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How did you met your current/last girlfriend/boyfriend?
- Thread starter pauloshinobi
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8ish years ago I was at a New Year's Eve party at a Manhattan rooftop. Saw a beautiful young woman, went over & struck up a conversation with her.
Fast forward to today: happily married for 3 years and we are expecting our first child due this December - not far from the anniversary of the night we met.
Fast forward to today: happily married for 3 years and we are expecting our first child due this December - not far from the anniversary of the night we met.
Met at a party, made out that same day and we started going out for a few months afterwards, we never put a label on it though and I ended up breaking up with her. I regretted it a few months later but oh well, it's been 2 years now so I'm over it. Funny thing though, the building I work at is right in front of the building she lives in, this situation would've been perfect for when we were going out, not after lol.
We knew each of each other in middle school. Ended up having Latin class w/ her in 10th grade. In 11th grade a friend of mine said I should ask her out to the next dance the school was having. I do, get told thanks but she was seeing somebody. This was a total you vs the dude she tells you not to worry about. QB of the rival school's football team. They break up after he tries to slip her something (oh 90's), and I just stay in the circle. Later on in the year a friend tells me she likes me but I was shy and didn't really feel like getting rejected again so I brush it off. Ask her to another event and she tells wasn't going and wasn't looking for a relationship then. I tell her that's cool and any time she wants to go rollerblading or anything to IM me. That same day I find her and the dude that told me she was interested making out in a stairwell after 7th period. I said some unkind words to him and didn't talk to either of them until after senior year.
During senior year I decide to expand my horizons and go out with a few people from neighboring high schools. Local AOL chatrooms did work back then, we'd go to football games, or movies, or do some mall chilling. Nothing ever too serious, just fun. Go to prom with a friend of a friend's date and we keep unintentionally ending up near those two I wasn't speaking to but had cooled off on. By summer senior year I was like whatever and we had a pool so when anybody wanted to hang, we did. Ended up letting bygones be bygones and he would just leave her at my place and go off doing stuff. We got to talking a lot while I was doing the paper route and I'm not the type to move in on somebody but it certainly would have been easy to. Eventually I find out dude is cheating on her, we went to a few parties at some colleges and I kind of asked him about it after waking up the next morning, but at this point he was my friend and she was just a check that happened to hang out with us.
Summer ends, I start working construction with my dad before going to college. The company Christmas party is coming up and I can bring a +1. Wanting to impress the guys on the job site I call up an ex, she wants to go but is gonna be out of town. Mentions that my friend said that his girlfriend needs a reason to get out of the house because her parents are starting to split. I call him up, get the ok, and then call her up on Monday. We talk for a bit and she wants to go and catch up. Wednesday I get a call from him "Did you fucking tell her?" Tell her what? "About Crystal" Nah, man that isn't me. I'll cancel the date if you need to sort it out. "No, it's fine." I call her up, ask her if she is doing alright all things considered, she still wants to go on Friday.
Friday we go to dinner, I pick her up at her house and realize that my home ec teacher from middle school is her mom, so that was a laugh, and then we go out to dinner. When dinner is over, she asks to come back to my place so we do. We sit on the bed and just talk and talk and talk and talk until like 2AM then I drive her home. When I drop her off she mentions she just got Austin Powers 2 on VHS and that we should watch it next Friday. So we do that, and somewhere along the line I kiss her and the rest is history.
Few years later, I propose in front of Cinderella castle at Disney World and now we've got a 7 y/o, 2 y/o and a 4 month old.
During senior year I decide to expand my horizons and go out with a few people from neighboring high schools. Local AOL chatrooms did work back then, we'd go to football games, or movies, or do some mall chilling. Nothing ever too serious, just fun. Go to prom with a friend of a friend's date and we keep unintentionally ending up near those two I wasn't speaking to but had cooled off on. By summer senior year I was like whatever and we had a pool so when anybody wanted to hang, we did. Ended up letting bygones be bygones and he would just leave her at my place and go off doing stuff. We got to talking a lot while I was doing the paper route and I'm not the type to move in on somebody but it certainly would have been easy to. Eventually I find out dude is cheating on her, we went to a few parties at some colleges and I kind of asked him about it after waking up the next morning, but at this point he was my friend and she was just a check that happened to hang out with us.
Summer ends, I start working construction with my dad before going to college. The company Christmas party is coming up and I can bring a +1. Wanting to impress the guys on the job site I call up an ex, she wants to go but is gonna be out of town. Mentions that my friend said that his girlfriend needs a reason to get out of the house because her parents are starting to split. I call him up, get the ok, and then call her up on Monday. We talk for a bit and she wants to go and catch up. Wednesday I get a call from him "Did you fucking tell her?" Tell her what? "About Crystal" Nah, man that isn't me. I'll cancel the date if you need to sort it out. "No, it's fine." I call her up, ask her if she is doing alright all things considered, she still wants to go on Friday.
Friday we go to dinner, I pick her up at her house and realize that my home ec teacher from middle school is her mom, so that was a laugh, and then we go out to dinner. When dinner is over, she asks to come back to my place so we do. We sit on the bed and just talk and talk and talk and talk until like 2AM then I drive her home. When I drop her off she mentions she just got Austin Powers 2 on VHS and that we should watch it next Friday. So we do that, and somewhere along the line I kiss her and the rest is history.
Few years later, I propose in front of Cinderella castle at Disney World and now we've got a 7 y/o, 2 y/o and a 4 month old.
Tinder. Drove up to her hometown about 1 hour away. Hung at the local dive bar and went to movie.
Now we just moved in together and have been together for 3 years.
Now we just moved in together and have been together for 3 years.
I was president of a film club at my school and she came to a few of my film screenings. I immediately had a crush on her but I wasn't single. She joined our Facebook group for the club and we sort of talked every once in awhile. We ended up having a literature class together later on. In one of those left-field, unexpected moments, my last GF and I split up. I took a few weeks, but I asked the girl out for coffee when one of our classes we had were cancelled and both of us were already on campus. After that, we kind of started texting back and forth and, that following weekend of when we had coffee, she was at some party that one guy was being sort of assertive in coming on to her. She asked me to come to the party to play the boyfriend role. I actually had loaned my car to my mom and the party was in a city over but I knew then this was the MOMENT. Called a cab and we hit it off immediately. That was over 6 years ago now-- dang.
I went up to her, introduced myself, and told her I thought she was pretty and I was wondering if I could give her my number in case she wanted to get a coffee sometime.
Pretty mundane, but everyone I tell that story to is blown away. Apparently approaching girls in person isn't a thing anymore.
Pretty mundane, but everyone I tell that story to is blown away. Apparently approaching girls in person isn't a thing anymore.
My wife and I actually met online on OKCupid. We had a good first date for some coffee, and right before our second dinner date, I got some bad food poisoning and had to cancel. Naturally, she thought this was me just trying to get out of it (I was really throwing up left and right, though), and she decided to cancel. A few months later I talked to her again and we became friends. Eventually, we both realized we worked right across the street from each other, so we got an apartment close to work together and became roommates. One thing led to another and here we are now, almost five years happily married.
We met in biology class. We were lab partners and I asked if we could study together and things just took off from there.
I've been with my boyfriend for about 7 months now. I actually play volleyball in the same league as his ex of 10 years, so he already sort of knew of me/who I was. He followed me on Instagram one day before the New Year, and sent me a direct message on there telling me he's really into music and really loves my singing and YouTube videos. He was telling me how he'd love to know more/learn how to sing etc, so we met up for coffee one day and the rest is history :P
Childhood friends for 21 years. One day we just sat down, went over a whole bunch of memories and eventually tackled the subject of dating and we decided to give it a shot. Gonna be our 3rd year soon. It's definitely a risk, especially if things goes bad there's the potential of losing my girlfriend who's also my childhood friend all in swoop.
But I'm not worried about that.
But I'm not worried about that.
I made an OkCupid account right after a lonely Valentine's Day in 2013. I had a thing in my profile about how I'm afraid of ketchup and mustard in the same way people are afraid of spiders and snakes. She messaged me a week later saying she hated condiments as well, we went on a date and from there we've been together ever since. Got married back in 2016. It's been mostly pretty good. I'm hoping we start shitting some kids out soon.
Posted a "Personal Ad" of sorts on the forum/message board for a local anime convention in 2005.
We're married now. :P
We're married now. :P
Had a really bad day at the office. Decided to take a long lunch, and went bouldering at a local gym.
While attempting a traverse I literally bumped into a woman.
We have been together for 14 years (11 of those married).
While attempting a traverse I literally bumped into a woman.
We have been together for 14 years (11 of those married).
Tinder. She wanted to smash. I smashed her heart. We're getting married in October.
We tell everyone it was OK Cupid.
We tell everyone it was OK Cupid.
We met at a tantra workshop. We actually met for the first time one year earlier, same kind of workshop, she was still married and miserable, we hanged out along with two other girl, and bared exchanged words. We meet again, she recognizes me, we talk a bit. She had a divorce, and became absolutely stunning to me, nothing like the woman I first met. First paired exercise, the sparks fly - oh did they fly. We almost had sex right there, at the last meditation/exercise (she did say she came...). We start dating, and every time, she'd look prettier and prettier, beauty like I had never seen, countless times, she'd do some movement with her hair, her head, lips, bite something, and, for a second, I'd be floored with how beautiful she'd become at that instant, and it was clear by the look I'd give her at that moment - she once noticed and commented on it, acting all shy. And she was also acted like a teenage girl in love a lot of times, even though she's actually older than me.
I can safely say I finally knew what real love is, through her. I will be forever thankful.
We are no longer together. But, those were really, really amazing months.
I can safely say I finally knew what real love is, through her. I will be forever thankful.
We are no longer together. But, those were really, really amazing months.
Met my fiancé on Tinder. lol
We lived in the same neighborhood and had never seen each other. Met up at a nearby bar, she was sexy as hell, 6'2", sarcastic, and had a severe case of RBF. Been together every night since.
Now it's been 3 years and we have a one years old.
We lived in the same neighborhood and had never seen each other. Met up at a nearby bar, she was sexy as hell, 6'2", sarcastic, and had a severe case of RBF. Been together every night since.
Now it's been 3 years and we have a one years old.
Your mileage may vary on this, but I have found it that the best people you meet happen by chance.
I got out of a near 5 year relationship earlier in 2012, I did online dating for a while, ended up having a couple of month relationship with a girl from there, then we got back together for about a month a few months later. I was very depressed as this all went down.
I worked in the college newspaper at the time. There was a girl there that was also on the site, and we definitely both looked at each other's profiles out of morbid curiosity, and neither of us thought we would be a good match for each other based on those. Turns out we were both wrong.
She started talking to me more after the other girl and I broke up for the second time, trying to cheer me up. She was also dropping hints that she liked me and I didn't think it was possible so I assumed it was nothing. One night I went to our Secular Student Alliance Christmas party, and afterward a lot of us went to one of the members' apartment to watch a movie. The movie ended up being the most awkward possible movie for this situation: Boogie Nights. There was this girl in SSA that had a huge crush on me and I was definitely not into her, she was like the creepy-eyed neighborhood girl in that one episode of Dexter's Laboratory. I had tried to just ignore it hoping it would go away. It did not. During the movie she was sitting behind me, and even without looking at her, I could feel her eyeballs drilling holes in the back of my head. I stupidly agreed to take her back to her car after it was over earlier. More on that later.
While this is going on, girl from the newspaper texts me and tells me she likes me. I'm in a panic at this point because I'm dealing with both situations, and during this we are still in the first half of Boogie Nights, which is like 90% sex, making this situation with SSA girl very awkward. I take a minute to respond to the girl from the newspaper, and I found out later she was freaking out during this time, but also was not aware of the situation I was in. I responded, and asked her to dinner the next day. I also had to get out of there fast, as I was in quite a panic. I told SSA girl I needed to leave, so I had to take her to her car parked at a nearby Walmart (she worked there). As I dropped her off, she gave me this awkward conversation of how she thought I was "cool" and I'm like "... Thanks?" I knew what it actually was but did not want to acknowledge it.
The next day, newspaper girl and I went on our date, the whole office knew about it somehow and of course asked us separately about it the next deadline night. It went well, we went on a few dates after that and we made it official. 4 years later I proposed to her and in April of this year we got married.
On a side note, SSA girl did not seem to get the message during all of this. There were plenty of pictures of my girlfriend (now wife) and I together on Facebook, and she comes up behind my while we are at a restaurant after an SSA meeting, while my girlfriend is sitting right next to me and asks me if I want to go to an arcade with her, then changes it to "oh you can come too..." A week or so after that, she texted me and asked if I wanted to go to a planetarium with her. I finally responded with "I'm doing something with my girlfriend "
I got out of a near 5 year relationship earlier in 2012, I did online dating for a while, ended up having a couple of month relationship with a girl from there, then we got back together for about a month a few months later. I was very depressed as this all went down.
I worked in the college newspaper at the time. There was a girl there that was also on the site, and we definitely both looked at each other's profiles out of morbid curiosity, and neither of us thought we would be a good match for each other based on those. Turns out we were both wrong.
She started talking to me more after the other girl and I broke up for the second time, trying to cheer me up. She was also dropping hints that she liked me and I didn't think it was possible so I assumed it was nothing. One night I went to our Secular Student Alliance Christmas party, and afterward a lot of us went to one of the members' apartment to watch a movie. The movie ended up being the most awkward possible movie for this situation: Boogie Nights. There was this girl in SSA that had a huge crush on me and I was definitely not into her, she was like the creepy-eyed neighborhood girl in that one episode of Dexter's Laboratory. I had tried to just ignore it hoping it would go away. It did not. During the movie she was sitting behind me, and even without looking at her, I could feel her eyeballs drilling holes in the back of my head. I stupidly agreed to take her back to her car after it was over earlier. More on that later.
While this is going on, girl from the newspaper texts me and tells me she likes me. I'm in a panic at this point because I'm dealing with both situations, and during this we are still in the first half of Boogie Nights, which is like 90% sex, making this situation with SSA girl very awkward. I take a minute to respond to the girl from the newspaper, and I found out later she was freaking out during this time, but also was not aware of the situation I was in. I responded, and asked her to dinner the next day. I also had to get out of there fast, as I was in quite a panic. I told SSA girl I needed to leave, so I had to take her to her car parked at a nearby Walmart (she worked there). As I dropped her off, she gave me this awkward conversation of how she thought I was "cool" and I'm like "... Thanks?" I knew what it actually was but did not want to acknowledge it.
The next day, newspaper girl and I went on our date, the whole office knew about it somehow and of course asked us separately about it the next deadline night. It went well, we went on a few dates after that and we made it official. 4 years later I proposed to her and in April of this year we got married.
On a side note, SSA girl did not seem to get the message during all of this. There were plenty of pictures of my girlfriend (now wife) and I together on Facebook, and she comes up behind my while we are at a restaurant after an SSA meeting, while my girlfriend is sitting right next to me and asks me if I want to go to an arcade with her, then changes it to "oh you can come too..." A week or so after that, she texted me and asked if I wanted to go to a planetarium with her. I finally responded with "I'm doing something with my girlfriend "
School. We both went to the same community college radio broadcasting program that is well known in this area for being a damn good one. To get you prepped for an on air shift on the school's radio station, as a first year you are assigned a second year student's on air shift to shadow and eventually talk on yourself. I was her second year student, and she was with me one night a week and my 3-man show one night a week. Not 2 weeks in we were already hanging out A LOT outside of that and spent 3 1/2 years together, hopefully more.
Matched on Tinder, of all places. Went on a Saturday night date that lasted until about 3 in the morning. Agreed to a dinner date the next weekend, but we both called each other the next morning and agreed we just had to see each other again right away.
That was about a year ago. We're engaged now!
That was about a year ago. We're engaged now!
A friend said his sister had 3 spare tickets for a festival, I wanted 3 tickets. Friend was useless at organising the purchase of the tickets so I insisted on meeting her myself to sort it so we arranged to meet up one Thursday evening. One drink became two which became many, we seemed to click instantly so I asked her out for a date and... she said no.
She'd just gone through a nasty breakup and was going to university that year so didn't want anything long term. A few weeks later we were both at the same gig, Reel Big Fish ftw, and after we just spent hours looking into each other's eyes while crashing on a mutual friends floor. The following afternoon she called me & said we needed to talk. We met up, we talked, she liked me a lot but didn't know if she was ready for another long term relationship and I just leant over the table and kissed her softly. I can still remember what she was wearing, the perfume she had on and how her hair felt in my hands, heck I have a dopey grin just writing this!
11 years later we have a gorgeous 2 year old boy & a nice house together. We've had our ups and downs but we've made it this far.
She'd just gone through a nasty breakup and was going to university that year so didn't want anything long term. A few weeks later we were both at the same gig, Reel Big Fish ftw, and after we just spent hours looking into each other's eyes while crashing on a mutual friends floor. The following afternoon she called me & said we needed to talk. We met up, we talked, she liked me a lot but didn't know if she was ready for another long term relationship and I just leant over the table and kissed her softly. I can still remember what she was wearing, the perfume she had on and how her hair felt in my hands, heck I have a dopey grin just writing this!
11 years later we have a gorgeous 2 year old boy & a nice house together. We've had our ups and downs but we've made it this far.
Online almost ten years ago at... I don't remember where. We mostly kept in touch via IMs, Skype, etc. and we then started a (long distance) relationship--that was five years ago. Once I'm done with my masters, I'll be moving out East where he is and start living together.
So, yeah, that's that.
So, yeah, that's that.
Awww.
Met my current girlfriend on okcupid. She actually messaged me first. Turns out I was the last boy she was going to try online dating before going the "improve yourself" route. She had in fact already deleted all her other accounts. She's been the best woman I've ever met and makes me a better person.
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I met my boyfriend in a nightclub while I was there with another guy (as friends on my part) - he introduced me to his friend and we're still going strong nearly 12 years later
I met my boyfriend in a nightclub while I was there with another guy (as friends on my part) - he introduced me to his friend and we're still going strong nearly 12 years later
Match - nearly a year ago I saw the profile of a cute brunette from a nearby town and sent her a lame message or two about her job and how she got into it (since it was along the lines of tech-based work). She got back to me, wanting to meet up, and so we went to a craft beer bar in which the DJ played entirely too loud. She was interested in going out again next weekend but she was coming back from visiting her sister in NC so it was tentative. So she called me after driving home for 12 hours, still wanting to go out. Was surprised since I was entirely expecting her to cancel (and wouldn't have blamed her if she did), but she still went out and we had dinner and walked around the cute port town near us. That she still made the effort and the fact we had a great time is when I started to fall for her.
About 5 years ago, I was doing some mandatory training at work. I met a middle-aged woman who I could immediately tell wanted me to date her daughter due to some of her questions, but I had a girlfriend at the time.
2 years and 1 heartbreak later, I hadn't seen her much since training (different departments), and she comes running up to me in the parking lot asking if I could help her move. She seemed desperate, and it turns out her and her husband were getting a divorce. Knowing she had a daughter around my age, I agreed and eventually met her daughter half way through the day.
We flirted a bit, but I wasn't sure if she was really interested until, while I was leaving she said "we should, like, be friends or whatever...". I kind of fumbled on my words and said I'd get her number, but later realized I don't use Facebook. So I had to text her mom that night for her number.
We've been dating for about 3 years and I'm going to ask her to marry me very soon.
2 years and 1 heartbreak later, I hadn't seen her much since training (different departments), and she comes running up to me in the parking lot asking if I could help her move. She seemed desperate, and it turns out her and her husband were getting a divorce. Knowing she had a daughter around my age, I agreed and eventually met her daughter half way through the day.
We flirted a bit, but I wasn't sure if she was really interested until, while I was leaving she said "we should, like, be friends or whatever...". I kind of fumbled on my words and said I'd get her number, but later realized I don't use Facebook. So I had to text her mom that night for her number.
We've been dating for about 3 years and I'm going to ask her to marry me very soon.
I was on Facebook for that brief year I had no phone and was trying to keep in touch with my buddy back in 2008-2009. My ex, who I was engaged to in the late 90s sent me this email through FB. Basically saying I saw you were on here but noticed you were married with a kid and probably happy. Glad to see you doing well. Thing was I had already moved out, filed for divorce and were awaiting our court hearing. I had stopped looking at FB for months, and just happened to check it before deleting it. and saw her message. It was only a day old.
So I replied letting her know how wrong she was about my current situation. Not really looking to start anything back up becasue she really broke my heart. But as we started talking, she basically admitted to being young and not sure of what she wanted, and that she never should have dumped me. We spent about 6 months just catching up over emails and after work phone calls. Apparently our lives took very similar paths, both marrying the people we dated after each other. Both SOs were POS drug abusers that drove both of us into bankruptcies around the same time. Both marriages ended after 7 years. We had both grown and matured, and just kind of hit it off, again.
We have been happily married for the last 8 years and supporting each other through career changes vie new college educations. I just ponder what thing may have been, both good and bad, if we did get married the first time around.
So I replied letting her know how wrong she was about my current situation. Not really looking to start anything back up becasue she really broke my heart. But as we started talking, she basically admitted to being young and not sure of what she wanted, and that she never should have dumped me. We spent about 6 months just catching up over emails and after work phone calls. Apparently our lives took very similar paths, both marrying the people we dated after each other. Both SOs were POS drug abusers that drove both of us into bankruptcies around the same time. Both marriages ended after 7 years. We had both grown and matured, and just kind of hit it off, again.
We have been happily married for the last 8 years and supporting each other through career changes vie new college educations. I just ponder what thing may have been, both good and bad, if we did get married the first time around.
I met my wife at Starbucks in Hiroshima, Japan. I had just arrived on the JET Programme, and after work on most days I would head over to the local mall to study Japanese at Starbucks 3-4 days a week. She was (and still is) a barista there, and I was smitten from the first time I ever laid eyes on her. She was the only woman I'd ever met who had the power to turn me into a bumbling idiot every time we interacted. This was back in 2006. We got married in 2011 and we're still going strong.
some funny raunchy message about wanting a harvard rowers D lol
Met my wife in Boston during Pax East 2014. She was a good college friend of the guy I went to the Convention with (Necrovex). She didn't go to the Convention herself, she and her friends just met up with us during the GAF meet-up at Atlantic Beer Garden (after we had already been to The Whiskey Priest). If anyone reading this was in the GAF group and was there that night we were the two people making out and dancing together.
She is a Boston native and we ended up getting married at a hotel, the Renaissance Boston Waterfront, not more than a few blocks away from where we met.
She is a Boston native and we ended up getting married at a hotel, the Renaissance Boston Waterfront, not more than a few blocks away from where we met.
I don't really think it's dangerous, at least not like entitlement is. Some people just aren't mean't for relationships, or aren't ever going to meet someone that they're mutually attracted to (or it just seems very very unlikely). Doesn't mean they can't live happy and fulfilling lives.
Where I volunteer. We started at the same time. Nothing there at first (she was in a relationship), we didn't even exchange numbers, didn't really keep in touch. Until one of our fellow volunteers created a Whatsapp group and we started talking on the side. Found out eventually she and her partner broke up a while ago, we kept in touch, and voila.
I'm very sociable but I've never been the bar or club type and most of my friends in real life aren't gay (although that's slowly and steadily changing) so I've mostly met people through the internet.
1st girlfriend - High School
2nd girlfriend - OKCupid
3rd girlfriend - Long distance friend from a web forum (not this one) that moved to my area and we ended up dating.
Girl I'm currently dating - A certain web forum.
1st girlfriend - High School
2nd girlfriend - OKCupid
3rd girlfriend - Long distance friend from a web forum (not this one) that moved to my area and we ended up dating.
Girl I'm currently dating - A certain web forum.