Where Did You Meet Your Spouse/Partner/Mate?

[arwalden]

Online? A bar? Church? At work? In jail? An AA meeting? School?

[taterguy]

1. dog park

[dysfunctional press]

2. she responded to my personals ad in the reader.

over 17 years ago.

[Placebo]

70. I heart the Reader.

It's so Chicago. :)

[miss_american_pie]

3. In a car

Long story, but at 14 I did not always listen to my mother's "don't get into a car with strange boys" advice. ;)

[Tikki]

35. Wow, same here...'ceptin' I was 15 and....

a friend came to pick me up for a Friday night drive around...(gas was 25cents a gallon) and he brought this cute guy along.
I spent the whole night draped over the front seat (before seat-belts) talking to the future Mr. Tikki.



Tikki

[bedpanartist]

4. she was throwing things at me

at a gig. Salt and pepper shakers, sugar packets, a couple of empty beer cans.

I won her heart over by withstanding it all like nothing was going on. Talked to her afterwards, and rode off into the sunset...

[NewWaveChick1981]

5. In college

We met when I was 20 and were just friends for a good while before we started dating. We got married when I was 29, and it'll be 14 years of marriage on August 1 (almost 23 years of knowing each other!).

[terrya]

6. Online

At a message board at advocate.com

[kiraboo]

7. I met him in a bar. He was with his brother and one of his best

friends, and I dated them both before I dated him. I should have stayed away from the entire crowd!

[GalleryGod]

41. Another Disastrous Ending to a "Bar Meeting"

Sorry about the ending...onward and upward !:hippie:

[kiraboo]

42. Is that you, or is that your disaster?

Curious. My disaster has lasted sixteen years but is coming to its conclusion.

[GalleryGod]

43. No.No. That's Mike Imperioli from the "Sopranos" I took that a

couple of years back while on-set. I didn't experience a Bar Disaster...but multiple friends (3) and co-workers (3,more) have had "Bar-Met" spouses go down the chain flush porcelain hardware.

[kiraboo]

44. Ah. Now you know that I have never seen "The Sopranos"!

[maddezmom]

8. 7th grade homeroom

:)

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. In a bar.

Reconnected in the Lounge.

[eyesroll]

10. I was recruited to blog for his newspaper.

The newspaper folded, but I kept blogging, and soon we found out we were in similar places in life and got together.

[arwalden]

11. ~

"The newspaper folded"

Ha! You slay me!

[1gobluedem]

12. In a case of mistaken identity...

...at an event I was doing for my radio station. I thought he was the sound guy bringing me a portable microphone but it turned out he was in the band that was playing that night (he has the same first name as the sound guy I was expecting, I discovered). He thought I worked for the club. I couldn't understand why the sound guy kept coming out of the room where the band played asking me what I thought were stupid questions. I was totally stressed out and finally snapped "If you insist on talking to me, you have to help me decorate" and had him up on chairs hanging banners, etc. Finally he said something that made me think maybe he wasn't the sound guy so I asked him. He said, no, that he was with the band, then asked me "don't you work here?" and found out I didn't.

I felt so bad, because I know what a b--ch I can be when I'm stressed so I sent the band a round of drinks that night. He came over to thank me between sets and....here we are all those years later.

[progmom]

16. I had never heard that story...

:rofl:

[1gobluedem]

18. You didn't?

I thought for sure I'd told you. The things you are learning about me on DU; first that I was kicked out of Girl Scouts and now this...:evilgrin:

[Misunderestimator]

23. You were kicked out of Girl Scouts?

:rofl: :hi:

[1gobluedem]

27. Yes, I was.

Too rowdy. My whole patrol got booted. :silly:

[greatauntoftriplets]

29. I dropped out of Brownies.

The leader was always sloshed and I concluded that it was pointless to pay dues to be rowdy when I could be independently rowdy and save the damn money.

:D

[AlCzervik]

13. My friends house.

[Pale Blue Dot]

14. Here.

Weird, huh?

[GOPisEvil]

63. You too?

Even weirder! :D

[bertha katzenengel]

15. Online. Mrs. V. sent me a PM in another forum. She was impressed that

someone could use proper grammar and punctuation and could spell.

It took a while but the spark ignited.

About a year later, I moved to the east coast and we began our life together.

:loveya: baby ;)

[deutsey]

17. We were volunteering at an adult literacy program n/t

[scarlet_owl]

19. Online personal ad.

[MissB]

38. I have some friends that met that way.

They ended up marrying, too. It wasn't just any personal ads - it was in the Willamette Week, which is well known for carrying some pretty outside-the-norm ads.

[MountainLaurel]

20. At a DU meetup

For one of the anti-war demonstrations in DC.

[City Lights]

21. At work.

I worked there first. When he started, my boss assigned the "take the new guy to lunch" task to me. We hit it off immediately. The rest is history. :-)

[bridgit]

22. while working at a social science research firm based in rockville, md...

:blush:

[Gormy Cuss]

47. At the big one?

Met mine at a social science research firm too, but not in Rockville.

[bridgit]

67. they're...pretty big, scads of 25-30yr linear gov stuff, field work...

smart guys & gals/nationwide university Phd 35-65k sample stuff, tons of minutiae yeah = big!

:hi:

[XNASA]

24. We were introduced at a party, but we were there with other people.

Then around 6 months later, we found ourselves at a restaurant dinner party together and we had both come to that dateless.

I moved in about a week later.

[bicentennial_baby]

25. right here in the Lounge

Nearly one year ago...blissfully happy ever since :)

[ohiosmith]

26. I was staying at a war objectors (draft dodgers and deserters)

hostel in Vancouver BC, she lived next door with several fellow UBC students.

[Jokerman]

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

My S.O. and her roommate had a beer keg in the trunk of her car and they needed help getting it into the house so they knocked on my door.

I actually dated her roommate for a few months and didn't go out with my S.O. until we ran into each other a couple years later.

[bigwillq]

30. At a club (nt)

[Corgigal]

31. In a POLice car..

[jrandom421]

32. The Northridge quake

Jan 20, 1994. I had been living in my car for 3 days, after they red tagged my apt. She was running a shelter in the Valley.

[auntAgonist]

33. Online: we talked in IRC and

internet phone, then landline. We met in person 5 months after we first chatted and were married 2 years after we first chatted. He was in CA I was in Ontario Canada.


aA

[trackfan]

34. Online - On Prodigy

We were an "auto-match", hooked up by the computer.

[hotforteacher]

36. Online

I was going to shut down my profile that night, and he had shot me a couple of msgs. We started chatting online, had a couple of marathon phone sessions of no less than four hours, and then hooked up a week later.

He claimed that we should meet eachother at our worst--I had been teaching in a high school with no air conditioning and had been out at the bar that evening drinking. Sweat-o-rama.

At 1AM he showed up at my door.

By 3AM we were fully aquainted. :9

[MissB]

37. At his house warming party.

My friend made me go to the party that night, even though I really didn't want to.

[GalleryGod]

39. College. She was the cutest thing in "Hot Pants" !

[NoSheep]

40. small music fest in a parking lot of a bar. Carrboro NC

He listened to every word I said!

[lizziegrace]

45. High School homeroom

Senior Year.

[Orangepeel]

46. a political campaign

our candidate lost, but we won. :-)

[Beer Snob-50]

48. in a drunken state at a friends party

she was equally in the same state. we had something in common

[Deja Q]

49. None. Some choose to be single. Others are incompatible.

Hope you don't mind we exist. And we have value too.

[Ariana Celeste]

50. MSN chat

We both frequented various religious "debate" chats.

[JackBeck]

51. At Starbucks.

I worked there for a few years when I first moved to the city, and before I made the big bucks as a bartender. The first time I saw him I really wanted to get to know him. We flirted, without words, for many months until one night he asked me out on a date. We exchanged phone numbers and in our nervousness and excitement, didn't exchange numbers, but took our own numbers back. He came running back about 15 minutes later when he realized what happened.

[Midlodemocrat]

52. At work. When I was teaching high school and going to grad school

I temped as a secretary in the office where he worked. I eventually quit my teaching job to work there full time in marketing and the rest, as they say, is history.

[ceile]

53. Through a coworker n/t

[Digit]

54. I ran a BBS back before the internet...you know, the OLDEN DAYS

...and he paged me. Our daughter is now turning 22, so how is that for a prehistoric online hookup?
He is now my ex, but it was for the best.

[Courtesy Flush]

55. The old fashioned way... at a frat party

It was her first day of college -- age 17.

Still together in our late forties.

[Blue_In_AK]

56. In high school in 1963...

He was my best friend's brother. We met when I spent the night at her house and fell hard for each other. After a few months, my folks somewhat pressured me to break up with him because we were "too serious" being so young. We both went on with our lives, had no contact at all after 1968. In 2000 I started thinking about him, tracked him down in Texas, and when we saw each other face to face, it was like no time had passed at all. A couple of divorces later, we married in June 2003. Sadly, my parents were no longer alive to see it, but I'm sure they would have been happy for us - especially considering the really terrible husband choices (3) I had made in the interim. I guess I paid my dues, and now I'm being rewarded. Life is good.

[swag]

57. We met a little below the waist.

[Marnieworld]

58. online 9 years ago

Married for 4 1/2. Tada!

[bumblebee1]

59. Greece

[Maestro]

60. Fraternity party.

I know, fraternities, horrible, but we were liberal at a liberal university. In fact, we were very much the outcasts of the university greek life. We eventually got booted off campus.

[flamingyouth]

61. The Austin airport.

[elehhhhna]

62. Second City Chicago Comedy Workshop, Jan. 1983.

[Orsino]

64. Match.com

...back in '95, when the service was still free. My wife tells people that she picked me off a menu.

[leftofthedial]

65. I'm trying to figure out if she was the bait in the bear trap

or the bear trap itself

[Iniquitous Bunny]

66. While walking in a garden.

Here:

[Major Hogwash]

68. The first one I met was at a barbeque and man could she cook!

I didn't make any moves on her at that party though.
But, a week later her friend called me and told me that she thought I was cute.
So, I asked for her phone number and before long she was cooking with me!

[Bossy Monkey]

69. Writers' group n/t

[AlienGirl]

71. The DU lounge!

[SacredCow]

72. Online about a year ago...

And now the poor dear is lying beside me recouperating from sinus surgery... LOTS of dressing changes ahead of me tonight! And only about an hour and a half left on the laptop battery!

[Kerrytravelers]

73. Five years ago, we met at a party neither of us wanted to go to.

I had just moved back down to Southern California. I had also just broken up with a guy I discovered had "forgotten" to tell me he was married. (Ooops.) Thankfully, I didn't help him commit complete adultery, although starting to see someone when you're married probably isn't the best thing to do... anyway, I digress... I had just moved into my new apartment when my pal Frank called and said I had to go to "The Orange Pad Place Farewell Party." (The Orange Pad Place was a small house that had been rented to USC students for years. The owner had died and the family was selling the place.

Anyway, I was felling like being a hermit. But, persistent as always, Frank showed up, knocked on my door and said to haul my ass out and lets go. I joked and said "Oh, I'm sure I'll just meet to=he man of my dreams tonight,"... and to know how dorky some of Frank's little lost puppy dog friends can be, I anticipated a horrible event.

Mr. kt had been in Tijuana all day as a volunteer building schools. He was tired and also feeling like being a hermit. But, Frank insisted, so he cleaned up and drove all the way from San Diego to LA because Frank is that good of a friend.

In the car on the way to the party, Frank said that his friend "XXX" was a pretty cool guy, not like some of his friends who I find a bit odd. About an hour after I got there, as I was sitting on the couch wanting nothing more than to jump out the window to escape some unwanted attention, in walks the now Mr. kt with a case of beer... a man who knows how to get to my heart! :toast:

There was also a girl at the party who had loved Mr. kt for years. But, as crass and rude as she was, Mr. kt had never been the slightest bit interested. He had been nice, but was very clear with her.

The whole night, Mr. kt and I just completely hit it off. When it was time for Frank to go (and since Frank was my ride, it was time for me to go as well) we said goodnight. After I left, the romantic rival spent many hours talking about how much she hated me and how terrible I was... blah blah blah... and, as you can see, it didn't work.

One week later, we went on our first date. He drove from San Diego to LA. The following week, I drove from LA to San Diego. Exactly 3 months to the day we met, we were buying the engagement ring and wedding bands. At the end of this month, we will have been married three years.




P.S. Our friend, Frank, who introduced us... he was in our wedding and we both were in his wedding!

[Broken_Hero]

74. college, in 95...n/t

[marjorieann]

75. Out in the Boondocks hiking around

in Sloan Valley in 1980. Sloan Valley is no more, all developed. Mike had hair down to his knees and a beard so long, he looked like one of the Smith Brothers. He was smoking a cigar and had these dark sunglasses on and a Che hat. Me, being a surfer, thought he was kinda ...different. He was a starving Art student at UCSD. Here he is now:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lintiwFh9R4

[FuzzySlippers]

76. Online.....

at goodvibrations.com.

:rofl:

[Ptah]

77. I don't know.

It could have been here in the lounge.

It could have been at work.

It could have been at my apartment complex.

It could have been on the city (yes Tucson IS a city) bus.

Maybe the library.

Maybe at my favorite dive.

Was it at the grocery store?

Was that you at the hardware store?

MAybe I haven't met her yet.


I just don't know yet.

:shrug:

:cry:

[LibDemAlways]

78. College...in Geology 101....We

very romantically shared a box of rock specimens.