Significant Others......

[Galaxy]

How did you guys and gals meet your significant other (wife, finance, ect.), and when did you know he/she was it?

[PilotMan]

Are you asking us because you are asking yourself (if she might be the one)?

OR

Is it just a topic starter, like a get to know you mixer game?

If it's the former, we need backround info.

[Galaxy]

No...I am single and happy. Of course, I'm 21, so I'm not quite ready for that part of that life (though in a few years, that will prolly change). I just though of it as topic starter.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Before I met my wife, I took a picture of her while she was shopping. After I put the picture on the Internet (on my "pictures of women shopping" page), she decided that she had to meet me. After I got acquainted with the business end of some kung fu, she figured that I was decent enough to marry.

I'm probably lying.

[Eaglesfan27]

Before I met my wife, I took a picture of her while she was shopping. After I put the picture on the Internet (on my "pictures of women shopping" page), she decided that he had to meet me. After I got acquainted with the business end of some kung fu, she figured that I was decent enough to marry.

I'm probably lying.
Such a romantic story.

[Cringer]

met online

still thinking it over if she is the one. ;)

hi Loren. :D

[PilotMan]

Well, I guess I bit at this one.

I met my wife while we were working at the same restaurant. We knew each other for a year before anything happened between us. The company that I worked for was pretty strict of fraternization, and as a manager I could get into a world of trouble.

The short of the long is that alcohol was involved and one thing led to another and we both thought that was going to be it. It wasn't. The funny thing is that she got the phone number of a customer that was interested in me the same day that we hooked up. That only lasted for a few dates though. Good thing too, it could have been awkward. She started looking for a job, and we tried to be subtle. I told my boss, after she had found a job, and was turning her notice in. The rest of crew put all the pieces together the same day too. Lucky for me I beat them to the punch. My boss took it alright, and it all worked out ok.

While we were dating a friend told me that I needed to seriously consider her. He was much wiser than I at the time. He pointed out that she complemented me very well, and put up with me in a way that many, many other women would never. On top of that she is very attractive. I kept thinking about what he said, but it was still almost 8 months later before I asked her. I didn't want to rush, and she was tired of waiting. I still don't know what I was waiting for. I could see us spending the rest of our lives together, always being there for each other and imagining sharing things, and growing old together. Once I realized what I was seeing and thinking the choice was simple.

This year is our 5th anniversary. We have 3 boys. We are soul mates and are commited to the same vision of our lives as we were the day that we got married.

[Cringer]

This year is our 5th anniversary. We have 3 boys. We are soul mates and are commited to the same vision of our lives as we were the day that we got married.

Keeping her barefoot and pregnant?
:D

[VPI97]

Met her in 7th grade :)

Knew she was the one when we first kissed. We were engaged six weeks later.

[Galaxy]

Before I met my wife, I took a picture of her while she was shopping. After I put the picture on the Internet (on my "pictures of women shopping" page), she decided that he had to meet me. After I got acquainted with the business end of some kung fu, she figured that I was decent enough to marry.

I'm probably lying.

Pixs please. :D

[PilotMan]

Keeping her barefoot and pregnant?
:D
Well to be perfectly honest. She had one before we met, but I adopted him, before the others came along. He is as much mine as the other two.

We are planning for a 4th starting the end of next year.

Last one. Promise.:D

[Cringer]

she decided that he had to meet me.

Please fill us in on the 'missing part' of this story. I think there may be something interesting here.
:D

[Pumpy Tudors]

Please fill us in on the 'missing part' of this story. I think there may be something interesting here.
:D
This is what I get for typing on very little sleep. Editing my earlier post now. :D

[korme]

I think I was in love once.

She was Brazilian, or Chinese, or something weird. I met her in the bathroom of a K-Mart and we made out for hours. Then we parted ways, never to see each other again.

[Vince]

I think I was in love once.

She was Brazilian, or Chinese, or something weird. I met her in the bathroom of a K-Mart and we made out for hours. Then we parted ways, never to see each other again.
Must...resist...urge...to...respond...

[vex]

Must...resist...urge...to...respond...
still...resisting...

[Psmith]

TredWel and I met in high school. I think I knew he was the one within a year or two -- but we had to wait until we finished college to get married, which felt like an eternity and then some at the time.

[CamEdwards]

The Mrs. and I also met online, almost 9 years ago. We've been married for 8 years now. 5 kids (two from her previous marriage) and that's enough.

[oliegirl]

Radii and I met online, I was actually going on to delete my profile - I was tired of the dating thing and was going to take a break...he had just messaged me, so I responded and gave him an email address where we could talk. We met for a date and hit it off, dated for about 6 months, then I ended it. There was something missing but I couldn't figure out what it was...about 3 months later I got an email from him asking about some CD's I'd borrowed...that led to some lengthy emails talking stuff out and after about a week we met for lunch and I think we both knew right away that whatever had been missing before wasn't missing anymore. We pretty much moved in together a couple days later and were engaged within a month of that email. Married a year later and 10 months later - here we are :)

[JAG]

Met at a bus stop at 12:30am. :D Never saw her before...she came up to me and asked when the next bus came. We kept chatting and I got her digits. We set up a date, and then another, and then another, and...now we've been married for 1.5 yrs (getting married on the 4 yr anniversary of when we met at the bus stop). Hard to answer the second part of your Q.

[gottimd]

Met my wife in college. Both of us were not doing well academically and needed to take a summer course, which was Appreciation of Music. I sat in the row ahead of her in our class at the University of Delaware. I was so bored in the class she saw me drawing on my notebook and started a conversation with me. From that day on, we started hanging out and going to bars/parties. She was the greatest woman I had ever met, great personality and the most beautiful, the whole package. She understood my sarcasm and dished it right back at me. She has the same exact odd sense of humor as I do as well. And she loved football, which made it even better. We dated for 7 years (long distance for 3) and just got married about a month ago.

[jamesUMD]

I sat in the row ahead of her in our class at the University of Delaware. Uummmmmm, Grotto's Pizza. I should have gone to school there.

I met my wife in college (University of MD). She had a boyfriend for the first year and a half that I knew her, and I really couldn't stand her. She disagreed with just about everything I said, which with having the same major, was many classes. One day she came in and said that she broke up with her boyfriend and I asked her what she was doing that evening, and we haven't looked back. She still has not seen the light and disagrees with just about everything I say lol.

[gottimd]

Uummmmmm, Grotto's Pizza. I should have gone to school there.
Fantastic place on Main St. to watch Sunday football and get hammered. Not sure what is new on Main Street as I havent been there since 2000.

Too many damn Eagles and Giants fans though was the only drawback.

[Qwikshot]

I think I was in love once.

She was Brazilian, or Chinese, or something weird. I met her in the bathroom of a K-Mart and we made out for hours. Then we parted ways, never to see each other again.

Not a pygmy?

[BYU 14]

Met her in 7th grade :)

Knew she was the one when we first kissed. We were engaged six weeks later.

Sweet, you Teachers get all the action!!

[Wolfpack]

Met online. Well, sort of. Kinda. It was in a computer lab at NC State, first day of my junior year of college. She was sitting at a station diagonally from me with her friend straight across, so I was looking at them directly. I noticed them laughing and discussing and made a hunch that she was on IRC, so I got on as well and started talking to her. The whole time she didn't notice that I was only five feet away. I eventually had to go to class, so I logged off and walked over to them. I asked the both of them out (I was more interested in her, but didn't want to leave her friend out of things), which they agreed to. Her friend does catch the signal however, and bails out, leaving us to go out alone. Other than a handful of days here and there, we haven't been apart since.

I can't say there was a point where she was "the one". It was more that we spent so much time together that it became difficult to see life any other way. I'm fond of saying that the most anti-climatic moment in our relationship was when I asked her to marry me. :)

[Draft Dodger]

I'm surprised by the number of people who met online...

once upon a time, I worked at a supermarket with the future Mrs DD as well as TCY utilitarian Fido. Christine and I liked each other, but both had existing SOs from hell, and when she transferred to another store about an hour away I figured that was that. but it wasn't.

a couple months later, Fido also transferred to that same store, and when it came time for our lame store Christmas party, I invited Fido and his wife and sort of off-handedly suggested he bring Christine as well. Really was a rather innocent request (I was not aware she, like me, was now single), but we ended up hitting it off really well (despite the fact that I was EXTREMELY intoxicated when I arrived...and it went downhill from there). That almost was the end of it though, because through a series of misunderstandings, she thought I had gone home with another girl (I had, but it was just a platonic thing).

a couple days later, I interofficed her a picture of the 2 of us at the party with some clever caption on the back, and she called up and we made plans to go out that weekend with the Fidos and another couple (I had to break plans with the platonic friend from the previous paragraph, essentially guaranteeing that one would stay platonic). After the dinner, we all ended up at Fido's apartment, and eventually Christine and I ended up on the couch together. At some point, she commented that I had big arms, to which I responded with the classic "I'm big all over"...and the rest pretty much was history. Woke up after a rather uncomfortable night sleeping half on the couch half on the floor to discover that the Fido's had a guest bedroom.

[MJ4H]

I met my wife in high school. I was a senior and she was a sophmore. We dated for 7 years before we got married. By then there was pretty much no doubt she was the one, but I really would've never even bothered if I didn't think that from the beginning. That's just the kind of person I am.

[Galaril]

I met my wife in South Korea(she's korean) substitute teaching for a buddy in alocal school there. She was a teacher at the school and pretty much detested my smug arrogant self until she fell for me.;)

[MacroGuru]

Met my wife, my senior year in high school, we were at the local club dancing. I was pretty weak when it came to women, and she was straight up.

I walked up to my friend as she was talking to him, and I was awestruck. As she walked away, I turned to my buddy and said "Damn, I would love some of that" she overheard me, and turned around and was "What did you say"

I sat there, stumbling over my words when my friend said...."He said he wants you" she turned and looked me straight in the eyes and said "Tell him if he wants me, he can have me"

We hung out all night that night at the club, I got her digits, tried to call her all weekend, but she was out.

We hooked up that tuesday night after, dated for about 3 years, and then tied the knot.

We have been married for 9 years now, have 2 beautiful kids, and we have one on the way (I think he is due around the time Arlie and Farrah are, the 26th).

[rkmsuf]

Chloroform, rag and the rest is history.

[Raiders Army]

I think I was in love once.

She was Brazilian, or Chinese, or something weird. I met her in the bathroom of a K-Mart and we made out for hours. Then we parted ways, never to see each other again.
What the hell is that from?

[gottimd]

What the hell is that from?
Brian Fontana, Anchorman?

[Raiders Army]

Gotcha....thanks. That was driving me crazy.

[gottimd]

and just in case you you wondering where rkmsufs statement came from as well, that is from any Date Rape trial court transcript.

[cuervo72]

Sweet, you Teachers get all the action!!

LOL

[rkmsuf]

and just in case you you wondering where rkmsufs statement came from as well, that is from any Date Rape trial court transcript.

nobody can argue the effectiveness

[Cringer]

Woke up after a rather uncomfortable night sleeping half on the couch half on the floor to discover that the Fido's had a guest bedroom.

I thought this was going to end with you waking up in Fido's arms. I guess not all stories have happy ending though. :p

[Toddiec]

I met Mrs. Toddiec the night before I graduated college. We met, started dating, were married two years later and just celebrated the six year anniversary. I met the perfect girl on quite possibly the last night I could have because I left campus the next day and have returned only a couple of times. You, my friends, are reading the typed words of one lucky, lucky man!

[sabotai]

No...I am single and happy.
My advise: Stay that way.

[JeeberD]

I met the fiancee' when the both of us were working at good old Wendy's...I was 22 and she was 17. I knew she had a crush on me, but I kind of kept her on the back burner while I messed around with a couple of other girls. She actually asked me out first...she came by work one day and asked if I wanted to grab lunch with her, but I had gone to a bufett with my best friend earlier and was completely stuffed, so I told her that I would have liked to but wasn't hungry. Luckily, she didn't hold it against me and when I asked her out a week later she said yes.

I knew we had something pretty special fairly early on. Our second date was at an Abilene Prairie Dogs baseball game, and as y'all know, baseball games are rather long and drawn out. Well, there were a number of pauses in the conversation, but they weren't uncomfortable...something I wasn't used to with other girls. It was great feeling like we didn't have to find something to talk about every second that we were together...we could just be in each other's company and enjoy the time together.

[Samdari]

I dumped a pitcher of beer in her lap and then asked if I could lick the beer off her thigh.

[SFL Cat]

I dumped a pitcher of beer in her lap and then asked if I could lick the beer off her thigh.

Bastard! You stole that move from me.

[Blackadar]

I met Mrs. Blackadar my first day of classes, Freshman Year in College. It was me and 6 girls in the room. Good odds, I'd say.

It was love at first sight for me. We dated for 3 years, we were engaged for 1 more and then married. This Fall will be our 13th Anniversary and we've been together for 17 years.

[SFL Cat]

Met her my freshman year in college. She was a year ahead of me and we dated through college. We broke up several times while dating (at least once a year) -- and the last she told me she wanted to break things off, I told her I was finished with her. We were both physically sick for the next two days from heartbreak. We got back together on the third day and got married six months later. This December 17 will be 22 years of marriage.

[Samdari]

Met her my freshman year in college. She was a year ahead of me and we dated through college. We broke up several times while dating (at least once a year) -- and the last she told me she wanted to break things off, I told her I was finished with her. We were both physically sick for the next two days from heartbreak. We got back together on the third day and got married six months later. This December 17 will be 22 years of marriage.

Do you still break up once a year, for old times' sake?

[Galaxy]

I met the fiancee' when the both of us were working at good old Wendy's...I was 22 and she was 17. I knew she had a crush on me, but I kind of kept her on the back burner while I messed around with a couple of other girls. She actually asked me out first...she came by work one day and asked if I wanted to grab lunch with her, but I had gone to a bufett with my best friend earlier and was completely stuffed, so I told her that I would have liked to but wasn't hungry. Luckily, she didn't hold it against me and when I asked her out a week later she said yes.

I knew we had something pretty special fairly early on. Our second date was at an Abilene Prairie Dogs baseball game, and as y'all know, baseball games are rather long and drawn out. Well, there were a number of pauses in the conversation, but they weren't uncomfortable...something I wasn't used to with other girls. It was great feeling like we didn't have to find something to talk about every second that we were together...we could just be in each other's company and enjoy the time together.

No Olive Garden? Jeez.

[Galaxy]

My advise: Stay that way.


Marriage that bad, eh? :D

[SelzShoes]

She came over to watch the Simpsons with a mutual acquaintance. We started hanging out; I bought her a Cornelius ‘Planet of the Apes’ doll for her birthday when all her b-friend got her was a crappy card. Wrote her a poem and we’ve been together ever since. Just had a good feeling about her.

[Wolfpack]

I bought her a Cornelius ‘Planet of the Apes’ doll for her birthday when all her b-friend got her was a crappy card.

When roses just won't do. :)

[rkmsuf]

She came over to watch the Simpsons with a mutual acquaintance.

I don't know why this sounds so odd to me. I can't imagine going over a friends house to watch the Simpsons I guess. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[henry296]

We were introduced at a block party by a mutual friend. The mutual fried was my neighbor and her co-worker. We hung out all night even after the party broke up. Spent much of that fall together and enjoyed watching the 2003 ALCS (Aaron bleeping Boone). Got engaged in November of 2004 and are getting married this October.

[ColtCrazy]

Hmm, let's see. Not to sound bad, but I met my wife when she was in HS and I was a sub. No ideas!!! :) At the time, I obviously thought she was young and kind of dorky, she flirted shamelessly (she'll even admit that) Then we met up a few years later, she wasn't so young and dorky anymore. I hardly even recognized her. Still, we dated for awhile and eventually got married. We currently have one son, and are trying for another (daughter hopefully)

[SelzShoes]

I don't know why this sounds so odd to me. I can't imagine going over a friends house to watch the Simpsons I guess. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Well, the mutual accquantance was a mooch--and I always had something good to eat/drink/smoke/whatever

[RendeR]

I guess we won't be hearing from Duckman in this thread eh?


but he's not bitter....




As for myself and Telle, we met on a Ew-Too style talker/chatroom in 1995, talked and became friends and two years later she told me she loved me, to which I utterly freaked out and she had to drag me kicking and screaming into the relationship (I'm 10 years older than she is) I visited her in college for awhile and then got a job in the city nearby and we moved in together a couple years later. We've lived together ever since and finally married in 2003. One lovely Rendering has come into the world and we hope to add to that total soon!

[gottimd]

I guess we won't be hearing from Duckman in this thread eh?

Well someone could start an insignificant others thread?

[RendeR]

Well someone could start an insignificant others thread?


Touche'!

[Loren]

met online

still thinking it over if she is the one. ;)

hi Loren. :D

you bastard, you KNEW i wouldnt read this till you left for work :mad:
ahem..we met online,summer of 94' right before senior yr, he im'd me and i knew(butterflies and everything) the second he asked my asl & measurements and gave me his description and how much he benched that he was the one..yepp knew it from the very depth of my soul..after 2 yrs of a whole lotta letters and cyber&phone sex, and some ignoring cuz apparently SOMEONE wasnt SO sure THEN, freakn guys :rolleyes:..i finally went to meet him and made all his dreams come true:)

[Galaxy]

you bastard, you KNEW i wouldnt read this till you left for work :mad:
ahem..we met online,summer of 94' right before senior yr, he im'd me and i knew(butterflies and everything) the second he asked my asl & measurements and gave me his description and how much he benched that he was the one..yepp knew it from the very depth of my soul..after 2 yrs of a whole lotta letters and cyber&phone sex, and some ignoring cuz apparently SOMEONE wasnt SO sure THEN, freakn guys :rolleyes:..i finally went to meet him and made all his dreams come true:)

Talk about romantic. :D