How did you meet your SO (with non internet choices!)

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Having just looked at another similar poll I realized it only focused on internet meetings so for all you who voted "other" in that one you've got your chance now.

[Marilyn. 340]

we met on the internet.. we talked for about 3 months before we made our relationship exclusive..

we dated for just under 2 years before we got married although we were engaged after about 6 months of dating..

[Christi and Ian 24]

We met through a mutual friend that he had come out to visit. He had a girlfriend @ the time & I had a boyfriend...I can honestly say that the idea of dating him never crossed my mind...

3 years later, our friend moved in with a girl who didn't want him staying with them for 3 months at a time, so I offered my couch...it gave us a lot of time to get to know each other much better - Needless to say, he didn't stay on the couch for 3 months...

2 years and a lot of 90 day visits later we got married - Our friends probably would have put our dating/getting married odds at 1,000 to 1 - he thought I was a loud American (which I am), and I thought he was an arrogant Brit (which he is), but somehow, it just makes things that much spicier.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

We met on a mutual interest website/forum; 'knew' of each other for 2 years before we started to date; dated for 3 months before we became engaged; were engaged for 13 months before we were married (K-1 visa took 9 months)

(Your poll didn't have a third option for between 1 and 2 years )

Edited November 17, 2009 by Kathryn41

[Dave and Helena 0]

Met at a training class in Sweden, working for the same company. Became friends and he convinced me to come visiting, tempting me with a visit to Disney World. A couple of years later we started dating, I went back and forth every other 3 months on VWP. I almost got sent back to Sweden on my last visit after which we decided to get married. Now we are working on the "happily ever after" part.

[Welshcookie 17]

We met in bar through mutual friends.....it was some years before we dated and some more before we married.

[Ban Hammer 13,333]

Having just looked at another similar poll I realized it only focused on internet meetings so for all you who voted "other" in that one you've got your chance now.

but you didn't set the poll to allow only one answer.

[FinnLove 0]

We met in Sydney, Australia at a youth hostel in 1988 when we were in our early 20s. We had a vacation romance until we had to go our separate ways. We kept in touch through "snail mail" letters (yes, all before emails!) and Xmas cards, but that dropped off in the 1990s. I googled him last year, visited him one month later (after last seeing each other almost 21 years prior), had visits back and forth. We got married in July 2009. 2nd chances do work!!!!!

(there definitely aren't any options for our story in your poll!)

Edited November 17, 2009 by FinnLove

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

We met on a mutual interest website/forum; 'knew' of each other for 2 years before we started to date; dated for 3 months before we became engaged; were engaged for 13 months before we were married (K-1 visa took 9 months)

(Your poll didn't have a third option for between 1 and 2 years )

I did get lazy on the 3rd question didn't I. I guess after 1 year round to the nearest year.

[bora bora 1]

We met at a party in Brazil. We officially started dating a week after we met when he asked me to be his girlfriend, but we always celebrate our anniversary on the date that we met since we've really been together since.

We got married 2 and 1/2 years after we met.

[Kang Lang 7]

we met while i was training in his country (i had been for training before and he remembered me and was able to remind me of things from that trip ) he came to live in the u.s. about a month after that last trip. we started dating a couple of months after he arrived got engaged in under a year but didn't marry until almost 3 years to the day of when we began dating exclusively. wow it goes so quickly we've already been married 806 days!

Edited November 18, 2009 by Kang Lang

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

We met on a mutual interest website/forum *coughs*; 'knew' of each other for 3 1/2 years before we exchanged the first pm. We will be getting married summer 2010.

[Twisted K 2]

we met while i was training in his country. started dating after a month, engaged after 3 months, and married after 23 months of knowing each other.

[alex and astrid 38]

We knew each other through a website about The Matrix, since about 2004-ish, but just casually to begin with. Then him, my friend Emma (who was in a LDR with a Canuck), and I struck up a friendship and he decided to come to Australia on holiday. We met June 3rd, 2005 in person, and he just knocked me out the moment I laid eyes on him. After he went back to the states, we knew there was something but we weren't sure what to do. So, we decided to try a long distance relationship July 2005. He came back to Australia Jan. 2006, I went over to the states on the VWP in April 2006, then I moved to the US on an F1 visa December of that year. We lived together until June this year until my visa was up and I came home. We got engaged Easter Sunday this year. So by the time the wedding comes around, it will have four and a half years together, engaged for nine months. Can't wait to be Mrs. Alex!

[pedroh 21]

We met on a mutual interest website/forum *coughs*; 'knew' of each other for 3 1/2 years before we exchanged the first pm. We will be getting married summer 2010.