How did you meet your significant other?

Sigel and I met in highschool, we broke up officially for two whole weeks before we moved in together and the rest was history.
Arch and I met in an online game called Lineage and played lin2 and wow for three years before we discussed anything farther, Sigel and I dated for a year before doing anything sexual. It's just the way I do things, I won't get intimate until I know you so for me internet "dating" is a bit of a mystery. It's a great vehicle for bringing people together but it's like meeting in a bar to me, risky and yet many people find it exciting. less

Match.com keeps playing these commercials that say that about 1 in 5 relationships start by meeting online. I know I'm not that old, but I remember when this was really frowned upon and I just found it interesting to see how 'ok' it had become now.

My fiance and I met in high school, were each other's first long term relationship, and even tho we broke up for a while, we still maintained a strong emotional connection. I still say we're high school sweethearts.

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We're high school sweethearts, too. For a year or two, he was just a friend of a friend, that crazy, silly guy who would come sit on (not at, on!) our table at lunch and crack jokes and pull crazy stunts to make us laugh. He was always dating one crazy, trashy, bitchy nut or another at that point, so I never really considered dating him. (he had self esteem issues, he went after the girls who treated him like shit because he thought that was all he deserved) My junior year (his sophomore; he's a year younger than me) the latest in a string of girls had cheated, left, and broken his heart. A mutual friend decided that being comforted by a cute, buxom girl would cheer him up, and called me over. I cheered him up a bit, hugged him, then had to run to class. I didn't see him again for months, but he says that's when he fell for me.

Fast forward a few months to fall of senior year's marching band season. He starts coming to all the games (there was always a group that came just to hang out with us band geeks, hahah), hanging out with us after games, even helping move those heavy instruments. We became friends, I developed a crush. 2 of our mutual friends (a couple), talked to both of us, and realized that we were, in a nutshell, being idiots about each other. They mentioned to both of us that there might be some interest in the opposite party, and drag us out to lunch together. (which almost didn't happen; he says he came within 30 seconds of chickening out and asking out another emotionally abusive chick) At lunch, the friends brought up topic after topic to try to get one of us to ask the other out... they brought up the homecoming dance, movies that were coming out soon, romantic stories... they pulled out all the stops.

I finally got tired of waiting for him to say something, and asked him. His family has NEVER let him live it down!

The rest? Is history. We've been together for almost 5 years. He comes on family trips with us. His family is asking when we're going to start making babies (gag). We're talking about marriage now. So for all the ridiculousness, it's been worth it. less

I was one of those 'firsts who met online' back in 1999. Ours ended in marriage for nine years and two months, and now I'm seeking divorce.

The net is a great tool for meeting people, but it's only a tool like those contact magazines and dating services of the 70s and 80s - you have to meet them in person. That was my problem when my ex-husband and I got together since he proposed to me while we were still chatting and I never got to know what he was REALLY like that year+ we were 'dating', even when we finally met in person.

I spent nine years in an emotionally abusive celibate marriage with a man who was more insecure than myself. When I finally sought therapy and began to realize what I was in, I got out; the papers will be signed next month.

Yes, the net is great for finding, just do the meeting very quickly before you invest yourself so far in the only thing you can do is stay (and die). less

Ummm we unofficially met when he was flirting with another girl ( a friend of mien) while I was being loaded into an ambulance on what I like to call the Valentine's day Massacre. We officially met the next day when I wiped his ass and won money from him and 6 of his guy friends at poker. less

Match.com keeps playing these commercials that say that about 1 in 5 relationships start by meeting online. I know I'm not that old, but I remember when this was really frowned upon and I just found it interesting to see how 'ok' it had become now.

My fiance and I met in high school, were each other's first long term relationship, and even tho we broke up for a while, we still maintained a strong emotional connection. I still say we're high school sweethearts.

Where/how did you meet yours? less

I haven't met anyone anywhere romantically speaking, but I met my best friend in a Resident Evil yaoi community on livejournal. (I think I just admitted to a lot of things with that statement... ) Five months later, I flew for the first time ever to be a bridesmaid in her wedding. It was the first time we ever met and it was wonderful. I have tentative plans to move out where she lives less

Ummm we unofficially met when he was flirting with another girl ( a friend of mien) while I was being loaded into an ambulance on what I like to call the Valentine's day Massacre. We officially met the next day when I wiped his ass and won money from him and 6 of his guy friends at poker. less