How'd you meet them?

[Vachenzo]

Hey all! I just thought I would start up as feel-good thread. Tell us the story of how youu met you current husband, wife, fiancé, partner etc. If you are single, tell us a story about your favourite relationship maybe? If you've never been in a relationship, how do you think the first one will start?

I first met my girlfriend in high school. I remember that I was waiting after school for a ride home and she came up to me with my friend meghan and told me to read some random joke. Anyone know the one about how vaginas are made? Ha! I didnt see her again until the next year started, my junior year of high school.

She was in my english class and only began talking to me because I was talking to meghan who was also in the class. When we went to the gym for our school photo's, I went to sit down in the chair they supplied, and she looked me directly in the eyes and told me this: "Think of your mother naked!"

[rissababynta]

when I was 16, I started working at KFC/Taco Bell. My friend forced me to apply actually lol. Right before I started working there, she told me about this guy that just started working there. She told me that she had heard that he was an employee there back when he was in High Schoo, he left to go to join the Marines, and he had just got out and he had come back to work there until he could find another job. She was going off about how he was such a nice guy, but he was such a dork and a goof ball.

When I started, my manager introduced me to him. I thought he was good looking and he had a great ass! By the time I was an hour into my shift, I had figured out that he was the guy my friend had told me about. I could just tell.

We barely ever spoke to each other. We said hi and everything, but that was pretty much it. One night, I was on my computer checking out my emode.com messages (yes, I was one of those people that was 17 and saying I was 18 in order to be on a dating site...again my friends influence haha). I opened up an email, and there was a picture of Tony, telling me that he would like to get to know me and make a new friend in the area. I about freaked out! I was laughing SO hard, and immediately called my friend. For a few days after this night, I would dropped hints to him about the email and make fun of him and he was SO confused. Finally, one day he looked at me with wide eyes and said "Ohh my God, you're the person I emailed aren't you". He didn't even know it was me! So we had a good laugh and that kind of broke the ice for us to talk more often at work.

One day I was outside waiting for my Dad to come pick me up and he was leaving, on his way to his car, and I called out to him to bum a cig. He walked over and handed me one. "Am I doing something illegal here?", he said laughing. I grinned and said "Yeah, you might be". I was 17, he was 23. He asked why I was outside and when I told him I was waiting for a ride, he said he would wait with me so I wasn't alone. We started talking and we found out that we had a lot in common, we were even both Pagan. We started talking online together a lot after that, and he even jerked off on cam the first time we talked because SOMEHOW we really got each other super excited and he liked doing that while being watched. He's dirty lol.

From that day on we would ALWAYS go on break together and smoke outside, just talking our asses off. That was when he hinted around to me that he was going to see a movie that Friday and he wouldn't mind bringing me along since he was supposed to be going with another friend from work. I jumped on that opportunity and the friend ended up backing out so we ended up with a date. Turns out the movie sucked so we left halfway through to go have sex in his Pinto lmao!

We were really just having a good time. We had both gotten out of relationships and we weren't looking for something serious. Also, because of our age difference, he knew that we would be catching a lot of shit from a lot of people and it was easier not to go through that. Turns out that 2 weeks later he told me he loved me and wanted me to officially be a girlfriend as oposed to a fuck buddy. I was feeling the same way so I readily agreed. People at work already knew something was up so the transition wasn't bad at all. We became official in November. On Valentines Day he proposed to me. On July 2nd of this year we got married.

And that is how my husband and I got together.

Sorry for typing so much.

[Hephaestion]

I have found that the two classics:

1) How're you doin?
2) Hey, Arnolds, 8pm, be there! Yo!

work for me.

(who said that I was the predatory one?)

[onewhocares]

My goodness I have known hubby so long I had to reach back into my archives....

I was a customer of my husbands. He owned a florist shoppe and I had been using his product for a few years. The other man that worked with him tried to get me to go out with Bill for a long while but I had a steadfast rule that I never dated someone I worked with or did business with...because if the relationship did not work out but I loved the product or services they provided I would be up a creek. Funny thing was, deep down I knew I would marry this tall, skinny, scrawny man...so not like my standard man I would date.

I had been planning an anniversary party for my parents so for two years when I would go into the store we would talk and chat about the party I found myself lingering. Then the Saturday before Christmas 1984 I had been out shopping with my sister and came home to find flowers. I did not think anything of it assuming it was for my small, petite and pretty sister...well yes she did have flowers but so did I. I looked at the card and I did not know who the sender was so I called the florist and asked and the fellow said...silly it is my boss...Bill. So I spoke to him to thank him and he asked me out for New Years Eve...and I said yes.

We went with the other fellow and his fiancee...who eventually would become the best man at our wedding and whom I would later come to learn a couple of months later my hubby's lover and whom I regret not being able to share to be honest. We had a great time...I remember Bill walking me to my car and kissing me goodnight and I new that our fate was sealed. Six months later we were engaged, married the following October and now we are planning our twenty fifth wedding anniversary.

Like everyone else, there have been ups and downs, but I would not trade our deep and abiding love and friendship for anything for when you are one of the lucky ones to find your soul mate you are not complete without them.

Belle

[curious44]

I think we have a really cool story. Rewind to 2/63. My dad is in the hospital for colon surgery. There is this cute young girl, there for thyroid surgery, in the room across the hall from him. They brought you in a couple days before surgery in those days to prepare you. My dad was a friendly guy and wandered the halls talking to everyone, including the cute girl across the hall. I come to visit him after work one day and he introduces me to her. Believe it or not, it was on Valentines Day '63. My dad has his surgery and goes home but I continue to visit the cute girl who has to stay for about another week. We hit it off and the sparks instantly flew. One night the nurse comes in to check her blood pressure. She says, "I better come back and do it again after he leaves". I had been massaging the inside of her thighs, using one of those little bottles of lotion they give you. "Smoothest skin I ever felt", I told her. (It was, too.)
We were married in 7/65. Two kids and 5 (6 in April) grand kids later, a lot of water has passed under our bridge, but we're still here and will be together when they wave our checkered flag. I hope we still have a lot of laps to go. So as you might guess, Valentines Day is special for us.

[curious44]

Vachenzo,
Great idea for a thread. So far everybody has a great story. I hope this thread really takes off.

[Laken]

My parents wanted me to go to a college that was about an hour away from home. I, of course, wanted to go somewhere as far away as I could possibly get...so I didn't even apply to that school. Come to find out, my mother took it upon herself to apply for me. They sent me a letter about doing a summer visit, tour the campus, etc and my mom and dad decided we were going. (whether I liked it or not!) When we got there they split us into groups and sent us off with our tour guides. It was really rainy and nasty that day so each of the guides had umbrellas that had the school emblem and were the schools colors. I couldn't stop staring at my guide the whole day. He was witty and sarcastic and made me laugh the whole time. At the end of the day all the tour kids were leaving to go eat, I stopped him and I said, "Hey, you should give me that Umbrella." And he said "If ya come to Concord, I will." With his sly little smile (that I absolutely adore to this day.)

Well...I ended up going to Concord. The third night we were there, my roommate talked me into going to a party at some shit hole bar down the road. (To quote my father "There's a bar down the road called The Last Resort...and that's exactly what it is.") We're standing and talking to one of her friends from high school and he's complaining that his beer cup is empty and he doesn't have money to buy more beer. At the same time, I happen to notice my previous tour guide across the bar with a full pitcher of beer. I grab her friends cup and say, "Hey, watch this." (Which in WV usually doesn't end well!) I walk up to my old tour guide and say "Hey, you might not remember me, but you owe me an umbrella. Now, could you please fill my cup?"

After that we just started talking whenever we would see each other on campus. One night there was a football game on (his favorite team vs. my favorite team) so I went to his place to watch it. We ended up having fabulous amazing wonderful sex (lol) and decided we'd kinda like to make that a habit. We'd both just gotten out of relationships, so we didn't want anything serious. Then nothing serious turned into me staying at his house every night...which turned into him asking me when I was going to tell my friends that I had a b/f...which turned into a proposal three months later.

Now we've been married for 2 years (together almost 4) and have a baby on the way. Lots of people tell me I got married too young...but I just think that when you find the right person, you find the right person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect for me than Keith. But...that fucker still hasn't given me my damn umbrella.

(sorry for the novel!)

[curious44]

Laken,
We were married at 21 and had our first 8 1/2 months later. Our second was 2 years later. Everybody on both sides said we'd never make it. Looking back on it today, I would have to agree with them. We were just a couple of horny, immature, clueless kids and I had a bad temper that I didn't outgrow until many years later. The only thing I had going for me was that I had a good job with a good future that I was good at because I really liked it. When we listen to the "experts" like Dr. Phil and Dr. Laura, my wife and I look at each other and say, "I'm glad these know-it-alls weren't around when we were younger because they would have advised you to get rid of the asshole." But somehow it all worked out and I don't know what I would do without her.
You can do it to. An old timer once told me that there are three stages of a marriage; Lust, Tolerance and Need. Truer words were never spoken.
Good luck with your pregnancy and your future.

[innaminka]

I was 25, happily divorced and i met this nice guy in the Quadrella line at Flemington Race course. (I like a punt!)
We talked whilst waiting, we had a beer, then another, shared our potted histories (he was also a divorcee) and I gave him my phone number, thinking never to see him again.

He rang a week later and asked me if I would like to go water-skiing.
Normally I would refuse as my bottom in swimwear is only for the very brave, but I accepted.

Dinner, coffee and sex followed the week after.
12 Months later we married. We have 2 daughters - 18 and 16 and realistically I think the magic is going.

At least I'm becoming another me. Sad, but at the same time, exciting.

[rissababynta]

Laken ma dear, too young is BS. Too immature is a different story. I am 22 yet I have managed to have 3 kids, a marriage that involves me being a damn military wife, and a lovely full time student life. You know how many (older) adults have told me that they don't know how I do it? Do you know how many of my peers are in the same situation as me and, no offense to them, they are handling it quite badly? If I behaved the way a lot of people our age acted (which is expected now, somewhat of a stigma I suppose) I probably would have a brat for a three year old, a bitch in the making as a two year old, and...well...the infant would eventually be bad I'm sure lol. My kids are much more well behaved and happy than half of the kids in my neighborhood their age belonging to adults in their thirties. I'm sure people wouldn't say anything about THEIR age...

What I'm trying to say is that I hope you let people's comments roll off of your back. Like I said from the start, age really doesn't have much to do with it. It is the maturity that counts...and Laken, you are definitely no child.

[Realist]

I am one of those extremely lucky (and very appreciative, I might add) that I have two lovers. One gentleman, who I met in a restaurant. We connected because it was crowded and there was no where else to sit. Then, there's the lady, who I met later, on this site. He is gay, she is bi, I am bi.

It's strange that we've met after my divorce, in March last year, and I've begun the most loving and rewarding relationships of my entire life, in my later years.

He and I immediately felt a cerebral connection and even though we were both very secretive and closeted, we opened up to each other right away. Almost simultaneously, we admitted our secrets about our sexuality. Both of us had terminated a LTR and thought we'd never find a decent lover again. The resulting relationship has been fantastic, with just the right amount of intellectual, emotional and sensual interaction.

The lady, who I met because of my telling her I liked something she wrote, has quickly become the love of my life. I can't fathom trying to live my life without her! I can't think of one thing that I don't like about her. She is bisexual, accepting, a delicious lover, and the least jealous girl I've ever known.

Both lovers are OK with the others in my life and I was recently astounded that the guy remarked that he'd like for all three of us to meet and maybe go further! My lady is open to the idea, too!

I've always felt that to have someone to love and have them love you back, you should set them be free, to come and go as they wish. My theory has been; that, with no restraints, a lover will be more apt to stay. That certainly has proven true in my case........... with both of these magnificent people!

[csrakate]

Back in high school I was dating a guy who had several friends from his high school who had gone on off to college. We would often go out as a group on weekends when they would come home...and one weekend a "new friend" happened to come home and was in need of a date. I quickly fixed him up with a friend of mine and during the night, this "new friend" flirted with me constantly. I found out later that he wasn't fond of the guy I was dating so I just assumed he did so just to piss off my date. Time passed and my old boyfriend and I were no longer dating....and when the "new friend" came home again, he asked me out instead of the girl I had set him up with. That was many years ago and this guy became the man that I eventually married and have been married to for over 28 years!

[alegrias]

We lived in the same dorm during our last year in college, but didn't meet until the end of February at a party. (It was a huge dorm.)

[MisuzHouston]

Never been in a relationship (went out with a guy for a couple months but that's it). I think... my first relationship will be the best thing ever. Assuming someone will one day fall as hard for me as I have for them. Ah. One can dream. lol.

I agree, awesome thread! And great stories as well. :)

[Vachenzo]

Im actually a bit surprised at the enthusiasm for this thread. everyone loves story time! Well, I just realised that I never mentioned how Jen (My GF) and I started dating. Well, her relationship with this douchebag in the grade ahead of us was going down the hole, and when I noticed that, I made a bit of an effort to sort of be there for her. I prayed that their relationship would crash. I wanted to e with Jen so bad! Well the November of the school year I met her, they broke up.

I made certain I was there, talking with her and spending time with her over instant messenger and such, helping her get over this guy. I made myself her friend. We started holding hands under the desk in english class. Did that for about a month, then she told me that I had to ask her out, and until then, she wouldnt hold my hand. HAH! It took me alot of nerve to work up the courage to ask her. I had never really een in a relationship up until that point, so I didnt have much faith in myself.

So one afternoon, we're in the caff after school, and I am helping her with math homework. she sits there and stares at me. Eventually I say: "aw screw it" (my to my nervousness) "Jen, willl you go out with me?" wanna know what she said? "I dunno... let me thiiiink about it..." with a cackle, she accepted! I understood that I may verywell have been a rebound, but hey, We have een together for tree years now!

[JadedMuse]

My story is not terribly uncommon - it was the conventional "met through friends" kind of deal. My best friend is dating his best friend and even though my best friend has been with her guy for almost 4 years now, B and I only met 2 years ago.

But this is where it diverges slightly and gets a little weird. My best friend actually knew B long before she met her boyfriend and we all ran in close social circles but somehow we never actually met up.

Even weirder - all of his friends were members of my cousin's fencing club and my cousin even met B on a few occasions. He actually tried setting me up with one of B's friends back when I was in high school

What really set the sparks flying was the day B and I met in the summer of '07 and we realized that we were ridiculously similar. We were out at the movies with my best friend and her boyfriend. There was something about Star Wars in the previews and I commented that Hayden Christiansen really ruined the Star Wars series for me. B thought for a moment and said, "Well he's only ever done one really good film." And at the same time we both said the same thing - Shattered Glass. We both broke out in the goofiest grins and laughed.

It's been love ever since. :)

[darkeyes]

Hav told the story b fore .. but she knocked on me door in ansa 2 an ad for a flatm8..me took 1 look ... grinned an wos nice... she moved in..me chased as fast as me lil legs cud carry me..she ran as fast as 'ers cud carry 'er..she got puffed out 1st... part from a few ups an downs on the way... we still togetha.. an thats the way me wonts 2 keep it...:bigrin:

[Lonewolf76]

Great Question by the way! I met my current sweetie on Outpersonals. I had been a member of the site for about a year. In its defense the site is primarily a hook up place for fast NSA sex - but it also has chat rooms etc where, like here - you can get to know some of the regulars. Well, for most of that year all (not most - all) of the e-mails and messages I received were less than a paragraph in length. Mostly - "Want to meet and play" type of messages. Then, one night about 2 months ago I got this huge,lengthy e-mail from a really cute guy 45 minutes away in Denver that told me everything that he found attractive about me in my profile. I was impressed - a man who wanted to get to know me instead of just meet and play - the hidden treasure! We corresponded and hit it off - we found we had led similar lives and had endured much of the same heartache. We met over coffee in Denver and now speand a great deal of time together. Now almost 3 months later we are closer and stronger than ever and of course are still discovering one another. I have a new job in Denver and will be relocating there soon and will be living very closely to where he lives. We're taking things slow, one step at a time, but its been many, many years since I was this happy. He's gay and knows that I am Bi and is totally open to me being me - never had THAT before! He is currently in Lagos doing volunteer work there for the next two weeks and I wasn't able to be with him on Valentines Day - so - totally unexpectedly - He called me from Africa just so he could hear my voice. I'm thinking he's a keeper!! Howwwllllllll!!! LW

[Cherokee_Mountaincat]

lol Does he know about us, and our little child Eeegore??? lol
Just teasing sweetie. Best of happiness to you both!! ;)
Silly Cat

[Lonewolf76]

lol Does he know about us, and our little child Eeegore??? lol
Just teasing sweetie. Best of happiness to you both!! ;)
Silly Cat

Thanks Cat! He does know about our love child and is fine with that. He's just happy he doesn't have to feed it. I tried to explain -it's self feeding - it eats solicitors and others that shouldn't be in Cats yard! LOL Hugs & Kisses

[jem_is_bi]

Great Question by the way! I met my current sweetie on Outpersonals. I had been a member of the site for about a year. In its defense the site is primarily a hook up place for fast NSA sex - but it also has chat rooms etc where, like here - you can get to know some of the regulars. Well, for most of that year all (not most - all) of the e-mails and messages I received were less than a paragraph in length. Mostly - "Want to meet and play" type of messages. Then, one night about 2 months ago I got this huge,lengthy e-mail from a really cute guy 45 minutes away in Denver that told me everything that he found attractive about me in my profile. I was impressed - a man who wanted to get to know me instead of just meet and play - the hidden treasure! We corresponded and hit it off - we found we had led similar lives and had endured much of the same heartache. We met over coffee in Denver and now speand a great deal of time together. Now almost 3 months later we are closer and stronger than ever and of course are still discovering one another. I have a new job in Denver and will be relocating there soon and will be living very closely to where he lives. We're taking things slow, one step at a time, but its been many, many years since I was this happy. He's gay and knows that I am Bi and is totally open to me being me - never had THAT before! He is currently in Lagos doing volunteer work there for the next two weeks and I wasn't able to be with him on Valentines Day - so - totally unexpectedly - He called me from Africa just so he could hear my voice. I'm thinking he's a keeper!! Howwwllllllll!!! LW

I found my partner of 3 yrs on Outpersonals Website as well. I went there looking only for sex. But, I have much more than just sex now.

[Falke]

Well, the short of it is...our love of being naked bought lady and I together.

A bout a year prior I went to a local nudist resort and had a good time. I mentioned going down there with a friend whom said they had a friend that wanted visit one. So, sent a invite through him for her to go. Initially I was told she wasn't quite ready to visit. With that I dropped it, but I would occasionally inquire about her.

After about 10 months he said that she wanted to chat with me. So, I added her and we chatted online till about 5am that morning. A week later she came down for the day and we had a blast. Unfortunately, she was only in town for that day, but she came back the next weekend. We hit the resort and generally loafed around. Of course, we had to break in my roomie's couch... :bigrin:

Our wedding was as unusual as we are, neither of us proposed we just came to a non-spoken agreement that we would get married. Also, we had two weddings, one for the family, then the next weekend we had a wedding amongst some friends in 1940's garb. All I have to say is, so far so good! :)

[Vachenzo]

Wow, there have been some pretty differing stories. I love hearing from everyone and seeing how our personal lives might contrast in comparison to one another. Lone wolf, I thought your story was really cute and sweet, and Zwitter, the 1940's wedding sounds like it was AMAZING! I'm pretty sure my gf would cream herself over something like that :D

[eyelinerprincess]

After a performance of a play, one of the co-stars introduced us, we made out that night and then he disappeared into the night. The next day we bumped into each other the next day and started texting each other. Eventually had our first date two months later. He knew I was bi from the getgo (one of his friends told him), and he's great with it.

[Cherokee_Mountaincat]

lol The way I met my former signifigant other sounds too much like a bad porno...lol
I met him at a play party almost 5 years ago. It was my third time there and I barely knew anyone yet. I had my current lover meet me there and we were walking around and I was giving him the tour. I lost track of him for a moment and as I was walking past one of the rooms he grabbed my bathroob and Yanked me in the bedroom. One the bed was a naked lady and an man that I had been looking at earlier. She grinned at me and said "Oh I know you! You're Minx and you're new right?"
I said yes and she told me that my BF had expressed an interest in seeing me playing with a woman. Ok lets talk adult: What he wanted to see was me eating a pussy. I stammered and told her it had been 30 years since I had interacted with another woman and that I was sure to be pretty clumsy and rusty. She grinned and said "Naw, just like riding a bicycle"
She had the prettiest shaved pussy I had ever seen, so I just proceeded to pleasure her the best I could. I am very orally adapt at sucking a sweet hard cock, and get so into that I dont see anything else.

I did look up to my right at the guy laying there and he had a big grin on his face, not to mention a big 'Ol hard on from listening to her moaning and groaning..lol A couple minutes later I looked over to my then BF only to discover that there were three other men standing there with big grins of approval! This was a Huge surprise to me and I stammered to my Bear, "Uhmm, here! you take over for a bit" I was a bit daunted by strangers watching me eating a pussy. (Thankfully I got over that nervousness..LOL)

I slid over to Jeff (The one who became my SO) and asked if I could pleasure him, as I was better with a hard cock. I told The lady(Angie) that I was sorry for being so out of practise and she said "You have nothing to apologise for, Girlfriend!"
And to Jeff she said, "Oh fuck yeah, go for it. Girl eats like shes eating her way IN!

I began to work on Jeff and I got him off too. He too said I could suck the chrome off of a bumper..*Blushes deeply*

Bear said he'd like to visit the other parts of the Play Palace. I kissed Jeff, thanked him and Angie for letting me pleasure them and headed out. A bit later I invited Jeff to come play, but he had to take his other friend back to Seattle.
He gave me his email address and we began talking and getting to know each other. When my then roomie lost the lease on her town house I had nowhere to go, and Jeff invited me to move in with him. We were together for 4 years until last June. :}
We are still the best of friends and I love the man dearly, I'm just not sure if its love-love like it was before.
Ah well, time will tell..lol:tongue:
Cat

[Mrs.F]

I was inbetween my Jr. and Sr. years of highschool..summer time. I was at a guy friends house who was about 4-5 yrs. older than us girls. His phone rang and all I heard was "come on over". Soon this guy appeared that was a big, muscular, & nice looking. He seemed very shy. I had NO clue how to play pool and he offered to teach me...(yeah, that never happened because I was sooo not paying attention to learning :rolleyes:) By the end of the night I learned that his mom was a teacher that I had, had as a sub teacher and never liked and had become a full time teacher inwhich my sister had in 3rd grade. I also knew his youngest sister who had been 2 grades ahead of me. Seemed like such a small world. We decided to set up a double date with our other friends and after that it just took off and we were together all the time. He was my bf all through my Sr. year of highschool. I went on to a local 4 yr. college and he worked odd jobs and then he went back to college and ended up moving 3 hrs. from home to work and we were together through all that. He soon found a job back here at home and we married 13 1/2 yrs. ago. After 10 yrs. of marriage and one child I found out he was bi. Our marriage has changed in many ways...good and bad but either way, I still love him and we are still together. :)

[still_shy]

Well, I was 24, just divorced and dating my best friend (big mistake). We worked together at the local Goodwill, I was managing the store and he drove a semi for them. The very first time I saw him, I looked at my friend standing next to me and said "That guy is HOT, who is he?" She told me he worked for us and was seeing someone. For about 6 months we danced around each other, flirting and getting to know each other. Then one day, he came to work and told me he broke up with his girlfriend and within days, I was single. It took us three more months to go out on a date (hence the shy in my name) but when we did it was magic. We've been together ever since, and have been married for two years. He brings beauty and happiness to my life.

[diB4u]

I've never really been in a relationship of any substance, or find a person that could accept me for who I am.

Yet when I do find someone that I think just might measure up, disapointment sets in...

I'd just like to be accepted and loved for who i am regardless...

Sometimes thats too much to ask.

But maybe 2 men who are friends first then lovers then who knows...