Where did you meet your significant other?

[Deja Q]

And if you haven't met yours in, chime in too! The single folk can get lots of tips from those who have found their loves.

And I mean 'love'. Not a one-night stand or anything else empty. That's why I don't do that anymore (heh, and even then it generally wasn't...)

[MrCoffee]

1. we worked together.

we were retail slaves, and the manager at the store hired my wife because she (the manager) thought that i would like her (my wife).

[kwassa]

2. On the Internets

About 12 years ago, and we are still going strong. Married for the past 7 years.

[scarlet_owl]

3. Yahoo personals.

And we've been married for six years.

[ceile]

4. Through a coworker.

That was 1996 and we've been together off and on ever since-minus the four years I was engaged to a guy I met in bar. This time we're on and getting hitched. :loveya:

[terrya]

5. Online

On a gay/lesbian message board...theadvocate.com. Several years ago.

We ran into each other there, were interested in each other, exchanged phone numbers, exchanged pictures (and we were both VERY interested in each other after that), made arragments to meet...and then we fell in love.

And the rest is history. :-)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. on friendster

[NewWaveChick1981]

7. In college.

I was 20, he was 22, and we were both dating other people. We were a part of the same group of friends, and he actually was one of my two male roommates for about two years. Things were purely platonic until after he broke up with his girlfriend for reasons unrelated to me (I had broken up with my boyfriend for unrelated reasons several months before). We knew each other for nine years before we got married in 1992. :)

[Divameow77]

8. match.com

We've been dating 5 months and he's perfect for me :loveya:

[RetroLounge]

9. I met MrsRetro in line waiting to get into a club

I was meeting a date, she was with friends in town for a concert, we met in line and talked a bit.

My date was late, so I found MrsRetro sitting with friends at a table, joined them, and we talked.

2 hours later my date showed up, and it was WAY too late.

Will have 10 years of marriage in October...

RL

[Ptah]

10. Haven't met yet, that I can tell. n/t

[Dora]

11. Met in a bar. His band was playing. I was drinking off a breakup.

I tend to become marvelously lippy when I have a drink or two. He's a sucker for smartassedry.

I'm a sucker for the tall skinny slightly nerdy type who knows how to look at my rack without giving it away that he's checking my rack. My beloved is the King of Subtle.

[underpants]

12. Accounting fraternity

Swear to GOD!

[Puglover]

13. On a phone line. :)

We met and our "casual sex date" turned into a real date with no sex. For 8 weeks. :rofl: We're going strong after 9 years.

[BrotherBuzz]

14. Blind date

Three different and independent parties attempted to connect us through various schemes, convinced we'd be perfect for each other; they were all correct. Cogs churning, chance encounters, and all that, both of us wonder why we didn't connect sooner, and on our own.

[LaurenG]

15. My daughter introduced us.

:bounce: We've been together 14 years.

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. Middle School. 7th Grade. He sat behind me...

I think most here won't be able to use that.


We "met again" at 18 at a pool hall, dated, broke up, ran into each other again a few years later at a party and Bammo!

We made this:

...and he looks just like his daddy did way back when I first met him.

[Tyo]

17. We met on a blind date

At a Mexican restaurant in Tokyo

[Fuzz]

18. On a cruise in the caribbean

*cue the love boat theme

[Ariana Celeste]

19. An MSN chatroom.

I would say almost 6 years ago. We knew eachother casually since we chatted in the same rooms, and eventually started talking on a personal level. Then I flew out here, and well... :)

[cobalt1999]

20. she schemed to met me.

She knew my brother and his wife and saw pictures of me at their place, got my life/personality/professional story from him. The next time I came into town to visit my brother and his wife, she invited herself along for dinner. She asked me out later that night.

Never knew what hit me. The Mrs. isn't shy.

[Deja Q]

47. Now that's cool!

:thumbsup:

[miss_american_pie]

21. On a highway

Route 19 to be specific.

[Left Is Write]

22. Bogart's Place, Apple Valley, MN

[politicat]

23. His ex and my ex were both polyamorous....

And DH and I are only minimally so. (I like the idea, and I'm not jealous by nature within some parameters, but it's a heck of a lot of work and emotional energy for what I see as diminishing returns.)

The exes met at a polyamory meetup, and fell quite quickly and passionately into lust to a point where they were really involved with each other. DH and I sidelined for a while, being friends and letting them rut like bunnies. Then the exes had a huge blow-up (they really should have talked about contraception and children before they introduced the pink bits, but when in lust...) and decided never to see each other again. Which put a cramp on my friendship with DH.

After the dust settled, all four of us were single (for various reasons involving control issues in my relationship and DH's sudden realization that in fact she wasn't interested in DH's equipment after 10 years of marriage.... you think she would have figured that one out a while back, too...) I moved into a cave of a basement apartment and avoided them all; DH's ex moved in with other Polys and built her own life. My ex played the field and DH gave up emotionally.

We remained friends, gaming and going to events together. He'd sleep on my couch when there was something in Denver he wanted to do, and I'd sleep on his on weekends when I needed to do laundry, since neither of us had a car and the busses were utter crap on weekends.

After a few months of this, we realized how important we were to each other, and went about becoming first lovers, then sharing a house, then married with a high degree of logic and reason. Our fifth anniversary is in December, and we're in this for the long haul.

[johnnie]

24. A what?

I haven't met anyone in a long time. I have tried a few different things, but nothing seems to work. Then again, I never put a lot into it. Plus, no women ever seem interested in me and they think I am not dating material I guess. I don't really know to be honest.

[idgiehkt]

46. I thought you were married....

wow, learn something new every day.

[johnnie]

53. Almost was

Many years ago.

[idgiehkt]

60. I thought I read it on a profile somewhere.

Now this is making me question everything I know about everyone around here, lol. I thought I heard you refer to someone as your wife. :shrug:

well, now I don't have to feel guilty looking at your pictures in the pic threads, lol...

[Deja Q]

58. I hear ya

Well, there are a couple of women I know of. But if it doesn't work out, it doesn't. So we keep on going and keep on hoping. Seems silly to stop despite the repetitious nature of it all.

But I hear ya; I'm 34 and I'm typically seen as not 'dating material' either.

But never give up.

[swag]

25. At a show by a band we both had friends in.

We didn't like each other at first. And she had a boyfriend and I had a girlfriend. But later all that changed.

[graywarrior]

26. Doing stuff we weren't supposed to be doing.

Some minor criminal element to it was involved. Instant soulmate recognition while running away to escape, which we did hahahahaha.

[trackfan]

27. On Prodigy

[Xithras]

28. She was in a serious relationship with my best friend.

Needless to say, he and I didn't remain friends.

We're happily married almost 14 years later, so I rate it as a fair trade.

[HEyHEY]

40. So, did you steal her away or was it after they broke up?

[Xithras]

70. They were still seeing each other

I guess I should clarify one thing. HE thought it was a serious relationship, and they had been exclusive for a while. She just thought it was fun and had no intention of staying with him anyway. They were too different, but he was willing to overlook that because the sex was great and she is very attractive. He'd even asked her to marry him, and kept up the relationship AFTER she said no. Poor boy wouldn't take a clue.

Our relationship started innocently enough. We shared some classes, I was helping her with some homework, we started talking a lot, we discovered that we had a heck of a lot in common, and an attraction grew. One night she came to our house for a party (my friend was also my roommate), but he'd bugged out with a few other friends for the evening. She stuck around the party anyway, we both had waay too much to drink, and woke up in bed together the next morning :evilgrin:

What was odd in retrospect was that all of our friends supported it (except for the roomie, of course). We had several people comment that we "belonged together" and that we were a natural couple. Our friends had apparently seen the possibility of a relationship between us before we had. A couple of the guys thought it was a bit cold of me, but everyone recognized that the two of them weren't going anywhere anyway.

Some people have told me that stealing a friends girl makes me a bad person, but I tend to write off that kind of possesiveness. People should be with whoever makes them happy. He didn't make her happy. I did. It was unfortunate that he got hurt in the process, but I'd do the same thing a thousand times for her. She's just THAT worth it to me :)

[AirmensMom]

29. In the college TV lounge.

My first day, his second year. That was 32 years ago. :loveya:

[Worst Username Ever]

30. We met 7 years ago and "re-met" this past March.

We both had a huge thing for each other back then (in college at the U of MN), but neither ever did anything about it. We never even kissed. We both found ourselves in other relationships, and we lost touch a couple years ago. She called to say hello on St. Patrick's day this year. We are getting married in 4 days.

[HEyHEY]

31. The most unexpected place - the bar

I was going into a phase in life where I decided I never had had a time in life where I was a dirty male slut. I had a few thing son the go, set ups for what could have been sex-only relationships, but was lookin' for even more.
So, when my buddy called to invite me out with ten good lookin' ladies in their early 20s I couldn't resist going.
Then, I met my sweetie and my plans were thrown completely into the garbage. She was one of the girls in the group.

[RubyDuby in GA]

32. At a meeting for the GA for Dean chapter of Dean for America

Yep, we met working on the Dean campaign. That's why our little boy's middle name is Dean. :)

[Mz Pip]

33. He tripped over me at a party

32 years ago. I was living with another guy who turned out to be a real jerk. Real jerk took me to a party then proceeded to totally ignore me and go hit on other women. I was sitting on the floor and this guy tripped over me. I said to him, "Well, now that you're down here, you might as well stay awhile." We talked for 3 hours, sitting on that floor.

We celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary last May. :o)

:loveya:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[El Fuego]

34. At a get-together for a mutual friend at a bar

[1gobluedem]

35. In a case of mistaken identity

He and I both thought the other was somebody else we were supposed to meet for business. I'm sure glad it happened, though!

[Pendrench]

36. She was dating my best friend.

They only dated for a few months, then he broke up with her...during that time, however, we had become pretty good friends, so we stayed in touch over the next couple of years (but never dated). Then I asked her to go to an Elton John/Billy Joel concert with me...and something just clicked.

Four months later we were engaged, and next month we'll be celebrating our 11 year anniversary.

The great thing is that my best friend is still my best friend (he was one of the ushers at our wedding, and I was the best-man at his).

Tim

[Deep13]

37. I met her at the candy store! She turned 'round and smiled at me!...

...You get the picture? (Yes, we see.) That's when I fell for the leader of the pack! Vroom vroom.

Actually it was a personal ad in the free a&e paper in the dark days before the internets.

[seemunkee]

38. pizza parlor

I made pizza, she made subs that was when we were in high school

[purji]

39. Tarot shop

He read my cards.

[Blue_In_AK]

41. High school in 1963...

Then we broke up and didn't reunite until 2000. We've been happily married now for 3-1/2 years.

[tigereye]

42. college

I was running for student government.... and he looked like a very large version of Abbie Hoffman....

[livetohike]

43. At a party while we were both in college, actually

I saw him in the cafeteria with a guy I knew and I asked that guy to bring him to the party. We've been together since May 1973 :-).

[Shine]

44. We were both involved with the same non-profit organization.

plus, we had mutual friends in common who thought we'd be perfect for each other.

They were right.

We've been together almost 15 yrs. :loveya:

:hi:

[flvegan]

45. Prison.

What?

[LeftyMom]

48. Hush, you.

:*

[flvegan]

49. What, boss? I gave no specifics, at least.

Jeez.

[LeftyMom]

50. Do you really want everybody to know you were my prison bitch?

Whoops. :D

[flvegan]

52. I liked you better as a man.

[LeftyMom]

55. yeah, but you were jealous of my superior junk

:P

[flvegan]

61. Pre-op

doesn't make for "superior" automatically, mate.

[LeftyMom]

62. Funny, that's not what the other guys on the cell block said.

:evilgrin:

[flvegan]

63. Yeah, well

when you're dipping your teabags in every cup in the cafeteria, you're going to get compliments.

[LeftyMom]

64. You're just jealous

because nobody wanted your salad.

What? Lunchtime's rough in the joint. :shrug:

[flvegan]

66. Don't hate me cuz I'm not the Sizzler.

They can want my salad, but I'm no come-one-come-all all-you-can-eat salad buffet, complete with sneeze guard (unlike SOME folks).

Shit, you gave whole new meaning to the command, "time for YOU to spend some time in the HOLE!"

[LeftyMom]

67. I thought you said you liked my sneeze guard?

:cry:

[sweetheart]

51. India

Sindhia Ghat, Banares

Ghats are the baths on the edge of the Ganges river, and this one
very close by the burning ghat where 1200 bodies a day are cremated
in high death season, summer. Across the river, packs of dogs eat the
floating remains of the bodies that do not get burned, huge piles of
arms and legs... very much like it was when gautama Buddha taught there for
so many decades 1000's of years ago.

And somewhere in that pilgrimage, bodhi.

[skygazer]

54. In the produce department

I worked there, he shopped there. It was obvious from the contents of his cart that he knew how to cook. When I instigated conversation (by mentioning the cat food in the cart - "Oh, you have a cat?") his whole face lit up. I figured anyone who could be so open about loving his cat AND could cook was worth picking up. So I picked him up.

That was 5 1/2 years ago.

[Deja Q]

57. Women who pick men up are great.

Which is a funny statement, coming from a man who was sexually assaulted by one 19 years ago! :wow: :rofl:

[skygazer]

59. Well, obviously you're smart enough to recognize the difference

I was assaulted by a man 30 years ago but it doesn't stop me from picking 'em up. ;) :rofl:

[Habibi]

56. Went to high school together

then lost touch for about 25 years. When we met up again at a reunion, well, there were sparks. Got married 2 years ago, after a 5-year courtship.

Of course, we've been pissed off at each other a lot lately, but I guess that's the seven-year-itch for ya.

[bigwillq]

65. At a club

Been together for five years.

[zanne]

68. At an AA meeting.

We've been soberly married for 27 years.

[NC_Nurse]

69. In a band...

I sang, he played bass. :-)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

71. I met him online...Yahoo Personals..

We chatted back and forth for a while, then I was bad and invited him to my house while no one else was home. We've been together ever since. There's a lot more in between, but I don't want to bore anyone.
Duckie

[bicentennial_baby]

72. Here

[femmocrat]

73. At a college dance. He used to date my best friend, but

I didn't know him then. She introduced us! The rest is history.

[mwdem]

74. Our sisters were friends months before we knew about each other.

They decided to get us together. And, we lived 3 houses from each other.

[LeftyMom]

75. Some website on teh intarweb

:shrug:

[grannylib]

76. Met my hubby of 21 years in aisle three of the Happy Dan's market

:-)

He was the last one they had; I snatched him up immediately.