how did you meet your significant other?

[PM_Mama00]

My friend met this guy in junior high through church. He liked her so much but she never liked him. She went to dances and stuff with him anyways. One time she went away to Chicago to visit his aunt with him, and before they went to bed he goes "I'm gona marry you one day" and she laughed in his face and said "yeah right". She had a boyfriend all through high school, and they broke up. Well, she decided to go out with him one night to try to work things out, and she kept thinking about churchboy the whole night. She then realized that he was the one for her. They finally got married and I've never seen a couple happier than them!

Her brother is my ex. When we were hanging out one nite I go "Lisa I'm gona marry your brother one day" and she goes "OMG you are!" And told me the above story. SOo similar to mine and her brother's. I've liked him since junior high, he's gone out with some pretty skank nasty girls. We'd hang out for a while, then not talk for a while. I just hung out with him last week... I really don't think I wana marry him!

[Nikki_DZ]

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

[starang21]

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.

[steelepike]

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.

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

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 Oh my lordy does Dusty have gorgeous eyes! I was soo his after that 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 Our anniversary on Spetember 20th will be our 3 year anny

[rainbowbrightCS]

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.

[DWAlphaGam]

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.

[swissmiss04]

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.
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.

[recentASAalum]

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...

[Munchkin03]

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

I should learn that.

[EPTriSigma]

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...

[mu_agd]

Originally posted by Munchkin03
You know, I actually don't know where or how my parents met.

I should learn that.

Mine met in Tuesday's in NYC.

[KSigkid]

Originally posted by Munchkin03
You know, I actually don't know where or how my parents met.

I should learn that.

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.

[PhoenixAzul]

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.

[layla2728]

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