How did you meet your SO?

[sammysam]

Alright, so in the spirit of GTKY, let's hear your stories. How did you and your SO meet?

[sammysam]

Met him at a New Years Eve Party 16 years ago. At first he turned me down because his friend was interested in me but after I went on one (bad) date with his friend he got in touch with me to ask me out. Now we have a 3 year old and this one on the way. Crazy!

[cornpop]

We met when we were both working at Rita's water ice when I was 17 and he was 20. I was so shy I ignored him completely the first day we met. After that he realized my music taste was very similar to his and starting pursuing me. We dated for like a minute but became best friends for years. 8 years later we finally realized we were being idiots and really started dating, moved in and got married.

[sweetc129]

I had just broken up with my BF of over a year and my best friend told me I should date her brother so we can raise babies together. That was 15 years ago and now my friend and I are both pregnant with our third. I married her brother in 2004 but we didn't have our first until 2013. We thought we were going to be One and Done so we weren't in a rush to have our one baby....LOL....things escalated quickly.

[wdwrocksmysocks]

We met on a blind date. I had a huge crush on his BFF at the time. His friend called me and said he wanted to set met up with his friend. I went to spite him, but wound up hitting it off with his friend. That was 15 years ago. We've been married for 11 years.

[polson]

nothing too original here...we met at a bar in undergrad. we dated for a few months, broke up, then reconnected when we were randomly taking the same course at another university about a year later. we planned on getting coffee, but never did. we ended up running into each other again at a farmers market (super random) a few months later, so i figured it must be fate! that was 10 years ago, we will be married 5 years this coming december.

[alwayscheese]

We lived on opposite ends of the country and ended up volunteering for "sister" organizations in the same city at the same time for a short while. While we were there I had a crush on one of his friends, but when they left, DH was the one I couldn't forget. We kept in contact and long story short, we've been married almost 5 years. 😍

[whatsit]

He was a friend of my sisters. She set us up when she wasn't able to come to a hockey game she was gonna come to with me.
He got my number and we texted for a bit before I finally asked him on a date (we're both really shy- but him more so). We've been together over 7 years now, married for almost 3.

[akwild]

We met when we were 9/10 years old because our dads worked together. We went camping and fishing as families for years. Then when we were in our early 20s we met up again. When we were both out of our respective relationships we started dating. We have been married for 8 years now.

[clementine]

We met my freshman year of college at a mutual friend's party, and then didn't see each other again until a few months before we graduated when his friend was interested in me. We ended up hanging out all together in a group of friends a few times and I realized I was more interested in MH than the friend. We started dating right after graduation and have been together for 8 years and married for just under 2 years now.

[nuggetrn]

I love reading these. Just saying. Even if you think your story is kind of boring I think it is fun to read from an outside perspective!

[mirabelle]

I met my SO online dating and he caught my attention because his grammar skills were superior compared to the others sending me messages. It's not the storybook romance meeting I had dreamed of, but I can't imagine my life without him so it was worth it. Also I had a friend who told me early when I started online dating, "I would never online date"... so beneath her. After I met my SO & got married she was inspired and went on to meet her husband online so take that judgmental friend.

[nuggetrn]

I met DH through his little sister. I was actually really good friends with her from about 5th grade on. We played soccer together and I spent a lot of time at her house. The thing was, she lived with her mom and he lived with his dad. He hardly ever spent any time at his mom's. I didn't even know that he existed until high school! We met after I graduated and have been together ever since

[auri]

It depends on who you ask. If you ask DH, he will tell you he first met me when I worked at the subway by his house. If you ask me, we met on an online dating site. To this day I don't remember him coming in the store. He thought I was blowing him off at first when he first messaged me, and I feel bad about it now. It was during March Madness and I was in the pep band. At the the time I was practically living in my car between school, work, basketball games...but we did finally get to meet up and hit it off right away. We just celebrated our 10th anniversary.

[sammysam]

auri I'm so jealous that you got to go to March Madness! The closest I ever got is watching games on TV. What's the best your team did while you were in the band?

[auri]

Aug 1, 2017 17:43:30 GMT -6 sammysam said:

auri I'm so jealous that you got to go to March Madness! The closest I ever got is watching games on TV. What's the best your team did while you were in the band?

March Madness is the best! The women's team got to the Elite Eight my freshman year. My senior year the men's team played in the NIT at Madison square garden. I didn't actually get to go there though because I had to work and we found out super last minute that the band was going :/ The other two years we didn't get to go anywhere fun because we got knocked out in the first round.

[smilesp]

Jul 27, 2017 10:55:54 GMT -6 mirabelle said:

I met my SO online dating and he caught my attention because his grammar skills were superior compared to the others sending me messages. It's not the storybook romance meeting I had dreamed of, but I can't imagine my life without him so it was worth it. Also I had a friend who told me early when I started online dating, "I would never online date"... so beneath her. After I met my SO & got married she was inspired and went on to meet her husband online so take that judgmental friend.

This is basically my story as well!

[sammysam]

Aug 1, 2017 19:22:30 GMT -6 auri said:

Aug 1, 2017 17:43:30 GMT -6 sammysam said:

auri I'm so jealous that you got to go to March Madness! The closest I ever got is watching games on TV. What's the best your team did while you were in the band?

March Madness is the best! The women's team got to the Elite Eight my freshman year. My senior year the men's team played in the NIT at Madison square garden. I didn't actually get to go there though because I had to work and we found out super last minute that the band was going :/ The other two years we didn't get to go anywhere fun because we got knocked out in the first round.

That's amazing! I'm still hoping that at some point in the future I'll get to go to a game.

[Leaf 🌱]

His brother asked me to out in HS but I just wanted to be friends.... then I met his hot AND smart older brother. We were friends for years and finally got serious in college.

[sweetheart]

We were friends in High School.
Years later, after 1 failed relationship for each of us, 1 failed marriage and a daughter on my end, we met again.
I had always kept him as a friend on Facebook, but we didn't chat much. Just hey & hellos every now and again.
One day when I was getting ready to move I asked if anyone had a truck who could help me move a kitchen table & I had been given. He was the first and only person to offer help. Now we sit around that table every night for dinner with my daughter & are anxiously excited to have our baby join us next year at that table.