Where did you meet your partner or SO and things like this?

Mine isn’t that great, but I’ll tell it as best I can. I had just broken up with a girl that just wasn’t a nice person. We were only together for a couple of months, so not too serious. I waited until after New Year’s to make sure not to ruin any holidays. So anyway, at the time online dating services were ‘suckering’ people in with free ‘personality assessments’ that didn’t tell you they were for dating sites. You would fill out a bunch of information and it would tell you that you were some random personality type and that since it had so much information, would you just like to fill out the rest for an online dating profile? I was 25 at the time and newly single, so I thought what the heck. This was also in the day before they had a good system for dealing with shadiness, so I put my AIM name in my ‘description of myself.’ I didn’t even bother with a picture. Anyway, that would have been around January 22nd or so. I ended up getting a wink from a girl who also had her AIM name in her description and the next day I messaged her. She seemed nice and we set up a date for the 30th.

We met at a nice little restaurant. She later told me that she wanted to cancel, but her friend convinced her to go since if nothing else she’d get a free meal at a nice restaurant. I found out she was a fan of a baseball team and I jokingly proposed at the restaurant. She was also a month away from her 21st birthday and I didn’t realize and tried to buy her wine, so almost contributed to her deliquency. :slight_smile: We then went to a one man play about growing up gay in the south. It was a good choice on my part since she was heavily involved in the gay rights movement although I didn’t know it, I just thought the play sounded good. She apparently had fun since she invited me to her church the next week and well, here we are 15 years, 3 kids and a marriage later. She’s the best thing that ever happened to me. The greatest girl in existence.

I was 19, the lifeguard. She was 17, the blond in the pink bikini. 35 years later we got married.

35 years? Did a lot of things happen in the middle, did you drop a decimal marker, or did you get papers because of insurance?
Not my story, but my cousin and her bf want to go to Australia for a month this winter and she was missing 1.5 vacation days. A lot of the vacation time she has is compensation for overtime; she asked her boss to let her take them and she’d comp them later. He said no, which she attributes to being a recent hire and still afraid the book will break if he bends it. The HR manager asked “how long have your guy and you been together? I know it’s more than ten years, you were already live-in when I joined this company.” “Uh… 14 years.” “Consider getting married then. 15 days off.”

So, my cousin officially got married because of Australia.

(They met through their jobs. He made it very clear that if she and the guy she had back then ever broke up, he’d love to take her out for lunch. Lunch happened several months after her breakup)

Met online after I was widowed and decided to try this new fangled online thing. He was brave (or foolish) enough to take on a widow of 3 years. 13 years later, happily not married (tax reasons)