how'd you meet your significant other

[LivingAlmostLarge]

I am curious how others met their significant others. We met when I posted a roommate ad. Decided sure sounds good, he wanted a room, I needed money, we moved in and 24 years later he has yet to move out. Now I realize if the day comes our kids find out how we just kind of did random stuff like that it's going to be a disaster.

[kork13]

Ha! That's fantastic, and very funny.

Nothing particularly special for us, we basically met through a combination of shared friends, and going to church together. Honestly, we're probably both lucky for it -- neither of us are particularly social or outgoing, so finding in eachother someone that we could each be happy with really was a massive stroke of luck. We were both in the military at the time as well, so having some common understanding there probably helped us... it has definitely been essential in the years since, thanks to my frequent deployments & other absences from the family.

[bjl584]

We had mutual friends and our families knew each other.
I'm from a small town.

[ua_guy]

We...hooked up. It was a Thursday night, we had been chatting and met in an online chat room. I drove almost an hour North on a hunch. We had a fantastic evening. I was 21.

It was so good, we decided to get together the next day for dinner.

We celebrated 20 years together, a few months ago.

[LivingAlmostLarge]

I'm waiting for the fun stories to come out. My DH's boss told his wife the night her met her at a college party he was going to marry her and he did! 55+ years. She thought he was drunk or high.

[disneysteve]

My best friend in high school talked me into joining a youth group. At the very first co-ed social event I went to, a Halloween party, I met a girl and ended up following her around most of the evening. The next day, her friend forced her to call me and ask me out. The friend literally dialed my number and handed her the phone. We went to a movie that night. Ended up dating for about 6 months before breaking up over something stupid (we were teenagers so lots of stupid happens then). I kept in touch with her after that, calling occasionally, writing letters back and forth when we were in college, sending a Halloween card every year since that's when we met, etc. She'd tell her mom she didn't want to talk to me when I called but then we'd end up being on the phone for 2 hours.

9 years later I was the lighting designer for a theater in PA. I had made one of my periodic calls to her. After I hung up, I remembered that she had lighting experience so I called her back and asked if she'd like to come work on my lighting crew. She agreed and by the end of the show we were dating again. That was November 1989. We got married in July 1992 so coming up on 32 years married and over 43 years since we first met.

[kork13]

Ok I guess I oversimplified & glossed over some of the good parts of the story.

We did get introduced by friends (at game/movie nights that our shared group of friends put on periodically), and reportedly DW was smitten from the start. I was thick & frankly wasn't looking, so it took me a few months longer. We ended up going to a different event together, happened to turn opposing corners at the same time (to end up facing each other), and I had a thought suddenly slam me in the face -- "You're going to marry her, and she'll be a great mom." Completely out of the blue, wasn't even remotely on my mind, tragically romantic, yadda yadda... but the straight truth. We actually started dating at that point, and 3-4 months later, I actually was ready to marry her.... At which point I deployed with the military for 6 months. So we planned our wedding 4000 miles apart, I came home, then I was finally able to properly propose (near the top of Pike's Peak in CO, there attending the wedding for a friend of mine), and we got married about a month after that. This year will be our 10th.