How did you meet your partner?

**forestdale** · 05-13-2005, 04:24 PM

I met my DH on my 28th birthday at a very remote town in the outback of Australia. I was visiting a friend of mine and I was travelling from a tiny island on the tip of Australia, called Thursday Island, to Sydney. I was going to leave a few days before my birthday but my friend talked me into staying for a few more days. I met my future husband when my friend took me out for dinner and to a pub for my birthday.

How did you meet your sweetheart?

**Kimberlina** · 05-13-2005, 04:30 PM

I worked for him.

**Nada.Leona** · 05-13-2005, 05:52 PM

He arrived, skinny and adorable, in my math class at the age of 15.

We started dating when we were sixteen and have been together for eight years now.

Bright Blessings!
Nada

**mommy2many** · 05-13-2005, 05:55 PM

We worked for the same company

**Emerald_Mommy** · 05-13-2005, 05:59 PM

My dad became the pastor at his church when I was 4 & he was 8. I've known since I was 11 that I would marry him someday. Our families are friends and he's been my best friend in the world since I was 15. This June is our 6th wedding anniversary.

**Darlene** · 05-13-2005, 07:42 PM

Blind Date. He worked with the hubby of the couple who introduced us & I worked with the wife.

Smitten from the start.

**sunshine** · 05-13-2005, 07:56 PM

Uhmmm . . . I was 3 months old when he was born. My grandmother was my babysitter and lived next door to his parents. She would pop over to help my (now) MIL with the new baby. They would change our diapers, etc. together and laugh about how it would be so nice if we grew up and got married.

Then my grandmother moved 10 miles away, and later his parents moved 30 miles away.

We saw each other a few times in HS-- he was dating one of my dear friends from church camp and she introduced us. I thought he was a nerd, and he thought I was an arrogant snob.

I was engaged to another man, and he had just broken off his engagement. We were in college and I was late for class. I was running down a ramp, turned the corner and literally knocked him off his feet----- and flat on his back. I recognized him from previous meeting in HS. Said something about if he wanted a proper appology to follow me, otherwise "GET OUT OF MY WAY! I'm late! ! " Amazingly he followed me for 2 years, through my broken engagement, etc. He kept telling his mom about this girl from Springfield. . . . but never told her my last name! She tried to talk him out of falling for a "city girl". . . but he was determined. When we announced our engagement and was putting it in the paper we listed my parents. . . that was when it clicked that I was the baby girl from years before that they had joked about marrying him!

**Missy** · 05-13-2005, 07:58 PM

he was dating a friend of mine, they broke up, we got chummy...one thing led to another...we dated through my junior and senior years of high school (his sophmore and junior years....a younger--by one whole year--man! ) We've been together forever it seems. Wouldn't have it anyother way!

**AmyBoz** · 05-13-2005, 09:44 PM

Weeeelllll...my junior year in high school, I started cutting gym and going to lunch that period with my best friend. We sat with a friend of hers that I had never met and a guy we had known since second grade. The new friend was dh. We became friends and then went to the junior prom together as friends. We started dating a few weeks later. However, I was young and broke up with him over the summer, but we stayed sorta friends. Then, we started dating again around Thanksgiving of our freshman year at college, but I was in Ohio and he was here in NJ, so that only lasted a few months. Then he was pretty pi$$ed at me for breaking up with him twice, so we didn't speak for a few years (while I made an enormous 2 and 1/2 year mistake dating this guy at college) but started speaking again during my senior year. I broke up with that other guy around Christmas and dh and I kept talking and then started dating in May '94. We never broke up again and got married in October '98.

Looking back, I realize that I just didn't have the self-esteem, at the time, to realize that I deserved someone wonderful like him. Because, he is now, and always has been, just the most amazing man. But, I wasn't ready for it yet. Luckily, I grew a lot my senior year in college and by May, I knew I deserved the best, and I got him! We never looked back!

**Jerseygirl** · 05-13-2005, 10:12 PM

My best friend was friends with dh's first wife. She took me to a party at their hoouse and we immediately clicked. 4 years later they were divorced, I ended a close call-could have been a huge mistake, and we took our friendship further. That was about 7 years ago

**PurpleButterfly** · 05-13-2005, 10:50 PM

When my Aunt moved to a new house my future hubbys grandparents lived acrosst the street. And they had a welcome to the neighborhood party at there house where my aunt met and became best friends with my now MIL. I came to visit my Aunt when i was 8yrs old and that is when I met ken (my DH). Weve been friends since then. Fell in love, broke up for awhile then got back together and married when I was 25. Our 12th anniversary is next month.

**bamamomto4** · 05-13-2005, 11:19 PM

We met at a local gameroom. We started talking on the phone and then started dating. Dec 31st was 17 years since we met. June we'll celebrate our 16th wedding Anniversary.
He is, and has been, since that cold December night,my very best friend

**momof42003** · 05-14-2005, 01:23 AM

Long story short... Our brothers are best friends... Did not realize at the time that he exsited... He was divorced, came to live with his parents, I showed up unexpectedly, and we were smitten from the get go... For a year at least.. Then he broke it off, and I was heart broken... Fast forward one more year and I called him and asked how he had been, he invited me over and we have not been apart since... That was 11 and 1/2 years and four kids ago....

I knew deep down that we were meant for each other.. His excuse was it was going way too fast.. We were talking about moving in within a month of meeting each other..

Glad that we waited though, then I knew this was IT.

**momof42003** · 05-14-2005, 01:24 AM

I knew I misspelled exsited---- I meant exsisted.......

Still cant edit my own posts....

**daddys3chicks** · 05-14-2005, 07:40 AM

I was working as a nursing home administrator when the company DH worked for bought my facility. He came to assist in switching over the accounting system. A dear friend of mine was my activity director at the time. Bob came into my office and said "I have found the man you are going to marry!" Dh was in process of divorce. He invited me out with the gang from the home office and the rest is history.