Where and when did you meet your significant other

[Draksila]

Personally, I had just been through a bad chain of girlfriends. People who thought 'nice guy' meant 'sucker,' and who found out the hard way that nice guys can put a boot to your butt too. I found a forum online for people who were coming out of bad relationships and made friends with a couple of people on there. One of them told me I had to talk to a friend of his. He introduced me to a girl who had gotten knocked up by a guy who said he loved her, just to see his back disappearing through her door once they found out she was pregnant. We got to talking and were debating whether the modern man or the modern woman was a more evil creature to date and found we had a lot of opinions and desires regarding relationships in common.

A few months of friendship down the line, she'd had her baby. Her home situation had become hazardous to her child, so I offered to take her in as a roommate. She moved out to my area, we hit it off as more than roommates, and my family immediately took her in as one of our own. Since then my corruptive influence has turned her from tomboy party girl to roleplay loving, superhero movie watching geek. Next month we'll have been married ten years with only one real hiccup, and that one was just due to some nerves left over after our second kid was born.

I've always been someone people feel comfortable talking to and asking for advice from regarding relationships, and as such I'll just give this piece of advice; be friends first. Over time, beauty fades and passion becomes less volatile and more calm... so the romances based on torrid trysts and good looks eventually sour and lead to our divorce rate. If you find you really care about someone's opinion and just enjoy hanging out with them, though, you'll have a reason to stick around after the first phase of love (the infatuation period) turns into something more lasting. As such, the people who refuse to date each other because it would be 'weird' to go out with their friends? They're kind of hamstringing themselves.

 

[Betancore]

Why so many relationship related threads today? Hmm. Strange. Anyway, I met my last boyfriend through a friend of mine. That was a month and a bit ago. And although I wouldn't call him my boyfriend yet, I met the guy I've been dating for the past week at my radio station. I overheard him discussing with his friend the possibility of an anime show next block. Naturally I had to go talk to him.

 

[Blue Musician]

Nowhere. I haven't met my significant other yet. But I may soon, I just need her to know me *sigh*


I still do not have my hopes high though. I have learned to be disappointed by life itself at every moment of life.

I don't understand you, and trust me, I'm not trying to be judgemental, but I don't see a reason why someone like you should be so down on life.
I got knocked down so many times and have experienced so many bad things but I still try to keep my chin up since otherwise life wouldn't be worth living.
Good luck on your little crush and tell me how it goes. Here a little tip, talk to her.

I've got beaten down too many times, far too many than I want to remember. And yes, some of those things are very cruel and have affected me a lot, specially when some of those actually happened to me at a short age. Life for me isn't wroth it, but I still try to find out why we want to live, why we care about life.
And I know I should talk to her, but the thing is a little bit more complicated than it sounds. Of course I won't write it down, after all I do not really feel like.

 

[arsenicCatnip]

I met my boyfriend through a friend online. We'd sort of known of each other's existence for almost a year (I'd played messenger for her every once in a great while), but we'd never really gotten to talking for more than a minute or two. It didn't help that he didn't really like me (well, not me, but the idea of me. I was stealing his friend because she spent most of her time online with me).

One night, he popped onto Steam after a bad day, and I messaged him to check on him. We spent that night talking til dawn, and the rest is history.

If you want the place where we met face-to-face for the first time, it was at dinner with friends. Another mutual friend of ours had her graduation party and invited him (and me, since I was in town for a convention). I could barely speak when I saw him for the first time, and our first hug and kiss were like pages from a romance novel.