How Did You Meet? - Page 2

[corhorvath]

What fun stories!!

My husband and I met through my sister. I had moved from CA to WA in 2001 when my daughter was one-month old. He had to buy his nephew a birthday present while my sister and I had to shop for my mom so we all went out together. We actually weren't too thrilled with each other at first, but he was my first friend up here. We went to movies and hung out with his friends and family and 4 months later, we were dating and falling in love. We dated for 3 and a half years and actually just got married in August. Our 4-month anniversary is tomorrow.

We found out we were pregnant exactly one-month before our wedding day. Talk about stress. In the bathroom hoovering over the test stick. But, our new marriage combined with a 4 year old and being pregnant is turning out to be pretty good. We didn't live together before we got married so there was a lot to be nervous about. But, we seem to be doing alright. Actually, our home is quite peaceful.

Pregnancy hormones, however, do not help when figuring out how to live with a new person. Luckily, the ups and downs of the first trimester seem to have smoothed out. It does feel like we've been married for a long time though. I don't know if that's a good thing or not.

[Tine]

Well, far be it from me to hold out! (Even if telling our story IS going to make us look like a couple of geriatric kooks.)

Looks like DH and I will be the matriarch and patriarch of this DDC. Not only do we seem to be older than all of you, we also met and got married a lot later. I'm 37 and he's 50.

We met when I was 24 and he was 37. I'd recently moved from the big city (where I'd lived most of my life) to his tiny hometown 2 states away for my 1st job (in my field) out of college. The job was such a good opportunity that it was worth it to me to take the chance of moving someplace where there was nothing to do and no one I knew.

I'd been looking for a church where I felt comfortable and had struck out everywhere I went. Someone talked me into going back to a church I'd already tried and nixed b/c there was a special new ensemble starting up there that she thought I might like to join (she knew I was a musician).

So I said "WTH" and crashed this group's rehearsal. Just strolled in and asked if this was X group and could I join? DH was basically the 1st person to get over my audacity and muster up a response. I think we both knew that night that something was going to happen, but we had no idea what.

He certainly wasn't the sort of person I'd've been looking for (if I'd been looking, which I wasn't): 13 years older, married 2x and in the process of getting divorced, dad to an adolescent boy, a smoker, etc., etc....let's just say we came from VERY different worlds.

But it turns out none of those differences (or 3+ breakups--who's counting?) could keep us apart. 4.5 yrs. later we moved to MY hometown (the city where we now live) and got married. We've now been married 8.5 years. He/I/we have gone through many pretty amazing transformations and challenges during the past 13 years. Too many details to bore you all with, but I still shake my head with disbelief sometimes.

And now here we are, with a miraculous 2-year-old (after much infertility and heartache) and another miracle on the way! We've never been happier. (Or slept less. But it's worth it.)

[ellie_may12]

DH and I met online too. He had an ad on a Christian singles website. I responded to his ad (and about 100 others in a 100 mile radius of my home, all with the same email--LOL) Anyway, he didn't want to pay the membership fee so he could talk to me, so he googled some of the info from my ad and email. And he found me!

[honeybee]

Dh and I went to college together. He worked with and was friends with my college roommate. I ran into him twice very briefly... once was at 4 am and he was sleeping on our couch after driving my roommate home and once was at a Halloween party at his apartment, which I left right away after discovering one of his roommates was a guy I once dated.

Then, I went with her to a small get-together with my roommate's computer lab buddies as a kind of "chaperone" since she was fighting with her boyfriend and he didn't like the idea of her going to a party with all guy friends. Dh was there, and this was the first time I really talked to him. We went to a hockey game, and I listened to him explain the game, which I wasn't really interested in. I really didn't think much about him one way or another... until it was about 4 am and my roommate had disappeared after a huge argument with her boyfriend, who had tracked her down, upset that she was out so late. I stretched out on the couch and dh said something like "That's what I was just about to do." And I heard myself speak as if listening to another person --I swear the words did not come from any thought patterns I was having... and I was NOT tipsy, either! -- "Well, you can join me if you want." He looked briefly surprised, but then laid down next to me on the couch. We got comfy and just talked for several hours, as everyone else crashed in various locations and I waited around to see if my roommate was going to show up again or not.

While we were laying on the couch, it got quiet and I could hear his heartbeat while my head rested next to his chest. I thought, "I could listen to this sound for the rest of my life." The thought was really shocking. I always figured I would become friends with someone first and then fall in love. I'd never really believed in "love at first sight".... silly me.

That was 11 years ago, and we've been together ever since. We dated all through college, moved in together during our last semester (after dh's parents had made his last tuition payment!), eventually bought a house together, and then got married a year later. We were married 4 yrs, 4 months before ds was born, and now we're expecting #2.

As a side note, my roommate and her boyfriend, our best friends, are now also happily married with a daughter roughly the same age as ds.

[3-30-06 in seattle]

fun topic

i worked for a company as a promotion manager and my future husband had his own events company. I sponsored 3 of his sporting events. We did all of our business via phone and email but always had a good time talking to each other. We finally met in person 3 months after beginning our work relationship and clicked as friends. For the next 2 months we worked together via phone and email but always talked about doing bikrahm yoga together. I was really into it 4 years ago and invited him several times (i invited all of my friends) however, he took it as an invitation/first date. One day, he showed up at the studio and did yoga (he was so flexible it was amazing)...we went out to eat after and connected on so many levels, like i had never connected with anyone. Two funny things we discovered were that we both had 6 kids in our family and shared the exact same birthday... 2 weeks later he told me he loved me. I knew too but held out telling him for a while...i thought it was too good to be true.... we just celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary and are more and more in love every day!!!!!

[nubianamy]

Carrin, we have done Imago therapy too. It's really wonderful stuff. I wish we could afford to keep going.

Daisie, my story is very much like yours! Tom is three years older than I am; he was good friends with my older sister when I was a young teenager. We became closer later when I started dating his best friend, but we were both in long-term relationships through high school and college. We stayed friends through college, then lost track of one another. Skip six years (I get married, buy a house, get divorced) with no contact... and he shows up on my doorstep one evening! We spent the evening catching up and he admits he's always been in love with me, but never had the courage to tell me until now.

That was three years ago. We've had a challenging but very loving relationship since then. It took me a while to figure out if this is what I want, but now I am sure. We were starting to think about having kids when... whoops! And here we are.

Two years ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/95797679@N00/79805188/
Last year: http://www.flickr.com/photos/95797679@N00/7046257/
Last week: http://www.flickr.com/photos/95797679@N00/79802555/

[nubianamy]

Originally Posted by MrsAngelic

Newlyweds in Miami
After DS#2 was born

You guys are soooo cute!

[krizty]

That's pretty neat that a lot of people met their hubbies online. I met mine online about 3 years ago.