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We met when we were 13. A friend of a friend came up to me on the first day of school and said her bff was going to be in my english class and to give her a message. I listened for her bff's name but she was absent. Instead the name right before hers was DH. I still remember what he was wearing that day and I remember thinking "I'm gonna marry him" and then thinking I was a retard for thinking that. Turns out he was in a few of my other classes too. The girl I was supposed to give the message to ended up being the one who "set us up" and we've been together ever since. Weird how things work out.

We met in the 80's, I was a bartender and he was a DJ in a punk club in Trenton, we were both seeing other people but were good friends. Eventually we ended up together.

Maddie wrote:

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These are so cute! And depressing! You all met your SOs so young!

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Ditto! I love these stories but at the same time I'm thinking, "OMG I am not ready for anything serious and/or to find the love of my life!"

-- Edited by Shello at 11:37, 2006-04-26

I'll add to this but my boyfriend isn't a DH or a fiance or anything like that. He's just a boy. And I'm just a girl. Can it be anymore obvious? (Hee - forgive my Avril moment.)

We met through an online dating thing (although he tells people we met at a bar). I was 26 and he was 33. I was pretty much through with the online thing but he was so, so chatty that I couldn't help but respond back. I'm quite chatty myself. Bad boy stuff happened in the meantime and I decided not to deal with boys for awhile, so our email correspondence kind of faded away.

I went out with some friends to a few bars one night to chill. We wanted to go to Bar A but it was closed due to a water main break or something so we went to Bar B right next door. Normally I would avoid Bar B like the plague because it's too yuppy/sportsy for my taste. Turns out my boyfriend was there with his friends that night also. He recognized me from my pictures and sent me an email at like 4 in the morning that night asking if I was at Bar B. Frankly, I was so taken aback by the coincidence (and seeing as how he already knew what I looked like) that I agreed to meet him in person. It was about 6 weeks after we'd first started communicating.

When we met up, we had great conversation but I wasn't really digging him. He wore pleated pants for god's sake! (He'd come from a work meeting but still. Who wears pleated pants?) I agreed to see him one more time because we were having such great conversation (on the phone too). After the 2nd date, I pretty much wrote him off. I thought he was too nice for me and I'd end up making a mess of things. (I was in a very cynical boy stage then.) I'd mentioned to him I had some paintings up at a local show, so he went by to see them. He wrote me this long email detailing all his thoughts and opinions on my paintings. I was so impressed that he'd gone to see them that I agreed to a 3rd date - where we finally kissed for the first time. (As strange for him as it was for me.) I still wasn't sure about him but he treated me so nicely and we got along so well that I couldn't help but keep agreeing to see him.

And here we are, however many months later (neither of us can remember!) and we're still together, talking about moving in together in October. How crazy is that??

ETA: He doesn't wear pleated pants anymore. I pointed out his fashion faux pas and he threw them all away. He's a flat-front guy now. Oh and later he told me that he went back to see that show my paintings were in about twice a week (while the exhibit was up) or anytime he had a bad day at work. How sweet is that?

-- Edited by blubirde at 15:09, 2006-04-26

My bf and I have been together for 5 1/2 years. I was 20 and had just gotten a part time job where he worked, which was a non-profit org. I didn't even notice him until he started wearing short sleeve shirts that showed his buff arms (I'm so superficial, I know). That and he was really funny. I was talking to a co-worker and she mentioned that he had a gf so I kinda backed off and got over him. Fast forward to 5 months later- I start catching him staring at me when we're in the same room. So I ask my coworker who knows him pretty well if she has any idea why he would be staring at me when he has a gf, and she tells me that they broke up a few months ago. So I get all excited, but of course I don't show it. To make a long story short, he starts talking to me and asking me questions about where I go to school, blah blah...
Another 2 months go by, and it's now summer and since we're a non profit, people donate tickets various events like basketball games so kids can go. So me, him and some other people have to chaperone some kids to a basketball game at Staples Center. I notice something's up because he's being really quiet, which is so not like him. At the end of the night as I'm walking to my car he's waiting there and asks me if I want to go grab a drink. So I say yes and that's where it all started. Later on I asked him why he was being so quiet that night and he said that he was really nervous around me because he was trying to figure out how to ask me out.

monica wrote:

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i met mine five years ago -- first job out of college. we were in the same training class, and i looked over to the other side of the room, and thought he was so crazy beautiful. he was dating someone at the time, so we just stayed friends (the whole time, i constantly referred to him as 'hottie joe' to all of my girlfriends) 6 months later, a bunch of ppl from work went out, got a lil' drunk, truth came out and he liked me too, broke up w/ his gf and that's how it all started. we broke up twice during our five years together, and a month ago we took our first long vacation to italy and now he's my fiance! :)

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Oh! Congratulations! How romantic...

travelgirl wrote:

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I met my husband via a wrong number!  I was trying to call a friend but instead dialed wrong and got him.  He was in college at the time (at the same college the friend I was trying to get a hold of was attending) and I just started yapping away at him just because I was bored and felt like talking to someone.  We ended up talking for 8 hours that night!  At the end of the conversation he asked if he could have my number and I said "NO-I'll just call you when I feel like it" (plus I already HAD a boyfriend!).  So, that is exactly what happened-I just called him when I felt like it-for 7 months!  All along he kept asking if we could meet-I just kept saying NO.  Finally, he ended up getting tickets to a sold out basketball game between my college and his-he asked if I would come and I finally said yes. 
We met at the basketball game and immediately started dating.  I also found out that he had been spying on me and knew what I looked like (I was so stupid and told him that I worked at the Clinique counter in the nearby mall and of course he checked me out without my even knowing).  Figures! 
Anyway, we dated for 3 months and then got married!  8.5 months later our son was born (LOL).  I can only tell this story  now,  without getting a little embarassed due to the unconventionalness of the situation, because we have been together now for 12 years so it just goes to show miracles CAN happen!

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that is so cute! My friend has a similar story- She got a call on her cell phone, it turned out to be the wrong number but the guy on the other line ended up yapping away and eventually they started talked on the phone regularly, and then they met and the rest is history. They've been together for 6 years.

Maat wrote:

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Cute stories! I can't look at the poll results without feeling depressed. According to the data, my chances of meeting someone at my age are low.

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oh, now stop it! I met my husband 1 mo. before my 29th birthday - and I NEVER thought I would get married.  I got to a point where I came to terms with the fact that I would never find someone, to focus on being happy with myself, and have a good time with any guys vs. "working" on trying to have a relationship with them.

Then I met my husband who was "too nice" (which is the most ridiculous thing to think - no man can ever be "too nice" and why the hell would I want another one that treated me like crap?) I digress... I met my husband at a mutual friend's party. We knew each other 2 months from running in the same circles before we became involved.  I actually tried fixing him up with someone else because I thought he was too old and too nice - when he asked me what was up with the woman I brought along to a group gathering, I explained I told her about him and how he was really nice, educated, and successful... and then I kinda looked at him and said "I should be going out with you." He agreed, and we've been together ever since (not a fairytale relationship by any means - but you can count on an absence of fairytaleness in any relationship.)

I also know someone who just got married for the first time and she is 43. So, what I'm trying to say is, it's all fine and dandy to be in a relationship, but it's not the end all be all either... Being happy with who you are, and being happy being alone with yourself is.