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How did you meet your significant other?
And did you know right away that they were the one for you?
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Re: How did you meet your significant other?
I like this post! I went to middle school and high school with my DH, but it wasn't until the last month of our Senior year that we started hanging out in the same group of friends. About a week after he joined our "group", four of us went to the movies, then In 'n' Out for dinner. When we were driving home, I drove behind him and as he was making a turn, I could see him in the driver's seat, and I just though to myself "I really like this guy". It's kind of cliche, a women falls for a man because of his car, but I totally did. He just looked so sexy and confident in the driver's seat.
We decided to go to Prom together the following week, and started dating two days after that. I knew immediately that I was in love with him. We just had such an immediate connection, and seemed to understand each other in a way I can't even explain. It was like every second I was with him I found something new that I loved about him and always wanted in a guy. I love my man.
How did you meet yours?
Agreed, this is a fun post!
I met my DH through friends. He was the roommate of two of my guy friends from art school. I always heard about him in funny stories but never met him in person. Although I saw him in paintings that my classmates did for homework, and thought he was soooooo cute! LOL!
Apparently, he had heard about me also (which was flattering, because I was told later that I was referred to as the "hot" girl in class. hehehe). When we finally met at a friend's birthday, the attraction was there, and we talked all night. It was a flirtathon.
We started dating pretty much right after that.
Still, it took me a long while (probably about 6 months) to really see soul mate potential there. But that's mostly because of my "life plan"...I thought I for sure would end up with another artist, and have some rocky/passionate relationship like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. haha. Yep, that's who I idealized! But this quite normal, stable, and trust worthy guy swept me off my feet instead!
I met him in college. I think we both knew right away that we were each other's one (relationship was serious from the get go and marriage was also talked about within the first 2 months).
At one point in the engagement I was worried I was making a mistake getting into it too early (cold feet?) and I asked for some time apart but after that brief week or so, I realized he was in fact the one for me and I was worrying about nothing.
OMG! You ladies have great stories. A few years back I sign up for an art class and it started on Valentines day. I was the first one to arrive and the teacher had moved all the chairs into a circle. I sat where I could see everyone walk into the room and this handsome guy walked in. I couldn't stop staring at him. When class started, we all had to introduce ourselves. And when he said his name, I wrote my first name with his last name in my notebook. I know, so Jr. high, but I thought "I like the way this sounds."
Later, some of us went for coffee and he sat next to me. We ended up talking for 2 hours straight. I knew right there that I wanted to know him better. We started dating months later and on the day he proposed, he first took me to the same coffee shop where we got to know each other. Then later proposed to me on the beach
I don't think I ever dated a guy who didn't start talking about "when we get married" within the first couple of months. Young guys and their ways.
College. We became friends freshman year but didn't start dating until junior/senior year.
We were serious quickly, but there was no talk about marriage for a long time. We were too young and ambitious to discuss settling down. Ten years (and a lot of time to grow apart and together) later, we got married!
a blind date that I did NOT want to go on! My family/friends kept bugging me to go on it so just to get them off my back I said I'd meet him.
We have been married 12 years now.
Online. He messages me and I almost didn't answer because he didn't have a picture, but he mentioned that he had just moved out here and was going to start curling and noticed that I curled and said that maybe he'd see me at the club. So I figured I'd answer because otherwise it'd be awkward. We talked for a week and since we were both curling the same day we decided to get to the club early to talk. There was instant attraction and we went out on our first date two days later. 8 1/2 months later he proposed, and we just got married in June! I'm so glad I gave him a chance
My mom apparently was expecting me to come home with a ring on Christmas, just two months after we met!
We met at work. I had just transferred from another store with our company. First time I talked to him was in the elevator on my way to pick up my check. I didn't actually know he worked there because he was wearing jeans. He worked sales support at our store so he didn't have to follow a dress code.
After two months of having casual conversations here and there at work, he asked if I wanted to "hang out sometime" which turned into dinner that night. 7 years later to the date (June 23) we were married.
The way we met was one of those '6 degrees of separation' kind of things.
My H & I both are djs. We know a lot of the same people, but never really crossed paths strangely enough. Actually, he says that once, he did meet me at a party and that I handed him a demo cd and walked away. I vaguely remember that.*shrugs*
Anyway, it's funny because he had gone to Belgium with his brother in 2002 and while they were there, they arranged meetings with record labels there as well as the guy who was my booking agent. My agent said to them 'Ohhhh....I work with a girl from NY, maybe you know her', then proceeds to tell them about me. My H and his brother were left scratching their heads like 'who is this girl? we know everyone in NY - how do we not know her?'. Funny because after his trip, he started noticing my name pop up a lot....
About 5-6 months later, I get a phone call from my agent telling me that he had a gig for me in Paris. I said sure - I'll do it. He then tells me that I would also be playing with my H, then asked if I knew who he was. I said that I knew his name from seeing it around on flyers, but did not know him personally.
Long story short - we went to Paris together and I just felt so comfortable talking to him, like I knew him for years. I thought he was attractive, yes, but I didn't think right away that he was 'the one'. I should mention that I had a boyfriend when I met my H, but I was extremely unhappy in that relationship and had wanted to end it for a while...was just too much of a wuss to do so. My ex actually wanted me to quit djing and was not supportive of it at all - and this was at a time when my career was starting to take off. About a week after the gig in Paris though, I ended it with him. He actually begged me to take him back about a week later and I told him no. He assumed it was because of someone else (my H), which partly it was that, but a lot of it was just him - I just could not be with someone who did not support me or my dreams. Really, my ex just sucked the life out of me and was overall a real downer. Thank god I did not live with him or marry him (or even consider it).
My H, in the beginning of the relationship, even though things happened in Paris, when we came back, I took it very slow with him....I did like him a lot and enjoyed his company, but considering the situation overall, I just wanted to do my own thing for a while. So we would talk a few times a week and maybe see each other once or twice a week or sometimes not at all....there would be times that he would call me, and I knew it was him, but would not pick up the phone just because I just wanted to play it cool for a while. Sometimes he would invite me out and I would turn him down, then wind up running into him the same night at a club...it happens. lol
About 3 years later, we moved to Spain together - I have to say, if you ever want to put your relationship to a real test to see if the other person is 'the one' - move to another country with them. Being an immigrant is challenging enough, let alone doing that with someone else.
And do you want to know how I REALLY knew he was the one? Put it to you this way - Any man who is willing to hang off a stage suspended 30 feet in the air and hook up your dj gear - marry them!
*sorry for the long post, btw - but how I met my H is not a typical story*
Oh, great idea
I went to visit a friend in Indiana(i live in Michigan) summer of 2009. Ended up going to a fourth of july party with her, and that's where I saw him
He was hanging out with us, and my friend had said that he never had hung out with her before, so that was like a "YES" moment for me. haha. That night we were sitting together watching the fireworks(still in high school mind you), and there was just something in me that felt that this was going to last-a very long time. 3 years later-we were married 
....our story is quite the crazy one but i will stop because it only asked for how we met LOL 
The "best friend" of an Ex introduced me to my now husband. It he other guy and I broke up but his friend and I kept in touch since her wife and I became friends. So he kept insisting that he knew the perfect guy for me, for months! I wasn't interested in any relationship, he was so annoying that I decided to go just to get it over with, and Im so glad I went. We went to a odd looking bar and decided to go to the beach, we went to the pch and sat by the beach and talk, about everything!! As we were talking I couldn't stop being amazed about him. I knew he was my soul mate and he proposed at the same spot at the beach when we first met.
I was going in for a job interview and my DH already worked there. He was standing outside on a break and as I was going in, he said to me, " I hope you get the job." Well, I got the job, he asked me on a date over and over for months. I finally gave in and it was the best date of my life! I saw him everyday thereafter and now it is almost 11 years later and we are now married!
TTC since September 2012
We met online. After a string of bad dates I was about to give up on online dating when I got a message from H. We seemed to have a lot in common so I figured it couldn't anything to message him back. Our first date was a very casual lunch date, and I had a great time with him. After 2 dates I knew I really liked him, but I knew he was "the one" two months into our relationship. We went out of town together and started talking about marriage in general. I knew at that moment that I wanted him to be my husband!
We technically "met" on FB through a group for our college. I was moving from Oregon to New Hampshire to go to school so I was looking for some people to go to if I had questions about the campus or what not. Well, my DH turned out to be one of those people (and at the time I was casually dating someone and not looking for anything somewhere else). Well the two of us spent the summer randomly talking back and forth over FB and the school and how our summer's were going. A week before I headed to NH to move in, he told me about a little party him and his roommates were having the first night back to school, and invited me to come over.
The night of the party I found my way to his apartment, and he met me in the stairwell and gave me the biggest hug like we'd been friends forever. At the end of the night he walked me back down to my dorm and came in and we stayed up and talked until 4:30am about everything under the sun; family, friends, life back home, pets, etc. From that night on we became inseparable, now here we are five years later celebrating our first wedding anniversary
I knew that very night that he was the one, we both said that it was "love at first sight", and everyone made fun of us and said yea right, but I still feel the same to this very day.
We met online. He winked at me and so I read his profile. I was so excited that we had so much in common that I emailed him. My roommate thought that was a bad idea since it made me look desparate.
After our first date we were inseparable. He said he wanted to marry me a month after we started dating and I thought that was a good idea. Looking back on it, that's a big decision to make after only knowing someone for a month. We got married three years later and have been married for over five years now.
We met in high school- junior year. He was transferred into my economics class about a month after school started and the only empty seat was next to me- so of course I had to get him all caught up with what we were doing. At first I was annoyed- how does it take someone a full month to switch classes?! Also, he was in the "popular" group of kids and I was in the "nerd" group (thus the empty seat in class, lol) so we really didn't like each other. Then the next semester we had almost every class together and once we got to know each other we became really close friends. We started dating, but then took a break over the summer. But when we went back to school for our senior year we started going out again immediately.
I knew he was "the one" when he ditched all of his "cool friends" to hang out with my nerdy ones. It's like we were living a 90's teen movie- it was great!
We met on Valentines day too. We have the same group of friends and we all went out together. DH and I hung out with eachother all day and night. I knew there was something amazing about him. We became good friends and a few months later, he came over to help me pack to move across town. When we were done, I walked him to his car and he told me he had something for me. He opened his car door and there sat a beautiful boquet of pink roses. He told me he really liked me and wanted me to be his girlfriend. And of course the rest is history!
Technically MySpace!! LOL I was applying to a Theater company I wanted to join. Before I even I applied I was told I was accepted but that they just need the application for their files. However after 6months of applying & being denied for rare reasons I was beginning to be concerned. So a friend told me to talk to a friend of hers who had just left that company to get on at the one I was leaving. She told me to contact a friend of her's who was interning there so I did & it was my (now) DH. We caught each others eye at this point but neither of us thought it was real so we ignored it. 2years later I finally walked through the doors of the Company (3/07). This is when we met in person for the first time. Over the next 3yrs we became very good friends. He became the vp of the drama co very early on in my time w/the company. Our relationship was just business/ and of course friends. It seemed the WHOLE drama co knew we'd end up together so they teased me for 3yrs. We both began to cave in our feelings for one another towards the end of my contract w/the DC but it wasn't until June 2010 that anything was actually said or done about these feelings. Once I completed my time w/the DC in March of 2010 I went home to MO. During this time nDH began txting me. Then in June I went to TN to visit the company/friends. While in TN nDH asked me to go on a walk with him (company code for date LOL) at this time he informed me that I "contained all the qualties (he) was looking for in his future wife" . 2 days later on June 8th 2010 we began courting (he asked my parents permission). I moved to GA that July & he left the theater company & followed me moving to GA 2/11. He proposed July 8th 2011. & we got hitched March 24th 2012
So that is how we met... so yeah we both KNEW right then but neither of us were willing to admit it.