Where/how did you meet your spouse?

[AlohaPolynesian]

My friend and I were both recently dumped and are starting to get discouraged about ever finding someone. It really seems like all the good ones are taken!! Today we were asking the people we work with who are married where they met their spouses and heard some great stories.

Just thought I would come on here and see what you guys had to say because I know there are probably some great stories out there!

 

[N&B'smom]

I ran my father's insurance office and was working there when he came in because he had just graduated from college and purchased a vehicle. I thought he was HOT and so I checked him out....had his driving record, place of employment, etc at my disposal - all on his insurance application. I wasn't about to go after some horrible driver! Anyway, didn't see him for about a month or so. Then all of a sudden I started seeing him on my way to work every morning. (I would pass him - I knew his car from my job) I finally saw one morning that he was going to 7 Eleven each morning. I had to find out if he was going there to buy cigarettes because I am not a smoker. (no offense to any smokers just not my thing)

Anyway...I saw his car parked at the 7 Eleven and so I pulled in and bought a drink to take to work only because I wanted to see what he was up to....he was getting a cup of coffee.

That day after I left work I wrote a little note and left it on his car at his work (not far from mine) with my number. (still can't believe I did this, he could have been a murderer!) I told him who I was, where I knew him from and just that if he was interested to call me.

He called that night and we talked for 7 hours. Went on our first date the next night and have been together ever since, total of 18 years - married for 15.

He likes to tell people I stalked him.

 

[dejr_8]

rollerskating rink

 

[flamingglobessigmund]

7 years ago in an aol chat room. No hope of ever meeting because we were 1700+ miles apart.

We just celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary.

 

[Mary*Poppins]

at work!

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Blind date.

We were both 29 and never married when friends set us up. Our 26th wedding anniversary is next month.

 

[AlohaPolynesian]

Awww I love the "stalker" story!! So cute.

7 years ago in an aol chat room. No hope of ever meeting because we were 1700+ miles apart.

We just celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary.

So how did you end up meeting and dating?! That's crazy!

 

[NMAmy]

DH and I worked at the same place in different departments. I miss working at the same place and knowing all the same people.

 

[pigletgirl]

DF and I met in the summer of '06. He had just transfered from another school and was invited by another girl (oddly enough) to this pool party we had. This girl was a mutual friend of DF and I. (she sadly died of a brain aneurism in March of '07) We talked and talked, but nothing really came of it. Finally at christmas break of '06 we went out as a first official date. It took DF 6 months of courage to ask me out.
We dated all through school so far (with one break up inbetween only because I was being a giant poop head) and we got engaged in March of this year on top of a moutain.

You will meet someone! Hang in there!

 

[wdwmom0f3]

Love the stalker story too!

I met my DH at work too, and I ended up asking him out because he was just to darn shy! We have been married for almost 21 years now.

 

[mtemm]

we worked together at a dept store. I had recently been laid off from my "real" job and got a job there, and he was working there while he was still in school. the job was deadly dull and we would chat (neighboring depts) and just got along really well. we got to know each other for a few months before our first date and we just never looked back. it was nice to start out as friends!

 

[onelilspark]

Well, he's not my spouse yet, but I'll share anyway We met online through OKCupid. I had almost given up on online dating, and then he came along. We've been together since August of 2008, and engaged for a grand total of 2 weeks now!

My parents met on a blind date.

 

[MichelleinMaine]

Set up on a blind date for my senior prom (in Germany) by my yearbook advisor and one of his coworkers

 

[minkydog]

7 years ago in an aol chat room. No hope of ever meeting because we were 1700+ miles apart.

We just celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary.

My brother met the love of his life in a chat room. She is from Venezuela, so they had to jump through a lot of hoops. They will celebrate 2 years Oct 31. And btw, they are 49 & 50.

I met DH in college when we were both 18. It was a hot summer night and a bunch of us were eating (stolen) watermelon on the front porch of the girls' dorm. A sudden storm came up and we all went inside. DH came running up to the door, slipped on the watermelon seeds and came skating through the doors on his butt. Of course, we just about busted a gut laughing. What a sight! He was so good-natured about it. Found out it was his first week at school(I had been there a year.) A bunch of us got to talking and he was so interesting. All of a sudden I got a cold chill--and I thought to myself, "I'm gonna marry that boy." I was dating someone else at the time, so we became friends. About 2 years later we both just kind of went .I found out later that he had had a thing for me that whole time, but didn't think i'd give him the time of day. We dated another 2 years and got married just before college graduation. It will be 30 years next April.

 

[flamingglobessigmund]

So how did you end up meeting and dating?! That's crazy!

Honestly, being so far apart took any pressure off on being anything other than chat friends. My husband was very honest about his situation, didn't make himself out to be anything more than what he was, and he was easy to talk to.

It seemed that all the guys (on aol) around my area were desperate and strange, and that really turned me off to internet dating. I took my time in getting to know the man who would eventually become my husband. He jokes that it took him 2 months to get me to tell him my real name. I think it was less time than that.

A few months into our friendship, I flew to meet him. About a year after we met online, I moved to where he lives because at the time, he was taking care of his mother, and couldn't move to my town.

We were in our late 30's when we met, and knew what we were looking for in a spouse, and it worked out for us.

 

[Pakey]

Through mutual friends.

 

[AustinTink]

At work.

 

[kathie859]

We met thru a work friend--DH had gone to school with her and her husband and they set us up. Imagine their surprise when their matchmaking worked and we married not quite a year later--that was 41 years ago

 

[DisneyKT]

High School. So so long ago.Been together 22yrs married 15 yrs.

 

[WDWBarb]

My college roomate and I used to call in requests to our favorite radio station. The DJ liked to flirt, he asked us to come out, and I knew from the minute I saw him that we would be married. Weird, too, because he was my stalker for a few months after that until I agreed to go out with him. There's only so many times you can have "Brown-Eyed Girl" dedicated to you before you cave in.