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I am bored so here is a question
How did you meet your H/SO/FI? Did you think in the begining anything would happen between you?
Re: I am bored so here is a question
At the bar I worked at.
No, I was transferring to a school hours away, and he was EASing and moving home. I just thought he was cute.
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Blind date. My roommate had dropped out of usafa and she wanted to set me up with her boyfriend's roommate.
I didn't think it was going anywhere bc he is younger than me and was going to be in the Air Force. I only agreed to go out with him because he was funny. And cute
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I was waiting on a friend to show up at a bar right after I got back from Basic and AIT. She called to say she was going to be another hour because she got off work late. I called another friend to see where she was because I knew the social butterfly would be out. I walked down the steps into the bar she was in and saw two REALLY hot guys sitting at the bar. I walked over to my friends and talked to them for a bit since it was my first time seeing them in 8 months.
One friend wanted me to meet her fiance. We walked right over to the two guys at the bar. Hot fiance's friend and I hit it off from the start. I'm pretty sure we completely forgot about every other person in the downtown area that night. Turns out we'd had the same friends and hung out at the same places for 3 years and had never met. Our friends were convinced that night that we would end up married. Six years later, here we are. Hot friend has been my hot husband for 5 years.
At a small Christian College in SoCal. I met him one of the first days of school. My roommate knew him vaguely. He was the ex of her friend. She told me to stay away from him, lol. I thought he was a major flirt but he's just really friendly. I didn't really get to know him until my third semester when we went to Israel. We spent the entire semester in Jerusalem, Israel and started dating a few weeks before we left.
Sigh...I love our love story.
1st day of college. He was meeting a woman on my hall that he had met in orientation. He saw my open door and two guys (1 from my orientation group, one from my high school) on my bed have a passionate discussion about picking up chicks. They were impressed with H b/c the woman he was talking with was hot.
A 2 hour lecture ensued on how to pick up women (conversation is the key, women are people, too, etc). We became good friends after that.
Did I think anything would happen? Sort of, not really. I wanted it to. We made out on and off the next year and a half, sometimes going weeks without seeing each other, sometimes being together all the time. Neither of us was ever in a dating mindframe at the same time. There was one night when he was saying he didn't want to date anyone in college (he later did, though) b/c he didn't want to drag a woman through a military life as it would be hard on her and her career. I thought to myself that he was the type of guy I would consider doing that for.
6 years after we met, he was coming to Thanksgiving at his grandma's, an hour away from where I lived. He invited me, spark was reignited.
I still didn't think we'd have a future b/c I'd done such a good job getting over him, plus he was now military and living in a different state with an unsure future course. It took him a lot of effort, quite a few visits, to convince me to give him a chance. I'm glad he did that.
My best friends roped me into volunteering at a booth for an organization they were involved with in college. I wound up manning it with this incredibly unpleasant guy, who barely glanced at me the whole night and was clearly obsessed with his computer.
Two years later, I married him.
Definitely never thought anything would happen, and he doesn't even remember meeting me that night (we re-met under friendlier circumstances a few months later and started dating a few weeks after that) but there you have it.
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This may get long. Its silly and cute all at the same time.
We knew each other in HS. We were both in band. His brother was in Jazz band during 0 period and he would always bring him and then sit on the bench outside and read. I would talk to him about his books on my way into the caf for hot coco. He went into the MC after graduation, and came home for Christmas. He was at the HS Christmas concert in his dress blues. I kept missing notes because I kept looking up into the bleachers to look at him. We talked for awhile after the concert had ended, my cousin said it was like there was no one else in the world but him and I.
We emailed a little when he went to FL for training but then I started dating some else. I went to college the following fall and we started talking again. I picked him up at the airport with his brother and by the end of break we knew we would get married eventually. 4 years later we got married. The rest is history.
Oh and he used to carry my orchestra bells on band trips.
We knew of each other for awhile. H's best friend and my then best friend were engaged. He tried to talk to me for a month or so (I was kind of dating another guy at the time) so I totally blew him off. About 6 months later his group of friends met up with mine, but didn't say anything to me. I wrote him [what he says was a] nastygram that night and then it just kind of went from there. On our 2nd date we last minute decided to drive to Six Flags (about 4-5 hours) and I remember when we were there I text my then best friend that I would marry him someday (cheesy, yes.).
Three and a half years later here we are.
The fun part of the story is the fact the we planned a full wedding in only ten weeks. He asked me to marry him, with the encouragement of our parents we figured why wait, and then ten weeks later it was so!
We met in college. We had a lot of mutual friends, and I was in a class with two of them. Our friends and I were working on a group presentation one night at one of their apartments. H came in with some other people and was ready to party. I was so annoyed that he would not leave our friends alone since my grade depended on their performance. He thought I was way too serious.
At the time, I was definitely not looking for a relationship and never thought there would be anything between us. We were reintroduced a year later, and after two dates, I knew he was the one.
It was his birthday. It was 3am. I was at a party at his fraternity house b/c my sorority sister make me go there with her. I walked in the door and a tall, hot, blonde dude walked up to me and kissed me. I'd never seen or talked to him before (even though we lived across the street from each other). He introduced himself, we stayed up all night talking (we really did, code red) and he called me 3 days later and we went out on our first date (to see Christmas lights-we also got engaged there 4 years later).
His southern accent is what did it for me. I definitely wasn't attracted to blonde guys. I took him to my sorority formal 3 weeks later and the rest is history. I didn't think we'd last a week, let alone 10 years. This 11/3 we celebrate our 5th wedding anni and 10 years together. I've been with him over 1/3 of my life. Crazy. I keep him around now because he's the best daddy I've ever seen, he makes beautiful babies and I kind of love him.
After I moved into my first off-campus apartment with my roommates I needed an adapter to string two Ethernet cables together. I went to the computer section of the campus bookstore to find one and a nice sales guy came up behind me and asked if I needed any help. We started chatting about my awesome 'blue screen of death' t-shirt. He rang me up and I went home.
A couple hours later I got a surprise IM from a stranger who claimed to be "R" from the bookstore. Apparently he remembered my name from my credit card and looked me up on Facebook. That was back in the day when I actually had that kind of contact information available on Facebook!
Despite the obvious persec issue with that story and the fact that he could have gotten fired for looking up a customer like that we agreed to go on a date. I got nervous and cancelled the date and went to dinner with my mom instead. Story goes on from there.....
Neither of us had ever been in a serious relationship before. We each just thought the other was a neat person.
Jackass walks up to girl in a bar (((FYI ratio of men to women is 82:1)))
"My Friend wants to meet you..."
"Tell your friend to get off his ass and meet me"
Jackass walks over to friend and says
"That girl said you should get off your ass and go meet her"
a month later we sat on the beach and talked for 2+ hours while everyone else got hammered... he kissed me and I knew something was different.
8 years, 3 kids and too many deployments later... here we are.
Holy heck! Our second date was at six flags! It was a four hour drive each way. DH's friends at the time warned him that it was a huge mistake because if anything went wrong it would be a long car ride back.
At a Halloween party almost four years ago (fun fact, our wedding will be just after our 4 year anniversary).
He turned out to be a friend of a very good friend of mine. My friend had talked him into going out that night because FI was pretty shy and didn't know a ton of people. He was really drunk and talking in a bad English accent. I was pretty buzzed myself and dressed up as Ms. Moneypenny from James Bond. Instant and complete physical attraction. We met up again at an election party and became sort of obsessed with each other.
I wasn't sure about it because he's 3.5 years younger than me and I felt I was long finished with college at that point and he was in ROTC, but it worked. And here we are almost time for another presidential election (our wedding is the Saturday before), I didn't really think of it before I booked stuff, but it has a nice symmetry.
I love it DMB! H commented on my Obama pin (in a non negative way) because I wore it all the time back then, so that election has a special place in my heart too!
We probably met when we were way young, like 5 and 3, because I danced with his sister, however we don't remember that. I also went to high school with his sister and danced with her then, but we didn't meet then.
The first time we actually hung out? I was having a party at my house and I was dating his friend and he came over. I don't really remember anything, because, I was drunk, and dating his friend haha.
We hung out a few times after that when I was dating his friend, and spent some time talking when we were out, but again, nothing. Then me and his friend broke up (we only dated for like 8 months). Exbf and I had a lot of mutual friends though so we would randomly hang out with each other's group of friends. One of his friends (one of my best platonic guy friends) called me up to see if I wanted to go to the Streetlight Manifesto concert. H was going with them. We got drunk watching the show and were flirting all night. At one point during the concert, he turns to me and says "Let's just get this over with" and kissed me. Clearly, its been love since that drunken kiss. It will be 5 years this July since we kissed and we started dating in August.
Fun fact: When he proposed he said the same line haha.
We met in HS. We were both 16 so of course I was SURE it was going somewhere b/c we were in lurve dang it!
Almost 10 years later (coming up on our fourth wedding anni!) and we're still going strong.
I worked a bank during the last semester of my junior year of high school. This guy started coming in dressed in a suit and tie around 5:30-6 on Thursdays and Fridays (our late nights) and was hanging out with the CSRs at the desks. Then I find out he used to work at the branch and was just coming into the branch after he was done work at the corporate back offices. I don't even know how we were introduced but we were. I thought he was super hot. He was also very funny and very nice. He drove me home one night when I locked my keys in my car and called his dad to help get my car started when the starter in my car started to go. I was 17 (and 1/2!!!) and he was 22/23 so it never went anywhere. I left the bank and we lost touch.
Randomly out of the blue about 3 years later I just emailed him at work and we made plans to meet up for dinner. He texts me a few hours before to see if we could move it back a half hour because his girlfriend was running late. I scrambled to get a friend to go with me so it wasn't awkward and graciously my friend Bill agreed to go with me. We had a fun dinner and I gave him a hug goodbye and wrote it off because he had a girlfriend. We continued to talk and hung out off and on for a year or so...hooking up here and there when we were in between people.
We finally started getting a bit more serious about a year later and then two months (?) later he got orders to deploy for his first time. We decided we'd see how things went and they went well and he came home for R & R and it went really well and somehow by the end of R & R we had agreed to move in together when he came home and the rest is history.
It is the least romantic and most convoluted story ever.
The best part is when we got engaged we met up with my friend Bill at a bar to share our news. After congratulating us, he was like "You found a really nice guy. Remember that DBag that invited his girlfriend to dinner and you had to bring me along so it wasn't awkward?" T looked at him and just pointed at himself and the light bulb went off in Bill's head and he said "OMFG! THAT WAS YOU??? What a DBag move, dude!" T was like "I had NO idea she was into me."
His dad had moved him back here to be closer to family and friends (H was 18 and a senior in HS at the time). We met at a Starbucks because I had come to see my mom right before she went into work and they happened to be there saying hi to her too. Because our families had mutual friends, we ran into each other a lot, but I thought he was an immature ass and he thought I was stuck-up, because I'm not a very friendly-right-off-the-bat kind of person. Fast forward six months later, I'm gone for college, coming home on weekends, and he is living with friends of my family because he and his dad had a falling out. It's the holidays, we are always at the friends' house, and he and I are stuck together constantly. We picked on each other all the time, it turned into flirting, and one day I was taking a nap on the couch in my coat because I was cold, and he brought me a blanket. I thought maybe he wasn't such an ass after all.
We wound up playing pool in the garage one night with our friends and my mom and step-dad, who were being all cute and snuggly in the corner. I was complaining that I wasn't meeting anyone at college, and he all of a sudden turned, said: "Oh, shut up!" grabbed my head and kissed me.
We started dating shortly after, got engaged six months later and married two months after that. I had always said I would never get married and had avoided military men like the plague, but this was the best decision I ever made.
I met H on my first day of college. I got lost on campus and was 15 minutes late for my math class. Came in and there was only one seat left, next to H (who intrigued me from a glance). Teacher announced this was our seating assignment for the semester. We spent a few classes mostly ignoring each other until teacher made people split into pairs to do worksheets. It was then that I discovered that he was pretty funny, easygoing and single! We made plans to hang out.
At this point I had been dating another guy for about a year- but he was a class A clinger and I had serious claustrophobia. I ended up cheating on the X with H, then broke up with him and immediately started dating H afterwards. Even after I dumped him X was still pursuing me, trying to win be back so there was this weird period of time where I wasn't sure who I was going to choose.
I was pretty sure he was just a super sexy rebound because he was not the type of guy I usually go for, but it turned out he had staying power!
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