Where did you meet your present/most recent SO?

[WhollyHeretic]

Just something I've been thinking about lately as I inch back into the world of dating. My last two SO's I met:

On a 3 day train ride. (we were together for 6 years)

A long time friend of mine. (we have since amicably returned to being friends)

So how about you?

[taterguy]

1. Dog Park

Resolved the compatibility of pets thing right off the bat

[MrCoffee]

2. we worked together

the future MrsCoffee was hired because my boss at the time thought that i'd like her (the future MrsCoffee)

[WhollyHeretic]

3. Now that's a supportive boss

:)

[MrCoffee]

5. heh, the two other chicks she hired before the future MrsCoffee didn't work out so well.

[Kali]

4. Bar.

It was $0.25 ladies' wine night. :rofl:

[WhollyHeretic]

8. Let me guess. They brought a roll of quarters

:evilgrin:

[Kali]

10. Heh, nope.

He wasn't drinking at the time, got dragged there by one of his friends. I got there with my two (female) neighbors via two runs with as a passenger on the back of a motorcycle. He kindly gave me a ride home after I woke up and staggered out of the bathroom. Earlier I had hit on him as he was the only guy there with long hair (early 80's).

Good times. Glad I made it through them!

[LaurenG]

6. My daughter introduced us

She didn't like him like "that", it turns out I did!

[MsKandice01]

7. All of my most meaningful relationships...

Have come from people I met online. I met my current husband on AOL and I met the person I dated who I was most compatible with on IRC.

[Kerrytravelers]

9. At a party.

We were both friends with a guy named Frank- him for eleven years, me for nine. Frank never thought of putting us in the same room before inviting us to the same party. I had recently broken up with someone else and really didn't want to go to the party. I made the snide remark "Oh, and I bet I'll meet my future husband here." :eyes: Mr. kt had spent the day in Mexico, helping to build a school. He drove all the way to Los Angeles because Frank invited him (Frank is one of those kind of people who'll do anything for a friend, so when Frank asks something, you can't say no.)

Three months later, we were buying the rings and nineteen months later...

[WhollyHeretic]

11. That's a great pic

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. We were 12. He sat behind me in 7th grade. We dated at 18, broke

up, and ran into each other again at 22. We've been together 14 years since then, married for 10. :hi:

[Ariana Celeste]

13. Online chatroom

in MSN before MSN made you pay to chat. We both frequented the same religious "debate" chats. :)

[unpossibles]

14. I used to model for art classes for years....

one day almost 8 years ago I worked in my wife's class and we both fell for each other instantly.

And before anyone asks, she was the only person I ever dated or whatever that I met that way. As a painter myself, i always took the job very professionally and seriously and did not expect to meet someone that way.

And also before anyone asks, I was nude. Which made for an embarrassing moment when I first met her parents and they asked how we met. We tried to mumble through "at school" and leave it at that. Her dad completely jokingly said "let me guess, she was drawing you naked" and we both turned beet red. Silence ensued for a bit...

[soleft]

15. She was the last online personal ad I was ever going to answer

For that Month

:)

[Left Is Write]

16. I met my husband at Bogart's (a bar/nightclub) in Apple Valley, MN

[RubyDuby in GA]

17. At a Howard Dean Meetup

Our son's middle name is Dean because of it. :)

[femmocrat]

50. That is so cute!

Former deaniacs are the best friends I've ever had. Amazing how Howard Dean brought us so many of us together, isn't it?

[Orsino]

18. Match.com

She found me eleven years, six months and two days ago.

[kwassa]

21. Didn't know that Match.com was that old.

The Web didn't really exist, it was Usenet when I got on. 1994. Mosaic had launched the first browser, I didn't know about it for awhile.

We met on a news group, there were no dating sites, which is why I choose "other" in the poll. We met in person in early '95, we are still together, and married.

[NC_Nurse]

19. In a band.

He was the bass player, I was the singer. :)

[maveric]

20. e-Harmony.

Six months later we are doing great and are allready talking marraige.
It took me 50 years to find the lady of my dreams and we are totally enjoying each other.

[livetohike]

22. I saw my now husband talking with a mutual friend in the cafeteria

when we were all in college (1972). I asked this friend to bring him to a party that weekend. He did and we have been together ever since :-). (Married 32 years in 2007).

[malmapus]

23. Technically online - she was selling her car

Responded and got to talking about more than just the car when we met heh.

[Mad_Dem_X]

24. Worked together for three years, then dated

for four years, then got married. We just celebrated our 9th anniversary on Nov. 15. :loveya:

[WhollyHeretic]

26. A belated happy anniversary

:toast:

[hippywife]

25. Other.

We met online but not via a dating service. We've been married over nine years now.

[LeftyMom]

27. Here.

:blush:

[WhollyHeretic]

34. Really? You met someone here? I never noticed...

:D :hi:

[LeftyMom]

36. Well, our understated personalities are easy to overlook.

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

In my dreams.

[CatholicEdHead]

28. Online through CatholicMatch.com

We were two of the rare liberals on that site and stood out. It is coming up on 6months and it only looks to get better from here.

[u4ic]

29. The last two

which cover a number of years...

One was a friend of a relative. The other was at a p/t job...we were both doing a murder mystery.

[Broken_Hero]

30. over 11yrs ago

at freshman orientation at my university. My wife, was the student body president, and she was onstage doing her speech on staying and school and all that jazz. Thats my first memory of my wife...about a week later, her and some other faculty were doing a security traning program at my dorm, and I helped them put up chairs/tables and what not. We shared some mutual friends, and at the time, she had a thing for me, but I was oblivious, and she was to shy to pursue anything...

Fast forward to Feb of 2003, I'm back in college again, and she still had ties to the university, and she, with her parents came up to the uni for a visit, and she was shocked to see that I was back at school...and we still had our shared mutual friends, and those friends hooked us up on a blind date of sorts...and we got married on the 8th of May, 2004....

[AlienGirl]

31. The Lounge!

[Pale Blue Dot]

32. Here. Getting married in 41 days.

:D :loveya:

[idgiehkt]

37. congrats to you.

that's awesome.

[nini]

40. 29 days here!

hugs to both of you. :bounce:

[Redstone]

33. At a trade show.

Redstone

[ZombieNixon]

35. Uhh...here.

:7

[LadyoftheRabbits]

45. Hey, imagine that!

So did I. :shrug:



:P

[Shell Beau]

38. My husband and I met one another in high school when

I transferred to his school. We started dating in the 10th grade.

[yellowdogintexas]

39. caving. Classified as a mutual interest, I suppose.

Still love caves, still love the guy, but don't go caving any more. Too much arthritis for that

[Rhythm]

41. Oktoberain and I met in a chatroom...

We met in a BeSeen chatroom called "Joe's All Nite Diner" in February of 1999...
We talked through ICQ for hours each day for months.

In late June '99, she came from VA to NY for a visit.
She moved in with me on the following July 4th.

We've been together now for 7 1/2 years, and have a 6 1/2 yr old son, on whom we both brag entirely too much. When i'm ready for grad school (i'm 40, and working on my BA in PoliSci), we may well move to Massachusetts, or Ontario, so we can 'make it legal', as the vernacular goes.

[cobalt1999]

42. She saw my picture at my brother's house.

Next time I was in town, she invited herself to dinner with me, my brother and his wife. She asked me out after dinner and 6 months later we ended up getting married during a trip to Vegas. We've been married for 14 years.

[bigwillq]

43. At a club (nt)

[tinfoilinfor2005]

44. St. Paddy's Day party, thirty years ago.

My party and I made my a fruit platter with pineapple tidbits. He always said he loved my tidbits. :)

[Generic Brad]

46. If I told you, you would probably not believe me

Many things that have happened in my life are too weird, coincidental, or implausible to be believed. And since I don't want to build a reputation as being a complete bull shitter, you will have to be content to know that it was an out of the ordinary experience.

[flamingyouth]

47. Technically, the Austin airport

But actually we met on DU. :D

[Pushed To The Left]

48. Most of them have been personal ads

I met the last one through Yahoo! personals, and the two before that through the PennySaver of all places! (That was before I had a computer)

[femmocrat]

49. He used to date my best friend! She introduced us.

[mykpart]

51. My husband and I first met in the fifth grade.

In the 8th grade he was my boyfriend. We went to the zoo together and to a movie or two. Then we attended different high schools and lost touch. I married and had two kids, then divorced. We met again at a 20-year reunion of our 8th grade class and started dating. (He had never married.) We dated for about a year and broke up just because we lived about 60 miles from each other. Then in June of 1999 he called me. He was moving and while packing up his stuff found something with my name on it. He had to track me down, as I had moved by then to another town. I invited him to come to see me for the 4th of July, and 20 minutes after he walked in the door he proposed. We were married in January of 2000. Thanks for posting this poll. I love to tell people about how I married my childhood sweetheart (but took 40 years to do it!)

[Lilith Velkor]

52. I met one in a tree, shit you not

There was a free concert on the Mall and the crowd got outa control, and we climbed up the same tree when the cops on horses showed up.

[Duppers]

53. in a sandwich shop at school introduced by a mutual friend.

true. married 39 yrs. now!