We want to know you met your significant other. I love hearing other stories about how people met and fell in love. I guess I'll go first.
My DH and I first met when I was 15, but out of respect for my DB my DH kept his distance. Then when I was 18 my DB and his wife invited me to Austin for the weekend. I went out with my friends that night and came home and to my verrrry much spurise he was in my bed. My SIL said you
can either go sleep on the couch or in here. Give you one guess which one I chose. We stayed up all night talking and then he dropped the lamest line on me- "I've never kissed a girl with a tongue ring 
". After that night I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him. He was supposed to go out fo town the next day but he decided to stay 
.
Two months later, in Dec., I was having a break down, I had partied to much and was failing most of my college classes and in the middle of my break down I told hIm I loved him and he didn't say it back 
To this day he will still tell you he didn't her me. So I dumped him and started dating another guy. Well that jerk dumped me for my bestfriend So I called up my DH crying and he said he was taking a road trip and asked me to go. Well after that we were closer than ever. 4 months later we moved in together. 18mo later we got married and 3 years later we had our first baby.
So some time they still respect you if you have sex in the first date
well I met my dh online ... yep .. back in the day of a program called Powwow. I was a junior in high school ('97-ninetyeight) and he was in college. I had just been dumped by my very first true love and in a deep depression. Well the screen name that he went by was the name of my cat ... so my mom encouraged me to message this person and let them know that was my cats name .. and lo and behold we ended up talking for hours ... we chatted every day for several months until he went offline for christmas break. It was quite a few months after that we started talking again .. and we chatted all through my senior year in high school ('98-'99) and for the following year as well (2000) ... then he invited me out to his state for his college graduation (2000) ... well of course I wanted to go but my parents didn't really want me to go to a different state to meet a stranger off the internet .. so both mom and dad joined in on a long car ride to meet this guy with me for the first time .. we stayed out there for a long weekend and by the time I got back home I knew I was going to marry him .. well after his graduation from college he moved even further away from me for his job .. and that required a lot of 13 hour car trips and several plane trips .. until a year later when he moved out to my home state and proposed! after a two year engagement we finally reached our wedding date and have been married happily for four years now ... so there may be a lot of weirdos online but there are also some very sweet people!
I left home at 18 to take a job working with a kindergarten class in a small school. There was a cute little girl in my class - my room mate was dating one of her brothers. Her mum was very friendly. I always enjoyed talking to her when she came to pick up her daughter. She invited me to her place a few times for a meal, and I met the eldest brother! She even asked me to stay there one weekend and cook for the family while they went on a business trip. He was very shy and we didn't get together until after that weekend. He had been planning a trip to Hawaii with his best mate and they went a week after we started dating! My DH and I were married 18 months later, and my room mate is now my SIL!
I met my DH when I was 15 and he was 17 in high school art class. The day I met him I went to my friend Julie and said "That's the guy I'm going to marry" she said "He's already dating someone for the last 6 months that he's head over heels for" That same day he told his friend Melody "That's the girl I'm going to marry" and Melody said "She's been dating someone for over a year and is VERY happy"
Needless to say--neither one would make a move. Jon and I didn't talk much at this time but just a few words in passing--Jon was very shy.
I started catching Jon staring at me in Art class--and vice versa. Finally one day in November I cornered him--literally he was in a corner and couldn't move and I said "Listen, I'm sick of you staring at me--are you gonna ask me out or what?" He was so shocked and said "Sure, wanna go to a movie" We went to that movie and had a great time and that's it. Still just friends. But that did open up the door for us to actually start talking more like good friends and through talking I discovered how much more we had in common. We like the same movies, extreme sports and found out that his girlfriend and my boyfriend had the same name. Also found out we were both in really bad relationships (just take my word when I say BAD) Needless to say Jon and I started getting closer--but still just as friends. Then after Christmas I went to a party at a friends house and Jon dropped me off there. As I said thanks for the ride I leaned over and kissed him quickly on the neck and ran as fast as I could to Karens' door! He then left quickly. I broke up with my boyfriend. Jon didn't break up with his girlfriend though for another 2 weeks! He waited till she broke up with him--once again--and then refused to take her back. That same day our I was cheerleading at an away game and Jon came and sat in the front. The other cheerleaders changed the lineup so I would be directly in front of him--just a few feet away. A of Jons friends that were higher in the bleachers yelled out "Just go marry her already, you know you want too." Later that night he asked me out.
We became best friends but with a deeper understanding. The day before he left to go to the Marines (I just turned 16) he bent down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I said yes, misunderstanding the question--Thought he asked if I needed a tissue. 
Once I figured out what he asked I still was fine with saying yes. Our engagement was a secret. He left the next day for boot camp.
2 years later- a week before I graduated--he asked my fathers permission to marry me. He wanted to do things the right way. When he was on leave, he took me to the local park surrounded by all fo the flowers and once again asked for my hand in marriage. I came home with a ring on my finger and my mom freaked and was mad at my dad for not telling her. We wanted to get married that September but out of respect for our parents waited for 1 year. We married on June 14. 1997. Jon was 21 and I was 19. This year we celebrated our 10 year anniversary and we have 4 kids
I had been a widow for 16 yrs, [been through a couple of failed relationships in the last ten yrs of that]well the last bf caused a lot of trouble between me and my kids and caused me to lose my house on top of everything else, so I moved to East Tn where my dd lived in may of 2002 and rented a house. My new neighbor had also been through some failed relaitionships and moved to Tn to get away from them. We met each other in my backyard, went out with a group of friends to a bar up the street, [just as friends]when I was sitting across from him. he just got up and kissed me out of the blue. I still tell him he was just trying to get me to shut up LOL!!!!We started dating in july and were inseparable after that. In oct he bought us a house down the street. [He was living with his brother]We moved in together and then got married in May of 2004.We only live a block away froom where we met.
I too met my DH online. Yahoo personals. I was talking to a girlfriend online and the blinking, flashing ad banner for the personals kept...well blinking and flashing. So I told her I was going to fill it out (as a total joke) just to see what happened (I had just ended a 2 yr relationship...badly, so I had sworn off men for good by then). Well, the next morning I had an email from them with my "potential matches". DH was the 1st one. I thought he was cute, sent him an email and ironically, I was the 1st one for his matches too (and just as weird, he too filled out his personal ad that very same night I did, also as a joke. He was coming out aof a bad 9 yr marriage the yr before and his mom was like "you need to date and stop sulking!!" so to shut her up, he filled it out...LOL!). Well we emailed for a few days and he finally got the nerve to ask for my phone number. We talked nightly for hours upon hours and within 2 weeks, we were on our 1st date. By date 3 we knew this was "it", said the "I love you's" and 3 mo's later, we were married. 9 months later a baby boy and that was 4 yrs ago!!
I met my DH online. Near the end of 1998 I had placed an ad on an online ad site (I think match.com bought it now). I had been married before and was near the end of my recovery from a major car accident and but was not ready for clubs or bars. He answered my ad and I noticed that he had the same last name as I did! I answered him mainly because of that...lol. We only lived 15 minutes apart and talked on the phone and online about a month before we met in person. Most of that talking time was to make sure we were not related - haha. We did have a lot in common and had the same cultural background.
Our first date was on Super Bowl Sunday in 1999 and he proposed in July 1999. Our wedding was on December 30, 2000 and we are still hanging on....lol.
My good friend and my DH's good friend were going to prom together but they didn't want to go by themselves. So they hooked us up 
My dad ran a family restaurant. I worked for him while I was in high school. One night there was a new cook working. I really disliked him at first. When I was leaving that night he said " your leaving? What, no kiss?". I thought this other guy said it and I turned around and smacked him. (my DH loves to tell this story). I was 15 and he had just turned 19. We were just friends for a while. He was seeing someone at the time. They broke up and we finally went out on a real date. On my 19th birthday he asked me to marry him. He and my mom had planned a surprise engagement/birthday party for me. We were married 6 months later. Had our first child 13 months after that. We just celebrated our 23rd anniversary. That first child will be 22 on July 4. There were people who said we wouldn't make it. Well, they were wrong. 
My husband and I were both volunteers at an emergency ambulance corps. I was an intermediate-level medic on one crew, and he was a driver (doing it for fun, his real job was an x-ray/CT scan tech) on another crew. His paramedic was sleeping with my paramedic (disgustingly enough, both were married to other people) and they decided to meet for dinner one night, so all the crew members had to go too. My husband and I pretty much experienced love at first sight that lovely spring day at Bennigans. We sat together and it was like electricity between us! My paramedic happened to be the clinic manager at the HMO where they both worked, so she was able to tell me that he was really interested, and of course relayed to him that I was really interested. It took him 2 freaking weeks to get the nerve up to call me, but once he finally did, we were inseparable. We married 5 months to the date of our first date, and were pregnant 2 months later...then a year later, then a year later...LOL.
We've now been married for 17 years and have a 16 year old, a 15 year old, and a 14 year old. And we're still blissfully happy!
On a tragic note, my paramedic/his boss got pregnant within a couple of weeks of my getting pregnant....with the other married paramedic's baby. Her husband had had a vasectomy, so rather than face him, she aborted that baby. I wonder from time to time what happened to all of those people. They were a sick bunch of folks. Ech. But God brings good out of all evil, so I like to think that our family is the good that came out of that Peyton Place. 
You all have such great stories! I love threads like this.
My husband and I dated our senior year in high school. We ended up going our separate ways when we went to different colleges. We both got married to other people and divorced. We had each moved to Texas during our first marriages and had moved back here for family reasons. His ex came into the minor emergency clinic that I work in and I ended up giving her an injection. I hadn't really paid attention to her name at that time....busy day, but her friend called back with some questions. Talking back and forth I realized that her ex was the same guy I had dated in high school! She happened to mention to him that she had run into me at my work. He called me at work on Valentines Day in 1994 (mainly to see if I was single or not!!) and showed up shortly after with a rose and a box of candy!! We've been together ever since and have a 10yr. old son together!!!!
My hubby and I met at a campus bible study in college. He was there with his, at that time, girlfriend. During the summer, she went home to Florida and me & my future DH, stayed on campus.
Let's just say that The Lord is my Shepherd & he knows what I want!!! We quickly became friends & luckily things weren't working out with him and his girl (she was dating someone else, who she's now married to w/2 kids).
Good thing I came along...his old girlfriend turned out to be his sister's husband's little sister. (yeah I know..small world)
My husband and I met over a cb radio. They were the big thing in the 70's. Everyone had one. We started dating and got married the next September. We were 19 (me) and he was 18 we graduated in June. We've been married for almost 31 years. And my aunts said I was still to wet behind the ears to get married LOL that meant too young.
I am a firm bekiever that there is some one out there for everyone. All you have to do is take a chance and keep your eyes open. So to all you ladies still looking for love just be patient and keep your heart open.
I belive this too... But im always scared ive ruined my chance with that someone over stupid things i say and do lol!
I just wish i would meet mine soon.... I feel like im missing out
ok i will play too.
i spotted my husband 12 yrs ago in a bar i used to frequent with my girlfriends. He won't give me the time of day, I would watch him play pool ,play against him and talk with him but he wouldn't ask me out. So I found out he was the captain of the pool team and joined the team, just to get him to go out with me Many months later I finally got brave enough (after a few drinks) to ask him out and he hesitated but finally gave in. I found out several months after we were dating that he wanted to ask me out, but was scared to because he is 18 yrs older than me. We just celebrated our 8 yr anniversary last week. I am the luckiest girl around, he is a great husband and my best friend!
Oh and we are still playing pool on leagues together!
I too met my husband online. An AOL chat room to be exact I was actually making fun of my sister for talking to all these strangers for months at this point...She challenged me and said I didn't know what I was talking about since I hadn't even gone online...this was 1999. I said fine...After being online for about 2 weeks I saw him in a chat room. He was being a real jerk and saying all this really rude stuff just to get a rise out of people and I fell for it. I IM'd him and found out he really wasn't like that...We talked for 2 months every day for at least 3 hours and then decided that we had to meet. He was from PA and I was in Springfield, Oregon. He flew to see me and I met him at the airport - It felt like we had been together for years as soon as I saw him. Definitely meant to be. He flew to see me in April, 1999 & May, 1999 - Moved to Oregon in August, 1999 and we married in September 1999 and have been going strong since...He's my partner in everything!!
I too met my husband online. An AOL chat room to be exact I was actually making fun of my sister for talking to all these strangers for months at this point...She challenged me and said I didn't know what I was talking about since I hadn't even gone online...this was 1999. I said fine...After being online for about 2 weeks I saw him in a chat room. He was being a real jerk and saying all this really rude stuff just to get a rise out of people and I fell for it. I IM'd him and found out he really wasn't like that...We talked for 2 months every day for at least 3 hours and then decided that we had to meet. He was from PA and I was in Springfield, Oregon. He flew to see me and I met him at the airport - It felt like we had been together for years as soon as I saw him. Definitely meant to be. He flew to see me in April, 1999 & May, 1999 - Moved to Oregon in August, 1999 and we married in September 1999 and have been going strong since...He's my partner in everything!!
Met my DH at a bar in 1994..well, a couple of my friends met him and his friends a week or so earlier at the same place so I kind of met him at the bar through my friends. One of the girls I hung out with liked him but he wasn't interested. So after we started dating I kind of kept it a secret from her. I finally told her and she was fine with it. We got married in 2000.
I do have to say OMG! lol
Funny enuff i was reading this thread again and thinking so many of you are so lucky... I then flicked to the next screen and there was a message on a dating site from a guy. i normally dont reply as im only on that site for the message boards and to make fun of my friends (mean i know lol) and anways well i started talking to him and we really hit it off. spent all yesterday txting each other (each sent over 150 txts lol) and ended up meeting him last night too. he ended up spending the night i i have that feeling that he might be the one.... I never expected it and im so happy!
I just hope that he feels the same way too
I met my hubby at the end of my sophomore year of high school. We met in a movie theater parking lot. The strip that the theater was in was a hang out. I was there with a bunch of my friends and he and his friends drove by in a red mustang convertible. He and one of his friends were apparently having a "kissing contest" and wanted us all to kiss them. Yeah, right. Not happening. But we did follow them to a party. I had to leave early and as I was leaving he came up to me and said I was a really good kisser. I was stumped as I didn't kiss him . . . so I said, "How would you know?" and as I was saying it, he leaned in for a kiss. "That's how. And I was definitely right." . . . how could I not go out on a date with him???
We dated through high school. I went to an all-girls' Catholic school and he went to an all-boys private school down the street. He went off to California for college to play water polo and I went to Mizzou (University of Missouri). We dated long distance all through college. He didn't come home for the summers as he needed to be there for polo so he'd come home basically for Christmas and the occasional spring break. I got a job at school just to save up so I could "sneak off" and visit him a few times. We ended up seeing each other about 2-3 a year. As hard as that was, I swear it's what kept us together. I still contend that if we had gone to the same college, we would have broken up somewhere in our freshman year but because we were apart, we totally developed our relationship (we talked 3-4 times a week and wrote letters almost daily) and totally developed our independence at the same time.
He proposed to me over Christmas break of our senior year of college and we were married the following year (12/30/95). We've been married for 11+ years and have two adorable little boys (Xander is 4 and Colin is 2).
I do have to say OMG! lol
Funny enuff i was reading this thread again and thinking so many of you are so lucky... I then flicked to the next screen and there was a message on a dating site from a guy. i normally dont reply as im only on that site for the message boards and to make fun of my friends (mean i know lol) and anways well i started talking to him and we really hit it off. spent all yesterday txting each other (each sent over 150 txts lol) and ended up meeting him last night too. he ended up spending the night i i have that feeling that he might be the one.... I never expected it and im so happy!
I just hope that he feels the same way too
Don't confuse love at first 'night' with desperation.
Meeting guys on the Internet and having them spend the night the first time you meet is really, really dangerous...and rather gross. 
I do have to say OMG! lol
Funny enuff i was reading this thread again and thinking so many of you are so lucky... I then flicked to the next screen and there was a message on a dating site from a guy. i normally dont reply as im only on that site for the message boards and to make fun of my friends (mean i know lol) and anways well i started talking to him and we really hit it off. spent all yesterday txting each other (each sent over 150 txts lol) and ended up meeting him last night too. he ended up spending the night i i have that feeling that he might be the one.... I never expected it and im so happy!
I just hope that he feels the same way too
Please be careful. A LOT of guys use the internet as a way of "hooking up" for one night stands. If he is "the one" he will respect you, and moreso, respect yourself. There are so many people out there with diseases....protect yourself! And be careful of who you let into your home, crimes happen everyday and you don't want to be a victim. I don't want to bash you or your experience, I was just a bit concerned while I was reading your post. Please, be careful.
I do have to say OMG! lol
Funny enuff i was reading this thread again and thinking so many of you are so lucky... I then flicked to the next screen and there was a message on a dating site from a guy. i normally dont reply as im only on that site for the message boards and to make fun of my friends (mean i know lol) and anways well i started talking to him and we really hit it off. spent all yesterday txting each other (each sent over 150 txts lol) and ended up meeting him last night too. he ended up spending the night i i have that feeling that he might be the one.... I never expected it and im so happy!
I just hope that he feels the same way too
Please be careful. A LOT of guys use the internet as a way of "hooking up" for one night stands. If he is "the one" he will respect you, and moreso, respect yourself. There are so many people out there with diseases....protect yourself! And be careful of who you let into your home, crimes happen everyday and you don't want to be a victim. I don't want to bash you or your experience, I was just a bit concerned while I was reading your post. Please, be careful.
I second that.
Thanks for the thoughts girls.... We have been txting still over the last few days and hes really nice. and I think he is interested and hes always txting me asking how i am and what im doing. Were getting to know each other pretty well. I have a busy weekend and so does he so cant see each other But plan to early next week and just have dinner and watch a movie or something.
I am very careful when it comes to letting people into my home and dont normally but this one feels different. I know where he lives and alot about him so if anything was to go wrong i know where to go.
I met my husband in Alaska (I'm from Montana and he's from ND) I had moved there following my college graduation to study for my MCAT and gain residency for med school and ended up working in the same hospital pharmacy ( I was a Pharm Tech at the time). Needless to say, he is VERY VERY shy and I took me 8 months to get him to even talk to me!! So after some investigation through our co-workers, I found out he had grown up on a cattle ranch and when the opportunity presented itself - I lied to him! Yep!! I told him I had always wanted to learn how to brand cows and asked him how you actually take one down. He then proceeded to demonstrate to me (right there in the pharmacy) how to take down a cow. (Very unlike him) Everything is history from there. I still don't think he knows what he got himself into!!
Oh - he does know that I "lied" Wasn't too hard to figure out when we went to his folks' house for branding and I refused to even go down and watch!! 
Janeil
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