How did you meet?

[princessdisneybelle]

It is so neat to hear everyone's stories!

Here is ours........

DF and I met on a christian dating site. We were both raised in christian homes and we were tryin to find someone who shared the same beliefs.

Ok.........

I married my high school sweetheart of six years when I was 20. After four months I found out that he had not been faithful.....to make a long story short.....it ended. I was a girl who never believed in divorce, and I tried to make the marriage work, but he wanted no part of it.

DF had just gotten out of a six year relationship with a girl, and it ended pretty sour as well.

So, needless to say we were both at a point in life, where we didnt really believe in love or "forever" because we had both been burned and very hurt by people we loved.

So.....I made the first move. I lived in Ohio and he in Indiana. I saw his profile and he sounded too good to be true so I took a shot and sent him an e-mail. He e-mailed me back the next day and then he IM'ed me. We began chatting and he said when he saw I was divorced he thought about not responding. But, he said he didn't want to judge a book by its cover, so he gave it a shot. It took no time at all for us to realize that God had put us int he right place at the right time....

We met two weeks later in person.....i moved to Indy five months after that....we were engaged 9 months after we met in person.

Fun facts:

- The first place we laid eyes on eachother was in a Wal-Mart parking lot!

- He told me he loved me before we even met in person (that is how much we knew we were meant for eachother.......)

- When he got my first e-mail he was logging into the site to delete his profile, because he was going to give up dating for a year until he finished school.

- He had never searched anywhere but Indianapolis because he was not interested in a long distance relationship.

- We met our exes on the same day and broke up with our exes only two days apart.....odd.........

- i told him the first night we met in person (jokingly of course...but not really....obviously... ) "If you are not interested in having a Disney wedding....then we need to end this now.....cause that is where I am getting married" - I am serious....I actually said that!

I love your story. Your wedding is so close! Congrats

 

[TinkBride]

Awww.... thank you!

 

[mushumadness]

we met online, he just popped up on msn one day lol, just as I was about to move to france lol, (which lasted a grand total of three days) we have been together five years this month and marry in jan next year

 

[PrincessBride07]

DF and I met the first day of college. I saw him come around the corner into the classroom and told my new friend sitting next to me, "Oh S***, he likes me and is going to sit down next to me!" Next moment he is pulling a desk up close to me to talk. I couldn't stand him. He chased me around for almost the entire freshman year. I always liked him as a friend, but nothing more. We did date for a brief two months, but I didn't want to have a relationship while on the Disney College Program. When I returned 8 months later, I absolutely despised him. (I am not really sure why that though. ) Our Junior year of college we found ourselves living in the same dorm. We started spending lots of time together. I just sorta fell in love with him during that semester. We always laugh and say, if someone would have told you that first day of class that we would be here.....
Also, the way I knew he was the one was when I got really sick about a month after we started dating. He got up early in the morning to take me to the emergency room. (He was missing the GreenBay Packers play in one of the final games of the season too.) I was getting sick in his car too. Well, I was sick to my stomach in more ways than one. He bought me bathroom tissue, because I couldn't handle the kind in the dorm. I know this is kinda a disgusting story, but I think it takes a lot for a person to stand someone getting sick in their car and turn around and buy them something to help them get better.

 

[JoD]

My DH and I met on a blind date, my sister-in-law set me up with her brother's best friend. That was 13 years ago and he is still the love of my life.

 

[singingpixie]

Our story is a bit convoluted!
I met Steve my sophomore year of college. I had ended an unhealthy relationship (my ex was really dependent on me, and wouldn't leave me alone even after we broke up) so I decided I needed to get really involved in an extra-curricular so I was too busy to take calls from my ex. I decided to get involved with the theatre department on campus. Steve and I were both in a festival of short plays, but we weren't in the same play so we didn't get to know eachother too well- just enough to say hi in passing or have a short conversation in the student lounge. He was dating another girl at the time. Eventually, I dated a friend of his (dated as in "went on a couple dates with," not a real relationship) and got more involved socially with the theatre kids, so he became part of my circle of friends. We started hanging out as friends on our own (by this point his friend and I had stopped dating) and eventually his relationship mutually ended. One of the nights we were hanging out in my room watching a movie, he kissed me!

We dated the rest of that semester, but while I was ready to get a bit more serious, he wasn't yet. When I went home for the summer we decided to "just be friends" and re-evaluate in the fall. I went home, dated a guy I worked with at a theatre there, and right about then he realized that he didn't want me dating other people- he wished he had wanted an exclusive relationship at the end of the summer. I wasn't about to let him change his mind like that, so I kept seeing the other guy, even into my Junior year. (That was a mistake- it was never a serious relationship, we were just both too lazy to end things when I went back to school). Through the time we were seeing other people, Steve and I were best friends. I could open up to him about everything. When that relationship inevitably ended, Steve and I got back together. I moved in a year later, and a year and a half after that we got engaged!

 

[ForKeeps]

When I think about how I met DH it seems like a soap opera. I moved to Ottawa during my undergrad studies for a co-op term (in a co-op program you alternate 4 months of school and then 4 months of work). I had subleted a room in an apartment with 2 guys.

My dad drove me up (the 6 hour drive) and helped me move in. I met my new roommates and then went off with my dad to get groceries. When I came back DH was sitting on the couch.

It was like all of a sudden things went into slow motion and the cheesy slow music started to play. All I could think was, ok...who is he?

I happened to be dating someone else though (who I had been dating since high school -- 5 years). But you can't stop what was meant to be. I broke up with my BF within 2 months and Dh and I started dating soon after.

We had our ups and downs, I moved back to Waterloo to finish school (5 hours away), and we had some serious growing pains. But 2 things happened to let me know he was the one.

First, he supported me through my first year of law school. It was rough. More than tough....it was rough! And yet, he stuck by me. The second was when I had to meet him at his friend's cottage (I drove alone). I was so scared of getting lost when I really got into cottage country (and cell phones no longer work). He went and got bristol board and at every point I had to turn wrote: TIFFANY with an arrow pointing which way I should turn. I still smile thinking of that.

He proposed on our Disney trip that we took at the end of my second year of law school. We were married 5 years to the day that we first met.

 

[erinlovesmelvin]

Jjjj

 

[DisneyDeeFL]

we met at a "graffiti party" in college! It was November 2002....my sorority and his fraternity had a little get-together where everyone had to wear a plain white t-shirt. Everyone went around signing each other's shirts with markers...when I first saw DF, I thought, hmmmm he's cute...I should put something funny on his shirt....

So, I wrote "I think you're cute!" on the back of his shirt. Guess it's the best line i could come up with at the time He wrote "Dee rocks my world" on mine..which is so funny because now that I've known him for so long, he would NEVER say something that cheesy!!

I later found out that as soon as I signed his shirt, he ran straight to the bathroom to try and read my message in the mirror! We exchanged numbers and talked a lot over the next 2 months..then started officially dating. I knew he was the one when he said "I love you" for the first time (he said it before i did...and i'd never exchanged I-love-you's with anyone else). Been together for almost 4 and 1/2 years now

 

[Tiggerific04]

DF and I met our freshman year of high school. We went to a really, really small school and had all of our classes together all 4 years. He was dating someone else during sophomore and half of junior year, but once they broke up we became really good friends. I had had a crush on him since the beginning, and I later found out he had one on me, too! I asked him to prom senior year and a couple days later he told me he liked me and asked me to be his girlfriend We celebrated our 8 year anniversary this past January.

As for when I knew he was "the one" ... I don't remember when it was exactly, but sometime in the month after we started dating, I distinctly remember telling myself, "I'm going to marry that boy." And now here we are, planning our wedding.

 

[luna99]

We met online as well... back in 1999 both my DF and I joined a message board for the singer Fiona Apple. We are both HUGE fans of hers and there ended up being like 15 to 20 awesome people who joined the message board around that time.. it was great.. we all got to know each other and become friends..

My DF and I were friends for six years and would talk through IM here and there.. I kept moving from city to city and was in my early to mid 20's ... having all sorts of trouble with guys (I could tell you stories!) ..... not ever really DATING much but sorta "hanging out" with guys... I got hurt over and over again and had a few online guys I really fell for but it all ended in tears.

In April of 2005 I called my DF just to talk to him and we talked for hours on the phone.. I told him to call me back and he did the next day.. and we just sorta kept talking everyday from that point out. I didn't think much would come from us talking but soon I realized that I wanted to tell him about my day everyday and when I felt happy or sad, I wanted to share it with him. He was always there for me no matter what and made me laugh and smile. In June of 2005 one of my best friends passed away.. I got the call while I was talking to my DF on call waiting... when I clicked back over to DF, I was crying and extremely upset.. he told me later he thought I was going to break up with him when he first heard me crying. I told him about my friend dying and he sat on the phone with me all night while I cried and told him stories about her.

We met that summer three times.. I flew up to him twice for concerts and he came down to me once.. (I was in Texas, he was in New York). At the end of the first trip up to see him, he told me he loved me. At the end of the second trip up to see him, we decided we wanted to be together and that I would move to New York (because it was easier that way, I had a temp job and was basically living out of a suitcase and couch crashing at friend's houses).

I moved in with him on October 1st, 2005.... We got engaged August 2006... and we're getting married September 1st 2007! Three other people from the message board that my DF and I met on are coming to the wedding.. two are flying all the way from california.

I love DisneyWorld and while he's not as huge a fan as myself (he had never been there until I took him in May (to see Fiona Apple) .. but we only had time to do one park), but he doesn't mind that we are getting married there and actually is happy to let me choose the wedding location (he got to choose the honeymoon location).

I've never been this happy in my life.