How did you meet your spouse?

[caddmannq]

Well Linuxgeek is obviously looking for a nice guy.

I thought we might help give her some ideas by telling how we found our spouses.

My first wife, was a friend of a friend. I met her at a cocktail party, but didn't go out with her until some months later. I saw her reading in the park one day, & I just walked over and started a conversation. Six months later we were married, had two kids, & divorced after 12 years.

I met my current wife on a telephone dating service. You call in and leave a message about who you're looking for and who you are. That part was free. You can then listen to messages from other people & see if you'd like to call them. That part costs money. I'd say it took about $65 to actually get numbers of two gals I was interested in.

The first one was nice on the phone, we talked on the phone twice, but she turned out to be a real jerk. On the phone she was about 140 lbs, but in real life was closer to 180 lbs. We had one lunch date, where she ate like a starving beggar on my tab, talked about how great her job was and how rotten her first husband was, and told me that I needed therapy to cope with my divorce issues before I could ever hope to have a real relationship. I lied about how nice it was to meet her, but didn't say that I'd call her back. I was sure she didn't really like me either.

The second had a "stand-offish" phone personality, but her attributes seemed OK. We talked on the phone three times. I made a date on the second call, but was anxious to meet her, and called again to set an even earlier date. She was pretty cute, & had never been married. Everything clicked, and within three dates (the magic number, I guess ) we were officially a couple.
That was almost 14 years ago, and we're happy as a clam.

[Hawkeye]

Get me a time machine, I'll jump to the future and I'll find out for ya

I met my wife at church. She was a mate's mate's sister, and we knew each other only casually for about three years before we started going out. We went for a drive to a secluded beach near town one night, and just sorta clicked.

Now have two kids and have been together for 17 years. Happily.

Cheers
Mick

[TheBurningCat]

I met my current and long time gf at school. I've met other nice girls on trains, at movies, in the street and at parties.

Gee.... The internet

[fritz the cat]

I met my wife when I hired her to work in the store I managed. I quit the company, but kept her. That was over 20 years ago, we're still going strong.

[J-Excel]

We met in kindergarten. I kept pushing her down on the playground and kissing her. Hard to believe that it's been two years already.



j/k
We did meet on the playground in kindergarten though. Then we met again in the 7th grade at a party. I blew her off. Then again just 6 days after I got out of the army. She was a friend of a family member, who we just happened to visit at the same time. We dated for about 2 months then she moved in with me. We got married a year later. That was 15 years ago.

[kenyg]

we both worked at the same company - and after a few weeks of making eye contact ... we went out.

nothings been the same since

[Theophylact]

In group therapy.

No, really.

[NeoStarO1]

I met my bf on the internet via a dating service thingy on the net. called matchmaker.com

I had taken a totally different approach to this. I had used this service before and dated a couple fellas that were just plain no good and gave up on it. Then about a year later I decided to do it again but with a picture this time, however i didn't like the standard questions so I ended up writing up a bit about me. I got lots of comments, something like 103 replys in the first 24 hours. I wasn't expecting that. I had narrowed it down to 5 potential people. one of them my current bf was way off from what i was looking for. he didn't wnat kids or relationship or none of that stuff but we struck it off very well and decided we would be come great friends. well fate had another plan for us. and today 4 years later we are still together.

Out of the five i kept weeding them out and my bf knew what my objectives were, altho i had agreed with him we be friends only cuz i didn't feel he fit my ideal life time mate. hahhahaha shows you what i know. anyways.

i ended up narrowing out the other 4 for several reasons and had decided to give up on this. I think when I fell in love with my bf was the night I was sick with burning fever and he drove all the way from portland to salam at 11pm at night with a bowl of steaming homemade chicken noodle soup and said i n eed help.

What a guy. After that we just been history togehter.

he loves my kids, my kids are his now.