Monday, 13 June 2011
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The Most Popular Places to Meet Future Lovers
A friend of mine was telling me recently about how her parents met and it got me thinking/asking around about how couples in general meet. Her parents' story is unusually cute I've found:Some sum of time ago, (at least 20 years) her parents were both separately to attend a ball in New York City. She didn't want to go-- one of her friends had bailed and she was not really feeling it. She bought the dress and shoes, so wound up going anyway. Once there, someone early on spilled wine all over her dress. He saw her, this stranger in distress, and came over with napkins to help her clean up. What a meet cute.
They exchanged a few polite words-- hers mostly of thanks while he charmed her. Then, they separated and he went off to dance with another girl.
Later on, as she started to leave, he caught her and asked her to dance. They exchanged numbers and set up a first date. On the first date, he wore a t-shirt and jeans and told her he hadn't intended on being married. Eight months later, he proposed. Today, they have three children and have been happily married since.
I thought this story was extremely cute, different, and romantic. My parents met at a party in 1973, so we can all guess what that was like. Through asking around, I've received a lot of results similar to that of my parents. It seems popular that married couples met in bars/clubs or at parties, but I'm wondering if it's generational. And, if they met at bars or clubs, did they just exchange numbers or did they sleep together immediately? Something about this makes me wonder if some people intend for a one-night stand, but actually wind up marrying/dating the intentional hook up. Most younger people I know that are either engaged or dating met at college in a class, in high school as classmates, or at summer camp. I, too, fall under the latter set of meeting places.
If you're married or in a relationship, where did you meet your SO? Where did you meet your exes? Where did your parents meet?
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I met my husfriend on the Internet. I met my ex at the gym. My dad met my mom in high school, and he met his current wife at a medical conference.
I met my SO through OKCupid.
My parents met through an old girlfriend of my father's when they were working with the missile program at Lockheed in California.
I met my current SO at a bar. My sister's ex-roomie was moving to Spain and my sister wanted a designated driver. She normally doesn't drink too much but she recently broke up with her boyfriend so she asked me to drive her LOL! And while there, completely sober, I met my SO.
LOL at the picture of XS. :)
My parents met while at a party in the 80s. Dad maintains that it was only a seasonal fling, but here they are, happily married nearly 23 years later.
Myself: I've never met a serious girlfriend at a party and I'm not sure I ever will. As for exes, they came from class, the gym, coffee shops and through friends and friends of friends.
I met my ex-boyfriend at my old job. He was my supervisor. :x We stayed together for 4 years after that...
My parents were introduced by a mutual friend. I met my last ex on OkCupid and the previous two at college.
I met my fiance at a wine bar; I stopped by to hang out with a mutual friend and the wine bar was closing, my fiance was also stopping by to hang out with the same mutual friend and we moved locations to a Japanese restaurant, ate and exchanged small talk. Then I asked our mutual friend for the guy's number, texted him first, asked him out on date 1 & 2 and told myself I was NOT going to do that for the 3rd date. First date, I made sure he knew it was a date when I dressed up. 2nd date, he we met downtown but I did not drive so he KNEW he had to drive me home. And 3rd date, it rained its ass off and instead of going to a pub, we went to his place, watched a movie and talked until 2 AM.
( my mom freaked out)
We didn't get physically involved (NO SEX) for 4 months. I made him wait. I wanted him to REALLY get the point that I wanted a RELATIONSHIP and not a sleep over. 2 yrs later, we're engaged :)
I met my ex-SO at a club. Won't be doing that again though. Dating FTW.
I met my boyfriend at church.
I met my ex in high school.
My parents met in High School and got married a few months after my mom graduated from high school.
We met each other in a volunteering event. he was so not the type to volunteer but his parents forced him to go that year. and I needed the hours for school.
we met in the games section because of his flirty and playful attitude, no one really liked him. no one wanted to sit next to him at dinner so i told him to sit next to me because i just want everyone to quiet down.
before the next summer comes, we were together :)
so every year, we go back to the same volunteering event :)
5 years now!
I met my BF at a club on my birthday. :)
My exbf - met him at a birthday party in a bowling alley
My parents met at a restaurant where my mom was a waitress
Met my first bf at a friends birthday party.
My 2nd bf and I met in 7th grade. We went to different schools in 8th grade, and then went to the same high school and had a ton of classes and clubs together.
My sisters girlfriend introduced me to my last ex. (I shouldve seen that as a bad sign-she was a weirdo.)
My parents met in a church youth group and have been married 24 years.
I met my husband on the school bus in my junior year and his freshman year of high school. He was being a boy: annoying. He was blowing my hair. I told him to stop, and when he didn't, I smacked him. It was a little bit later in the school year that we got to talking and being friends courtesy of Nintendo. It was two years later after I had graduated that I finally agreed to date him. Two years later, he popped the question, and two years after that we finally tied the knot
My parents met in South Korea while my dad was in the US Air Force. If I can remember correctly, they met at some party, though I can't remember if it was through a mutual friend or not (I think it was a friend of my mom's). They only had dates on-base, not because of any race issues but just because they didn't want to be too public about it. They got married in 1981 and came to the US, and my dad left the Air Force soon after. They've been together ever since :)
I'm a US citizen living in semi-rural Japan post-graduation, so meeting people will probably be difficult. I think my parents expect me to marry someone Japanese and stay in Japan, but I'm not so sure that will happen.
I met my first boyfriend when I was at a football game. Here's the catch: I was in a mascot suit. He said I had a nice personality (from inside a mascot suit???) and asked for my number.
Second boyfriend i met at school. He was hot, new, and rode my bus.Third boyfriend I met at a New Year's Party. and Fourth I met in my dorm's lounge while I was in my Army uniform playing pool. He requested to be my FB friend a few days later, and said I looked really hot in my uniform which I thought was SUPER sweet.They are all exs, and exs for very very VERY good reasons, but how I met them all was pretty fun.
I met a lot of boyfriends(all exes) through work and school and just chance meeting in random places.
My husband and I met at a high school party at a mutual friends house. Yes, he just got my number, I was 14. We dated for 9 months, broke up, and 7 years later he found me online and got in touch again. :)
I have a great story - I met my boyfriend in the classroom. I was the teacher and he was one of my students, haha.
father started banging landlord's daughter. and thus, one glorious day, i was born.
@manic_lizard@xanga - lockheed in palo alto? my friend works there now, haha. i'll let him know what he's getting himself into :p (we both say we won't do serious relationships until we're at least 28.)
@phuck_diz_shiz@xanga - why do i feel like everyone meets so's at clubs? i NEVER do but i can't think of a better place to do so, since i like to go out a lot.
My parents met when my mom went into his office to purchase insurance. Swoon!
My mom met my dad in high school. She didn't care for him much at first. He was a big nerd and he was really into her. Eventually she changed her mind and they started going out. My dad joined the air force and they broke up. My mom started dating a different guy and they got engaged. Then my dad came back from the air force and my mom broke it off with the other guy. My parents dated again then married.
I met my current boyfriend in high school. We didn't date, we were just casual friends. I went to college and we drifted apart. I came back from college and we started hanging out again. Then we acted on the spark we had in high school but did nothing about. We've been dating now for a little over a year.
Most of my exes I met while in college. One I met at a Starbucks. One from the internet.
My parents met on a blind date :)
i met my current boyfriend who i've been with for 4 years in college in a painting class and my only other serious boyfriend in college in french class.
other people who were hookups or casual relationships:
worked with one
met in another college class
friend of a friend, met randomly at a music festival
another friend of a friend, met him on his 21st birthday at a bar
another one i met in high school but didn't really talk to him until we randomly ran into each other my first night in my dorm when he was visiting a friend of his on another floor.
other than that... i can't remember that far. lol.
aaand my parents... they met on the bus. haha. they both went to the same college and rode the same bus everyday to class. eventually they ended up talking and figured out they had the same major and ended up dating. kind of a cute story except that they divorced. oh wells.
My parents met because my dad was a playtex salesman and was bringing his wares to the store my mom worked at. They shared a roll of SweetTarts during lunch, and married a year later.