to date or get in a relationship...we just wanted someone to hang out with...
We decided to go out dancing one night. Nothing happened and we hit it off great.. We hung out the whole weekend as friends, then on that Tuesday he met me at a bar by my house... that was the night we decided we might wanna try this 'more than friends' thing... That was nearly 2 years ago...and we have a precious 7 month old little boy

 

[MyManGoofy!]

Thanks guys - great stories!

 

[meloneyb21]

We met at the zoo.