How did you meet your significant other

[Georgygirl]

When I first met my bf he annoyed the crap out of me, lol! A group of us from our dorm were playing ultimate frisbee and he starting screwing around and throwing the frisbee in ridiculous ways that nobody could catch. Now I'm very serious about my ultimate frisbee, so needless to say....I was not happy! But after awhile we started hanging out more and our personalities just clicked. We've been going out for three years now. Just goes to show first impressions aren't always right!

 

[Jules]

We met through a friend I played hockey with. I went out with some guys from my hockey team and he came along. I thought he was an arrogant player and didn't pay attention to him. He tried to talk to me during the night out and eventually we started a conversation. Afterwards we had a game... yes, afterwards. We were placed in a league too competitive for us and got it handed to us every single game... so we started to have a little fun with it ... anyways, he came along with us and he somehow managed to convince me to go on a second date with him.

 

[saffie]

I met my boyfriend in a bar, on new years eve 4 years ago.
We had a chat, but he was really drunk and asked for my name 5 times.
I had fun but wasn't really interested in him.

He is a drummer in the same band as the boyfriend of my best friend, and a month later I went to a gig. There we met again, and I noticed he wasn't so bad when he was sober :lol-sign:
I couldn't stop thinking about him and went to the next gig from his band, and afterwards we went to the same bar where we met the first time. After a long conversation I really started liking him and we kissed for the first time.

That's how it started. I wasn't sure if he was the right one at first, but after a couple of movie night it got serious and now I can't imagine my life without him. After six months we started living together, a little early but I had to leave the room I rented and was spending most of my time at his place anyway.

 

[Fran27]

About the same as Sparks, although it was in Everquest, and we had both recently divorced (I wasn't officially yet). It took us a year or so, we played together every night, then we had a real life meeting with other people from our 'guild' in NY, and we pretty much just decided to take a room together, even though we had never met. We had the first kiss thing also, but in the hotel lobby.

 

[Samantha's pet]

I never realized how many people meet online. You are always told its SOOO dangerous!!! I guess thats just when you are little! lol. I think its very cool. Most of the time you get to know the person before you ever see a pic of them. You get to know each other by only talking with no distractions and no physical contact so you know you love them for who they are and not their looks or ......sexual abilities. lol.

 

[bubbatd]

Nash's Mom and Dad met over the net !! Ended up that even though she was in Indy and he in LaPort , they had been brought up 8 miles apart and had many mutual friends !

 

[drmom777]

I met my husband when I was 18, a freshman in college. He was a junior. We were at MIT where there were way too many men, and I was surrounded by men I wasn't interested in, which kept away the ones I liked. My friend dared me to ask out the best looking guy I knew of, so I called Steve and asked him out- to the orchestra (I had free tix). We wound up talking half the night and he asked me to marry him three weeks later. Our families had fits and convinced us to wait until the next summer, so we got married Aug 28th, still 2 months short of a year after our first date.

We have been married 25 years. Some things you just know right away.

 

[LionWolf]

At a garage sale,...................he was on knockdown,.........................and I needed the house painted.

 

[Saintgirl]

A long term relationship had finally ended (even though it was over long before we finally dcided to make it officail), and I needed a place to stay for a month in between apartments. A good friend of mine said that I could stay in his spare bedroom for the month and then I met his next door neighbor...five years ago, and we just married in June!

 

[tessa_s212]

Well, he's not my husband or my fiance yet, but if we have it the way we'd like he will be in a few years. He is only a boyfriend. I don't know if that qualifies as SO, but we are definitely both very serious about each other.

It started out that his best friend liked me. He did too at the time, but he put his own feelings aside for his friend. He started talking to me, asking me if I liked anyone, if I liked his friend, etc etc. Trying to help a friend out. One night when he, his friend, and my brother were all hanging out and having a LAN(computer gaming) party, he came into my room and started talking to me, first about the friend that liked me, and then the conversation turned to God. I was an athiest, and he was an extreme christian.. yet I felt a strong connection from that very first real conversation we had. He was the first guy I talked to that I felt so at ease, so comfortable. He became my best friend that summer. We hid any feelings we had. I remember how he made me cry the first time he ever told me he loved me(as just a friend) in those few days after we became instant friends.

Later that fall I stopped talking to him and dived into a depression. When I finally pulled myself back out, there he was. He messaged me on the computer, telling me that he missed me. I missed him too, and I confessed to him that I always loved him, even when I stopped talking to him. A few weeks later I keep getting hints that he wants to be with me more than just friends, but was too scared that I didn't feel the same way. So, being the evil person I am, I had to play with his head a little, teasing and not quite letting on that I knew. He kept giving hints, so that he wouldn't have to come right out and ask or say it, but I played stupid and kept playing with his head. I actually have the entire conversation saved on my computer.. and there was never one exact moment ...though before going to bed that night, he did have to ask for sure "Does this qualify as bf/gf?" It was cute.

And how lame I know.. we hooked up over the internet.. and boy! I tell you, it was WEIRD to see him again after a long winter of never seeing him and then all of a sudden the next time I see him he skips from not a friend at all to a boyfriend! I really didn't know how to act around him at first.. afterall, he is my first boyfriend, my first kiss, my first in person best friend. (I say in person because I have a wonderful internet friend Amanda who was my first ever best friend.. but sadly she lives 16 hours away.)

 

[juliefurry]

I was working at a video store and Mark came in one night looking at videos.

I had three huge stacks of videos to organize and put away so needless to say my arms were full and I was delicately balancing this gigantic pile of movies. Mark wanted a movie and couldn't find it (well he said that night he couldn't find it but told me later he just wanted to talk to me so pretended he couldn't find it). So instead of asking one of the two people standing around doing nothing he asked me.

Now I was already in a horrible mood and didn't feel like helping a HOT guy find a movie so he could go home and make out with his girlfriend. So he asked me for Super Troopers and I walked over to the VHS grabbed a copy and basically threw it at him and he said "I wanted DVD" so I let out a HUGE pissed off sigh and went and grabbed the DVD copy and tossed it at him.

I went to the front to help check people out in the line and after he was done he just started talking to me and I could not understand a word he was saying. I swear he was talking about baseball but he said he wasn't. Finally he asked me for my number so I gave him mine and he gave me his and the next day we hung out and have been inseperable ever since.

 

[mrose_s]

these are all so sweet, I really kinda hope I don't find the one. Its too much confusion and too difficult and too risky really.

 

[OhMyDog]

I love reading these stories

We met online as well, at Plentyoffish.com It was funny cause he originally messaged me back in 2006 I think. I ignored his message cause he just didn't seem like my type. A year later I was back on there after a bad breakup. He messaged me again! Just a harmless hello, so I gave him my msn. He wasn't so bad afterall! We both made a date to meet that week. In between then and the meeting, we were constantly texting and calling each other.

The first date came along. We went to dinner and a movie. No kiss. No hand holding, nothing. I thought he wasn't into me.

We made plans for a second date before we even met (LOL) so I knew I had one more date with him. We went out to another movie and bowling the next night. Before we even met, he told me he was really shy. I was shocked when he made that classic arm over the shoulder move Awkward as hell, but it put a smile on me. We headed to the bowling alley after. I have no problem making the first move for a kiss, but of course, only if I think he's into me. I wasn't sure until I started kicking his butt bowling. He said "okay, if I get a strike this time, I get a kiss. Deal?" I said, "Deal." So he went up, bowled and knocked a couple pins down. The poor boy, the look on his face. He sat down and had a small (adorable!) pout. I went up to him and kissed him.

We've been inseperable since our first date. We like to say that our first date never ended as we've spent every waking second together since that first date. We're planning on getting engaged soon He wants to make it a surprise.. but considering that we've already picked out a venue, photographer and such, I don't know how surprised I can get

 

[Juicy]

I never knew internet dating was so popular! I always found it something to be ashamed of, always thought it was kinda desparate.

Just the guy I'm seeing but...

I'm always the one who shuned anyone who met via the internet.....just thought it was creepy.


But one day I was pssst as school by a passing car and I wanted to see if that person went to my school so I went on myspace to see if I found the person. My college has different locations, but mysapce groups it into the main campus, so it made it hard to figure out if they went to my campus or the mina campus. But while I was searching I stumbled upon a very attractive young man. I don't know what came over me, I'm usually the one who doesn't respond when strangers message or friend request me, but I message him telling him he was sexy. Never thought it would of lead to anything, didn't intend it to lead to anything I just thought he was sexy. But he responded back, and we messaged each other, and it eventually lead to phone number exchanged. The phone conversations did it for us, we had to met up, we were so into each other. We met up, and I thank God as often as I can for giving me that urge to message him and actually doing it, I had my doubts on actually messaging him, thinking he'll ignore it like I do with most messages I get from guys saying ''was up ma'' or ''wuz up sexy'' and it'll just be a waste of typing..............but it was sooooooooooo not a waste, I don't see how I would of been without him now in my life! Even if we end up to be just friends in the end, he just completes me

Oh and I only really admitted to this to very FEW people that I met him on myspace, I always feel like I'm going to me judged like I would do when someone would say we met through myspace like it would be the dumbest thing to do, because you just could NEVER know. But thank God he wasn't a pervert or child molesting creep!

 

[FoxyWench]

well i work renfaires, the first year i worked at the southern ct i was cast as a pirate rose wench with a little part in the script, he was the captain...

now this would be ehh, except ive always had a huge thing for pirates since i was a wee bit of a thing, while everyone else was into princesses, i was big into pirates.
so all of a sudden i am a "real" pirate and hes the captain, and being i was cast as the cabin wench the undertones were obvious.
and from day one i thought MAN that guys HOTT! *drools* but him and the rest of the main cast were veterans and i a first year and i never got up the courage to talk to him...
second year came about and he and the crew took me under their pirate wings lol, one day he walked right up to me KISSED me and the rest is history...

we now have our own "ship" (privateers guild) and the entire crew i grew to love working with over the past 4 years are our crew, hes my captain and i his loyal cabin wench.

 

[verderben]

Mine was my now ex's friend in highschool. So we knew each other pretty well because we were all always hanging out. Me and the dumb ex broke up and then some time later they werent friends anymore. Me and my boy hung out from time to time and then lost touch for awhile then he found me on yahoo one day and messaged me and we started hanging out again. Then my last ex basically forbid me to hang out with anyone, but me and my now bf still talked online unknown to the ex. After me and the psychopath broke up we started hanging out again and then one night after we had hung out for like a week straight we were really really trashed and one thing led to another, and then he asked me to be his gf when we were slightly more sober. Obviously I said yes. I am soooooo happy now. And it really helps we knew each other really well before hand so we knew what to expect from each other.

 

[96 GTS]

I met Caitlin in the chat room of showdog.com. She stopped in one day, and I was just completely taken with her. I can't even begin to explain how or why, but I was. She didn't come back for a while, so I sent her a couple PMs, I don't remember if she responded or not, I'm thinking not. Anyway, she did come back to chat again eventually, and we talked more and more. She gave me her AIM screenname, I didn't realize it at the time, but she didn't give it to anyone, so that was pretty special. We exchanged photos a while later, and my jaw literally dropped when I saw hers.

To make a long story short, she came and visited me at school, and came to school with me for a year, and then I visited her in Maryland and decided to move here. We celebrated two years in September, and now we're engaged.

 

[Zoom]

Well, you all give me a sliver of hope to cling too.

I haven't been on a date in...about a year...I'm too cheap to pay for an online dating site, though I did get some interesting hits when I signed up for eHarmony awhile back. I haven't really met anyone that catches my attention enough to actually call back or agree to second date with. Well, there's this one guy but we keep end up botching plans and haven't seen each other since the night we met in a bar and then he took my friend and I out to breakfast the next morning. I should probably actually call him...

 

[blue]

Last girl I had a real connection with moved to OR, need to get her email from her former coworkers.

 

[96 GTS]

these are all so sweet, I really kinda hope I don't find the one. Its too much confusion and too difficult and too risky really.

Not really sure what you mean, or why. I don't think you can ever have any fun unless you take risks.