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How did you meet your significant other?

Posted by calais50 • 5/19/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic

I met my ex-husband in high school at 17. (We married at 22). One day, he told his friend Melissa that he had a crush on me. Little did he know that Melissa is my cousin, so she introduced us and the rest is history.
One day, shortly after we started getting to know each other, he brought me a rose to school. He just happened to have been Romeo in the school production of Romeo & Juliet. He got down on one knee in the crowded school cafeteria and jokingly and loudly spouted off one of his monologues to Juliet to me. It was kind of embarrassing, but everyone thought it was really romantic and funny.

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5/19/08

crkian

Sent her a text message to tell her my friend was cheating on her. We met that weekend and she told me she had liked me since she was 11. The rest is history

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5/19/08

OzScot

On line - and ok she lived 10,000 miles away from me but somehow I managed to put down my keyboard long enough to get there and marry her. So here I am...married and 10,000 miles away from Scotland....any regrets? Absolutely none (Well maybe one - why couldn't she have just lived at the bottom of the road in the same village?) - but hey she's worth it

Ben

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1. 5/19/08
  
  calais50
  
  How exciting! So you are in Australia now?
2. 5/19/08
  
  OzScot
  
  Yup I'm writing this from Queensland now - and my dear wife is fast asleep (It's almost midnight)
  
  Ben
5/19/08

Shiley

I had to go a training session for my work place (Burger King). I was at the franchise's main office next to a BK. That's where we met.

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5/19/08

Nomadic

Why, the internet of course.

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1. 5/31/08
  
  LGramlich
  
  Me, too.
2. 6/01/08
  
  Nomadic
  
  40% of second marriages in the UK meet online these days
5/19/08

DOUGGOFFdotCOM

We were drunk at a mutual friend's birthday party and ended up at Denny's around 5:00am. That was seven years ago we have been together ever since then and are now married.

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1. 5/19/08
  
  calais50
  
  Ah, a fairy tale romance...:)
5/19/08

AmyOops

at the mall, he turned the escaltor off on me, as i was going up

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5/19/08

robertstevenson

Moved from SC to Seattle for a teaching job. She lived nearby . . .
This would be my ex though, not significant other.

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5/19/08

kaslkaos

Blind date. I met an old high school chum on the train (I took it daily to get art college whilst living with my parents) and she was trying to get out of an office christmas party date with a "just friends" guy so she could go out with this 'hot' guy. So I said yes. The date stuck to me like a burr, and twenty years later, here we are. That girl, she married her 'hot' guy within the year, and divorced a year later. I'm very thrilled to stuck with the burr. Burrs are good.

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5/19/08

calais50

I hope she doesn't know you refer to her as a burr, lol.

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5/19/08

robertstevenson

Hey Kaslkaos have you met Norski yet? There's a strong resemblance

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5/19/08

RTBjr73

On the softball field. I was playing shortstop, my wife (now) played second, her husband (then) was playing first, my girlfriend (then) was playing catcher.

After the game Her husband and my girlfriend went home. Me and my wife (now) went to TGIF's after the game, had dinner, and then dessert in her car.

Pure bliss ever since that night.

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1. 5/20/08
  
  Houseonahill
  
  Who was on first? (couldnt resist) Just kidding, great story.
2. 5/20/08
  
  RTBjr73
  
  What's on Second, I don't know is on third...(I couldn't resist either...I have the whole show on mp3)
3. 5/20/08
  
  Houseonahill
  
  VERY cool! LOL!
5/19/08

Loopa

Here is a story grown.

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5/19/08

DarkAngelMe

On the internet. He was looking for a girlfriend in Africa (ha ha) i did not want to date for as long as i lived. He says he talked to me coz my profile on the dating site was rude. That profile was 3 years old. All he wanted was for me to help him get a hotel in Nairobi as he was too late to book, he claiimed. I told him to F-- off, I was not a travel agent. (forgive me, i had just broken up with my then b/f) He persisted, made me laugh a lot. We IM'ed for 5 hours and 12 hours the following day. I picked him from the airport one and half days later and took him to my house. He never left :-)

Ok he did...

went back to his country, I'm still in Africa, and we are still in love.

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5/19/08

nardeeisms

We met at a religious service. He kept following me around and I couldn't ditch him. A month later, we met again at a mutual friend's wedding. It is said that he "wore me down". (However, that depends on who you talk to first) Eventually, I gave in to the pressure and married him. Been together for seventeen years. No regrets - Nards

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1. 5/19/08
  
  RTBjr73
  
  ROCK ON!!!
5/19/08

praning5254

We're phone pals. Actually hiss cousin was my my phone pal and he was my friend's phone pal...Turn of events, we ended together...that's 12 years ago, when I was just 16...hehehe

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5/19/08

Anniepooh

Ha ha .... at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting.

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5/19/08

SteveRebooted

We had this flirtation thing which went on for 3 years! Everyday I'd walk by his house around 6pm on my way to 7-11 to get a Big Gulp. He would always make sure he was working on his yard, shirtless, at that time. We're both very shy, and it took that long for us to work up the nerve, to date. LOL

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5/19/08

jafabrit

At a disco in Newcastle England. I was doing the "bump" to James Brown with my Irish friend and he came over and joined in. By the end of the evening my friend said I was going to marry him. I told her, " don't be daft". She was daft alright because here we are 30 years later in the USA.

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5/19/08

pele1

He was new in town and got a job at the retail store I worked at when I was 17 and he was 19. We flirted a bit for a month or so and he was shy so I had to make the first move. We've been together for 16 1/2 years, married for 12.

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5/19/08

dharmagypsy7

We were roommates and met through mutual friends. I just moved back to NYC from Miami and needed a place to stay. A friend told me he had a childhood friend who needed a roommate. He said the guy was nicest person he has ever known. It's true. He's the kindest person... so anyways after awhile, we went out for dim sum and drinks and that was that.

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5/19/08

ekim941

In a catalog. When the UPS dude finally delivered her I was so excited.

That's what brown can do for you.

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1. 5/19/08
  
  Anniepooh
  
  LOL! From Russia, with Love ... ?
2. 5/20/08
  
  DarkAngelMe
  
  Was there a return service on UPS?
5/19/08

shawie9877

through my sister's personal introduction, 5 years ago

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5/19/08

davet

met through match.com and then we met face to face after the usual phone/email thing. she sprung for lakers tickets on one of our first dates - very cool!

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5/19/08

mayjah

So you have a Real Doll ekim?

When I met my DH 18 years ago, he was married and I was dating his best friend. Gee, a lot has changed since then. Just call me the suburban Angelina Jolie.

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5/19/08

kdawg68

At work. She walked past my desk and I said to myself "that's her!"

To break the ice I decided to suggets that she wasn't of working age and probably didn't speak english. This got her pissed off at me - which made her take notice.

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5/19/08

WilDip

Down the block, at the corner. I threw her a kiss when she was passing by; she blew one back. I then told her she looked fine and asked if she had a phone number. She gave it to me.

We've been together for 15 years.

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5/19/08

momscrazylife

He arrested me..the end..

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1. 5/19/08
  
  WilDip
  
  Heh.
2. 5/19/08
  
  momscrazylife
  
  Yup, he arrested me for something stupid..than wouldn't leave me alone since.
3. 5/31/08
  
  BennyGreenberg
  
  its always about the handcuffs with you isnt it Dani
5/19/08

stilesjp

myspace. I wrote 'is anyone actually reading this crap' on my journal there... and she wrote me.

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5/19/08

rearvumirr

In a dream first...should have realized the warning

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5/19/08

rearvumirr

WOW!

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5/20/08

lisamcglaun

We met in jr. high school and were always best friends. Then we grew up, had our own lives and loves. Five years ago, we found each other again, realized there was something more than friendship. We got married a few months later and I moved across country to be with him.

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5/20/08

Houseonahill

In kindergarten class 36 years ago. I couldn't wait to get to class to play with him everyday cuz he was so much fun...he is still fun and still my best friend.

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1. 5/20/08
  
  RTBjr73
  
  That's hot!!!
2. 5/21/08
  
  DarkAngelMe
  
  I always knew i should have gone to kindergarten!
5/20/08

PetLvr

She found me (the nicest guy on earth) online using that Pow-Wow chat program (remember that IM?) way back in March '97. It was a local phone call and 20 minute drive from where I was. By June I had moved in with her (although she didn't realize it until early August). I sold my house in September and we bought our Condo together in November. I'm pretty sure I blogged about it somewhere on our wedding site.

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5/22/08

LifeProb

We worked together. I broke up with my x and went to seashore for a vacation with an old friend. When I came back to work all fresh and happy, he could not resist... and I was free to accept

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5/31/08

cb

I'd just moved to Italy in one of those 'I'm going to change my life forever' things. I got a job in a small cafe in a seaside resort where noone spoke English (I did speak some Italian). He was on holiday there and... he spoke English That was 6 years ago..(and I brought him back to the UK after three years!)

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5/31/08

chrissred

I first met my husband when they moved next door to us. I didn't know then that we were both going to the same high school and that his homeroom was just next to mine, hence he met me first. So we became neighbors.. yes, "love thy neighbor". Well not really as I was aloof back then. and later he was going out with the wildest girl in our class, so he was bad news to me.

Two years later he courted me and after 10 months of our cat and dog friendship-relationship we went steady.

And up to this day, we are like cat and dog but we are still together. Strange, eh?

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5/31/08

richrf

While dancing.

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5/31/08

PotatoChef

I met my wife when I hired her to be my interior decorator.

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5/31/08

baldeagle

Match.com

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5/31/08

libelula

I was working in a restaurant in Southern California...he walked in for lunch on a busy afternoon and I noticed him walk through the door...I could see something in his eyes when he saw me and I felt there might be a reason he picked my place. We chatted as much as we could to the irritation of everyone behind him in line. He came back in later and we had dinner at one of the tables. He went back home to the east coast and we talked on the phone for hours on end for days and days...

Eventually we had to go back to the normalcy of our regular lives and off and on kept in touch. We met a few times for a date here and there when geographic proximity allowed and always had an amazing time, but until recently were never both single and close to each other...

He's significant, and he's my other...we're seeing how it is when we actually have a real chance. It should be an interesting summer.

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5/31/08

christinebean

My former husband I met through my former Avon lady!

One never knows who will come knocking on one's door.

Christine Bean
www.christinebean.com

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5/31/08

myHSAguy

Taco Bell parking lot in Olathe, KS.

I walked up and asked her what was obviously the most romantic question she had ever heard, "Don't I know you from somewhere?"

She was laughing (at me) so hard Pepsi came out her nose.

Somehow she agreed to see me again.

Been married 18 years now with 3 kids.

Top that!

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5/31/08

lordiwanttobewhole

my boyfriend is a musician & he was playing music one night...I told him after i loved his singing & i handed him my email address. He emailed me and I guess my assertiveness worked!

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5/31/08

davidspan

She answered an ad I had in USA today for an mlm deal... We talked over the phone for a few weeks then I moved from Indiana to Mass and in with her. We've been together for 14 years...

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6/01/08

modernglam

On a tennis court in college.:)

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3/21/09

Nomadic

Online love.....and here is my story

nomadic-wisdom.blogspot.com/2009/03/tweeter-needed-for-new-media-marriage.h...

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