Poll: Where Did You Meet Your Significant Other?

At my 2nd day of work I was walking down a hallway at the rehab center I worked at, I saw a TALL physiotherapist coming out of the staff room, I was hooked!!! 3 months later we started dating, after 1 1/2 years dating moved in together, now we’ve been married for nearly 4 years and have 2 beautiful daughters!!!!

Every guy I’ve ever dated I met through mutual friends. In fact, the typical pattern has always been that I know who they are for a while, and then at one random get together we end up talking and really hitting it off, and then hang out a few more times with friends and flirt before we end up hanging out one on one. Always.

I was meeting a friend at the movies. She walked in with her new cute coworker who just so happened to be going to the movies alone. Within five minutes, he decided to join us. At the ticket counter, the agent sold me two tickets assuming that this guy I just met was in fact my boyfriend. That agent was onto something…

Though I am single now, I met my past SEVERAL relationship-type-people online (basically everyone I was in a serious relationship with since high school). One on an official dating website and three on myspace.

I met my fiance on craigslist.
I was trying to convince a friend of mine to try online dating through a personal ad- She said she’d do it if I did it first, so I went for it. After 4+ years of dating we’re getting married in September.

I put bar, but it was really a Frat party, same thing right!?

I met my fiance when he was moving into my apartment complex. I came home from errands and saw him parking by the office. I thought he looked pretty hot. I went upstairs and about 20 min later I went down to pay my rent and visit with the leasing agent Ann who I had become friends with. He was still in the office and I got all nervous and hardly talked when we were introduced. Turned out he had known Ann for years and she had sort of adopted him as a son. He mentioned that he didn’t have much furniture and I said I had a few extra lamps and chairs etc. He invited me to watch a movie and we started dating. We’ve been together for years and engaged for two. We still go visit Ann together.
Over the time I have known him I have realized that he was the guy in 2 missed connections over the years. One was over 10 yrs ago. He was the cute neighbor (I only saw once) of a couple of guys I used to hang out with and another time I saw him at my work.

We met on a pirate ship! It was a pirate-themed party on one of those antique, wooden tall ships, and everyone dressed as pirates. His friend “accidentally” bumped into my friend, and the rest was history. Three years later, the same pirate party was held on the same ship and he proposed to me in front of all of our friends and family. Biggest and best surprise of my life!

I met my now-fiance on a dating site. It was amazing we hadn’t met sooner through other means though, because his parents’ house is a 3-minute drive from mine, he went to the high school down the street from where I live, and went to the same high school AND university as my cousin (who never thought to introduce us)!

I met my boyfriend through my best friend. She seemed to have a habit of dating guys he lived with and I consequently heard many tales of his exploits.

We liked each other as soon as we met but neither of us realized how the other felt, plus I had a boyfriend. Once I was single my best friend basically Parent Trap-ed us to get us talking. Been two years now 🙂

I met my fiancé at work- we worked at a coffee shop together. I actually turned him down the first night he asked me out- I’d decided I was going to kiss him that night earlier that week, and then the night before another guy we worked with asked me out so I felt guilty about that and kinda gave him the cold shoulder.

Thank God he didn’t take that first no for an answer 😀

I met most of my bfs through school or other activities. But my current boyfriend I met through a friend because apparently I “had rotton luck with picking guys”. And his friend was “perfect for me because we were both very strange”. I had been through a really rough time breaking up with a boyfriend and then losing a best friend arguing over FWB status. I did not want to be fwbs I wanted to date – and when I got mad at him making a sexual comment to a girl we both knew he said it was because I loved him and the feelings weren’t at all recipricated(sp) Nice huh? Anyway I swore off guys for 6 months, including any FWB or ONS thing and decided to have a “coming out” party afterwards to announce that I was going to go back on the dating scene. (this was difficult for me)

My OTHER male friend (the one who introduced me to my current BF), was going to host the party for me dubbed “penis party” aka “anyone should make out with anyone” kinda party. I had already started inviting a ton of friends and their friends. My guy friend, had given out my number to his friend, and said “she’s having a penis party so you should probably be there”. Even though we had NEVER met. He (the now-bf) didn’t text so I was horrified when I suddenly got a call from some random guy saying that my friend had invited him to the party for the sole purpose to “make out with me” etc on my “special day”. So we started talking for the month before the party, all phone calls, and spoke a lot! I went up the day before my party to meet him (2 1/2 hours away) and so that he could follow us back to where the party was the following morning. We went out to the bar, I was super nervous, and he spilled a drink on himself which made me laugh and be less nervous because then he was nervous. We ended up making out that night (it was exactly 6months!) at the bar. The rest is history, after my party the next day I pretty much told him “so I dont like sharing and I spent the whole party with you.. so are we dating or not” .

So our anniversary is 3 days long because we cant decide on when we started dating (at the bar the night before party, at the party, or in the wee hours of the next morning after the party). We’ve been going strong for 1yr and 4months. And have lived together for about 8 months. Today is actually the last “day” of our 1yr4month anniversary. And its also my Birthday.

I always had trouble meeting guys so my dating past has been rather small. I was getting over a really bad breakup and decided to try online dating. I was in grad school at the time, and working 40+ hours a week, and didn’t really know where to meet anyone so I figured, hey, what the heck? Signed up for a year on eHarmony and realized my heart just wasn’t in it yet. I put it down for about 7 or 8 months until I woke up one day and realized I was over my ex and wanted to have a relationship (and not just DATE). About a month and half into jumping back onto eHarmony I met my now-fiance. Our first date (or so I like to say) was a nearly 8-hour phone conversation that went until 3 in the morning (and probably would have been longer had we not had to go to work at 8am the next day :-)) with zero awkward pauses. I fell in love with him the first time I heard his voice. I felt as if I was talking to an old friend. That was nearly 4 years ago and I’ve never been happier in my life. We’re walking down the aisle in just over 2 months 🙂

After I caught my ex cheating, I broke it off – he refused to move out of my apartment, had no place to go, no car, no $$ (cause he had no job). The only way I got him to leave was by legally evicting him, then gave him $ to move, helped him pack, and moved his belongings in my truck. He had finally found a room for rent on craigslist. I drove his stuff to his new place, and the guy who owned the house caught my eye. After the ex was kicked out by the owner of the house for non-payment of rent, I got a phone call from the home owner asking me to come egt my ex’s stuff out of his house. That homeowner is now my fiance…..

Short story: I “met” my boyfriend at H&M (haha) and then ran into him again that night in a bar, in a city of 5 million!

While I was waiting for a friend, I heard a British accent and noticed the attractive man it belonged to. For whatever reason, I got really nervous and thought to myself that I just HAD to talk to him (normally, I am not like this!). I couldn’t think of anything to say that didn’t sound bat-shit crazy and random; luckily, his friend looked like someone I saw Facebook that was supposed to my in my master’s program (said program was about to begin and the class had all joined a Fbook group). Anyway, turns out that the friend was not in my program and that they were PhD students visiting from a nearby city. Embarrassed, I walked away and laughed about it with my friend.

That night, my very-new friends from my program went out to celebrate my birthday. Standing at the bar, I heard an English accent again. I was little bit braver (thanks to some alcohol) and walked right up to him to talk, still feeling this weird “duty” to talk to him. He was very friendly, well-spoken, and into all the same obscure bands as I was – we were even attending the same concert the next day. He wasn’t flirtatious at all, and as it turns out, we both thought the other wasn’t interested, but just a potential new friend. Luckily, a guy friend started chatting with him about Premier League soccer and he mentioned to my friend that he thought I was “really awesome.” My friends encouraged me to go talk to him again and to make an effort at flirting (its hard for me to flirt with someone I’m actually into). This time, things were less platonic, we hit it off, and he asked me out. He was so direct and no-games in perusing me (texting the next day, taking me out 2 days later, taking the 2 hr train from his city to see me, etc.) I just couldn’t say no. 🙂

About to hit our 2 year anniversary!

I organize tweetups for all the twitter users in my city (I’m kind of a geek..) my boyfriend started following me a few years ago, and came to an event I was having. We were both dressed like disgusting zombies. When he saw me the first time, fake flesh was literally rotting off my face. We are so happy and in love!