Went to the same high school, but didn’t really know each other until end of senior year. I guess I dated a friend of hers briefly. Really met via both of us doing theatre that year, hung out after that and through summer. Bonded over our love of metal music and Doctor Who. Neither of us technically asked the other out, her friend assumed we were dating and was like “You guys haven’t kissed yet?! OK, I’m gonna turn around around, and you’re going to kiss right now!” We kinda just went with it and kissed.
End of summer happened, and the casual summer thing had turned into us being really into each other. Decided to keep dating, making separate colleges work best we could.
Ten years later, we are living together in our own house with our three dogs, and getting married next month!
StumbleUpon, back when the internet was young and finding love on the internet was poor judgment.
Happily married.
Yeah, I also met my wife online back when you’d lie about meeting someone online. Spent our first couple years telling people we met “through a friend of a friend”.
I’m guessing this was around the time you guys met since she introduced me to StumbleUpon shortly after we started dating.
Hotboxing a dorm room lol.
German class in freshman year of high school. We started dating the following year and have been together almost 17 years total. We are coming up on our 7th wedding anniversary.
We worked for the same company but at different offices. Normally I would avoid dating someone I work with but I hated that job so I didn’t care. She was cute. I was going through a divorce. I started chatting her up because I thought she was cute. I was still kind of surprised when she asked me out. I said yes but told her I wasn’t ready for a serious relationship and why. She was cool with that.
Eventually it turned into something serious. That was almost 7 years, a wedding, and two babies ago. She is an absolute gem of a lady and my best friend. 10/10 would definitely trade that shitty job for my awesome wife again.
Tinder
With one exception, everyone I’ve dated has been through an app like tinder.
Early on it was because I didn’t really know how to be a person, and meeting people in real life was hard.
Now it’s more that I do ethical non monogamy, and that’s hard to check for when you just meet someone in the world most of the time. Also a lot of people have strong adverse reactions to it, and/or think it’s something it’s not.
We had PE together freshman year of HS. She hated me back then tho lol
Uni! We were just friends, though very good friends. But still firmly just friends, she was actually in a relationship for a good part of our friendship and I had zero interest in going beyond good friends with her in particular, and I especially knew better than fall for a person in a relationship - I’ve never seen one of these end well. I haven’t been interested in dating for most of my life. But I think that’s because my social life and self esteem has been seriously eeh in middle and high school, while I started really working on a social life in uni. Before jumping to dating I wanted to get a few basics down - a good friend group (ended up being several of them!), a real social life and some 1:1 close friends. Plus my own personal world of hobbies, ambitions and interests. You know - a good world to introduce a person to. At one point, I was feeling finally ready for a relationship and excited to try and accept this possible direction in life. I started acting as someone who’s interested in dating: worked on my appearance and self esteem, got more social and made it a point to socialize with everybody at events. That friend I mentioned earlier actually was on a small personal “Do not date” blacklist, because I didn’t want to ruin our friendship (read: be rejected and see the other person go cold on you until you lose them completely… I had already made that mistake) and she was the person with whom I naturally vibed the absolute best - it was effortless. Who wants to lose the effortoess friend who doesn’t drain their social battery at all?
I guess it was so effortless that when it was supposed to happen it happened, things happened, our friendship was starting to develop in a “dangerous” direction (which was making me feel wary to be fair because I was definitely starting to catch feelings), then at one point she made a move and it felt like an impossible dream come true, like the best case scenario that was so good I was not even considering it as a valid option coming to life. Easily one of the happiest moments of my life. And the rest is history.
We were sparring and she kicked me in the nuts.
Krav Maga?
Discord, of all places.
A few weeks away from birthing our newest family adition!
Practice safe Discording, kids. Use a vpn or you may get pregnant!
Aye, good advice.
The age limit is there for a reason!
I don’t remember exactly how we met, but here’s how we started dating. I’ll preface this by saying we started dating in high school at age 16 and have been married for 23 years. Anyway, we were doing a play after school and we were all hanging out and I said, “I’m going to marry someone here.” A friend said, “who?” And I pointed at her because I secretly liked her. So we had a whole fake wedding on the set. After that, we started dating for real and it never stopped.
Online through a text-based role playing game, lol. We’ve been married 13 years as of last Monday.
LAN bash
