Where did you meet your.....

Dejajeva · #1 10-17-2001, 05:36 PM

....boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife/signifigant other-

I want to know where everyone met!!! Anyone have any interesting stories or really sweet romances???

Always,
Jess

33girl · #2 10-17-2001, 06:45 PM

Umm, our moms hooked us up. They were best friends in high school. Anyway, Mr. 33 had been living here for a while and I had been here a year and a half or so. Our moms were talking about us on the phone and his mom said "do you mind if I give him her number?" My mom figured he couldn't be worse than some of the wabols I'd been dating, so she said yeah, what the hell. He called me and we talked a couple times on the phone and then met for a drink. The rest is history.

I think we get along so well because we both left our hometown area for many of the same reasons. Also I don't know what I would have done without him when my mom died - he and his family were comforting in a way someone I "just met" never could have been. And it's neat, because we've actually sort of known each other all our lives - when he was little (he is 6 years older than me) his parents brought him when they came to "see the baby." Who would have guessed back then!

The1calledTKE · #3 10-17-2001, 07:07 PM

I met my gf at home coming more than 2 years ago. We were paired up with her sorority that year. We did not start to date until like 5 months later.

IowaHawkeye · #4 10-17-2001, 07:07 PM

Awww, that is too adorable!!! I love stories like that

I would love for the person I eventually end up with to have been in my life for so long!

KillarneyRose · #5 10-17-2001, 07:08 PM

I met my husband when he was home on leave from the Navy and I was working in New York City. I had been with someone for over 5 years, but when a coworker wanted to know if I was interested in meeting her friend I said hey why not? I'm not a b**ch or anything (well, most of the time), but the old boyfriend wasn't really working out but I was too lazy to do anything about it.

We hit it off immediately; got engaged after a month, I moved down to Virginia to be with him after 2 months and we were married after 4 months. 10 years later and we have two kids, assorted dogs and we're still deliriously happy (blah, how obnoxious!)

IowaHawkeye · #6 10-17-2001, 07:16 PM

Aww Tracy! How swept off your feet romantic!! It must be something about those Navy men... my sister (biological) met a Navy boy last summer, and even though he's at the Academy in Annapolis and she's in Chicago, theyre still all googly over each other!

juniorgrrl · #7 10-17-2001, 07:29 PM

Josh and I "officially" met in a play the summer before our senior year of HS.

However, our parents had known each other for years. My parents were lawyers for the bank his mom worked for. His mom and my mom used the same obstatrican(sp?) and after I was born and my mom had lots of prenatal vitamins left over, she gave them to Josh's mom. So we were sharing things when he was still in-utero.

Growing up, I'd always hear about stuff that Josh had done, but I never knew him personally. A guy that I became friends with in 8th grade through theater turned out to be his best friend. But still, we didn't meet. It wasn't till auditions for a play in junior year that I met him, but it was for like 30 minutes. We went our separate ways after that audition and didn't see each other again, except at a football game between our two high schools.

At the end of my junior year of HS, I decided to transfer to the other HS in my town so I could take some upper level language classes that they didn't offer at my school. The summer before senior year, I did the usual summer theater workshop, and Josh was in the play. We were cast as love interests in the play, and we've been inseperable ever since. We started dating in Sept 1997 and its been wonderful ever since

maggieaxid · #8 10-17-2001, 07:41 PM

My boyfriend and i met through a mutual friend. I was extremely adiment about not hanging out with her hs school friends when we moved to pa after graduation, but she begged me and was like "just do this once for me! i don't want to go by myself!". So we shlepped 45 mins. from philly to west chester and went to this guy Pablo's house...sparks like flew across the room the moment i met him.
well pablo and i hit it off incredibly well making fun of my other friend and went to the bar to meet up with a bunch of people...lo and behold his exgirlfriend shows up at the bar and they hadn't seen each other since they had broken up the month before (they broke up over the phone after like 4 years!!!) so pablo turned to me and said "ok pretend your my girlfriend for the rest of the night so she stays away" and i was like "of course!". So for the rest of the night he and i danced together, drank together, and just had a fabulous time together. Everyone was saying how he and i "just clicked" and then we went to go to another bar (but we ended up not going bc one of our friends didn't want to go...long story!) so as we were headed out to the parking lot we ended up hooking up, which was pretty cool.
we then ended up spending the rest of the weekend together and had the best time. that was 8 mos. ago. Now we live together and have a very bad puppy!!!!

AOIIBrandi · #9 10-17-2001, 07:55 PM

I met my husband during fraternity rush. It was my first semester as a little sister (I know not PC term), and he was an active. I didn't really realize he was interested at first b/c he was in charge of organizing all the little sis's, so when he kept calling to invite me to fraternity functions I just thought it was kind of his job or something. But, after a couple of times I started realizing I was one of the few girls there.

Then one day he called up and asked me to go to dinner with him, and I thought why not. So I went, and the rest is history. I met him in the Spring of 95 and we've been married for 4 years.

aephi alum · #10 10-17-2001, 09:31 PM

The short story is, we met at a party his dorm was hosting.

The long story (ready?):

One of my sorority sisters tried to set me up with my future husband. This was way back in my freshman year, their sophomore year. Somehow it never quite worked out though...

Fast forward 2 years. I was a huge fan of Babylon 5. Unfortunately, it conflicted with Lois & Clark, and everyone on my floor watched L&C, and there was only one TV on the floor, and no VCR. (One guy used to stake out the TV an hour in advance

) I knew my sister was a big B5 fan, so I asked her if she knew of anyone with a TV who would be watching. Turns out a friend of hers (yep, you guessed it... "him") was running a weekly B5 party in his dorm entry. So I became a regular there.

Meantime, I started dating a different guy... I dated him for 4 months, which ended suddenly in a rather painful breakup. (He dumped me by IM

) By the time that happened, my future husband was dating someone else. Well, a couple months later, *that* ended in a painful breakup...

So he was available when I bumped into him at that party. I knew he was a friend of my sister, and she is a woman who picks her close friends very carefully, so that carried a lot of weight. He thought the same of me. So we got to talking, and one thing led to another, and we've been together almost 5-1/2 years now, and married for 2 of those. No complaints here

cutetiger · #11 10-17-2001, 10:01 PM

Picture it: LSU's union, by the ATM machine

I was standing there minding my own business waiting in line to use the ATM. I started looking in my purse for my card and the next thing I know my behind is on the ground. He bumped into me because he wasn't paying attention. We went out on a date the next day and it was the most incredible date I had ever had. We dated for 2 years, but he's moved on now. We are still best friends though.

B.

TechAPhi · #12 10-18-2001, 01:13 AM

...at a football game in junior high. Now I don't remember this, but he claims I came over and sat on his lap during half time of a football game where I was cheering.

No, we weren't junior high or high school sweethearts. We weren't really even friends in high school. We actually got together during college. But that (apparently) was our initial meeting. Ha ha!

Jen

ees125 · #13 10-18-2001, 06:03 AM

My guy also went to the Naval Academy. My sorority sister's best friend (female) went to the Naval Academy. She mentioned this guy I should meet. So we started talking on IM and through email...then one day he just called. After 6 months of this, he came to visit...and we've been together ever since...almost three years now.

A little side note: We found out many weird connections. His Dad went to HS with my best friend (different sorority sister)'s Mom. They grew up in the same home town and his Grandparents still lived there. Same best friend's boyfriend played Baseball and his coach was my guy's Uncle. And weirdest one (which we found out after 2 years together!)...my best guy friend obviously met and knew all about my guy, Marc. One day my friend and I were out and he said, "You know you never told me Marc's last name." I tell him, and he was SHOCKED! He and Marc grew up in neighboring towns in middle of no where PA, and were in boy scounts together. My friend was the Scout Master (or whatever you call them in boy scouts). To this day when I see my guy friend's Mom, she always asks how "Little Marc" is. Too many coincidences.

justamom · #14 10-18-2001, 08:19 AM

aephi alum- I met (I use that word loosely) my Hubby when his dorm floor threw a party. Anyone remember the song "Momma Told Me Not To Come"? Well, that's a perfect description. Some guy grabs me and pulls me onto his lap. He starts dangling his room key and I just sat there scared to death. With a wicked little laugh he says, "Maybe in a year or two." and helps me off his lap. OF COURSE THIS CAUGHT MY ATTENTION. Good grief did my heart start pounding and pulse racing. (I had only gone steady with a boy who intended to be a minister) I found out when he ate, what his classes were and tried to be around his vicinity. I was so struck. He started dating a pass-a-round but always showed just enough interest to keep me going. He was dead serious about his studies so one night, I walked over to his dorm's study and gave him some milk and cookies. (I read that if you give a man milk it stirs something within him all warm and fuzzy due to the mammory connection) Well, it worked because he called the next weekend and ....

UKAXO · #15 10-18-2001, 08:26 AM

OK, here we go....

We were both working in Valencia, Spain at the time (he was working legally, I was NOT, but I guess that's way beside the point

)....

I was out w/one of my former college roommates who had come to Spain to visit me (OK this is so random, but she had actually been my roommate in Valencia during our "junior year abroad"; she had actually just come back to visit for a couple of weeks, while I had decided to move back to Spain on a much more permanent basis....sorry for the aside....). ANYWHO.....

We went out to eat, and at the next table was a big group of people, speaking mostly Spanish but I heard a few English words too. One of them heard us speaking to each other in English, and came over to introduce himself and his group of friends (on the pretext of "Oh we really want to practice our English" - like I hadn't heard THAT line before

)....

Well, it turned out to be a group of Spaniards who were out having a meal w/their teacher (a Brit).....we ended up going to a nightclub w/them and the "Brit" pestered the hell out of me, until I finally gave him my phone number and agreed to meet up w/him for dinner the following week.

I had no intention of turning up for the date, but he called me to make sure I was going to be there - so I had to show, just couldn't be too cruel.....and to put an end to this too-long story - we've been married now for 10 years!!