How did you meet your DH?

[Julie Billingsley]

I saw on TV that 1 in 5 marriages are by people that met online. So it got me to thinking, how did you meet your DH? Poll now included. :)


oh no! I forgot the "met at work" option! bummer :(

[Leila]

Online. LOL!

Andrew and I met in an MSN chat room on October 21, 2001. We met in person on November 29. I moved in right after Christmas and we married on his 32nd birthday, March 22, 2002. :thumbup:

And yes, I'm too impatient to wait for the poll.

[digideb]

We met at church. :)

[eranslow]

We met at school - college. We were both in marching band - both played the alto saxophone. We became really good friends first and then I made the moves :) lol

[sarahbhb]

online.....yahoo cribbage to be exact...right around 11 years ago...we've been married for 10.

[ksbella]

Online!

I met DH on a friends website in October 04, we met in person on November 19th 2004, we got engaged on Jan 5th 05 and I found out I was pregnant on Valentines Day 2005, Dominic was born November 12th, we married on November 19th 2005!

[lliella]

my aunt gave DH my celphone # and we started texting :) so i voted family introduction.

[kbbeale]

My DH helped me move my belongings out of the house I shared with my then husband! LOL I always say "Jeremy helped me leave my exhusband". LOL He was a friend of a friend of my moms....mom called him and asked him to help me move. At the end of the day, my cousin and I were going out for dinner - told Jeremy I'd buy him dinner for helping me. He said he was going to a local night club that night and why dont we all go - the rest is history. We spent that night together, and the next 11 years.......

Kristen

[Julie Billingsley]

I met my husband at church. We got married there too and still go there now. I actually met him in the singles bible study which is now completely gone because we all got married. LOL

[MommaTrish]

Met him our freshman year of highschool, started dating our sophomore year and have been together since then. (7 years now)

[carrie1977]

I met my hubby at a mutual friend's wedding in October 99. We've been together ever since. :wub:

[AmyM]

At my friend's wedding in the summer of 99

[Serendipity]

Online! Our story has some interweb dramaz attached to it. But we've been married for 6 years now ♥

[Balinda]

Grade school...2nd grade to be exact...
dated in high school...not BF or GF...just dated..
went on to marry other people..
after both of our divorces we got together..
I was divorced 10 years and him only about a year.
We married in 2004♥

[Libby Pritchett]

I met my ex-husband at work, but I met my current boyfriend online. So many people look at me like I have 3 heads when I tell them how Jeff and I met, so I'm glad to hear that it's the norm around here anyway. LOL

[[michele]]

At work!

[gabbygirl]

My hubby and I met in highschool. I was a junior and he was a senior and we have been together since then. That was 9.5 years ago.

[CA Dreamer]

At work

[Milmomma]

We met online in a chatroom. He lived 15 mins north of me and I had never met him before. After 9 months of going together we got married. We have been married for 5 years and counting :)

[MandaT]

He was one of my customers at work... and a friends neighbor. He's 17 years older than me, but the mutual friend, kept encouraging him to take me out.

He asked me to lunch, I said no, I'd be the only supervisor left in the building at that time, & my boss called him back & said she'd stay a little longer & sent me to lunch. :) We've pretty much been together ever since. Except for a few nights when he was on long haul.

We just celebrated our 4th anniversary, will be together 5 years at the end of June.

[Lyd]

We met at church. But, it was funny that after we met, we realized a few other connections. I had been good friends with one of his cousins in college, and his sister was married to a guy I had grown up with (like I'd know him since I was 2). So, I guess if we hadn't met at church, we might have met in a few other ways. It was meant to be. :)

[Chantal Miller]

We met in a bar in July 2003 and were married in March 2004. Still going strong

[coopert]

We met at a bar/club, close to where I lived. My roommate and I had gone to the bar a few times, but the night I met him, I was with 6 other married couples. I was so uncomfortable, being the only single girl. Glad he started talking to me. We went on our first date 3 days later. He picked me up 45 minutes late wearing sweat pants and a t-shirt. My roommates couldn't believe I went on a second date with him. So glad I did.

[pomi]

We met in our athletics club (so I suppose "gym" is the nearest option :)) I was running the shortest tracks and he the longest ones. :)

[Jengerbread88]

I met my husband online. Unfortunately, our marriage ended 19 days after it began. His issues-- he was abusive, and fantastic at hiding it.

Anyway, I digress, I didn't vote in the poll, and I don't want to skew results with our 19 day marriage, but thought it was worth mentioning.

Furthermore, our little... issue... is not enough to scare me away from online dating, and as soon as our divorce is final, I do plan on trying it again. Though, this time, I plan on being a lot safer and less stupid about things.

[DeepGirl]

We met at the University at the office of students' organization :) I was a freshmen, the first semester has just started... I got him with my computer-geeky and webmaster skills :D

[Ebony]

Okay okay he's not my husband. But fingers crossed he one day will be so I took part. We kind of met eachother at different times...

The first time I met him he was running around the oval in little football shorts and I signed up to be on my friends mixed touch rugby team on the spot.

The first time he met me was in my backyard at my senior year after-ball party. I marched right up to him and asked if he thought I was pretty. (I didn't get Belle of the Ball and was a little um, under the influence)

He didn't tell me about our first meeting until after we got serious. I think it's hilarious and could vaguely remember it after being told about it. :)

I think it's so cool there as so many of you found your soul mate online. Thank goodness for technology!

[adrianka]

Hehe, you missed the option - I haven't yet met my husband. But that's nitpicking, because the topic of the challenge is clear enough, so that option would be kind of useless. :-))))

Still, the real option you missed is - I met him at work. That seems like a real choice for me and worked for a lot of people I know.

[jovi_girl]

i kinda wanted to choose two options - met thru friends and met at a bar/club.

I met my husband for all of about 2 minutes when i ran into a friend at the shops. She worked with him and they were on their lunch break. I actually told my friend she should go out with him cos he was so cute! But they had a brother/sister relationship going on, and he had a girlfriend. I had a boyfriend, so i didnt really think twice about him after that.

A few months later, I was newly single, and out at a bar where i was supposed to be meeting my above mentioned friend. I couldnt find her, but i recognised him, and went over to ask him if he knew where my friend was. Turns out, he was newly single as well. We spent the rest of that night drinking and dancing and talking. My friend rang me the next day to ask if it was ok if she gave him my number. We went on our first date the next day and have been together ever since. That was almost 10 years ago, weve been married for almost 2 and have a 10mth old baby. xxx

[Darcy Baldwin]

I met mine online (not a dating site) in July'95, we met NYE that year, were engaged that weekend, married the next August...still going strong :)

[sczos911]

we met in high school. we were friends and started dating around graduation of my senior year. we'll be together for 14 years in june and married for 9 in sept. :)

[rachaelsscraps]

we met working together. that's one you missed :)

[jacinda]

We met at work. Started dating within 2 weeks of meeting, got engaged a year later, and married 7 months after that.

[nonnie]

We met at a mutual friends party/BBQ. He made me laugh all night - and 10 years later he still cracks me up every day :thumbup:

[ryliesmom]

We met the very first day of college freshman year. We were in the same Interface group (a getting to know you kindof thing for incoming freshman). Most of us in the group instantly became friends and some we're still friends with. He followed me around campus for about 2 weeks before he asked me out and I agreed to go with him. We've been together almost 18 years now and will be married 13 years in August.

[Tracyfish]

DH was my sister's friend in jr high/high school (he's 2 yrs younger than me). Some of my friends and some of her friends all started hanging out together. At first he was just the funny guy in the group that made me laugh, and I was already dating one of his friends. But after a while it was fate and we ended up together...which everyone sorta knew would happen.

We'll be married 10 yrs in Sept and dated almost 5 before that.

[joelsgirl]

We met in college. He asked me what I wanted to do after I graduated, and I told him I wanted to live overseas. He said, "Me too. We should get married." So we did. :)

[neenee]

Met at work. But were friends for many years before we both wound up being single and fell in love. I've known him for 12 years, been together 9 and married for 7 1/2.

[heathergw]

I met my husband at church. We got married there too and still go there now. I actually met him in the singles bible study which is now completely gone because we all got married. LOL

this is hubby and I too, lol... although, we're in a different building, still the same church. I've been there 20 years and Mark 10 years which is when we met.

[ZaCola3]

We were introduced through a mutual friend when I was a Junior in HS and he was a Sophomore-we were really good friends for 6 months or so when I finally said-"Let's just try dating"...we did...and we dated through HS. We split up for about 7 years after I found out I was pregnant with Zachary-I had a crazy marriage and another beautiful son in that time as well. We found our way back to each other in 99-got married in 2001 and just celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary in April. I love him even more now than I did when we first met in 1989!

[emmasmommy]

I love reading threads like this :wub:

I met DH through mutual friends in 98...i wasn't quite 21 yet and we were hanging out at this bar (think Cheers) allll the time. We dated for about 4 months and then well, we were 21, and decided we wanted to sow our wild oats. We got back together in late 99 and have been together ever since.

[nikkiARNGwife]

He lived in the same apartment complex as my best friend..I babysat for her little girl a lot and we would run into each other every now and then...one day he asked me out :) We got married a little over a year later.

[my2monkeys]

I met my DH at the after-school job we had in High School... needless to say... that was quite a few years ago :)

[MamaBee]

Another on-line here... yahoo personals... :o Still embarrassed to talk about it... friends assume we met through work connections... we never corrected them.

My mom... yes, my MOM! pushed me to sign up... and this Friday, May 28th 8 years ago, was the first time my now DH emailed me...

We didn't meet in real until Sept 4... then two years later, we were married on Sept 4... this year it will be 6 years happily married.

[junebug]

met mine while we were both working for the same gas station. my station across town was getting some new gas pumps installed so we were put to work at some of the others around town. Chad was working one night with me and we had fun flirting. he kept flipping rubber bands at me when i wasn't looking then when i turned around he'd look elswhere. so funny. i ended up being the one to call him and ask him out. my friend (who was also my boss) got his phone number for me and watched my cash register for me while she directed me to sit back in the office and call him and ask him out, lol. he said yes of course. it was the bravest thing i ever did. :)

[Gemma]

I love reading threads like this :wub:



Me too! :wub:

I'm not married, yet, but I met OH at a new years eve party 2000 going in to 2001, I wasn't even supposed to be there, just called in to say hello on my way to my Aunts house(3 doors from where the party was), met OH and stayed with him all night, and have been with him since, lol. :)

I have a friend(who I met online lol) who has just married a man she met online a few years ago, I think it's so sweet! :)

[mummytothree]

we worked at the same grocery store. I was just a lowly deli girl and he was a manager in training!!! First time I "saw" him he was reeming out the bakery boy Jesse and I told the girl I was working with...... "If I was Jesse I'd tell that bag boy to go fly"!!! She promptly told me "That's Tim.....he's a manager in training" I said "I don't care....I'd still tell him to go fly"!!!! :D :D :D That was in Jan of 1997 and we were married that November and have been mackin' ever since!!! :wub:

[LibbysMommy]

I met my DH at work in 2001. We worked across the hall from eachother. I noticed him and knew who he was, but I was in a relationship at the time so I didn't think anything of it - I just thought he was a nice guy. After my relationship ended, I began to notice him more and thought he was really cute. One day our department ordered Ted Drew's (a frozen custard place in STL) and we needed a few more orders so I asked around. One of his friends told me to ask Nate if he wanted any, so I worked up the nerve to go talk to him. It was so cute because you could tell he was so nervous when I walked up to him. We exchanged a few emails and phone numbers and we went on our first date about a week later (august 2), got engaged in March 2003 and married that same year in October. :wub:

[Emmy]

Wal-mart. I met my dh at Wal-mart.

[glumirk]

I met mine at school/church. I voted church because if it weren't for church I probably wouldn't have met him at school, but the only reason we were both there was because we were in school. We briefly met the first day (a Wednesday), at which point the friend I was with told me that I should marry him. We first actually talked and knew each other the next Monday, on Wednesday he asked me for directions and where he needed to go was just down the street from my work so he gave me a ride, that night he picked me up to play racquetball with some friends (I was already planning on going), he asked me to the movies on Friday (although I was his 2nd choice), and pretty much we spend every day together until we started officially dating a month later, and were engaged 5 months later and got married about 4 months later. We hadn't even known each other for a whole year, but we both pretty much knew we were going to get married after a couple weeks of dating. Now he's my best friend and we grow more in love each day. :) We've been married for almost 3 years and have a 9 month old baby boy.

[Sarah8914]

I put church... but it was a combo of church and school. We met an a church social before the semester started and then we happen to have a class together 5 days a week! Without that class, it wouldn't have happened... but because of it, we sat and talked, did labs together, and became best friends and THEN the romance started. Perfect for me! :)

[Serendipity]

Wal-mart. I met my dh at Wal-mart.

lol that's awesomely epic! I'll never think of Men's Department in the same way ever again

[~Julie~]

Well, we aren't married yet but I met him at work 14 years ago. We started dating in beginning of 07 then broke up for a few months but got back together and have been together pretty much ever since. :)

[ColleenSwerb]

Gosh, so many of you met and got married so fast! Jordan and I were together 4 years before we finally tied the knot, lol.

I chose through a friend introduction, but only because work wasn't an option ;)
I had just started working after college. I had moved down here and was living with my college boyfriend (who I KNEW wasn't going to work out, but hadn't worked up the courage to break his heart :/). I shared a large-ish cubicle with 2 other people, one of whom was a guy my age, so we got along pretty well. About 2 weeks after I started our company was having it's annual summer picnic, so I went (with the bf). My cubicle mate had brought along several of his friends from back home to the picnic, and one of them was Jordan. I was instantly smitten, but obviously couldn't pursue. That was July. I moved into my own place in September. We all played poker at work during lunch, and had started hosting games at our own places after work. My cubicle mate brought Jordan to a few of them, and since I was then single, I started working on him :p

At the end of October I was going up to the PSU homecoming game with my college friends, when my cubicle mate said that he might be going too cuz Jordan had gotten tickets. Naturally, I forced him to come tailgate with us, and then party after the game at the bar. We flirted and danced and had a good time. He jokingly sang a song to me, then got a ticket for public urination. I was staying out in a camper at the stadium, and he was staying wtih an ex-gf in her apt (with 4 other girls), so I jumped on a bus real quick and had to go. I just said "gotta go, bye!" and that was it, but I wasn't gonna go to his ex-gf's place! LOL! To this day he teases me that I left him cold and alone in the middle of State College without even a kiss goodbye, lol. That Monday the Steelers were playing on MNF so I went over to hang out. I ended up never leaving and we stayed up til 4am talking, and the rest is history :) That was November 2005, we got engaged in August 2007, and married this past October :)

[nesser1981]

We met at work. We sat beside each other in the Morse Aisle, listening to Morse Code. LOL! He was in the Navy & I was in the Air Force. That was over 9 years ago.

[NeverendingJen]

I voted other, because his brother(who is my friend) introduced us....it's a totally long and hilarious story, but we became fast friends, dated mostly online for a year(he was overseas with the military so we had very little time together), got engaged 13 months after we met, and got married 12.5 months later. We'll celebrate our 4th anniversary this fall <3 and are more in love every single day. He's truly my soul mate. We've been through some rough times but we've come through stronger than ever.

[pewtertm]

DH and I met online, became best friends (lots of 3 and 4 hour phone calls LOL...he wound up sending me a cell phone so that we could talk and I wouldn't have to fiddle with those calling cards), and have now been married for 5-1/2 yrs.

[isaacsmom]

My DH and I met at work, so I chose "other."

We were both in college, working at a local grocery store chain. He worked in frozen foods and I was a bakery babe. That was 14 years ago. We were together for 4 years before we got married and just recently celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary!

[BrattyMeg]

DH and I met thru friends in '99. I had just moved to a new town clear across the country for work and and he was really good friends with one of my new work friends. We all hung out and I was instantly smitten.

[tuneskids]

Des and I met when I was 12 years old, at my high school. He was cutting class from his high school, and came to hang out with his friends, who were the brothers of one of my friends. Whenever I was at my friend's house, it seemed he was always there too. We were only friends for many years though.
He dated my best friend, and I dated his best friend for a period of time, when I became pregnant with my first child. Des is Cody's godfather, which gets a kind of odd reaction when people find out. lol
Des was always there for me when I needed to vent or bash on the guy(s) in my life. When I was pregnant with my daughter, her bio-dad and I broke up, and I was a mess. I phoned Des, because I needed to talk to someone, and after many conversations, I found out that he had liked me for a very, very, very long time.
We started dating when I was 8 months pregnant with Jenna, he moved back to the town we grew up in when Jenna was a week old, and we got engaged a few months later. That was 11 years ago, and we are still going strong (despite a bit of problems back in 2003, where we were actually legally separated for almost 6 months).

[jenn7]

At work.

[Sharon Kay]

Well I have known my hubby since I was 16 years old ... but it wasn't someone I even considered dating. lol I thought he was a LOT older than me so therefore I didn't pay him a lot of attention (he had a receding hairline even at 17). I could have found out his age if I had just asked my mom because ...

- His dad was a supervisor at TG&Y
- My mom was HIS dad's secretary at TG&Y
- My dad worked at the TG&Y office and his dad reported "shortages" in shipments to my dad weekly
- His brother worked at the TG&Y warehouse in the summers where my dad's office was located.
- His sister at one time worked with my mom as a secretary at TG&Y
- When I turned 21 I was hired as a supervisor's secretary to HIS BOSS at TG&Y
- I had to call him at LEAST once or twice weekly for my boss because he was a TG&Y Store Manager

I used to call all the stores under my supervisor weekly...sometimes a couple of times asking that they get certain things done and ask for paperwork and such. I could almost hear the *groan* when the office personnel would say "Sharon is on the phone" because they knew it meant more work. Well Steve was ALWAYS very upbeat and would say something like "whatcha got for me now? Oh no problem ... consider it done" etc. etc. Well I got to where I called him FIRST because he got me all "up" and inspired to call the other store managers. (by the way I hadn't seen him in years so couldn't even remember what he looked like)

One day I called Steve and he surprised me by saying "oh what now?! What could you possibly want?" ... and I thought to myself "oh jeesh if HE is saying that ... what are all the other store managers going to say? I better think of something quick!" ... so jokingly I said "well um... I wanted a LUNCH, and oh yeah Mr. Tidwell wanted you to ...." .... well he repeats back the list of items INCLUDING "lunch" ... and I say "uh yeah right" and hang up.

I then went on to call all the other stores ... but kept thinking about that "lunch thing". I went out on the store floor (the supervisor's office was physically located inside a store but kinda hidden) and asked Carol that had worked with Steve in that store before for like 4 years and was friends with him ... "This is what I said to Steve..." and "Do you think he took me seriously?" ... she laughed and said "oh no Steve is such a joker...don't think about it ... he was just kidding back".

I went back into my office and called my mom (her office was in a different store but she had worked in that building previously and knew Steve for about 4 years too) ... told her what I said and she said the same thing ... no he's just a joker and was kidding back. Then she told me I need to hurry over and get my reports run (she had a photocopier at her office but I didn't) and in the mail. ...so I took off for her office and locked mine ...

Well the next day I show up at my office and Carol met me the minute I walked in ... "Guess who showed up yesterday to take you to lunch?!" ... UH OH ... I walked over to my office and the phone was already ringing ... I knew who that was going to be!

I answered the phone and Steve was on it asking me why I asked him to lunch and then wasn't there. Oh jeesh there was some fast talking (no idea what I said) ... but in the long run agreed to go to lunch with him the next week.

The following day I was out on the sales floor talking to Carol about something and standing upstairs near the entrance ... when suddenly the store door opens ... a BLUR rushes past and out the exit ... I find myself standing there with a manilla envelope in my hand ... and it had the store # on it that Steve was the manager of. Carol burst out laughing and said "that must have been Steve planning on sneaking up and checking you out before your date next week and you surprised him by standing here". She was laughing so hard.

... well after that lunch date the next week we started dating ... we dated for 4 years before we got married ... and we have been married 26 years as of last week!! He always tells people that I picked him up over the telephone!

I kinda think it was fate ... I had told my daddy when I was a little girl that when I grew up I was going to marry a TG&Y man just like my daddy. ... and jeesh you couldn't get two families more entwined in TG&Y than our two families!!

you know what ... I think we need to have this as a BOM portfolio challenge!! I've never scrapped this story.

...oh and he knew I loved Disney (especially Jiminy Cricket) and he used to always draw on the envelopes he sent me with his weekly reports with Disney characters and colored them in ... I saved every one of those drawings!

[pewtertm]

Sharon, I've told you more than once that you needed to do a TG&Y layout :)

[mpatry]

at work.

We both worked for the same flower shop, I worked in the design and walk-in sales section and he worked in the call center taking orders for people calling teleflora, sears flowers etc...

[Stacey42]

We met at work. A pizza place, in 1989. I was in college, he'd dropped out due to lack of funds by the time I met him. I'd met my previous BF there too. The previous one graduated & left to go with the Peace Corps to Malawi for two years. DH and I hooked up a week after that guy left town & started seriously dating about 4 months later.

We moved in together in 1991 & got married in 1993

[pkstew2]

we met at work too ... 18 years ago and still going strong :)

[kresta]

I met DH at church youth group. I was leading worship in our youth praise band (yes, I've done this my entire life) and he was visiting with a friend. He played drums and offered to play with us. He was hot as heck, so of course I said he could! Sexy drummer... can't beat that. Except I had a long-time high school boyfriend. And he was kind of a player, dated a million girls in high school. Anytime my long-term boyfriend and I were on a "break", I'd call him; anytime he was btwn girls, he'd call me. But the timing never worked out at that time, so we were just good friends. Timing was finally right just after I graduated. We fell in love that summer b4 I went off to school out of state. But I ended up moving back in state, though still out of town, the next year. We got married 3 years after we started dating. :)

[Priscilla]

online :D

[HeatherKS]

We met in high school. We ran in the same circles and had mutual friends but hadn't ever hung out much. He asked me to dance at the beginning of school mixer when I was a junior and he was a senior and the rest is history! :)

[Amy Carey]

I voted "other" cause I met mine on the phone :)

[Traci Reed]

When I moved into my first apartment after high school, he lived across from me ;)

[kscwgirl]

you know what ... I think we need to have this as a BOM portfolio challenge!! I've never scrapped this story.

it wasn't part of the BOM, but it was one of the challenges in February.. #29 was scrap your love story.


I met Jeff at the bar. :)

[Melissa Bennett]

I met my hubby, Walter at a church dance in November of 1991, we were engaged 10 days later and we married on January 11, 1992 (yep, that is 2 months after we met). We have been married for over 18 years now.

[taracotta7]

Met my hubby through a friend. The mutual friend was a co-worker of his. (they were cops in my city) The mutual friend got hurt on the job and needed another officer to fill in for his off duty security job at the bank where I worked. Steve (DH) filled in for him. I couldn't stand him!!!! He was such a jerk. A few days later the mutual friend invited several couples to his house for a steak dinner and also invited Steve and I that were NOT a couple without each of us knowing! Sneaky, sneaky......that was the first evening to over 13 years together! I decided I liked him after all. :) We got engaged after 2 and a half months of dating and was engaged for a little over year! We will be married for 12 years this June. :)

[Rae's World]

Met online 14yrs ago. Been married just over 13yrs. When we started chatting and such in the internet was brand new!!

[scrapperjade]

We met through a mutual acquantance. He was actually interested in dating her, but she turned him down (they are still friends), so I asked him out, lol (I did okay it with her though!). We started dating at the very end of August 2003, were engaged on December 17, 2003 and married on July 17, 2004. Met & married within 11 months, married now for almost 6 years and happier than ever!!

ETA: I just wanted to add that I seriously fell in love with him the day we met (even though he wasn't looking at me in that way). We became fast friends though, and he was so easy to talk to. It was like I'd known him all my life. My friends just sat back and smiled, and they all talked amongst themselves that there was NO DOUBT we'd get married :). We pretty much knew with in a couple of weeks that we were right for each other and that we'd be getting married soon!

[nanienamou]

I always knew my DH. I have pics of him and me when we were 4 and 2 years old, playing together. My aunt babysat me when I was a kid and DH was his husband (my uncle)'s nephew. So we used to see each other 2-3 times a year. Then, we lost touch in 1992, when my uncle died. When his grandmother died, in 1997, we went to the funeral and I hooked up with him again. It got serious in November 1997 and we have been together ever since. :)

[nietis]

DH was a classmate when we used to study Master back in 2005-2006. The first semester, we were just friends, it wasn't until the second semester where we had to work in a group of 2 that we got to know each other closer. He liked me first, I just broke up with my ex, so I kept him waiting and chasing for a LONG time LOL!!!

[Shawna]

We met in high school when we had a few business/accounting classes together, I was a sophomore and he was a senior. We were really good friends for the first half of the school and finally started dating in January 1994 and were together for the rest of the time I was in high school and in college. We got engaged in August 1999 and married in August 2000 so we've been together for 16 years and will celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary in August!!

[hollyxann]

Well he's not my husband but my BF of 5 yrs and I met because we are next door neighbors. He's only lived in the house for 7 yrs and I lived in my parent's house since I was 6 months old. Now we live together, and still live right next door to my parents. I'm literally separated from my parents by a driveway.

[Keely~B]

We worked at a comedy club together. Good times LOL :p

[kim21673]

Tim was roommates with my cousin, Mark....there were 3 guys that lived together in a big house. My cousin Mark was in a band I drove up with his sister to Chicago to listen to the band play....beforehand we stopped at their house for a party and I met Tim...we played cards, drank a few beers and the rest is history!! We started dating when I got back from Australia and have been together for 7 years.

[laurabobaura]

at work :)

[dana]

these stories are so fun to read :)

i met my DH at a bar in Paris ... one of my friends saw his friend threw a window and thought he was cute, so we went in ... his friends called him and told him to come to the bar once they started talking to us because we were american (they were french) and my husband is bilingual and could help them out :) LOL! i think we were all out until about 5 am that night - and then the next two nights as well .. and so on... that was 11 years ago! wow! time flies!

[Ginger_79]

Hm, I'm not really "allowed" to vote, not married. But met my bf on the internet through a friend. She is in Denmark, I am in Germany, he is in Nothern Ireland. We both used to chat with that friend seperately and one evening she decided to set us up (and I might wanna add that she kinda told him the plan, but not me LOL).

We chatted for some weeks and I flew over to Ireland in August last year. So all pretty new and long-distance and who-knows-what-will-happen. And while it's just great that so many of you got married on the spot and it worked...uhm...yeah. THAT would freak me out! Like in seriously freak me out. I'm waaay to used to overthink everything. :)

[Kat Stokes]

I voted through a friend. I knew of my DH back in Jr. High School from a teen club we were in and him hanging out with some mutual friends but I was never introduced to him until our Jr. year when I went over to a friend's house where he was working on his truck. He came out from under the truck all cute and greasy. I told my BFF after we left that night that I was going to marry him. The following weekend he asked me out and we have been together ever since. He literally moved in my parents house with me about a month after we started dating because he was having problems with his ex-step-dad. We lived together for five years before getting married and have been married for 14 years (as of May 17th). 19 years and 2 kids later and I love him more now than I ever have!!! :wub:

[Leila]

Hm, I'm not really "allowed" to vote, not married. But met my bf on the internet through a friend. She is in Denmark, I am in Germany, he is in Nothern Ireland. We both used to chat with that friend seperately and one evening she decided to set us up (and I might wanna add that she kinda told him the plan, but not me LOL).

We chatted for some weeks and I flew over to Ireland in August last year. So all pretty new and long-distance and who-knows-what-will-happen. And while it's just great that so many of you got married on the spot and it worked...uhm...yeah. THAT would freak me out! Like in seriously freak me out. I'm waaay to used to overthink everything. :)

Oh trust me, it freaked me out!! I knew he was THE ONE, but it's still scary to commit for life to someone you barely know.

[Paula]

Steve and I met at college. We were in orchestra together.

[Sheana]

Online. We met online just after midnight on 01/01/01. :) We met in person 14 days later and started dating 5 days after that. We were married 12/31/08.

[nanienamou]

We chatted for some weeks and I flew over to Ireland in August last year. So all pretty new and long-distance and who-knows-what-will-happen. And while it's just great that so many of you got married on the spot and it worked...uhm...yeah. THAT would freak me out! Like in seriously freak me out. I'm waaay to used to overthink everything. :)


Haha! We only got married in 2008, after being 10 years together and having 3 kids. :p However, marriage was just not that important to us (in Quebec, common-law is very popular). For me, having a child with someone is a much bigger commitment than marriage. ;)

[Sharon Kay]

Sharon, I've told you more than once that you needed to do a TG&Y layout :)

I know ... but not one of these designers has come out with a TG&Y kit ... and you KNOW I AM a THEME scrapper! lol :p

Since I have all Steve's Disney doodles he drew for me ... I could use a Disney themed kit ... but ...

Actually I think I need a kick in the behind (aka a portfolio challenge) to get me motivated!

[jannylynn]

DH was my college Algebra tutor. I got an A+ in the class because I went to see the tutor a lot! :D We didn't start dating until late in the semester.

[d2vasquez]

another girl who met her dh online - it's been 11 years now and can't think of anyone else I would rather be with. :)

[rach3975]

DH and I met my freshman year in college, so fall '93. He was a junior and a friend of a friend of my lab partner. At the time I was still dating my HS boyfriend, and for the first 6 months that he knew me (barely knew me) he kept mixing up me and another lab partner, LOL. It was spring '94 when we started noticing each other more and spent most of a night talking and dancing at a party, but a few days later we went home for the summer with nothing having happened between us. We got together as soon as we were back in the fall and have been together ever since. We'll have been married 12 years in June.

[Giseli Freitas]

I met my husband at church. We got married there too and still go there now. I actually met him in the singles bible study which is now completely gone because we all got married. LOL

Kinda like Julie: I met him in the singles bible study camp of our area. :)

[scrapmonkey]

I'm one of the rare ones that met her husband at a club. It was supposed to be a one night stand, but we just kept talking throughout the night got engaged. Several months later we were engaged and a year after that we were married. We'll be celebrating 9 years of marriage in less than 2 months.

I met my prior boyfriends through different means: one through school and another through a dating service.

[livelys]

We met at work: I started on the 5th July, we went on out first date on a Friday night a month later, and started living together from the following Sunday night. I'm a fast mover :p

We've been married for 15 years now.

[nonnie]

I'm one of the rare ones that met her husband at a club. It was supposed to be a one night stand, but we just kept talking throughout the night got engaged. Several months later we were engaged and a year after that we were married. We'll be celebrating 9 years of marriage in less than 2 months.
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Same with my hubbie - He was only suppose to be a fling before I married someone else - I was not all that truthful with him - I gave him a fake number and told him I only had one kid - (I had 2) He was soooo much younger than me. Well one thing led to another - and we married 4 months later -

[lovely1m]

We worked together at a concert place, I did security and he did the lights. Apparently he used to watch me while he was supposed to be working, but his friends told him I was a college girl and would never go out with him. So we never really talked or anything. I then quit. About a year and a half later, we met online. He instantly realized who I was. He pursued me big time, but I only wanted to be friends. Later I gave in. We moved in together 6 months later, got engaged a month after that, 15 months after that we got married. We got seperated last fall after 7 months, but we are actually still friends and spend nearly every day together. I know, weird, but it works. lol

ETA, opps, 7 years of marriage! not months..lol

[clearskies]

We met at an airshow. I was volunteering and he had come in with some of the planes.

[scrappurple]

I met dh in the one place I SWORE I would NEVER meet a husband ... a bar. :D

[breakingbrie]

I love reading these stories!

I met dh Oct 99. My brother was dating dh's sister(they ended up having a daughter together, but aren't together anymore). We met on a big canoeing trip with a ton of friends. He had quite a reputation back then(not a good one, either). And I was seeing someone at the time. We were around each other all the time, because of my bro dating his sis. Dh ended up getting married and had 2 kids and moved to Texas when he joined the army. That marriage didn't last too long though. He came back to Ohio about 6 months before his time in TX was up, and we went out on a real date December 03(he stopped into the gas station I was working 3rd shift at and we got to talking for hours and he just asked me out). He was so different from when I'd first met him. We spent a lot of time together on his leave, then he'd fly up whenever he could to see me. lol, after a couple months, I just dropped everything, quit my job and went to stay the rest of his time in TX with him. We got married September 07.

[RealRach]

I picked at school but you must know...it's was FIRST GRADE! We've been friends ever since!

[Sasha]

Another online dating story here. He sent me a message through MYSPACE lol...back when i didnt know how to make things private lol. That was back in February 12, 2005. Met him for the first time the end of March. Went on first date April 1, 2005. Met his family April 30th, 2005. And jokingly would say he was only gonna be around til June 2005 for my sister's wedding because we both love to dance. We got engaged New Years Day 2006 and married July 2006. And still going strong.