How did you meet your significant other?

[Khan]

These are great!! I love how different, yet how similar they are. So right, when you know, you know!!

Here is "our story"
Ron and I met at work. I was the admin. assistant, and he was the purchasing agent. We worked together for about 2 years and I had ZERO clue that he was remotely interested. He still finds this so funny. He apparently poured it on thick, and I never knew it! I am genuinely a nice, happy person toward everyone (unless of course you piss me off LOL!) so he thought he was something "special" until he realized I was like that with everyone!! So one night we were leaving work and as we walked out of his office, he kissed me! I did absolutely nothing. No return kiss, I just sorta stood there with this look of, what the heck was that and turned and walked out! This is the part I still find funny! So he went home sweating that the next day he was going to be fired. He figured that my lack of response was surely going to be bad for him in the harassment dept.
When I got to work, I walked into his office and said, "You took me by surprise, and I really wasn't ready. I would like a Do Over please!" He breathed a sigh of relief and the rest is history!
That was 13yrs ago.
Both of us had been married before and that part really didn't matter as much. I knew I found my soul mate and I didn't need anyone or thing to make me feel differently. We were headed on vacation about 6yrs ago and our plane stopped in Vegas. We actually got married while we were there! We continued on our vacation, which we then called our honeymoon!!
He truly is not only my husband but my best friend!
This was taken a few months ago when we went on vacation and rode motorcycles thru the Smoky Mountains!

[magicre]

Who moved? lol

ironically, i was closing my practise and moving to either seattle, portland or san francisco.

so i moved, even though he said he would.....

we had talked on the phone for three months...it was love at first sound.

neither of us knew what the other looked like, and when we met, the flight attendants wouldn't let me off the plane....so poor guy thought i didn't make it...

and then i saw him and he saw me.....we've not been apart since.....i'd been married before. he hadn't.....

he wore me down...even though i promised to stay with him forever.....

i guess he got me when i gave his parents food poisoning with a lasagna i had made...and, without going into details, but suffice it to say there was only one bathroom in the little house that started us.....as we took turns getting rid of the lasagna, i finally said yes.

i met him in october online, we met on valentine's day, and officially married in july, but we celebrate in february....:)
it will be 17 years

[magicre]

I actually think that's a really cute story lol

The guy I like doesn't have a clue what he wants and the guys that want me.. just don't appeal to me. So I'm loving everyone's more successful stories haha

does he know you like him?

[Mondo]

We played ball on the same team one summer, she was a friend of a friend, but was living with a guy. I was out of a long term relationship for a year or so, we were quite far apart in age, 13 years. Her relationship was on the skids, and there was a wedding she needed an escort to. This was in October. February we got engaged (yes, on Valentine's day), and married in July. 15 years this year.

Two fur kids.

[naturalfeddogs]

Wayne's sister Diane and I had met and become really good friends for about three years. I knew she had a brother Randy, he is the one who built her new house. Later, Diane decided to add on to the house with a den and a carport. Little did I know, she had another brother, Wayne who she called out of the blue to add on to her house for her. I came over for a visit after work one day and seeing him on the roof working, I asked "whos that"? She explained that he is Wayne, her younger brother and that they had a falling out and hadn't spoken in five years. She had called him to get back in touch because they had been so close before. Never did she (or I) ever imagine Wayne and I would hook up and later get married! We went from best friends to sister-in-laws. Its been eleven great years now!

[whiteleo]

Boy, lot's of BAR hook ups here! Well, mine is sort of a bar story too but a little different.....I was the bar manager for the American Legion here in Bellingham and this gentleman started coming in that was new and I had not seen him before but his card said he was a member for 16 years..Anyway, he kept coming in when I was working and asked me several times if I would like to go have a drink..6 months before I had just ended a 7 year long term relationship and wasn't looking for anything at the moment..But Dave was Persistent..Come to find out the first time he came in with his buddy he told him "that's the woman I'm going to marry"

We started dating in June of 2002 and got married August 17, 2002! It's been just over 9 years and I've struggled cause I'm sooo independent but marriage is worth it and my Husband is such a nice guy....

[Rodeo]

does he know you like him?

He knows I love him. And the feeling is mutual but I'm thinking it is a different kind of love. Ive decided to stop talkin to him all together. I feel about like someone stuck a knife through my chest... I've never felt so strongly for someone. But if thu don't want you they don't want you and life goes on. I'll reply to everyone else and tell the story of "J" when I get home.

[whiteleo]

He knows I love him. And the feeling is mutual but I'm thinking it is a different kind of love. Ive decided to stop talkin to him all together. I feel about like someone stuck a knife through my chest... I've never felt so strongly for someone. But if thu don't want you they don't want you and life goes on. I'll reply to everyone else and tell the story of "J" when I get home.

Love is hard....and your right, it's hard to love someone when they don't want to love you back! I always thought to myself in those instances that I would never find anyone else that I would/could love as much as that person..but I was wrong..I always found equal and more nurturing love each and every time I fell in love, and it was many times from the very first time..So, give yourself a break and know that there is a right person out there for you...

[meggels]

Well, I met a frenchie breeder at a show up in Springfield, MA because I wanted to get a puppy from her that summer. She also mentioned a dark brindle male that she was showing but feared he might have subluxated patellas, in which case, he would be placed as a pet because she wouldn't breed him. She opened his crate and this little 7 month old nugget came out, and it was love at first sight...





Oh wait, we meant human SO's? Sorry, Murph is the one who spends each night cuddling in bed with me and snoring in my ear ;)

[Rodeo]

Amazing stories everyone :)

My story of the one who was not meant to be:

We went to school together but never met. I had a small crush but nothing serious. But MAN he's handsome. After high school a girl moved up the road from me who had percherons... we became riding friends. Turned out she had known J most of her life. They stopped talking when she got married but she told me to use her as a way to start a convo with J so I did. He invited "us" to a party that weekend. Codee couldn't come along but he said I was still invited. So halfway through the week I got ballsy and asked him out to the movies. He was impressed that I came right out and asked him out.. so he invited me along to the bar one night. We hit it off great. Even better at the movies the next night. We didn't get a chance to talk much at the party but afterwards I flat out asked him where it was going... everything was perfect. It all felt so right and I thought for sure he was it. Soon after his ex came around and suddenly he didn't want anything serious. A few months later they were together. It didn't last long at all and he came barking back up my tree. I was semi seeing someone so I blew him off. He was persistent. We eventually got back to hanging out and it was perfect.. again. He didn't want a relationship at the time, and I was in no rush to find someone so it was very stress free and fun. Finally I decided I was ready to start dating and started talking to someone else. Not long after J came BACK around but I never did talk to him. When I was free again... he wasn't. But we stayed in touch. Little further down the road.. we were both in relationships with people we didn't care much for. Our SO's wanted to be more serious than we did. He left Samantha the same day I left Michael. He was constantly trying to get me out of the house but I took some time to think things through. We finally hung out and it was just like before. Instant connection, we've always gotten along so well. After a few days I got paranoid that the past was going to repeat itself and sort of withdrew. He asked me about it and we talked it out. I thought it was FINALLY going to happen. Then he started acting funny. I went to check on the ex from before but she blocked me on facebook.. I still don't know why. She commented on a status of mine just a few weeks ago. Then I saw her truck parked out in front of his barn. She saw me and gave him a hard time about it... I have no doubts they will end up back together for the... 4th? 5th? time. It won't last but honestly I'm tired of getting caught in the middle. Last night he asked me what was wrong. I simply told him he had been acting differently and I didn't trust him anymore. He was pretty drunk by that point but that's how our friendship ended. There were so many cute moments along the way then it ends with him being a total douche and us never even giving anything a real try. The whole "never talking to him again" is still sinking in. Someday I may find someone, I may not. Right now I just want to forget I was so stupid.