My parents, although divorced now, met at work in their 30's. My SO and I met on Myspace somewhat through a mutual friend when we were 17 but just shy of 18. How did your parents meet? What about you and your SO?
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my parents met through a mutual business friend/acquaintance. they dated for six months and were married!
dh and i met at my first job out of college at a private mutual fund company. he was a manager and it was a major no-no! LOL.
i left after six months and he left shortly thereafter for a better opportunity. we got enaged 2.5 years later, and married 3.5 years later
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My parents were set up by my dads sister (who worked with my mom). DH and I met through mutual friends at a baseball game, we hung out a lot because I was interested in his best friend haha. I cringe to think of that!! Ew.
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My mom's family rented a home from my dads parents (which was directly accross the street from where my dad lived with his parents and brothers and sisters.) My mom says the day she saw my dad she thought *thats the guy I am going to marry* ;-).
Husband and I had MANY mutual friends and I would hear a lot about him through a cousin but I never actually met him. I posted a comment on my cousins myspace (when that was in over 7 years ago) and husband happened to see that comment and posted something a long the lines of - hello id like to meet you - haha.. so we kind of met through myspace through family though. We also had out first meet at that cousins house. -
My parents met at work, though their mutual friend claims to have set them up. This friend was my dad's roommate, and went to grad school with my mom. Both of them claim it's not true, though!
DH and I met when I lived in Ecuador. I had a really crappy couple of weeks, so when his sister invited me for a day of fun with their family, I said well why not. I showed up, DH was sitting there, and the rest is history!
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My parents met through my Dad'd Uncle (through marriage) at the time. He was friends with Mom's girlfriends' family. Blind date that worked out!
DH and I were sort of set up through friends. My BFF worked with his BFF at the time. She asked him if he had any single friends. So they threw a summer party so it wasn't a total set up. We started talking before we knew it was each other we were supposed to meet. Then didn't leave each other sides all night. I hooked from day 1. Which is funny cause we were both not in the mood at all for the party but went cause we felt bad not going.
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my parents met when my dad was working for a band that was playing at the club where my mom was celebrating new year's eve, he asked her for a new years kiss & she shot him down. it worked out ok though =)
DH & i met when he was my personal trainer.
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My parents met at a bar in college. My mom's cousin wanted to set them up but my mom said no. Then they ended up meeting anyway.
I met dh at temple. We went to the same temple our whole lives but he's 5 years older so we never knew each other. I moved home after grad school and went to services and he was there, hanging out with my older brothers friends. I went over to say hi to them and that's how we met.
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My parents met in college – my mom was dating my dad’s best friend; but as soon as she saw my dad she told her brother and mom that she met the man she would marry! She broke up with the friend and started dating my dad and they got married soon after and have been married for over 40 years.
My husband and I also technically met in college; though under completely different circumstances. He was my undergrad adviser and one of my undergrad professors. We ran into each other after I graduated and I thought he was cute so I asked him out. Worked out well for both of us!!
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My parents met in junior high and fell out of touch when they went to different high schools . They started dating in their early twenties after running into each other on the street.
I met DH in college!
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I actually don't know how my parents met. They were very young when they got married (18 I think). So they might have met at school or through friends.
My husband and I met on the first day of University. We were in the same orientation group, and they we were in the same French class (which we later both dropped). I was dating someone else, and he was dating around, but we were friends. We started dating in our second year, just a few weeks after I broke up with the other guy....
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My mom and dad (now divorced) met through a mutual friend on a blind date lol... DH and I met at school, I was new and always sat outside by myself during lunch and one day he just same up sand started talking to me. We became inseparable pretty fast. He says he was attracted to my pink bangs
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My parents met in Germany. My Dad was in the Air Force and stationed there, and my Mom was a bartender and sang in a rock band, and at the time, was living in her car.
DH and I met in Albania - our parents worked for the same organization and were both there on long-term assignments. When I moved back to the USA as an adult, he followed me.
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My parents met through my grandparents, who were friends through church (my grandfather was the minister). They were childhood sweethearts.
I met DH through my BIL, who worked with him for almost 10 years. Sister/BIL introduced us after we became single around the same time.
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My Parents:
My mom lived with her best friend in an apartment when she was 24, well my dad's cousin lived in those same apartments and he would always hang out over there. So they would see each other, and started talking. Well little did my mom know....my dad was only 16 at the time!!! Yikes! Well they started dating anyways, and got married with my dad was only 18 hahaha and my mom was 26I met DH in college, we were the same major and had some classes together.
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@mrsjyw: scandalous!!!!
My parents met at a diner-type restaurant when they were in their late teens/early twenties. Got pregnant and married 5 mos after my sister was born
it was rocky at first but they've been married 27 years and love each other to death I met DH when I was 19 and moved to NY. Dated six months and he proposed, married 8 months later
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My parents met at the park where their two groups of friends hung out after school. They were 14/15 years old at the time and are still happily married 42 years later!
DH and I met through a mutual friend - they went to college together, and I was visiting her. Although the night we first met we went to a rap concert on campus, so we like to tell people we met at a rap concert, just so see their reaction, haha.
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My mom worked with my dad's sister-in-law -- she introduced them. She really didn't like him that much, they only dated very casually for a year before getting serious. My dad actually proposed in a middle of a fight, my mom was so sick of him dragging his feet that she was going to break up with him!
DH and I worked at the same place, but not at the same time. I left and a few months later he started working there. We met at a mutual coworker's birthday party a few months later (she still worked there with DH, and she and I had worked next to each other when I was there).
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My parents met at a psychiatric hospital....they were both studying to be doctors. They've been married for 36 years now.
DH and I met in grad school. The day we met I complained to my mom that all the great guys I meet have girlfriends....and then one day he didn't. I scooped him up as soon as he hit the market. -
My parents met at work. DH and I met at work.
Ha!
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My parents met in the pub. DH and I met in the pub.
Oh dear.
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My parents knew each other through school and church. My mom and her sister married best friends (my dad an uncle) so they all knew each other for a long time. My parents first "date" was my aunt and uncles wedding. They went out for a motorcycle ride after the reception.
My husband and I met in college. I was friends with his ex girlfriend. I know it's scandalous to date your friends ex boyfriends but it was worth it. We had known each other for four years before we started dating. One night at a club after our finals we were drinking and I made a move. Now we are happily married with four beautiful kids.
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My parents met at Kmart. They both worked there right after high school.
DH & I met at church when we were kids. His dad married a woman that I've known my entire life and then joined the church.
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My parents have known each other since they were 5 and were "bf/gf" since they were 13. They still celebrate their "dating" anniversary! While it did completely crush me when I didn't end up marrying my 8th grade BF, they're awesome!
DH and I worked together and he trained me (as friends!) after I broke it off with my BF at the time, we started dating
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Not sure who, but someone kept introducing my mom to my dad and she just wasn't having it. She gave in one day, and the rest is history.
Hubby is good friends with my cousin, and I was staying with said cousin during my summer internship. I couldn't even recall his name for the first two months (his name isn't common and is in Khmer) and didn't think twice of him. He was prepped on my existence prior to moving in with my cousin so his goal was to "corrupt" me since I was a super, duper sheltered kid. Two months later, we started talking.
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Parents met at church. Dh and I met on eharmony!
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I love this thread!!! My parents (now divorced) met through mutual friends... I think my mum actually dated his younger brother first! Lol
DH & I met in high school
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My parents met on a blind date. They went to the same high school but my dad was a couple years older so they didn't know each other.
I met my husband on a movie set! It was a low budget independent film. He was cast as my boyfriend.
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My parents (now divorced) met through my uncle (dad's brother). Strangely enough, he went on a date with my mom first and they knew right away that they were better as friends. She met my dad and that was that.
My husband and I met at the pub. It was/is a truly, embarrassingly awful place in London, but what can I say - I was 24 and had questionable taste in drinking establishments
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My parents met when my mom was a senior in high school (my dad was 20, I think). He was getting ready to leave for basic training for the Navy. My mom was working as a waitress at a steakhouse. My dad went there to eat and the rest is history.
They got married in 1975, when my mom was 18 and my dad was 21. They celebrated 37 years in June.DH and I went to high school together. We met on a spring break camping trip senior year. We had both been invited by mutual friends.
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I asked my Mom this recently and she said "under the table at a bar". She explained that she and a friend were in a super crowded bar and there was a long table with some open seats at the end and so she and her friend crawled under the table to try to get them and I guess they ran into my dad under there? I'm not sure, I'm imagining there was more to the story then what she was telling me! And it probably involved copious amounts of alcohol. They were 18 or so.
DH and I met online through Yahoo personals! I had two guys I was interested in and all my friends were pushing me to go out with the other guy, but I ended up choosing to go out with DH and 4 years later we were married!
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My parents met through mutual friends in their late 20's.
My husband and I met in college. We had a mutual friend who introduced us and lived in the same dorm.
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My Dad was my moms brothers friend. So thats how they met.
DH and I met in the Navy. We were both in the same Squadron. He actaully trained me when I first checked in and was a "nugget" (new)
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Love this thread!!
My parents have an amazing meeting story, and I didn't even know it until just a few years ago. The quick version (I think we had this same thread a long time ago where I typed it all out) is: they met while vacationing on an island in Korea, both with friends, and my dad serenaded my mom under her balcony window. My mom left with her friends but came back alone to hang with my dad for one more day. They became friends but didn't date, then my dad's mom burned her arm and refused to go to the doctor. My mom came to take care of her daily because she was a nursing student. Then while eating dinner together one day my dad was talking about how he had a student visa to go to the US, and my mom mentioned that her friend's boyfriend had one too, so they got married so she could go with him. My dad said "let's do that!" She said he was crazy. Then her mom convinced her to do it. They got married quickly and came to the US together. They weren't even dating when he "proposed"!
Wagon Sr. and I met during college. My acappella group went to his school for a big concert (Gospel Jam) and we met there sophomore year. His younger brother went to my school and told me to look for him. We didn't really become friends til we reconnected randomly senior year, then started talking and dating then.
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My parents were both recently divorced and set up by my Aunts ex-husband who played tennis with my Dad. DH's parents met because they lived across from each other in an apartment complex. They got divorced when he was 2 - there is a lot of divorce in both of our families!
DH and I met at our first job out of school at a 3 week training seminar. We both got the jobs through our parents connection in the industry, so if it wasn't for them we never would have met!
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My parents met on a blind date!! It went terribly and then the next Monday they saw each other on the train that they commuted on every morning into the city!!
The were engaged 3 months later, married less than a year later and have been married for 37 years!!!
I love their story --- me and my DH met in a bar, so boring! We also dated for 5 years before we got engaged.... Quite different stories!
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My dad's older daughter actually introduced my parents! My mom was her manicurist
my parents have a 20 year age difference.DH and I met through work!
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My parents were both in the Army and met (and married!) while stationed in Germany.
DH and I met when he moved in with me. I shared a house with his best friend from middle school (he sang at our wedding and his fiancee was my MOH!). DH had recently-ish gone through a bad breakup, and decided he needed a fresh start in a new city, and we had a spare bedroom.
DH's parents met the day MIL was born! Their fathers were both in the Air Force, and were sometimes stationed together, and they and their wives became life-long best friends. They were stationed together when MIL was born, and FIL's parents took him to the hospital to meet the new baby. They didn't start dating until after college (they actually set each other up a lot when they were teenagers), but there are some super cute pictures of a toddler FIL pushing an infant MIL in a stroller.
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My parents grew up in the same town, so they always knew each other. My dad's little sister was my mom's BFF. My parents never dated until they were out of college and working, though. My dad ran into my mom's brother, and it just got him thinking about her. So, he called her and ask her out. She said she needed a rain check. They finally went out and my dad proposed on THE SECOND DATE! Crazy! She didn't say yes right away, but they were married within 4 months, so clearly it didn't take long to convince her.
37 years later they are still going strong!DH and I met at a "Welcome to Law School" cook out, but we didn't date for another 3 years.
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My dad moved out here to AZ from CA for school (I think? Or maybe work, I dunno) and was working for a company fixing TV's. He went to my Grandparents house and my mom was there and she told my Grandpa that night that that was the man she's going to marry some day. So dad had to go over there a few more times (he said their tv had no chance - it was way too broken/old/whatever, but went back anyway) and mom wouldn't leave him alone until dad asked her out. LOL so he did, and like a year later they got married and had my sister. They've been married for 32 years (almost 33) now
SO and I met through friends. I was dating someone else at the time and we became good friends. Two and a half years or so later we started dating. We're finally getting married in 5 weeks, we've been together 9+ years
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