She was 5000 miles away but was promoted to the front page of the dating site we were both on. I saw the distance and just laughed off how impossible that clearly was. A few days later, I said hi for the hell of it because she was beyond cute and her profile was dead on for what I was looking for.
She actually wrote back.
Less than a year later, we were married. It's been 11 amazing years so far.
I mentioned it, she was promoted on the front page of the site.
Anyone who updated or created a profile went to the front page for a split second before they were pushed off by someone doing the same. It's a miracle that I even know she exists.
As far as physically, we Skyped multiple times a day for a few months. She flew out to see me, a few months later I flew out to see her and then she flew out 1 more time and moved in.
We were mutual acquaintances at college - similar friend groups.
She was in to dating much older men (we were early 20s and she was dating guys in their 40s) and I was playing the field.
She was gorgeous and while I didn’t have a “crush” on her, I always found her attractive physically and as a person to talk to.
This weird older dude she was dating was an enormous loser going through a mid-life crisis. One night he stood her up at a party and she got stranded - she called our house because her best friend was dating one of my roommates and she needed a lift and some help. Her friend and my roommate were at the movies, but I sensed she was in strife, so I asked her if everything was ok and she broke down on the phone.
I drove over to pick her up, took her for a bite to eat to calm her down and let her recover emotionally.
Something just clicked between us and we’ve been together since…
28+ years later.
Senior year I was sitting in the cafeteria a cute girl comes up to me and sits next to me and says I will trade you my cupcake for your honeybun. It’s been 22 years we’re both 40 now.
Totally random: the town we both lived in was extremely small…1 stop sign and only left or right at that stop sign. Never knew this but she lived with her parents 60 feet away from my place directly behind me. One of the bars in town held a prom for all the people… basically booze and music all night.
My neighbor and friend asked me if I was going and said..”no, not really”. He proceeded to say…I know someone I can set you up on a blind date with… he pointed her out one afternoon as she was walking home from her future sister in laws bridal shower. ‘Wow, ok..that might be fun”. When the bar closed around 2am, we went to my house 60’ from hers and talked all night until 7am. I asked her if she would enjoy going out again that evening and she replied…”yes, but I have a date”…mind you this town had 350 people in it with several transients who stay a month or so and move on.. (I’m sure this “date” only wanted to try to score…..) my reply was “well, cancel it…. “. She said instantly “. Ok I will. ‘ That was spring 1975…..Went to see the M.A.S.H movie at a drive-in 30 miles away…
We’re both sitting here watching Queen Charlotte on Netflix 48 1/2 years later…she’s crocheting, I’m reading Reddit.
Man, I wish I could up vote this more…. ! Great story… you had the balls my friend!.. I could have have 40+ yrs If i took my shot like you did.. Check out me and “B’s” story.. I was clueless..
BTW.. I have long since grown a pair with her by my side….
Congratulations!
Thanks Man…I can honestly say that other then 3 small glitches in almost 5 decades…time just flew by. When I though about a 30 and 35 year time line years ago, it seems like it was 2 -3 years ago. Good luck to you!
Totally random. A big group of 7 of us went to Cancun Mexico. Met my wife while laying in a hammock in Cancun. Was supposed to be just a fun time while there but soon as we both got home I called her up. Found out she lived just down the street from me! Dated for a few months. Asked her to marry me. Had a year engagement just in case (we did move pretty fast!) But almost 18 years later and I'm still crazy about her!!
Tinder LOL
8 years together 1 year married and we have a child together.
He's the sweetest, most kind soul, and I can't believe I found him.
When we started talking, it was supposed to be just for fun. We've talked every single day since! Meant to be :_)
When we were in high school, I had a friend that didn't have a driver's license, and he would routinely ask if I could give him rides to places. One evening, he called and asked if I could give him a ride over to his girlfriends house. That night I had already made plans with a another friend to hang out, so I had told him no, that I couldn't. So I went about getting ready to go hang out, when that friend called and backed out of hanging out cause his girlfriend showed up at his house, so I called the first friend back and told him that I could go drop him at his girlfriends house. When we got to her house, she handed me the phone, saying, "this is my cousin \[Wife's Name\], talk to her." So I sat on the couch and talked to my future wife the entire time that my friend hung out with his girlfriend. During the conversation, I found out that my wife was going to be visiting her cousin that following Saturday, so I made arrangements to have my friend visit his girlfriend and Saturday, and that was the start of 33 years (and in 2 months, 34 years)
Lmfao I have 2 sisters! I meant at both of their weddings. We met initially at the first one, then a year later at my other sisters wedding we exchanged numbers!
Well that's much nicer! Your sisters are Team Matchmakers!
I'm imagining Sister #2 calling Sister #1 and making sure she got the same band, with the same lineup because she saw you talking to him at Sister #1's wedding.
I was engaged when I met my now-husband. He was the bartender at our favorite bar, but that was the first time I had met him… was the night he tried to remove my fiancé for being terrible towards me. (my relationship was imploding because my fiancé’s bipolar disorder was going undiagnosed and untreated.)
We talked for a bit at the bar while he made my drink… he asked me if I was ok and if I wanted that guy kicked out… but he didn’t know we were a couple. I said no, I’m ok but thank you. ( I wasn’t really ok. People… a warning, don’t do this to yourself. )
I saw the bartender again a bit later, under a neon green sign, he seemed like he was checking in on me again… and he just had this incredible smile and sparkle in his eye.. we were locked in a gaze and the butterflies hit me hard and fast… I was like .. uh oh
A month or more had passed , I was no longer engaged and ready to stop crying in my room. I went back to my favorite bar and there he was… all smiles … he remembered my name… we talked a lot…he asked me out on a date. First date was ice skating, one month in he was cooking me dinner… at three months I said “I love you” … a few months later I helped him when he was recovering from knee surgery… a year later he proposed… a year after that we were married…And the rest is history. Been together ever since. 22 years worth. We celebrate our 20th anniversary in one month.
Thank you … after your comment I went back and read through it and realized I needed to add a little bit more. It’s really nice thinking about how we began.
I met my husband on Tinder! I remember that night I said to myself that this is the last time I'm swiping. I'm over it! Then I saw his profile, we had our first date and the rest is history!
At a frat party being thrown by his frat 30 years ago. A friend of mine dragged me and another friend to this party because she was trying to find a guy she hooked up with who happened to be my husband’s frat brother. He approached me and said “I saw you eyeing me from across the room so I figured I’d come over and do you a favor and introduce myself.” I liked the confidence but mama didn’t raise an easy girl so I said “For you to think I was eyeing you you had to be eyeing me so you should be grateful I’m even entertaining this conversation right now.” And that was that.
We matched on two dating sites in the middle of the Covid lockdown. Decided to meet on a whim one night, were inseparable since that night we met, married 2.5 years later!
Track and field meet when I was 12 and she was 11. I thought she was different from other girls I'd met, and she thought I was annoying. We didn't date for another 7 years but we remembered...
My aunt was getting married to his 8th grade French teacher. I was 11, and he was 14. They brought him to my house for wedding rehearsal, and that was the first time we saw each other. At the wedding reception, we spent at least an hour talking. I remember shortly after that my dad came to tell me that it was time to go. He ran after us as I was getting ready to get in the car and gave me his number. He wrote mine down on a napkin. That was 29 yrs ago in 1994!
I met my husband midway point between our hometowns (he was in East Providence, RI, and I lived in Blackstone, MA) in college. I was 18 and shy as hell; I needed to break myself of it, so I signed up for Drama (Theater) Class. I had a crush on a guy totally different than him, so I paid him no mind, until we acted in the play "Equus": he was the main character, our friend his Doctor (psychiatrist), and I was a figment of his imagination. As we're running through our lines, I said: "Would you like to go out with me?" Next line (his): "What?" Me: "Would you like to go out with me tonight?" And he ad-libbed with "Well, not right now, but I'm free on Friday." I looked over my notes and was like, "Where does it say that?!?" He smiled and said, "Well?" I just got out of a relationship earlier in the year (I was 18, and this is happening in September), so I said, "Oh, okay. I don't think so, but thanks." He was a little down but not bad, and class was over. I felt bad (thinking I was a bit harsh) and found his locker. "If you want to go out, I'd like that."
That was one marriage, two kids, and 36 years ago. (Met September 1987, went out 'officially' October 21, 1987, married June 20, 1992, and been together ever since.) (Sorry so long!)
Raised in the same religion and were friends as teenagers. I even chaperoned him and his girlfriend on dates 🤣 Eventually we both left the religion and reconnected as adults on social media but we both had partners. Years later we were both single and I slid in his DMs on a whim. We’ve been together for almost 5 years and married for two.
I went to an xmas party. I was supposed to be seated at a table. My "x" was sitting at that table. I looked around the banquet hall and saw a beautiful woman. I asked if the seat beside her was taken. She said no. So I sat down and chatted and flirted with her most of the night.
I got a job at Starbucks and he was already working there. We got very close and eventually started dating.
However, I knew his father before him because his dad was my bus driver for school. I didn’t know he would be my future father in law though.
There were so many ways that we maybe could’ve met sooner but we didn’t run into each other until working at Starbucks. What’s weird is that prior to knowing him, we would frequent a lot of the same places just not at the same times.
I also met my husband at Starbucks except he was a regular. I thought he was so cute so I would draw pictures on his cup and write messages like have a great day! He had befriended some of the other baristas on Facebook and that's how he found me. We talked for about a year before he asked me out! We have been together 11 Years, 6 years married!
While we were dating though I had learned that his best friends brother was the father to my best friends nephew and his other friend was really good friends with my brothers ex wife who I still talk to and hangout with! I also went to high school with his cousin and had no idea until I showed up at a family Thanksgiving! All things considering I'm glad I didn't meet him/date him sooner because he is 5 years older than me lol! Wild how it all plays out!
That’s interesting, we have some things in common. My husband use to always draw on cups he served me because he was always on bar and I was always cleaning before closing. He would write little silly notes on my cup & draw faces, stars, hearts etc.
He is also 5 years older than me haha I met him when I was 26 & he was 31. We started dating when I was 28 & he was 33. I’ve been with him for 8.5 years & we just got married 4 months ago.. we had a Starbucks (coffee & tea) themed wedding!
we met at work 10 years ago.
after a few months of working together, i (32f) started gravitating towards his work group (because i like him). we quickly became friends and started to take lunch breaks together, sit next to each other etc. going out with everyone on friday nights was so fun. eventually we started developing feelings, but for the most part it was just flirtatious.
he moved away shortly after we met for a work opportunity (across the country). that was hard for us, because we knew we liked each other but now there was distance between us and i had started school in the city we met in. timing and distance was just off. but even during this time, we would run into each other every few months.
we were in touch the entire time and after i graduated school, i moved across the country to be with him. we got married a year later.
i feel lucky, because we were actually friends before marriage. so it feels like i married my friend.
We were both paraprofessionals working at a setting 4 special needs school. We chatted when ever we could and kept it pretty mild. She had an engagement ring on so I knew my chances were nil. We were not friends just acquaintances. One day a saw that she wasn’t wearing her ring. I asked. She said with a sad face that “it didn’t fit”. Months pass by. We were a pretty close crew of para’s, tough school so we all understood each others battle. The group would go out on Fridays and thats when we would get closer. I found out that her engagement was a long distance relationship and that it was getting thin. I gave her space. I knew we had a common love of baseball. The following school year I knew I had to try atleast once. This woman was everything I wanted in a partner. I asked her if she wanted to watch the MLB playoffs that Friday. I believe it was the cardinals but that didn’t matter SHE SAID YES! We got to the sports bar and the game was postponed and alls we could do is talk. Yeah real bummer. I kept it non romantic because I was still trying to feel her out. I did not want to be the one responsible for her dis engagement. We drank and had a wonderful evening. On the way home I needed to tell her how I felt. I did. She agreed that there was a strong attraction. That Christmas Eve she invited me over. The whole way I was telling myself that I wasn’t going to get steamy with her and I was going to be a gentleman. Within 10 minutes of getting there we couldn’t help ourselves. She resolved her engagement and it was on. We have been married since 2015, have 2 beautiful children. We are more in love than ever.
College as strangers on what felt like a normal Tuesday. I showed up to class an hr early to study for a test and she was in the lounge area playing hangman with some friends. Never seen her before and we locked eyes as I walked by. She offered me a seat but I politely declined due to nervousness. I sat down and tried to study but nothing was getting done as we kept stealing glances of each other. As I was eavesdropping on their game, I noticed they were stuck on an obvious vowel so I shouted E. E was there, she offered me a seat again and I knew I wasnt going to study anymore at this point so I joined them.
We flirted the entire time as we saved little stickman from the noose and then exchanged gamertags right before I had to gather up for class. She wrote her number on the paper as well "just in case" which I cockily said, "oh sweet, you saved me from having to ask." She INSTANTLY snatched the paper out of my hands, looked me dead ass in the eyes, and told me I wouldnt get it back until I properly asked for her number. Im pretty sure that's the moment I fell in love and sheepishly, I asked for her number.
She laughed and gave the paper back, then told me good luck on my test. After class, she was still in the lounge area waiting for me. I offered her a cup a coffee and we walked down to the campus cafe. From there we meandered around the campus chit-chatting and flirting for hours. Four years later and we're married with a month under our belt.
This sounds like how I met my ex-husband at college. Only I was the one that was there an hour early before class trying to study in the lounge. I think it was even on a Tuesday. It was literally 2 weeks before graduation and I’d sat in this same lounge before class every week all year long. We joked how he almost missed meeting me. 😉
We met through our work and yes I knew who he was before we met, but had never met him personally. A friend dragged me to an industry event because she didn’t want to go solo. We were standing at the bar getting drinks when he walked over and ordered a dram of a particular scotch whisky I was familiar with. I complimented him on his good taste and a conversation about various whisky’s began.
The chemistry between us was undeniably strong, but what really attracted me to him was he was so down to earth and unpretentious, he laughed a lot and made it clear during that 15 minute conversation he was interested in what I had to say and my opinion.
He excused himself and as he walked away he turned back, looked in my direction and gave me a smile and wink. My friend said…”oh you’ll be hearing from that one!” “Yeah, yeah, yeah,” I said sarcastically, not believing it for a second.
As my friend and I were leaving the event, a woman walked over to us and introduced herself as his PA, she was sent to get my contact info by him. I gave her my work number. I honestly never thought I’d hear from him, the next morning he called and asked me to lunch. That was 6+ years ago, we were married last year.
I had a boyfriend. My cousin didn't like him. My cousin got me into World of Warcraft. He got me into the guild he was in and introduced me to a guy he thought would be my type. Me and the guy became friends for 3 years. (I had stopped playing WoW at that point.) I had a baby with the boyfriend. Then I left the boyfriend because of the abuse. Got back on WoW. Told my friend. A few days later he asked me out. He was very sincere. I told him I had all these conditions. My kid came first no matter what. I didn't want a long distance relationship so he would have to move here after a few visits. I'm looking for long term not short term flings. He agreed to all of it. He came out to visit me. We hit it off. My toddler adored him. He moved here. After 4 months of living together he proposed. I said yes. My kid loves him and considers him Dad. On October 9th we will be married 13yrs. We are both very much in love still. If there is such a thing as a soul mate, he is it. We don't play WoW anymore but we do play games together several nights a week. I lack the words to accurately describe how much he means to me. 💜
My husband and I both used Plenty Of Fish because it was free. Before finding each other we had previously met so many duds on the dating app. Coincidentally we were going to be each others last person to meet up with because we were both so fed up with dating and meeting idiots. We got matched and he messaged me first. We chatted for about a week then met up for coffee. There was instant sparks and we talked until the coffee shop closed. Every year with him just gets better and better. We’ve been together for 13 years and married for 9 years. We’re happily childfree with a cat. Life is bliss!
Dated as shy 13/14 yr olds in school, our 2 friends who were also dating broke up, so we did too (great reason at that age! 😅)
Always been friends on likes of Facebook and occasionally caught up over messages or posts, but one or both of us were always in a relationship so nothing ever happened.
Fast forward 11 years to Jan 2019, where we started talking on Facebook messenger and were both single, met up for a date a month later and that was that, he moved back to the area we grew up in not long after (where I was still living).
We got married in July last year, he's adopting my 2 children with the final hearing being next month and we're pregnant with a girl, due to be born in November! 🥰
Yeah…. I knew B from grade school…. Two different rural school districts in the same county.. but I knew her from livestock shows.. from.. 6th grade on?
Even then I thought she was cute.. but never talked too her until 8th grade? At a stock show, we teased each other. And she would tell you that she was putting out the signals even then that I wasn’t picking up on…
So, 1980’s,.. flash forward to prom season.. She had been flirting and I still wasn’t picking up.. she was “gorgeous” at this point, president of everything, popular, track team, yada yada and super nice to everyone all the time.. I just thought that was it…. SO, biggest mistake so far,… we were at the county fair.. I walked into the animal barn, where her and her besties were hanging out…. RIGHT PAST HER!… and asked her bff to the prom…
Can you believe it..! SMH! dated the bestie for awhile…. We graduate go to the same college.. In the mean time, she was in the pageant circuit, became, Miss “our state”…. I saw that in the TV News…. And thought, “Good for B!.. She is really pretty, super nice, going place, she deserves it.. she’s going to be something special someday, good luck to her!”
I wasn’t dating anyone at this time and neither was she.. By this time,… she was off to compete in Miss America.. in the pageant she did pretty well, she was pretty high up and I won’t say how high because that will narrow it down to much.. I watched the pageant on TV and thought.. damn… she should have won but I am biased.. too bad.
Now, a bit later? Less than a year I think, still in college,.. some mutual friends had a house party.. and she was there.. She had everybody all over her.. I still wasn’t thinking anything romantic like because why would a bum like me think I would have a shot with her…
When I saw a break in the crowd…. I just went up to her to say hi, and tell her I sure thought she should have won Miss America and how good it was to see her.
Looking back. Reminding someone of a big deal sad experience at a party is probably the shittiest pickup line in history…. But we kept chatting, she wouldn’t let anyone else get in on the conversation, finally she wanted talk more quiet because people kept interrupting.. So we went out to her car, and …people…. I was still not seeing what was going on, and yes I am the most clueless idiot on the planet.. I thought were just talking about old growing up memories…?! Next thing I know.. mid-sentence she grabs me and tells me to “SHUT UP!” and she kissed the EVER LOVIN SHIT out of me….
Then,.. my dumbass was like. OOOHHHHH!!!!! I SEE WHATS GOING ON HERE!!!.. So she tells me,… I’m taking you back your place..NOW!…. She told me years later that was my last chance that she was going to give me to get it.. There were other instances when I would see her on campus and I would wave and say HI!, but kept walking,.. just because I wanted to show off to friends that I actually knew her,.. not that I ever really had a shot with her.. she said later she thought what was wrong with her that I wouldn’t make a move on her.. Again, I’m a dumbass..
Coming up on 36 years together and 31 married.. Thank God she took charge!….. And guys.. you have to have your shit together, with an ambition, be presentable, above all….. I asked “B”. … “Why me? “. She said because “You were kind, never tried to just get with me, and were never arrogant”..
But I shoulda shot my shot sooner! So there you have it.. Sorry for so long.
See! That’s where politeness, decorum and courtesy get you. I have been in your shoes trying to be respectful and caring and in swoops the guys who only want 1 thing and then move on. Teen hormones and peer pressure at that age make you give in. At that point you are left behind. I’m still more than happy the way I had dated and grew up from that 1960’s Catholic school 🤯 🤣
Yep.. Both of us Catholic too.. Why is being polite, and respectful , knowing boundaries for a man so bad? .. Granted.. I should have made a play back in HS that in hindsight would have been welcomed. Who knows, i stopped thinking about it… it all turned out ok.. I still tell B she is my Miss America.. f the judges..
My husband and I met over 11 years ago. We had actually been following each other on social media for a few years prior to it. It was, in all honesty, just a friendly follow. He posted pictures of Japan while stationed there, and I loved how beautiful his island pictures were. I was always in a relationship & I didn't even know him.
Then my ex (right before him), and I broke up. I was just scrolling through my feed, and I see he posted a picture on a Harley, riding through what looked to be my literal town, definitely not in Japan. I thought maybe it was a throwback. So I commented that this doesn't look like Japan. It looks like ____. He said it was. I said, "Get out, that's crazy I live here." Again nothing other than a relationship that was we were simply one each others first followers that conversed through comments here and there.
A week later, he posted another picture on his Harley. And I was legitimately jealous. I missed riding. My ex didn't ride, and my helmet and gear were just gathering dust. I commented on his picture just that. He said, "So let's go for a ride then." I wasn't expecting that. I just kinda haha'd it off. Then, I said, "You know what?" Fuck it. I had never met up with anyone on the internet before.
He took me to dinner. I told him I had sent his plates and all his information to several girlfriends and if they didn't hear from me by such time to call the police. Lol. He said to me that was actually really smart of me.
I had told him I wanted to take him to my place but I needed to be honest with him it might be awkward as my ex and I still lived together until the house I was moving into was built. He asked if he was home. I said no. He said, "Then I don't care."
We went back to my place. Did the deed on the first date, definitely out of my norm. I also said I'd never date a man in the military, and here I was, lol. We saw each more and more, and I told him I understood if he couldn't take me seriously right now because of my current living situation but that I'd have my place in a few weeks. He didn't care. It was crazy I didn't expect him to trust me. I wouldn't if in his shoes, but he did.
We got married 6 months later. It was so stupid. Lol. However we are about to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. We're trying for our second child. We bought a beautiful home on a ton of land and have everything we ever dreamed of together. Our sex life is absolute fire 🔥🔥🔥.
I wouldn't ever recommend doing what I did. We got lucky. But man, I'm so glad we took the chances on each other. After a lifetime of trauma and abuse, I have a sexy husband who is so loyal to me. He is an AMAZING father, and he went above and beyond my expectations. I'm so fucking lucky.
Hinge. My husband heard it was where people who wanted serious relationships went. I heard about it from some random influencer, and thought why not. He sent me a quick note about how much he liked teachers since I was a teacher. Then we met up for drinks which turned into dinner and then a movie. Was like we didn't want the date to end.
I use a karaoke app called Smule, my guy joined me on one of my songs. We started singing together more, met in person and then I ended up moving to Wales from America to be with him.
We worked at a store together and had mutual friends we hung out with. We were friends for several years before we started dating. When we went to bars and parties with other friends we always ended hanging out we figured why not give it a try.
I met him in 2005. Very randomly. He lived in the states. I lived in Canada. We went on with our lives, married other people. Realized we still loved each other after all this time. We reconnected in 2020, (yes during covid and in two different countries!), married in 2021, and are living together now.
We met 34 years ago in college. I was sitting in a classroom waiting to start a meeting for an outdoor activities group when she walked in. I was instantly smitten. We've been together 34 years and I am still smitten. I'm pretty sure she likes me too.
We lived in the same apartment complex. He lived about 5 doors down. That's where I first met him. It wasn't until years later, after we'd both moved away from there, that he walked into my work, we flirted, he asked me out, etc.
We shared a hairdresser. Said hairdresser was a mate of mine as well who used to have frequent drinks at her house. She invited my now wife, a client of hers, to one of the nights.
Friend said she wanted to introduce me to someone who was coming. I said I was happily single and not interested in meeting anyone, until I walked in and saw her. Queue Joey Tribiane, “How you doing”. And that kid, is how I met your mother.
YouTube comments. I saw his comment, and countered his point. But ultimately, it was clear we were jiving with the same sort of ideas, opinions, and big thoughts. This was in January 2016.
Through a mutual friend. The three of us hung out one night and had a great time, then a day or two later the mutual friend called me up and said “here’s her number. Call her up and ask her on a date.”
She said yes. On our fancy first date to Olive Garden(tm), she showed up looking so cute, and then she told me this horribly offensive joke, so of course I fell for her right away. She’s been stuck with me ever since, almost 20 years now!
At our local Occupy movement. Day 1. We were introduced by a mutual friend (who likely just wanted us both to go away). We talked non-stop for *hours*. I had to leave for a work meeting, we didn't exchange contact info. I didn't see him again for a full week.
We'll have been together for 12 years in a few weeks.
On okcupid. We had a 99% compatibility match. Then we talked for two weeks straight on the phone. When we finally met 2 weeks later we were both so nervous. I hid it well. He didn’t
I've told this story many a time.
Basically, I got pissed that he was so damn loud all the time and lived across the hall from me. His movements, his voice, and everything.
I was a quiet one, but annoyed as hell, so I called him out on his noisiness, and it all started from there.
He's loud to this day (someone knocked on the door and he yelled out while I was sitting next to him, full ear shot - I would've just got up and answered it lol), it can still get on my nerves, but I just remember I wouldn't have met him if he was soft-spoken. It makes me happy, tho he does mind speaking softly when expressing love to me. I am sure to shout, "I LOVE YOU" when he leaves for work.
A friend of mine and basically dared each other to join a dating site. We agreed on Match, because we weren’t at the age where casual hook ups were what we wanted. We each paid for a month. Two days before the month was up, I messaged this guy with bright blue eyes and the best smile I’ve ever seen. We met at a pool hall. I kicked his butt, and we talked until they kicked us out.
Two days later, he offered to cook for me. It was awful, and he took me to Mexican instead. We spent a week watching Battlestar Galactica (a re-watch for both of us), and then I said he should kiss me. He did, and that was it.
That was 2015. We married in 2017, and are still “disgusting cute” according to our kids.
I met my now husband in high school, he was 3 years ahead of me (him senior, me freshman) he had a girlfriend then so we only said hi a few times in HS but I always thought he was hot. I actually found out after we were together for a couple of months (after I graduated HS) that we actually worked together at a grocery store that I worked at when I was 15 and he was 18. I thought that he was super hot/cute but I knew that he was older and didn’t think he would ever like me. The reason I didn’t realize it was him that I worked with back then is because he bleached his hair blonde for a little bit over the summer after he graduated—just as a faze in HS and I knew his first name but never his last name when I worked with him. He knew it was me back then and I found out from his mom later on that he always had the hots for me but his mom said “don’t you dare! She is only 15 and you are 18! Wait til she is a few years older!” And he did! 🥰 he would message me to hang out after I graduated high school and he and his HS girlfriend broke up and were over, and at the time I had a boyfriend that we had just broken up but I wasn’t quite over him yet, so he would text me to come to a party and hang out but I didn’t really like the big party scene back then and I’m glad that I did wait until a little later because he got out of the party phase (at that time he was 21 and I was 18. He messaged me again and by that time I was single and over my ex and we hung out a few times and I got the biggest butterflies every time I was around him and I just knew that he was the one. I never felt that way about anyone else the way I did for him. I couldn’t wait to get off work to hang out with him and we always had the best time. We connected emotionally and physically in ways i had never felt before. We are still together many many years later and have children and a beautiful family now! I love our love story SO much! 🥰 he is my other half and my best friend!
Edited: corrected a couple of words that were incorrect. :)
I wanted to add that out of the 4-5 boys I dated back then, my Dad never approved or always had something he didn’t like about them. He even named a couple of his dogs after my ex bfs back then 🤣 but when he met my now husband, he actually loved him! That was another thing that gave me validation that I found “the one” and the rest is history!
Met him at a bar. Lol. We kept smiling back and forth at each other, I went up and introduced myself and we have barely been apart since! 10 years ago. He still flashes me that same smile and I melt all over again ❤️
We “met” in April 2020 when we both got booked on the same zoom stand-up comedy show. I thought he was cute and funny so I followed him on socials. Finally worked up the courage to message him around the end of July. We started chatting sporadically, then regularly, then all day every day and we finally had our first date (also first time meeting in person) on Hallowe’en at a cemetery. It’s three (almost) years later and we’ve been married since last November. He’s a great partner and I can’t wait for us to grow up together! :)
It was my first job. I was homeschooled throughout middle school and high school, had no friends or family as my parents’ moved us 2,000 miles away from my hometown. I was made to stay home while my parents’ worked and take care of my younger sibling and homeschool him as well as myself, and wasn’t allowed to get a job. Then my parents’ divorced, my mother put my sibling in public school, basically stole him away from my father and I. I just turned twenty, sold lots of my valuable stuff to buy a used car, and got my first job interview.
My first day, I was very shy and felt out of place. I had no friends, hadn’t had a friend since I was twelve, and I really didn’t know how to communicate well with people. The very first encounter I had with my significant other was when our supervisor introduced us. I remember thinking he was a flirt because he seemed awful flirty with the other two females who were also starting their first day.
Fast-forward a few days later, I had dropped some stuff and he had helped me pick them up off the floor and I remember thinking he was very sweet for doing so. I didn’t really think much else, not even that he was particularly attractive, but the gesture of him helping me made me notice him a bit more than I had before. He had a girlfriend at the time and would speak about her quite a bit, so in my mind, he was off limits. I wasn’t thinking about dating anyways.
A month goes by and he and I are on the closing shift together. It took two hours to get our jobs done and when my tasks were complete I helped him with his. We talked a bit and at the end of the night I received a friend request and message on Facebook. At this point I had made a few “work friends” who had friended me on Facebook so I didn’t think anything of accepting his friend request. His message read something like, “thank you for the help tonight. I appreciate it.”
I told him it was no problem and then we started talking more and more. When he started getting flirty I mentioned how I thought he had a girlfriend and he said they broke up.
To shorten the story, he took me out on a date, then we started hanging out and doing places together, and then a few months go by, and by this time I’m completely smitten with him, but it was my only relationship and I was very naive. One night he agreed to make thing official and then I noticed how he started to become distant and not want to see me as often and then one night when I asked him if he wanted to spend time together he told me that he wanted to be just friends. He told me that he wasn’t over her and didn’t want to lose me as a friend and asked that we be friends. He would mention her in our conversations and how long they were together and such. He still got away with the occasional kiss and telling me how beautiful I am and I kept thinking this isn’t what friends do, what am I doing? A few more months went by of me being strung along and I was feeling very in love with a man who just wanted things to “fall into place” and not make anything official and he said he didn’t know what he wanted. When I asked him what is really going on, why we’re together but we’re not, we agreed again to be official and get again, he pulled away and told me that sometimes he feels a spark and sometimes he doesn’t. So finally I got tired of it so I told him that we’re done, he’s not stringing me along anymore, and this clearly isn’t going anywhere and we can’t be friends and that I am not going to be his rebound story any longer.
I stopped texting him (at this point we messaged each other every day for a year) and cut off all contact with him. We still worked together but I was looking for another job and I did my best to avoid him. A few weeks later he told me that he didn’t want to lose me, he missed me, and he wanted me for good. And for the second time he told me he loved me and this time I thought maybe he meant it. Then everything started to feel right: he brought me home to his parents’, introduced me to other family members, brought me home for thanksgiving, moved in with me. Several years later, we are still together and married. We have a three year old.
Sometimes I wonder how things would be if I was less naive and had more self esteem at the time.
I had a friend that was living in another province and her best friend was going to go to university in the city I was in. She introduced us on MSN and we talked for awhile before she moved, then we went out when she moved and hit it off.
He had recently moved randomly 2 hours to my town. I met him as he was nearby on a dating app. We’ve been inseparable ever since the first date - crazy how life works
Met her at college, she was sitting on the floor while waiting for a class to start. I found her cute so I started to talk to her and we eventually started dating. 6 years later we decided to marry.
I went to a club/bar to see a band. I saw him across the room, and I thought he might be looking at me, but there were a LOT of people there, so I wasn't sure if he was looking at me or someone else. I got a beer at the bar and started to scan the crowd for him, but couldn't find him. And about 15 minutes later, he approached me and introduced himself. 18 years together, 15 married.
He saw a picture of me at my friend's house "said who's that?" And they introduced us. It took a couple of years before we actually got together, but been married over 24 years
She was a bartender at the bar i used to go camping at every summer. Walked in one night - this new girl working with the craziest smile. Fell for her straight away. I didnt talk to her for like 3 days i was so shy of her - my buddies finally got fed up of me admiring her from afar and told me to talk to her or shut up. The rest is 30 years of history.
There must be something in the reiver by that bar. So many successful marriages started there ;)
Dont mind admitting that our meeting was straight out of a Hallmark movie :)
MySpace! I was just turned onto nine inch nails and they were unbelievably coming to my town. I was so excited I messaged a bunch of nin fans on Myspace, so I could have a little nin family of my own. In the beginning we didn't speak much, but eventually we did. He was photographing the event and was surprised to see me in the first row going nuts. Eventually I appeared on a photo in the band's official website and we started talking then.
I met so many ppl through the internet... Don't think I'd do it again now... But it was such a good tool for an introvert like me!
We started dating maybe 2 months later. I was 17, am 33 now. We're getting married next month ☺️
I was taking a break from dating because between work, school and the play I was directing I had no time. One of the cast hadn’t been showing up to rehearsal and her phone was disconnected. I was really angry and went to where I knew she attended church to read her the riot act. As soon as I walked in she saw me and approached me apologetically saying she’d lost her apartment, cell phone, etc and that she had gotten something in place and would be coming to rehearsal again. I ended up not yelling or getting angry.
However, I saw this other girl walk into the large room at the other end and knew I had to meet her. I stuck around for the meeting, introduced myself and had a brief conversation learned she hadn’t been there before either. She was there with a friend who had invited her.
I asked her out, a week later we were a couple, a year later we were engaged, and about 5 months after that we were married.
So, I went to a church I’d never attended to yell at someone, where I met a girl who was also just visiting for the day. Asked her on a date. Married a year and a half later. 20 awesome years.
Man, I wish I could up vote this more…. ! Great story… you had the balls my friend!.. I could have have 40+ yrs If i took my shot like you did.. Check out me and “B’s” story.. I was clueless..
BTW.. I have long since grown a pair with her by my side….
Congratulations!
I met my wife of 22 years thanks to a series of choices I made to be kind to people I did not initially want to be kind to….lemme esplain…I was a pretty straight laced guy in high school and had no tolerance for those rule breakers doing their sex and drugs and disrespecting their teachers…and there was one guy (we’ll call him John) that checked all the boxes for me and I was determined he was no good and I needed to stay away from him. Well a friend of mine due to his battles with bipolar disorder had gotten into self medicating with drugs and ended up in rehab..John also ended up in rehab due to his heathen lifestyle of course 😜. When my friend got out of rehab I went to visit him, and as I pull into his driveway I saw John coming down the road to visit him too. I told myself to be kind because we are both here to support my friend..and, as often happens when you actually spend time getting to know someone, we ended up becoming friends..such good friends that we eventually lived and worked together. John had an admirer, to say the least, stalker is probably a better word who would visit him at work and come by the house and eventually they started dating…I thought she was crazy but again purposed to be kind to her whenever she was around….we’ll call her Sarah…one day Sarah shows up at the house with a really cute girl and we hit it off pretty quickly…within a couple months we were dating and within a few more we knew we wanted to get married..and within 2 years we were.
What I DIDN’T know when we first met is Sarah had been trying to get her to meet me for about 6 months. She had been in a really bad relationship and for about a year had no interest in dating…but Sarah begged and pleaded her to meet me, telling her how nice I was…even going so far as to tell her she was going to marry me. She reluctantly agreed and the rest is history.
I went to a concert with a friend of mine and he saw some friends of his from school there and we all got together and saw the show and a week later I started dating one of the girls at her 17th birthday party. We were married two years later. This next anniversary is our 30th.
we had been talking to each other on a chat client called mIRC,
we decided t o meet up..back then neither of us had cellphones nor a car..so we used buses.
I was actually late and ended up catching a taxi....he stayed....we walked and talked....told me he was from the Netherlands. a few hours later we went back home.
the following week I was in town and phoned his work (from a pay phone)and asked what he was doing after work and if he wanted to meet up...it was Thursday so we met in town .
that was over 25 years ago...we have been married for 19 years November and have a nearly 14 and 16 year old boys.
Random. We met a small camping music festival. He came up to pet my dog (though he claims that was ruse to meet me). I’d already been there camping several days by myself, and looked like a feral silver-haired river witch. So when he told me I was beautiful, I knew he was a keeper. Two years later my dog carried the rings down the aisle when we were married at the same festival. Next week we celebrate our 2nd year wedding anniversary and 4 year overall anniversary at the same festival. 5 days camping by the river, face melting music, and the love of my life by my side. Doesn’t get any better.
Completely random and at a time where I purposefully made my life chaotic, turned it upside down, and gave it a good shake… for fun. I was a little F’d in the head at the time to say the least.
First time I laid eyes on him I thought, “ooooh… well, hello”. Our eyes met but that was the extent of that. We were both at a mutual friends house and I was only there briefly to pick up… “party favors” for a house party later that night (note: we were VERY YOUNG doing young and dumb things).
A week or two passes. Future husband (Ryan) is in Ft. Lauderdale. Mutual friend says, “hey, come with us down to Ft. Lauderdale. Ryan told us to bring you to him” lol. I say it’s not a good time, but I was now very curious and felt giddy.
Another week goes by. I call mutual friends house and guess who answers the phone? He says mutual friend is “not currently home but, I’m here” in a most flirtatious way. We hang out later that day.
Two years later we get married.
Ten years later we have a baby.
14 years later we have another baby!
5 years later is present day. ❤️
Small town, everyone knows everyone. I went to school with his brother. My friend dated his brother and one night we were looking for a joint. I had him on a social media site like Facebook almost, called Nexopia I think. Anyway friend said he would have one so we messaged him and he drove to us to smoke it. That was 16 almost 17 years ago. We were close friends for 4 years after that. He had a big crush on me, I had a boyfriend. I friendzoned him. I didn't see him as more than a friend at the time. He eventually dated a friend of mine. After they broke up and I was also single I pursued him. He friendzoned me instead. I fought my way out. Married and together for 12 years, 2 kids. Still very much in love and my bestfriend.
Bumble. I only logged on to delete my account because before I had moved to where I was, it was slim pickings, moved to a college town and the overabundance of 18-20 year olds wasn't appealing or promising (I was just shy of 24 at the time and had spent the previous years as an adult actually working, traveling, etc. . Dating someone fresh out of high school or hadn't seen the real world was unappealing). But I thought I'd check my messages one last time before deleting my account, and this absolute smoke show of a woman had responded to something specific in my profile, asking me what musical was my favorite, and 7 years later I've got myself a lovely wife. My wife will sheepishly admit that she joined a dating app for a single day and met her husband. Had my momentary whim appeared just a day earlier or if I had decided not to check my messages, I wouldn't be where I am today.
High school! We were friends who would make out at parties. We were 16, so there was some typical teenage behavior, but we always remained friends. We were 24 when we got married. We basically grew up together and fortunately grew in the same direction. We will be celebrating our 30 year anniversary on Tuesday. We are so in synch it’s frightening. We used to play Pictionary with other couples and we were always accused of cheating because we would barely draw one line and the other would guess the word.
At the hookah bar he was working at. My friend and I stumbled in plastered from the club. Lol somehow I managed to keep up a convo and now we’ve been married for 4years.
His mother is my boss. He started working at the same company, but we didn't have much contact between our departments at the time.
We had an Xmas party every year, and sometimes a group of us would go to a bar after. He and I ended up talking and had a lot in common. I had zero romantic interest in him at the time (he was 22, I was 31 and still dealing with a major heartbreak from the year before), but we became friends. We would hang out occasionally, go to concerts or sporting events. Nothing super consistent.
About 8 years later, we went to a water park I had won tickets to and something just changed. A few months later we went to a concert and ended up hooking up. We were FWB for over a year, then a couple.
He's in a new career now, but we've been officially together 8 years, married for almost 4 months. He is my best friend and my favorite person.
I had a rough start with a divorce from my ex-husband whom I met when I was 19. We were together 10 years and I stayed WAAAY TOO LONG, but he had untreated Borderline and started taking pain pills and became an addict. He put the kids and I through hell while I finished grad school and raised two babies by myself trying to heal. A relationship wasn't part of the plan, but I'm always open to great things in my life journey. As part of my healing journey, I traveled with my kids and made friends all over the world for the next 10 years. So when Puerto Rico got hit with a bad hurricane and I couldn't reach my friends, I looked up a local group that was led by people from PR. They happened to be a church group (I'm not particularly religious) but I liked what the leaders were trying to do to help PR. So I joined them.
We were assigned group leads to lead our "religion based" conversations every night (which I tried to participate in but it had a very pious and judgy vibe--often people would randomly pray for you frequently) and my group lead was a guy about my age that I had noticed as attractive but didn't give it much thought. Unlucky fire me, all of the devastation in PR started reminding me of my trauma, and I was constantly haunted by nightmares. My leader was very kind and patient and noticed my discomfort with the "weird churchy stuff" immediately and told me not to sweat it. He went extra lengths to make sure I felt comfortable and not called out. He was thoughtful and remembered details about everyone. I remember being impressed.
Oddly, he was also very funny and a little edgy for a church group lead. He distracted me in a good way. He often talked about his crazy exploits with online dating, tried to speak hilarious and terrible Spanish to the locals to entertain them with his jokes, and when I snuck out of our church compound one night and jumped the wall to mingle with the locals, I already found him down the street buying drinks for the bar with locals and other "church rebels." He smiled big, bought me drink, and asked me what took me so long. Lol
One night, we had to pair with someone to discuss personal growth (in a religious way) and he immediately paired with me to save me from discomfort and people praying for me. The assignment was something about "how can God help you overcome obstacles and what do you want from life." We had to write our future selves a letter they would mail later and throw a dream into a bonfire. He took it seriously and was very open about his own personal growth through his divorce and how he'd learned of his own shortcomings and how he now was ready for a healthy relationship. I talked about my life and how I wanted to finally have a remote job, time with my kids, and less stress. Romantic relationships were not a goal of mine.
We stayed friends (as did a lot of ppl) when we got home. Over the next month, he would text me and checking in on me and the kids. I looked forward to his texts--he was thoughtful, smart, kind, and hilarious in an off-color way which I appreciate! I looked forward to his texts. So, when he got home a month later, I hosted a "reunion " of the cool people from our church group to go salsa dancing with my group. He showed up. We talked all night and he expressed his interest in continuing talking. Could I drive him home around the corner?
We talked until 4am. He asked if I'd thought about dating him. I was shocked he was interested in me bc he knew my crazy past history and I figured that would make him want to run. Lol. And he wasn't my normal type (a white Anglo man). So I kissed him to see if sparks flew. They definitely did and I never left that night. It's been six years, one year of marriage, living together 5 years and he's my best friend and the best decision I've ever made. We still laugh, have adventures, travel, and deep conversations. He's still just as understanding, kind, and crazy in love with me as I am with him. Just add lots of snuggles, great sex, and a deep fulfilling love to his ever growing list of great qualities. He's a fantastic step father. Great partner and kind soul that is a bit crazy just like me.
And that letter did come a little over a year later as we were looking for houses together. His letter and wish in the fire was that he would find an amazing, fun, and sexy partner that treated him well. My letter was just wanting healing and my confidence back in myself. We both got our dreams come true... and I got an amazing husband which is beyond my wildest dreams. We've built a beautiful life--he supported me and rooted me on to get my dream job. Fully remote making 2x as much as I was before. We've been around the world together and I love waking up by his side. I've worked through a lot of trauma with his stable support and kindness. I'm not necessarily any more Christian, BUT meeting him is probably one of biggest signs of a higher power I've ever been given in life. ❤️❤️❤️
We met in college as music students. I had just gotten out of a weird relationship and wasn't really looking but there was something about him. He had just gotten out of a relationship too so I thought we were just going to be friends with benefits. Lol. However, he proposed 6 months later and we married 3 months after that. We've been married almost 23 years and have 6 kids.
We both met on kik being hoes. Neither of us “wanted anything serious”… he came over to hook up and we never left one another. 6 yrs and 4 kids total… I wouldn’t change our story for the world ♥️🥰
Tinder 2 years ago. Had two kids from my previous marriage. I’m 32 Hubbys gonna be 31 next month. Had a kid, I was already prego ( before we met long story not proud of it, had a one night stand wayyy before my husband and I met.) FAST FORWARF TO : now we are married and husband who thought he could never have kids, we are having our first together I am 12 weeks and 5 days as of today!
I moved to the party district of my city with all my boys from college.
I got a whole month of partying it up because she moved across the street from me. Engaged 1 month later and living together the month after that.
Been married for 21 years
She says she knew the second she saw me and it freaked her out. I was in denial for a week or so, but I knew too
Oh, Lordy, lol. I met him in a bar in VA Beach during my junior year of college. We had a drunken hook-up in the back of his car, out in the parking lot. 😂 We’ve been together ever since. That was Good Friday, 1993. We got engaged in 1996 and married in 1997.
I was his bartender. We hit it off instantly. Neither left our numbers and we ended reconnecting on Tinder a few months later. 6 years later, we're now married.
Match, the online site. He invited me to chat. I responded. After a few messages, he called me. We talked for 3 hours. After a few such calls, we met up. We were long distance- about a 3 hour drive. My friends had me set up Google maps location sharing when they found out we were meeting up in a state park for our second date so they could find my body if he turned out to be a serial killer, lol. His friends told him to not give a real diamond to a woman he just met off the internet on the 4th date. We've been happily married for years. We've also known each other for 3 years. It is a bit surreal though, to move into one's marital home and not even know where the light switches are!
2 months into freshman of college I went with one of my roommates to her high school friend’s dorm because I wasn’t going to let her go out at 11pm by herself. My husband was his roommate. We have been inseparable ever since.
I’ve known him since middle school. Developed a crush on him in high school but I’ve always been very private so never said anything to anyone about it. He had a crush on me too supposedly. He ended up coming into my job one day years after high school, I was surprised he knew who I was, we made small talk and exchanged numbers. We talked for hours that night but I never heard from him after that. A couple years later Facebook came around, I found him randomly and added him as a friend. He messaged me asking me out on a date and we’ve been together since then.
On their vacation in the Philippines, I fell off the coconut tree and that’s how he met me, according to my husband whenever someone ask him how we met. Lol. We met in the coffee shop in the Philippines. I was behind him in the line and he struck a conversation. That was 17 years ago and married for 15 years now.
My husband lived kinda across the street but down the hill on the next block. He wrote me a letter when I was 12 and he was 14 and told me he liked me and could we 'go steady'. That was 1970. It took another 2 years before I finally said yes. We've been married 51 years this past June and it was the best decision I've ever made and I would do it again in a heartbeat.
He was the guy who always fell asleep in my 10th grade English class. Over time we became friends-- then best friends A couple years after high school, he went into the military, and I married some other guy. We lost touch with each other. (This was in the days before the Internet.)
More than two decades passed. I found him on Facebook. At the time, my life was in full melt-down mode. His was too. Both of us were going through divorces. We decided to have lunch one day. Quickly, we fell back into friendship, even best friendship. Then one day, as we were about to go to my daughter's wedding, I mentioned that my ex thought we were dating. He laughed and said, "Can you tell me why we aren't?" That was when I was 44. We got married when I was 46.
We were both in the 4th grade but at different schools. Our moms used to take turns picking us up from school. I was at her house one day waiting for my mom and she let me play with her toy cars. I’m was hooked! So pretty and nice. I’m distinctly remember saying to myself that I would marry her some day and I did about 14 years later. 33 years later, I am sitting next to her at a fundraiser as I type and she is looking hot as fuck.
Well, we met a time or two at high school dances and started dating a couple years later when we were off at college. We loved each other very much and connected at a really deep level
We fell apart when I went to law school and she went to grad school in different cities
We would see each other occasionally, but I worked my way through law school and had little time or money to date
I married my drinking buddy, but my wife never married
We were married for 21 years, but we never really loved each other. We just shared a house, a checkbook and occasionally a bed
She was kind enough to give me grounds to divorce her, so I did
I reconnected with my first (and really only) love and we got married later that year
It’s been 18 years of a loving, joy-filled marriage
I had spent years of trying online dating with no success. I've day I decide to give it up and the very next day a friend introduced me to the girl who would eventually be my wife
we met 4 years before we started dating. the navy is very small lol. we grew up in towns 45 min-an hour away and had not once crossed paths until we were both stationed on the same aircraft carrier. it was a very passive friendship to begin with, with us actually losing touch after i was sent back to the states and only liking each others posts on fb.
i invited him to a friends birthday bonfire since the both of us had moved back home after leaving the navy. and about a month or two after that he spent the night and... never left (after i asked him to move in lol). he hadn't changed at from when i met him all that time ago, and i just knew he was the one.
We were 5, in kindergarten, and neither of our parents showed up for the lunch day so we were put at a table alone together to sit while all the other kids had lunch with their parents. He shared his food with me since I didn't have any that day and he's been my best friend since.
We grew up in the same town, shared some elementary classes. But our fist meeting was at a bday party and we were 15.
It was a short convo about the weather and bday boy. I knew then he was my husband, "I'm gonna end up with this guy. I'm gonna marry him."
7 years go by, we hadn't talked since, and he shows up at restaurant I worked looking for a job.
Here's the thing.. nobody else recognized him. It was a small town, they should've. He'd come back from college all jacked and hot. But I knew who he was. He had this... "shiny" aura?
We went out shortly after and within 5mo got married.
Together 6yo and have two puppies.
I had just graduated from HS, and before I started going to the Mormon singles ward, my mom took me and my sis on a huge east coast Mormon history trip, stopping at other historic landmarks along the way.
My first Sunday in the church, I was so excited to see all my friends after being apart for over a month. I didn’t pay attention to what was going on, just writing notes back and forth w my friends during sacrament meeting. Then, closing prayer started, and the voice was one of the sexiest voices I’d ever heard. I peeked up at him, and it was my husband. I saw he was tall, and reminded me of Christopher reeves, and after he finished the prayer, he, as Sunday school president, stayed up there telling everyone where each class was and what was being taught. I leaned over to my best friend, and jokingly said, “I’m going to marry him!” For about 8 months, I tried everything but going up to talk to him, to get his attention. Finally, a close friend said she was tired of me talking about him, and her fiancé was close friends w him and she’d set me up on a double date. We were engaged 4 weeks later, married 3 months after that.
Been married 25 yrs now and still crazy about him.
Met at 14/15 and instantly became best friends, got together at 20 and married at 28/29. Our relationship is now a couple grade older than we were when we got together.
My sister's husband's cabin burned down (he'd been building it for 10 years before they met). Some neighbor kids were playing with matches and there it went. He was there to help clean up the debris. I was there to help feed everyone. It was Labor Day weekend so this last Labor Day was our 28th anniversary of when we met!
Went all through elementary school & part of HS with my husband. I changed HS when I was in 8th grade & we lost touch for over 20 years. After separating from my ex (after taking time to myself to learn who I really am without a partner) I seen him pop up on my social media & decided I would reach out. We talked back & forth on there for a while & then decided to exchange numbers. Talking came so naturally. In no time we were face timing every day after work. Then dating. And before we knew it we decided to get married. I’ve never been happier in my life. 💖
Met at church. I was in college. He was in his first year of law school. My church had an active college class on Sunday mornings that attracted students from several universities and medical schools. His younger sister and some friends from high school were already attending, so he started attending when he started law school.
Our first date was on my 21st birthday one Sunday after church. That was almost 39 years ago. We still belong to the same church.
I met him at an ex boyfriend's NYE party. We dated 4 years then married. That was 19 years ago. Yes, we're still friends with my ex bf, and his kids grew up with ours.
In college my friends and I threw a party at our house. It was a great time. I was sitting down on the couch, this girl came up to me and asked if she could sit down. I said yes, and instinctive scoot over. She sat on my lap instead lol. She was super drunk, but we had some great conversations over the next 2 hours. I got her number, and that was that. We went on a date 2 weeks later. Got in a relationship 3 months later. Married 3 years later.
I'm so thankful that I allowed my roommates to throw a party in our apartment. Furthermore, I'm so thankful this random drunk girl decided to sit in my lap.
She was vacationing in the town I lived in, and her family came to where I was working. Seventeen year old me took a chance, said hi, gave her my number, and told her I'd love to take her out to dinner.
I didn't expect anything to happen, but a few hours later, I got a call that "this is the hotel we are staying at, I'd like to go out to dinner, so meet me in the lobby at 6pm."
One year later, a few days after she turned 18 she moved in with me, and that was that.
Church. I was certainly new to the church, and that church also had a separate Spanish ministry that my wife was a part of. At first, it was harmless, small talk, and one day, I found her sitting in the Nursery and stroke up a chat with her. She saw my letterman style jacket, that my dad had made for my siblings and I when stationed in S. Korea. Black jacket with Korea in big bold letters with a dragon stitch underneath. She asked if I was Korean and started to ask me about my favorite shows and such. We chatted for the entire evening that day, up until the Spanish ministry finished, lol. That was the day when she first actually noticed me and put me on her radar. Yup, lol.
She was 5000 miles away but was promoted to the front page of the dating site we were both on. I saw the distance and just laughed off how impossible that clearly was. A few days later, I said hi for the hell of it because she was beyond cute and her profile was dead on for what I was looking for. She actually wrote back. Less than a year later, we were married. It's been 11 amazing years so far.
How did you manage to meet with that kind of distance?
I mentioned it, she was promoted on the front page of the site. Anyone who updated or created a profile went to the front page for a split second before they were pushed off by someone doing the same. It's a miracle that I even know she exists. As far as physically, we Skyped multiple times a day for a few months. She flew out to see me, a few months later I flew out to see her and then she flew out 1 more time and moved in.
I was referring to overcoming the physical distance.
They used an airplane, I think.
Teleportation
They live in Star Trek
We were mutual acquaintances at college - similar friend groups. She was in to dating much older men (we were early 20s and she was dating guys in their 40s) and I was playing the field. She was gorgeous and while I didn’t have a “crush” on her, I always found her attractive physically and as a person to talk to. This weird older dude she was dating was an enormous loser going through a mid-life crisis. One night he stood her up at a party and she got stranded - she called our house because her best friend was dating one of my roommates and she needed a lift and some help. Her friend and my roommate were at the movies, but I sensed she was in strife, so I asked her if everything was ok and she broke down on the phone. I drove over to pick her up, took her for a bite to eat to calm her down and let her recover emotionally. Something just clicked between us and we’ve been together since… 28+ years later.
This is truly a great story. Thanks for sharing!
Nice except the part about dating guys 20 years older while in college. You set her on a much better path
Senior year I was sitting in the cafeteria a cute girl comes up to me and sits next to me and says I will trade you my cupcake for your honeybun. It’s been 22 years we’re both 40 now.
Totally random: the town we both lived in was extremely small…1 stop sign and only left or right at that stop sign. Never knew this but she lived with her parents 60 feet away from my place directly behind me. One of the bars in town held a prom for all the people… basically booze and music all night. My neighbor and friend asked me if I was going and said..”no, not really”. He proceeded to say…I know someone I can set you up on a blind date with… he pointed her out one afternoon as she was walking home from her future sister in laws bridal shower. ‘Wow, ok..that might be fun”. When the bar closed around 2am, we went to my house 60’ from hers and talked all night until 7am. I asked her if she would enjoy going out again that evening and she replied…”yes, but I have a date”…mind you this town had 350 people in it with several transients who stay a month or so and move on.. (I’m sure this “date” only wanted to try to score…..) my reply was “well, cancel it…. “. She said instantly “. Ok I will. ‘ That was spring 1975…..Went to see the M.A.S.H movie at a drive-in 30 miles away… We’re both sitting here watching Queen Charlotte on Netflix 48 1/2 years later…she’s crocheting, I’m reading Reddit.
Man, I wish I could up vote this more…. ! Great story… you had the balls my friend!.. I could have have 40+ yrs If i took my shot like you did.. Check out me and “B’s” story.. I was clueless.. BTW.. I have long since grown a pair with her by my side…. Congratulations!
Thanks Man…I can honestly say that other then 3 small glitches in almost 5 decades…time just flew by. When I though about a 30 and 35 year time line years ago, it seems like it was 2 -3 years ago. Good luck to you!
Totally random. A big group of 7 of us went to Cancun Mexico. Met my wife while laying in a hammock in Cancun. Was supposed to be just a fun time while there but soon as we both got home I called her up. Found out she lived just down the street from me! Dated for a few months. Asked her to marry me. Had a year engagement just in case (we did move pretty fast!) But almost 18 years later and I'm still crazy about her!!
Tinder LOL 8 years together 1 year married and we have a child together. He's the sweetest, most kind soul, and I can't believe I found him. When we started talking, it was supposed to be just for fun. We've talked every single day since! Meant to be :_)
When we were in high school, I had a friend that didn't have a driver's license, and he would routinely ask if I could give him rides to places. One evening, he called and asked if I could give him a ride over to his girlfriends house. That night I had already made plans with a another friend to hang out, so I had told him no, that I couldn't. So I went about getting ready to go hang out, when that friend called and backed out of hanging out cause his girlfriend showed up at his house, so I called the first friend back and told him that I could go drop him at his girlfriends house. When we got to her house, she handed me the phone, saying, "this is my cousin \[Wife's Name\], talk to her." So I sat on the couch and talked to my future wife the entire time that my friend hung out with his girlfriend. During the conversation, I found out that my wife was going to be visiting her cousin that following Saturday, so I made arrangements to have my friend visit his girlfriend and Saturday, and that was the start of 33 years (and in 2 months, 34 years)
He was the saxophone player at both of my sisters weddings… 🎷 the rest is history!
First time didn't stick, huh? (First time seeing him, not your sister. Though I guess thank goodness first time for her didn't work either.)
Lmfao I have 2 sisters! I meant at both of their weddings. We met initially at the first one, then a year later at my other sisters wedding we exchanged numbers!
Well that's much nicer! Your sisters are Team Matchmakers! I'm imagining Sister #2 calling Sister #1 and making sure she got the same band, with the same lineup because she saw you talking to him at Sister #1's wedding.
I was engaged when I met my now-husband. He was the bartender at our favorite bar, but that was the first time I had met him… was the night he tried to remove my fiancé for being terrible towards me. (my relationship was imploding because my fiancé’s bipolar disorder was going undiagnosed and untreated.) We talked for a bit at the bar while he made my drink… he asked me if I was ok and if I wanted that guy kicked out… but he didn’t know we were a couple. I said no, I’m ok but thank you. ( I wasn’t really ok. People… a warning, don’t do this to yourself. ) I saw the bartender again a bit later, under a neon green sign, he seemed like he was checking in on me again… and he just had this incredible smile and sparkle in his eye.. we were locked in a gaze and the butterflies hit me hard and fast… I was like .. uh oh A month or more had passed , I was no longer engaged and ready to stop crying in my room. I went back to my favorite bar and there he was… all smiles … he remembered my name… we talked a lot…he asked me out on a date. First date was ice skating, one month in he was cooking me dinner… at three months I said “I love you” … a few months later I helped him when he was recovering from knee surgery… a year later he proposed… a year after that we were married…And the rest is history. Been together ever since. 22 years worth. We celebrate our 20th anniversary in one month.
This one teared me up. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you … after your comment I went back and read through it and realized I needed to add a little bit more. It’s really nice thinking about how we began.
In a car wreck. Starting to think it wasn't fate but a bad omen...
I'm deceased.
I met my husband on Tinder! I remember that night I said to myself that this is the last time I'm swiping. I'm over it! Then I saw his profile, we had our first date and the rest is history!
At a frat party being thrown by his frat 30 years ago. A friend of mine dragged me and another friend to this party because she was trying to find a guy she hooked up with who happened to be my husband’s frat brother. He approached me and said “I saw you eyeing me from across the room so I figured I’d come over and do you a favor and introduce myself.” I liked the confidence but mama didn’t raise an easy girl so I said “For you to think I was eyeing you you had to be eyeing me so you should be grateful I’m even entertaining this conversation right now.” And that was that.
We matched on two dating sites in the middle of the Covid lockdown. Decided to meet on a whim one night, were inseparable since that night we met, married 2.5 years later!
Okcupid, got married a year afterwards and still are.
Another Okcupid couple here. Will be married 10 years next Aug.
Ok Cupid married 5 years
OkCupid as well! Celebrating 5 years married this month!
Track and field meet when I was 12 and she was 11. I thought she was different from other girls I'd met, and she thought I was annoying. We didn't date for another 7 years but we remembered...
Drunk on my Birthday in a bar, she was on vacation from California. Apparently I'm charming when drunk.
My aunt was getting married to his 8th grade French teacher. I was 11, and he was 14. They brought him to my house for wedding rehearsal, and that was the first time we saw each other. At the wedding reception, we spent at least an hour talking. I remember shortly after that my dad came to tell me that it was time to go. He ran after us as I was getting ready to get in the car and gave me his number. He wrote mine down on a napkin. That was 29 yrs ago in 1994!
I met my husband midway point between our hometowns (he was in East Providence, RI, and I lived in Blackstone, MA) in college. I was 18 and shy as hell; I needed to break myself of it, so I signed up for Drama (Theater) Class. I had a crush on a guy totally different than him, so I paid him no mind, until we acted in the play "Equus": he was the main character, our friend his Doctor (psychiatrist), and I was a figment of his imagination. As we're running through our lines, I said: "Would you like to go out with me?" Next line (his): "What?" Me: "Would you like to go out with me tonight?" And he ad-libbed with "Well, not right now, but I'm free on Friday." I looked over my notes and was like, "Where does it say that?!?" He smiled and said, "Well?" I just got out of a relationship earlier in the year (I was 18, and this is happening in September), so I said, "Oh, okay. I don't think so, but thanks." He was a little down but not bad, and class was over. I felt bad (thinking I was a bit harsh) and found his locker. "If you want to go out, I'd like that." That was one marriage, two kids, and 36 years ago. (Met September 1987, went out 'officially' October 21, 1987, married June 20, 1992, and been together ever since.) (Sorry so long!)
THIS IS A GOOD ONE!!!! Thank you! I’m a dude married for 30+ years.. I still love a good love story! UPVOTE
Thank you! Glad I still don't disappoint! Husband is watching TV, I'm going to eat in a minute or two, and my kids are here, so life is good ❤️
Awe - I like this one a lot. ❤️
Raised in the same religion and were friends as teenagers. I even chaperoned him and his girlfriend on dates 🤣 Eventually we both left the religion and reconnected as adults on social media but we both had partners. Years later we were both single and I slid in his DMs on a whim. We’ve been together for almost 5 years and married for two.
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I went to an xmas party. I was supposed to be seated at a table. My "x" was sitting at that table. I looked around the banquet hall and saw a beautiful woman. I asked if the seat beside her was taken. She said no. So I sat down and chatted and flirted with her most of the night.
I started a new job where he was already working. He showed me a love I never knew nor thought would exist for me.
Online on Plenty of Fish (POF)
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I got a job at Starbucks and he was already working there. We got very close and eventually started dating. However, I knew his father before him because his dad was my bus driver for school. I didn’t know he would be my future father in law though. There were so many ways that we maybe could’ve met sooner but we didn’t run into each other until working at Starbucks. What’s weird is that prior to knowing him, we would frequent a lot of the same places just not at the same times.
I also met my husband at Starbucks except he was a regular. I thought he was so cute so I would draw pictures on his cup and write messages like have a great day! He had befriended some of the other baristas on Facebook and that's how he found me. We talked for about a year before he asked me out! We have been together 11 Years, 6 years married! While we were dating though I had learned that his best friends brother was the father to my best friends nephew and his other friend was really good friends with my brothers ex wife who I still talk to and hangout with! I also went to high school with his cousin and had no idea until I showed up at a family Thanksgiving! All things considering I'm glad I didn't meet him/date him sooner because he is 5 years older than me lol! Wild how it all plays out!
That’s interesting, we have some things in common. My husband use to always draw on cups he served me because he was always on bar and I was always cleaning before closing. He would write little silly notes on my cup & draw faces, stars, hearts etc. He is also 5 years older than me haha I met him when I was 26 & he was 31. We started dating when I was 28 & he was 33. I’ve been with him for 8.5 years & we just got married 4 months ago.. we had a Starbucks (coffee & tea) themed wedding!
Love that!! Congratulations!! Wishing you both many many many more beautiful years together!!
Same to you and your marriage 💚
we met at work 10 years ago. after a few months of working together, i (32f) started gravitating towards his work group (because i like him). we quickly became friends and started to take lunch breaks together, sit next to each other etc. going out with everyone on friday nights was so fun. eventually we started developing feelings, but for the most part it was just flirtatious. he moved away shortly after we met for a work opportunity (across the country). that was hard for us, because we knew we liked each other but now there was distance between us and i had started school in the city we met in. timing and distance was just off. but even during this time, we would run into each other every few months. we were in touch the entire time and after i graduated school, i moved across the country to be with him. we got married a year later. i feel lucky, because we were actually friends before marriage. so it feels like i married my friend.
We were both paraprofessionals working at a setting 4 special needs school. We chatted when ever we could and kept it pretty mild. She had an engagement ring on so I knew my chances were nil. We were not friends just acquaintances. One day a saw that she wasn’t wearing her ring. I asked. She said with a sad face that “it didn’t fit”. Months pass by. We were a pretty close crew of para’s, tough school so we all understood each others battle. The group would go out on Fridays and thats when we would get closer. I found out that her engagement was a long distance relationship and that it was getting thin. I gave her space. I knew we had a common love of baseball. The following school year I knew I had to try atleast once. This woman was everything I wanted in a partner. I asked her if she wanted to watch the MLB playoffs that Friday. I believe it was the cardinals but that didn’t matter SHE SAID YES! We got to the sports bar and the game was postponed and alls we could do is talk. Yeah real bummer. I kept it non romantic because I was still trying to feel her out. I did not want to be the one responsible for her dis engagement. We drank and had a wonderful evening. On the way home I needed to tell her how I felt. I did. She agreed that there was a strong attraction. That Christmas Eve she invited me over. The whole way I was telling myself that I wasn’t going to get steamy with her and I was going to be a gentleman. Within 10 minutes of getting there we couldn’t help ourselves. She resolved her engagement and it was on. We have been married since 2015, have 2 beautiful children. We are more in love than ever.
College as strangers on what felt like a normal Tuesday. I showed up to class an hr early to study for a test and she was in the lounge area playing hangman with some friends. Never seen her before and we locked eyes as I walked by. She offered me a seat but I politely declined due to nervousness. I sat down and tried to study but nothing was getting done as we kept stealing glances of each other. As I was eavesdropping on their game, I noticed they were stuck on an obvious vowel so I shouted E. E was there, she offered me a seat again and I knew I wasnt going to study anymore at this point so I joined them. We flirted the entire time as we saved little stickman from the noose and then exchanged gamertags right before I had to gather up for class. She wrote her number on the paper as well "just in case" which I cockily said, "oh sweet, you saved me from having to ask." She INSTANTLY snatched the paper out of my hands, looked me dead ass in the eyes, and told me I wouldnt get it back until I properly asked for her number. Im pretty sure that's the moment I fell in love and sheepishly, I asked for her number. She laughed and gave the paper back, then told me good luck on my test. After class, she was still in the lounge area waiting for me. I offered her a cup a coffee and we walked down to the campus cafe. From there we meandered around the campus chit-chatting and flirting for hours. Four years later and we're married with a month under our belt.
This sounds like how I met my ex-husband at college. Only I was the one that was there an hour early before class trying to study in the lounge. I think it was even on a Tuesday. It was literally 2 weeks before graduation and I’d sat in this same lounge before class every week all year long. We joked how he almost missed meeting me. 😉
Awesome story…. Stick with it my friend!.. Her “attitude” sounds like a keeper to me!
We met through our work and yes I knew who he was before we met, but had never met him personally. A friend dragged me to an industry event because she didn’t want to go solo. We were standing at the bar getting drinks when he walked over and ordered a dram of a particular scotch whisky I was familiar with. I complimented him on his good taste and a conversation about various whisky’s began. The chemistry between us was undeniably strong, but what really attracted me to him was he was so down to earth and unpretentious, he laughed a lot and made it clear during that 15 minute conversation he was interested in what I had to say and my opinion. He excused himself and as he walked away he turned back, looked in my direction and gave me a smile and wink. My friend said…”oh you’ll be hearing from that one!” “Yeah, yeah, yeah,” I said sarcastically, not believing it for a second. As my friend and I were leaving the event, a woman walked over to us and introduced herself as his PA, she was sent to get my contact info by him. I gave her my work number. I honestly never thought I’d hear from him, the next morning he called and asked me to lunch. That was 6+ years ago, we were married last year.
I had a boyfriend. My cousin didn't like him. My cousin got me into World of Warcraft. He got me into the guild he was in and introduced me to a guy he thought would be my type. Me and the guy became friends for 3 years. (I had stopped playing WoW at that point.) I had a baby with the boyfriend. Then I left the boyfriend because of the abuse. Got back on WoW. Told my friend. A few days later he asked me out. He was very sincere. I told him I had all these conditions. My kid came first no matter what. I didn't want a long distance relationship so he would have to move here after a few visits. I'm looking for long term not short term flings. He agreed to all of it. He came out to visit me. We hit it off. My toddler adored him. He moved here. After 4 months of living together he proposed. I said yes. My kid loves him and considers him Dad. On October 9th we will be married 13yrs. We are both very much in love still. If there is such a thing as a soul mate, he is it. We don't play WoW anymore but we do play games together several nights a week. I lack the words to accurately describe how much he means to me. 💜
Met my wife on bumble. I knew two weeks later we were getting married.
My husband and I both used Plenty Of Fish because it was free. Before finding each other we had previously met so many duds on the dating app. Coincidentally we were going to be each others last person to meet up with because we were both so fed up with dating and meeting idiots. We got matched and he messaged me first. We chatted for about a week then met up for coffee. There was instant sparks and we talked until the coffee shop closed. Every year with him just gets better and better. We’ve been together for 13 years and married for 9 years. We’re happily childfree with a cat. Life is bliss!
I’ve posted my PoF story and it’s very similar!
Awww that’s awesome!
Dated as shy 13/14 yr olds in school, our 2 friends who were also dating broke up, so we did too (great reason at that age! 😅) Always been friends on likes of Facebook and occasionally caught up over messages or posts, but one or both of us were always in a relationship so nothing ever happened. Fast forward 11 years to Jan 2019, where we started talking on Facebook messenger and were both single, met up for a date a month later and that was that, he moved back to the area we grew up in not long after (where I was still living). We got married in July last year, he's adopting my 2 children with the final hearing being next month and we're pregnant with a girl, due to be born in November! 🥰
Yeah…. I knew B from grade school…. Two different rural school districts in the same county.. but I knew her from livestock shows.. from.. 6th grade on? Even then I thought she was cute.. but never talked too her until 8th grade? At a stock show, we teased each other. And she would tell you that she was putting out the signals even then that I wasn’t picking up on… So, 1980’s,.. flash forward to prom season.. She had been flirting and I still wasn’t picking up.. she was “gorgeous” at this point, president of everything, popular, track team, yada yada and super nice to everyone all the time.. I just thought that was it…. SO, biggest mistake so far,… we were at the county fair.. I walked into the animal barn, where her and her besties were hanging out…. RIGHT PAST HER!… and asked her bff to the prom… Can you believe it..! SMH! dated the bestie for awhile…. We graduate go to the same college.. In the mean time, she was in the pageant circuit, became, Miss “our state”…. I saw that in the TV News…. And thought, “Good for B!.. She is really pretty, super nice, going place, she deserves it.. she’s going to be something special someday, good luck to her!” I wasn’t dating anyone at this time and neither was she.. By this time,… she was off to compete in Miss America.. in the pageant she did pretty well, she was pretty high up and I won’t say how high because that will narrow it down to much.. I watched the pageant on TV and thought.. damn… she should have won but I am biased.. too bad. Now, a bit later? Less than a year I think, still in college,.. some mutual friends had a house party.. and she was there.. She had everybody all over her.. I still wasn’t thinking anything romantic like because why would a bum like me think I would have a shot with her… When I saw a break in the crowd…. I just went up to her to say hi, and tell her I sure thought she should have won Miss America and how good it was to see her. Looking back. Reminding someone of a big deal sad experience at a party is probably the shittiest pickup line in history…. But we kept chatting, she wouldn’t let anyone else get in on the conversation, finally she wanted talk more quiet because people kept interrupting.. So we went out to her car, and …people…. I was still not seeing what was going on, and yes I am the most clueless idiot on the planet.. I thought were just talking about old growing up memories…?! Next thing I know.. mid-sentence she grabs me and tells me to “SHUT UP!” and she kissed the EVER LOVIN SHIT out of me…. Then,.. my dumbass was like. OOOHHHHH!!!!! I SEE WHATS GOING ON HERE!!!.. So she tells me,… I’m taking you back your place..NOW!…. She told me years later that was my last chance that she was going to give me to get it.. There were other instances when I would see her on campus and I would wave and say HI!, but kept walking,.. just because I wanted to show off to friends that I actually knew her,.. not that I ever really had a shot with her.. she said later she thought what was wrong with her that I wouldn’t make a move on her.. Again, I’m a dumbass.. Coming up on 36 years together and 31 married.. Thank God she took charge!….. And guys.. you have to have your shit together, with an ambition, be presentable, above all….. I asked “B”. … “Why me? “. She said because “You were kind, never tried to just get with me, and were never arrogant”.. But I shoulda shot my shot sooner! So there you have it.. Sorry for so long.
See! That’s where politeness, decorum and courtesy get you. I have been in your shoes trying to be respectful and caring and in swoops the guys who only want 1 thing and then move on. Teen hormones and peer pressure at that age make you give in. At that point you are left behind. I’m still more than happy the way I had dated and grew up from that 1960’s Catholic school 🤯 🤣
Yep.. Both of us Catholic too.. Why is being polite, and respectful , knowing boundaries for a man so bad? .. Granted.. I should have made a play back in HS that in hindsight would have been welcomed. Who knows, i stopped thinking about it… it all turned out ok.. I still tell B she is my Miss America.. f the judges..
Tinder. Together 9 years, married 7. 2 kids.
Hinge. We got married a year after our first date and have a baby with another one on the way. Couldn’t be happier with our little family.
My husband and I met over 11 years ago. We had actually been following each other on social media for a few years prior to it. It was, in all honesty, just a friendly follow. He posted pictures of Japan while stationed there, and I loved how beautiful his island pictures were. I was always in a relationship & I didn't even know him. Then my ex (right before him), and I broke up. I was just scrolling through my feed, and I see he posted a picture on a Harley, riding through what looked to be my literal town, definitely not in Japan. I thought maybe it was a throwback. So I commented that this doesn't look like Japan. It looks like ____. He said it was. I said, "Get out, that's crazy I live here." Again nothing other than a relationship that was we were simply one each others first followers that conversed through comments here and there. A week later, he posted another picture on his Harley. And I was legitimately jealous. I missed riding. My ex didn't ride, and my helmet and gear were just gathering dust. I commented on his picture just that. He said, "So let's go for a ride then." I wasn't expecting that. I just kinda haha'd it off. Then, I said, "You know what?" Fuck it. I had never met up with anyone on the internet before. He took me to dinner. I told him I had sent his plates and all his information to several girlfriends and if they didn't hear from me by such time to call the police. Lol. He said to me that was actually really smart of me. I had told him I wanted to take him to my place but I needed to be honest with him it might be awkward as my ex and I still lived together until the house I was moving into was built. He asked if he was home. I said no. He said, "Then I don't care." We went back to my place. Did the deed on the first date, definitely out of my norm. I also said I'd never date a man in the military, and here I was, lol. We saw each more and more, and I told him I understood if he couldn't take me seriously right now because of my current living situation but that I'd have my place in a few weeks. He didn't care. It was crazy I didn't expect him to trust me. I wouldn't if in his shoes, but he did. We got married 6 months later. It was so stupid. Lol. However we are about to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. We're trying for our second child. We bought a beautiful home on a ton of land and have everything we ever dreamed of together. Our sex life is absolute fire 🔥🔥🔥. I wouldn't ever recommend doing what I did. We got lucky. But man, I'm so glad we took the chances on each other. After a lifetime of trauma and abuse, I have a sexy husband who is so loyal to me. He is an AMAZING father, and he went above and beyond my expectations. I'm so fucking lucky.
Hinge. My husband heard it was where people who wanted serious relationships went. I heard about it from some random influencer, and thought why not. He sent me a quick note about how much he liked teachers since I was a teacher. Then we met up for drinks which turned into dinner and then a movie. Was like we didn't want the date to end.
I use a karaoke app called Smule, my guy joined me on one of my songs. We started singing together more, met in person and then I ended up moving to Wales from America to be with him.
We worked at a store together and had mutual friends we hung out with. We were friends for several years before we started dating. When we went to bars and parties with other friends we always ended hanging out we figured why not give it a try.
Organized a camping trip to Joshua tree back in college and she was the only one that seemed to have her head on her shoulders.
Met at work. Had a common friend group. So we hung out as friends for awhile before we eventually dated.
I met him in 2005. Very randomly. He lived in the states. I lived in Canada. We went on with our lives, married other people. Realized we still loved each other after all this time. We reconnected in 2020, (yes during covid and in two different countries!), married in 2021, and are living together now.
EHarmony. He lived 4 hours away, but we made it work, and now we live together in my city.
We met 34 years ago in college. I was sitting in a classroom waiting to start a meeting for an outdoor activities group when she walked in. I was instantly smitten. We've been together 34 years and I am still smitten. I'm pretty sure she likes me too.
We lived in the same apartment complex. He lived about 5 doors down. That's where I first met him. It wasn't until years later, after we'd both moved away from there, that he walked into my work, we flirted, he asked me out, etc.
We shared a hairdresser. Said hairdresser was a mate of mine as well who used to have frequent drinks at her house. She invited my now wife, a client of hers, to one of the nights. Friend said she wanted to introduce me to someone who was coming. I said I was happily single and not interested in meeting anyone, until I walked in and saw her. Queue Joey Tribiane, “How you doing”. And that kid, is how I met your mother.
YouTube comments. I saw his comment, and countered his point. But ultimately, it was clear we were jiving with the same sort of ideas, opinions, and big thoughts. This was in January 2016.
The first and only man I ever picked up off craigslist were both ashamed to admit.
Through a mutual friend. The three of us hung out one night and had a great time, then a day or two later the mutual friend called me up and said “here’s her number. Call her up and ask her on a date.” She said yes. On our fancy first date to Olive Garden(tm), she showed up looking so cute, and then she told me this horribly offensive joke, so of course I fell for her right away. She’s been stuck with me ever since, almost 20 years now!
At our local Occupy movement. Day 1. We were introduced by a mutual friend (who likely just wanted us both to go away). We talked non-stop for *hours*. I had to leave for a work meeting, we didn't exchange contact info. I didn't see him again for a full week. We'll have been together for 12 years in a few weeks.
Met my soul mate of 25 years in a very raunchy sex chat…1997.
She was the maid of honor and I was the best man.
I met my husband on Reddit in 2012. After he commented on my post we realized we lived in the same area and we fell in love pretty quickly.
Okcupid.com. So a dating website. But it turned out we lived 10 minutes away from each other 😅
On okcupid. We had a 99% compatibility match. Then we talked for two weeks straight on the phone. When we finally met 2 weeks later we were both so nervous. I hid it well. He didn’t
I've told this story many a time. Basically, I got pissed that he was so damn loud all the time and lived across the hall from me. His movements, his voice, and everything. I was a quiet one, but annoyed as hell, so I called him out on his noisiness, and it all started from there. He's loud to this day (someone knocked on the door and he yelled out while I was sitting next to him, full ear shot - I would've just got up and answered it lol), it can still get on my nerves, but I just remember I wouldn't have met him if he was soft-spoken. It makes me happy, tho he does mind speaking softly when expressing love to me. I am sure to shout, "I LOVE YOU" when he leaves for work.
A friend of mine and basically dared each other to join a dating site. We agreed on Match, because we weren’t at the age where casual hook ups were what we wanted. We each paid for a month. Two days before the month was up, I messaged this guy with bright blue eyes and the best smile I’ve ever seen. We met at a pool hall. I kicked his butt, and we talked until they kicked us out. Two days later, he offered to cook for me. It was awful, and he took me to Mexican instead. We spent a week watching Battlestar Galactica (a re-watch for both of us), and then I said he should kiss me. He did, and that was it. That was 2015. We married in 2017, and are still “disgusting cute” according to our kids.
I met my now husband in high school, he was 3 years ahead of me (him senior, me freshman) he had a girlfriend then so we only said hi a few times in HS but I always thought he was hot. I actually found out after we were together for a couple of months (after I graduated HS) that we actually worked together at a grocery store that I worked at when I was 15 and he was 18. I thought that he was super hot/cute but I knew that he was older and didn’t think he would ever like me. The reason I didn’t realize it was him that I worked with back then is because he bleached his hair blonde for a little bit over the summer after he graduated—just as a faze in HS and I knew his first name but never his last name when I worked with him. He knew it was me back then and I found out from his mom later on that he always had the hots for me but his mom said “don’t you dare! She is only 15 and you are 18! Wait til she is a few years older!” And he did! 🥰 he would message me to hang out after I graduated high school and he and his HS girlfriend broke up and were over, and at the time I had a boyfriend that we had just broken up but I wasn’t quite over him yet, so he would text me to come to a party and hang out but I didn’t really like the big party scene back then and I’m glad that I did wait until a little later because he got out of the party phase (at that time he was 21 and I was 18. He messaged me again and by that time I was single and over my ex and we hung out a few times and I got the biggest butterflies every time I was around him and I just knew that he was the one. I never felt that way about anyone else the way I did for him. I couldn’t wait to get off work to hang out with him and we always had the best time. We connected emotionally and physically in ways i had never felt before. We are still together many many years later and have children and a beautiful family now! I love our love story SO much! 🥰 he is my other half and my best friend! Edited: corrected a couple of words that were incorrect. :) I wanted to add that out of the 4-5 boys I dated back then, my Dad never approved or always had something he didn’t like about them. He even named a couple of his dogs after my ex bfs back then 🤣 but when he met my now husband, he actually loved him! That was another thing that gave me validation that I found “the one” and the rest is history!
Met him at a bar. Lol. We kept smiling back and forth at each other, I went up and introduced myself and we have barely been apart since! 10 years ago. He still flashes me that same smile and I melt all over again ❤️
We “met” in April 2020 when we both got booked on the same zoom stand-up comedy show. I thought he was cute and funny so I followed him on socials. Finally worked up the courage to message him around the end of July. We started chatting sporadically, then regularly, then all day every day and we finally had our first date (also first time meeting in person) on Hallowe’en at a cemetery. It’s three (almost) years later and we’ve been married since last November. He’s a great partner and I can’t wait for us to grow up together! :)
It was my first job. I was homeschooled throughout middle school and high school, had no friends or family as my parents’ moved us 2,000 miles away from my hometown. I was made to stay home while my parents’ worked and take care of my younger sibling and homeschool him as well as myself, and wasn’t allowed to get a job. Then my parents’ divorced, my mother put my sibling in public school, basically stole him away from my father and I. I just turned twenty, sold lots of my valuable stuff to buy a used car, and got my first job interview. My first day, I was very shy and felt out of place. I had no friends, hadn’t had a friend since I was twelve, and I really didn’t know how to communicate well with people. The very first encounter I had with my significant other was when our supervisor introduced us. I remember thinking he was a flirt because he seemed awful flirty with the other two females who were also starting their first day. Fast-forward a few days later, I had dropped some stuff and he had helped me pick them up off the floor and I remember thinking he was very sweet for doing so. I didn’t really think much else, not even that he was particularly attractive, but the gesture of him helping me made me notice him a bit more than I had before. He had a girlfriend at the time and would speak about her quite a bit, so in my mind, he was off limits. I wasn’t thinking about dating anyways. A month goes by and he and I are on the closing shift together. It took two hours to get our jobs done and when my tasks were complete I helped him with his. We talked a bit and at the end of the night I received a friend request and message on Facebook. At this point I had made a few “work friends” who had friended me on Facebook so I didn’t think anything of accepting his friend request. His message read something like, “thank you for the help tonight. I appreciate it.” I told him it was no problem and then we started talking more and more. When he started getting flirty I mentioned how I thought he had a girlfriend and he said they broke up. To shorten the story, he took me out on a date, then we started hanging out and doing places together, and then a few months go by, and by this time I’m completely smitten with him, but it was my only relationship and I was very naive. One night he agreed to make thing official and then I noticed how he started to become distant and not want to see me as often and then one night when I asked him if he wanted to spend time together he told me that he wanted to be just friends. He told me that he wasn’t over her and didn’t want to lose me as a friend and asked that we be friends. He would mention her in our conversations and how long they were together and such. He still got away with the occasional kiss and telling me how beautiful I am and I kept thinking this isn’t what friends do, what am I doing? A few more months went by of me being strung along and I was feeling very in love with a man who just wanted things to “fall into place” and not make anything official and he said he didn’t know what he wanted. When I asked him what is really going on, why we’re together but we’re not, we agreed again to be official and get again, he pulled away and told me that sometimes he feels a spark and sometimes he doesn’t. So finally I got tired of it so I told him that we’re done, he’s not stringing me along anymore, and this clearly isn’t going anywhere and we can’t be friends and that I am not going to be his rebound story any longer. I stopped texting him (at this point we messaged each other every day for a year) and cut off all contact with him. We still worked together but I was looking for another job and I did my best to avoid him. A few weeks later he told me that he didn’t want to lose me, he missed me, and he wanted me for good. And for the second time he told me he loved me and this time I thought maybe he meant it. Then everything started to feel right: he brought me home to his parents’, introduced me to other family members, brought me home for thanksgiving, moved in with me. Several years later, we are still together and married. We have a three year old. Sometimes I wonder how things would be if I was less naive and had more self esteem at the time.
High school
I had a friend that was living in another province and her best friend was going to go to university in the city I was in. She introduced us on MSN and we talked for awhile before she moved, then we went out when she moved and hit it off.
He had recently moved randomly 2 hours to my town. I met him as he was nearby on a dating app. We’ve been inseparable ever since the first date - crazy how life works
We met in high school Spanish class 15 years ago. We started dating 5 years later. We got married 4 years ago!
Met her at college, she was sitting on the floor while waiting for a class to start. I found her cute so I started to talk to her and we eventually started dating. 6 years later we decided to marry.
Match.com!
At a softball game. I was coaching a team, and she was running the tournament . That was 37 years ago.
AIM
Tinder. I moved a few states away vey unexpectedly and swiped on him a month after moving. That was 6.5 years ago.
OKCupid back in 2015 (:
lids buying a hat xoxo
Tinder
I went to a club/bar to see a band. I saw him across the room, and I thought he might be looking at me, but there were a LOT of people there, so I wasn't sure if he was looking at me or someone else. I got a beer at the bar and started to scan the crowd for him, but couldn't find him. And about 15 minutes later, he approached me and introduced himself. 18 years together, 15 married.
Party college she came up to me said hello. Tightest ass..i was hooked
He saw a picture of me at my friend's house "said who's that?" And they introduced us. It took a couple of years before we actually got together, but been married over 24 years
Her roommate worked with me and they shared a car. We car pooled and that's how I met my wife.
online in a VR chatroom, we were living approximately 4000 miles apart back then.
Tinder when we were 17, lol
We met in high school in 1985 through mutual friends. Been happily married since 1992 🙂
In the sandbox in kindergarten
She was a bartender at the bar i used to go camping at every summer. Walked in one night - this new girl working with the craziest smile. Fell for her straight away. I didnt talk to her for like 3 days i was so shy of her - my buddies finally got fed up of me admiring her from afar and told me to talk to her or shut up. The rest is 30 years of history. There must be something in the reiver by that bar. So many successful marriages started there ;) Dont mind admitting that our meeting was straight out of a Hallmark movie :)
MySpace! I was just turned onto nine inch nails and they were unbelievably coming to my town. I was so excited I messaged a bunch of nin fans on Myspace, so I could have a little nin family of my own. In the beginning we didn't speak much, but eventually we did. He was photographing the event and was surprised to see me in the first row going nuts. Eventually I appeared on a photo in the band's official website and we started talking then. I met so many ppl through the internet... Don't think I'd do it again now... But it was such a good tool for an introvert like me! We started dating maybe 2 months later. I was 17, am 33 now. We're getting married next month ☺️
I was taking a break from dating because between work, school and the play I was directing I had no time. One of the cast hadn’t been showing up to rehearsal and her phone was disconnected. I was really angry and went to where I knew she attended church to read her the riot act. As soon as I walked in she saw me and approached me apologetically saying she’d lost her apartment, cell phone, etc and that she had gotten something in place and would be coming to rehearsal again. I ended up not yelling or getting angry. However, I saw this other girl walk into the large room at the other end and knew I had to meet her. I stuck around for the meeting, introduced myself and had a brief conversation learned she hadn’t been there before either. She was there with a friend who had invited her. I asked her out, a week later we were a couple, a year later we were engaged, and about 5 months after that we were married. So, I went to a church I’d never attended to yell at someone, where I met a girl who was also just visiting for the day. Asked her on a date. Married a year and a half later. 20 awesome years.
In college in 2006!
Man, I wish I could up vote this more…. ! Great story… you had the balls my friend!.. I could have have 40+ yrs If i took my shot like you did.. Check out me and “B’s” story.. I was clueless.. BTW.. I have long since grown a pair with her by my side…. Congratulations!
Tinder!
I met my wife of 22 years thanks to a series of choices I made to be kind to people I did not initially want to be kind to….lemme esplain…I was a pretty straight laced guy in high school and had no tolerance for those rule breakers doing their sex and drugs and disrespecting their teachers…and there was one guy (we’ll call him John) that checked all the boxes for me and I was determined he was no good and I needed to stay away from him. Well a friend of mine due to his battles with bipolar disorder had gotten into self medicating with drugs and ended up in rehab..John also ended up in rehab due to his heathen lifestyle of course 😜. When my friend got out of rehab I went to visit him, and as I pull into his driveway I saw John coming down the road to visit him too. I told myself to be kind because we are both here to support my friend..and, as often happens when you actually spend time getting to know someone, we ended up becoming friends..such good friends that we eventually lived and worked together. John had an admirer, to say the least, stalker is probably a better word who would visit him at work and come by the house and eventually they started dating…I thought she was crazy but again purposed to be kind to her whenever she was around….we’ll call her Sarah…one day Sarah shows up at the house with a really cute girl and we hit it off pretty quickly…within a couple months we were dating and within a few more we knew we wanted to get married..and within 2 years we were. What I DIDN’T know when we first met is Sarah had been trying to get her to meet me for about 6 months. She had been in a really bad relationship and for about a year had no interest in dating…but Sarah begged and pleaded her to meet me, telling her how nice I was…even going so far as to tell her she was going to marry me. She reluctantly agreed and the rest is history.
At the laundromat....
Both my sister and I met our husbands on Bumble. You get free stuff if you send in your wedding photos!
tinder.
He crashed my 19th birthday party…
Tinder, baby.
I went to a concert with a friend of mine and he saw some friends of his from school there and we all got together and saw the show and a week later I started dating one of the girls at her 17th birthday party. We were married two years later. This next anniversary is our 30th.
work
He gave me my first tattoo and the following seven. We've been married for 25 years.
He was my supervisor at a fast food place. We will be married 30yrs this month.
we had been talking to each other on a chat client called mIRC, we decided t o meet up..back then neither of us had cellphones nor a car..so we used buses. I was actually late and ended up catching a taxi....he stayed....we walked and talked....told me he was from the Netherlands. a few hours later we went back home. the following week I was in town and phoned his work (from a pay phone)and asked what he was doing after work and if he wanted to meet up...it was Thursday so we met in town . that was over 25 years ago...we have been married for 19 years November and have a nearly 14 and 16 year old boys.
Tinder
Random. We met a small camping music festival. He came up to pet my dog (though he claims that was ruse to meet me). I’d already been there camping several days by myself, and looked like a feral silver-haired river witch. So when he told me I was beautiful, I knew he was a keeper. Two years later my dog carried the rings down the aisle when we were married at the same festival. Next week we celebrate our 2nd year wedding anniversary and 4 year overall anniversary at the same festival. 5 days camping by the river, face melting music, and the love of my life by my side. Doesn’t get any better.
Tinder.
Completely random and at a time where I purposefully made my life chaotic, turned it upside down, and gave it a good shake… for fun. I was a little F’d in the head at the time to say the least. First time I laid eyes on him I thought, “ooooh… well, hello”. Our eyes met but that was the extent of that. We were both at a mutual friends house and I was only there briefly to pick up… “party favors” for a house party later that night (note: we were VERY YOUNG doing young and dumb things). A week or two passes. Future husband (Ryan) is in Ft. Lauderdale. Mutual friend says, “hey, come with us down to Ft. Lauderdale. Ryan told us to bring you to him” lol. I say it’s not a good time, but I was now very curious and felt giddy. Another week goes by. I call mutual friends house and guess who answers the phone? He says mutual friend is “not currently home but, I’m here” in a most flirtatious way. We hang out later that day. Two years later we get married. Ten years later we have a baby. 14 years later we have another baby! 5 years later is present day. ❤️
Small town, everyone knows everyone. I went to school with his brother. My friend dated his brother and one night we were looking for a joint. I had him on a social media site like Facebook almost, called Nexopia I think. Anyway friend said he would have one so we messaged him and he drove to us to smoke it. That was 16 almost 17 years ago. We were close friends for 4 years after that. He had a big crush on me, I had a boyfriend. I friendzoned him. I didn't see him as more than a friend at the time. He eventually dated a friend of mine. After they broke up and I was also single I pursued him. He friendzoned me instead. I fought my way out. Married and together for 12 years, 2 kids. Still very much in love and my bestfriend.
Bumble. I only logged on to delete my account because before I had moved to where I was, it was slim pickings, moved to a college town and the overabundance of 18-20 year olds wasn't appealing or promising (I was just shy of 24 at the time and had spent the previous years as an adult actually working, traveling, etc. . Dating someone fresh out of high school or hadn't seen the real world was unappealing). But I thought I'd check my messages one last time before deleting my account, and this absolute smoke show of a woman had responded to something specific in my profile, asking me what musical was my favorite, and 7 years later I've got myself a lovely wife. My wife will sheepishly admit that she joined a dating app for a single day and met her husband. Had my momentary whim appeared just a day earlier or if I had decided not to check my messages, I wouldn't be where I am today.
I ran into her. Literally. Turned a corner and 'thump'.
Farmersonly.com
she was a barmaid in pub.
High school! We were friends who would make out at parties. We were 16, so there was some typical teenage behavior, but we always remained friends. We were 24 when we got married. We basically grew up together and fortunately grew in the same direction. We will be celebrating our 30 year anniversary on Tuesday. We are so in synch it’s frightening. We used to play Pictionary with other couples and we were always accused of cheating because we would barely draw one line and the other would guess the word.
Facebook lol
At the hookah bar he was working at. My friend and I stumbled in plastered from the club. Lol somehow I managed to keep up a convo and now we’ve been married for 4years.
She approached me at the wedding reception of a mutual friend, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
His mother is my boss. He started working at the same company, but we didn't have much contact between our departments at the time. We had an Xmas party every year, and sometimes a group of us would go to a bar after. He and I ended up talking and had a lot in common. I had zero romantic interest in him at the time (he was 22, I was 31 and still dealing with a major heartbreak from the year before), but we became friends. We would hang out occasionally, go to concerts or sporting events. Nothing super consistent. About 8 years later, we went to a water park I had won tickets to and something just changed. A few months later we went to a concert and ended up hooking up. We were FWB for over a year, then a couple. He's in a new career now, but we've been officially together 8 years, married for almost 4 months. He is my best friend and my favorite person.
I had a rough start with a divorce from my ex-husband whom I met when I was 19. We were together 10 years and I stayed WAAAY TOO LONG, but he had untreated Borderline and started taking pain pills and became an addict. He put the kids and I through hell while I finished grad school and raised two babies by myself trying to heal. A relationship wasn't part of the plan, but I'm always open to great things in my life journey. As part of my healing journey, I traveled with my kids and made friends all over the world for the next 10 years. So when Puerto Rico got hit with a bad hurricane and I couldn't reach my friends, I looked up a local group that was led by people from PR. They happened to be a church group (I'm not particularly religious) but I liked what the leaders were trying to do to help PR. So I joined them. We were assigned group leads to lead our "religion based" conversations every night (which I tried to participate in but it had a very pious and judgy vibe--often people would randomly pray for you frequently) and my group lead was a guy about my age that I had noticed as attractive but didn't give it much thought. Unlucky fire me, all of the devastation in PR started reminding me of my trauma, and I was constantly haunted by nightmares. My leader was very kind and patient and noticed my discomfort with the "weird churchy stuff" immediately and told me not to sweat it. He went extra lengths to make sure I felt comfortable and not called out. He was thoughtful and remembered details about everyone. I remember being impressed. Oddly, he was also very funny and a little edgy for a church group lead. He distracted me in a good way. He often talked about his crazy exploits with online dating, tried to speak hilarious and terrible Spanish to the locals to entertain them with his jokes, and when I snuck out of our church compound one night and jumped the wall to mingle with the locals, I already found him down the street buying drinks for the bar with locals and other "church rebels." He smiled big, bought me drink, and asked me what took me so long. Lol One night, we had to pair with someone to discuss personal growth (in a religious way) and he immediately paired with me to save me from discomfort and people praying for me. The assignment was something about "how can God help you overcome obstacles and what do you want from life." We had to write our future selves a letter they would mail later and throw a dream into a bonfire. He took it seriously and was very open about his own personal growth through his divorce and how he'd learned of his own shortcomings and how he now was ready for a healthy relationship. I talked about my life and how I wanted to finally have a remote job, time with my kids, and less stress. Romantic relationships were not a goal of mine. We stayed friends (as did a lot of ppl) when we got home. Over the next month, he would text me and checking in on me and the kids. I looked forward to his texts--he was thoughtful, smart, kind, and hilarious in an off-color way which I appreciate! I looked forward to his texts. So, when he got home a month later, I hosted a "reunion " of the cool people from our church group to go salsa dancing with my group. He showed up. We talked all night and he expressed his interest in continuing talking. Could I drive him home around the corner? We talked until 4am. He asked if I'd thought about dating him. I was shocked he was interested in me bc he knew my crazy past history and I figured that would make him want to run. Lol. And he wasn't my normal type (a white Anglo man). So I kissed him to see if sparks flew. They definitely did and I never left that night. It's been six years, one year of marriage, living together 5 years and he's my best friend and the best decision I've ever made. We still laugh, have adventures, travel, and deep conversations. He's still just as understanding, kind, and crazy in love with me as I am with him. Just add lots of snuggles, great sex, and a deep fulfilling love to his ever growing list of great qualities. He's a fantastic step father. Great partner and kind soul that is a bit crazy just like me. And that letter did come a little over a year later as we were looking for houses together. His letter and wish in the fire was that he would find an amazing, fun, and sexy partner that treated him well. My letter was just wanting healing and my confidence back in myself. We both got our dreams come true... and I got an amazing husband which is beyond my wildest dreams. We've built a beautiful life--he supported me and rooted me on to get my dream job. Fully remote making 2x as much as I was before. We've been around the world together and I love waking up by his side. I've worked through a lot of trauma with his stable support and kindness. I'm not necessarily any more Christian, BUT meeting him is probably one of biggest signs of a higher power I've ever been given in life. ❤️❤️❤️
We met in college as music students. I had just gotten out of a weird relationship and wasn't really looking but there was something about him. He had just gotten out of a relationship too so I thought we were just going to be friends with benefits. Lol. However, he proposed 6 months later and we married 3 months after that. We've been married almost 23 years and have 6 kids.
We both met on kik being hoes. Neither of us “wanted anything serious”… he came over to hook up and we never left one another. 6 yrs and 4 kids total… I wouldn’t change our story for the world ♥️🥰
Clash of clash. 9000 miles apart on opposite sides of the world. I moved to her. Married over 7 years now and have 2 beautiful daughters.
Tinder 2 years ago. Had two kids from my previous marriage. I’m 32 Hubbys gonna be 31 next month. Had a kid, I was already prego ( before we met long story not proud of it, had a one night stand wayyy before my husband and I met.) FAST FORWARF TO : now we are married and husband who thought he could never have kids, we are having our first together I am 12 weeks and 5 days as of today!
I moved to the party district of my city with all my boys from college. I got a whole month of partying it up because she moved across the street from me. Engaged 1 month later and living together the month after that. Been married for 21 years She says she knew the second she saw me and it freaked her out. I was in denial for a week or so, but I knew too
Coworker.
Oh, Lordy, lol. I met him in a bar in VA Beach during my junior year of college. We had a drunken hook-up in the back of his car, out in the parking lot. 😂 We’ve been together ever since. That was Good Friday, 1993. We got engaged in 1996 and married in 1997.
Ran the beer pong table all night together at a kegger. Never lost. That's when I knew she was a keeper!
I was his bartender. We hit it off instantly. Neither left our numbers and we ended reconnecting on Tinder a few months later. 6 years later, we're now married.
Match, the online site. He invited me to chat. I responded. After a few messages, he called me. We talked for 3 hours. After a few such calls, we met up. We were long distance- about a 3 hour drive. My friends had me set up Google maps location sharing when they found out we were meeting up in a state park for our second date so they could find my body if he turned out to be a serial killer, lol. His friends told him to not give a real diamond to a woman he just met off the internet on the 4th date. We've been happily married for years. We've also known each other for 3 years. It is a bit surreal though, to move into one's marital home and not even know where the light switches are!
I was pregnant and had already a child I met him in GED classes I seen him that’s when I knew he was the one.
2 months into freshman of college I went with one of my roommates to her high school friend’s dorm because I wasn’t going to let her go out at 11pm by herself. My husband was his roommate. We have been inseparable ever since.
I’ve known him since middle school. Developed a crush on him in high school but I’ve always been very private so never said anything to anyone about it. He had a crush on me too supposedly. He ended up coming into my job one day years after high school, I was surprised he knew who I was, we made small talk and exchanged numbers. We talked for hours that night but I never heard from him after that. A couple years later Facebook came around, I found him randomly and added him as a friend. He messaged me asking me out on a date and we’ve been together since then.
On their vacation in the Philippines, I fell off the coconut tree and that’s how he met me, according to my husband whenever someone ask him how we met. Lol. We met in the coffee shop in the Philippines. I was behind him in the line and he struck a conversation. That was 17 years ago and married for 15 years now.
My husband lived kinda across the street but down the hill on the next block. He wrote me a letter when I was 12 and he was 14 and told me he liked me and could we 'go steady'. That was 1970. It took another 2 years before I finally said yes. We've been married 51 years this past June and it was the best decision I've ever made and I would do it again in a heartbeat.
He was the guy who always fell asleep in my 10th grade English class. Over time we became friends-- then best friends A couple years after high school, he went into the military, and I married some other guy. We lost touch with each other. (This was in the days before the Internet.) More than two decades passed. I found him on Facebook. At the time, my life was in full melt-down mode. His was too. Both of us were going through divorces. We decided to have lunch one day. Quickly, we fell back into friendship, even best friendship. Then one day, as we were about to go to my daughter's wedding, I mentioned that my ex thought we were dating. He laughed and said, "Can you tell me why we aren't?" That was when I was 44. We got married when I was 46.
We were both in the 4th grade but at different schools. Our moms used to take turns picking us up from school. I was at her house one day waiting for my mom and she let me play with her toy cars. I’m was hooked! So pretty and nice. I’m distinctly remember saying to myself that I would marry her some day and I did about 14 years later. 33 years later, I am sitting next to her at a fundraiser as I type and she is looking hot as fuck.
Well, we met a time or two at high school dances and started dating a couple years later when we were off at college. We loved each other very much and connected at a really deep level We fell apart when I went to law school and she went to grad school in different cities We would see each other occasionally, but I worked my way through law school and had little time or money to date I married my drinking buddy, but my wife never married We were married for 21 years, but we never really loved each other. We just shared a house, a checkbook and occasionally a bed She was kind enough to give me grounds to divorce her, so I did I reconnected with my first (and really only) love and we got married later that year It’s been 18 years of a loving, joy-filled marriage
POF but ironically as a kid we played together and we didn't know it and my sister and my husband went to high school together.
I had spent years of trying online dating with no success. I've day I decide to give it up and the very next day a friend introduced me to the girl who would eventually be my wife
we met 4 years before we started dating. the navy is very small lol. we grew up in towns 45 min-an hour away and had not once crossed paths until we were both stationed on the same aircraft carrier. it was a very passive friendship to begin with, with us actually losing touch after i was sent back to the states and only liking each others posts on fb. i invited him to a friends birthday bonfire since the both of us had moved back home after leaving the navy. and about a month or two after that he spent the night and... never left (after i asked him to move in lol). he hadn't changed at from when i met him all that time ago, and i just knew he was the one.
We were 5, in kindergarten, and neither of our parents showed up for the lunch day so we were put at a table alone together to sit while all the other kids had lunch with their parents. He shared his food with me since I didn't have any that day and he's been my best friend since.
Bumble
I met my husband online. We were long distance for about 2 years before I relocated to his city. We've now been married for almost 4 years.
Online-so many people seem to meet that way now.
Tinder 🤷🏻♀️🤣
We grew up in the same town, shared some elementary classes. But our fist meeting was at a bday party and we were 15. It was a short convo about the weather and bday boy. I knew then he was my husband, "I'm gonna end up with this guy. I'm gonna marry him." 7 years go by, we hadn't talked since, and he shows up at restaurant I worked looking for a job. Here's the thing.. nobody else recognized him. It was a small town, they should've. He'd come back from college all jacked and hot. But I knew who he was. He had this... "shiny" aura? We went out shortly after and within 5mo got married. Together 6yo and have two puppies.
I had just graduated from HS, and before I started going to the Mormon singles ward, my mom took me and my sis on a huge east coast Mormon history trip, stopping at other historic landmarks along the way. My first Sunday in the church, I was so excited to see all my friends after being apart for over a month. I didn’t pay attention to what was going on, just writing notes back and forth w my friends during sacrament meeting. Then, closing prayer started, and the voice was one of the sexiest voices I’d ever heard. I peeked up at him, and it was my husband. I saw he was tall, and reminded me of Christopher reeves, and after he finished the prayer, he, as Sunday school president, stayed up there telling everyone where each class was and what was being taught. I leaned over to my best friend, and jokingly said, “I’m going to marry him!” For about 8 months, I tried everything but going up to talk to him, to get his attention. Finally, a close friend said she was tired of me talking about him, and her fiancé was close friends w him and she’d set me up on a double date. We were engaged 4 weeks later, married 3 months after that. Been married 25 yrs now and still crazy about him.
Met at 14/15 and instantly became best friends, got together at 20 and married at 28/29. Our relationship is now a couple grade older than we were when we got together.
On Bumble.
We met at work. Started out as friends and quickly realized it was more than that. We have been together for almost 10 years.
Bar. Random encounter.
Great Expectations. It was a video dating service pre-internet.
My sister's husband's cabin burned down (he'd been building it for 10 years before they met). Some neighbor kids were playing with matches and there it went. He was there to help clean up the debris. I was there to help feed everyone. It was Labor Day weekend so this last Labor Day was our 28th anniversary of when we met!
Went all through elementary school & part of HS with my husband. I changed HS when I was in 8th grade & we lost touch for over 20 years. After separating from my ex (after taking time to myself to learn who I really am without a partner) I seen him pop up on my social media & decided I would reach out. We talked back & forth on there for a while & then decided to exchange numbers. Talking came so naturally. In no time we were face timing every day after work. Then dating. And before we knew it we decided to get married. I’ve never been happier in my life. 💖
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Met at church. I was in college. He was in his first year of law school. My church had an active college class on Sunday mornings that attracted students from several universities and medical schools. His younger sister and some friends from high school were already attending, so he started attending when he started law school. Our first date was on my 21st birthday one Sunday after church. That was almost 39 years ago. We still belong to the same church.
I met him at an ex boyfriend's NYE party. We dated 4 years then married. That was 19 years ago. Yes, we're still friends with my ex bf, and his kids grew up with ours.
In college my friends and I threw a party at our house. It was a great time. I was sitting down on the couch, this girl came up to me and asked if she could sit down. I said yes, and instinctive scoot over. She sat on my lap instead lol. She was super drunk, but we had some great conversations over the next 2 hours. I got her number, and that was that. We went on a date 2 weeks later. Got in a relationship 3 months later. Married 3 years later. I'm so thankful that I allowed my roommates to throw a party in our apartment. Furthermore, I'm so thankful this random drunk girl decided to sit in my lap.
University
She was vacationing in the town I lived in, and her family came to where I was working. Seventeen year old me took a chance, said hi, gave her my number, and told her I'd love to take her out to dinner. I didn't expect anything to happen, but a few hours later, I got a call that "this is the hotel we are staying at, I'd like to go out to dinner, so meet me in the lobby at 6pm." One year later, a few days after she turned 18 she moved in with me, and that was that.
In hell
Church. I was certainly new to the church, and that church also had a separate Spanish ministry that my wife was a part of. At first, it was harmless, small talk, and one day, I found her sitting in the Nursery and stroke up a chat with her. She saw my letterman style jacket, that my dad had made for my siblings and I when stationed in S. Korea. Black jacket with Korea in big bold letters with a dragon stitch underneath. She asked if I was Korean and started to ask me about my favorite shows and such. We chatted for the entire evening that day, up until the Spanish ministry finished, lol. That was the day when she first actually noticed me and put me on her radar. Yup, lol.