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My bf and I have been together for nearly 5 years. We went to high school together, and I first met him in the beginning of our junior year when we had chemistry class together. I swear I fell in love the minute I saw him... I tried everything to get his attention. I'd drop my pencil near his desk so he'd pick it up to hand it to me; I'd get a late pass to class so he'd look at me as I walked in; I'd voluteer for demonstrations and try to answer all of the questions in class; I'd talk to everyone who sat around him, hoping that he'd join in the conversation. I didn't think that he was interested, and he got a date to the Homecoming dance, who subsequently became his gf. I was so. bummed. They were together through Christmas, and when we got back from vacation, they had broken up. We had a substitute teacher in class one day when bf was absent, and I mentioned to a few of his good friends that I had a monster crush on him. I figured that they'd tell him, and if he was interested he'd ask me out. He didn't. I tried to get over it. A friend of mine saw bf at a pool hall one night (she went to a different school but recognized his friends from when we went to junior high together) and they exchanged screen names. She found out that bf had had a big crush on me, too, and planned a get together for us all on Valentine's Day. We went to the pool hall where bf and bff met, and he asked me to the junior prom that night. School went on another vacation that next week, and by the time we got back to school, we were a couple. Everyone saw it coming and wondered what took so long... we even got voted cutest couple in our senior superlatives the next year. Senior year was mostly spent skipping classes to go to furniture stores and drive through neighborhoods that we wanted to live in, picking out our future home, imagining what the future would be like. We got very serious very quickly, but I wouldn't change a minute of our relationship... good or bad, what we have is special and amazing.

I later learned that bf was interested in me during the beginning of the school year, too, but he didn't think I was into him. His ex gf asked him to the Homecoming, or else he was going to ask me. His friends never told him that I had such a giant crush on him, or else he would have asked me out. Who knows where we'd be if my friend wasn't so nosey

Now I want to hear everyone else's stories!

I met my BF on NYE '00. 

One of my college roomies had moved to Chicago so we all decided to come down and party with her and her new guy and his friends for NYE that year.  I have to admit that I was excited to hang out with the guys because she said he had a lot of cute friends.  When we got to the hotel that the party was at they were all waiting for us so we hopped in line with them to get the tickets.  That is when BF and I started chatting.  He was definitely cute and had a good personality, but it was innocent chatting for sure.  When I got up to our hotel room all of my friends wer gushing and saying that I liked him and insisted that I was going to hook up with him that night (a little back story here...I wasn't much of an angel when I met my BF).  Of course, I was insistant on proving them wrong so I vowed that I would pretend that I didn't like him (total idiot right?). 

When we got down to the party he was so sweet, calling me beautiful, getting me drinks, asking me to dance, but like a dummy I acted totally aloof.  After the party we all met up in one of our friends rooms and I had a headache so he volunteered to walk me to my room to get some Aleve.  I was such a witch to him, but he still came with me.  On the way back he had enough and he actually said, "You know what?  I thought you were really cool when we met earlier and I really liked you, but your just mean!  I give up!!"  I felt so bad I was nice to him for the rest of the night.  The next day I had every intention of saying by to him and  telling him that we should keep in touch, but he was gone before we checked out. 

That week I tracked down his email address and sent him an email telling him that it was really nice to meet him and that I had a great time.  He emailed me back right away and we chatted on email for the next 3 weeks until I made my next weekend visit to Chicago to see my friend.  He came out with us that Friday night and the whole NYE crew went out that Saturday as well.  That Sunday night we had our first date.  From the next day on I was glued to the phone talking to him.  He came to see me in Michigan two weeks later and declared that he wanted me to be his GF and that I had to move to Chicago on March 1 because he couldn't go any longer without me (cute, huh?)  I of course had no money and didn't have time to go to Chicago to find an apartment or a job so he found me a place and paid my first month's rent and security deposit so I could move.  Once I got to Chicago, he took me out and got me clothes for work and paid my way for everything for 6 months while I got on my feet.

Almost 6 years later when someone asks why we rake turns paying for meals when he clearly makes more than I do I just brush them off...he has given me plenty and he continues to give to me everyday.

 

We met in 1996 in High School, I was in 10th grade, he was a senior.  He had a girlfriend but I had the biggest crush on him.  We were friends though and after he and his gf broke up, we would hang out together but always with other friend, not ever a date.  He went off to college, forgot about me (lol, we did still email but really never saw each other) but I still had that big crush.  I went to college, transfered to his college two years later and we reconnected and I told him about the crush I'd had since I was 15 .  So we've been together since 2001, we got married in 2004.

DH and I met at Starbucks. 

I was at home for the summer and he was my brother's boss at Starbucks.  I had a crush on him all summer and he gave me free coffee drinks all summer.  It was very platonic at first, to the point that it was extremely frustrating.  We hung out all summer and hooked up right before I had to go back to school and from then on out we were head over heels.  We got engaged 4 months after we started dating and got married a year after that. 

Awww, I'm loving all of these stories! Keep them coming! They're all so freaking cute and awesome!

I realized that I forgot to say how I met my BF! We've only been together since the beginning of the summer. I first met him at a St. Patrick's Day party my friend (we'll call him Bob) was throwing. I was actually quasi-dating Bob - we'd gone out a few times, and that night I actually hooked up with him. I had noticed future BF that night, and thought he was the hottest thing ever, but since I was already kind of dating Bob, I figured I wouldn't pursue my future BF at Bob's party.

He came to town to visit a few friends (Bob included) at the beginning of May. Because Bob still kind of had a thing for me (even though we hadn't gone out in forever), he and future BF came with my good friend (let's call her Betty) to a party that night. Again, it was insane because all I wanted to do was flirt with future BF, but I couldn't because of Bob - we hadn't gone out in forever but just a few days earlier I'd agreed to go out with him again. I remember a quite tipsy me taking Betty aside and telling her how much I liked future BF and wished I could be flirting with him. After this party, somehow future BF found my screenname and we started talking. We actually spent a good deal of our conversations talking about Betty, because he had a crush on her. (That was disheartening!)

Betty had a birthday party at the end of May, and it was a costume party where you either had to dress up as a pirate or a ninja. Future BF was a pirate. I was a ninja. We were talking all night, but I actually got him alone when he realized his eyeliner was rubbing off (he was very Johnny-Depp-esque and very hot!). I told him that I had some in my car, so we went out to get it and I put more eyeliner on him. We were out there talking forever. When we came inside, we sat alone inside the house and talked for a long time, while everyone else was outside. And just as he started kissing me, everyone came in! We kind of did that all night - stealing away with each other for a minute or two. It was kind of ridiculous. Once it actually got pretty heated () and Betty's dad and brother walked in on us! (She moved home for the summer in between her old apartment and new house) I was mortified!

But after that we kept talking online and on the phone (online more, I'm not a huge phone person. I think BF actually kind of taught me how to have a phone conversation for more than 5 minutes!). He came down the following weekend for my birthday party, and the rest is history! When we first started dating, I have to be honest, it was mostly because he was really hot. I would get annoyed when he would call and, you know, want to have conversations with me. But I stuck around because he was hot, only to discover that I was actually really falling for him!

I think last time I told the Readers Digest version, so here is the proper story. Its long and rambly so bear with me...

In 1999 I was doing some modelling. I did a charity fashion show where a good friend of mine was the stylist and she made us wear cowboy hats. I had masking taped my initials into the hat so I knew which one was mine. After the show I gave it back to the stylist friend without taking the tape out.

Anyway later that month, my brother and our good friend S and I took a trip out to Vancouver to visit some friends. One night while we were there, S suggested we go to a club to see a band from our town as he worked with the bass player back home. So we went and in this work mate's band was the absolute hottest guy I had ever seen in my life. He played the guitar and as soon as I saw him I was in luuuurve. (actually I just wanted to get it on with him, that's the kind of classy gal I was at the time)

Buuuut, I was hammered and too shy to actually go and talk to him. But as my friends and I were dancing for the band, the band said they wanted to bring a piece of home to Vancouver and handed out cowboy hats to all who were dancing. I got a cowboy hat with my initials masking taped in it...it was my fashion show hat. So I was like WTF? And went and introduced myself to the bass players wife and we started talking and it turned out we had a bunch of the same friends but had never actually met (you know..."oh you're that Beth!") Anyhow we hung out all night but never got up the nerve to actually talk to him.

So back home a few weeks later, I heard that they were playing at a club and went to see them. He noticed me and came over to talk and we hung out all night. But at the end of the night he didn't ask me for my number or make plans to see me again. I was totally bummed.

The next day he remembered where I told him I worked and came in to ask me out. I accepted and we made plans for that night. A hour later, I got fired.

My mom convinced me to still go on my date even though I was bummed about my work situation. And I'm so glad I did. We had a epic first date- it lasted for 12 hours- going to the movies, eating out, playing pool, going fro drinks. We hit it off so well that we totally seemed natural together right from the start. He said he noticed me the first night in Vancouver but was too chicken to talk to me because Beth told him I was a model and a "model would never go for a crusty bum like himself".

On a side note, 6 months after we started dating he lost his insurance on his car and couldn't drive from his place to work (which was really far). My place was close enough to bike to work so I said he could stay with me for a few weeks until he got it back....7 years later, he is still here. He's awesome. We have had a few ups and downs but we love each other so much.  We have always felt like our meeting was way too coincidental and we were destined to meet. It may sound silly but it has always seemed like we kept getting put together until we actually hooked up. And that's the story.

-- Edited by Metric at 21:24, 2006-11-01

I met my BF freshman year of college, in the very first class I took. English 101! We were friends and hung out alot but didnt start dating until junior year of college. He has admitted that he had a crush on me that 1st time he saw me in english class and the crush never went away. We are still together and I have been out of college for 2 years. Its kinda wierd how things work out, but I have never been happier!

travelgirl wrote:

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Here's mine...I copied and pasted from an earlier thread...

I met my husband via a wrong number!  I was trying to call a friend but instead dialed wrong and got him.  He was in college at the time (at the same college the friend I was trying to get a hold of was attending) and I just started yapping away at him just because I was bored and felt like talking to someone.  We ended up talking for 8 hours that night!  At the end of the conversation he asked if he could have my number and I said "NO-I'll just call you when I feel like it" (plus I already HAD a boyfriend!).  So, that is exactly what happened-I just called him when I felt like it-for 7 months!  All along he kept asking if we could meet-I just kept saying NO.  Finally, he ended up getting tickets to a sold out basketball game between my college and his-he asked if I would come and I finally said yes. 

 

We met at the basketball game and immediately started dating.  I also found out that he had been spying on me and knew what I looked like (I was so stupid and told him that I worked at the Clinique counter in the nearby mall and of course he checked me out without my even knowing).  Figures! 

 

Anyway, we dated for 3 months and then got married!  8.5 months later our son was born (LOL).  I can only tell this story  now,  without getting a little embarassed due to the unconventionalness of the situation, because we have been together now for 13 years so it just goes to show miracles CAN happen!

 

 

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That is an awesome story!

I met my bf at the gym. I would scope him out lifting, more specifically doing pull ups, while I was on the treadmill. I'm totally a people watcher and he was my favorite person to watch, BY FAR. We spoke occasionally but one day we actually had a conversation. I am on the east coast and he was wearing a beanie with a somewhat obscure college that was in the area of where I grew up so I asked him about it. While we were talking I said something that warranted him to roll his eyes at me, so I snapped at him "Don't YOU roll your eyes at ME!" He laughed it off and eventually asked me to watch some boxing that night at a local bar. I agreed and it was fun, but I had a boyfriend at the time and I let him know that. Subsequently, he didn't walk me all the way home, he left me a block away from my apartment building which I thought was weird. In the next week we spent almost every day getting lunch or something and I realized that I didn't want to be with the now ex bf anymore and wanted to be with current bf. That was a year ago and I couldn't be happier. Who would have thought that you could actually meet a good guy at the gym?!