How We Met..

[Buttercup]

It's almost Valentine's Day.....a great time to share your, "How We Met" story. :heartbeat: Feel free to give as much detail as you are comfortable sharing about how you met your husband, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, significant other or your favorite pet. :D Did I cover everyone? :D

Looking forward to reading your stories! Thanks!

[zombieharlot]

*huff* *sigh* :( *lonely little Harlot* Well, I guess I've got Matilda. I met her at the guitar shop and paid a pretty penny to take her home with me.

[Kelly]

since you've met my husband, WH44, i can tell you how we met.
he was flirting with my friend at a frat party (pi lambda phi at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) and got me instead.

[Gentoo]

GC and I met at college before the semester even started. Our school has a mandatory camping trip during the summer before the first semester, not only were ours on the same week, but we were on the same trip! Even cooler is that was not our first choice, we both had that one as our third choice, but didn't share a common first or second choice. :)

[James]

We met online in a paint chat room when I was 14. We met IRL for the first time when we were both 20, and I've been head over heels since. ;)

[Clancelt]

I met my wife via a mutual friend who worked with me and also lived right around the corner. She invited us both to a party at her house and what started off as a peaceful conversation turned into a heated argument that had our mutual friend wondering if she had made a terrible mistake. My wife is a bleeding heart tree hugging liberal and I am a strong individualistic libertarian. My wife made the mistake of suggesting a view that was radically opposed to my views on a subject and I dug in my heals and fought my case.

It was kind of funny, soon everyone at the party had this uneasy look on their faces but got quite and just listened. At the end we left the party and I thought she hated me. The next week she called me and asked if I wanted to go out for a drink. Then she started popping by my house after work, etc... and now we have been together for 11 years ;)

Oddly enough, we have never had a fight as a couple. Go figure. If she every finds out how much smarter and better looking she is compared to me, I'll be in trouble :(


FFF,
-Eric

[evearael]

We met in high school at a freshman orientation (we were both seniors from different schools). :)

[Krashlocke]

We met in high school at a freshman orientation (we were both seniors from different schools). :)

Umm... This.

:D

[beckysoup61]

We met in college.

We did a scripture study group with a group of friends and I heard there was a cute guy moving in down the street. So I went to visit and sure enough, he was. So I invited him, he came about two weeks later. We started talking and ever since then we've been together.

[WickedWit]

We met at a bookstore. I was working there at the time, and I caught him checking out my butt while I was putting away magazines. I thought he was pretty good looking, so I went and sat next to him in the cafe and made conversation about the book he was reading (American Gods). After that, we were pretty inseparable. :tearsofjoy:

[Slatka]

We met at a bar where I was working at the time. :) He kept staring at me after I'd served him and eventually I was annoyed enough to sternly ask why and he responded with a cheesy line - but he was so sincere that it was endearing. He said I have a smile that makes him want to smile. :D

He never gave up on me. I was - I still am, really - often very self-destructive as far as relationships are concerned. It's "How to lose a guy in 10 days" only unintentional, unfunny, and less naive. I could still be breaking through relationship after relationship if not for him. He saw right through my problems and refused to take them personally. So, still we're going on. :D

[Katzpur]

Matt and I met on May 25, 1967. I had just started my first job. I was the garage cashier at the Hotel Utah (now the Joseph Smith Memorial Building). Matt was the night foreman. I was 18. He was 24. I was immediately attracted to his dark hair and eyes and to his easy-going personality. It took several months for me to get him to be interested in me, though. I looked younger than I was and he had just broken up with his fiancee, so I was just a cute little kid to him for quite awhile.

One night several months after we had started working together, I needed a ride home. He and another guy both offered to drive me. I picked him. All the way home, he kept telling me that I needed to watch out for the other guy, that he wasn't good enough for someone like me. Well, I wasn't interested in the other guy anyway, but I just played along. Anyway, my house was not difficult to find, but he just kept missing the turns, until I finally figured out that he was trying to prolong the drive. When we finally turned onto my street, I thanked him for the ride. He answered, "Oh, that's fine. I've enjoyed this little father-to-daughter talk."

Eventually, he caught on to the fact that he was not old enough to be my father. That's when he started asking me out. We set our wedding date -- almost three years in the future -- and never changed it once. We will have been married for 38 years this June. I know! Can you believe it!

[TurtleGirl]

Painted Wolf and I met when she was in college and I was a campus bum. I was actually quite smitten with her roommate at the time and never really considered her. Then one day a bunch of us were watching Doctor Who together and the next thing I knew we were holding hands. I haven't left in the eleven-plus years since. :P

[MidnightBlue]

John and I met at a bar; we were introduced by the guy who was his boyfriend at the time. About a month later, a group of us went to a rodeo, and we were at the bar afterwards when all of a sudden John leaned down and kissed me. We started seeing each other, and about three months after that, he moved in with me. His ex-boyfriend is still mad at me.

[Ayodhya]

John and I met at a bar; we were introduced by the guy who was his boyfriend at the time. About a month later, a group of us went to a rodeo, and we were at the bar afterwards when all of a sudden John leaned down and kissed me. We started seeing each other, and about three months after that, he moved in with me. His ex-boyfriend is still mad at me.

Did you fight him the Ex and beat him to a pulp?

[Zayl]

Valentines day is such a lonely day for me :o

[MidnightBlue]

Did you fight him the Ex and beat him to a pulp?No. In fact, he avoids me whenever possible. I saw him in September for the first time in years; he still wasn't speaking to me.

It was worth it. :)

[Buttercup]

It's nice to read stuff about all of you that we didn't know before! :D

I met Rick around midnight in July of 1998 while working at the Eugene air traffic control tower as the night weather observer. I walked upstairs to relieve him of the weather duties as that night was my first round on his shift. I reached my hand out for a shake and to introduce myself. We met in the dim light given off from the radar screen and instrument panels but I could still see he was cute and looked really good in shorts. :insert drooly smiley: About three minutes into the conversation he turned around to smile at something I said and BAM! right then and there I knew we were going to be together for a long time....somehow, someway.

At the time I was in the middle of a divorce and he was on the verge of a divorce so it took a couple of years for us to find our way to start dating. We married in December of 2001 and these have undoubtedly been the happiest years of my life.

As an aside, my ex is an air traffic controller as well. At the same tower. He and Rick don't talk much. :p

[Buttons*]

Rhonda has a thing for airmen :p

I love reading these stories. I suppose I'll share the one I have so far.

A few people know this story well, since they were actually helping me through everything.*blush* ... you know who you are ;)

I joined another religious forum in November of 2005, and met some wonderful people. While I was meeting people and learning about their beliefs, I also started to get to know the people on the forum through IMs. I thought that this forum had more of a family feel than other places online, and I thought it was important to talk to my "family."

There was only one person who I was scared to add to my list, because I thought he wouldn't like me. I got butterflies when I added Chris and he said hello. I didn't realize that there was immidiate attraction, though I knew I liked his silliness and the way he saw life. After a few months of talking on IM, he called me, to show me he wasn't chicken. A little while later, I got him to admit that he liked me... and I admitted that I liked him, but this was a problem for us since he lives in New Zealand and as of now I live in the States.

I told him to just go find someone else, but that I was stuck on him - so I wouldn't be dating anyone else. He said that he was stuck on me too and that he wanted me, and so we stuck.

Months later he was able to take a trip to the States to meet me, and it was truly love at first sight.:cloud9: This last summer, I spent six heavenly weeks with him in New Zealand, and we realized that we still wanted one another - more than ever. I recently made the decision to go live in NZ with him and finish school. Wish us luck :)

We've been together for almost two years... though it's been one of the most trying experiences of our lives thus far. If we can make it through this, I feel like we can make it through anything.

Incredible innit? :heartbeat:

[Buttons*]

*huff* *sigh* :( *lonely little Harlot* Well, I guess I've got Matilda. I met her at the guitar shop and paid a pretty penny to take her home with me.*giggle*

Do not be lonely little Harlot! You could spend Valentines with me :D

[Ayodhya]

Valentines day is such a lonely day for me :o

This is a good thing.

The amount of money that you'll save should be enough to cheer you up.

[s2a]

I met my wife in a bar...my bar (well sort of my bar, anyway).

It was new Year's Eve, and I had opened the restaurant that day at the usual 4:30 am. It was the typical long day that restaurant people can appreciate best of all...and all others can only pretend to understand.

I was a salaried manager at the time (some regard it as a modernized form of indentured servitude), and after a typical 15 hour shift, I sidled up to a familiar stool, and familiar bar top, for yet another unremarkable (yet familiar) celebration (like some inexorable tide) of drifting drunks and lonely souls, upon yet another calendar's annual reminder of the many days past and all the most fervent hopes/dreams yet unrequited...

An acquaintance of mine (friendly we were, but not fast friends), introduced me to his reluctant date for the evening (of which he was famous enough for initiating, but not maintaing). I was cordial enough, and pretended to be utterly unaffected by her good looks and sublime presence. Fortunately, I was a far better source of idle banter and conversational nothings than my generally unappealing "friend", and soon a "test" of sorts would unfold...

After about 20 minutes of flirtation, innuendo, and innocuous insinuations...a rather large and motivated drunkard had imbibed enough cups of courage (elsewhere) to enter my workplace sandbox, aggressively approach, and then imply that he, in fact, would be this lovely young lady's "escort" for the remainder of the Eve (having had a dance with her in another joint)...of which her "date" (my "friend") would offer no resistance or defense (on her part), of any sort whatsoever.

For better or worse, I possessed many years of restaurant experience in treating with such unhappy bounders, and (for the sake of a shortened story) effectually removed the inebriated redneck cave-dweller from the premises in short order.

Booze, circumstance, timing, and opportunity of feigned heroism resulted in a "one night stand" betwixt this "femme fatale" and myself...on New Year's Eve...in my bar...go figure.

Yet...there was something more...and I couldn't escape it.

I had sworn to myself that I would never fall for another "younger" woman, EVER again (that's another story, *sigh*). I was nearly 30 then, she was just 21. Nubile! Lolita! Jezebel!

Bzzzt!

Sorry dude (that was me)...she was way smarter than her years...way smarter than me, and waaaay too pretty and sexy for a schlub like me to even futilely pray to have some deus ex machina moment deliver in my fondest masturbatory fantasy upon my queen-sized waterbed of unintended and extended celibacy.

Yet...there she was, and remained...and she liked me. A lot. Go figure.

Well....Damn.

I wasn't that stupid. I figured (at very least) that here was my one opportunity to have a meaningful and lasting part in producing both attractive and intelligent offspring...
I proposed within 60 days. We were married on 10/14/89, just 10 months and 14 days later.

Still married today; surprisingly still to each other, as before. But no ankle biters or little tax exemptions to regret or cherish...but again, that's another story...

Go figure...

...in a bar.

[jewscout]

i met Rachel at work, we worked at a grocery store together...she had just finished high school and i was in my last year of university:heartbeat:

[zombieharlot]

*huff* *sigh* :( *lonely little Harlot* Well, I guess I've got Matilda. I met her at the guitar shop and paid a pretty penny to take her home with me.*giggle*

Do not be lonely little Harlot! You could spend Valentines with me :D

Are you coming to California?

[Buttons*]

*huff* *sigh* :( *lonely little Harlot* Well, I guess I've got Matilda. I met her at the guitar shop and paid a pretty penny to take her home with me.*giggle*

Do not be lonely little Harlot! You could spend Valentines with me :D

Are you coming to California?

No, I thought you'd come to Arizona like you promised! :D

And by "you promised," I mean "What I heard you say in my head that I don't think you ever actually said." So see? you promised that you'd come... Don't leave me alone Harlotry!

[zombieharlot]

*giggle*

Do not be lonely little Harlot! You could spend Valentines with me :D

Are you coming to California?

No, I thought you'd come to Arizona like you promised! :D

And by "you promised," I mean "What I heard you say in my head that I don't think you ever actually said." So see? you promised that you'd come... Don't leave me alone Harlotry!

Instead, I think we should crash on Rhonda's place and raid her fridge.

[Buttercup]

Instead, I think we should crash on Rhonda's place and clean out her fridge... with our mouths of course.I think as soon as you two turn 21 we should meet in Vegas and I'll buy our rooms and several rounds of drinks! :D

[Lizskid]

Can I chaperone? Sounds like a great road trip!

[zombieharlot]

Instead, I think we should crash on Rhonda's place and clean out her fridge... with our mouths of course.I think as soon as you two turn 21 we should meet in Vegas and I'll buy our rooms and several rounds of drinks! :D

Well, I don't know about you two, but I drink to get drunk. And I'm not sure how much either of you two would like to see that.

[Buttercup]

Instead, I think we should crash on Rhonda's place and clean out her fridge... with our mouths of course.I think as soon as you two turn 21 we should meet in Vegas and I'll buy our rooms and several rounds of drinks! :D

Well, I don't know about you two, but I drink to get drunk. And I'm not sure how much either of you two would like to see that.It would be awesome! We could put makeup on each other after we're wasted! hahaa

[Lizskid]

Honey, you really can't show me anything I haven't seen.....I will just make sure there is someone to hold the wastebasket if you get too drunk!

EDIT!!! Oh, heavens, I just realized that Rhonda would be drinking too!!! I may need reinforcements....and more wastebaskets.

[Buttercup]

EDIT!!! Oh, heavens, I just realized that Rhonda would be drinking too!!! I may need reinforcements....and more wastebaskets.I haven't hurled in years....even after I drank 15 glasses of champagne at a wedding. :D Bring it on, baby!

[Lizskid]

It would be awesome! We could put makeup on each other after we're wasted! hahaa

I have visions of some AWFUL Joan Crawford look-alikes, or that woman in the movie Airplane, who attempts to put on lipstick during the crash landing.

[Buttercup]

It would be awesome! We could put makeup on each other after we're wasted! hahaa

I have visions of some AWFUL Joan Crawford look-alikes, or that woman in the movie Airplane, who attempts to put on lipstick during the crash landing.Thanks what I'm talking about, sistah! And then we take pictures and save them for possible extortion tactics later.

[Lizskid]

Thanks what I'm talking about, sistah! And then we take pictures and save them for possible extortion tactics later.

Excellent, I gotta pay for this place somehow!! I could resort to extortion....you KNOW I'm not doing a make-up party. I have a camera, though.

what happens in Vegas will NOT stay there....without a price.

[zombieharlot]

EDIT!!! Oh, heavens, I just realized that Rhonda would be drinking too!!! I may need reinforcements....and more wastebaskets.I haven't hurled in years....even after I drank 15 glasses of champagne at a wedding. :D Bring it on, baby!

I haven't hurled in years either. Seems the wastebaskets might be a little empty.

[Buttercup]

you KNOW I'm not doing a make-up party. I have a camera, though.
That wouldn't work if I'm around. I'd wrestle ya to the ground, hold you down and put on the most gorgeous shade of black eyeshadow you've ever seen and top it off with passionate purple lipstick. You'd look hot!

[Lizskid]

The last time I tossed it, it took 23 beers to make it happen. And I rarely drink anymore....

[Lizskid]

you KNOW I'm not doing a make-up party. I have a camera, though.
That wouldn't work if I'm around. I'd wrestle ya to the ground, hold you down and put on the most gorgeous shade of black eyeshadow you've ever seen and top it off with passionate purple lipstick. You'd look hot!

I'd look STUPID.

[zombieharlot]

you KNOW I'm not doing a make-up party. I have a camera, though.
That wouldn't work if I'm around. I'd wrestle ya to the ground, hold you down and put on the most gorgeous shade of black eyeshadow you've ever seen and top it off with passionate purple lipstick. You'd look hot!

I'll hold her down for you. And don't forget the blush!

[Buttercup]

you KNOW I'm not doing a make-up party. I have a camera, though.
That wouldn't work if I'm around. I'd wrestle ya to the ground, hold you down and put on the most gorgeous shade of black eyeshadow you've ever seen and top it off with passionate purple lipstick. You'd look hot!

I'll hold her down for you. And don't forget the blush!Yeah! And the Disney mouse ears!

[Lizskid]

Now, I LIKE mouse ears.....and I have lipstick, blush and mascara....

[zombieharlot]

That wouldn't work if I'm around. I'd wrestle ya to the ground, hold you down and put on the most gorgeous shade of black eyeshadow you've ever seen and top it off with passionate purple lipstick. You'd look hot!

I'll hold her down for you. And don't forget the blush!Yeah! And the Disney mouse ears!

Steal her camera, and SNAP! Immortalization.:D

[zombieharlot]

Now, I LIKE mouse ears.....and I have lipstick, blush and mascara....

Well, then I'll bring some fake lashes for you.

[Buttercup]

I'll hold her down for you. And don't forget the blush!Yeah! And the Disney mouse ears!

Steal her camera, and SNAP! Immortalization.:DAnd don't forget we can make movies with our cell phones these days. Maybe we can even get her to moon us.

[Lizskid]

And don't forget we can make movies with our cell phones these days. Maybe we can even get her to moon us.


There is NO way it has a wide enough angle lens for THAT.....
Talk about your full moons!

[Buttercup]

And don't forget we can make movies with our cell phones these days. Maybe we can even get her to moon us.


There is NO way it has a wide enough angle lens for THAT.....
Talk about your full moons!haha. I can take two shots. One of each cheek. :p

[Buttercup]

So, I guess this means you aren't going to contribute your, "How we met" story to this thread? That's ok. I know why. :)

[Lizskid]

You're right, I have none and I'm jealous of everyone one of these stories I have read....except the part about the make up and pictures.

[zombieharlot]

You're right, I have none and I'm jealous of everyone one of these stories I have read....except the part about the make up and pictures.

Well, you shouldn't be too jealous of mine. Matilda's made of plastic.

[Buttercup]

You're right, I have none and I'm jealous of everyone one of these stories I have read....except the part about the make up and pictures.

Well, you shouldn't be too jealous of mine. Matilda's made of plastic.Just don't let her string you along.

[zombieharlot]

You're right, I have none and I'm jealous of everyone one of these stories I have read....except the part about the make up and pictures.

Well, you shouldn't be too jealous of mine. Matilda's made of plastic.Just don't let her string you along.

Don't worry. I made sure there were no strings attached when I bought her. She's a keyboard. :D

[Buttercup]

Well, you shouldn't be too jealous of mine. Matilda's made of plastic.Just don't let her string you along.

Don't worry. I made sure there were no strings attached when I bought her. She's a keyboard. :DOh. I was way off. :D

[Ayodhya]

Still married today; surprisingly still to each other, as before. But no ankle biters or little tax exemptions to regret or cherish...but again, that's another story...


Awesome story, s2a. Normally, your endless stream of "extraneous" details and qualifiers (separated by "/") are annoying, but it added great insight into the old, grumpy man I traditionally associate with you.

[Booko]

Hm...how my hubby and I met.

Well..I was dating his roommate. Although "dating" is somewhat of a stretch. It was nothing serious. We just happened to be the two motorcycle owners on campus.

Anyway, one evening my boyfriend and I were on one sofa in the living area in the suite and my now-hubby was across the room on a sofa with his girlfriend of that time.

We girls looked at each other, and I can't remember who started it, but we remarked how backwards the arrangement was, so we switched places.

The guys looked a bit befuddled, but never complained or said anything, and well, that was that.

I'd noticed my hubby before but never tried to get to know him because at the time he was breaking off an engagement. Having done that myself 2 years earlier, I knew it was best to keep hands off for at least 6 months after that. I'm not interested in being anyone's rebound. It's a waste of my time and theirs. ;)

[Lizskid]

Did the other girl marry the roommate?

[Booko]

Painted Wolf and I met when she was in college and I was a campus bum. I was actually quite smitten with her roommate at the time and never really considered her. Then one day a bunch of us were watching Doctor Who together and the next thing I knew we were holding hands. I haven't left in the eleven-plus years since. :P

Doctor Who! Yup, TG, that would be enough to get me interested in nearly anyone if they're a Who fan. :D

[Booko]

Valentines day is such a lonely day for me :o

I mostly ignore it myself. Ever consider volunteering though? That's what I do on those "special" days if I'm feeling kinda down. The Food Bank always needs help.

[Booko]

Valentines day is such a lonely day for me :o

This is a good thing.

The amount of money that you'll save should be enough to cheer you up.

How so? My husband doesn't spend a dime on me for Valentine's Day.

Oh my...well could be another thread topic to start....

[Ðanisty]

Seain and I met downtown during a game of Live Action Vampire. We had a mutual friend and hit it off immediately.