How did you meet your Husband/SO?

Oh mark,
that's soooooo romantic!!!!

I called a company to come pick up some furniture that I had to clear out of my mom's house after she died, and my SO was the driver who showed up.  He was working part time for this company, while looking for another job, so I gave him my card.  He ended up not applying for a job, he applied for a date LOL, despite our rather large age diff (he's thirteen years younger than I am.  The rest is history (and it's now fourteen years later and we're still together).

all the first times with me and my BF are kinda chaotic.
 
i am kind of the newbie in my group of friends. they all know each other since primary school or high school. one of them had left beijing before i became friends with them, so i only know her from spending summers here with her. she is great though and we always have loads of fun together.
well she came again this winter and had her brother tagging along. first time i met him was 10 min before us girls were doing our secret santa and sure enough he sits next to me when i receive and unpack some under garment that is clearly meant for naughty purposes.
we hung out together, always in a big group over the next few days.
then came new years and a big party event. i had never even considered going out with him, alsthough i kinda liked him, cause i thought he didnt live here..
anyways, somehow we ended up making out on that party. we were both so drunk we don't even remember our first kiss... lol. he asked me on a date the next day and i went to see him.(dispite the raging hangover).
we havent had an anniversary yet, but the date is easy enough to remember... lol

I had moved from the DC area to GA to escape a very domineering ex.  Or almost ex.....we'd been separated for almost 2 years, he was heavily involved with someone else, but he wouldn't let the darned divorce go through.  I had no interest in a relationship, and when I met DH, who worked for the same radio station, I immediately saw the cartoon little boy with the dark cloud following him around.  (His ex had just taken his son and moved thousands of miles away)  He thought I was an ice princess.  Cold and unapproachable.
 
The receptionist did some manipulating to get me to a remote he was doing at one of the clubs and that was the beginning of a wonderful relationship.  We talked for hours, we danced, we drank, we really got to know each other.  And that was almost 25 years ago....we just celebrated 24 years of marriage in May.

It's a good story considering it's more exciting than the truth....
I met my husband through a mutual friend....He said he was down on his luck....had never had a gf and was a lil homely....I owed my friend a favor so I went on the sympathy date to help build his confidence .....Well...I couldn't get rid of him....He followed me everywhere....I was at my job vacuming an office when he would pop up from the desks and scare me ....I laughed at the time...but it was really scary and creepy when I look back....Even though he was like he was...I fell in love with his golden retriever Rebel...I had always wanted a golden and I wanted to spend more time with him( my mom wouldn't get me 1 because of her allergies)....we took him to the beach...camping...hikes...It was great...So when Mark said...hey wanna move in with me ?...I said sure why not...we soon adopted another golden Abbey....They fell in love and were soul mates...I couldn't think of spliting them up...

My boyfriend broke my heart.... in college.

I met my current BF my sophomore year of college. I was actually dating a really great guy at the time and I met Dave in study hall. He was "Mr. Soccer" (our soccer team was amazing) and kind of a egotistical jackass. He always talked to me during study hall and we both got crushes on each other. I eventually cheated on my boyfriend with him (bad, bad!). My boyfriend joined the army and went away and we broke up. Dave and I would continually have um, flings, throughout the rest of college, mostly ending every time with me finding out he hooked up with another girl. He completely destroyed and humiliated me. Being on a campus so small we all knew each other's business and when Dave was spending the night in someone else's dorm, everyone knew.

By the time of graduation, we weren't even speaking. I didn't see him at graduation and we never spoke again. Last May, I received a myspace email from him. I hadn't heard from him in 6 years. He apologized for everything he ever did to me. We became friends again. The guy I was seeing at the time suddently dumped me one day. I was beyond devistated. I went through a 5 week depression, didn't eat, and eventually had to be checked into a hospital. Dave was a mess with worry. He called me every day and talked to me for hours giving me positive reinforcement...  When I finally got out, he flew me down to Tampa (where he lived) so I could have a vacation. I thought it would be stange seeing him again after 6 years, but we had the time of our lives... we went to Disney World, stayed in hotels, and had a blast.

Next thing I knew I was flying down to Tampa every 2 weeks to see him. I never had felt so safe and secure and loved in a relationship. I moved down here in April.

Our situation taught me that people really are capable of change... and a difficult past can end up being a beautiful future.  []

high school - my best friend is acting like a silly teen girl and following this guy around the halls, I didn't really figure out exactly who she was following.  Another friend (girl) is doing the same thing - yep, it was the same guy. Ugh! Teens!  Come summer break, I spend the night at best friend's and the next day we are riding bikes.  She only wants to ride back & forth on this 1 road and has me ring the bike bell in front of 1 certain house.  Finally, he comes out to talk to her.  I hated him on sight & he hated me on sight.  He & my best friend start dating (all through high school), mutal hate for each other all the time.  Somwtime during school they had this idea to get married as soon as she finished.  He was a yr older & went in the AirForce until she finished.  She started dating other guys and got engaged to another guy, one I hated even more.  DH came home (thinking they are getting married that weekend) to find she refuses to marry.  I saw him outside a store and told him the truth - she was inside the store almost off shift.  When she came out she admitted I was right.  I asked DH out then & there in an attempt to make her jealous enough to drop the "new" guy.  -- Backfired!! We started dating and have been married 23-1/2 yrs atfter dating for 2.

Nothing terribly romantic here. I started working at Sears in the hardware department when i was 16, he worked in the paint department. We were just friends for about a year...my friends and i used to go over to his house and hang out all the time. Then just he and i started to hang out and we've been dating for almost 4 years now

Met DH at work right after college - he delivered/picked up mail for a delivery service.  Thought he was a long haired surfer dude slacker and had no interest.  Always chatted with me about his current gf when they broke up and he asked for my number.  Considered really hard about lying but since I knew I would be seeing him at my job decided that wouldn't work *Sigh* So I gave him my number.  Ran out of excuses not to go out and when I finally agreed to meet him one night he was playing pool with a salesman from my company who would hit on me!  Not the best of beginnings - he was getting mad cause Brandon kept touching me while they were playing.  Then we discovered we had the same birthdate thanks to our waitress when she carded us.  Thought that was kinda neat so I gave him a second chance.  Our 2nd date was even worse seeing how he had to pick up some 'weed' for a friend at the restaurant he took me to to eat!  I was very anti-drugs!   I think what hooked me was his kindness to animals - stopping the car to help a turtle cross the road and feeding the stray cats in the area where he lived and maybe a little bit the thought he was dangerous LOL having lived the sheltered life I had lived up to that point. 
 
Don't ask me how but we will be celebrating our 16 year wedding aniversary this year!     

I love telling this story.  It is a fairy tale come true. 
 
I had been in a relationship for 11 years that really went nowhere, and we broke up shortly after I became a Christian when I was 29 (2004).  I then dated a series of men I met on Match.com who just weren't "the One" and got my heart mushed in the process, plus I went through a lot of personal turmoil when I very suddenly lost my job later that year.  I was finally just about to resign myself to being single forever at 31.  But, I decided to give eHarmony a shot.  Actually not really, I signed up and wanted to cancel, but eHarmony wouldn't let me and I fought tooth and nail with them until I finally startred to wonder, hmmm maybe there's a reason I need to stay with this.  So I decided to give it an honest shot.
 
So, I met my husband on eHarmony in October 2005.  I was on vacation with friends in Wisconsin and happened to check my email and there he was as one of my matches.  I was really intrigued because he was actually really hot, and I hadn't been so lucky finding guys I was physically attracted to.  We started corresponding and he was probably the first "three dimensional" person I'd talked to on the dating sites I'd been on.  He said the same thing about me - that I was one of the few women who would actually share about myself and get back to him in a timely manner.  We were matched on a Friday, had our first phone conversation the following Thursday - which lasted 4 hours - and then he emailed me and insisted that I meet up with him the next day (he was so cute).  We met at a bar/restaurant near me and we both got there early.   OMG, I thought he was SO good looking, exactly my type, hot body, blue eyes, and had a really inviting and engaging manner about him.  We didn't want the date to end with dinner so we decided to drop off my car and head out somewhere to go play darts or pool.  I showed him around my house and he met the dogs, and we headed off in his truck. 
 
He had Alanis Morrissete's "You've Already Won Me Over" playing and we both sang along to that, which was very cool - my last lengthy relationship, the guy said I sang too much in the car.  Anyway, after a few minutes we see flashing lights in the rearview and he gets pulled over.  As he's talking to the cop, he leans out the window and says, "Uhhh, when you run my license, it's going to show that there's a WARRANT..." (And I'm thinking, [:-]) but it turns out that there was another guy somewhere down in Arkansas with almost exactly the same name and the same birthdate whose been on the loose for grand theft.  Ron was so embarrassed and after he explains this to the cop he turns and looks at me kind of sheepishly.  My response was, "Hey, well shit happens!" and he told me later that he thought I was so cool for not getting all uptight and freaked out about that.  He didn't get a ticket, and we wound up having a really great time at a bar playing some darts.  We didn't want the date to end. 
 
He came back over to my house on Sunday and surprised me with Chinese food and a pumpkin for us to carve together since it was near Halloween.  He shared his whole story with me about how he got divorced, how life has been for him, what he is looking for, and was really interested in the same from me.  He was so open and took a lot of risk in sharing so much of himself.  He was definitely not hiding anything with me.  I was totally and completely hooked.  We got engaged six weeks later on Christmas Eve and married last August 12th at the Bristol Renaissance Faire up in Kenosha Wisconsin.  It's been a wild ride, lots of ups and downs but we live by faith knowing that God is with us every day.  A big surprise was me getting pregnant on New Year's Eve - and we're due to have our first baby in just 7 weeks...amazing!!!  I love him more and more each day and enjoy watching how we're growing together as a couple who are both truly standing for eachother's best interests. 

It's kinda hilarious at how I met my boyfriend. He was friends with my cousin. Now, I never made a point to go out with any of cousins friends because he's a slut and you know that saying "birds of a feather flock together". Well, according to my boyfriend, he says the first time he "met" me was the day of my surprise birthday party. My friends threw me a big surprise party. Everybody and their mama was there. Even the dj of the bar we hung out was there. Needless to say, there was a lot of alcohol involved and at one point, the guy I was seeing at the time had the audacity to ask me to leave with him. I flipped out on him screaming...
 
Me: "WHAT?! YOU WANT ME TO LEAVE THE PARTY MY FRIENDS THREW FOR ME? ARE YOU INSANE?! YOU CAN GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE!"
 
And I'm walking back to my house when I see my cousin walking out of the house and he says to me...
 
Vinny: "Let's go!"
 
Me: "Ok!"
 
So we get in his car and drive off. The next thing I knew, we're at the bar we hang out at. We walk in the door and the owner is looking at us as if we're completely insane. He says...
 
Vincie: "Uh... aren't they having a party for you at your house?"
 
Me: "Yeah."
 
Vincie: "Isn't Guero(the dj) over there?"
 
Me: "Yeah."
 
Vincie: "So what the hell are you guys doing here?"
 
Me: "I don't know. Are you gonna let us in or not?"
 
So he lets us in and everything was a blur for me after that. According to Farmer Ray, my cousin introduced us and we were going on about how we're having a huge party at my house and how everyone is over there. [8D]
 
A few months after that, we were at the bar and I was standing outside waiting for my cousin to bring the car around. Since it was summertime, I was scantily clad in an all white outfit. I remember Farmer Ray and his friend calling me over to talk to them but I ignored their silly arses. My cousin told me that Farmer Ray was interested in me and is always asking my cousin to introduce us and to hook him up with me. A few weeks after that, we were all talking and he and his friend were talking about how they wanted to become male strippers. Now for those who don't know, these guys are built like brick s### houses. Now considering I'm a connoisseur on male strippers, I told Farmer Ray...
 
Me: "You definitely can be a male stripper. You got the looks and the body for it."
 
And he leaned over and whispered to me...
 
Farmer Ray: "I'll strip for your anytime."
 
Now, I was never interested in this man until he said that to me. Well, I'll spare you all the filthy nasty details but we've been together going on 8 years. And no, he never became a male stripper. He's way too shy. He blushes when *I* grope on him and there's no way in hell he'd be able to handle an 80 year old grandma manhandling him. []

OMG Meilani.. that is the funniest story!!![sm=rofl.gif]

I was working as entertainer in an all inclusive hotel, we were a group of guys and girls in charge of organizing beach volleyball, pool volleyball, tequila volleyball, contests, games, etc during the day and at night we would be doing dancing shows at the hotel theater. My wife was a guest year after year even before i started to work there but we never spoke to eachother (with a 1000 different guests every week is hard to know every single one), my wife always liked that kind of job since looked fun to do (and it was but also was very physical demanding) so she decided to apply for it, they were always looking for girls since they are the hardest to convince to work on something like that (mexican girls dont really like to be in the spotlight)
 
She got the job and started to work there, since you spend 14 hours every day in the hotel is really easy to start dating someone from the same team, after one month she started showing interest on me but the year before i was dating another co-worker that cheated on me with a guest so i didnt wanted to make the same mistake since i just knew that other co-worker for a month before we also started dating, so i wanted to take it slow and really know if she was different or not, well she turned up the charm even more and i jumped in [], fourtunately she was diferent and we dated for a year before she asked me to come back to USA with her, its really rare that an "entertaiment couple" lasts, 99% of them breaks up after one of the persons quits the job, but we stayed together, we got our civil wedding 2 years ago and started to save money to have our church wedding back in Mexico 2 months ago, we stayed in the hotel we worked at and got our reception in an hotel from the same chain just 1 block away (i know, the same chain has 2 hotels 1 block away from eachother, weird), you could see our co workers happy for us but you could see in their faces that they are asking to themselves something like "why i was not able do something like that with (place here the ex's name)?" [8D]

DH and I had all the same friends through college, but had never met or gotten to know each other. He was a year behind me in school and we both dated other people almost all the way through school, so two ships passing in the night.

One night he picked me up off a sofa I was standing on at a party (not sure what either of us was doing!?!) and threw me over his shoulder Tarzan style. I told him to put me down and he dropped me on my head, then fell over and landed on me. After that incident, I always knew who he was.

Both of our previous relationships ended. We just got each other as friends, and stated to hang out more and more. It just worked, without any drama or stress, it was easy and we always were thinking/wanting the same things. We'd both had bad long-term relationships and recognized the good thing we had as something rare and very special.

After I graduated I moved to Boston for work, while he finished his senior year 6 hours away. We wanted to see if we could do long distance while we were in very different places in our lives and we did. Aside from missing him like crazy it worked without drama or stress. He moved in after he graduated, and then we got engaged, and married.

Now we joke that he had to knock some sense into me to get on my radar.

ETA: Isn't it nice when they good guy also happens to be really hot!?! It seems a couple of us got lucky with those! Also, I am in a match.com wedding next June. That site seems to get it right!

ORIGINAL: jjsmom06

I was a waitress just finishing up my last year in college and he was a divorced dad that had custody of the kids every other weekend. He and the kids would come in on Friday nights after he would pick them up from their mom's house.

The kids were FANTASTIC.. the most well behaved and polite little things and he was the kindest customer with a sweet smile and always a kind word (didn't hurt that he wasn't too hard on the eyes either).  I was 6 weeks from my 22nd birthday and he was 30.  It was a pretty big age difference (especially with me only being 21) but it never felt that way to us and still doesn't 12 years later.      

 
I think that is the sweetest thing. How romantic almost like a cute movie story, the kind that gives you hope in the end []