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