how did you meet your significant other?
 

Though I have my tough exterior sometimes, I'm a hopeless romantic too. I know many of you are married, will-be or are in relationships, etc. I was wondering how you met your significant others?



Since I don't have a boyfriend or anything like that, I'll share the story of how my parents met because I love this story. Both my parents went to Kansas University and my mom was taking a creative writing class and they were planning to publish a newspaper type deal. One night while they were gathered at the professor's house, my dad walked in, holding two bottles of tequila in paper bags (my dad is 6' 4" about 250 pounds (at the time) with brown hair and eyes) He started yelling about how they had to "get the show on the road" so that he could go out and party. My mom said she thought he was the most obnoxious man she's ever met in her entire life and they argued the entire time they worked on the paper. She later told me that she knew that she was completely in love with him when he first came into the room.

My parents were involved in a terrible car accident soon after on their way to Topeka to get the published papers. My mom was thrown into the front seat and her head was split open (but she was ok) My Grandpa said that my mom lost her mind and that's when she fell in love with my dad.

My dad said it was his charm, good looks... and his motorcycle haha

so what are your stories?

That's so cute about your parents!!! Mine met on a blind date, and my dad later told the guy who fixed him up that he was going to marry my mama. He was in the Navy, stationed at Norfolk, VA, and rather than break a date with my mama when his car broke down, (and he couldn't get a train or plane), he took a taxi to keep the date!! The day my daddy died, he had doodled my mama's name earlier in the day. *sigh*


I met mr. honeychile at a soccer convention (the United Soccer Boosters Convention) in St. Louis. I didn't know many people who would be there, but I had heard about him, and that he would have a car. We were introduced, and I told him a Grateful Dead joke (he was wearing tie-dye), and he laughed. I then told him that I was just being nice to him because he had a car. He still tells me that he was impressed with my confidence (etc)!

I met my husband when I was in the dorms visiting another guy I was kind of seeing. I was upset because I was having problems w/ school administration (imagine that!), and it was 2 in the afternoon or so. I was screaming and cussing the administrators and he walks into the room holding a beer. I looked up at him and said, "Don't you think it's a little early for that?" He told me it was never too early, but I looked like I needed one myself! The thing w/ the other guy kind of fizzled, but Mike and I remained friends and eventually it turned into something more. It's so funny because we both have so many mutual friends, we should have met way before we actually did. There are 2 or 3 times that we can both recall being at the same place, but like w/in 5 minutes of each other. We both believe we were destined to be together, because if we had met on one of those earlier occasions, we wouldn't have been ready for each other.

It's really funny because he and I were both in marching band in HS. He, however, grew up in NC and I grew up in FL. Well, my marching band competed nationally, as did his, and there were a few competitions where we competed against each other. Since he's only a year older than me, we were both there at the same time - years before we ever met. How funny is that!

Now, if you want to hear how he proposed, that's a completely different story. ;)

I met Mr. ZTAngel while I was at his fraternity's party. I was in one of the rooms with my sorority sister. He was standing in the corner with his fraternity brothers. She went over to say hi to him since they were friends. He looked dead sexy. :) I did my drunken stumble over to where they were standing and practically fell on top of him. He caught me. I slurred to my sorority sister, "He's cute. Introduce me." The rest is history.

Moral of the story: If you're normally too shy to talk to cute boys, get drunk. You will no longer feel any shame. ;)

I also don't have a SO so i will tell my parents story.

My mum came to Canada from England in 1972 with one of her best friends. They came here for fun and adventure.

My Dad is a DU from the University of Toronto and the DU's often rented out their house to other groups for parties. One night the Du's had rented out the house to a Rugby team for a party and my Mum happened to be there as were some of the DU's.

My dad spotted my mum across the room and asked her dance. Then ended up spending the whole night talking to each other and that very night he told her he loved her.

They have been together ever since. Married 29 years.

awwwww! these are so great- i love them! and AXiD670 do tell the engagement story:)

For all those people who say you can't meet anyone worthwhile in the bar, I can prove them wrong.
One of my best friends had turned 21 over Spring break, so when he, I and another friend got back into town early, we wanted to take him to his first Pullman bar. We went, the friday night of spring break, and the bar was empty except for us and the bartender. The bartender sat down and talked with us the whole time, and after a little while, asked me for my phone number. It was so cute. After he closed the bar, he hung out with us all night, and that was it! We're still together and I love telling people I met my boyfriend in the bar!

We met at the bar in Antigua in downtown Orlando. She was with her friend Nicole and I was with my friend Tony. I noticed her across the bar from me because of her hair (It's light blonde). We made eye contact and next thing I know I'm pounding drinks with my boy and she shows up right next to me and we start talking. Within 10 minutes I realized what a cool chick she was but could already tell I wasnt getting any ass from her that night. In fact, after talking to her for about 30 minutes I didnt think we'd ever have sex. It turned out that she went to highschool with two of my DG exes from UF back in Ft. Lauderdale (which was really wierd) and knows them really well. Being as I thought one of my exes may have been a lil'whore in highschool, I didnt think Rachel and I would hit it off too well. Turns out she thought they were really pretty and liked them. So, one drink turned into another and another and another and then it turned into Jaegermeister shots. I had planned on bouncing all around downtown to find some ass but instead I stayed right there talking to her. My boy was so pissed because he didnt like her friend Nicole ;) At the end of the night she had me take down her number and said to call her in 20 minutes after we got in the car. I ended up calling her an hour later. I don't know why, but we must have talked for 2+ hours on the phone about everything that could have possibly been in our heads. I remember being turned on to the fact that she knew a lot about progressive/trance/house/break beat music as I did and actually knew a lot of DJs on top of being in ZTA.....and she was hot. I remember thinking she was sooooo my type of chick except she's 5' 6 or 7. She helped get me over the height thing real quick. :D

I met him in a bar. He called me at 7:30 AM the next day, but I had left for work. He called later that evening and asked me out. It's not a really romantic story.

Ok I have a couple I have to tell because I think they are great....
First may parents are such the American Pie couple. They met at Band Camp in high school. He asked her to home coming and the rest is history. He also would hold her hand until they had been dating for 6 months. He was shy. They have been married for 37 years.
My best friend also met her husband at a bar. She was the shot girl at a bar in Chico and he and one of his friends made a bet to see which one could get a date with her first. No he didn't win but he did end up marrying her 6 years later.
And as for me (boring) my boss set us up. We were at a trade show and one of the booths was handing out long stems roses. He got all of his co-workers to go up and get a rose so that he could give them to me when he asked me out on a date. 6 years later we were married.

That could be a thread of its own, as I have a good engagement story, too! :)

well, i met my bf online. but it wasn't anything, we would just chat every so often. and we would always say "oh yeah, we can meet up sometime" cause we only lived 45 mins away. but never would really try to do anything. he would talk about going to the shooting range cause he collects guns and i've never been to one or shot a gun. so he would say that if he went that he would let me know and if i wanted to go that it was ok cause it was halfway between us. on jan 5th of this year, we were online chatting and were both bored, so he said, "hey do you want to go to the shooting range?", and i was like "sure. i don't have anything else to do" so i went and i was a lil late cause i got lost. he said that when i first walked through the door, he was just speechless that he forgot what his name was. and that he was so shocked because he thought i looked so beautiful and so his type. when we finished shooting, we went outside and he wanted to hang out more. so he nervously asked me if i wanted to go back to his place to hang out and watch some movies. i said sure cause i was having fun and he was a nice guy. i followed him back to his place, and we just laid in bed (fully clothed. lol.) didn't watch the movies and talked for hours! he didn't make any moves or anything. and in the morning we went and got bagels and ate them at the park by the beach. and when i left, he gave me a little tiny tiny tiny kiss cause he wanted me to know he was interested. and since then, we've been together almost everyday. moved in and all. he's the best bf i've ever had. and i'm the best gf he's ever had. what's funny is how random it was, cause we were both talking to a couple of other people and never really looking to hook up with eachother. and out of coincidence, we ended up at the shooting range to pick up some mace on our 4 month anniversary. it was cute. it goes to show you that the best things come when you least expect them :D

We met in eighth grade when I was the "new girl" at school. He sat next to me in English. :)

I met Mr. aephi alum during my freshman year of college. For a long time, I knew him only as a friend of a friend. Our mutual friend (my sorority sister) tried to get us together a couple of times, but somehow it didn't happen.

Fast forward a couple of years and a few bad relationships (for each of us) later. His dorm was hosting a party, and on a whim, I decided to go - more to hang out with friends and have fun than to meet a guy. So at the party, he and I got to talking, kept talking, talked some more... then the sun rose... and we've been together ever since. :)

He was my lab partner in biology. At the end of the quarter, I told him that if he asked me to coffee, I wouldn't say "no." He asked me to coffee (during finals week) and we've been dating for the past 14 months even tho he wound up moving 300 miles away for grad school...

I'm another "bar" person.

My friend Bree kept telling me about her friend Mike from college, and how we'd be perfect for one another. Finally, after hearing about him for the whole summer, I told her she should just introduce us already (mainly to shut her up). She invited me to karoke at a very shady bar. I initially declined, as I was tired (had driven back from Atlanta the day before). She told me Mike would be there, so I curled my hair and ended up going "for ONE beer".

I sat down next to him at the table (his first words to me were, "HiI'mMike"). Over the next three hours, we sat and talked and talked, like we'd known each other for years. Over the course of the convo, I mentioned I'd been wanting a Livejournal code. He offered me one of his, and took my email address. By the time I got home that night, there was an email waiting on me with the code, and a flirty note. I then set up my journal and left him a big thank you in the first entry. He got my IM name from my info page and messaged me that night. We went to lunch the next day, and the rest is history :)

she saw my keychain, and introduced herself. a few months later, she asked me out. plus it didn't hurt she was so damn fine.

well not the Bar story but i met her at Hooters, it was my birthday and my friends wanted to take me out to dinner and after hang out at our place with some friends, not a big party but people. My friend was talking to this girl and invited her to hang out with us and all and she said she'd come and meet us at Hooters. For some reason i actually decided to pretty mysel up, instead of a hat throw some gell in it, instead of any shirt i picked out my best t-shirt and my dad's jean jacket from the early 80s. Well i walk into hooters and all the people are there already and the girl my friend invited brought her roommate to scope him out and make sure he was an ok guy. I don't even notice her and we then get seated and she sits next to me. I do the only thing i can think of when a cute girl sits next to me I stike up a conversation. What about, your guess is as good as mine. SInce its my birthday my friends tell the waitress and i get the Hooters humiliation and i make an ass of myself. The dinner goes well and everyone comes back to my apartment to hang out. Once there we guys are trying to come up with something to do. Well for some weird idea comes up that Fight Club should happen, after decided that might be bloody it just becomes wrestling. Well no one wants to be the first but since i have this girl i am trying to impress i call out my friend John and start getting him razzled so something can happen. The short story of the match is that i win but not with out showing most of the crowd of girls my ass by accident. I swear it was an accident. Well after many matches the guys are tired and we decide to watch a movie. By this time i am sitting next to my eventual girlfriend and talking about all kinds of stuff. In the middle of the movie i get up to use the bathroom and my roommate sits in my seat. i come out and take a seat and and through the rest of the movie our eyes would wonder to each other. At the end of the night we exchange numbers.

The next day my friend asked if the girl he was interested in wante dto hang out and she should bring her roommate for me. We end up hanging out til 6 in the morning talking about who knows but it was an amzing time anways.

After dating my girlfriend for awhile we talked about the first time we met and she said that when i first walked in she thought i was cute and hoped i wasn't the guy her roommate was seeing. She though my shirt and jacket were awesome and me acting like and ass at both hooters and being the first to wrestle were hilarious and she knew i would be cool to hang out with even if we didn't date. and when my roommate stole my seat next to her she was upset. and when i first called her she knew from that conversation she was falling for me hard. Well lucky for her i was lost to her that night too.

Dusty and I were set-up by our mutual best friend Matt, one of his fraternity bros' and an old-old buddy of mine. Dusty and I didn't meet for a week but man, Matt was talking him up :) I had the "choice" of Jimmy or Dusty that I was "allowed" to date, lol! The only reason I chose Dusty was because he had dark hair, unlike Jimmy who is blond.
We finally met officially when I was walking down the main drag of Rio w/Matt's now exgf after class when we spotted Matt and started talking to him. Dusty was coming from the other direction w/a bunch of his art supplies in his arms & hands. Matt then calls over Dusty and introduces us. Since we both had stuff in the "shaking" hand we had to shake hands w/the wrong hands! It's stupid but true :o Oh my lordy does Dusty have gorgeous eyes! I was soo his after that :D After I had left I called Matt's phone and told him that if Dusty wanted my cell number he could have it. So...Dusty ended up calling me that night at work and we talked for a couple hours there and then a few more later than night :D Our anniversary on Spetember 20th will be our 3 year anny :D :D

I met the love of my life at a high school football game. We were both 15.... *sigh* but any way.

a bunch of us went to a game and we sat in a big group of people. and there was some blonde guy staring at me. I never liked blondes, I prefer dark hair... but a mutual friend introduced us. and pushed us to each other. We dated for 1 1/2 years. Broke up and are now back together... and I am going to marry him.

Whenever my boyfriend and I are asked how we met, we always laugh and say that he stalked me. But here's the full, very long, story (and the explanation of the stalking):


Second semester of our freshman year of college, my friend from down the hall (who later became my roommate and sorority sister) dragged me to tryouts for a musical, Bye Bye Birdie. I had never done any plays, but I thought it sounded fun, and since she was doing it, at least I would know someone there. Anyhoo, we go to tryouts, and we get parts in the musical, and so on and so on. We become really good friends with the cast, including the guy playing Hugo Peabody, G, who was also a freshman bio major, like me. We hung out a couple of times with everyone, but I didn't really think about him like that. However, G reeeeeaaally liked me (although I wasn't aware of it for quite awhile). With much encouragement from some of the guys in the show, G decides to call me. Of course, G is kind of a weird guy, and he decides to call me in the middle of the night. Here's how our first phone conversation went:

me (half-asleep): Huh?
G: Hi, it's G.
me (still not awake): Wha's up?
G: Uh...what are you doing?
me: I'm sleeping. Why are you calling?
G: Uh...sorry...uh...are you going to bio class tomorrow?
me: I was planning on it...
G: Uh, Ok, I'll see you then.

So then, I run down the hall and knock on my friend's door to tell her that G called me and I'm not quite sure what's going on. This whole scenario, with him calling me at random hours with nothing to say, happens at least 3 or 4 more times. Then, he starts walking my friend and I back to our dorm after play practice every night (he now defends this by saying he didn't want me to walk home alone...even though I clearly wasn't alone and our campus is super-safe). So, eventually some of the guys from the cast start telling me that G really likes me but he is too shy to do anything (which is funny, because G is really extroverted and loves being the center of attention). We started hanging out more as the show dates got closer, and for whatever reason, even though his previous behavior had totally freaked me out, I started kind of liking him, too. One night, me, G, and a couple of other friends were in my room watching movies, and our other friends start filtering out, leaving only me and G. We were sitting on my bed, watching the movie, and he starts tickling me (I know, very elementary school), and we end up laying on the bed with our faces right next to each other. We were staring at each other for what felt like forever, and I thought, "well, I don't think he's going to kiss me, so I might as well do it." So, I kissed him, and the rest, as they say is history.

We've been together for 6 years now, and hopefully our proposal story will be forthcoming very soon. ;)

One of my mom's friends has hands down the strangest story.

While he was in med school, he went to some party that apparently got very out of hand. There was this girl he saw that he thought was hot, but he was afraid to approach her. Then, some guy bit her (yes, BIT HER) on the ass. She started freaking out, and my mom's friend stepped in and said "I'm studying to be a doctor, maybe I can help." So they went off somewhere where he could check her out and make sure she didn't need stitches or anything. After that he offered to take her out sometime, once she could sit down. :p
They've been married for 30 something years now. Sometimes when life bites you on the tail, it's not such a bad thing after all.

I don't have a cute story but my parents kinda do...

My mother was raised in Guatemala and she moved into the Chicago area when she was 18ish... she got a job in a packaging plant where my Dad was the kinda the boss... well most of the people who worked under him were Hispanic and they used to make fun of him in Spanish... my Dad to this day knows hardly any spanish besides thank you and he's been married to my mother for almost 30 years... well my mom and her friends used to go smoke in the girl's bathroom on their breaks... well my Dad busted into write them all up and my mom was the only one he actually caught... they started dating and she explained to him what all the people were calling him... and a couple months later they got married...

You know, I actually don't know where or how my parents met.

I should learn that.

My boyfriend and I met at the grand re-opening gala of our student union. It was a huge community event where we gave tours to alum, city council men, senators, members of the house of reps, members of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities board.... a lot of who ha and cheesecake. I being on the Student Association was there more or less a "student representative". My boyfriend, a member of the group that had been working on the development for years (student union board), was their showing off the fruit of his labor. He was talking to my favorite professor. I, noticing the hot guy chatting with my favorite prof, slid up to their table during the social hour. We ended up talking that night for somewhere along the lines of six hours. We exchanged numbers, went on a date the very next night... and the rest is history...

Mine met in Tuesday's in NYC.

Me neither - I think they were introduced by my uncle at a restaurant, but I can't be too sure. I know it was right after my dad got back from Vietnam.

As far as for how my wife and I met; we became friends in college. Her sorority (Alpha Phi) and my fraternity hung out a lot, and quite a few of her sisters were friends of mine. We started out as friends, then started dating a year or so later, and that was that.

My mum and dad were a blind date. My mom had been engaged, but her fiance was killed in a car accident...mutual friends hooked them up, one date later, they were an item. 3months later, they were engaged...25 years later, here we are.

Pat and I met through a local music scene message board. We talked online for 5 or 6 hours the first night...and then every night after for about 3 months. Then finally he asked me to go out, so we did and it was AWESOME. 2 more dates that were also awesome...and then my parents found out about the age difference (me=16, he =21 at the time) and forbade us to see eachother. So back to phones and online for about 4 or 5 months...then finally around christmas my parents began to let us see eachother at my house or with a group of friends. On January 26th, we were official (day I got my DL too, so I can never forget!). It's been almost 4 years now, and my parents LOVE him.

my story: I met my boyfriend when I was 16 and working at the local movie theater. He had a girlfriend at the time (who, coincidentally, hated me cause I was always working with her boyfriend). We started talking on AIM and that's how we stayed in touch. Fast forward four and a half years later, he and I are still keeping in touch and we hang out every so often, and he FINALLY asks me out... three months before I leave for Australia for five months. But we stayed together, and now I'm back and things are great :) He and I always had the worst timing- whenever one of us was single, the other was in a relationship... so we finally caught up!

my parents: my mom was a model and my dad was a taxi driver, and he thought she was gorgeous and asked her out. She thought he was nice and gave him her number, but wasn't really interested in more than friends. They dated a few times and he asked her to marry him, and she said no. He asked every day until she finally said yes... twenty-six years later and they're still together :)

My dad was engaged to another woman when he met my mom. I'm not sure how they met -- they were both in college together after he came back from the Korean War.

They started dating, and he got the engagement ring back from the other woman and gave it to my mom! It's kinda' shocking when you learn your dad was a player. ;)

They've been married for 47 years.

I met my b/f at a Dallas Mavericks watching party. I was with a co-worker and her b/f. My co-worker was relatively new and this was my first time out with her and her group of friends. I was sitting at the end of the bar about to leave to meet up with some other friends when my (now) b/f walked up to me and said, well since no one has introduced me to you, I'll introduce myself.

I talked to him for a little bit (I was a bit tipsy). He then offered me his number and said for me to call him. I never called him b/c I'm not one to call guys first. My b/f sent a couple messages the following week to my co-worker to see what had happened to me. She was like you need to call her. He called that night and we talked for hours upon hours and it all happened from there. We broke up last July but have been back together since the end of March.:D

Mr. AOII Advisor and I met at a festival in Atlanta. I had just had my heart broken by the ex and had gone with my girlfriends to just enjoy a nice day, have a few beers and forget about boys. But everytime I would go get a beer, this nice guy would try and talk to me and I would kind of blow him off and tell him that it was girls night. So, finally he asked if he could see me another night when it wasn't girls night. So, I gave him my number but really didn't think anything of it.

He called me on Monday and asked me out and I literally had something to do every night that week and that weekend(I am sure he thought I was making it up), so we had our first date that next Sunday, we went and had mexican and saw a movie and have been together ever since. It's not really romantic but it goes to show you that sometimes when you aren't even looking for someone is when they appear. Thank goodness for ex's that break your hearts because they enable you to finally meet the good guys sometimes!

I met my boyfriend at Homecoming at the school he graduated from and where I went for two years. My sorority and his fraternity were competing to win Homecoming that year and we ended up beating them even though they were being really dickish and trying to cheat. As a way to remove some of the hostility, our chapters decided to go out to dinner together. About 50 of us ended up at a pizza place and I wanted to sit with one of my old housemates, and we ended up at a table with my now-boyfriend and this guy who I have ALWAYS detested. We talked through dinner (or really argued) about politics, because I was wearing a bunch of buttons from the election. I was incredibly not sober and was really rude, telling him that he was a mysogynist who misinterpreted the Bible, he called me a baby-killer, etc. We ended up going out to the bars together, staying up the whole night talking, then going to lunch the next day. We are the oddest matchup in history but 10 months later we're still together. :D

My parents met their sophomore year of high school in typing class and have been together ever since - they eloped after my mom finished college so she could go to Germany with my dad, who was in the Army.

Mr. Xylo and I met in marching band (geeky, I know) when I was in 9th grade and he was in 8th. We started dating, became co-captains of the drumline, and the rest is history.

My parents met through my aunt. She had a huge crush on my dad (they were in a bowling league together) but he ended up liking my mom instead.

My boyfriend and I met on a ten-day church retreat to Canada (our youth groups were sharing a bus to go to World Youth Day 2002 together)!

But um, I started dating another guy from the retreat first (a couple weeks after the retreat). I didn't date Mr. LB til a few months later, but we've now been together for over two and a half years! :D

We met while growing up in the same small town. We actually "went out" to the movies with friends once while in the 7th/8th grades.

When I moved back after Ole Miss and working the campaign, we got back together and never have parted since.

I met my boyfriend during our freshman year of college. It turns out he lived across the hall from my best friend (that really means guy I was totally digging on), but I never knew that. LOL.

His fraternity (TKE, of course) asked me to be their Homecoming Queen representative that year. I only knew 3 of the guys in their fraternity, but they were the 3 in charge of Homecoming. I was told that some guy named "Brad" was the Homecoming King and somehow every single one of my friends knew him but I couldn't figure out who he was. Finally, at the meeting the week before Homecoming I was properly introduced and I realized that he was some guy that I had thought was cute but needed a haircut. (He had it nice and short until this year when he decided to grow it back out again... GROSS!)

We had to work together on various projects, especially for the LipSync competition (we came in 3rd). We found out that we had similar personalities and senses of humor, and we both loved soccer and sports in general. It was something that I never thought would have lasted very long because on the outside we're so different, but we've been dating for 4.5 years and it's going great!

At the methadone clinic.

-Rudey