How did you meet your husband/wife/significant other?

[Spaldeen]

Thanksgiving is coming up, and it got me thinking about family. I'm single right now, so I don't have a story to tell here (unless you want to hear my last breakup story).

Anyhoo, how did everybody here end up finding their special someone??

[Kali]

1. Ladies night at a bar that later burned down.

[Spaldeen]

3. coincidence or cause?

[Kali]

4. the time between events suggests coincidence

but sometimes I wonder...

[liberal N proud]

2. Breaking into the girls dorm

It was a great way to meet girls, doors were locked at a certain hour and I knew how to get them open.

[Yavin4]

10. Kind of creepy, but okay. n/t

[liberal N proud]

12. Sounds creepy, but most of the girls knew me

Most of them had seen me at the party earlier in the night. It all started with a couple of girls who couldn't get in and then became a thing, we would go open doors at the dorms after they were locked out. It was before key card systems and if you didn't make in in, you were out all night.

There were usually a couple of us doing it together, the girls started to know you and were happy to get in.

It was a matter of trust I suppose, small Midwestern trust.

[livetohike]

5. In the dining hall at college. I saw him talking with a mutual friend and I asked that friend to

bring him to a party that weekend. We'll be married for 40 years this coming March .

[mnhtnbb]

6. From the precursor to internet dating...a video dating service in Los Angeles in 1984.

We will be married 30 years next May. BUT, I was a 'member' of the service---called Great Expectations--
for almost 5 years--and one live in relationship--before I met Mr. mnhtnbb.

[kwassa]

9. I knew a two couples that met up on Great Expectations.

It was probably the earliest popular dating service.

[mnhtnbb]

11. I have a friend whom I convinced to join, and she met her husband to be through GE.

[kwassa]

7. The internets, 20 years ago.

back in the days of Unix newsreaders like tin and pine, and keyboard functions only.

Usenet.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My then current boyfriend decided we both needed to date more people...

He introduced me to my husband! And then he told me he was going to date other girls, but that he would be back!



Yeah, he came back.........too late!

It'll be 50 years next June, for us.

[DryHump]

26. Wow!!! Congrats, CA Peggy!!!!! N/T

[femmocrat]

13. Ironically, we met on Thanksgiving break from college.

There was a teen dance club in town and my best friend (who used to date him) introduced us. We have been married for 46 years!

[Callmecrazy]

14. In a topless bar...

I was the DJ, she was a dancer. We split 20 some years ago. Nobody significant since then. I'm happily single AND AVAILABLE.

[dembotoz]

15. vegatarian cooking class

neither of us were veggie
class provided a weekly hot meal for next to no fee.
lots of food

the militant veggies quickly took over all the cooking
we just sat by our plates and waited and talked to each other....

[JanMichael]

16. On DU! 11 years ago

We went to an impromptu and small "meetup" in Charlotte-

I think, not sure, but think we were the second or third couple from DU. The first was Lazarus and Haele-

[Sancho]

17. In the student lounge...1973!

[Tom_Foolery]

18. We aren't together any longer...

But in 1996, I was doing the overnight shift on a local CHR station when she called in to request "Lady in Red" by Chris de Burgh. I asked her if she were the lady in red. It turned that she was a redhead, my personal kryptonite. She called back the next night. We talked for a few months before we met. We were together 11 years.

[logosoco]

19. A mutual friend.

After we got together, we realized we had many more common friends and were surprised we had not met or knew of each other sooner. But, then again, I was pretty young so the timing was right just then!

We met in 1980 and got married in 86.

[shenmue]

20. Nobody likes me, 'cause I got cooties

[WinkyDink]

21. He was teaching at the high school I then was hired by. Same department. We had a gret run,

April 1973--April 2014.

RIP, Phil.

[trof]

22. Blind date which I did not want.

Long story, but I was 'set up' by a mutual friend of mine and Miz t.
Neither of us wanted a blind date.
Our mutual friend was very clever.
Wish I could find her now.
I'd thank her.

[bigwillq]

23. On and off for 13 years

Last edited Tue Nov 18, 2014, 11:09 PM - Edit history (1)

Edited: Totally misread this question. I thought it asked how long have we've been together.

We met at a club.

[Liberal Veteran]

24. My future spouse was riding in the back seat of a car of a co-worker.

My co-worker had to stop by for something and I noticed him in the back seat and asked "Who's the cute guy in the back seat?".
Cute guy in the back seat asked my co-worker when he got back into the car "Who's the cute guy in the store?"

Introductions were made the next day.

[LiberalEsto]

25. Citizens Party picnic

He was wearing a cape.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. A very liberal church.

A large urban Unitarian-Universalist church.

Met a nice atheist liberal and we've been together 20 years. I never thought there was such a thing as the perfect match, but I found it.

My girlfriend there said, "Have you noticed ____'s pretty blue eyes?" and I said no, but I did check them out. He would have dated her first if she'd ever looked up from her shoes. He has blue eyes that are more the color of medium denim rather than light blue.


Of course we joke that we were both desperate for a date since neither of us had had a date in two or three years.
And we both had two prior divorces, which I refer to as, "We both had kids with people we can't stand."


My parents had a hilarious story. They met in a dive bar in a bad part of town, on the day that dad's divorce from his first wife was final, for extra comedic effect, in 1946. He had been fighting in the Air Force in Europe, helping them bomb Germany and Italy, and got home to find out he'd been sending home money to support his alcoholic wife and her alcoholic boyfriend, so that wouldn't do.

[3catwoman3]

28. We were next door neighbors...

...in the BOQ (bachelor officers quarters) at Yokota Air Base in Japan. He came knocking on my door to ask me to join him for some dessert he'd just baked. He was an Air Force pilot, and I was in the nurse corps as a pediatric nurse practitioner.

That was 1978. We've been married since January 1982.

[csziggy]

29. My first fiancee introduced us

It's more complicated than that - I'd met the fiancee on campus and we'd gotten together. He knew Mr. csziggy's wife from working in the same office as her sister. Later Mr. csziggy's wife divorced him, I'd broken up with the fiancee, shared a house with Mr. csziggy - it was completely platonic - worked in the same office as his first wife for a while and got to be good friends with her sister.

We've been married 37 years, will have been together for 39 years as of this coming Valentine's Day.

[NRaleighLiberal]

30. Serendipity! I was dragged to a party by my friends.

I was in grad school at Dartmouth - the nurses at the local Hitchcock hospital threw a party and invited the grad students. I was recently dumped and in no mood to attend. Walked in the door, was blown away by a girl drinking a beer - first person I looked at when I walked in, and I thought the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen (plus more - a goodness/kindness/depth about her - and I feel that way about her still, yet it is so much more than what I first caught on that initial look!). My mission was to speak to her, get to know her at some point.

Turns out she, coming off a long bad relationship, was dragged to same party by her friends.

We met in line for beer, talked, danced - she gave me her number. We had our first date a few weeks after the party. Party was on April 7, 1979. We got married on December 6 1980. Still each other's best friends, and about to celebrate our 34th anniversary!

[Orangepeel]

31. We were both volunteering for the same candidate

The candidate lost, but we won.

[LeftInTX]

32. I was just about ready to get engaged to Mr. Perfect

Then I met him - 1983

[olddots]

33. we met on another dating site

Low Expectations

[sakabatou]

34. Online game

We've been together for over 7 years.

[Xipe Totec]

35. At a funeral. You always meet the nicest people there. nt