How Did You Meet 'Your Special Someone?'

Canada
May 28, 2007 12:49pm CST
There are many ways to meet 'that one person' that we care deeply for, and often they become our 'life's partner.' Was it 'love at first sight' for you, or was it 'a gradual process, before you knew that this would be 'your significant other?' For me, I met my (late) husband on a blind date, arranged by my sister-in-law. He was one of her co-workers. I first talked with him on the phone on Valentine's Day, and then we went on a double date with my brother and his wife. We made a connection right away on the phone, and then there was an even stronger connection when we met. We were married 11 months after our first date, but it didn't take us long to know that we wanted to be together. Please share your stories here.
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20 responses
@bhawnam (1436)
• India
28 May 07
well we studied in the same class.. we took the same coaching classes for our engineering exams.. i joined the class a month late and the first day could not get even a single thing the techer was saying.. next day the teacher asked his best student of the class to help me cover up the course.. and that best student is my husband... :) then we became friends then good friends and then best friends.. he used to drop me home after the class on his motorbike and after 5 yrs and 3 girlfriendsa day came when he realised that i was the one who could bear him life long...:) and then we married each other.. thankfully there was no problem from our parents' side in the relationship
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• Canada
30 May 07
What a wonderful way to meet your future husband, as a fellow classmate, and someone who was able to help tutor you. Glad to hear too, that your families both approved, as this really helps. My (late) husband used to ride a motor bike. Thanks for sharing.
@tonixxx (358)
28 May 07
I met my fiance on Christmas Eve three years ago. I was in a pub with my friend, he was there when we arrived and there were no seats so we askedf if we could sit at the table he was sharing with his friends. We got talking and then my friend got propositioned, she new i liked him and said to him "do you like her or not because if not were going", he said yes we exchanged numbers and we have barely spent a day apart since. I remember that i was wearing my Santa hat from Anne Summers, i still have that and it makes us laugh every christmas. He proposed to me this year in the same pub on Christmas Eve, old romantic.
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• Canada
30 May 07
Christmas is such a romantic time to share with someone special. I believe 'he' is an old romantic, as I find it touching that he'd propose in the same place and at the same time of year too. All the best to the two of you, and thanks for sharing this.
@vmoore709 (1101)
• United States
28 May 07
That is such a sweet story! I met my husband while working at a restaurant. We were both getting divorced and I was pregnant. We started dating about 3 months after I had my baby and have been together ever since. I swear, the "everything happens for a reason" line is so true! It just takes a while to discover the chain.
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• Canada
30 May 07
Thanks for your kind words vmoore. I'm happy for you, that you were able to move on, and find someone special again. I agree with your statement too, that 'everything happens for a reason.' Thanks for sharing.
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• Philippines
28 May 07
There are definitely lots of ways to meet that special someone and I sometimes couldn't even believe that I met mine online. I thought meeting anyone online could never really get that serious. I met my boyfriend online thru a chatting game called Oz World. But we didn't become a couple inside the game. He was a playboy and has lots of virtual girlfriends there whom we always chat about. Then, we just started chatting thru ym because we somehow grew tired of the game and after a while that's when we started to meet and date. Then, everything just went fine from there and we've been a couple for more than 3 years now. Of course, we've also been talking about getting married someday but no plans yet because there are still a lot of things we need to settle first. I sure hope that he'll be my last 'coz I really love him dearly.
@SheliaLee (2736)
• United States
28 May 07
It was funny, my husband and I went to high school together but didn't meet until the first day of my last quarter of Technical College. He recognized me in the lunch line and came up to me saying he thought I had gone to college somewhere else. He sat down with me while I was eating lunch and continued doing so over the next few days. I finally got up the nerve to invite him to church with me for our revival we were having that week and he accepted, in fact went with me for two nights LOL. We dated off and on after that for about three years and then got married. We have been married now for 23 years. :)
• Canada
30 May 07
It's interesting how some people can be in the same place together for so long, and never actually meet until much later on. I'm glad you got up the courage to invite 'him out.' Congratulations on your 23 years together, and thanks for your response.
• United States
29 May 07
Well for months my bestfriend was talking about this guy she ment somewhere, One day a mutual friend of ours brought him to my house, when i first saw him i fell in love right there, i said to myself im gonna marry this guy, ( i was 18) we became friends, and i didnt think i would be his "type" being the complete opposite of what he was dating at the time. He broke up with her, and he called, and wanted me to go and hang out with just him. To make a long story short, after being friends for over a year we started to date. and eventually got engaged and married. :) I wasnt even looking for someone, when he came into my life...
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• Canada
30 May 07
It's interesting how 'you knew' that you'd marry him naturesgurl, as I felt that way about my (late) husband too, when I first saw him. So in a way, it was 'love at first sight' for me as well. I'm glad that your friendship blossomed into 'something more.' Thanks for your response.
• Canada
30 May 07
By the way, welcome to myLot.:)
• United States
31 May 07
Thank you, i always thought i was "crazy" thinking that when i ment him, im glad im not the only one... And im sorry for your loss... ~hugs~
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
29 May 07
I was a single parent and alone for 23 years. I had given up on love but every few years I did try for a bit to find someone and then give up again. This time I joined an online dating club. I didn't want to meet people in my own city I was fed up with them. I met three guys in the same week and My matt was the last one of them and we have been to gether ever since.
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• Canada
30 May 07
I too, am a single parent, as you may already know winterose. My husband passed away suddenly, and that will be 14 years ago, this fall. I'd given up too, and then I met him, but we didn't have much time together. I'm very happy for you, that you met 'your special guy,' and wish you much joy together in the future. Thanks for sharing, as always.
@meljessxena (2315)
• Australia
29 May 07
my partner is friends with my brother, my brother hadnt see him for awhile and one night our family went to a pub (a fair few years ago lol) and he was talking to this guy and soon i saw him i was like oh my i wonder who that is, so i went and joined the conversation and introduced each other etc and i fell inlove with him. but at the time it was quiet a bad timing because he was having girlfriend problems and i was having basically the same bf problems, but we didnt know that about each other at the time. then every time after that i was at the pub we were dying to see each other but neither of us knew that the other felt like that. and then i didnt speak to him for about 6 months or so, and then one day i had a missed call on my phone and then i rang him back and he said whos this and he said he didnt ring me etc (a long story) and then ever since we stayed in contact and worked it out, but it took us a while after that before we offically started going out.
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• Canada
30 May 07
It's interesting how things can work out this way at times. It sounds similar to what happened with my brother and his (now) wife. She felt a connection to my brother, and didn't want to be with her boyfriend anymore. I'm glad you were able to 'connect' via that phone call. All the best to the two of you. Thanks for sharing.
@wasim989 (2298)
• India
29 May 07
I am still waiting for my special some one.....................
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• Canada
30 May 07
I can remember what it's like to wait for that special person wasim989, and it can take 'a lot' of patience. I hope this happens for you before too long. Thanks for your response.
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
28 May 07
I was hounding an ex HS girlfriend for one last date before she got married. She lived down the road from my now wife. As I was over asking for this last date her phone rang. She then handed me the phone saying It's for you. iT WAS dEBBIE MY FUTURE AND PRESENT WIFE. hAHAHA!! I have been with my wife since that day. That was in 1974. We have been married 29 years now also. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
• Canada
30 May 07
It's a good thing you went to visit your ex girlfriend Grandpa Bob, otherwise, things could've turned out quite differently for you. Congratulations for achieving all of those years together, and I wish you many more.:)
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• Canada
30 May 07
Thanks for your response, as always, Grandpa Bob.
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@austere (2812)
• Philippines
29 May 07
guess, i met him? well am not really sure if it's gonna be him, but if i were to decide, i would want it to be hi already..:) a currently in a relationship right now.. my boyfriend and i have been together for more than a year now..:) i love him so much, and up to this very day, i still feel so deeply in love with him like the firstday that we went out together.. i dont know, i just think he is the one for me, i cant ask for more, he is smart, responsible, good enough for me..:) but you see, as we are yet in this girlfriend-boyfriend status we cant truly be sure if we will end up together.. a lot of things could happen.. and we just dont know what if one day someday we will have to separate ways or something..but as of the moment, am just grateful having him in my life..and couldnt pray for anything else but for this relationship to work out!:)
• Canada
30 May 07
It sounds like you really care for 'your special someone,' austere, so I hope that the two of you are able to be together in the future as well. Best wishes to the both of you, and thanks for your response.
@shinjiao (1457)
• China
29 May 07
Hi,someonesmom! I met my "special one" in the classroom.That's not romantic at all.He talked to first and made a short introduction about himself.I didn't pay much attention on him because he was mediocre.But later,I found he was talent with English.He was charming when he expressed his own opinion in front of us.Then we changed our cellphone numbers and sent messages to each other.One month later,he became my boyfriend.My experience is nothing special.
• Canada
30 May 07
Hi shinjiao! I think that you've had a 'special' experience, and a classroom is a great place to meet someone like this. Sometimes first impressions don't always show us the 'whole picture.' Best wishes to the both of you for your future, and thanks for sharing.
@paulick (533)
• Denmark
29 May 07
It was deffinitly love at first sight.... I had just returned from ½ year in Kosovo as a military police soldier the day before. It was a wedensday night and some of my military friends wanted to celebrait our return home, but i didn't want to since we had a big comming home party the next day. But the got me convinsed that we should go, i didn't feel like drinking so i drove my car down town. We've only been at the disco for about 15 minutes when i spotted the girl: Long blond hair, blue eyes, athletic build, VERY nice figure. We talked all night and at 5 a.m she had to leave the disco because she had to go to work, at a hospital, at 8. So i walked her home, and said goodnight in the doorway and went back to the disco to my friends and told them that this girl is the one i'm going to marry. We've been together for 3½ years now, and i'm still 100% sure that this is the girl i'm gonna marry, soon!!!!
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• Canada
30 May 07
First of all, I'd like to thank you for your dedication, and the courageous work that you do, so that 'each of us,' can continue to live in freedom. I think your story is a very romantic one, and wish you both the very best in the future. Thanks for your response.
@Nykkee (2522)
• Canada
29 May 07
I grew up in the same town and went to the same school as my husband, but never knew him during that time. It was only after moving away from home, partially because I come from a small town and felt that I had already met everyone here and was not interested in any of them, that I met him on an online dating service. We chatted for a while, then he came to meet me and never left, he stayed on my couch for a while before officially moving in, shortly after that we moved back to our hom town, a little over a year after that we were engaged, and 7 months later we were married. So we are a testament to the fact that dating services can really work!
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• Canada
30 May 07
That's really ironic, that you'd been so close geographically, and then moved away, and ended up meeting online. I do know of people who've met their 'significant other' through a dating service. Best wishes to the both of you. Thanks for your response, and welcome to myLot.
• United States
29 May 07
I met my husband at work. I started working at Wal-mart in April 1999. He was on vacation when I started but came back and we kind of just goofed off with the other guys (I was the only girl in three departments--me and 12 guys, lol, I fit in well though). Then on June 4, 1999, he showed up at my apt with our friend from work. They had run into each other at a bar and our friend had an idea that we both like each other and he would hook us up. He left us alone and we stayed up talking all night and hit it off (yes, only talking). I got about an hour of sleep and had to be to work at 11am the next morning. Worked my 8 hours and then waited for him to get off of work at 10pm. We drove back to my place and ordered a pizza. We were just being silly and he kissed me and I knew at that moment that I was head over heals in love with him. Then he started talking about when we got married and had kids and I asked him if he was serious and he said yes. Then I said, "you just kind of proposed to me, didn't you?" and he said, yeah, he did. That was June 5, 1999. Coming up on 8 years here. We never spent a night apart until the next April when I spent a week at my parent's house. he had to go home and work. We were engaged on June 5, 1999. Got pregnant some time in October. Got married January 7, 2000 and had our oldest daughter at the end of June. We have been together almost 8 years (as I mentioned) and have been married 7 1/2 years and have 4 children together (born in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2006). Our middle 2 kids were our 1st and 2nd anniversary gifts. After the 3rd kid we stopped celebrating our anniversary, lol.
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• Canada
30 May 07
Wow, that's a lot of guys to work with, and you being the only female.:) It's great when guys really like to talk like this. I can still remember when I realized that I was in love with my (late) husband too ... wonderful memories. Ironically, this is what happened to me as well, as my husband never 'formally' proposed. We too, just started talking about being married etc. Congratulations on your beautiful family, and best wishes to all of you. I can 'understand' the part about the 'non' anniversary celebrations.:) Thanks so much, for sharing.
@Marie2473 (8512)
• Sweden
29 May 07
We actually met on the Pub =) I know it is not the bestthing, but we did and I am so glad I went there =) We have bneen together for about 1 year and 3 or 4 monts now =) I do not care what people say - you can find true love in a bar =)
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• Canada
30 May 07
I believe you can find 'true love' in lots of different places, and often when you 'least expect it.' Best wishes to you both, and thanks for your response.
• United States
29 May 07
I met my boyfriend on myspace and didn't expect it to go anywhere. I kept telling myself not to expect anything serious from him and not to expect him to call...but he kept calling, every night. When we met there was def an attraction but it wasn't love at first sight. You have to grow into love. We love each other now because we got to know each other better. A lot of people look down on meeting people online but I found my soulmate online!!
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• Canada
30 May 07
You're one of several, who've met 'that special someone' online, and I think that's great. I believe the more you get to know the other person, the more your love grows, although there is 'something' to say for 'love at first sight' too. Thanks for your response.
• Canada
30 May 07
Oh, I forgot to mention, welcome to myLot.:)
• Canada
29 May 07
I had just moved to a new city and knew nobody... I went to a church Christmas banquet and there I met my husband. That was six years ago this past December and we will be married five years this summer and have a lovely four year old son togehter. To answere your question, it didn't take long for us to figure out that we were to be togehter...My Dad was the one that made us wait for an engagement or I am sure we would have been married even sooner!
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• Canada
30 May 07
You're the second person on here who met 'the one' at Christmastime heavenschild. I've always thought that's a really special thing, as I love this time of year. Happy anniversary to the two of you 'in advance.' It's the same with me and my (late) husband, as it didn't take us long to know that we were meant to be together either. We would've been married sooner too, but 'he' had full custody of his 3 boys, and they needed some additional time to adjust to the idea, as I did also. Thanks so much, for your response.:)
• Canada
29 May 07
The word is "together" I am sorry about my typing tonight perhaps I shall call it a day!! LOL
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@makingpots (11915)
• United States
30 May 07
My husband and I were Chemistry lab partners in college. ..... We love to tell people that there was chemistry from the start. ha, ha. We had mutual friends and interests around campus so we didn't start dating righ away. We went to the same parties, sports, intramural events, etc. until we finally just started riding together to everything. But that wasn't dating..... was it?? We knew we were attracted to each other and enjoyed spending most of our time in each others company, but to this day we still disagree on what was actually our first date. PS I dropped the lecture portion of the Chemisty class on the last day to drop a class, but finished out the semester never missing a lab class.
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• Canada
30 May 07
I really like that line about the chemistry, makingpots.:) I think that it's great that you were such good friends, that you don't really 'know' when your friendship turned into something serious. That's very cute about the 'lab class' too. Thanks for your response.
@jyngers (13)
• Philippines
29 May 07
I met my husband while i was working as an encoder/programmer. the first time i met him, he was introduced to me as my team leader. Well that is where we started. after a year we got married. and after 11 years of honeymoon, adjustment and a lot of tissue box later we are still going strong. he is the person who completes me.
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• Canada
30 May 07
What a great way to meet that 'special person,' and I'm very happy to hear that you're still going strong. I like the way you put it, when you talk about him completing you, and I understand your sentiments regarding this. Thanks for sharing, and welcome to myLot.