How'd you meet your SO?

[SweetErika]

Re: Re: College is the place!

For every guy out there that wants a quick fuck, there are a dozen hiding in the corner too shy to tell you that they think you're the most beautiful woman on the planet.

It always amazes me how so many women seem to gravitate to the "Bad Boy" image and end up going through relationship after relationship, opening lamenting in forums like this one about the lack of "Good Guys", when we're all around you.

Open your eyes ladies, the world is full of good men, the only problem with them is they need a little push to see for themselves how good they are.

Nobody's saying anything about the lack of good guys (not me at least)! My point is that I was attracted to the wrong type, found the right type, and am very happy I married a genuinely good guy.

For women with self-esteem issues, it's easy to be attracted to and taken advantage of by the bad guys who make us think all men are jerks. I just hope every woman realizes this and seeks out the gems because I agree that if women start looking for men who treat them well, they'll find there are a lot of them out there!

 

[ny11011]

Met mine at school, waited a whole 10yrs before we got married. Nothing like being sure.

 

[blondie74]

I met my husband at work. I could see him every day getting on the elevator from my desk. Drove me absolutely crazy for about 2 weeks. I kept asking everyone if they knew him. Little did I know that he had spotted me too and was trying to get info on me. I told all of my friends about him, long before I ever met him.

I looked up from my desk one day and there he was standing there with the most absolutely, sexiest smile I'd ever seen in my life. Before I knew it, he was asking me out. We went out for the first time a couple of days later, and have been inseperable ever since.

I'm a definate believer in love at first site.

 

[ffemtp]

Mmmm I met mine on the "LIT". She lives about 20 miles away and we are have a great time together. MMMM who know where it will lead, she already met my mother.

 

[Guest]

drunken night hookup

 

[fgarvb1]

OK, First let me say that I'm NOT lying about this.

And second...oh, shut up!


I met my current wife in a mental ward of a hospital.

It was a aftercare meeting and she walks up to me and asks me to be her sponsor.

I refused. (I had enough problems keeping myself lined out.)

We repeatedly ran across each other at other meetings and places.

I alway was a sucker for pretty redheads with big tits.

 

[kiwis29]

I was his bartender. He tipped well.

Same here. He chased for 3 months and the rest is history. 4 1/2 years later...Love the man with all my heart. Couldn't have found a more perfect match for me. He is adopting my two girls in June and we have a son together...

 

[PrincessHoney]

CALLING ALL BRITS...

this story may make more sense to you!

i've recently met my new man... and i did it before a Manchester United game in a pub (soccer to US) now these tickets are REALLY hard to get in this country... i happened to get a couple so off me and my sister went... we went into this pub where this lovely looking irish guy asked for a light... he stayed around asked for my number and the rest is history!

so now i'm trying to maintain a relationship with someone from over the sea (i'm english he's from belfast) but all is going really well.. hes sweet and kind and spoils me rotten!

so these things happen in the strangest places!

 

[maleorfemale]

Meet my wife on a blind date,a friend of my brothers brought
her to our house but he was not home.So she ask me to go out with her.

I liked her from the first time I saw her,when I called my brothers friend to see if I could get her friends number-she said-she thought I was wierd or maybe gay,because I did not try to get in
her pants or even kiss her on the first date.So she did not want
to see me again.
I just wasn't raised that way.

That weekend I went to a birthday party at the shore,and she was there-we spent the whole weekend in bed and have been
together for 24 years now-she is still my best friend!

I don't think either of us was looking for a mate it just kind
of happened-we were just 2 people looking for some fun.

 

[DirkPryde]

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[ultimate_cin]

I met my boyfriend at work....I work in the Customer Service dept and he works in the IT dept....he used to come down to our floor to take care of computer issues and would always stop by my desk to tease me....my co-workers all said that he had a crush on me but I kept telling them that we were just friends. I had a thing for this guy who really put me through the wringer....anyway, I finally get go of Wringer!Guy and asked Steve if he wanted to go out with me one night to see my friends in a classic rock band play. He said yes....that was last July and we've been dating ever since.

Funny thing is, he recently told me that he had a thing for me for two years and was always too shy to ask me out....but he told a co-worker of ours that he was going to date me someday....

 

[SpankyMcCranky]

We were friends in year 12. I had another boyfriend for most of the year, but a few weeks after we broke up, my current boyfriend and I got together. It was nice. I went to see his band play, and things went from there. Now we've been together for 15 months and going strong

 

[luv2Byours]

i was 19 when i met my so the first day of college only a week after i moved into the city. the following monday, a bunch of the students f/ our english class hung out together for the day. we just hit it off right away and have been together ever since. two and a half months later, we got married and six years later we're still together with two beautiful kids.

 

[devoted lilgirl]

I met my SO on "lavalife" (please don't anyone laugh, but it is true) a little over two years ago. We hit it off right away on topics I would have NEVER gone into face to face with someone I just "met". We go together for mexican food just a few days later on the premise we would just be casual lovers and in a couple days he was saying to me, "I need to be the only one in your life." Wonderful words, as my heart was his the first night we met face to face, he is an amazing man...

 

[chinalady]

how I met my sweetheart

I wasn't really looking for love...but he found me! Seriously. When I met my honey, I was working over 40 hours a week. So I was a busy person, and just didn't have the time to go out or date. But then he came to my workplace visiting a fellow co-worker of mine and saw me. I honestly wasn't interested in him. He later told me that he thought I was so pretty that he wanted to ask me out. He did though...three weeks later. And three days after our first date, I was in love. We're still going strong, and plan to marry soon.
You're still young. Eventually, there will be someone special who will enter your life...and it will happen when you least expect it. Good luck to you and school.

 

[cfuhrer]

I'm going to hijack this thread slightly and ask those of us that met our SO's online a simple question.....

Do you feel that your relationship is stronger than it might be had you met offline?

I tend to think it is for one very important reason. We learned to communicate with our SO's long before we got to play body to body.

My wife and I spent months talking online before meeting for the first time. By the time we did meet, it was like meeting an old lover that I hadn't seen in a while. Instead of meeting a stranger that I knew a lot about.

In a regular relationship, sex tends to overpower the communications process. Whereas in a relationship that begins online, communications becomes key from the onset.

I think my relationship with my man is stronger for having met online. I must say that if I had seen him walking down the street I doubt I would have given him a second look but after chatting for eight weeks or so on-line I knew meeting him was the right thing to do. Now eight months later I cannot imagine my life without him. In fact, having talked for that long without being face to face I was comfortable enough with him to sleep with him the night I met him. And I am beginning think he might be the only man I ever sleep with.

 

[Snowman5933]

We met at work. She was my supervisor at the time. That was 13 years ago and we've been married for 11 years. I love her very much.

 

[miss_kate]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but:

Is their really such thing as a SO?
Perhaps they are all SRN's (significant-right-now's)

Ahhh... cynicism

 

[3113]

For every guy out there that wants a quick fuck, there are a dozen hiding in the corner too shy to tell you that they think you're the most beautiful woman on the planet.

It always amazes me how so many women seem to gravitate to the "Bad Boy" image and end up going through relationship after relationship, opening lamenting in forums like this one about the lack of "Good Guys", when we're all around you.

And just to take the other side, I'm NOT amazed that guys seem to gravitate to the "sexy girl" that every other guy wants and who can have her pick--and is often the type who will go through boyfriends like tissue paper and is demanding and bitchy and untrustworthy.

Not amazed at all, sorry to say. Guys will pine away over such girls.

WAKE UP guys. For every busty prom queen that you're lusting after there are a dozen sweet, great gals hiding in the corner, too shy to tell you they think you're the most handsome man on the planet...and willing to not only fuck you but cook you breakfast.

 

[BTK51]

Introduced By Mutual Friends

I met my wife while in HS. Mutual friends (couple) introduced us. I was smitten from the start. I equate it to the novel (and movie - but the book describes it in more detail) The Godfather, when Michael Corleone meets Appolonia. His bodyguards say that he was “hit with a thunderbolt”.

One or both of us were always seeing another person, then went off to college. I ran into her when my school played hers in basketball. I decided not to let the opportunity slip away. I asked her out & she said yes (we were both dating others at the time) The rest, as they say, is history. That was about 37 years ago.

 

[lemmesee]

In a church, if you can believe that , go figger....!

 

[Halo_n_horns]

I was giving some dance lessons and she ran me over on the dance floor. She got lots of lessons that night.

 

[CorsetLvr]

I met my hubby at a nudist camp. I was there as a guest with my gf and her family.

 

[Ast87]

I've always thought that the moment you stop looking for a boyfriend is the moment that you find the one you need. And that was true with me.

I knew this guy over MSN and a few forums and we were friendly to each other. We occasionally chatted and such, and I did have a little crush on him, but dismissed it, since I'm in Australia and he from Los Angeles. Anyways, March last year he mentions to me that hes coming to Australia too see my friend Emma on holiday, and I jumped at the chance to meet up with him while he was in Melbourne. Emma and I planned to show him around and stuff, and just hang out. So, he flew over in July, and I met him for the first time. Right away I liked him. He was funny, friendly, polite...he had that something I couldn't put my finger on. I actually had a boyfriend at the time (we had been dating for a few weeks) but I couldn't help flirting like mad with Alex that whole weekend we were all together. All I could think of was kissing him. At the end of the weekend, I went back home and he flew up to Queenslad for a week. We called each other and stuff, and I couldn't wait for him to fly back to Melbourne before he flew home. That last night, the three of us went out to dinner and got him drunk. It was such a great night. The next day he flew home and I just felt empty. A few days later I broke up with my boyfriend and told Alex exactly how I felt. He felt the same so we decided to try the long distance thing. That was Juy last year. We just had our 1st anniversary, and have survived being apart for 8 1/2 months of our relationship (I just got back from a three month trip to LA, and he came back to Aus in January for two weeks). And In december I move to the US for two years to study, and so we can be together. I truly believe thes the One.

 

[monkeyback]

In the past, it's always happened when I wasn't looking.

1) Girl I had a crush on most of my senior year of HS, had a boyfriend, so she was off limits. We were good friends, though...looking back I was probably the nice guy she had to counterbalance the asshole boyfriend. Two nights before I moved away to college, we're sitting and talking at her place. I had long since given up hope of anything happening. She kisses me. More kissing ensues. More kissing ensues...she needed a springboard to get away from the asshole.

2) Girl I knew from college classes, but never really hung out with. We got to talking about subjects of mutual interest in our program, hit it off. We began spending lots of time on long conversations, and started dating after staying up all night talking. Yes, talking. I was a good little church-going boy, and she was a good little church-going girl. While I might have wanted to tear her clothes off and get down to business, I never would have admitted it, even to myself.

3) First ever blind date. Was in grad school in NYC, first year. Didn't know anybody, wasn't meeting anybody, and was really lonely. The RA in the grad dorms set up a swing dance outing with optional blind match-ups. I figured it would probably lead nowhere, but at least I'd get out of my dorm room on a Friday night for a change. Somewhere in the midst of our awkward, unskilled dancing we both relaxed. She started singing along to the live band singing "Luck Be A Lady", and that was it for me. I still kick myself occasionally for screwing that one up. Men are such idiots...