GTKY: SO

[jnetx]

How did you meet your SO? How long have you been married/together? Thing you love most about him/her? Thing s/he does that drives you bonkers?

[jnetx]

H was one of my mom's students--she was a high school theater teacher. He played Danny when they did Grease. He's four years older, so I knew him but I was in middle school so dating wasn't even on either of our radars. Plus he had a girl friend. He used to always tease my mom that he was going to marry me one day. We both grew up and he got home from a deployment and his little sister was now in my mom's class. He told her to ask about me. I had just broken up with my high school/college boy friend, so my mom happily passed along my number. We talked and texted for about a month and then he flew me out to San Diego and the rest is history.

We've been together 8 years, married almost 7. I love how easy going and happy he is (most of the time). It drives me crazy how much time he likes to spend at the gym.

[sarahh]

How did you meet your SO? At a bar in 2009. I was about to turn 30 and had sworn off dating younger men. He lied about his age and told me he was 28. I later learned he was 23. Good thing for him I liked him by the time I found out. Haha

How long have you been married/together? Officially together 9 years and married 7 in August.

Thing you love most about him/her? How much he cares about me and our girls. He was in the Army so has a tough exterior but is a big softie on the inside.

Thing s/he does that drives you bonkers? Everything! Haha. No really, he is just a typical guy. Can walk by a bag of trash/pile of clothes 50 times without picking them up but as soon as I say something it's like he never knew it was there. Also he is terrible with time estimates. He says he'll call back in 5 minutes. Usually that means hours. And he is always running late. I am always early so it definitely spikes my anxiety.

[sundog]

How’d we meet? The short version is through a mutual friend in 2008. I was visiting that friend on spring break and he introduced us (they’re best friends). My now H had a not so serious girlfriend at the time, but he broke up with her after meeting me. A few months later I transferred universities and moved to be with him, and thank goodness that worked out 😆. Side note- that ex-girlfriend of his became one of my really good friends! There’s no hard feelings, ha.

So we’ve been together for 11 years, married for 6.

sarahh I could have written that word for word! It seems H has blinders on when it comes to things that need to be done in the house. And he also has a terrible sense of time.

But he is the calm to my crazy, will say yes to just about anything, and likes to be helpful. He just needs written instructions.

[run4fun]

How did you meet your SO?
We both were away during freshman college year and came home over the summer. We met at a church picnic through a mutual friend. At the time I was dating another guy and she told my H I was off limits. He didn't listen and would randomly send me AIM messages (am I dating myself here 😂) just asking how I was. I eventually broke up with the guy I was dating over the summer. H and I spent the next few months spending hours talking on AIM til 3am through the fall semester and it just went from there.

How long have you been married/together?
10 years married in July, 13 years together total

Thing you love most about him/her? I love seeing him as a dad with our son. I also love how hardworking and handy he is.

Thing s/he does that drives you bonkers?
He know which buttons to push to set me off, and sometimes purposely does it. Also he loves to whistle and I cannot whistling lol

[sundog]

jnetx I kind of love that your mom was his teacher. Do they have a good relationship now?

[jnetx]

May 16, 2019 17:34:18 GMT -6 sundog said:

jnetx I kind of love that your mom was his teacher. Do they have a good relationship now?

Yes. Since she was theatre (as opposed to an academic) he had her for 2.5 or 3 years. They have similar personalities and get along pretty well. Every now and then, there is some typical MIL annoyance but I think it's better than the average MIL/SIL relationship. We are in the process of building a house on some acreage that we will share with her so hopefully living 20 seconds away doesn't change that!

[notblanche]

We met online.

We have been together for eight years, married almost six (on June 1).

He loves to cook and he does most of it. He has so much more patience with M's threenager attitude than I do and is largely the default parent these days. I really love to see how excited M gets when we come home from daycare and "Dada gray car" is there too.

He is NOT handy. LOL. Lord I wish he were. I'm the one in charge of arranging maintenance for both vehicles. And it'll probably be me who goes to Lowe's to find the correct drill bit to assemble M's floor bed frame. Our roles are reversed in some ways and I don't mind, because I don't want to cook lol, but sometimes I wish...