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Match!!
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High school band camp!
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The online game counterstrike. In 2000, some (future) friends met my husband playing counterstrike and became friends with him. I met them the next year, and someone set us up.
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Lady Gaga. My husband was working on one of her music videos and he was so exhausted by hearing one of her songs played over and over for three days straight that he indulged his nerdy side and bought tickets to a contemporary classical music concert. Next thing I know this unbelivably handsome guy is trying to steal my seat. He moved one seat over and I was hooked.
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My husband's terrible graduate school adviser! I was a graduate student in a different department, teaching my first class. He was hating his program and adviser and taking classes in other departments to distract himself. He ended up in my class and asked me out through a note he wrote on his last essay at the end of the term.
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The NorthEast Blackout in 2003
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Obama.
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@Mrs. Fox: awesome story!
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My husband went to high school with a group of girls that I ended up going to college with. He went to college across the country and just moved back home...a girl he knew from high school invited him to a party...and we met at that party. It's pretty funny that my college friends knew him in high school
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If it weren't for him getting bored at his job in CA and randomly deciding to move to the other side of the world on the hope that maybe one day his friend might be able to get him a job, and at the same time me deciding that I wanted to go back to college and not move to Australia...
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match.com!
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My cousins inviting me to our church youth group. I meet him when he was dating someone else.
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College and our mutual friends.
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Police Explorers, which is where we met!
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Playing indoor bowls. I was playing indoor bowls just for something random to do with a group of people and took photos of the day. Friended one of the guys I didn't know on Facebook to tag him in the photos. DH saw me tag his friend in the pics and remembered my face from a dating website I'd been on before my mum got sick. The rest is history!
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A wedding, a Thursday night out after Apprentice with a graduate school friend, and a bachelor party. I met my DH through a couple sets of mutual friends at a bar.
I went to the bar with a friend who was meeting her friend (our best man). I got introduced to the group. The guys we met up with were doing a post party after a bachelor party for a wedding that Saturday. It was Thursday night. DH's friend encouraged him to come to the bar. When he did, he met me. We talked after dancing, he stayed on my side of Chicago (far northside, he was far southside at the time) for the night, and we had a date set up for Sunday.
Our first date was the second day that the couple had been married. So, their wedding anniversary 5 years before ours is within days of our first date and our anniversary as we married on our dating anniversary.
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University. We were allocated rooms on the same floor of the building.
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Weeeeell I could really draw that back and say going to the university I chose, but really it was meeting a friend in a history class and falling in with her friends, one of whom hooked me up with DH.
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Poverty. I was running low on cash to pay for tuition and living expenses, so I accepted a full-time job and dropped down to part-time studies. I met DH at that workplace.
Ironically I was chosen for an academic award that would have paid my tuition that year, but I had to be a full-time student to be eligible and I received the notice one week after the deadline to add/drop courses, and a couple of weeks after I started working full time.
If that notice had arrived just a few weeks earlier, I might have chosen to stick with the part-time job I already had and finish my degree on time. And then I probably never would have met DH.
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Transferring colleges.
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My first marriage and divorce. If I hadn't gone through it, I wouldn't have been staying with my parents after and in this area. I met him while trying to get my and ds back on our feet.
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Pushy mutual friends who wouldn't take no for an answer when I refused to be set up with him
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A mix of MySpace and DH's cousin!
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Online dating.
It turned out we lived three blocks apart, but probably never would have met if it hadn't been for the internet!
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My sisters douchy ex-boyfriend. DHs best friend was dating the ex's sister, so the three of them hung out. Also, DHs cheating girlfriend...i was a rebound! Haha
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Boone's Farm? lol. It gave me the liquid courage to do something about it
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Grad school/getting laid off. If I hadn't gone back to school and then been laid off a month later, I never would've moved to Boston for an internship, where I met DH.
But we never would've gotten together if I hadn't bought a house. We were really good friends for a long time, and when I bought a house close to work he started staying with me several nights a week. And then he decided to get me drunk and make a move ;-).
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both of us landing free tickets to a Red Cross fundraiser, and having way too much to drink at said fundraiser!
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if my brother wasn't dating his then girlfriend(who worked with DH) and wasn't persistent on us meeting. we didn't hit it off when we first met. a month or so later, happy hour, alchol.....we hit it off haha
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If my cousin didn't introduce me to her company's internship program, I would have never met my hubby.
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If he hadn't tricked me into our first date! We were in a class together our junior year of high school and we didn't know each other at all, other than a few brief encounters (one I remember vividly was him saying hi to me in the hallway while carrying his lunch tray and then dropping his milk. It was awkward, haha). I guess he thought I was cute, because he got one of our mutual friends to invite me bowling with him, my now-husband, and another friend of ours. Then the day were supposed to go, my friend called and was like, "Yeeeeah, Meghan and I can't go bowling anymore." Shortly after my husband called and said, "So I hear the other two can't go anymore. You still want to go bowling?" For some reason I said, "Sure, why not?" And that was our first date
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i needed a college job and asked around the athletic department of my college if they were hiring someone directed me to DH and I asked and after a while we started dating and I quit my job there and the rest is history.
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College. DH failed linguistics & didn't officially graduate on time. I was just a freshman trying to take an extra course over the summer. He chose to take accounting because his uncle said it would be a good life skill to learn. We started dating a month later, and now we have been together for almost 8 years.
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If I hadn't met his brother through punk rock shows and trying to get in his "cool" group.
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Legal trouble, probation & the program (AA/NA) & going to a function at the same time we would have never met. So greatful for the path my life has taken!
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Love hearing all of these stories!
My brother! My mom would ask him if he had anyone to set me up with from work, and he would always say, "the only person I would trust with her is DH, and he has a girlfriend." He ended up breaking up with his girlfriend and coming over more often, and the rest is history! He still works with my brother!
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If I had gone to another college.
I had applied to 3 colleges and got into all 3, and based off of the rankings in US. News, I chose to go to the "lowest-ranked" one for a number of reasons. Everyone thought I was crazy, but I have absolutely no regrets and I never would have met him otherwise!
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Plentyoffish,.com changing his birth date,.....
I limited the age of guys I wanted to be able to contact me to being my age or older. He's a year and two days younger than me. However, we realized after we'd met that the website changed his dob to the same year as mine and that's the only reason we were ever able to see each on the site.
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I had 2 weddings the same day in teh same town, so I went to the ceremony of one and the reception of the other (where I met DH.) If I would have decided to do the weddings the opposite way I never would have met him.
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If I hadn't switched schools at the last minute, we wouldn't have been at the same church to meet.
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