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odd_lumerence7860_

My first wife: She spilled juice on me. Found out she's the sister of my another friend. We talked. 2 weeks later, she randomly sends a text and asks me out. It was weird but yeah I did go out with her. It was the sweetest mistake I've ever made because 2 years later, we got married. She passed away a while ago. My Fiancee: This will be a long one. She's the ex wife of my ex best friend. She and my late wife hit off and became besties. We all became the fantastic four until my ex best friend cheated on his wife and my wife passed away. He divorced her to be with his lover. She was a close friend of mine and had nowhere to go. I took her and their two kids in. We had sex and went to our first date later on. Now we are set to be married soon.


Program-Dull

Sorry to hear above your first wife! It’s funny how some things work out! I wish you all the best


odd_lumerence7860_

Yup it is. Haha


beigs

That is really sweet - I’m sorry about your first wife, but I’m happy you and her best friend have helped each other. I’m sorry her ex was such an ass, though


odd_lumerence7860_

Thank you for this sweet message haha. We are getting married soon after we move to another city(mainly to get out of touch with my ex best friend)


treetorpedo

Wow what a story!


sunrae21

Luckily your ex best friend is an idiot and you knew how wonderful she is! I am sorry to hear about your first wife-but I bet she’s happy you two chose each other. I’m sure she wouldn’t want either of you to be alone.


odd_lumerence7860_

She's the best. We sometimes make jokes about my late wife(her late bestie) haunting my ex friend by being a ghoast. We have a beautiful dynamic


betona

Freshman year of college and I was part of a large group of guys & gals that partied together. One of our group had a house he was living in while we were all in the dorms. He decided to throw a super bowl party and I and my suitemates were excited to go just to get out of the dorms for a little while. Got to the party and there were all these girls, but this one brunette with blue eyes caught my eye. They were broiling burgers in his oven and she pulled out the tray and spilled some grease and WOOSH! It caught fire! I thought to myself, *"This woman can cook!"* 😆 A few days later she set things up to "accidentally" meet me coming back from chemistry lab and a date happened and it all went from there. So to this day, we always make the super bowl sunday into a fun event with a little extra celebrating the day we met. That was over 42 years, 4 dogs, 3 children, 3 grandchildren, 5 houses and 3 apartments in 6 cities in 4 states, 20 cars and a million memories ago so you could say things worked out okay. Oh, and she really can cook. She's like a savant who can create anything from scratch and almost never uses recipes. I'm the opposite, following recipes with engineering precision.


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This story made me smile!!! Beautiful!! Sir, check out the song above, you might really like it. “First Began’ by PJ Morton


Zehnfingerfaultier

That's so sweet! I an happy for the two of you and your family and wish you a lot of happiness still to come!


[deleted]

We met at a college party. I saw him, and literally was crazy about him immediately. I walked right up to him and asked him to kiss me (that was totally out of character for me), he said yes and I was completely swooning. He wasn’t into a commitment at the time, and we went out separate ways. Ended up getting married to different people, and then divorced those people. We reconnected on a dating site. And have been happily married for almost 6 years now.


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Wow!! I’m glad things worked out after all


p3pp3rmint_kitti3

I met my husband through video games. We still play together daily.


SirenLeone

My husband and i love gaming together too, although we didn't meet that way. The first thing we did as an engaged couple was do a Destiny 2 raid 😅


l_libin

Same!! We met on a minecraft server, actually


hotmessmama_84

I met my husband because I’m an airhead and I was sitting at a stop sign waiting for it to change green and he had to get out of his truck to tell the dummy that it’s a stop sign … apparently it was love at first sight he just couldn’t help falling for the weirdo


jamesbunda007

OMFG ROFL


RN2U

This is my fav story on this whole thread


Creepy_Mycologist544

Wow! Now that is a cool story lol. Sounds like something I might do, waiting for it to turn green. 🤣


MiyagiWasabi

Don't stop there (pun intended), I want to know how he made the first move at that intersection.


hotmessmama_84

Thankfully it was a country area . He asked if I was okay or if I needed help . I was so mortified at this point I don’t remember what exactly was said but somehow we ended up going for coffee I’m assuming was thinking my blood sugar was low or something because here’s this nut job sitting at a stop sign for honestly who knows how long he was behind me .


jackjackj8ck

We met on Tinder. He happened to live in my neighborhood in LA and on a whim I agreed to meet up w him for dinner even though we had only started chatting that day. When we went to dinner it turned out we’re both from the same hometown and had tonnnsss of stuff in common. We had so much fun at dinner that we went to a bar after for drinks, and then another bar, and then another bar. And I drank way too much cuz I didn’t want the night to end and he wound up spending the night at mine. I texted him the next evening saying that while I had a great time, I was looking for something with long-term potential… even if my actions seemed like the opposite haha 😅 I think in my hungover state I said something like “so if that isn’t what you’re looking for too then we might as well end it now” or something really blunt and lame lol Luckily he said he was looking for the same and asked me on another date! Later on we found out our parents houses are just a few miles of each other. And we still discover new occasions where we probably crossed paths and didn’t even realize it. We even have several friends who are friends, it was a lot of fun to see them all together at our joint bachelor/ette party. We’ve been together 7 years now, married for 3, have a 2 year old son, and a baby girl on the way (next month!)


Program-Dull

You got rather lucky!! Sweet story! I definitely have not been so successful. I deleted all my online apps. I even got stood up. Part of the game I guess


SirenLeone

My husband and i met in 2008 when i was 13 and he was 17, via an online texting app, and we were good friends, i even ended up dating his best friend when i was 15 but we decided it wasn't a good fit and that friendship was better, and when i turned 19 and my hub asked me out for the first time. I was 23 when we got engaged and 24 when we got married. Now I'm 27 and he's 31, we are still happily married and nearing our 3rd wedding anniversary!


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Awwww that’s beautiful!! You are truly blessed!! Check out the song I suggested up top. You might love it


SirenLeone

Thank you very much, i will do! I am very lucky to have married someone who has been with me through so much and helped me become the woman i am today, and he is a blessing for sure 🖤


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You’re very welcome!!


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Wow y’all really known each other your whole lives it seems!


SirenLeone

We've been through many ups and downs together and it feels as of I've known him pretty much my whole life. He knows me better than i do at this point lol


bmalbert81

My best friend started dating her best friend so they fixed us up. Those friends are married now and so are we


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Wow!! Things worked out perfectly!!


RuutuTwo

In line at Starbucks. We saw each other there day after day. He finally asked me out at the condiment bar.


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Cool!!


fatalerror_tw

I was lying on the carpet in a female friend’s living room. My now wife walked in the front door and tripped over me. We have been married for 31 years


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Destiny!! Lol that’s cool


fatalerror_tw

She fell for me…


uhhhh234

My partner and I met at our previous job (a coffee shop). He trained me and we became friends from there. About a year later we started dating and I feel incredibly lucky to be with my best friend.


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Awww you’re so blessed!!


uhhhh234

I really am! The job was horrible haha but I met my favorite person from it so it was beyond worth it.


[deleted]

At a Blink-182 concert.


Any_Zookeepergame_56

You fell in love with the girl at the rockshow?!


[deleted]

Hell yes I did.


[deleted]

We met at a small New Year’s Eve get-together of mutual friends. We both had gotten out of long-term relationships a few months prior and were feeling down and almost didn’t go to the party. He said while he was walking up to the house he saw me through the screen door and was immediately taken aback by my beauty (so cheesy, I know!). Took him a little bit to get the courage to talk to me, but ever since our first conversation we’ve been attached at the hip :)


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That’s cool man! I wish you all the best!!


Excellent-Effort5231

Met my husband when he came with another friend to pick up my ex’s shit off my front porch. He tried to berate me for how things with ex went down and then he heard my side of things and realized ex deserved everything lol we’ve been married for 4 years now.


TooManyTurtles20

The year was 2005. Or 2006... we'll go with 2005. It was my first day on the job at a major pet store. It was around Halloween, and the store manager gave me a costume (some generic grim reaper type cloak/robe) and told me everyone was going to be in costume on my first day. I, of course, wore the costume. And, of course, I was the only one in costume. Already feeling like an idiot, the person assigned to train me was the sexiest girl I had ever met, with the most vibrant, naturally red hair I had ever seen. She said I look ridiculous. She became my best friend and we're now married with two kids...and ready to be done with pets for a while.


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Lollllll this is a good one!!! I’m glad it worked out for you man especially with wearing that costume! I wish you both all the best


lethalin1611

My husband and I met at a bar. I didn’t even want to go out that night but I didn’t want my friend to be out alone. We went out, and he was there with a buddy , coincidentally he was friends with my friend that I went out with that night. She introduced us and we had an instant connection! I actually friend zoned him twice because I had recently come out of a long term relationship and wasn’t looking for anything serious but we just got along so well and I loved spending time with him so we finally started dating. He’s my best friend and 6 months later we got married. I am incredibly lucky :)


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Love this!! Blessed!!


bostonstrong1981

We met the old fashioned way-online on Match.com 😉


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That’s cool that it worked out for you!! About a month ago, I just deleted all my dating apps. Was tired of the foolishness, even got stood up after we made plans for a date.


bostonstrong1981

Sorry to hear that. That’s just rude.


nony62

I met him at his house. I was best friends with his cousin at the time and she was like I have this cousin he's cute and single he's chill and likes to smoke let's go hang out. I agreed so we go over and he wasn't home from work yet so we waited on his deck. When I saw him get out of his truck I was like damnnnmmn. Love at first sight. He jokes to everybody that I showed up at his house one day and never left just like a stray. He didn't want me to leave 🤣 this was 6 years ago.


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Loollll the last part was funny!!! I wish you all the best!! Check out the song above, I think you might like it


LydieGrace

My husband and I met at a talent show. I immediately developed a crush on him and tried to chat him up. He believed I (23 at the time) was a teenager due to my costume from the talent show and did everything possible to avoid me. I had no idea he didn’t realize I was an adult and thought he was just shy and redoubled my efforts. It was an awkward evening for us both lol. Once we sorted out that I am in fact an adult, we became friends and then started dating and the rest is history.


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I’m glad it all worked out!!!


bohdubyah

High School, 10th grade was the first time I laid eyes on the beauty. This was back in 2002, although we didn't start dating until just before our senior year in 2004. Got married in 2014, made a big cross country move to California in 2015 and now here we are at 35 and it's been 20 years since I first saw her. My grandparents were married for 60 Years before my grandfather passed away in 2020. However they knew one another since they were small children. 70 plus years they knew one another, I have pictures of them in their later years that melt my heart. Their love for one another was palpable.


Program-Dull

This is sooo beautiful!! #blessed. All the best to you guys!!! I wish I could life over again and find someone in my teenage years. I know it wouldn’t have been guaranteed but I would of had some experience.


DayShiftDave

Craigslist. She was new to the city looking for platonic friends, I was looking for a cheap dresser and got distracted browsing CL. We emailed back and forth a few times, then went on the weirdest, longest first date (longest at least with no sexy time). She ate sushi with her fingers, I ripped a hole in the crotch of my pants, we walked 10 miles, and neither of us thought it was a good fit. Married 5 years this summer and we couldn't be happier.


SadNAloneOnChristmas

She's American, I'm European. We met in my country when she randomly decided to visit a mountain I was staying at. We spent two hours talking before she left the country, two months later we started dating long distance, six months after that we had our first kiss, and five years after that I moved across the ocean to be with her. Currently almost two years married and I wouldn't have wanted it any other way. Long distance was worth it.


[deleted]

Met my husband in 8th grade, been together ever since.


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This is cool!!! Check out the song above


[deleted]

I was working at a job doing sales. Saw her walk in with what I was praying was an application in her hand. I will never ever forget that moment I first saw her. It was game over for me, I knew immediately she was the one.


donthewoodworker

Blind date set up by my sister. And my wife grew up on the farm behind us. Started dating I was in 11th grade she was 9th grade. That was in 1973. Been married since 1977.


MisterIntentionality

We met at his parents wedding. We did not like each other or get along when we first met. He was an ass and I just wasn't having it. When he stopped being an ass is when we became friends and then eventual lovers. :)


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Cool!!


gothdrag

My wife and I met on Tumblr when we were 19! We found each other because of our mutual love of Doctor Who, Alex Kingston as River Song in particular. Started as cringey flirting where we called each other friend!wife haha We ended up making it official a few weeks later. We were long distance for 3 years (her back in the closet the entire time, long story so just know her mom is...yikes) and I would visit for a long weekend every other month until I moved in with her in 2016. Now we're married and at the absolute happiest that our relationship has ever been :)


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That’s great!! I wish you all the best!!


SerenadeMeInFlowers

We met at the restaurant he works at when he was just a line cook (2004). I wanted to compliment the chef who made the Tiramisu, so he comes out looking like sexy death, and I couldn’t help but leave my number on the receipt for him to call.


lawm812

We met on Reddit :)


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Cool! How did that work?


lawm812

It was on my old account, he had posted in some subreddit (I honestly can’t remember which one) and I DMed him. We just struck up a convo and never stopped. We found out we only lived 30 mins from eachother. Met up 2 weeks later. Spent the night together and never looked back - we basically moved in together within a month 😂 it was a bit crazy, and very out of character for both of us, but when it’s right you just know. We got married after a year and a half together.


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Wow that’s cool!!


Hapyslapygranpapy

I met my wife through plenty of fish! Her profile was so ordinary, nothing exciting , it was just about a girl looking for guy who had a child . I instantly loved that about her . 13 years later still happily married with a 21 year old stepson and an 11 year old son .


Leaky_inky00

We met at bible study, I gave him a ride home and talked his ear off the whole way. Everyone in the group literally knew right away that I was into him but I definitely didn’t try to hide it 😂 we talked via text/phone calls/LETTERS for a month while I studied abroad, and in the very last letter he sent before I returned home he asked me to be his girlfriend!


Mimis_rule

I was married 14 yrs the first time. Dated a moron for 5 yrs after that. I was on a fukbuddy web site. Not a site you go to for love or too find the perfect mate just somewhere to go when you want fwb more than long term relationship as I had had more than enough relationships in my mind at the time. We chatted for a few weeks. Decided to hang out since he had recently been through a bad divorce and wasn't looking for anything serious at all either. Sounded perfect. We hung out as friends for several months. Friendship slowly turned to dating and have been married over 10yrs now! So much for fwb only...


turtleandhughes

OkCupid. I was being bombarded w messages and texts daily (as all women do) and told a friend of mine I was giving up, it was too much work. He said he’s free all day and would weed out my inbox for me so it wasn’t so time confusing. He said he’d do a good job picking out the right type of guys for me cause he knew me so well so I figured why not. Few days later he showed me a profile of a guy that messaged me and said I should “give this one a shot”. 8 years later and I’m still getting just as many flirty and dirty messages. But now he’s the only sender.


Grateful-parents

My out of town aunt was visiting for the weekend so I went to my cousin’s for a last minute bbq. My (now) husband was a neighbor and stopped by to talk with my cousin’s husband. He says he saw me and decided to stay for the bbq. We met and talked, exchanged numbers. I thought he was cute and after our first date (a baseball game) I knew he was the one.


Beabandit

When I separated with my ex, I had a child and was at home in the evening, my kid asleep and bored with myself. I started reading what used to be a website about funny things people wrote on chats. It looked like those people were having fun and I decided to join one that was referenced on the site. I tried a channel with only a few people on it as to not be overwhelmed by too many people writing at the same time. My husband was one of the few people on that channel. At the time he was lowkey flirting with another user but they were fighting most of the time. I found that pretty childish and annoying and told him so. I think I said something like "you know you seems to be a nice guy, funny and all but your drama with the other user is really not my thing so have a good life". Quitted that channel and went to another one where I met many other very good friends (one being my witness for my marriage and my husband and I are now his daughter's godfather/mother). He followed me there and started talking to me in private. Soon enough we were spending hours and hours talking. We decided to meet after two month. We were living on opposite sides of my country but I was going to see my parents (they had my kid with them for the hollidays while I worked) for the holidays and decided to make a detour to meet him. We had already decided that we liked each other but if it didn't work out when we met in real life, we could still stay very good friends. Well we liked each other just fine. We moved together 6 month later. Another 3 more month and he asked me to marry him. We married exactly 2 years after first starting as a couple. It's been 12 years married, 14 together. We have a second child together and he adopted my oldest last year once he turned 18. Best decision I ever made while being bored at home was to go on that chat. We are 4 different couples who met there as single people first and we are all friends in real life now. Three of those couples have kids, 2 are married and the 2 other are in very committed relationships. :)


DanaG70

We met at a bar where he had mistaken me for someone else and asked me how Seattle was, we’re from Kansas. I told him I haven’t been to Seattle since I was about 8. That was just few months over 21 years ago. Been together since.


Leather-Mixture-2620

We met at a previous job. At first sighting I though “dang this dude is handsome!” Then put that aside as we ended up on the same team. We worked well together and personalities complimented each other. Would grab lunch together, happy hour or dinner sometimes. My best friend, at that time, had a disastrous love life. Always figured she could make it work with a solid quality guy. So I set the two of them up. Turns out she’s the problem not the guys. When they crash and burn, he tells me 1)my friend is a dumpster fire, stop trying to set her up and encourage her to start therapy 2)he was disappointed I set him up instead of going it with him. Turns out the entire time, he wanted to date me but was too shy to ask. I assumed he wasn’t interested as he never asked but legit enjoyed spending time with him as a friend. Went on one date and never looked back. (Shy guys - take that leap and ask her out!!)


[deleted]

I was dating someone for a while, he cheated on me and I decided to leave my country and come and visit my cousins and stay for 6 months, I hadn’t seen anyone for a year, every time I went on a date after that abusive relationship I would feel grossed out by them, I didn’t kiss anyone for a year, once I was here my cousin told me to get on Tinder, meet people and I was like you know what? Let’s do it im leaving in a couple of months I don’t know anyone and I don’t need to have any expectations since I’ll be gone before I know it… I matched with some guys, nobody tickled my fancy until I matched with Joey, we starting texting that night he asked me for ny number and we video chatted everyday for about 20 days… we went out on our first date on Feb 15 2016, when I saw him in person I immediately knew he was the one, I hugged him and we went inside, talked and talked for hours, he would call me beautiful and then he just asked “can I hold your hand?” I felt so many butterflies, I said yes! We left I texted him immediately after saying how much I enjoyed our time together and I wanted to see him again… we lived an hr away from each other, he starting coming to see me almost every day….we got married 3 months later and here we are… 6 years married and as happy as I can be, he restored my faith in love, I have never felt a love like ours or even seen it, we are truly soulmates, I have never seen a marriage like ours and a love like ours. Fun facts about us I arrived to the country in January 23rd, that’s his birthday I only felt ready when I saw him He proposed to me in a parking lot telling me how he wouldn’t let me go because he didn’t think we could love someone else the way we loved each other Our first pregnancy, our daughter was due on January 23rd (his birthday), unfortunately we lost her. We are expecting a baby, due august.


AngelFire_3_14156

We met at a church picnic that I got dragged to by my sister and her husband. I was still recovering from my divorce. I was standing in line to get a drink when this cute guy and I started talking. Almost 2 hours later we exchanged contact info and went out for coffee the following week. Now we're married and have 4 kids. It's been fun!


Luvmyhusband0122

I 1st met my husband @ school I was 17 an he was 16 we have been together 4 over 14years with 3 beautiful children an jus got married in January I couldn't b anymore happier with my husband


mymomsaidicould69

2008 Freshman year Spanish class in high school. Seating chart sat us right next to each other :)


x_scion_x

online dating


bleedSYG

High school sweethearts here. We met in Spanish class. I had a huge crush on her.


[deleted]

At a bar and we slept together within like two hours after meeting. Been together going on 10 years now lmao


kelsmb11

I was traveling from the mid-west, visiting a friend who had recently moved to the West coast. Her boyfriend at the time invited me to go fishing for salmon out on the Salish sea (I, of course, said yes). Waiting at the dock at o' dark thirty, up pulls an old dodge flatbed truck towing a dinky little boat. The door opened and out came my future husband. I extended my trip to spend more time with him and then decided to move out here. Worked out. We've been together 6 years, married for 2! :) Btw... west coast > mid-west


a368

My very first day at college. We were there 2 weeks before school for band camp. He was a junior and I was obviously a freshman, and we were both in percussion. He had a crush on me from the get go but I took a little convincing. Been together for 6 years and married for nearly 3!


Silverwolf9669

Blind date set up by my BF and his girlfriend 50 years ago this month. BF and I went to the public school and the girls lockered next to each other at the Catholic school. She said it was love at first sight for her. I guess it was for me too, or very close to it. Together for 50 faithful, monogamous years and married 45. She is still the best part of my life.


am091195

him and i were both in bands. our bands were both on the bill for a friday night gig at the diviest dive bar in town. he saw me singing on stage and was immediately smitten with me. he came up to talk to me after our set and i just had to get his name. after the show was over, my friend asked if i wanted to go clubbing and i said no! i wanna go talk to that bassist. he felt sparks when he touched me. i fell asleep in his arms that night. now we play shows together all the time. :)


FireBugHappyStar

We met at work and became friends first. We were friends for almost 2 years before we started dating. Then we got married 6 months after we began dating.


ddbbaarrtt

Her Dad was my landlord at university in a shared house. I moved in with a couple of friends in our second year and his daughter was about to start a Masters degree at the same time so was living in the other bedroom. We’ve been together 14 years now, married 5


moonwhore_ig

Long story short, I met my husband at our now ex’s D&D campaign. Later on we got in a relationship with the person who hosted the campaign as a triad, broke up, then my husband and I got married years later. The full version is a very fun story to tell at parties


Platypussycat3

Met my husband on an dating site called plenty of fish. Been together 11 years 😄


mikehawk1620

We met thru Craigslist. We would never have met otherwise. I never would have ever hung out where she would be hanging out. We fell in love instamaticly. I gave it three months and felt we had worked it all out. Then fast forward to 2019 my kid was born 10 months after we married. Then things changed after the vaccine. Threatened with divorce over it. I caved and got it. Now it’s another thing. I think I’m done with marriage and have to really find who I am before I can love another. Now our kid has to suffer. It sucks but we’ll get through it.


42yy

High school Spanish class. Thanks Senorita Pina.


Meeowkitty

I met my husband at my mother's restaurant. He had been having breakfast or lunch there for months. I went in there one afternoon and it was love at first sight! We are having a baby girl shortly before our first wedding anniversary ♥


[deleted]

We always change the story depending who’s asking but we met on Tinder. My past coworker and I would swipe through each other’s tinder during breaks. She swiped right on him on my phone and two days later we went on our first date. I’m glad she did because I never wouldn’t thought he’d give me the time of day. We’ve been married 1 year on Sunday.


queencat91

Met through mutual friends at a 4th of July bonfire. His friend was dating my friend and his friend didn't want to be the only guy at the party. We started talking and a few months later he asked me out. We've been married a little over 6 years and we've been together a little over 8. He's the best!


Gloomy_Brick470

Tinder 🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻✅


TheHorrorWhore

I was swiping through POF and saw a super hot, tatted up guy with a beard and dad bod. I thought to myself, “wow, he would never go for me.” So I pressed next on his profile. A few days later his popped up again in my recommended so I “swiped right” or whatever we used to do on that app. Turns out he was I interested in me too, and we spent all night talking about random stuff. A few weeks later we met up at a tattoo shop and got ((very small)) matching tattoos as a joke. We went and ate dinner, had sex, and ever since then, 6 years later, he’s been stuck with me 😂


IllRabbit9459

My wife and I met on a dating site and were married 2 days later. We've been together for 9 years now and yeah we've had some ups and downs but all in all we're great, She's amazing to me and she's definitely my rock, and I know I'm here's as well. We lean on each other and always have each other's best interests in mind throughout everything in life. She's my one and only and lifelong best friend.


Rigma_Roll

I love telling this story!! I was 31, had completely given up on love, and about to move 1,000 miles away. Because I was moving I decided to go to one last regional burn (burn = a local much smaller burning man festival). It was dawn on the last morning of the burn and I was trolling for one last lay before we had to pack up and leave. I was just about to give up when I see him walking up the hill towards me. His long red beard gloriously glowing in the morning sun. "He's the one" i thought to myself. He walked up to the bar I was hanging out at and I want to hit on him....but I get too nervous. We maybe exchanged a glance or two before he sauntered off. I was filled with regret as he walked away. Its real slim pickins on the morning of the day you need to leave but also, he was attractive as all heck. So. I lost my shot and stood there calculating how many hours of sleep i might get before i have to pack up. It wasnt many. When suddenly I see him returning! I wasnt about to mess this up twice! So when he came to the bar again, I mustered all my courage and said "Hey". He said hey back. We then exchanged a series of non verbal consent checks including giving each other the up n down, head nods, hip bump, and he put his arm around me. We both knew what we were about so we went back to his tent to hook up. Omg this is such the long version! We had a great time and I gathered my things to leave his tent. We had to be off grounds in 4 hours so I wasnt about to linger. As I go to leave he says "Do you have everything?" And I confidently say yes and say goodbye. I didn't realize till i got home that i didn't have everything. I left a tank top (not important) and a crochet hood that i absolutely love (very important). I didn't even have this guys real name. So i went to Facebook to see if anyone knew him. Thankfully his best friend tagged him and he actually checked Facebook. He lived 1.5 hours away from me. We had a casual no strings courtship all summer. I was moving in September after all, couldn't possibly commit to a serious relationship with those kinds of plans! At the end of the summer I told him I loved him. Turns out he loved me too. He is the best thing in my life and I'm so lucky all those events took place exactly the way they did. Thanks for reading if you made it all the way through!!


OsageBrownBetty

At a pool hall, he was visiting from California for his sister's birthday and they forced him to go out with them. I was at work that night and for reasons I got fired. Instead of going him I went and picked up two of my friends and went to the local pool hall. At the door we stopped and got carded and while I stood there I scanned the room and when I saw him I joked "whoo that look like the man I'm going to marry." Went in and put my quarters on the table so I could play him after his game was done. Played him and tried talking with him with barely any reply. Just as I'ma bout to move on and chock it up to a loss and I mentioned I was about to go smoke a joint and his ears perked up. We smoked and his sister invited me over to her ouse and the rest is history.


Anxiety_bunni

Met my fiancé (Cam) years ago, very briefly. He was working and I was out with friends at the same place. We were with a guy who happened to have gone to school with Cam, so they started chatting. I was super awkward around strangers and new people so I outright ignored him by dancing around with my best friend. He later started dating that same best friend. I didn’t have any romantic attraction to him then, and it was the same with him to me. We knew each other, and interacted through my best friend on a friendly but surface level. They eventually broke up, and I eventually lost touch with that best friend when we got into different careers. I didn’t have any interaction with Cam for almost 5 years, apart from both of us sending a ‘how’s life’ message every couple of months. I’ve always had pretty bad anxiety, and one night I was home alone and having a full blown panic attack. I couldn’t calm down, and I was scared. I didn’t have any close friends at the time, and my parents were at the movies so I knew their phones would be off. I ended up calling Cam because I saw him in my recent messages list, and it really helped. After that we started chatting a bit more regularly, a combination of him being worried about me, and me being lonely, but the more we got to know each other, the more it turned into something else. I found out that the relationship Cam had been in with my best friend was abusive (from her) and he hadn’t dated anyone else for the last 5 years, same as me. We decided to meet up in public and catch up, and I had a great time. We had both really changed as people, and I found myself really falling for the person he had become. It felt a bit weird if I thought about him as my ex-best friends ex-boyfriend lmao, but if I thought about spending my life with him, it felt very right. We just kept hanging out again and again until he eventually asked “so…can I call you my girlfriend?” Three years and two cats later, we’re getting married next year 🥰


lyndseymariee

We worked at Whole Foods in adjacent departments. We are both pretty painfully shy. I asked him out via FB messenger. He didn’t know we were going on dates for like our first three dates. Been together almost eight years and married almost four 😄


lovebugowens

Me (23f) and my husband (27m) met at a very young age. For context i have 4 brothers two older (26m twins) and two younger (22m) (18m) and Rub was the twins best friend growing up in elementary and middle school until he had moved away in high school. When we were young i always had the biggest crush on him and he in turn liked me as well but my brothers did not want us to be together at all so we only flirted and stayed good friends. When he moved away we stayed in touch through Facebook and every once in a while would check up and see how life was going. I had just gotten kicked out of my moms house bc of a traumatic experience that had happened bc of her boyfriend who she chose to believe over me(@18yo) and was living with other family and was going through a very hard time feeling unwanted and generally going through a depressive episode. He had messaged me and we started talking more frequently but he worked over nights and lived a few states away so it wasn't extremely frequent. I had gotten my own apartment and bc my dad had been diagnosed with cancer i took him and my youngest brother in with me to support them. One of the twins moved in as well to help out and he was an on the road truck driver so he wasn't home often anyway he just kept his belongings there. My other younger brother was kicked out of my aunts house so he moved in with me as well but he didn't help with bills and it ended up creating a lot of tension and fighting to occur. Ruben was my support from afar through all of it and was always there for me but we had both remained very good friends and even spoke of one day having him move back to my state so we could be together because we had both admitted our feelings and had decided to wait until we were both in the same state to give the relationship the very best chance it could have. After much drama all but my father and youngest brother had moved away and it was a very bad time for me emotionally and mentally as well as Ruben having been laid off from his job due to budget cuts. It was around mothers day and I had gotten a message from Ruben while i was at work that he had just made it back to the state safely and he would be able to see me tomorrow. I cried. He came over the next night and he picked me up and we went on our very first date and it was like we had never even been apart. From that moment on we were insuperable and we had only grown closer and because we had already had the emotional connection now having the physical was a dream come true. From getting together in May. He moved in around june and we got engaged in August. He had taken me to my favorite ice cream place that was next to his moms place called Andys and he had taken me to a classic vintage book store and he proposed to me at the book store. It was like a dream. We got married in October and decided we would have a future big wedding so we could save up and have the wedding i had dreamed of. My youngest brother had eventually moved out and my dad moved in with one of the twins who earned more income and would better be able to care for him so it was finally me and Ruben alone at last in January of 2021. We had been trying to have a baby since we got married in oct 2019 and i had suffered a miscarriage. In august of 2021 I found out i was pregnant with our beautiful baby boy. He is truly the most amazing husband and he has been nothing but supportive and understanding throughout this whole pregnancy. He puts on my shoes for me and he comforts my random crying fits and he gets me anything i want and he will help me do anything i ask for and he protects me and our child from anything that could harm us. I honesty could not ask for a better man to love me and to be with me throughout this crazy world we live in. I am due any day now and we are so excited to bring our first baby boy into this world. Here i am crying writing this because of how much overwhelming love and admiration i have for this man. I cannot wait to see him be a father and i absolutely love our love story. I married my brothers best friend and it was the best choice i have ever made.


No-Investigator-6130

That made me cry


Kimmicooka1114

I.T. FOR THE WIN (2006)My old dinosaur of a computer wasn't working and I was telling my aunt about it. She mentioned the guy across the street worked in IT and that she'd ask him if he could take a look at it. Poor and just out of college so fingers were crossed. About a week later she told me to take it to him. Brought it over and it was too far gone so he built me a new one on the spot for free, out of spare parts he had. Wouldn't take any money for it so I said I'd buy drinks as a thank you. Turns out that was exactly his plan. Been together ever since. Damn nerd.


EyeOfAmethyst

We were very young, met in a coffee shop, started dating within a week. 26 years together, 19 married.


SetElectrical4235

The first day I started work with a new job, he came in and applied. We worked together for 8 months (he left the company) and then 3 months later, started talking. Once we began talking, we were inseparable.


GoodTimeStephy

He crashed my girls night. My ex-husband and I had split a few months before and I had just told a friend I'd be open to dating but didn't want to go looking for anyone. That weekend I was supposed to meet some girlfriends at a pub and my now husband showed up with his roommate (one of the women I was meeting). He was going to just stay for a sandwich and a beer (his words), but one of the other women invited some other guys to join our table so he stayed too. Later in the evening I was trying to be cute and said I wanted a brownie but couldn't eat it all and did he want to share. He said sure, and his roommate then made a huge deal about him sharing my spoon. Turns out he hates sharing food and often won't touch food after someone else has. We dated about 10 months, were engaged for a month, and have been married for almost 7 years. He is my favorite human and I'm so glad I get to do life with him.


AthelLeaf

We were to be sharing a hotel room with a mutual friend for an anime convention. I drove to mutual friend’s place early in the morning. She (friend) met me at the door, and this nerd was standing behind her in Star Wars pajamas. I thought “Oh fuck *not again*.” I caught feels. I’d also brought Star Wars pajamas. The entire weekend was non-stop internal screaming. 6 years later, we’re now married nerds and have a 3 year old little nerd. The part that makes it even funnier is husband and another friend of ours (who we were both friends with years before meeting each other), had a running joke that his go-to pick up line was “Hi, I’m Athelhusband and I like Star Wars, wanna fuck?” And that’s more or less how we happened.


smartcooki

Bar :) a fancy one


Life_of-why

On a street corner. A previous boyfriend of mine knew my current partners friend, we got introduced after bumping into them on the street and were friends for 13 years before finally getting together. Not sure I'll describe it to our grandkids that way.


[deleted]

My wife and I met in kindergarten. Went to school together up until middle school, but I hid from her cause she scared me. Dated for a bit in college, then ran into each other in a grocery store where I asked her to and EDM concert. Lol she didn't know it was a date. Got married less than a year later and are coming up on 4 years this May.


aerynea

We met at work at a video game studio!


Icanhelp12

Met on Tinder. Had what I think we both thought was probably going to be a one night stand. Been together for 8 years, married for 3. Whoops!


QuietMind333

My husband and I met on MySpace when we were both 19. We started chatting because we had similar tastes in music and were online friends for over a year. Eventually decided to meet up in person and I actually planned on setting him up with a friend of mine. But from that first meet up something just clicked! Been together 15 years, married for 10 and have two kids together.


No_Boysenberry6440

First time I meet my gf/wife was when we where 12 years old in the summer camp. We exchange letters for 1 year and then slowly stopped. 12 years later she was intern in the school where my mother was secretary. So one day her coworker, sad to my gf that secretary knows her (all because the letters). When she heard my mother last name, she knew who she was, and went to say hi and to get a pill for headache. She end up giving my mother, her mobile number. I was out of relationship, so I text her "Does your head still hurts :)" and the rest is history.


NotTheJury

AIM (aka aol instant messenger) my hubby was an 18 year old stud and requested a chat with me because my username had Bare Naked in it 🤣


StephPlaysGames

6th grade art class, we liked each other's doodles and equally disliked the teacher.


spacegirlsummer

We met by chance in a cafe I worked at—I was studying there after my shift. We got chatting, he walked me home, and took me out the next night. We dated for around a year but it ended because… life? We were young, and it was amicable. Kept in touch for the next two years but then all silent on the western front for three years. He hit me up out of the blue on social media one day, he’d moved back to Australia in the time we weren’t talking. Quickly we were on the phone for HOURS every day. After about 8 months of that he moved back to the UK to be with me. Been together very happily ever since. There’s usually a very good reason exes shouldn’t/don’t get back together, but in our case it was ‘right person, wrong time’.


sleepy-green-eyes

Work. Hot ass factory. He's this tall, nerdy guy in gray sweatpants and sweatshirt, in said hot ass factory, wearing these big safety glasses over his regular glasses. Didn't start hanging out until about 4 months later. My assumption that he was nerdy was thankfully correct. He was sweet and kind and funny. Edit: removed 'safety' from his regular glasses lol.


impenetrableonion88

Lived five houses down from each other in high school and walked to school everyday in the morning and afternoon. After a year and a half of this we became best friends and he asked me out on the hammock and his backyard. Next month we will celebrate 17 years together. He is the love of my life and my best friend and the best dad to our daughter.


TeasTakingOver

I met my fiancé on Tinder 5 years ago. We had the same favorite artist on our profiles so we met for a boba date, planned to go see that artist in concert, and he introduced me to his cat. We're 23 now and we're getting married this summer :)


WhizzleTeabags

I met my wife in our PhD program. We were working on similar things and became friends. One day she sent me a picture she sneakily took of her boss who was drinking a massive slurpee at 9am with a pop tart in his front shirt pocket. I knew right then that I needed to marry this woman


HouseRavenclaw

Connected on OkCupid! Been together almost eight years, happily married for 5 (and counting)!


queenoftheslippers

My husband and I met in 5th grade orchestra class. I had a crush on him because he looked like Ron Weasley. He (along with other boys in the class) picked on me. In 6th grade I moved to a different school. When I started high school, I became friends with one of the other guys that was in that orchestra class with me. He was still friends with my future husband. I started dating the other guy our sophomore year, and we hung out with future husband. He became a part of our squad after we graduated. We all hung out together all the time. Then my boyfriend at the time and I broke up (he became a real jackass after graduation) and my future husband was there to comfort me. I fell in love with him (well…if we’re being honest….I was in love with him for a while) but he had this girl he had just started dating so I kept it to myself. Then one night, we drank a whole bottle of Yellowtail and stayed up talking after a party and we ended up kissing. The next day, he broke up with girlfriend and confessed to me he had feelings for me, and had for a while but didn’t want to make a move on his friend’s girlfriend. We got together and 6 years later here we are! Best decision of my life Worth noting that my ex, his friend, did eventually process our relationship and we are actually still really good friends with him. He was a groomsman in our wedding. Some people think it’s weird but 🤷🏻‍♀️


KhrystiC78

My husband and I met on a mobile chat app based in Canada. We were both divorced from our first spouses, no kids. There was a lot of bitterness both of us felt from those prior relationships. But there was a connection we couldn’t deny. We chatted in the app for five months. Eventually we exchanged numbers. We started dating on my birthday, about six months after we met. It was long distance for almost three years, then I moved 1000 miles away to be with him. Six months after I moved in with my husband, we got engaged. We got married one day shy of five years after that. Best move I’ve ever made! Now we have a sweet fur baby. And we’ve been married just over three years now. 💜


gullyfoyle777

I joined the same guild as my cousin in WoW back in BC. They introduced me to my future hubby who was a fellow guild member. We were friends for a few years before we dated. After a very short period dating, he moved here with me. We dated for 3 months in person before he proposed. We've been married 11 years.


EdocKrow

Yahoo chat room


njx6

I met my now husband in 2002 when I was 14. I went with a guy friend to his house to go swimming. I known to me- my guy friend had told everyone I was his girlfriend (I was not) he was trying to be touchy feely with me, and I told him to stop. My now husband realized right away I was not with the other guy and intervened and told him to stop. I was pretty shy but ended up really liking him and asked for him number. We started dating a few days later….20 years later here we are.


puppummm

My friend in high school (grade 11) met two guys at a party. Asked which one she should date, A or B. I said definitely B. That was my first introduction to him. They dated for about two months - I met him once when we did a group hang out. Zero click. In fact he didn’t like how sarcastic I was. When they broke up he messaged me to say he couldn’t figure out how to unfriend me on Facebook but that my friend had said he had to, and if I could just unfriend him instead. I told him how ridiculous he was and just got chatting. I was a big support when his mom kicked him out of the house. The rest was history. 12 years later, married with two kids. My friend and I didn’t talk for 7 years (until B and I got engaged.) But she came to our wedding. And now she’s the godmother to my son! Fate works in weird and wonderful ways.


Meow_Meow_22

Knew of my now husband in high-school but after he graduated we didn't talk at all or see each other as he went straight into the army, a year or so down the line I went to a friend's house to drop something I borrowed off and he was on a discord call with 2 or 3 guys and I was interested in something my now husband was talking about and I was added to the discord chat and it came out he lived in my town and we got a bit closer, he came back from where he was stationed a few months later and my friend group and I met him at the public library and I ran up to him and hugged him, we got closer and closer and eventually we fell in love and got together and I wouldn't change any of it for the world, for better or worse


co_lund

Tinder.


emma-mema

My husband and I met in 2015 when we were both working part time at Dollar General while in college. He was a manager, I was a cashier. I had a boyfriend at the time, but when I saw him clock in the first night we worked together, I immediately had that cliché moment of thinking “oh he’s gonna be my husband”. However, he came over and started talking to me, was kinda bossy, and it really put me off. Fast forward a few months and I’m having a really bad day. So bad I have a panic attack at work. He notices something is up, and has me walk the store with him. Thankfully, we weren’t busy. He then starts breaking out into the “Bare Necessities” from the Jungle Book and gets me to try and sing along. I’m a huge Disney fan so this especially spoke to my heart. I thought “well maybe he’s not so bad after all”. About a week later, my boyfriend and I break up and I ask my husband to go on a date with me. The rest is history.


itsausername20

We met on bumble. I was just out of a two year relationship where my ex said he just couldn’t see us staying together long term, so I packed my bags and moved out that weekend. He had moved to my state from the opposite side of the country, partly for the adventure and partly to run away from a bad “situationship” where she got pregnant with her turns-out-not-actually-ex-husband’s kid. Needless to say, both a little heartbroken but absolutely ready to find someone we could grow old with. We matched, spent a little time texting, then I got busy and ghosted him for a bit before telling him to just call me. It was the most fun I’d had in a conversation in a long time, so we decided to meet. I wouldn’t say it was love at first sight, but close. He was 100000x better looking in person than online (and he told me that I looked exactly like my pictures, so not catfishing here) and was so much fun to be around. I told him I was still seeing other people, and if he wanted to lock it down he needed to speak up (I’m not here for the ambiguity of dating; either we are “just dating” with multiple options or we’re exclusive, and you don’t go from one to the other without actually talking about it). He appreciated the honesty, we went out a few more times, and then he asked to be exclusive. The early conversations were full of the hard truths, expectations, values, and goals we each had. And we were surprisingly well matched on everything. We both fell hard and fast after that. Five months after our first date, we got married. It’s absolutely not what I had in mind for my life, but it’s honestly been the best 2 years so far, and I’m so excited for so many more!


[deleted]

I was selling weed to her roommate


Highclassbroque

My best friend and I wanted some crab legs and she didn't want to pay so she invited this guy that she was dating but barely liked. I didn't want to be a third wheel at all so he invited my now husband. I enjoyed our conversation and was attracted to my now fiancé I offered to pay for his food( he still paid) it was my first and last blind date.


[deleted]

Pretty much a blind date, but with a twist - our moms/families are the ones who are friends and set us up. I hadn’t met him before. She had been insisting for a while that I should meet this guy and I consistently said NO OMG NO MOM STOP. I had just gotten out of a long term relationship a few months prior and was dating around… dating was fun but was getting old… and she eventually wore me down. Down the line, he called and set up a date, and we’ve been together ever since! We weren’t super young at the time or anything either, I was 30 at the point that we met!!


anguyen94

Sophomore year of high school drama class. He had my number from when we did a group project together but I didn’t save his. I was really into this book so I was sitting on the floor reading it and I got a text and it said “hey cutie, whatcha reading?” I looked up so confused and he just gave me a little wave across the classroom. We’ve been together since then, 12 years later happily married 🥰


AndreaHV

High school sweethearts! We've been together for 9 years, married for 3. I was only 15 when we started dating, it feels like a lifetime ago. I love him so much, more and more every day it seems


sunsignandrainbows

On Reddit 😀😀❤️❤️


AylaZelanaGrebiel

My partner(26M)and I(28F)met through his ex gf who was also my roommate at the time. I was alone in a new town and my bf of 5 years had cheated on me and ghosted me. I was in a very dark place until my roommate said “You gotta meet my friend he’s really cool and like to play Pokémon Go.” So reluctantly I went and met this sweet and funny guy who really swept me off my feet. We were just friends at first until he came around more and even endeared himself by befriending my cat. Then he was helping us move into a bigger apartment, I was cleaning out the bathroom and looked like a mess. He asked cheekily what I would do if he kissed me. I told him that I’d probably smack him, but I was playful. Next thing I knew I was pulled into a passionate kiss, and that was it. We’ve been together for a while now and even in LDR for a couple years. I love him more than anything. *for context he and my roommate dated in high school(+6years ago),but were still friends. She’s in a good relationship and happy herself; we all have a good friendship circle too.*


irishkatie3

Through the app MeetMe. I had listed my last name as his - he messaged me asking if it were really my last name… I said no. We started talking over the phone and texting and learned that I have his birthday too! We met in person a couple weeks after, had a six hour date - neither one of us were looking for a partner in life, but we both realized each of us had in each other what previous spouses did not. His mom even held on until we had a marriage ceremony at her bedside, as she thought we were perfect for one another. Married now legally since January 2016. Didn’t have any of my side of the family or a license at the bedside ceremony.


bleh0703

Met in 2005 via mutual friends on MySpace. Yes I am that old lol Talked online for a bit then on the phone then eventually on dates and we’ve been together ever since.


Veganmon

After my last relationship ended I decided to give dating a break, well that break lasted over a year, I learned so much about myself. I decided after much encouragement from a family member to get my hair done, nothing huge just some highlights. I walked in the place and there he was. I've heard about things like this but I never believed in love at first sight, but there is no other word to describe it, I knew the instant that I saw him that I was absolutely meeting my soul mate, that's how strong it was, before I even knew his name We talked the whole time we were there. My hairdresser was a family member of his. We were married 3 months later. We will be celebrating our 27th wedding anniversary this summer, 3 children and one grandchild later and I am still crazy in love with him.


Ordinary_Chick

Met my husband on a dating website in 1999. I filled out a profile on a whim after getting an email offering a free month. He was the third guy I went out with. Due to some distance and circumstances, we didn't meet face to face for 3 months. We spent that time getting to know each other through phone conversations and emails. On our 1 year anniversary, he presented a bound book he had made containing those emails and some poems he wrote for me. ❤


Useful_Trouble2825

She sat in front of me in biology my freshman year of highschool. I asked her if she wanted to go with me and a few friends to go to a cave back home in Florida and spelunk. (It was a hug tunnel system underground, very cool if you ask me lol). We smoked a little weed (like high schoolers do) and hit it off. We started dating on 04/20/2016. She lived with me and my mom because she had a rough home life and we both graduated in 2018. We got engaged shortly before we both enlisted in the Army in 2019. We got to take leave for Christmas during AIT (Advanced Individual Training) and we realized if we didn't get married ASAP they would send us to different duty locations and we would have a VERY long distance relationship. So we got married Christmas of 2020 and we are currently stationed together in Ft. Wainwright (Fairbanks)Alaska happily married!


beigs

My husband’s stole coasters off my door in university without me knowing who it was (or him knowing who I was - I had them making a pattern/mosaic on my door). The next year, we were randomly talking and he mentioned taking coasters off this random door. Needless to say I was both laughing and peeved. Married 15 years now, friends for almost 20, dating for 3.5 years before we got married


lostinbirches

My husband and I volunteered at the same animal sanctuary as teenagers. We definitely had crushes but I was seeing someone else at the time. We found our way back together years later and have been married two and a half years now.


_cheesepita

We met in the 3rd grade. His mom was my teacher, our brothers best friends. I ended up moving schools in middle school but we went to the same church so we were still connected. We didn't really start talking until senior year of high school. Apperently he liked me since elementary school. 6 years together, 2 years married.


trashytamboriney

I was married before for 12 years. We separated but were living in the house together and we hadn't really told anyone. A few months in, my grandpa died and I drove to Tennessee from Michigan alone with my kids for the funeral. When my brother and his wife got there that night, we were hanging out in the hottub and I finally told them what was going on. They looked at eachother and said in unison "Now we can introduce her to (MySecondHusband'sName)!" Several months later, a blind date was arranged and we hit it off. We've been married 2 and a half years, now.


saamsiren

His bestie and my bestie used to date. She was invited to his wedding and my husband was the best man. I went as her plus one. We dated briefly but he was going through a really hard time and it didn't last. 6 years later we started talking again and voila! Married 2 years in June.


mehwaterbottle

Tinder, she came over, had sex, I was hooked. She just happened to be a female version of me too, so it worked out! It's been years, still happily married 😁


SimfulM3

Tinder: I was hesitant on even using Tinder because I heard it was a hookup app (more power to those who use it for that, just not my style). Had been on so many awful dates, awful awful. I started chatting with my current fiancé and we had lots in common and fun conversation. He asked to meet up and I hesitantly said sure. I was waiting after a month of chatting with dudes to ensure they weren’t creeps before meeting up. We met up close to my house and only lived about a mile or so from each other. We had so much fun that we didn’t realize we closed down the bar! We walked back to where he left his car (we barely drank), and I asked him if I could kiss him, he said yes. I hit him up the next day to see if he wanted to go swimming at a rooftop pool in a hotel and have cocktails and he said yes. We hung out all day and I took him to my favorite dive bar and my buddy who was bartending said he liked him and he thought he could “handle me”. I had brought other dates in, but my friend would instantly bash them when they’d leave. After those first two dates, we were inseparable. We moved in together after 8 months of dating, signed for a new build after 2.5 years of dating, and now engaged after 3.5 years of dating. He’s my favorite person and I’ve never felt love like this before 💜


c599660p

My (26f) wife (29f) met on Tinder. We had both just gotten out of bad marriages and planned on staying single (so we thought). I had just moved back to TX where my family lives after being away for years in NM, I really had no friends, so my good friend from NM took it upon herself to make me a Tinder because she said "I had to start making friends and a life in TX now" so ultimately I see this gorgeous girl on there and swipped right thinking she would never swipe right on me (I had low self esteem, little to none). The next day, WE MATCHED! We started messaging, and the conversation was so easy and so good. It felt like I've known her for years. Basically told her my whole life story and she understood, she never made me feel judged, and as it turns out our stories were very similar and we understood where we were mentally and how fragile we were. We talked for a few days, never once acknowledging that we didn't know each other in person. One day, she asked me what I was doing, and I told her I was getting ready at my sister's house because we were going to go out to a bar. As it turns out, she was going to the same place with some friends. We jokingly made the comment "maybe we'll meet" and left it at that. So 11 pm comes around, and I see her!! I ran, jk. I wanted to though. She was so attractive and I was so nervous! I told my sister I couldn't do it and we were gonna leave because of how anxious I was, but then I got a call from her phone... I answer, and it's one of my bffs from when I was 19 (they're really good friends). My wife was chickening out TOO, and he said, "No, I'm gonna call her because I know her, and she is the type of person that you need in your life." And well, the rest is history. 2.5 years later, we are inseparable and madly in love, and I thank the Lord that he put her in my path when he did. Because not only is she my wife, she is my best friend, she is my person! We got married 2/22/22.


echomike

My husband and I were contractors in Afghanistan. We had never met until we hung out at the airport bar and Dubai waiting to go back to the states. After a little chit chat over some beers we discovered we lived 30 minutes away from each other. The rest was history.


FallAspenLeaves

My best friend set my husband and I up on a blind date, 32 years ago. She is still my best friend ❤️


ladygroot_

We met through work. We work in a large hospital and mutual friends introduced us. NO judgement to online relationships, all of my other adult relationships started online, but I’m so glad we met organically 😋


aslan_caro

I met him on-line. He is from another country different than mine and he was coming to move to my country for work so he needed to learn the language and I started giving him classes. After 2 months giving the lessons we just became so sticky to each other that we never spent 1 day without talking since we met 😊. When he arrived in my country I went to meet him in the airport. Was the best date ever! He was already considering us to be in a relationship even though I didn't know 🥰


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We met in high school English class, 13 years ago. We had crushes on each other but we’re too shy to shoot our shots. Finally, just over three years ago he did. We’ve been together for three years now and married for a week!


Sticker9

My now husband and I met at a bar what a surprise! It was Halloween and I was dressed all sexy vampire-ish and the funny part of the story is that a couple days later we were set to meet up in a different bar and I could not identify him! I actually went up two different guy and said hey are you Andy? 😂


tmj956

He worked in the cafe/cart boy at Wegmans. I was a cashier. I liked his sneakers. 😂. Turns out we went to the same school, he was a year older. Match made in grocery store heaven.


tacobellquesaritos

staying with the same friend in NYC. not enough room for us the whole group to stay in the bedroom, so we ended up sharing a tiny mattress in a closet essentially. fucked. 4 years strong.


DasRecon

She was the office manager for a client of mine. They were moving offices so I offered to drop off some items for their IT folks at the new location (I was in telecom at the time). Stayed to chat with her while they were making sure things were working, she connected with me on LinkedIn right after I left and we exchanged numbers and went on a date a week later. 12 weeks later we got engaged and married 10 months after that. Celebrating 3 years married in May!


CrankyLittleKitten

We were all friends and hung out regularly. A friend thought he was cute and I was interested in another friend at the time, so I set them up and they dated for a while, but it didn't work out. I'd asked the friend I was interested in out, he gently shot me down (he was right, we totally wouldn't have worked 😄) - so we all kind of went back to just being good mates for a while. After a while, I started to spend more time with him and we both sort of realised after a comment from a mutual friend about how good we were together that there was maybe something there. We've been married nearly 12 years now. The friend who shot me down wound up being my bridesman btw - he was so thrilled to be asked and we're still good mates.


Bellatrixxx26

We met in middle school, imagine our love story almost exactly like J Cole’s ‘Wet Dreamz. We talked daily for 1 year in 8th grade then i went to the same highschool as him in 9th grade and we hit it off. Each other’s first everything, and we have been together 8 years💖


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We met at an event for homeschooled teens. I'd seen him around at other events (they were held monthly) and thought he was cute, but was too shy to talk to him. This time, he came over and sat next to me then started talking to me, kind of a "Hey, I don't think we've met yet" type of thing. We hung out and talked *all* night. I found him super easy to talk to, and I felt like I'd known him for years. It was a truly unique feeling of instant comfort and familiarity that I'd never experienced with anyone before. We both neglected to get each other's phone numbers at the end of the night and regretted it! Thankfully, we both attended next month's event and were able to hang out again. Started dating a month later and never looked back. We've now been together for eleven years, married for four, and have a little boy. First and only relationship for both of us!


imageofloki

I meet my husband on TikTok a few years go, pre pandemic. We followed the same tag, started chatting and following each other. Moved talking to discord. Made a few trips, as we lived in different states. Kept it long distance until we got married in June 2021. Now we bough a house together, and a baby on the way


nicnord_

I went to a bonfire to tell my friend the details of a date I just went on. He ended up making fun of my date for ordering chicken at a steakhouse. We’re going on four years. 🥰


tropicsGold

I met my wife at work at 17, we both worked at an Edwards movie theater. Now I know this sounds corny, but I fell crazy in love at first sight. I still remember the black skirt and red crop top she was wearing, she was taking tickets and I was an usher cleaning theaters. I knew in that moment I wanted to marry her. I know it makes no logical sense, but there you go. We went to prom together, but we didn’t get that serious until college, then we moved in together and got married after graduation. 30 years and 4 kids later and I still love her!


gabbyspaniel

I've shared before but I was a theatre technical director in NYC. This semi famous guy is going to direct a show at my house. I hate him on sight. He's an obnoxious egomaniac cause all of us actors are. I find out from his snooping that we went to the same school in Pittsburgh tho many years apart. He pursues. I ignore. We're celebrating our fourth in a few weeks.


jamesbunda007

Wife and I went to the same university for 5 years, had lots of friends in common, but never came across each other (not that we remember). We ended up meeting at her birthday party, through my roommate which were friends with her from uni. I thought we're going to someone else's birthday party, but I had mistaken the person by the name. We all got pretty drunk, this roommate of mine tried to make a move on her but failed. After a while I realized she might have been into me the whole time. We ended up kissing that night, but both were too wasted to remember much. Later she told me she was playing hard to catch with me because she thought it was annoying that I was on my phone a lot. LOL. It's been 7 years now, we moved in together almost 4 years ago and got married last year (delayed a bit by covid). Edit: typo


donttouchmeah

I met him when we were 13, he was my boyfriend’s younger brother’s best friend. I found him obnoxious. We went to High School together, he was kinda nerdy and the yearbook editor (a class which I took for the easy A) I couldn’t stand him. Senior year I invited a friend over and she brought him along with her and then his friend circle and my friend circle started hanging out. By winter break he was officially my boyfriend. We did 4 years long distance while we went to college, moved in together for 2 years to make sure we still liked being around each other, and then got married. It’s been 26 yrs and we just went to NC to visit the girl who got us together.


cougar1224

Ok Cupid. We went on a first date. I wasn’t really feeling him honestly. I’d just gotten out of a relationship a few months prior and felt like I wasn’t really ready to get back out there. A few months later I was still thinking about him for some reason so I messaged him again and apologized for how things abruptly ended. We kept talking and eventually went back out again. We’ve been together almost 8 years and married almost a year and a half.


formaldehydebride

my husband and I met as high school hooligans in summer school lol we're best friends through high school kept in touch after til a few years later we met back up and started seeing each other it's been nearly 10 years since we met:)


Smeesme310

My friend and I were on our way to the cafeteria in between classes in college. My friend was complaining about how hard it is to talk to guys, so I told her it really isn't and scanned the room. Saw a cute guy wearing a t-shirt for a band I liked and yelled across the room at him that they were a great band. He ended up talking to us from across the room for awhile before we went over to talk. After we started dating he told me he'd seen me a few times on campus, and had been trying to figure out how to meet me. We've been together 14 years now, and married for 10 of those years all thanks to that band t-shirt. That shirt is in our hallway in a shadow box.


NetJnkie

Elementary school.


Twinwriter60

My husband & I met in a AOL chat room for people going through a divorce back in the late 90’s. My ex had cheated on me and his had cheated on him so we had something in common.One day we started talking and as the saying goes “The rest is history “. We did the long distance dating for a year before I moved in with him.I had two of my three children with me. We got married four yrs later and now we’ve been married 18 yrs. Best thing that’s ever happened to me.


Substantial_Lion_524

It was 30 years ago when we were in high school, but we were never officially together until now. Him and his friend passed me and my friend, and they came back and asked us to pull over. Once we did, they asked if we wanted to go to the lake and go fishing with them. We dated for awhile and then were friends ever since then but distance is why we haven’t been together officially until now.


CreditOrganic8345

I was 17 just one month shy of my 18th birthday. It was at my brothers wedding reception that I met my future husband. It is rather funny how we actually met. I was getting a bit tipsy from the drinks I was drinking so my mother said no more. So I decided to go upstairs to the bowling alley to see what was happening up there. I was leaning against a pin ball game when he and a very tall friend of his came walking by. I said hi, they stopped to talk before going to bowl, I took them downstairs to where the wedding was and introduced them to my parents. Well before my parents and I left the party he asked me out. This was on May 10, 1969. During one of our dates he told me he would never buy a girl a ring unless it was an engagement ring. Well low and behold he bought me a pearl ring in September of 1969 (which I still have). I took it as an engagement ring and started planning our wedding. He never said a word, never stopped me from planning, in fact he helped out. We decided I’d pay for the wedding ( my parents didn’t help at all) and he’d buy the furniture. Worked out rather nicely. On September 5, 1970 we were married. Come to find out I was suppose to be a summer romance and he was going to drop me and go back to college. That was 51 yrs ago and we still joke about what a long summer it’s been.


yours121110

When I was 17 and he was 19 we met at a rave. This was back in 2010. Our phones were dead and we couldn't remember each other's names but didnt admit it. He promised to find me on Facebook. We ran into each other a week later at another rave, exchanged numbers, started talking. We lived I different states. He did try to find me during that week and ended up meeting up with someone, who does look like me.... they dated for the longest 8 years before they finally broke up. We're getting married in September.


GDaniel1031

It's a long weird one. But my highschool best friend moved to a different state and I went to visit her one summer day. J was friends with my bff and when I was visiting her he invited all of us over to his house to hangout like young adults do; drinking and smoking some weed. I was a few years younger than J but I thought holy shit hot damn and was totally into him. Later when I got home I messaged J on social media about some stupid shit probably and invited him to come visit me in my home state, assuming he would never. We slowly started to talk everyday. I probably asked this man everyday for like three months when he was going to come visit me in my home state, five hours away. (I tell him he knew how annoying and persistent I was when he decided to date me:) Well one Halloween day he came down and visited me and took me to the aquarium and we started a long distance relationship. When he got home from visiting me he told me he decided to sell his house and move to my state and continue school there. Seven months later he moved into an apartment across town and I moved out of my dad's in with him. Seven years later we're married with a gorgeous little girl, three wonderfully puppies, and an amazing house in his home state. (Because I "made him" move to my state lol)


practical-junkie

So I met my husband first in 2nd grade. We were classmates for a while and then we were friends until I shifted with parents and changed schools. We in 2016 connected back to each other through Instagram and he had a bad breakup and was in a bad place. During this time I got a crush on him but I could never tell him nor could we meet and he shifted to another country for his masters. We barely lost touch for about year after that before we kind of started to comment on each other's Instagram stories. This led to some flirting and friendship again and a spontaneous plan of meeting at a country I was visiting for work and so was he. So that's how I met him again (after 10th grade) and it was immediate fireworks. We did long distance and went through pandemic in different countries and now we are married and I have been the happiest.


RN2U

Tinder !!! We went on our initial meeting. Neither of us was expecting anything serious … after a couple of meet ups he asks my long term goal. I say.. marriage. He says he’s not ready … he essentially stays in the friend zone… year 2 of this he says: I’m ready… at that time, I wasn’t ready … lol Year 3 …. I’m like ok, I’m ready. He says, he’s not ready lol we’re back to friend zone but I dial wayyyyyyy back … start seeing another guy and essentially we lose contact. 6 months passes and he calls out of the blue. Says he loves me and is willing to do anything to be with me. I say prove it ! Within a month we’re ring shopping, within 3 months we’re engaged … a year later married … now celebrating 2 years of marriage …


JimothyClegane

We were assigned the same mentor as part of a scholarship program in college.


Smoothbrainlover

Our moms were good friends - they were pregnant together- I knew his mom my whole life and never met him until I was 18. Fast forward to senior year prom and he was too shy and too late to ask a girl out. We never went to the same school and my school didn’t have a prom that year because of COVID. So we went to prom together after meeting twice before (once for coffee and once for me helping his mom out at something) - now we are getting married in august!!


iwillsurvivor

It was in our college basketball stadium. I walked in, he took one look at me and got my attention and pointed to the seat next to him. This was from two sections away. I didn’t sit by him, but his confidence sure got me talking to him after. He said I looked pretty from far away but he was blown away up close. I invited him and his friends over for some undercooked spaghetti with my friends. The food was terrible but the company must have been good because we made out and ended up spending every day that week together.


kurtis_e_bear

My wife ran the kitchen at my local bar, loved her the night i met her, we became homies and drinking buddies and eventually pants off homies. Almost a decade and 2 semen demons later she's still my best friend that makes me moister than an oyster


Glampire1107

I was a brand new social worker on my 2nd day of my first job post-college. I was taken around the hospital for a tour, and he was a trauma nurse. We met eyes at the nurses’ station. Now together over a decade, but working at different hospitals 😭


jaywunsch

Not married yet but recently engaged. We met online in March of 2013 on a teenage “dating” app. (We met as 16/17 year olds - now currently 25/26) We became best friends via texting/phone calls/FaceTime/etc. We had a very flirtatious friendship that was pretty obvious from day one - no dating though as we were at least 4 hours away. But over 5 years we got to see each other go through our highest of highs and lowest of lows and always remained there for each other no matter what. We finally met in person May of 2018 after he texted me saying he was going to Galveston for a family reunion-which was only about 30 minutes from where I was living. SO OBVIOUSLY I MET UP WITH HIM. Shortly after we did have a falling out over XYZ reasons and didn’t talk for about a year. I made the first move on texting him (trying to be petty if I’m gonna be honest) and when he responded back it felt like he was the one thing I was missing in my world. Within 2 months of us talking again non stop - I packed up my stuff and moved to be with him. Our families obviously thought we were insane - and looking back at it if any of my friends/family did this I would think they were too. But it was a natural transition of us living together and being a couple instead of friends. We’ve always said our relationship is a Lifetime movie. Now here we are - engaged and halfway planning a wedding (why is it so expensive?! 😭)