Where did you meet your SO?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

i met her on friendster.

[unpossibles]

1. I was the nude model in her figure drawing class

we've been together 8 years next month!

:)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. thats really cool.

[NewWaveChick1981]

2. College, 1983.

:hi:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. hey you...which year in college?

:hi:

[NewWaveChick1981]

5. I was just starting my junior year.

It was late 1983. We were friends for about three years before we started dating in 1986.

[jpgray]

4. School

We both missed the day we were to pick partners, so we were assigned to each other. She dropped the class, but kept me.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. In DU's very own General Discussion forum.

[JackBeck]

7. I was working at Starbucks.

We flirted for months but neither of us could a word to each other. Then, one night, he came by with some friends who forced him to talk to me. We immediately asked each other out on a date and exchanged phone numbers. After he left, I unfolded the piece of paper he gave me and it had MY phone number on it. He came back about a half hour later, out of breath. He didn't realize what happened until he got home.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. thats adorable.

:loveya:

[JackBeck]

16. Thanks.

I was also acting and a bartender at the time. We went to my bar for our first date. When he found out that I worked there and was also an actor his response was: "I always told myself I'd never date an actor or a bartender." Ten years later...

I've told that story so many times that now when people ask I just tell them we met at a gloryhole.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

17. lol!

[Burma Jones]

8. Doing the play, "Don't Drink the Water" by Woody Allen at Silver Spring Stage

[terrya]

11. My SO?

Sorry, I don't think of him as my current SO.

I met my sweetheart on the Advocate Idea Exchange, at advocate.com. It was a gay/lesbian message board...sort of similiar in format to DU. :-)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

19. you are right the phrasing was weird. edited to correct it.

:hi:

[terrya]

39. That's ok

In my case, this guy is a keeper. :-)

:hi:

[bigwillq]

12. At a dance club

:bounce:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

22. cool....i am dying to meet the two of you...

we should arrange it sometime soon..

:bounce:

[bigwillq]

31. He does not like DU

he thinks I'm chatting with all these people to 'hook up with'

He's not very social....so it may be better if I visit by myself....He probably wouldn't even talk to you...He's so shy around people he does not know....I think maybe it's his accent...

But when we're together he never shuts up! He talks so much. I guess it's just all about his comfort level.

[NightNurse]

70. Sounds like a Wise Man to Moi.

DU is an acquired taste. My husband has been here for 5 1/2 years . I don't get it. Went to 3 "Meet-Ups" thrown by Ramsey. STILL don't get it.

Sgt. Pepper's seems to be my take :shrug:

[bigwillq]

72. Well he's never posted on DU

hasn't really ever read it unless I force him to read something or look at a pic.

But he thinks it's bizarre for someone to spend so many hours on a website chat room.
He thinks it's just a big "hook up place"

I tell him that it's not but he's one stubborn and possessive Puerto Rican! :P :)

[idgiehkt]

114. well do us all a favor then

how about keeping your piss and vinegar to yourself? Because no one here really wants to hear it.

[LostinVA]

117. Oh, you too?

Lots of fun threadstalking by someone towards me and other GLBT posters last night.... lots of nice accusations, nasty digs, and sexual snipes. Fun, huh?

[LeftyMom]

13. Here.

:)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

21. really? i had no idea...

:P

:hi:

[LeftyMom]

29. We're really low key about it.

:P

[Runcible Spoon]

14. fucking 9th level of HELL

asshole :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: sorry....

[La Lioness Priyanka]

23. sorry...

[unpossibles]

40. at freeperville? n/t

[cloudbase]

15. Mine made the mistake

of coming with her girlfriend to a mixer at the Merchant Marine Academy, back when there were no women admitted. Asked her to dance, and the rest is history. I still refer to her as my "war bride."

[La Lioness Priyanka]

27. hi cloudbase. welcome to DU!

[cloudbase]

34. Thank you.

Great to be here, and looking forward to getting to know you all.

[ZombieNixon]

18. Here.

:D

[Starbucks Anarchist]

20. She have an older sister?

:evilgrin:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

24. you perv!!!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

35. You act surprised.

:rofl:

[ZombieNixon]

28. No, actually.

We're both only children. :P

[Starbucks Anarchist]

33. Damn!

So am I! :P

[judaspriestess]

25. I met him at Gilleys at the Frontier in Las Vegas

He was in town for his mom's wedding and I was hanging out at Gilleys. There is a diverse crowd there. The majority of 'cowboys' go there but all other types go there too. We started a long distance romance after that and he moved out to Vegas 6 months later. That was four years ago.

[Left Is Write]

26. Bogart's Place, Apple Valley, MN

[1gobluedem]

30. In a case of mistaken identity

We both thought the other was someone else.

[bicentennial_baby]

32. Here

:)

[edbermac]

36. At her parole hearing.

:silly:

[mentalsolstice]

56. That sounds very romantic! n/t

[eyesroll]

37. I was recruited to blog/write for a newspaper and web site he started.

We were both married to other people at the time -- and he was not the one who recruited me (his editor was), nor was I the original choice for the position (a friend of mine was; he couldn't do it and referred the newspaper to me).

The newspaper ran out of funding, but I kept blogging; eventually, we ended up corresponding and realized we had a lot in common -- including splits with our respective spouses. We got together (ostensibly for an evening of brainstorming for the Web site), and haven't gone a day without speaking to each other since. We've lived in the same city since May 2005, and in the same apartment since April 2006.

[Jimbo S]

38. We were neighbors

living in adjacent buildings. Meet the first day of the complex's pool/dart league.

[Allenberg]

41. Funny story, actually

I had dated this girl off an on all through high school. I went off to the Air Force after high school, so our relationship kind of cooled. We had made plans to hangout together with her friend from college, who had been with a guy for about three years. She gave me her friend's AIM username, and we chatted there for a bit, until we met in person in secret a week before we all got together...

In May, we'll have been married for four years, and together around 7 years. :D

[Fuzz]

42. A cruise in the Caribbean.

Ya ya, love boat. ;)

I was with 1 of my friends, she was 3 of hers. We ended up on the same dinner table. We kept running into each other out on the islands too, it was weird. Even when my friends and I met some females and shared a cab to the beach for a party, a huge beach, we walked up with these girls, and sure enough, there was my future wife sitting on a blanket. We said goodbye to the women we just met.

This was 1992. Arg, getting old. :)

[WindRavenX]

43. met him on a NYYankees message board

:)

[zanne]

44. AA meeting; 1978 nt

[La Lioness Priyanka]

45. that was the year i was born....

congratulations on sobriety and your partner!

[seemunkee]

46. Pizza joint back in high school

I made pizza she made subs, they wouldn't let the girls spin dough.

[crim son]

47. I guess that would be my husband.

I met him at a club in Boston... I think it was called "Zanzibars". I went there with my sister, after work and we were both tired and disheveled. She took off to dance and I felt a tap on my shoulder. Turning around I saw three guys smiling at me. Long story short, I dated all three, one by one. The last one I dated was the husband. I still maintain I chose the best of the three, even if it hasn't worked out. :P

[LostinVA]

48. On DU in GD

And that lead to the Lounge and to friendly PMs and flirting, then IMs, then friendship, then phone calls, then "certain" feelings, then..... into something that's wonderful and real and also deliciously pervy.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

59. Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

:loveya:

[LostinVA]

60. The highlight of my year...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

62. Mine, too.

[NightNurse]

71. How nice. Glad you liked Federico's.

Let's keep he publicity down though:dilemma: the place will get lousy with losers.

[Courtesy Flush]

49. Front steps of my frat house 1978

I was so dorky.

[momophile]

50. at work for the University of Colorado

we went on one date and I wasn't interested. Then five years later we went on a second date and got engaged and married soon after.

[AirmensMom]

51. In the TV lounge

at college, my first day there, 32+ years ago. :loveya:

[Omphaloskepsis]

52. Math class in High School.. 11 years later..

[swag]

53. At the performance of a rock band of some mutual friends

in Missoula, Montana in 1980 or so.

Took us both a couple years to dump the people we were with at the time. Then we ran into one another when we were both available.

Thanks for asking.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

61. you are welcome...

:hi:

:P

[mentalsolstice]

54. Graduate School

The class was Strategic Planning, and we were assigned a class project together. He got strategic...16+ years later he's still strategically keeping me around!

[Merrick]

55. Prison

oh wait, I thought you said C.O.

I met my SO at work.

[GOPisEvil]

57. In a dark, dank corner of the internets.

Some shithole known as Democratic Underground. ;)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

58. you would meet you SO in a shit hole

:P

[GOPisEvil]

63. Hey...just because I'm Greek...

:P

[NightNurse]

73. Jay told me you"scored" David.

:yourock: hoorah! for the Good Guys!:yourock:

[GOPisEvil]

76. Scored is right.

I am one lucky, lucky boy. Thanks!

[scarlet_owl]

64. Yahoo! Personals

We've been married six years.

[VenusRising]

65. My husband and I met when he was on a pizza delivery

to my job. My co-worker had ordered food and he delivered it. I worked downtown in a locked building, so there were tv monitors at the front and back doors. When I saw him on the monitor I told my co-worker to tell him that she forgot her money upstairs and to bring him up. He came up and put the food down, and my best friend who worked with him, came to the back door. I told him not to leave and then I got very busy at work and couldn't talk to him. The best we got was each other's names. My friend came up and talked to him and then he left. A few weeks later, my friend and I were at a restaurant and were being harassed by some unsavory guys. My friend called my husband to come and rescue us. He came and got us, took us out to his parents' house out in the country, and we sat in the mesquite bushes talking til 5am. A few months later we were inseparable, moved in together, and married 2 years after. We've been together 9 years this year and married 7.

:loveya::loveya:

[Shell Beau]

66. I switched schools in the 10th grade and we've been together

ever since (with a couple of breaks in between).

[trof]

67. Birmingham airport.

Blind date.

[RetroLounge]

68. Well, I really don't have an SO

I met the current MrsRetro in line at a club. I was meeting a date there, and she was in town for a rock concert with 2 friends. We began talking in line and when my date didn't show up, I found her and her 2 friends at a table by the DJ booth and joined them. We talked all night, exchanged numbers, and then talked on the phone for a week before she drove back into town for our first date which lasted the weekend. We were engaged a few months later, moved in together after that, lived togrther for a year, and have been married 10 years now...

We have been separated now for a year, but live in the same house again as I moved back in a few weeks ago for financial reasons.

At least the kids are happy now.

RL

[NightNurse]

69. In the cafeteria line at College.

:loveya: funnier than Robin Williams and better looking than Warren Beatty :loveya:

[Strawman]

74. College, on her 24th birthday

at the Peanut Barrel in East Lansing.

[montanto]

75. I was bending over to pick up the soap and . . .

then I woke from a terrible dream, so I called up my pal Jack Daniels, and his partner Jimmy beam.

[SPKrazy]

77. At a 12 step meeting

she was new to alanon

I was a member of AA

[NMDemDist2]

112. .....

what? so it's not 13th stepping if it's 'just' an Alanon??

:spank:




:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

115. That's No Doubt At Least

a part of my overall problems in my marriage

you build a house on sand, and when the rains come, it washes away, and then you camp out on the beach for years pretending there's a house.

I've been spanked by reality enough, but it never hurts to remind me that 13th stepping is what it was.
I was told that but I ignored it. Imagine that. We moved in together 3 weeks later. Healthy relationships 101. I'm not planning to make that mistake in my life again AZ.

[NMDemDist2]

116. oh sweetie

i'm sorry :hug:

i was just teasing you, had no idea I'd hit a painful spot :hug:

[SPKrazy]

118. It's Less Painful To Deal With It

than to live in the pretend house on the beach!

:hug: :loveya:

[bertha katzenengel]

78. a message board n/t

[The Traveler]

79. 1989

In an office on the hill. She was working days as a receptionist and a night as a dancer. Ran into her again a few nights later at her other job, right before I moved to Atlanta. Coincidentally, she moved to Atlanta about six weeks later and we ran into each other again. There followed a decade of misadventures, crossed wires, all that ... we finally got things straightened out in 2000.

We still clash. We still can't stay out of each other's shorts. What's a guy to do? :shrug:

[Zookeeper]

80. We met standing in line at a taqueria in San Francisco....

We will be celebrating the 24th anniversary of "The La Cumbre Incident" next month. :party:

[qnr]

81. She was a customer when I was a bartender at a casino in NV n/t

[borlis]

82. At a party at my cousin's house.

Looking back, I should have stayed home that night. Hindsight is 20/20. If only I could have a "do over."

[City Lights]

88. You don't need a "do over," you need an "undo."

;-) :hug:

I wish I could have an "undo."

[ganeshji]

83. He was my neighbor.

He was a horrible neighbor. He played guitar by my bedroom window, worked on his car at five on Sunday morning, called all the neighborhood cats to feed them all hours of the day and night. Finally I went over to complain about the noise. After a heated (putting it nicely) argument we started talking, agreed to disagree, and have been together for the last nine years . He recently admitted that at the time he was running out of ideas to get my attention.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

84. At a Unitarian-Universalist Church.

1994. Been shacked up ever since. A good place for atheists/agnostics/religious misfits to hang out and go trolling.

Funny note:I had been previously married at that same church in 1984, but was divorced. That hubby was an atheist, but it didn't work out. We had other problems.

[Amaya]

85. Met him in NYC

in Union Square park during the RNC at a Veterans for Peace rally (was with DUer jonnyblitz at the time).
He broke it off this September for 3 weeks. Now we are back together and making plans to get married this year.

You never know who you're going to meet in new york city:)

[jonnyblitz]

110. well that is good to hear!

:wave:

[VelmaD]

86. depends on which one

There are two people I'm kinda involved with long distance right now. One I met on DU in a thread I posted on the day the supreme court struck down the Texas sodomy law. *snort* I guess we technically "met" at the bottom of the escalator at the Raleigh airport.

The other I met through the local poly community. We talked online. Then met for our first date at a really good pancake place. He got a job offer in Florida and I miss him a lot. :(

[TroubleMan]

87. She was working at a Subway across the street from my barracks.

I was stationed at Quantico.

[Lumily]

89. Second floor landing of Mooney Building,...

at Elon College (now University). I was 19 and he was 20. Seems like just yesterday.

[mikeytherat]

90. She was the girl down the street - seriously! Attended same HS and college,

dated off and on, very much like "When Harry Met Sally" minus the angst (we even had a few years where we were not really seeing anyone else, and ended up going out on New Year's Eve).

Married 17 years this coming October.

mikey_the_rat

[Goblinmonger]

91. She and I were debate partners in college

Does that make us super geeks? :shrug: She's now an attorney and I'm an English and communication teacher.

[Rhythm]

92. we met in a chatroom called "Joe's All Nite Diner"

[auntAgonist]

93. online MIRC

then in person in Ann Arbor Michigan.

aA

[av8rdave]

94. Concourse A, Atlanta-Hartsfield Int'l Airport

I was trying to get home to Dallas from recurrent training, she was trying to get home to Salt Lake from visiting her sister. Back tehn, employees had to dress up to travel, so we were all pretty easy to spot. Anyway, the service in the bar was so bad we moved to the same table to get someone to take our drink orders. Six months later (after talking on the phone maybe once a month) we met again, and after another six months of seeing each other only occasionally, we actually started dating. What can I say? We were slow starters.

[ileus]

95. X-ray

[TimeChaser]

96. Through a mutual friend in high school

... whom I later learned he was dating at the time. I'm not sure if this was before or after she had begun cheating on every one of her boyfriends with the same older guy, but needless to say, they weren't dating anymore by the time I started to develop a little crush on him :blush:

[book lady]

97. We both had summr jobs at the McKinley Marina in Milwaukee...

He proposed to me the second summer there and we have been married for 36 years.

[kwassa]

98. on the Internets back in prehistory called The Usenet Age

before the World Wide Web, chat rooms, dating services, and pictures of any kind.

Just crummy little Unix newsreaders. only keyboard commands.

bi-coastal relationship. East meets West.

almost 13 years now. Married for 8.

[kwassa]

99. dupe-o-rama

[Beer Snob-50]

100. AT a mutual friends kegger

she fell in love with my teal hawaian shirt (sp)

[MANative]

101. In my senior year of HS...

I was in one of those scholarship pageants - Junior Miss - and was visiting my aunt & uncle who owned a small business & were giving me a sponsorship check. He was their next door neighbor, who happened to drop in for a few minutes. He says it took him 5 tries to actually complete his first telephone call to ask me out.

We will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary in April.

:party:

[mongo]

102. So #1

At a Pagan Camping Gathering (we're coming up on 12 years now)

SO #2: At the weekly munch of a local BDSM group.

[bmbmd]

103. Remember those multicolored suspenders

everyone wore with their Sedgefield jeans and platform shoes in 1977? Well, I went in to the local C.R. Anthony store to buy some. A cute little salesgirl asked if she could help me-she did.

[HoneyBee]

104. 9th grade.

He was my first love.

We "broke up" and lost touch when we were 17, after I'd moved away. He got married, had kids, got divorced. I got married, had a kid, got divorced... and 17 years later we met again...

and fell right back in love.

It's magical. :)

[Jokerman]

105. She asked me to help her carry a keg of beer.

She lived across the street in college. The rest is as they say, magic.

[underpants]

106. A month before I finally graduated college

at an......are you ready for this?................... at an accounting fraternity event

[Dean Martin]

107. At my old job

I held the door open for her.

[tandot]

108. Through Match.com in 2002

He proposed last November and we are getting married this August.

[NMDemDist2]

109. AA

and we've managed to stay both sober and married for almost 13 years (next month)

:evilgrin:

[Xithras]

111. She was dating my best friend in HS.

Yep, I'm one of THOSE guys. I talked him into breaking up with her to take a shot at another girl he was interested in (but who I knew he didn't have a bats chance of scoring). They broke up, I asked her out, and he was PISSED when he figured it all out later. It was sporadic at first, and had a two year break at one point, but almost 15 years later we're happily married.

I haven't spoken to the friend in 14 years.

[ceile]

113. Through a coworker.

We've been together off and on for 10 years now.