Where did you meet your Significant Other

[mjkacmom]

Middle school, but just friends. Met up after college at a bar. So we’ve known each other 40 years, been together 30 years, married almost 25 years.

 

[bdcp]

We met in a college carpool. We were both commuters and met the night before the first day of classes at a carpool meeting. He was starting his Sr year and I was starting my Freshman year. We started dating two months later and got married 2 years and 9 months after that. That was 38 years ago. My sister met her husband in the same carpool.

I would say most people did meet their SO doing everyday things going by the responses. Our youngest son met his wife when he had a NYE party and their mutual friends brought her. Oldest son met his GF on a dating site.

 

[DVC-Don]

I was a police officer on a walking beat. Sergeant said to check in on the pizza shop on my beat several times a shift as they were having trouble with youths hanging out there and paying customers staying away. My now wife was the night manager. Been married 39 years and counting.

 

[slpeters]

We met in a bar. I was there to grab a drink before going out dancing with an (already) ex. We never made it. I ditched him to leave with my now husband. When I called the ex to apologize the next day he responded "are you kidding? I was there. I saw him." That's probably why we're still friend a couple decades later. My husband and I have been together for 21 years at this point.

 

[robinb]

I met my husband in college.

 

[mumto3girls]

Worked at the same part time job in high school (attended different schools). Dated 10 years before we got married. Married 23 years, together 33.

 

[Wendy31]

We met in high school in 9th grade. The private school he had previously attended closed, & he transferred to the private school I was attending. We always say had his private school not run out of funding there's no telling what would have happened!

The principal of my school decided to have a "Back-to-School" party right before school started since we were getting a lot of new students, & he wanted to welcome them. He themed the party "50s Night," so DH & I actually met the week before our 9th grade year started at a "Back-to-School" 50s party. I was wearing a poodle skirt (which I still have), & he was wearing a black leather jacket. We were split up into teams for a scavenger hunt, & he & I ended up on the same team.

We were friends in high school but only really dated twice; however, he was my escort for homecoming in 10th-12th grades. While in high school, I actually dated his best friend, & he dated my best friend. We just never clicked together at the right time. In 10th grade, he liked me, but I didn't like him. In 11th grade, I liked him, but he liked my best friend. And we just kinda kept going back & forth.

We graduated from high school & I thought that was it. However, during our freshman year in college, we both came back to our high school for alumni night during homecoming. A bunch of us went to Pizza Hut afterwards, & he & I ended up talking in the parking lot until well past closing time.

He asked me out the following week, & I went thinking only, "Free meal, free movie!" However, later that night after I returned home, my mom (who had waited up for me) asked, "How was it?" & I replied, "I think I'm going to marry him."

That was February 1992. We were married in April 1995.

And, in April 2020, we'll have been married for 25 years, but we've known each other for 32 years.

 

[indimom]

We knew each other growing up. Lived about four miles apart, hung out with friends once in awhile, "went together" for a couple weeks in Junior high.
Our best friends were dating for several years. When he would come home on leave, he'd become a third wheel. At some point my friend dared him to call me. When I got the call, I thought it was going to be the four of us hanging out. They picked me up. Then our friends headed their own way and I realized I was on a date. Lol
Dated three years. Married 24 years.

 

[cedricandsophie]

In a bar. We have been together 44 years and married 35.

 

[disneychrista]

Seems like most of you meet your SO at a younger age. Anyone meet their SO in their late 40’s?

 

[Wendy31]

Seems like most of you meet your SO at a younger age. Anyone meet their SO in their late 40’s?

I have a close friend who went through a messy, awful divorce in her early thirties. She had 2 kids w/ her 1st husband.

She met her current husband, who is a wonderful man, at church about 6-7 years ago. She's in her early forties now, & they just got married last month.

I also know someone who just got married for the 1st time in her early 40s. She is a teacher-missionary in Africa & met her husband there. They got married last year.

I have another acquaintance who is in her late 40s w/ 3 children. Her 1st husband left her. She got re-married just a few years ago, but I don't know how she met him.

I know 3 other women who got re-married in their late thirties & mid-late forties. The 1st was a widow who lost her husband to an awful, tragic accident. The other 2 went through horrible divorces. But, w/ all 3, their current husbands are men whom they had known previously & reconnected w/ in different ways after losing/divorcing their 1st husbands.

 

[RedAngie]

Seems like most of you meet your SO at a younger age. Anyone meet their SO in their late 40’s?

I met husband when I was 46. (Was previously married for 19 years).

 

[disneychrista]

I met husband when I was 46. (Was previously married for 19 years).

So it’s not completely hopeless. That’s good. Not that I’m doing anything to change my single status. Just nice to know if I choose to there’s hope.

 

[dish rag]

Seems like most of you meet your SO at a younger age. Anyone meet their SO in their late 40’s?

Yes

 

[bobbymcco]

I met my wife at a Star Trek fan club, when I moved to Denver, We both liked the same things that is why it's worked for 20 years!

 

[Summer2018]

My husband was my nephew’s hockey coach. My nephew told his coach about me. I went to one of his hockey games, and my brother and sister-in-law introduced us.

We were engaged 4 weeks later. We were married 8 months later. We just celebrated our 26th anniversary in July.

 

[dish rag]

First kiss was on top of the Empire State Building.

 

[DisneyHardin]

We met online on eHarmony. We've been married 11.5 years.

 

[disneychrista]

Yes

Yes you meet young? Or yes you met in your late 40’s?

 

[dish rag]

Yes you meet young? Or yes you met in your late 40’s?

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