How did you meet your significant other?

[Sapphire Silk]

I met my ex online, sorta. He was a patron of a BBS I ran at the time. His dad was as well. His dad decided to attend a meeting of a bunch of us, a Bahai' Fireside chat (I'm not Bahai', but one of my members was, he invited us to his house several times), and the ex came along.

We clicked, and moved in together several months later, got married a year after that. The marriage didn't last very long (we should have stayed friends) though.

[raw456]

He stalked me till I finally panicked, gave in and went on a date with him

This is mostly true.

We met online thru a fansite and first met face to face at a group get together. We became part of the same social circle, but I wasnt actually interested in him romantically at the time.

He kept asking me out, I kept saying no. After about 3 years I said yes. (thank god he waited)

A year to the day from our first date, he proposed and we have been together 5 years come October. (married for 2.5)

[dawnfire]

We met at a Star Trek club. We just got talking, i belive it was about trill and transporters. We were friends for about a year before we became a couple. It's now been 17 years and married 16

[XCashier]

We met twenty-two years ago at a Doctor Who fanclub.

We'll be married twenty-one years in November. It hasn't always been peaches and cream, but we're still together...

[ArcticChicken]

About 7 years ago I moved to Philly in order to get out of my mom's house (love the woman, can't spend more than about two weeks with her), Philly because my Aunt's housemate had a young daughter and offered to pay my room and board in exchange for some light nanny-ing.

I've never made friends easily, luckily I was adopted into my cousin's circle. I dated one of the friends for a while, but it didn't work out. I started having feelings for the other about the time I broke up with the first one, but I wasn't sure they weren't caused by being lonely, so I held off on acting on them. Once I was sure they were for him I was too damn awkward to actually do anything about it, so instead I started using him for a pillow. It only took him three months to catch on, and we've been together almost two years now. We're getting engaged when we've both graduated from college.

[Antisocial_Worker]

I hate to live up to the stereotypes, but I met my boyfriend on a hookup site for gay men. I came over to his place, where we discovered that we are extremely compatible when it comes to that kind of thing... and in the afterglow he mentioned that he'd just moved to town and had yet to find a decent pizza place.

I told him we would have to fix that. It just kind of went from there... I told him I loved him for the first time three months after we met while sobbing into his lap because my father had had a heart attack and my mother had fallen and broken a hip within two days of each other. He responded by telling me he had been falling in love with me since the first time he saw me.

We celebrated our one-year anniversary in July, and I moved into his place about a month ago.

[Thuringwethyl]

I was waiting for class to start with my nose buried in a book. The guy next to me got my attention and asked "So you like evolutionary psychology?" (the title of the book I was reading). We got to talking and after that class was done he asked me out on a date. We've been together for over a year now and, after we worked through different cultures, personalities, and expectations (which almost broke us up in the first three months) we hardly have any fights.

The funny thing? He had been trying to get his friend to man up and ask out the girl that he (the friend) liked. The Friend said that it was hard to speak to girls and get their numbers. My guy disagreed. To which the Friend countered "Oh yeah? Why don't you just ask that girl...over...(looks around the classroom)...there, smart ass?" So my (now) boyfriend asked me about the book I was reading.

Yup, my guy and I are together because his friend dared him to chat up a random chick. Funny how things work out.

[taurinejunkie]

I'm not sure where this relationship is going but I certainly hope it will continue. Last week, during my NYC trip, I asked a young lady for directions to get something I wanted. She said she had to take care of a few things first and then would help me. In the end she wasn't able to help but we still hung out a bit while drinking Four Loko. I don't remember what I said but she burst out laughing and said "You're so cute". With the Four Loko in me, all I thought of was to say "really now?" while getting closer to her. Seconds later my brain was rebooting because her hand had gone for the back of my neck.

[Sunshine]

i met my exhusband thru an exboyfriend. yep. did the exboy a favor, and introduced him to someone, so he decided to return the favor. except he didnt tell exhubs that he didnt tell me about exhubs! ) once we got it straightened out, we were inseperable. we were together for 7 years and have a lil ray of sunshine together.

[Kara]

My sophomore year of high school, in orchestra. There was this girl, a freshman. I didn't know her, but I knew of her. She was dating this guy who was a world-class loser, and she was pretty much hated by a lot of people by association. The girl I shared music with was the sister of a friend of mine. We hit it off pretty well, we chatted all the time. This other girl, she was also a violin player and friends with her, so she would kind of inch closer and listen in on us, sometimes adding to the conversation or just laughing along with my music partner. It wasn't long before we were all chatting and giggling away all the time in class.

Cue second semester. I didn't have lunch with ANYONE I really associated with, so I sat by myself. Until a few days later when that girl asked if she could sit with me. So we started hanging out at lunch too. About a month later, she told me she broke up with her boyfriend, that she'd only dated him because he asked and she was lonely. And about a month after that, she asked me if I would go out with her. And I was floored. I had no idea she even liked me. She had to ask my music partner if there was anything going on between us because of how we "flirted" all the time, and she said no, we were just friends.

And a lot of that, I realize now, in the afterrmath of my divorce, is where I messed up. See, when I got involved with her, I was really just a kid. I was 15. She was 14. It was shortly before I ever met her that I had come to accept the truth about me, that I was female. But I was nowhere near the point of knowing just what that meant for me and what I should do about it. What she thought of as "flirting" was just me being comfortable around other girls and being chatty and giggly. But hey, this girl liked me and wanted to date me, so I would just put everything else on hold and focus on that until later. Which wound up being 15 years later.

It was a sweet beginning, it was. And for a long time, that's how it remained. But it just wasn't to be. Still, I can treasure the good memories, even if we've both moved on.

[iradney]

I met TTO on orkut.com. Or actually, he met me He found my profile, apparently liked what he saw and added me.

I liked what I saw, and added him back. About 24 hours later we were IMing and emailing back and forth. About 2 days later we were talking on the phone and texting. 2 weeks after meeting on orkut, we had a legendary 8 hour phone conversation (8pm to 4 am), and then 2.5 months after that, I flew to his town for his birthday. Been together over 7 years, married for nearly 6 months

[Amina516]

Well, i was 12 and so was he. (gross, right??) We were in 7th grade at middle school and i had these new fellows called breasts, so I was getting alot of attention i hadnt gotten before. I "dated" (and i say "dated" bc we never kissed or anything, i just called guys my BF and we hung out after school) a few of hubbys friends before i would even give him a chance b/c he was soooo goofy.

So we started to go out at the end of 7th grade. A week later he called my house, giggled a breakup at me ( i could her an ex-bf of mine in the background) and hung up. We started 8th grade and started flirting but i moved across the city and attended a different school.

Then it was 9th grade, which is high school here. We ended up in the same damn class...which is weird considering we were both somehow skipped a grade and put in with 10th graders b/c of our grades. And we started dating again almost immediately after. We've had our ups an downs. Went to prom together, had a baby in high school together ( i dont recommend that last one).

We're 28 now, so a total of 14 years together and we'll be married 8 years come this September. 2 kids, a house and a dog.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

My wife told me one of the reasons she thought I would be the one is because I gave her a book of my poetry on our first date. She also showed me a journal she had written describing what she felt her future husband would be like. As it turned out she ended up being quite accurate.

[Teysa]

I met my SO at the local junior college. He was a math tutor and I tutored English. We dated for a while and then broke up over silly stuff. After we broke up we barely spoke to each other. Fast forward two or three years and we got back into contact. We started dating again but nothing serious really happened. In fact, we both decided we made better friends. Sometime later he needed a roommate so I moved in to help with the bills and such. We continued being just friends. Eventually, though that friendship turned into something more romantic. Ten plus years later, I couldn't imagine life without him. Don't get me wrong we have our issues, some of which I've vented about on here, but at the end of the day, I know we can face them together.

[Crossbow]

I was at a SCA meeting at the local college campus and ended up giving a friend of mine a back rub. Nothing serious, just a friend helping out another. A fairly new member of the group comes over, sits down next to me and say "I'm next!"

A couple of months later she moves in with me and my roommate (he house was next to a fraternity and not the safest place for an 18 year old lady to stay alone. Real bad fraternity...) When my roommate and I graduated and went in different directions, she moved in with me. We've been married 15 years last week.