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We met on a bus. Well, technically, it was a school-sponsored activity during the first week before school started. He lived on the hall of a friend of a friend I made in orientation and we ended up...
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@Michelle.Lea I fell for my boss, too! I haven’t read your story, but I can definitely relate to the “sordid details” part. I was desperately infatuated with him for months last autumn, and although I...
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we went to the same university… I was at the paper, he was the student union leader, holding a variety of positions over time. We loathed one another the first two years we knew one another. I banned...
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We met on a message board on craigslist. Like DW, there was a community of people that would get together on a regular basis and he traveled to SF for one of those meet ups (also, he really wanted to...
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I’m also in the online camp (eHarmony). I was getting to the point where I needed to take a break from it (a number of lackluster dates) and was planning on taking a few months break from online...
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I met my boyfriend on okcupid! We’ve been together almost 4 years now
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I noticed my husband before we formally knew each other. We went to school together and a friend of ours was killed. At the viewing one of the girls in my class was standing next to him and I asked my...
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i met my husband at work (sordid story has already been told) but even if it was a regular dating at work thing, definitely have to be careful. we both ended up finding other jobs because i couldn’t...
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I should clarify that generally we don’t worry about telling people how we met – most people we know are internet folks anyway (90% of our circle of friends are coworkers/friends met through online...
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Funny story about parents and online dating – my mom and my stepdad actually met online, way back in the day of AOL chatrooms as the online dating source. So when I was doing online dating several...
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Match.com. We chatted almost three weeks before meeting and have been together almost 5 years. We also lied about how we met but would just tell the truth if we had to do it over.
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@Copa, yeah – his mom especially has some capital-F FEELINGS about the “kind of” people you meet online and is fairly unlikely to change, so telling them would just cause a lot of unnecessary stress...
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Grad school! We were in all the same classes first semester, and I spotted her across the room in our first class together and I was instantly attracted. It took us 6 months of vague friendship to go...
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I poached my husband. He was trying to get with my roommate. She didn’t really want to date him, she really just wanted to add him to her harem of adoring men. She really wanted to date this other...
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@AllegroFox – my boyfriend and I have a fake “how we met” story that we tell to some people. I’ll admit I’m a little embarrassed we met online — I don’t know how else to put this because I know online...
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craigslist! And both of us are probably the most normal people ever. But we later found out that we had some mutual friends/acquaintances. We probably wouldn’t have ever met though, had it not been...
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Online (OKCupid.) We chatted for about a week before he asked me on a date, and then discovered that we lived a literal 10 minute walk from each other and frequented all the same restaurants and...
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We worked together in college. We were both in other relationships when we first met, but they both ended and we kind of bonded over that and became friends outside of work. A few months later, we...
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Online. We both have kids, so going out and meeting people proved to be difficult for us. He lives pretty close by to me, but I’m sure we never would have met otherwise, since we’re both so busy. No...
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We were in the same graduate program, sat next to each other for a semester in a poetry workshop, and shared the same graduate assistant office, where his desk was behind mine. He’s shy, and I always...
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