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People are always asking me how I met my husband. I think it's because we do make a great couple but we are total opposites. We have been married for 11 years now.

We met in a court-appointed traffic class. You know the classes you take after a speeding ticket to keep the points off your drivers license? It was like that except a judge said we both had to go. We ended up sitting beside each other during the class. He asked me out afterwards. The rest is history.

What is your story?

My story is a little odd, but it's becoming more and more common, well part of it is at least lol.

I actually met my SO, while I was still with my ex... it's not as bad as it sounds, so please don't mark me off as a bad person.

I had been with my ex for a few years, purely because of our son - I was completely miserable and had never really been happy with him, or intended to spend my life with him, but I felt like I had to because we had a child. He had talked me into playing an MMORPG with him that I wasn't even interested in, but it was a distraction and provided something to do since he was unemployed and my paycheck didn't supply enough money for a family of 3 to live on and go out with.

We actually both met my current SO while playing this game, and would sit and chit chat with him and others over Ventrilo. There was never anything between us though, we barely knew each other outside of the game's context. Our conversations all revolved around video games and the other people who played the game.

Eventually, I got tired of living a miserable life and I realized that staying with my ex was not doing our son any good. If anything it was just going to give him a skewed vision of what relationships should be like.

His father and I got into an argument one day, and he said "maybe I should just leave" - and I didn't protest. He was awestruck and that was the day we split up.

Later that night, after a lot vomiting and panic-ing and crying (not because I was upset, just because I was scared that I was now officially on my own even though I'd been the sole financial supporter of the family for quite sometime) I got on vent and the MMORPG that we had played to break the news to everyone that we had split up, and to let them know how to contact him if they wanted to.

The man who is now my SO wasn't even online at the time because he was at work. He logged on later and found out what had happened... he'd always been a very soothing person to talk to and so we chatted for a while over vent and things blossomed from there.

Now over 2.5 years later, we're living together and sharing our lives. He's been amazing and has supported the 3 of us alone for a little over a year, and has been incredible. He and my 4yo get along wonderfully, and those who meet us and don't know our story never doubt for a moment that the 4yo isn't his.

It's wonderful. A strange story overall, but I really think meeting on the internet is happening a lot now, just typically not when one person is already with someone else lol

I met my hubby while I was out shopping with my mother.

My fiance', Scott & I met at a wedding a year and 1/2 ago. He was the caterer and I was the photographer. We are getting married in May of next year. :p

My story is a little odd, but it's becoming more and more common, well part of it is at least lol.

I actually met my SO, while I was still with my ex... it's not as bad as it sounds, so please don't mark me off as a bad person.

I had been with my ex for a few years, purely because of our son - I was completely miserable and had never really been happy with him, or intended to spend my life with him, but I felt like I had to because we had a child. He had talked me into playing an MMORPG with him that I wasn't even interested in, but it was a distraction and provided something to do since he was unemployed and my paycheck didn't supply enough money for a family of 3 to live on and go out with.

We actually both met my current SO while playing this game, and would sit and chit chat with him and others over Ventrilo. There was never anything between us though, we barely knew each other outside of the game's context. Our conversations all revolved around video games and the other people who played the game.

Eventually, I got tired of living a miserable life and I realized that staying with my ex was not doing our son any good. If anything it was just going to give him a skewed vision of what relationships should be like.

His father and I got into an argument one day, and he said "maybe I should just leave" - and I didn't protest. He was awestruck and that was the day we split up.

Later that night, after a lot vomiting and panic-ing and crying (not because I was upset, just because I was scared that I was now officially on my own even though I'd been the sole financial supporter of the family for quite sometime) I got on vent and the MMORPG that we had played to break the news to everyone that we had split up, and to let them know how to contact him if they wanted to.

The man who is now my SO wasn't even online at the time because he was at work. He logged on later and found out what had happened... he'd always been a very soothing person to talk to and so we chatted for a while over vent and things blossomed from there.

Now over 2.5 years later, we're living together and sharing our lives. He's been amazing and has supported the 3 of us alone for a little over a year, and has been incredible. He and my 4yo get along wonderfully, and those who meet us and don't know our story never doubt for a moment that the 4yo isn't his.

It's wonderful. A strange story overall, but I really think meeting on the internet is happening a lot now, just typically not when one person is already with someone else lol

Thank goodness I'm not the only weirdo here!!! ;)

My story is a little similar to yours...

After my daughters father broke up with me I kind of went on oh I'd say about 10 bad dates over the course of a year and finally I met a guy who I thought was a total sweetheart and basically jumped at the opportunity. I dated him for almost a year when he announced that he was moving to California (we lived in Texas) to take a job, but wanted to keep dating me. We tried it and after about a month it became pretty obvious to me that it wasn't going to work out.

So... I kept my options open and at the time was also playing an MMO and started talking to a guy who I later realized was from a town over where I graduated from. We even knew some of the same people :) it was crazy! He pushed to meet me, I denied.. he pushed more... I denied more! After a couple of months I realized the attraction the both of us had for each other and finally made the call to the so-called guy who was living 2000 miles away and told him it was over. Yes I feel bad about it, but it worked out for the best for both of us. (he's not happily married to another woman now!)

He begged and we chatted and finally I agreed to meet this mystery man (although he wasn't THAT much of a mystery, after all we had chatted via webcam at that point every single night before bed). He mentioned he was going to be in town (he was at the time in the Air Force stationed 3 hrs from me) and that he wanted to take me to dinner and a concert. I finally agreed and well... 3 years later we're happily married :) <3

During my crappy year of dating after my daughters father left us I read the book "He's just not that into you" and as most of you have heard of the movie, let me tell ya that book is full of good stuff! Every time he begged to meet me and was so upfront with his feelings about me it always made me think of that book. I tell him we're only together, because he never gave up!

I met my husband when I was only 18 - we've been together 13 years. I had just broke up with a guy for cheating and was at this party but not in the partying mood. So I was just wanting to get away from everyone/everything and went to the top of the steps where no one was around. Out of nowhere, a guy who I had never mutually gotten along with (we both didn't like each other much), came and sat next to me and asked me what was wrong. And it just evolved from there and the rest is history.

I met my husband on Match.com! I was a single mom of a yr old little boy, and I have always had this rule that I do not date guys I meet at bars, not to mention that being a single mom, I did not have much extra money for bars! I was working 16 hrs a day, didnt go to church and wasnt in college at the time, so I had no time for a social life, bc all my extra time was spent with my son.
I figured the internet was the best way for anything to happen bc I could "weed out the losers" and it worked! I could stay as anonymous as I needed to living alone and all, but I was still able to screen people for later meetings in public places, etc.
We have been married coming up on 4 years now!

Our sisters were friends and when my sister moved away, Mike and I started to get to know each other and when my sister heard about it she was shocked! We are total opposites but it works for us we have been married 7 years and have two kids.

All great stories with good outcomes :)

Plus, I'm always glad to hear other stories about folks meeting online, makes me feel better lol!

I meet my husband in high school.. From there on out, we stayed together, got married and now have 2 beautiful kids.

I met my husband at a bar..

My co-worker and I took the same bus home everyday. On day, my husband was on our bus and he knew my co-worker through his ex. After that bus ride, he called my co-worker to see how he could met me and the rest was the history....

We met online about 10 years ago. Exchanged emails and later on started chatting online. This went on for more than 2 years. We got married and now have 3 wonderful boys! We still chat online sometimes. :)

HI! Never know where will you meet your future! It was rather unexpectedly for me. I was in the park with my pets and my "Future" was there as well! I guess that our dogs where the reason for our first talk. Now we are still together!

I love hearing your stories! WOW!

I was in my lower 20s, unmarried. I had heard of a SINGLE new minister that was coming to a church not too far from us. Not to the church I attended. One evening we decided as a family that we would go hear the "new minister" and we did. I was going with someone at the time in a long distance letter writing relationship at that time. Dates my age!!!! lol!

Well that night as I sat in the congregation and the new minister came up to the platform, I said: "Hum not bad!" I knew nothing about him other than he was single so my mind started racing with questions! What about this..., is he this, does he this, how, when, when. etc...

I shook his hand on the way out and that was it for a few months. I started praying about him and little did I know but he started praying about me! A few months later he asked me out and now we are history...

I met my husband at work. He had overdrawn his account at the bank and I helped him fix his problem he had overdrawn his account he had gone to Mcdonalds for lunch so his $5 hamburger was going to cost him about $60 dollars so I felt sorry for him and helped him out. And that is about all she wrote and now I cant get rid of him (ha, ha)

I meet my DH at work in 1998. I was new there and had to "shadow" in different houses within the company we both worked for. Honestly, I liked DH as soon as I met him! He told me (cause of course I asked) that he was dating someone---that sucked! Didn't see him again (only seen him once prior) until we were out bar hopping about a year later at the same place...found out he was still with that GF but not happy now... perfect timing for me! I moved in on that and even played nice to soon to be ex GF! DH and I were were frick and frat from that day on... Didn't take long to rock that boat..a few months later I moved into his place and in 2000 we bought a house together, had 2 kiddos and still together...

in high school through friends;)

I met my husband at a little Dairy Creme I worked at. I was 18 he was 27. He asked me out, 2 months later moved in together for a couple of years then married. Have been together 25 years, married 23, have 2 wonderful sons! Life is good.

He was a friend of my brothers all through high school and basically lived at my house. He always had a girlfirend, I always had a boyfriend. Then high school ended, groups went their own way. One night a few friends of mine were hanging out and he was there, too. After a few drinks he asked if he could kiss me, I said no because then one thing would lead to another then we'd hate each other and then I'd have to kill him. :D He kept pursuing me after that and after about a month I finally gave in & kissed him. Here we are married with 2 kids 9 years later.

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College, we were both music majors.

On the internet - via AOL, when AOL was the only thing going. We went to the same high school though, and met when we were living 900 miles apart!

People are always asking me how I met my husband. I think it's because we do make a great couple but we are total opposites. We have been married for 11 years now.

We met in a court-appointed traffic class. You know the classes you take after a speeding ticket to keep the points off your drivers license? It was like that except a judge said we both had to go. We ended up sitting beside each other during the class. He asked me out afterwards. The rest is history.

What is your story?

What a fun question! :)

Well, first of all - I'm embarrassed to say I've been married TWICE before - I met my first hubby when we both worked together in a group home for mentally challenged folks. The marriage was very short-lived (just a few months), as he was abusive :( - we were together long enough for me to get pregnant with my only son.

My second marriage - my 3 daughters' father - I met him at my friend's house, as her folks owned an apartment building and HE was a tenant. I was a single mom with a 2 y.o. when we married - we remained married for over 20 years, but after being 'controlled' and not allowed to pursue more education or a career, among other issues - we divorced about 10 years ago.

THEN ... I met Dave through online dating (glad to see I'm not the only one!) - LoveAccess - I was born and raised in NH, he has lived in Maine all his life - we chatted online for about a month (Dec. 2002), exchanged photos, then he asked if he could call me on New Year's Eve - we "rang in" the New Year together :D ... THEN ... he drove to NH to meet me (in a snowstorm!) on Jan. 4th, 2003. We visited back and forth between Maine and NH for a few months - then, since I was between jobs, he asked me if I wanted to move to Maine. We have been together ever since - got married on Feb. 11, 2006 :) - and he is truly the love of my life (third time's the charm!)

I meet my husband to be when he was coaching my son's football team. We starred at each other all summer, too afraid to speak and then finally the last day of the season, I mean THE last day when everyone said goodbye, just as I was about to pull off, he came up to my car and asked me if I was free to give him a call sometime. I screamed in joy as I drove off, because I had a serious crush on him and was too scared to ever approach him and never realized that he like me as well! So I was very shocked and happy. LOL!! :p

On a blind date on Valentine's Day. All my co-workers were going out to a club and I had just broke up with my boyfriend, but I wanted to go so bad but not without a date. My boss knew of a friend of his son-in-laws and we met at the club as a blind date. How did I know it was going to be my soul mate, my best friend and the father of our beautiful 2 children!

I met my hunny through my cousin, they used to work together and he came over to buy a lowrider bike. I was actually leaving the house to go to the store with my mom and I told her that I was going to marry him after just seeing him; we didn't even talk. She kept asking me "are you sure" and I said yes. From then on we were together all the time, 3 wks later we moved in together, 2 months after that we became official and he gave me a promise ring, 2 years later we have a son together and we've been together for almost 5 years now.

hmm this is a long story but yes to be very brief....i met my partner in my kindergarden...he he....sounds amazing but this is true...........

My step father worked with my husband and kept at him about taking me out. That was 8 1/2 years ago. We have been married for 7 years.

Oh boy...

I met my husband when I was 15. He was 20, turned 21 a few weeks later. We met through his sister. We had been friends for a few years, didn't even know she had a brother. One night, she said I should meet him. It was love at first sight. We dated for just over a year before breaking up. The age difference was no problem for us. I am an only child and was almost always around adults. His mom, sister (who didn't think we'd actually get along ;) ) and my mom basically broke us up.

I went off to college out of state, he married someone else. I moved back to the area, he was getting a divorce. He emailed me when I was 24. We were engaged the next month, married 9 months later. We've been married now for 4 1/2 years and have a 6 month old son. And now my mom just loves him. She'll call and spend most of the time talking to him. Go figure!

Online dating website. Those things work!

We met online. I came across his myspace page and wrote him to tell him what an ass I thought he was from the info provided on his page. I never expected a reply but he did and we talked via email for a week then met. I was hooked after that.

Well, I met him through a friend I worked with at the time. He came in because his roomate (another friend and coworker) locked his keys in his truck and needed my dh to come bring his spare set. He did and saw me. I flirted a little. He later went home and asked his other roomate (and my other coworker) about me. My friend told me of this convo and urged me to give him my number so I did. And that, as they say, is history.

We met in Jr. High, but didn't get together until his senior year, my junior. He was Capt of football, I was Capt of volleyball. Both super at track and we got together during track season before he graduated. Yep, high school sweethearts from 20 years back. lol

We met in a singles chat room on IRC in 1997. He lived in Rhode Island and ended up moving to Dallas for me. We have been married 11 years and have two beautiful children. :)

I met mine while cashiering at Burger King! It was the year right after high school, my first job, had been there a year.

Reggie came in with his friend and came up to order. His FRIEND wanted to date me but I took one look at his friend and said 'no thanks, not my type.' Reggie then said 'why don't you give me your number then' And I was so turned off by that! I was like NO! Are you kidding me?!? So they got their food, ate inside and left.

Fast forward 3 mths I was working and Reggie ordered food at the drive thru. When he came to the second window, I noticed him right away (but it was b/c he was blasting his music) and my friend who gave him the order said 'oh wow he's cute!' Next thing I knew he drove around, parked and came in. He had his little kangol hat on and his hip hop attire (a big turn off!) and he asked me if I remembered him. I did but I told him NO. He said 'Remember when...' and helped me 'recall' the other time. I was like okay....and he asked me for my number again, this time I went ahead and gave it to him b/c my friend thought he was cute! I didn't like him at first b/c I thought he was cheap and illiterate (I have no clue why I thought that) he talked with that hip hop slang, (THAT'S probably why lol), he was all into his car, he wrote how he talked...but he started to grow on me over time.

After that he started showing up at my job to say hello, offered to take me home, took me different places like Canada and all these other cool places...and one time (I found out AFTER we married) he followed me when I was with my friends w/o me knowing b/c he wanted to see how I acted outside of work. We started hanging out more as friends first..and he was very polite with my friends. He introduced me to his friends....and after a while my parents LOVED him We dated for 3 years before we got married.

Will be married 11yrs March 27th and have 3 children! Total of 14yrs together. ;o) He stopped all that hip hop stuff shortly after we started dating....and he actually writes a LOT better than me now. lol

I met my husband when I was 14. We bowled in a junior bowling league together. I was dating his best friend, and when he broke up with me. Jason took me out for pizza to cheer me up. We dated all through high school before breaking up as we moved onto college. Two years later, he happened to stop by my house to drop something off for my dad (they had talked the entire time we were not together) and the rest they say is history. We pretty much just picked up where we left off. We have been married now for almost three years.

We met in Spanish class my freshman year at college. His version - getting ready to walk out and drop the class but then " she walked in " and he decided to stay and offer me the seat next to him. 3 kids, 2 dogs and 19 years later = today :)

I met my husband on plentlyoffish.com :D We met March of last year, we hit it off immediately! Found out we were having a baby girl in May. Got married in November and had my precious little girl in December. I would never have met him without that site, he lived 3 and a half hours from me, lol. I definitely found my soul mate. Everything about him says he was made for me. :cool:

I met my husband at a happy hour in Houston that our young adults group at church (Catholic) was having with other church young adult groups. I was trying to get out of a date set for the next night with someone I meet at a party and found out he was divorced, something I don't mess with. Divorce is out. I wasn't even thinking of anyone else. Well, my husband showed up at this happy hour (Dacquiri Factory, Houston, TX) and we started talking. I really liked him and knew I wanted to go out again with him. We went out for a few months and then broke up for a couple of weeks (it was such torture for me and that is when I realized that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him) got back together and the rest is history as everyone on this forum is saying. Have been married now for 12 years and have 2 little girls, one 10 and the other 4.

we were introduced us by our common friend through text messaging. he lived in the northern part of my country while im in the south. we have 3 kids now, one girl and 2 boys and been married for 9 years already.

I love this question as I am only married 4 months. =)

I met my husband at the hotel I used to work at. He was on a business trip and the hotel the company was supposed to stay at was full. The hotel sent the guys over to my hotel instead. Well, the first time I talked to my husband, I gave him the wrong directions. Haha. He was at the hotel for about a month. Every night he would come to the front desk to talk to me. He asked me on a date and I said of course. Well, an hour before the date I started to freak out. I ended up not going on the date! He did not give up. We eventually went on a date and the rest is history. We have been together 5 years and married 4 months.

We worked at the same company. I pursued her until she caught me ;) We dated for two weeks before getting engaged, and two weeks later we were married. We knew it was right :cool: