How did you meet?

[Canadiandggal 49]

Awe see i love world of warcraft stories. It so funny to realize that a Night elf, or gnome could end up being your husband Haha! Its a wonderful feeling to know that your loved one was out there and out of millions of people you two found each other!

[Tater&Bugger 3]

Fun! Love the stories. Ours is long, and grueling for my poor fiance.

Back in July 2008 my ex and I had broken up (he was from NJ, ironically)... so after a few weeks of mopping I decided to take a long weekend (long weekend of Aug) and go visit my mom and her bf in Alexandria Bay NY with my bro and his best friend who we went to high school with. They had a nice houseboat on the water downtown... so after a long day of drinking my family and I stumble into a bar and this tall gangster looking kid with a crooked hat starts giving me looks. I walk right up to him and straighten his hat saying it looks better that way. He then offered to buy me a drink (a few times) but I kept saying no. He was cute but I wasn't looking to meet anyone.

Not too longer afterwards, at the same bar the' Cupid Shuffle' came on and I as a Canadian had never heard this song anywhere other than Mexico before so the fact that it was playing was the most exciting thing to ever happen... then J comes up next to me on the dance floor and new all the moves of course (at the time I didn't know how common the song was here). I was SO impressed and smitten, but still wasn't looking to meet anyone. My bro, friend and I ended up leaving the one bar and going across the street to another because they met some girls when out of nowhere a few hours later I saw J again. At this point I was who knows how many drinks deep and I just ran up to him and gave him a big hug and asked him to dance. For some reason I felt like he was already my friend, and he liked me so followed along haha.

We spent the rest of the night dancing, he ditched his friends and my bro and friend ditched me haha. We were walking on the docks at the end of the night (ok like 330am) and he asked me for my number and said he wanted to take me out blah blah blah and I straight up told him it will never happen. I explained how my ex was from the US and I vowed to never date someone from another country, let alone long distance. Top that off with the fact he was in the Army, three strikes (my words). He was persistent though.

We hung out with some of the family and my friends on the boat and eventually everyone went to bed. I was getting pretty tired too (it was now 5am) and told him I had to go to bed so he should probably catch a cab ride home... well there were NO cabs and his friends were gone home. He asked if he could come in which I said no, being a classy gal and told him he is welcome to sleep on the patio of the boat! Rude call on my part but I wasn't exactly sober. 8am rolls around and my mom goes to take the dog out and find this man sleeping on our patio haha. She offers him some coffee because he was shaking cold... he chats with her a bit and my moms best friends who were on the other boat facing us. He shakes himself together and goes for breakfast until his friends are up to pick him up. I wake up at noon to find 5 texts from his saying how much fun he had with me and he wants to see me again etc... I'm like 'woa, I made this guy sleep outside and he still likes me!'. Again though, I wasn't willing to date a USC/Army. We kept in touch via text and email as friends, and tried to make plans when I went back to visit (I like to make friends) but they never panned out.

So the airline I worked for went bankrupt, I was unemployed... I broke my femur 2 weeks later and am forced to sell my home and move back home... fast forward to November, I am a grown up gimp living with my parents and he insists on coming to visit me during the US Thanksgiving weekend. I had dated other people since that night but still wasn't ready for a bf and he knew this but was always persistent. He would joke that 'one day you'll be my girl, you just don't know it yet'. The weekend was fun, but a few days afterwards my grandfather passed away so I stopped returning texts and emails. I moved with my grandmother to help her keep it together, all the while waiting until I can learn to walk again (which came right at Christmas). At this point he thought he'd done something wrong so backed off a bit, but after Christmas we began texting and emailing casually. Come February he was back in full swing trying to win me over. Every plan we made from March on wards failed so it wasn't until May that we were finally able to meet up (for his birthday). I guess the fact that all my other problems had finally washed away and I was happy with myself again I let my guard down, because one look at him and I was sold. My 'stage 5 clinger' as a called him was right all along. I still had precautions about my 3 strikes and didn't want to be known as the girl who liked Americans (although his accent is one of the best things about him)... but there was nothing I could do from that weekend on to prevent myself from falling in love with him. It took 9 months to get from that meeting for me to finally be open to him, a month or so later we fell in love, and only a few months after that we knew we wanted to get married. Throw a 9 month deployment in the mix and this summer and it brings us to know.

I am happy we started out so slow, we weren't ready for it as much as he wanted it that way. Apparently I really hurt him at the time but he never gave up. He just had that feeling all along and waited until I was ready. God I love that man to this day my mom and her friends, and his friends love teasing him about the night we met. Sorry for the long post... but hey I warned you!

[Pauley 2]

Yvonne and I can credit (or blame? ) several people and organizations for guiding us together:

• My instrumental music director in high school my senior year, Miss Mayer
  
• Toronto band Moxy Früvous
  
• Our friend Victoria, and
  
• Pottery Barn
  

Miss Mayer had been a huge fan of Moxy Früvous nearly since they got started, and had been to many of their shows in Buffalo. She let me borrow her copies of their CDs, which I copied to tape (it was '97, MP3s were only just starting to appear, and I didn't have a computer yet anyway) and listened to all the time in college. Eventually, as I started getting spending money, I bought up my own copies of the CDs, and bought every one that came out after that, up until their (permanent?) hiatus began in September 2000.

Früvous fans (we called ourselves Früheads) had, since 1998, been gathering each February at the annual FrüCon in Toronto. Through the Frühead.com website that had started a year or two prior, I started chatting with a bunch of other fans and ultimately decided to go, catching a ride with some other friends for the weekend to go to Toronto, and meeting a lot of people I'd chatted with online on FHDC in person.

It'd be understandable if you thought that's where I met Yvonne, but you'd be mistaken -- we're not there yet.

Victoria is one of the many friends I met through FHDC and FrüCon, and she lived and went to high school in Toronto. She's quite the artiste, and likes drawing comics. For a while, she and a friend drew a web comic, "The Stairwell," featuring herself and a number of her friends at school, who all hung out in the stairwell at one end of the building between classes. As a place to allow them all to chat online, as well as interact with fans, Victoria created a message board for the comic, and I signed up there and chatted with and played games with some of the friends I'd already made through FHDC, plus a few other names I hadn't seen before. Among the crew that posted pretty regularly was Yvonne. I knew of her existence on the board, but outside of the conversation topics, we didn't really interact all that much.

Eventually, the comic waned, but the message board kept going for a little while longer. As the board started to fade, one night Yvonne happened to sign on to FHDC one night while only 3 or 4 of us were online, and we all started chatting. As the conversation went on, she posted a few pics (I had pictures on my profile there already), and I remember thinking to myself, "wow, she's really cute... not that I'd ever have a chance of dating anyone like that...". Later on, we started chatting on MSN Messenger (as it was still called at the time), and on to AIM later.

Over the next two years or so, we grew pretty close, and joked on occasion that we should meet, but never really did much about it. In May of 2005, she was shopping for new sheets for her bed, and had her eyes on a nice set from Pottery Barn, but ran into a conundrum -- PB in Canada did not carry the sheets in stores or online, and PB Online in the US wouldn't ship to a Canadian address. I don't remember whose idea it was, but between us we cooked up a plan -- she'd order the sheets and have them shipped to me, and she'd come down over Memorial Day weekend to get them, and we'd use it as an excuse to meet in person.

Over that weekend, we instantly hit it off, and had an awesome time. I figured it'd either be a one-off weekend, or at best it'd be a month or two before I'd see her again, but not long after she got back to Toronto and back on IM, we started making plans for her to come back in two weeks for another weekend. We decided at the end of that second weekend that we should call it official and say we're dating, and the rest is a cliché.

[Tater&Bugger 3]

Pauley I am so happy you also followed up with a long story haha.

[lilacvioletiris 11]

Our story is an odd combination of online and in person. I have a female friend who lives around the corner from me named Susan. She and I are the same age and we have been friends since I moved to Battle Creek, MI 10 years ago. She and I signed up on a Christian singles website just because there were no eligible single men that met our religious criteria in town (most were divorced with kids or mentally unstable). Susan started chatting with this guy in Canada and she would tell me all sorts of things about him. I had ruled out Canadians because I wanted a spouse from the states so this guy had never come up on my searches. Finally the Canadian guy and Susan decided to meet up with each other in March 2009. Susan was getting cold feet sure if she wanted to get involved again (might have to do with her basement dweller ex-boyfriend, but that another story). She followed through with meeting the Canadian guy but she just didn't feel any chemistry, then Susan said to me, "Carla, Ron is not right for me but he is perfect for you. You need to email him." So being a good friend, I ignored her! If he wasn't right for her, why would he be right for me. Anyway, late April 2009 I finally gave in and sent him a "smile" on the Christian singles website. He replied with an email and we started chatting. By the end of May 2009 we were talking on the phone and making plans to meet for the Fourth of July holiday. He drove us down to another town in Michigan and we stayed with some friends of mine for the weekend and I introduced him to two of my three sisters. To say the least, Ron is perfect for me. I am so glad I gave in to the prodding of friends. Being married to Ron since July 11, 2010 is the best! It was funny the second weekend we were dating we went to see a pastor who was a family friend of Ron's. The pastor took Ron and I out on a lake in a little motor boat. While we were out there, the pastor basically told us that it is better for couples from different countries to go move to the country of the wife, or life in a country where neither of them are from. A year later, that pastor performed our marriage ceremony.

Pauley I am so happy you also followed up with a long story haha.

Long stories are the best! At least once in awhile.

[Tim and Erin 3]

For years my marriage was suffering because of an alcoholic and abusive spouse. We lived wayyyyy out in the boonies, and hundreds of miles from my family. I felt isolated from my family and friends, and it was difficult to make new friends in our area. My husband at the time would spend all of his "at home" time out in his workshop with his drinking buddies, or even just alone. The relationship was dead, but I felt trapped with no way out. I had no job and no money of my own. I didn't want to admit defeat to my family or ask for any help, because I saw that as a sign of weakness on my part.

We eventally bought a computer, and one day in Spring 2004 I decided to check out the Yahoo chat rooms. I have to admit I was disgusted at some of the stuff that went on in some of those chat rooms, but I kept visiting and hoped to find anyone to chat with who might be in a similar situation and could sympathize. I remember one day going from room to room watching some of the conversations going on, and finally I just typed something like "Is there anybody in here interested in having an intelligent conversation for a change??!"

Then Tim pm'd me and said "Howdy ma'am." I said "You must be from somewhere in the south." "Yes, ma'am." Well we talked for quite awhile about how difficult it was to find someone to talk to who wasn't focused on trashy talk within 2 minutes of saying hello, or someone who could even SPELL for that matter! Turned out he had been divorced for 7 years and had only had a few casual dates. I took a peek at his profile and saw how physically fit he was for his age. I commented on that, and he took the comment like "Gosh golly gee whiz shucks, not me." But he KNEW he had it goin on. We ended up adding each other to Yahoo Messenger that very day, and over the next few months spent almost every evening talking online. He talked me through some very tough times, and made me realize I deserved more in life, and to be treated decently by a man. Tim never once suggested anything romantic for us.

As I worked out a plan to end my marriage, Tim decided to date a woman and I didn't see him online for quite awhile. By the time we reconnected in 2005 I was out on my own, and things hadn't worked out for Tim and the woman. That's when our romance started. Tim is such a southern gentleman, and couldn't say sh** if his mouth was full of it. Our chats, emails and phone conversations continued until the first time we met in 2007 when he decided at the spur of the moment to come visit me for a few days while he was between jobs. And HOLY MACKEREL the sparks flew! lol And the spark is still there today.

Thanks for starting this thread, and to everyone who has shared their stories. I have an idea for my own thread, so keep your eyes open.

[HannahP 119]

Met my husband when I was 14 and he was 15; we were both attending aerospace camp in North Dakota. We held hands and were known as "the item" at camp but I didn't get to kiss him because I had to run to catch my flight. I did once fall asleep with my head on his shoulder during Blazing Saddles (I was one of two girls at said aerospace camp), and drooled all over him. Love at first sight, obviously.

We had a prolonged long-distance friendship which merged to into a relationship about two years later. When I was 18, I graduated from high school and immediately shacked up with now-hubby in ND where he was going to university.

We've been married for three years, living together for over five...and he's still my adolescent crush.

[Marilyn. 340]

I figued I would add more to our story...

we met online in a MSN chatroom, Jan 2002. The chatroom's name was Soft and Gentle (it was named after the nicknames of the two people who created the room, Soft Southern and Gentle Giant)

both of us had only started the chatting thing about a month or so before we met because we were bored....

That was one of the first chatrooms he found too and for me it was about the 3rd one I tried.. the other 2 were really unfriendly and I didn't stay long

I thought my hubby was annoying the first few times he came into the chatroom but he kept coming back and tried to talk to me ..lol he said it was because he saw me "singing" rubber duckie in the chat room and he thought to himself that he had to get to know that person...

on Valentine's day he spent me an e-card with cats on it and he wrote "because I know you like cats".. from then on I saw him in a different light and we would talk a lot and it slowly got more serious...

We finally met in person in Sept and the moment I saw him in the airport I knew I would be with him forever...

[JlovesA 109]

Pauley I am so happy you also followed up with a long story haha.

Haha my story could have been a lot longer but I thought short was the way to go, since everyone else was being really brief. I'll write a 12000 word essay if someone is going to read it

[Pauley 2]

Pauley I am so happy you also followed up with a long story haha.

Ours was too weird to just pass off as "we met online" or "we were introduced by friends."

[lgg 2]

Ha! I could write a whole essay too but that's our story. I like it like that.

[AMERICAN/CANADIAN 0]

My story is kinda funny. I got divorced in 2006 from my High School (well technically middle school on up) sweetheart but who cares. He cheated on me and after him I didnt know how to deal, so I cheated on everyone I dated. I accepted that was just who I was. Then in 2008 my boyfriend lost his job and moved from Missouri to Louisianna....He just left, never called, never dumped me, nothing just left. At that point I realized that I paid all my bills and did everything I wanted and didnt want a signifcant other.

My mother who played WOW (World of Warcraft) kept insisting I meet this guy she had met on her game. I argued 1) anyone trying to meet someone via an online game and the girls mother had to be a freak, 2) only losers play wow (sorry I didnt know), and 3) that I was ok on my own. I also didnt want to meet him because I saw the game ripping my parents marriage apart all through the time she begged me to talk to Mike. Finally in July 08 I started talking to him, then he dared me to come to see him in Canada....being the party girl I couldn`t turn down a dare. In the middle of August my boss who liked me started hitting on me seriously. I knew I had the chance to do whatever I wanted with him and thought he was cute and well off financially (everything I could want) but all I could think about was my phone buddy in Canada. Even being around the boss felt like cheating and made me hurt for Mike. Wierd considering Mike and I had never met yet. The last day of August 08 (yep one month after we started talking) I was on a plane hyperventilating thinking "####### am I doing?" but I got to Calgary. He was there to meet me at the airport. I called my mama from the luggage carrasel to tell her I was safe, but once I laid eyes on him i started to freak....so I called her again and pretended like I had never called her. I told her how hot he was and she begged me to go over to him but I was frozen with fear that he wouldnt like me. About two minutes later he texted me (from ten feet away) "are you about done?". I hung up with her went to him and spent nine days in Canada. I went home and after 20 days quit my job, sublet my apartment, and gave everything I owned to my sisters. I then bought a ticket to Canada and called Mike and told him what I had done/planed to do. He said "ok. Just tell me when to pick you up at the airport". I had to argue to get through immigration/customs on October 14, 2008 (Just three months after we started talking) and we were married on 11/11/2008. I have NEVER made impulsive decisions and people thought I was nuts to marry someone who had never been to my home country or met my family which is such an integral part of my life (I talk to at least one of them everyday). When I look back and think of mentioning to Mike we might fall in love and get married (only two weeks after starting to talk) he said maybe we better date for like a year first....we were married less than four months after that! He loved me and he knew it from the first time I smarted off to him.

Wow I guess our story was longer than anticipated.

I love reading these stories and posting our own. It brings such happines to me to know that God had a plan for us even before we knew what it was. Thanks for starting this thread and thanks to everyone sharing.

PS I play wow now too:)

[JlovesA 109]

About two minutes later he texted me (from ten feet away) "are you about done?"

This made me laugh because I was reading along, assuming he didn't know what you looked like or that you were even near him...but he did and his text was perfect.

[AMERICAN/CANADIAN 0]

This made me laugh because I was reading along, assuming he didn't know what you looked like or that you were even near him...but he did and his text was perfect.

My husbands a smart alick and I love that about him especially since I am too! When my husband and dad finally met in March of this year they hit it off....aparently sarcasm is common in my life! Thanks!

[Amanda2020 1]

Amazing to read these stories, and how differently each one of us meet our love one. As for myself I grew up with my fiance. He is a dual and moved to Canada when he was 7 and raised here till he was 19 than he moved to US on his own after high school. We've been friends since nineth grade but did not start dating till 2006, which itself was not expected or imagined we'd end up together. Throughout the years his gone back and forth from US to Canada. I myself visited him every few months, than in 2008 I found out I was pregnant and had our first born in April 2009. Since we stopped seperating as we both decided its best to stay together so she had both parents. We started the visa process in Sept 2009. I stayed with him from Aug 2009- Nov 2009 in Florida where he last resided and went to school. Upon return to Canada for the holidays, we were to return to Florida but than realized if I were too I would not be allowed back in and risk not being approved for my visa, so than he decided to stay back in Canada during the processs so we been here since. He now trasnferred to NYU for school since January did his winter term through online. He now got a job which he will be transferring to NYC so our permanant move will be to NYC. I myself will be starting school at NYU in the fall.I am POE tomorrow going to Florida and getting married there next Saturday, than we will be shipping all our stuff to NYC end of August than moving.