Inspired by the wedding thread...how did you meet/get together with your SO?

[florida-again]

....Please don't make me go first!!!

Come on.....some one??? Anyone????

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

ok, I'll go, just because I haven't had enough coffee yet....

DH and I met in college, big group of us always ate lunch together in the commons, I thought he was hot, but he was dating a friend of mine at the time. She dumped him, then he asked me out.

But I didn't realize he was asking. There was a John Denver concert coming up, and I didn't have a ticket, but he said he had 4 tix, 2 he was using and 2 EXTRAS. So I asked if I could buy 2 from him. He said, you really want to go??
(took me a while to figure out he and a buddy had the 2, both looking for dates - duh.)

The date of the concert was 4-26-76, we got married 4-26-80.

 

[anewvance]

My best friend at the time needed me to bring in a bday cake for her boss who did a radio show in the morning, she was the producer. Their radio station was sister stations with the one that dh worked for, he worked the boards. She took me around introducing me to everyone and I guess he had asked about me because that night she was online with him and he and I started chatting through IM. He and I were just friends the first month we knew each other because I was still getting over someone.

 

[#1hockeymom]

DH and I met a few days after I graduated HS at a bar/dance place *go on, read that pick up bar LOL* I saw him the moment I walked in and he saw me, our eyes locked......

The funny part is, we both thought the other was someone else! THe place was crowded so my friends and I ended up on the other end of the bar at a very crowded table. As the night went on I went "exploring" and WHAM ran right into him! After the "are you?" followed by "are you?" and both of us being wrong with the question/answers we sat down at his table and my friends came over *read that, he was 21 and had beer on the table and we weren't* (I will deny this to my death if my DD sees this!)

He never asked for my phone number... life went on.... someone kept calling the house and I thought it was someone else so I was avoiding it. Smart man he is, he ended up talking to my mom for over an hour one day and SHE convinced me to call him back since he was from the same HS I was. ACK! It was him, he called!
Seems I talk WAY too much *did you figure that out yet?* and he had all the information he needed. One look at his sister's HS yearbook, a quick look in our huge half inch phone book and BINGO he had a number. Dated for three months... married soon after.... over 20 years together!

 

[florida-again]

yay! thanks for the replied, keep 'em comin....
my turn now...

BF and I worked in the same department store for two years and never spoke (in fact, he looked like another guy and it took me nearly 2 years to work out they weren't the same person!!!)
Then I saw him at a nightclub one night, and must have been drunk so went over and said 'hi', I thought he was a bit dumb to be honest because he didn't say much!
Then the next week he wasn't in the club, so at work the next day I said 'I'm going to have to take your number because next time you're not there I'm going to want to know why'!!!!

So he gave me his number, we were texting for a while, and I would drive him home from work....but NOTHING HAPPENED!
Then one night he WAS in the club and I plucked up the courage to kiss him! The rest is history.

He swears now that until I kissed him he didn't have a clue I was interested!!! He really is dumb! I used to double my driving time home just so I could drive him home!!!! He thought I was just being 'nice!'

The strange thing is that I can't remember deciding I liked him, from the first time I started talking to him I swear I was as mad about him as I am now!

 

[catherine]

I met DH in California. My sister was over in san Jose for a while and I went to see her for a few weeks. She was dating a guy who played in a band with DH who played keyboards, we met at one of their gigs. I ended up staying and we got married nine months later!

 

[TinkerBess_SnowTori]

We met in the 8th grade --- I thought he was a jerk at first and nothing happened then in high school my friends became friends with his friends and we would hang out in a group - still didn't really like him.

Then one night I get a call from the guy I did like asking if I would go on a "triple date" with the girl he was seeing, the girls brother and "Sara" and I would being going with my now DH.

I went so that the guy that called would see what a great gal I was and dump his girlfriend for me

Ended up really liking my DH and we dated all through high school, into college and married just before graduation. (there were a couple of break ups and back togethers - he says he always knew we would marry one day)

so we are high school sweethearts (that would be the quick answer)

 

[Marseeya]

I met my DH online. We met in a chat room for tarot cards on AOL (this was in 1993). He was one of the "official" readers and we hit it off really well. After a month or two of exchanging "hi's" and brief pleasantries, we started chatting more in earnest, then started calling each other. He worked as a night auditor in a hotel, so he would give me wake up calls every morning. About a week before we decided to meet in person, he was robbed at gunpoint at the hotel and he didn't know who else to call, so my wakeup call came at 4 a.m. that day. I ended up driving out to where he lived and he came to stay with us for a few days. The whole trip back to my house, we talked and talked and talked. He just never went back home after that and we were married four months later -- still married after 11 years.

ETA: I forgot to add that all my friends and family thought we were insane and said it would never last. Don't you love proving people wrong in a good way?

 

[smilie]

I met DH at a friends' party. He and his sister drove up to MD from SC to visit an old friend at her party. I just happened to be at the party and from the second we met we were inseperable. He went back to SC after the weekend was over and we talked over the phone for hours, sometimes online. I went down to visit him about 3 weeks after that and we started dating. It was hard being 8 hours away from each other but surprisingly enough we saw each other frequently. I knew I wanted to marry him the second I met him.

 

[smilie]

ETA: I forgot to add that all my friends and family thought we were insane and said it would never last. Don't you love proving people wrong in a good way?

I totally agree with you. DH's family didn't think we'd make it past the first couple of months of marriage. Of course now they see how perfect we are for each other, but it took awhile for them to "get it". Congrats on 11 years, that's something to be proud of!

 

[inaminute]

I was looking for a roommate. I had a call from someone who was considering a separation from her husband. They didn't have a car, so DH gave them a ride to my place. He was very quiet--extremely so. I thought he was really cute, and knew he was the man I was going to marry. I kept thinking all night that it couldn't be because he was so quiet. I don't think he spoke more than two complete sentences all night! But he was really sweet. We all went out and at the end of the night he walked me to my door. I gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. He called me two days later and we've been together ever since.

 

[GoofieRuthie]

I was at a friends house playing online. I was new to the whole online chatting thing and he IMed me out of the blue. We ended up talking for 5 hours that night. His profile was very down on himself, so it intrigued me to find out why. We talked for 5+ hours every night for a week and decided to meet in person. He was my total opposite. I am very talkative, he is SO quiet. He had long hair and into heavy metal, I preferred short hair and hard rock at the most. We went to a demolition derby on our first date. I jumped and hooped and hollered her didn't say a word...........After seeing him nearly every night for a few weeks I sent him home one night thinking we would never work out. I immediately started missing him. He eventually came out of his shell, we dated for two years, got married. We've been married for 6 years now and still going strong.

 

[Soccer Princess]

I met my DBF at my sorority's luau date party my freshman year of college (his senior year). One of the the older girls brought him, but we hit it off and ended up dancing and talking all night! He came with her, but left with me!

 

[antmaril]

We took accordion lessons from the same teacher

He was 13 and I was 14. We've been married for 31 years

 

[eeyore kelly]

We met through a blind date. His friend was dating my friend, and they got us together.

 

[Disneynutbsv]

I got a job working at a hotel and he was working there in maintainence. He came up to me and wanted to know if I'd have lunch with him. We've been together 16 years

 

[mickeyfan2]

We met at a part-time job a few days before we both started college. We ended up with the same classes in freshman year and stated dating a short time later.

 

[VSL]

In school.

We would have been about 13yrs old. I never went in for lunch and always hung around in the yard with two friends of mine. One day they decided to have lunch, and I thought, 'hmm, I'll go talk to Luke and Jaymie' (who also avoided lunch). The three of us were inseperable after that, and when we went to College, Luke kinda drifted away and me and Jay became really close (best friends).

We didn't get together until we were 18yrs old. Jaymie had a crush on me the whole time and I had had no idea!

I remember being engaged to my ex and saying to my mother, 'I know I'm engaged to Damion, but I'm going to marry Jaymie' - I just knew. (We aren't married yet!)

We're in out final year of Uni now and are going on our first 'couple' holiday in about 29 days (WDW!).

 

[NMAmy]

I'm really surprised by how many people met in junior high--in a good way, not a bad way.

DH and I worked at the same place in different depts. We were just friendly acquaintances at first--I was still married to my first husband. After my separation, he asked me to lunch. I didn't realize we were dating at first--so many people were taking me out to lunch and inviting me to dinner at the time in an effort to cheer me up and make me gain the weight I'd lost that I didn't realize he had different plans.

It took a couple of lunch dates and a nudge from a co-worker before I realized we were dating. We've been together ever since and he still makes sure I eat meals on a regular basis.

 

[Credit Man]

I met my DW on a cruise. She was vacationing with a friend and I with a group. We married after a two year long distance romance.