How did you meet your significant other

hmm single dad + single mom


im just sayin'

Just make sure you find out how old you guys are.......eventually. ; )






-Star

Mrs. Peterbilt = Needed a Green Card
Mr. Peterbilt = Mail order bride.

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Ok, not really.
Mrs. is from Switzerland and graduted in the top 10% of her class. The government sponsored her to study Hotel Management abroad for 18 months and so she picked SoCal.
Mr. moved to SoCal as a kid. One day his friend said they should go play beach volleyball. Eventually he found a nice group of players at the beach who played twice a week on sand and once a week at a high school gym.
Mrs. was brand new to California and was taking english language classes when she saw the open gym with over 50 players on the court or waiting to play. She decided to ask someone to teach her how to play, since volleyball is such a beach game, and that someone was part of the beach group. Mrs. was sticken with Mr. almost from the beginning. Mr., ... was oblivious. (men!)
Finally Mr. got the hint, we went out to a play, became serious, he asked her to be his wife in one of the most unromantic ways possible and she said yes.
Two kids later we will be married for 20 years this July.

It was a quite day and I picked her up and carried her in my arms and then tossed her in the river, to which she promptly wrapped her arms around my neck and took me with her. The end. And no, I'm not kidding.

I met my wife through a mutual friend. Saw her at a New Year's Eve party for the very first time. Floored me, straight out. Reminded me of Maureen O'Hara, drop dead gorgeous, fiery redhead, bold and brash. Of course, she pretty much hated me at first sight and considered me to be something of a boorish oaf (which I can't really argue with) based mostly on stories she'd heard from people we knew. (All lies!!) But, I was pretty well smitten.

So, I kept asking her out, and she kept shooting me down, over and over and over. It was fairly brutal, but I am nothing if not stupidly stubborn. So I kept at it, and eventually she got to see some of my better qualities. After months, when I was at the point of finally just letting it go and admitting that this woman was NEVER going to go out with me, she surprised me by saying yes. We went to this great old classic movie theater down near Hollywood and saw Philadelphia Story and the Quiet Man (she'd never seen either) and then took a long drive over Mulholland down to the beach.

She wasn't quite sold on me completely, but I knew. I was in for the long haul from that point on. She likes to say I just wore her down, but I know it was my sheer damn awesomeness that won her over in the end.. hehe. I've been the luckiest man alive for almost 8 years now, and she's been putting up with me for all that time, so life is good.

The last long relastionship I was in was with SuicalKitty (Crazykate on the forums). I was more reminded today by a Cousin 8 aniversery is today was a event before we got together. 8 years ago and 6 days (18th for those that need to take off there shoes to count). We went out to the dance club (the Church in CO) and when we get there, and found a table 1st thing she says to me is that she is not sleeping with me. I told her she would have to be the last person for that to happen.. Well later on and to many black holes later we spend a lot of time dancing and being our perferted selves. Back at our friends house I hold out a shot glass with Pepperment Snauphes (sp) and say" Drink up and Loose the rest of your moarels". That led to other things and us getting together for 7.5 years. We are still good friends but living over 1000miles apart just was to much.

She does well in the game, and have to give her credit as well since she uses a keyboard only for 95 % of the game (doors, WW sales and the few things that need a mouse click she will us it).

*sigh* I'd go out more but the RL stares are far more creepier than the ones I get here.

My wife and I met through Dungeons and Dragons about 13 years ago. She was with someone else at the time, but we had an instant friendship that was undeniable. A couple years later when they split up, she came to me. I figured I'd just be that transitional guy after the breakup (a roll I played many times) but we've been married for 7 years now. She actually played CoH for about a year with me, but the lure of WoW and all of it's shiny loot was too much of a draw for her. I should have seen it coming. She did always love playing a Kender back in our D & D days.

I was not even invited to the wedding, but I did receive a very nice DVD that included the recorded flirting between these two during a mission. Have a nice Holiday, Ace and Racoon Eyes.

This site has good search functions, it was easy to find your old posts. Perhaps I should post the DVD for posterity?

We can always meet up at Disney World - or the new Harry Potter theme park, Sobee always wanted to be a Ravenclaw.

Nice thread and i love the stories. Great to hear how some of you met.

7 years ago i was sitting at Graham's Fish and Chip (now called Jazz's) at Avondale Plaza in Brampton. People from the racetrack gather there regularly. I was sitting, talking to the owner when a tall, dark stranger (6' 1" dark haired, blue-eyed) walked in and sat at the opposite table and ordered a coffee, halibut, and poutine.

When Graham went to make the order i looked at the guy and he leaned over and asked the most dangerous of questions "Can i ask you a question?". I quickly looked him in the eye and said "Yes ". "Are you a Northerner?", he asked. I was not expecting this (my curiosity was up and you know what that does to a cat). I was raised in Perry Sound so i said "Yes, how can you tell?". I heard you say, "It went over like a lead balloon" which is not a city expression. He had overheard my conversation with Graham when he came in (observant? curiosity alarm).

Well, we continued to talk for awhile and he asked me to see our first movie which was the first Lord of the Rings movie. After we saw Lord of the Rings we went back to his house to watch the first Pirates of the Caribean movie, or i think that was the movie, or might have been X-Men? It was just background noise as far as i am concerned, we were having way to much fun to care what was on

Turns out William had just broken up with one of my old schoolmates and was raised in Kirkland Lake which is far north (James Bay area which is not far from the north pole). He was an engineer and forest ranger. He loves animals and my family raises thoroughbred racehorses so i introduced him to Woodbine RaceTrack.

This is 7 years later, we are still together, we are both owned by a black halloween cat (Basement Cat for those who know icanhascheezburger.com) named Lady Bowie.
FYI: age does not really matter to most of us. William is 8 years younger than i am.