Where did you meet your boyfriend/girlfriend/significant other?

[dragonswarrior]

1st one: We went to the same high school, and though we shared a couple of classes we didn't really talk much. But we both rode the same bus sometimes. One day I was walking to the bus stop, it was raining, and she was ahead of me with no umbrella. So I gave her mine. And then we started talking. We've been in love for seven years now, and married for three of 'em.

2nd one: Met basically because we became poly. She fell in love with my second partners other partner, and he fell in love with her, but being poly is fine so that's how that happened. It was mostly luck that myself and the other guy's partner happened to fall in love too, but it was pretty damn awesome luck.

 

[Cold Shiny]

nowhere, because I'm going to live this life alone, and then die alone

 

[maninahat]

1) We had met in uni - she was a lindyhopping immunologist, I was a shut-in English student.

2) She asked me, though in a peculiar way; she had heard I liked reading interesting stuff, so they way she asked me out was to send me a medical article about a patient who had two meters of crap backing up into his larger intestine. At the bottom of the article, she pinned a note asking if I'd like to go out sometime. To reiterate; she saw a five foot shit and thought of me.

(we've now been married for a year).

 

[JagermanXcell]

1) Met at my best friend's birthday party. Was playing Smash/Project M having a blast till I noticed the shy little one sitting alone next to said best friend. One thing led to another and we had similar interests, but I chocked and couldn't ask her for any contact information upon her leave untiiiiil...

2) After spending a quarter of a day looking for her on social media by name, she ended up finding me first. After agreeing to a date, and some later ups and downs involving her true feelings towards me, she fell in love. We've been going a strong pair ever since that day.

 

[fenrizz]

A. At schoolg, toughly 10years ago.
B. She did. She commented on my fine ass and slapped it.

 

[Something Amyss]

During a failed ritual to awaken Cthulhu, she appeared.

On the internet, on a now defunct site. Several years ago, we've been together for three. Not sure who made the first move. Now we solve crimes together with a talking dog.

A) Zangarmarsh, World Of Warcraft, I remember it well. He was an orc, I was a troll, he was helping me with my talent tree after I had received some bad advice about which talents to take.

Okay, I really, REALLY want to hear that narrated to a swanky R&B riff.

Is that weird? That's probably weird.

 

[DanteRL]

A. On the internet 7 years ago, we're both in a chat room of a city neither of us lived in. We spent the whole night talking to each other, and traded e-mails.

B. After 3 months or so, I made the first online move, since we spent most of those months talking through messenger from 3PM to 12, or even 1AM, ALMOST EVERY DAY. Anyway, I said I was in love, she said she had feelings for me too, we met in person one month later, a day after Christmas and then I made the first move for real. Been together for 6 years now, and engaged for 3 months, still living 4 in different cities, takes four hours by bus to get near there, then another 40 minutes on another bus.

She's going to move here in January, so yeah, I ain't a bit anxious at all...

 

[Xeros]

Met my ex through her cousin whom I rode the train home from high school with along with our groups of friends. We became really good friends and while I've never been one to actively seek out a relationship, I also didn't want to risk the friendship we had so she ended up making the first move.

After 2 years, she moved away with her family and wanted nothing to do with anything long-distance. I didn't take it well and ended up cutting all ties with that part of my life.

 

[Tiger King]

She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met her. I picked her out, I shook her up, and turned her around, turned her into someone new.

Interesting, i'm no expert in these matters but if you don't mind, here is my 2 cence.

Sometimes you will see,
it's much too late to find, When you think you've changed your mind, You'd better change it back or you will both be sorry.

good luck mate

 

[Tiger King]

OkCupid

He sent me the message, I chose the place to meet.
We've been together a few months now, I think it's going good?

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Edit: I'm kind of jealous of all the people who met on WoW if only just for the stories.

I was hunting in the bushes for dragon eggs when her hand brushed mine...

I imagine it sounds more romantic than the reality of it.
I knew a couple that met on Warcraft. whilst apart they were happy and playing together and on the phone all the time etc etc.

The time came for them to get together and the girl decided to move to her boyfriends state where they lasted the whole of one week.
Her boyfriend just couldn't handle it. He was used to just playing wow all day and now he had a woman hanging around him, bugging him to go out and do stuff all the time and he flat out just didn't want to.
I suspect the girl had a hand in the relationships ending though as she was badly bi-polar and really up and down.
One time myself and some friends went for a night out and we asked her if she wanted to come, to which she politely declined. Later that night one of the groups attention span began to crumble and they whipped out their phone to play on face-palm book. (as people tend to do in social gatherings)

This girl had posted some crap along the lines of
'can't believe my friends know i'm feeling depressed and just went out without even asking me if I would like to come'
then underneath there was loads of people commenting on how we were the worst guys ever, and drowning this girl in sympathy.

There probably has been loads of wow relationships that worked but this one did not.
I think the guy should of spent more time levelling up his life than his character on wow. perhaps the outcome would of been different then.

 

[Nailzzz]

1. Met my fiancé around 15 years ago. I was working as a "monster" at a theme park during the Halloween seasonal event. She worked at the restaurant that housed the break area for us and hung out with us "monsters" on her breaks. She was a cute goth girl. We hung around the same circles of friends for years and both liked each other, but didn't admit it till years later. Every time one of us was single the other wasn't and just kept missing opportunities.

2. I eventually admitted to her that at one point I had hoped to run into her while I was single(after finding out that my gf at the time had cheated on me, again. Lot's of drama). She made a similar admission and we have been together almost 8 years now. Just engaged as of last month.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Ever heard of Darkstarlings? It doesn't exist anymore but it's where I met my girlfriend. She sent the first privet message to me! We used to be long distance but not anymore!

 

[Phasmal]

A) Zangarmarsh, World Of Warcraft, I remember it well. He was an orc, I was a troll, he was helping me with my talent tree after I had received some bad advice about which talents to take.

Okay, I really, REALLY want to hear that narrated to a swanky R&B riff.

Is that weird? That's probably weird.

I'm not gonna lie, that would be pretty frikken sweet.

OkCupid

He sent me the message, I chose the place to meet.
We've been together a few months now, I think it's going good?

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Edit: I'm kind of jealous of all the people who met on WoW if only just for the stories.

I was hunting in the bushes for dragon eggs when her hand brushed mine...

I imagine it sounds more romantic than the reality of it.
I knew a couple that met on Warcraft. whilst apart they were happy and playing together and on the phone all the time etc etc.

The time came for them to get together and the girl decided to move to her boyfriends state where they lasted the whole of one week.
Her boyfriend just couldn't handle it. He was used to just playing wow all day and now he had a woman hanging around him, bugging him to go out and do stuff all the time and he flat out just didn't want to.
I suspect the girl had a hand in the relationships ending though as she was badly bi-polar and really up and down.
One time myself and some friends went for a night out and we asked her if she wanted to come, to which she politely declined. Later that night one of the groups attention span began to crumble and they whipped out their phone to play on face-palm book. (as people tend to do in social gatherings)

This girl had posted some crap along the lines of
'can't believe my friends know i'm feeling depressed and just went out without even asking me if I would like to come'
then underneath there was loads of people commenting on how we were the worst guys ever, and drowning this girl in sympathy.

There probably has been loads of wow relationships that worked but this one did not.
I think the guy should of spent more time levelling up his life than his character on wow. perhaps the outcome would of been different then.

Yeah, I think you have to be about the same level of committed to the game. My boyfriend and I were both pretty heavily into it at the time, not so much now, but we've branched out into other games and we both have about the same level of involvement in gaming as a hobby. Basically we work because we're both huuuuuuuge no-lifers.

I've never met anyone else who met on WoW, though I know it happens more than people think. I found out when I was forced to tell this story at a family gathering that one of my many many cousins met their husband on Runescape.

 

[Secondhand Revenant]

Friend met her on a cruise. Our group of friends tend to be a bit separated geographically, a bit more so back then, so as a bunch of nerds that do roleplaying we decided we'd run games online. He invited her to one and we got to be friends. Both being people who are online a bit much we started talking a lot and I kinda got feelings for her. Admitted it and she admitted she was starting to feel the same way. Didn't officially decide to be in a relationship at first due to distance but then as things went on we did anyways.

 

[Jandau]

Online dating, OKCupid to be precise.

As for the first move, depends on what you'd consider the "first move". She contacted me first, as far as that goes. Other than that, we pretty much both made the move simultaneously when we met, as there was a ton of chemistry.

In general, I'd suggest online dating as a good starting point for people who've been out of the "game" for a while or just generally lack experience. It's less stressful when you start through written messages and you can slowly work out what works and what doesn't. Also, if you're a peculiar kind of person, you're more likely to find someone similar to you online than in a random club or whatnot.

 

[Eliam_Dar]

Well, this requires a bit of an explanation but here it goes.
I work as a technical writer and a applications trainer (which basically means I am a teacher working for the private sector), so a few years ago I had a group of trainees coming that required training in Microsoft Technologies and Support Policy. Among the trainees there was a tall blonde woman, which to be honest, I didn't think I'll ever be able to date, specially due to that pesky little thing known as conflict of interest.
So I let it be.
A week into the training, I had to go to university after work, so I went to take the bus, and there she was. She came to talk to me, asked me were was I going... and we were both going to the same university. We got into the bus and talked all the way up to the university.
Once there I went to the Biology building (long story short I was studying paleontology at the time, and plan to resume it some day), and she went to the Political Sciences building, but we agreed to met afterwards for Coffee.
After leaving the building, she was waiting for me outside, to tell me she had to go, but if I could accompany her since we both had to take the same bus, so we went to the bus stop.
To this day, she swears I make the first move, but I am not so sure. The thing is that we were talking... then we were kissing. And here I am 5 years later....married.

Funny thing though. When we were dating, we were walking through a Park in the city, and she told me, "I came here to play often when I was a kid", I said "so did I"... making that part of the story short, we realized we knew each other as kids.

 

[bigwon]

removed for general negative nancying