How did you meet your husband/wife/SO?

[3timesoccermom]

Do you have any interesting stories about it you'd like to share?

Hubs and I went to high school together but most of that time I was in a relationship with one of his friends. I knew who he was and was friendly with him though. I thought he was very unique.

After graduation I'd see him around occasionally. When I moved about 25 miles away he made a point to visit me and call often. Then we starting going places "as friends." I was strict about that - I was independent and wanted to contribute to dinner expenses, buy my own drinks, etc., but he always made it a struggle because he felt the guy should pay. (For the record I STILL believe it's great for the woman to pay at least some of the time.)

Our engagement was bumpy and almost 2 years long. We've had some big bumps and bruises in our marriage too but lots of good things as well.

Hope someone else feels like sharing!

[meggers]

I met my beau in a Christian chat room nearly 7 years ago. We met in person a couple of months later & have been in a long distant relationship ever since. I call him my fiance cause he is. He has been from the moment we saw each other. He proposed that day. We're 500 miles apart & until that's no longer a good thing on some days, we shall remain as such.

[3timesoccermom]

Awwww, thanks for sharing Meggers. Just shows there are many types of successful relationships.

[gem7]

We met at a mutual friend's party. We didn't start dating until we saw each other months later at our mutual friend's bar. Both of us were going through a break-up and/or divorce. Funny thing is we never go to bars anymore. We've been together for 7 years now, married for 5.

[Smee]

We were neighbors. He invited me over for dinner one night and I never left. Literally. We never even dated. I was such a skank. It's been 24 years, though, married for 22 of it. We didn't even know each other's last names until we were filling out the paperwork to get married.

[JulieDB]

At a nightclub. I don't drink but I like to dance. Can't now because I'm disabled. But back then I went out dancing at least once a week at a club near where I lived. I had a boyfriend at the time I met my now husband. I had met him in that same club. He was divorced and had gone to Oregon to see his kids. So I was sitting there with my friends. It was very cold. I these two guys. One older and one younger. I asked the younger one to dance so I could get warm. We talked for a few minutes. I found out they were both in the Coast Guard and had at one time been stationed together. Actually I think the older guy was retired.

About a year went by. My boyfriend had left me. I still went to the same club. Saw the same guy again. Asked him to dance again. Later we went to breakfast together with my friends. We've been together ever since.

Turns out he doesn't like to dance at all. He does like to gamble and there was a card room in the basement. When he was not doing well at cards he would take a break and come upstairs.

[tndee]

My husband and I had kinda known each other forever because we grew up at the same church. He's 3 years older than me, and he tended to hang with the older group of kids/teens. We never really said anything to each other all those years. I was in a relationship with another guy at church who was just a few months older than me from the time that I was old enough to have a boyfriend, through the "I'm old enough to date" years, etc. This boyfriend and I who had such a long past together broke up about a month before I was going to graduate high school. I'd dated this same guy all the way through high school until that last month. Anyway, that was a stressful breakup of a first love, so I wasn't exactly looking for a man.

A few months rolled by and my best friend (who is also a twin to the guy who was my first love) wanted to come up and spend a couple of days with me. After she got here, she mentioned maybe calling Earl and seeing what he was up to (she had gone from liking him, to just being friends, back and forth). It was a cold night in February and we agreed to meet at our local Hardees. Well, I saw a friend from High School so I pretty much talked to this high school friend while Earl & Lisa talked. Finally, we were ready to go and it had begun to snow flurry. Earl asked us if we wanted to ride around with him for awhile. He had a small pick-up truck. Lisa hopped in the middle and we rode around awhile until it was time for us to go home. We had a church service the next night. Earl hadn't been attending church in quite some time, so Lisa called and asked him if he wanted to go with us. He said he'd be by to pick us up. Can you tell this story is about to get bad??? Anyway, he picked us up and took us to church. After church we went out to eat with some more church friends and Earl insisted on buying my dinner. Hmmm. . . Lisa was going back to her house, so he asked if he could take me home. Hmmmm. . . 1st kiss. And our lives together began! Needless to say my bff got a little mad at me for taking her guy but then she got over it and we're still good friends.

I felt something with Earl that I'd never experienced before and it scared me. Such a feeling to want more than lazy commitment. I was fighting the whole falling in love thing because I didn't know if I wanted it. Anyway after a couple of breakups (and he sent me balloons or flowers every single day we were broken up), I realized that love had grabbed my heart and wasn't going to let go. We were compatible in so many ways and then as different as daylight and dark in others. We dated from February until December before becoming engaged to marry and married that next July.

Can't say these almost 22 years have been a flowery bed of ease but I can say that true love, devotion, and God has kept us together. Never thought I could love him more than when I first married him, but I do. He's my husband, lover, confident, and my very best friend. We're partners in this in everything. If I could wish for newlyweds just one thing it would be that they could have a love and friendship like Earl & I share.

I used to pamper and spoil him. Now I'm sick and he spoils me so much! I just don't want to ever think about a day without him. I don't mean trips away from each other; I mean that final day when you know you're not going to go home and find him there. Those thoughts just kill me!

[Katane]

We met in a chat room too, an adult one. We had a long distance relationship for a year and then he moved to my town and we've been together 12 years now :)

[3timesoccermom]

Aww I love reading these! I'm sitting here grinning like a big doofus!

gem7 - I guess yall have better things to do now!

Smee - dang, what'd he cook??

Julie - I used to go out dancing a couple nights a week too, every single week. Whew, fun times. By night's end the club was so full of smoke you couldn't even see across the room. I don't think I could take that now.

tndee - sounds like it is still very fresh in your mind.

Katane - I guess he feels that's the best move he ever made!

[momof2inohio]

DH an I are high school sweethearts. I was 16 at the time. I was dating a friend of his. At the time I did not even know who DH was but he told me later on after we started dating that one day he saw me in the hall walking to class and thought I was the hottest girl in school and he knew he had to meet me.

I went to homecoming with my boyfriend and then afterwards we ended up going back to my now DH's house (who I still didnt even know at the time but he saw me around at school).

I ended up breaking up with my boyfriend a few weeks after homecoming and then DH started talking to me. At first I just thought of him as a friend but we eventually started dating. We dated for about 6 months and then broke up. We were on and off again during high school but each time we broke up and one of us started dating someone else we would get jealous and get back together!

We ended up having our son a few months after high school graduation. At the time we tried to making things work but we were still young and things were hard. We broke up but eventually got back together again for good. We didnt get married yet though. We got engaged about a year later. We had our daughter and then bought our first house. We finally got married (and had the wedding of our dreams, well my dreams really). Our son and daughter were the ring bearer and flower girl even though my DD was only 1 and could barely walk.

We have had our ups and downs but right now our marriage is very solid and I think we are the closest we have ever been I am so glad he saw me in the hall that day and finally found the nerve to start talking to me.