Did you meet your (current) spouse/partner in a bar?
If so, what do you do to go out now that you have kids?
I miss going out for drinks and dancing to live-but-not-concert-expensive music.
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LOL. Nice.
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Go out to really nice dinners or specialty cocktail bars,or cook big extravagant meals at home.
We were pretty young at the time and probably would have outgrown that scene (happy hour and clubbing til the wee hours) by now even if we didn't have kids!
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@PinkElephant:
Thank you for sharing!
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We didn't meet at a bar or club.
We see live comedy and it isn't a terribly expensive date.
Franchise bars like Blue Martini aren't too bad on the wallet. They feature live cover bands, so all you need to do is pay for food & drinks.
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Nope. We both always hated bars. Met on match.com. Actually met first time at starbucks
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We didn't meet at a bar but we still love going to them!
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Technically. We met at a going away party thrown by a mutual friend, but it was at a bar. DH loves to tell people he "picked me up at a bar" because he knows it embarrasses me. Now we're more likely to go to a nice dinner or friend's house when we "go out."
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I don't drink, so nope! DH loves craft beers so I'm really surprised he didn't meet his future wife at one of the bars in our college town. I was always in the library during law school!
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I was 16 when I met DH. So nope!
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I did!
We still go out to bars, but we found kid friendly places.
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No, but much of our dating happened in bars. We still take the boys with us out to dinner at breweries regularly (many will have early open mic nights so we still get music) and the rare date night is usually to a wine bar with live music.
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haha I voted no because I technically met him on Match.com (so romantic haha) but then I remembered that our first date was to see live music at a bar...so I guess I really DID meet him at a bar! Sadly, live music is a thing of the past (but hopefully future!) right now. By the time a band goes on, even if we had a babysitter, it is way past my bedtime. Maybe when we are out of the baby years....right now watching a redbox movie after little man is in bed or meeting some friends for drinks/dinner at like 7 is the extent of our "nightlife".
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We didn't meet in a bar, but we went to a local bar for our first date! Sadly, it went out of business a few years ago.
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DH and I met in high school - so nope.
We try and find live piano music - not too loud for DD, and she loves it!
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We didn't, but my brother met his wife in a bar!
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Yep. Not only a bar, but a bar we were locked into because a flash riot (like a flash mob, but dangerous and with lots of property damage) broke out in the street.
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We met at a bar! He was interested in me but I was dating someone at the time. He kept texting me and once I broke up with that guy we went to dinner together.
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Nope. But BIL and SIL met in a bar.
We have spent a lot of time in Bars together over the years. Our local Tavern is kid friendly within reason so LO will be going there with us.
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Yep.
I miss going out. We mostly sit at home in front of the TV these days, which I hate (I never even had a TV in my own home until DH moved in).
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We met in a coffeeshop, but we went to the bar across the street to get something to eat to extend our conversation.
We both enjoy unassuming "regulars" bars. We have a mini list to try for when we get to reassume some sort of date night next year!
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Nope. Online and then Target.
We don't go to bars. We generally only drink at home or when we're out with our extended family at a restaurant that has a bar in it.
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We met at a bar. We still love bars, but I don't get out at alll these days because I am pregnant. When we had LO and I wasn't pregnant, we didn't go to bars often but we went to pubs and restaurants that served alcohol. We really like drinking, lol.
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Yes, but I was working there and my sister told him to come meet me. I am not sure that counts
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@pastemoo: why can't you still go out to bars?
We met at a bar, we still enjoy going out for a few drinks. Usually on date nights well go for a nice dinner and then hit up a more laid back bar for a drink or two.
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I met my husband and every serious boyfriend I had in a bar. So funny because I've dated people I met through work and in other ways but all the big ones were in NYC bars. To be honest I hate going to bars. I love restaurants and lounges can be okay but for me going out past age 30 was just something I did to see friends or get out of my little NYC studio. I miss being able to do so now and then but I'd say I miss movies and dinners out more.
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Nope. Far from it... We met at church!
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Nope - but we did meet at a fraternity house which isn't much different in a lot of ways!
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We didn't meet at a bar (we met in high school), but we REmet up at a bar many years later for our first "date", that neither of us knew would end up as a date.
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Yes, we did meet in a bar. He was the bouncer and I was a semi-regular... ha....
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Technically we did meet in the bar (photo proof of a "random guy" buying us shots) however we didn't really "meet" until several years later at a wedding reception. I don't count the first time since 1) I had a boyfriend and 2) it wasn't like we "met" it was just a drunk guy buying a group of friends shots.
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Technically we met in a bar but that is only because we were both there for a birthday party and were kind of set up. So it wasn't just random. Sometimes I miss going out. We went out this weekend (after a Christmas party) while my parents had LO overnight. It was fun but the recovery wasn't. I felt way too old for partying!
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Yep, we met in a bar. We do movies and dinner as our dates. We like food fests too.
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Related note... my parents met at a bar and they kept up this LIE about having met at a "party" for all my childhood until sometime when I was in my late teens or early 20s and I thought to ask them whose party it was, and they both hemmed and hawed and the truth came out! So have a good story if you won't be telling your LOs the 100% truth.
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@mamimami: I LOVE it. LOL.
@kiddosc: New town, not safe enough to go out and walk home--no fun if someone has to DD.
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We met the first time at a party while I was in high school and he was home on leave, my parents did not approve. We moved on, each married someone else, then divorced. We "re-met" on Halloween at a bar. My parents thought I was at a Halloween party (moved back in with them after my divorce) so we kind if fudged the truth a little. NIIICE
Thank you for sharing!
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