I met my husband online in 2005. I had a profile up on OK Cupid, and I was checking to see what sort of matches the site could find me. All the local guys were creepy or otherwise blah, so I hit “global matches” one night around midnight just to see whether I had a soulmate in Korea or something. And my man was the first hit, at 90% compatibility. Unfortunately, he was in Maryland, which isn’t all that close to Montreal (but closer than Korea, I’ll admit). He was ridiculously cute, had a funny and dorky profile, and so I clicked the “woo” button to show my interest. We chatted for a few minutes and then I went to bed. We messaged or emailed almost every day after that, and moved on to Skype, often staying up most of the night, talking.
He planned to come up in July with his brother, to see Montreal and to meet me, but I couldn’t wait that long so in June, I flew down to meet him instead. Our first date, which was only awkward for the first three minutes, settled into a fun night that lasted hours. When he showed up wearing hiking boots and a Mickey Mouse T-shirt, I knew I had someone who wasn’t going to be fake to impress me. And he was even hotter in person! We spent most of the weekend together and it was awesome. As it turned out, it was so awesome that he couldn’t manage to wait a whole month to see me again, so he drove up two weeks later!
To shorten a very long story, I found a job here and managed to get a work visa so I could be with him, and I moved to the States in 2007. We ended up moving in together about a year later, and we got married in April 2010.
I didn’t marry either one, but I met The Bad One over D&D and The Bestest Boyfriend in a DIKU - a game which would never have existed (or at least, not had the form it took) without D&D. Years later, The Bestest Boyfriend lived for a couple of years with another woman from the same DIKU (she and I were already friends by the time he joined the game).
I dumped a bottle of water on his head when I was 16 years old and he was 19. He tried to retaliate by throwing me in the river, which I jumped into to get away from him. We dated for a few months, fell in love, he broke up with me, I married his best friend, he married someone else, I got divorced and remarried, we both got divorced, and now… 16 years after the water bottle incident, we are back together, and happier than either one of us has ever been.
I had a good American friend “Bobby” who had just found a new girlfriend, an Indonesian woman, via Hot or Not. (The girl wound up being psycho, and he married her, but that’s a different story.)
The woman was getting a masters and was in a group of international (i.e. not Japanese) grad students. She had a birthday party for Bobby at her house with about 20 of her friends, and I was the only one of Bobby to go.
There was a really, really cute Taiwanese woman there. I was really interested in her, but there was this Singapore guy who kept dominating the conversation. A really funny guy, but so damn quick that I couldn’t get an edge in sideways. I quietly complained to Bobby and he to me to not worry, since the guy bats for the other team. The guy got really drunk and gave me a kiss, but that’s another story. (He was the MC at our wedding party.)
The Taiwanese woman said she was organizing a get together to visit a gay bar in a couple of weeks, and was I interested? It would up only the two of us. We went out to a Turkish restaurant I like first, then to the bar.
Less than two months later we were an item, a few weeks later we moved in together, a few months later she was pregnant and a shortly after we got married.
Afterward, she told me that all of her friends had warned her to watch out for that American guy who was paying way too much attention to her. She didn’t think they were right. Makes me wonder if I should have married someone so oblivious.
We both had other dates. We then were in the same circle of friends for a few years, became good friends for a few years, and eleven years after that prom, started dating.
A friend of mine introduced me to this new girl in our junior class in high school. We talked occasionally and kind of became friends. Then one day, in history class, she went up to get something, and as she walked back to her seat, she turned and smiled at me… and I crushed hard. We became friends over the year and I actually talked myself out of the crush, until her cousin made an offhand comment to me about how we’d make a cute couple. After several failed attempts, including a conversation that went “I like you…” “I like you too…” :dubious: and a two-page letter I wrote that said everything except “Will you go out with me?” but that did manage to make her flunk her AP Biology exam, I finally worked up the nerve to ask her out… over IM. And for some reason, she said yes.
We dated, she got pregnant(!), we went to college, we got married, we had kid #2, and we’re still here. And we’re still good friends with the girl who introduced us.
The long answer would be that I became aware of her presence in second year on a trip to Dublin, started hanging out with her in third year as she had a plentiful supply of interesting teas and we shared a few subjects, and fell in love with her in our last week, when we went to see a double feature of the Footlights show and a magician.
We started going out about six months later once I’d worked up the guts to ask her out.
We were both graduate students at the University of Hawaii, the main campus in the Manoa Valley. While we were not in the exact same degree program, we were under the same school. On top of that, she was a resident scholar at the East West Center, a federal research facility on campus, while I myself lived at the center in my capacity as a housing officer, a part-time job that gave me a free place to stay, which is certainly nothing to sneeze at in Hawaii. I’d already spent some years in Thailand and intended to come back. So we just sort of hooked up. I’ll tell ya, Hawaii is a very nice place to undergo your courting period.
I was 19, and in cast, usually playing Janet. He had just gotten out of a long-term relationship, and wanted to go out and have some fun. His sister-in-law’s brother was our cast leader (and usual Frank). He got invited to the cast party, and that’s when we met. I remember thinking that he was cute, and a Scorpio, but that was all. I had a kind-of sort-of on-and-off again boyfriend that summer, so when this new guy joined the cast and started calling me I just blew him off. That went on for a good six weeks or so until he basically called me out in front of everyone before the show one night for never calling him back! I was embarrassed, so I did call him back the next day. We talked on the phone for hours and set a date for Tuesday. Monday, I called the kind-of boyfriend and broke it off for good. After one date, I knew he was Someone Special. After three week, we were in love. After seven weeks, he proposed. We waited a while though, just to be sure. We will celebrate our 10th anniversary in June.
Univ. of Maine at Orono, fall of 1980. I was a Freshman, he was my R.A. We were together for 11 years before getting married, this June will be our 20th anniversary.
:dubious: Holy hell. That must mean I’m getting old :eek:
She called the customer support line I worked for at the time. She thought I was in the building across the street from her office. She was off by oh, ~1200 miles.
Camping trip. I was part of a singles group at church. Another girl who had recently joined the group brought along a cute friend who, unbeknownst to me at first, was as much of a geek as I was. This came to light that night, when the whole group was sitting around the campfire. During a lull in conversation, cute friend pipes up: “So…did anyone bring a star chart?”
Geek that I am, I had actually brought a star chart. First time I’d ever done it. Good timing.
We met at the Dickens Fair (think Renaissance Faire, but in a Victorian London Christmas setting). A large group of us went. I was there because I was interested in this girl who was also going. The girl I had eyes on was interested in some other guy, and since I had no other plans for the evening I would up going ice skating with this guy who I had a passing acquaintance with and his girlfriend.
She and I hit it off, her boyfriend broke up with her a month or so later, and **Rhiannon8404 **and I have been happily married for almost 18 years now.
We were together for 11 years before getting married, this June will be our 20th anniversary.