Any funny/sweet stories on how you met your husbands? (Or to the men out there your wives?) We were talking about it at work and there were so many stories.....loved it!!!;)

I joke that I found mine on the tracks, he's a railroader.

Actually I was working as a waitress and one night 3 guys came in, the one was so obnoxious I hit him up side the head with a menu (I could read them, lol, it WAS ok to do this, the other two guys LOVED IT) He came back the next night with those guys and another guy who was so sweet,quiet and cute.

We ended up all being friends all summer, another girl I worked with and I volunteered at the railroad (It was a tourist line, we ran the concession car on Weds).

Buy the end of the summer the cute quiet guy was mine :)

Funny, the obnoxious guys mom just LOVED me, lol, tried to get me to date him, ummm, he was like everyones geeky brother!

That was over 17 years ago and not one real single fight in all that time.

kj

Well when I turned 30 I thought I had better do something (other than being a mum) for the rest of my life. I chose to go back to school and study at TAFE for my Cert 3 in Aged Care.

There I met DBF, who had been going through the same thing (except he is 10 years older and chose Cert 3 in Disablilty). Our courses were often run concurrently so we got to know each other well.

We found that we had the same beleifs and values on families and relationships, our kids had similar behavioural issues so we understood each other (not many people do if they are not in same situation).

That was early last year. by April he had moved in, we started trying for a family in June last year (no success yet) and moved into a place for US (rented still tho).

Everything had gone fairly smoothly blending our families. Both our children live with us and that was interesting for them. We joke that the hardest part of blending our families was getting the animals together. He has two dogs and we had two cats!! That was fun!!

Skinny dipping almost eight years ago. :whistle:

Been together ever since, married for five. This story always shocks others but we find it incredibly funny.

Let's see... Had a blind date that I faked a headache and skedaddled on. But I was footloose and fancy free and didn't want to go home. I always wanted to be braver and challenged myself to actually go into a local bar by myself.

So I did, and thank the heavens ran immediately into an old classmate of mine. I latched on to him and his wife right away to hang out with. Lo and behold said classmate (who'd had too many beers by then) went on and on how I should go out with his co-worker, him and his wife laid it on this about how great the guy is. Old classmate literally dragged his friend/co-worker there that night (who hates bars), and then had the audacity to drag him over to meet someone who 'you need to take out to dinner'. I was mortified!! I apologized, said my old classmate was drunk, and that was the end of it. But still the old classmate and his wife went on and on the rest of the night how great the guy was. Okay, I get it. I went home.

About a week later one of my best friends came to class (we were late college go'ers) and was saying she had the 'Perfect' guy for me. I HAD to go out with him, had the bluest eyes, tall,.. Blah, blah, blah... So she went on to describe him, in detail, and after a bit I interrupted her with 'Is his name *insert dh's name*?'. Uh, yeah. haha After she said her bf has know this dude for years and was a great guy I let her set me up on a date. Been together ever since, that was almost 7 years ago. :)

So, you could say.. "I met my husband at a bar." ;)

I was working in a bank and he cashed he check every week. One week he asked me out.

We met 5 years ago thru one of the .coms. I emailed him Tuesday mid Sept. He responded Wednesday. He emailed me instructions on how to set up IM (I am not very computer savy and he is the guru of architectual program design.)

We met Friday for a late dinner and closed the restaurant, then closed the local pub, then closed the local IHOP (and I thought they were open 24 hrs too.). We met up Saturday evening and went to the Renaissance Festival Sunday. He dresses up for it too. In October he joined the handbell choir that I and my Mom play in.

He was recently separated (by 2 months) and was looking for a house so I pointed him in the direction of the neighborhood I grew up in. In November, he bought a house one mile away from my Mom's. My cats moved in with him at Thanksgiving, I moved in with him at Christmas. And we got married Thanksgiving the following year.

Oh, and my Mom and him get along together tooo well. They torment each other something fierce and some of the other choir members have threatened to separate them if they don't behave.

I couldn't imagine a more well suited person for me to spend the rest of my life with.

I had been visiting a friend and we went to a heavy metal nightclub(at the time, I wasn't legal drinking age - I was 18)
A very handsome guy with green eyes & brown hair caught my eye(he was a bartender there) and we started talking.I found it odd that I was just about to ask him if he would like to go to breakfast when he got off work - he asked me the same question!!lol. Since that evening, when we have a thought, the other mentions it a few minutes later...or we finish each other's sentences...weird - I guess we were so in tune with each other from the start:)
Anyway,that first night that we met, we went to the beach after breakfast-it was about 3:30 am. Dh had a little opal GT & the darn thing got stuck in the sand.So dh told me to steer while he pushed....well...I couldn't drive a stick to save my life & I actually made matters worse & got us stuck even further(I felt soooo stupid). - It ended up that we switched places & I was the one who pushed the car out of the sand!lol.
we've been together for almost 24 years.

Dh and I were set up. Sorta.

We had mutal friends and I met him at a friends birthday party. We flirted fromt the get go we both kept telling your friends how we were into the other one but neither had the gust the ask the other out. SO we were set up to go on a double date and then our friends bailed out at the last minute, leaving us alone. And we have been like peas and carrots ever since.

We met as research consultants working on a court case. I left the team early for personal reasons and he went to great lengths to track me down. Once we got together and compared notes it became obvious we had been just missing each other most of our lives. We had lived in the same towns, gone to the same schools, worked at some of the same places -- all at different times. At least we finally were in the same place at the same time. That was 16 years ago and we're very happily married and glad we finally found each other.

Well I met my BF on myspace over 2 years ago. He sent me a "friend request" with no message. so I sent him a message just telling him I liked his taste in music. After 3 months of simple messages and my friends (and him) hounding me I agreed to have pizza and watch the first football game of the season before I left the next day for a weeks vacation. We got together and really hit it off. We didn't talk but left "messages" everyday on our voicemails while I was away and when I came back that was it. We are always together (minus 1-2 nights per week when he goes home lol) and it's great. So I met my man "online" lol

yikes, sorry everyone...I don't know how my reply was posted 3 times!

We were set up as blind dates for our friends. When my friend and i met them they decide to take her car. My hubby didn't want to get into her car(he didn't like her very much). So I dared him to get in. He did and we've been together ever since. That was the summer of 1969.

this is really funny when you think about it, considering that my mil hates me!

my mom and dh's mom went to school together. my mom quit and got married. they rarely saw each other since elementary school but occasionly saw each other.

well, after my dad died, we moved in with my grandparents, and we ended up moving to florida in 1979.

my mom moved back to ohio in 1992. i moved back in feb. of 1994. i had dated a couple of times, but hated the whole bar scene. also, since i was a single mother, i really just worked and then came home and spent time with my dd and family.

my mom went to the local cosmetology school to get her hair done. my mil was sitting there, waiting to get her hair done. they looked at each other like they knew each other and finally, my mom asked her who she was. well, lo and behold, they knew each other. as they were catching up, my mom mentioned that i had moved back and that i was looking for friends, but didn't like the bar scene, but didn't know where to find people my own age. she explained that i was going to church, but most of the young people at my church were already married, engaged, or too young. my mil stated that one of her sons was going through the same thing.

so they set us up to meet one sunday. he and his parents came to my church to meet me. they took me out to lunch. i tell you, that was not a good day for me. i really liked talking to him, but had a hard time, since his parents were there. plus, at the time, he was incredibly skinny. i mean he looked like a skeleton with skin stretched across it.
but i gave him my number, since i did like talking to him.
this was the last sunday in september of 94.
i thought about him all week. i found out that one of the women who lived in my building worked with him. she told me that he talked about me all week at work, but had told her that he hadn't called me because he thought that i wouldn't be interested. i told her to tell him to call me. this was friday. so on saturday afternoon, he called me.
we talked for 4 hours on the phone. my mom, finally walked in and grabbed the phone and told him to come and pick me up and for us to go out.
well, he did. we went to the movies, then rode around talking. we went to his place and were sitting there talking. we had the radio on and this song came on, shut up and kiss me. so i said do you hear this song? he listened for a minute. then he looked at me and i said, well?????
this was october 8.
we were together everyday. he had his son, i had my girl. we took them with us everytime we went on a date. or just spent time together with them.after two weeks, he asked me to marry him. i said yes.
we were married november 8, 1994. we have been married for 13 years.
we have never had more than just a disagreement. never raised our voiced to each other, or anything like that.

My DBF and I met through kind of unusual circumstances actually... I was "dating" (I realize how silly this sounds now) one of his friends online. They both lived in WA and I lived (well, still do) in AZ. His friend and I "broke up" and DBF was my rock during that time. He made me smile and laugh and eventually even helped me get back together with his friend (even though he had a crush on me). Long story short, his friend turned out to be a jerk and DBF and I got together! He moved to AZ and we have been living together for 3 or 4 years now (with a short 3-month break).

We met at uni (college) but only vaguely. Then 5 years later my BF (at the time) was floating on a lilo in a river in the middle of nowhere in the Australian bush and met him by accident...asked idly where he went to college, then perked up and said "my girlfriend went there". For the life of me I couldn't remember who this fellow was when he told my BF that he knew me well at college. You know that feeling? Extremely annoying!!

A year or so later we met up again at an airforce show amongst 50,000 other people, me still with current BF. I invited him to a party I was having.
He accidently left his camera bag at my flat afterwards so I arranged to give it back over dinner. Ditched BF in meantime.

Been together about 14 years but married 11, he proposed to me in a charming place called Horse Swamp, when I was on a banana lounge and wearing the oldest, crappiest set of "outdoor" clothing, and swigging a beer. Instead of a ring I got a silver telephone charm on a necklace - so he could say he "gave me a ring" (get it??) I always had the fantasy of a 5 course meal overlooking Sydney Harbour, followed by going to the ballet at the Opera House, and being proposed to at midnight dressed in formal attire. None of those things happened.

Its not been the smoothest of marriages, but certainly an extremely interesting one - and he is still the only man I've ever met that doesn't bore me after a few months :)

We actually, ahem, met online.......at myspace of all places. AND to top it off we met about 2 years ago and we're both in our 40's.

We actually were members of a myspace message board for people over 40. We got to "chatting" and that was that. The big problem we faced is our distance and we conquered that this past August when I moved to Wisconsin to be with him.

Things are going very well.......he's a gem and I couldn't be happier!

i got my hubby at walmart. we actually went to the same college and volunteered at the same camp for special needs kids but never met until we both started working in the auto dept. at walmart. first time we were introduced i thought he was the cutest thing ever, but i was so dang shy then that i didn't talk to him unless he started the convo. we became friends and he finally asked me out a year later. 4 months later he proposed, that was almost 8 years ago. only recently i asked him when he knew i was the one he was going to marry. he said from the first time we met. when i asked him why it took him so long to ask me out he said he didnt know if i knew it yet. silly man.

My ex and I (you get this story since there is no now guy, yet!) met while working at a pizza place. We were 18 and 19. We worked alone together on Friday nights for a while, til I decided fast food was not the place for me. My last day he handed me a note and then tried to take it back, I wouldn't let him. I read it outside and It was his phone number. It took me a while to follow through, with some help from my friends, but once we finally got together we were like glue. We were together 8 years. Our ds's favorite food is pizza of all things.

We met at 8 minute dating, one of those speed dating things.
and it's been great ever since.

After 11 years of single life I decided to take a salsa dancing course. I had asked several of my friends to come along, but they did not want to, so I went alone. There were not enough men in the course, so they had asked some experienced dancers to come along. DFiance was one of them. Right from the first dance we 'clicked', he moved in with me after 3 weeks, we got engaged after 4 months and as soon as we have the paperwork sorted out, we'll get married.

There are alot of great stories! Thanks everyone for sharing!

Me and DH met when I was 12. He was dating my dad's girlfriend's daughter. They dated for a while and me & dh became friends. When I was 14( they were no longer together) he kissed me one night out of the blue ane the rest is history. We dated off and on from the time I was 14 until I was 20 and we have been together solid every since and in March we will have been married for 8 years!

This is kind of embarrassing, but I met my DH through my sis..She had dated him a few times, but wasn't really interested in him..He kept calling her and it was driving her crazy, So as a favor to her..I went over to his house to put the crazy guy in his place..Needless to say, it was truly love at first sight, I never believed in that before I met him..but something just clicked, and here we are 15 years later, and I still get butterflies in my stomach everyday when he comes home from work...LOL I call him my BIL hubby!!! He hates it. I told my Mom the story for the first time the other day..she was speechless! :hubba:

My DH and I met at a College we both worked at. I had graduated that summer and been offered a full time job at the library...he worked on the grounds crew. He says he saw me walking in to work one day when he had stopped mowing to save a sparrow who could not fly out of the way...it was early in the morning, and I was oblivious to him....he asked a mutual work-friend to give me his number...she proceeded to bring him inside and right past me to get a pen and a peice of paper from me, at which point she whispered to me "this guy wants to give you his number"....she assured me he was a good guy, and I already thought he was cute. I called him a few days later (I NEVER called guys) and we talked for a long time...we spent a couple of our lunch breaks together outside talking...and then he came over one night...and NEVER left.
2 months later, we packed up our lives and moved 500 miles away from where we lived to start over...that was in 2004. We are now married and very proud parents, and I have never looked back or regretted a single sexond of anything. I'd be lost without him, and new it from the very beginning!:heartsm:

Ah....... I love to tell this story. In fact, I wrote part of it up and submitted it to a writing contest. I won first prize which was a shopping spree at a jewelry store! This is a little length, but hope you enjoy it. So here it is:

I worked food service in the boys dorm at my university. There was this blonde guy there that I thought was totally cool (or hot.... whatever....). But he was going with someone else. Then I heard that he and his girl broke up. The next day as he came thru the food line, he asked me if he could come over to my apartment that evening. Of course!

I rushed back to the apartment, and my roomies and I cleaned house with a vengenace. We stuffed dirty dishes into the fridge, hid clutter in the closet, fluffed the pillows and lit a candle. When the knock came at the door, I rushed to open it. There stood my blonde idol..... along with 5 other guys! I recognized most of them as guys who ate at the dorm. My heart throb explained that they were thinking about renting an apartment in this complex, and they wanted to see what it was like. Talk about my heart just dropping into my shoes! So I invited them to look around, and my roomies were showing them various features. One of the guys, a dark headed fellow, asked me about the candle and said that he made candles. There was a little more small talk, and they all left. I couldn't believe how that turned out.

A couple of days later, the phone rang. The guy on the other end explained that he was one of the guys who came to the apartment, and would I like to go to a campus program with him? I could not recall this guy at all. But I said yes, I would meet him at the auditorium. Turns out it was the dark headed fellow who made candles.

We ended up dating for 5 years before getting engaged, and he's been the best match I ever could have had.

When I met my husband, he was living with my mom. Now don't go thinking anything bad.

My mom's husband had hired a new employee that was living in the next town and offered to let him come stay in their house as they were planning to move. Times got tough for them and they never moved, so this employee was living in the converted garage. My mom kept trying to get me to come meet "this guy". I met him and wasn't impressed because he didn't say much to me but he did play with my daughters. A few months later, my girls and I had to move in with mom for a short while. We left one night after a disagreement with my mom's husband and "this guy" told my mom he was going with the girls and me to make sure we would be safe and we've been together ever since. That was 23 years ago.

Personally, I think he came because I made him a chicken fried steak dinner the night before. You know what they say about the way to a man's heart.

His dad lived across the street from my aunt. I first met him when I was 13, we both liked each other but he was way too old for me (17). We were both wishing to ourselves that I was at least 16. Well, after that I never saw him again. That is, until two weeks after my sixteenth birthday, when I walked into my aunts living room and there he was. We were both shy, my aunt slipped him my phone number. He called me on a Wednesday, we went out that Friday and its been on every since. Here we are, 3 and a half years later, weve survived a year and half of long distance relationship, and moving to three different states. Weve finally settled here in Vegas, have been living together for a year and a half, and are more in love then ever. I think my parents actually like him more than they like me......:heartsm:

I met my current DH about 14 years ago when he was one of my brother's best friends. At the time I was dating my 1st husband. Never thought anything about him except he was just too darn polite to be a friend of MY brother's LOL! My entire family would tell me he was interested in me (even when I was married!).

After my divorce they were relentless, and I always blew them off. He was too nice for ME I thought. Ah the scars of abuse.... Anyway, 4 years pass and I see him at my niece's 1st birthday party. We just talked that whole night! It was amazing!

Of course the next morning I called my brother for his #! I called and asked him out. The rest is the icing that make the cake which is my life now. That was 4 years ago and yes, my heart still skips thinking about him, too.

Oh, did I also mention, he had no crush on me and my family was telling him the same stuff about me.... Sneaky! But we let them get away with it, because after all they were right!

My DH was very tricky. We hadn't met, but we had a mutual friend that was trying to set us up. I told her to have lunch with DH (we all worked for the same company--a very big one) and I would walk by and check him out. If I liked what I saw, I would agree to a "blind" date. Well, she called him to ask him out to lunch. He got off the phone with her and called me (she had given him my name when she was telling him about me previously and he found it on a company directory) and asked if I wanted to join them for lunch. HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ME!!! HE HAD NEVER LAID EYES ON ME AND ONLY HEARD MY NAME!!! I thought, "what kind of crazy guy is this?" But, I said yes and went to lunch with them. I instantly didn't like him. I did agree to have dinner with him, however and I fell absolutely in love with him. He was real, sweet, and normal!!! What more could I ask for?!?!?! We've been together for 15 years and married 14years.