S/O: What's YOUR love story?

[stayawake]

In my first year of university - having never dated ANYONE - I was at church one day and saw this guy, who though a little short was really cute. I smiled at him, and he smiled back. The next sunday, my friend Sarah, who is just kind of one of those people who knows everyone, introduced me to Jason and we ended up talking after church for half an hour. He actually laughed when I made jokes, and at my general sarcasm, and he just *got* me. The rest of that month he was everywhere - at school, he was around all my friends, and at church, and my three girlfriends and I and he would go out all the time. He was SO much fun to be around. So after a year of this, we were doing things like going out to the movies, going on long walks all the time, planning events for the youth at church, stuff like that but yup, I'm that naive that it didn't even dawn on me that he might actually like me. By May, his good friend Paisley sat me down and said 'okay, the guy likes you a lot but you're sending him a lot of mixed signals here, are you interested or not?'. Apparently he had tried to ask me out like seven times but I didn't get what he was saying and was just really dumb. ( I guess I didn't really believe that a guy would like me like that - I had had lots of guy friends, but never a boyfriend). So finally we talked about the fact that we were pretty much dating, and if I was cool with that. I was still unsure if I was okay with the whole idea of dating, so we moved REALLY slow. I didn't let him hold my hand for 4 months. He didn't get to kiss me for TWO YEARS. Four years after we started dating we got engaged, just after I graduated university. That fall we got married.
10 months later our first child was born.
So I totally adore my husband for being patient with me and letting me figure things out. And I have the best husband in the whole world and two awesome kids.

 

[heatherdumas]

I met Andy when I was in high school. He was a junior and I was a senior. He was in EMT class with my fiance, Scott. When Scott and I got married, Andy was the best man. And when I had my first child, Amanda, he agreed to be her godfather. I spent every day of my pregnancy with him. He took me to the lake, he took me to McDonalds, he took me to the doctors. Scott was never around. When I had my second child I named him Bryan Andrew. I was blindly in love with Scott and couldn't see that I spent my life with Andy. Things in our social circle became strained. Andy and Scott stopped talking, so I stopped hearing from him. After my third child, and several miserable years with Scott, I filed for divorce. Andy's sister was my tenant. So, when his marriage ended he moved in with her. We started hanging out again. I knew he had always had a thing for me. But the first time he kissed me it scared the crap out of me. But it has been 9 years now and we have been married for 6. We had twins together. It has not always been easy, but there is something to be said for marrying your best friend. And when I look back at my life, he is in all my memories. He was at every Christmas, and always got me a present, which Scott never did. He was at the hospital when all my kids were born. He has been a part of every moment in my life. That is my non-traditional love story.

 

[pbumbaca]

What fantastic love stories! I enjoyed reading every one of them!

I went to school with DH's sister. We were juniors, he was a senior and had a car. Right before school started Junior year DH's sister called and asked if I wanted to go to the Mall with her and her older brother would be driving us. That was the first day we met. I didn't think anything of it and apparantly neither did he. Well about two weeks after school started DH's sister said to me, my brother thought you were really cute and was wondering if you'd go out on a date with him and then she went to him and said, Pam thought you were really cute and was wondering if you would ask her out. Now neither of us had said a word to her resembling the same. But since we each thought we did, we went out on our first date September 1982. We dated for 3 years off and on but got back together for good in 1984, moved in together in 1985 and got married in 1987. We just celebrated our 21st anniversary in August.

 

[ColleenSwerb]

Such a fun thread!!

Let's see. I'll leave out the semi-sordid backstory on how I ended up in the Baltimore area after college. Although, I'm sure you'll be able to put some pieces of the puzzle together.

I graduated in May of '05 and started working here at Century in July. A few weeks into work there was the annual company picnic. I went with my boyfriend. I shared a large cubicle with 2 other people, one of whom is my Bryan. Bryan brought a ton of his friends to the picnic, one of whom was Jordan. I immediately thought he was the most gorgeous man alive. He has these piercing blue eyes that sparkle when he smiles. *swoon*

So, I met him that day. We were all big into poker at the time (used to play everyday at lunch in our old office) so came to a few of our poker get togethers with Bryan after that. My girlfriend and I thought he was just the greatest thing sinced sliced bread. After 2 months of living with my boyfriend, we split for reals and I got my own apartment in the beginning of September.

At the end of October I was going up to Penn State for a football game with some friends. Turnsout, Bryan was going to be there as well. Jordan had gotten his parents football tickets for the game and asked Bryan to go with him. So I called Bryan about 890432789432 times trying to get he and Jordan to come hang out at our tailgate. We hung out with them for a little bit, then they headed into the game and we went down to town and a bar to continue the festivities of the day. The game was a blow out, so they left and met us. We went our seperate ways but planned to meet up at the same bar that night.

Jordan and Bryan were staying with some girls Jordan knew from high school/college. (I found out later on he had dated at least 1 of them.) Naturally, the girls took 89034890432 hours to get ready, so they didn't get to the bar until 11 or 12. Our favorite band was playing and my girlfriend and I were right up front. We got Jordan and Bryan a pitcher each (gotta love college specials) and away we went. Jordan stood next to me (not big on dancing) the whole night and we laughed a ton. He thought the way I treated guys who danced on me without permission (hello? It's just friggen rude to start grinding with some stranger!) was absolutely hysterical. I knocked one especially obnoxious guy on his @$$ and the entire bar laughed at him.

(Here's where it gets funny)

So, the end of the night rolls around, and we're clearing out of the bar. We're waiting out front for the whole group to reassemble, and Jordan is standing behind me and rubbing my arms. Jordan is doing a bit of a jig as he has to pee. My good friend Caleb says "Oh just pee on Brady, she won't mind." I just laugh and say thanks a lot! Jordan however, starts dancing and singing "I want to pee on you" from the Chapelle Show. FUNNIEST THING EVER!

So our group starts walking to head home and Jordan has his arm around me. My friend Emily heads off to her friends place (stranding me in a camper by the stadium with a group of ppl I don't know), Caleb is looking for a bus to his friends place, and Jordan and Bryan are walking towards the girls apt. All of a sudden we reach a corner and a bus that's headed to the stadium pulls up. Caleb asks if I can get on, and I can, but it's practically pulling away, so I turn to Jordan and just say "Gotta go!" and get on the bus. SUCKED. But it's not like I was going to go home with him to an apt full of girls! Lol!

So that week at work I played it cool to Bryan. Apparently Jordan was interviewing at our company that week as well. The following Monday the Steelers played on MNF. Bryan said they might be having people over, so I said I'd come hang out. That was another interesting night, where we ended up staying up until 4am talking and snuggling on the couch. At one point I turned to him and said "are you going to kiss me or what??" He said he didn't know what to do cuz he really liked me, but he was probably coming to work at Century and he didn't know how that would work out. And I told him we'd figure it out later and planted one on him.

And the rest, is history We'll be married next fall!

 

[ditzyscrap]

DH and I have a kinda funny story...

When I was 18, I went out to a wedding of a friend and there was this REALLY hot guy there, I was asking everyone who he was because I wanted to be introduced to him. Turns out that he was someone I'd known when I was younger, we were pretty close but they moved away when I was 8 or 9. Anyhow, he'd changed from the chunky kid he was into a total hunk. ANYHOW, so I found a way to sit at the same table as him at the supper (his mom was there, as was mine, and they were catching up, so I sat with them and he did too). The entire dinner I was trying to flirt with this guy but his friend kept interrupting.

When the dance started, Jae and I danced with this guy and his friend pretty much the entire night. I tried to dance with him most of the time and poor Jae got stuck with his friend. I even managed to convince the guys to stay later than they wanted, lol. Before they left, I was giving the hot guy my number and his friend was still standing there, so I gave him my number too...we all exchanged numbers actually (I remember this because the bride's mom used to babysit me and saw this and tried to take their numbers away from me, saying I was too young, lol).

Fast forward a couple weeks and I get this call...the guy introduces himself as "Trevor" and I have NO idea who he is. He tells me he's the hot guy's friend...oh, ok...so I chat with him and am asking about the other guy the entire time. After a couple weeks of this my older sister (who I was living with at the time) pretty much slapped me upside the head and was like "um, Trevor LIKES you" lmao. Duh. Right after that we started long-distance dating...I still didn't remember what he looked like so right before he came to visit me the first time, he sent me a couple pics, but he was with other guys in them and I couldn't figure out which one he was until he told me, lmao. Oiy.

We met in January 2000, started "dating" in early March, I moved here in July to be with him, we were officially engaged in August (we were technically engaged in June, because I refused to move here without some sort of reason to move) and married in December. We'd known eachother 11 months.

 

[scrapperjade]

Haha, Bree! I still love that story! Poor Trev!!

Anyways, here's mine:

My good friend Katrina was friends with this guy, Brad, who had asked her out. She wasn't sure if she wanted to date him or not. She thought he was super nice, but they were just friends. While she was trying to make up her mind, she invited a whole group of people to go swimming at the Shuswap (we were all living in Kamloops, BC, so it was just a day trip). Anyways, Brad got invited, and I met him there. I thought he was really nice, and we hit it off pretty good, but he totally was into Katrina.

So a few days went by and K and I and Brad went out for coffee, and after that she turned him down about the dating thing. Then about a week later, she had a get together at her place, so we could all meet her best friend from out of town. I got there and there were LOTS of people there, but then here was Brad! I remember my heart jumping a little bit cause I was totally crushing on him at that point, and I made a bee-line straight for him. We ended up talking ALL night. It was like nobody else was even there, lol. That night I gave him my phone # much to my suprise (I am normally NOT confident around guys).

3 days later he called... it was about 9 pm and we talked until 1:30 am!! 2 days later we went out on our first date, and I seriously KNEW he was the one for me. We dated 4 months, got engaged on December 17, 2003, and were married on July 17, 2004. We'd met and married in 11 months. That was 4.5 years ago already!

 

[~Julie~]

Dave and I had met in 1996 while working together at CVS/Pharmacy. We worked side by side and would flirt here and there but nothing serious. In March 2007 we started dating but only dated for about a month or so. It was so hard working with him after that. Finally I had enough and I wanted to be back with him so I had my friend call him and tell him that I wanted to be with him. We moved in with each other in 1998 and have been together (little breakups here and there) ever since.

Not a spectacular love story like some of you all but - figure if I never took that job, Dave and I would have never met. Although I found out later that my dad used to work with his mom and used to give her rides home from work all the time. Dave said he knew of me because of that but never imagined we would be dating and having a family together.