So I've found myself asking this question a lot to couples. And I figure.. since there are a lot of people on Mene who have significant others, why not ask them too?

I like hearing real life love stories. I know that sounds optimistic, mushy, and gross for many many people, but regardless I like them. I like hearing about how 2 people met, how they knew they were first in love, if there were any struggles, etc. I don't care how out of the ordinary or how conventional it is, I wanna hear some! (They cheer me up!) :D

I'm not saying mine, because I'd like to be respectful of some people on this site who I'm sure don't want to hear about it (They know me outside of mene and I think it's a touchy subject). But I'd love to hear yours! :)

Me and my ex met in 8th grade, in science class. We sat next to each other. School ended and we began to talk over the summer and started dating when high school started. There weren't much struggles as parents of both sides approved....which was surprising (I'm Asian and she's white). Then we broke up because we just lost it...yeah not very romantic is it?

I'll get back to you in two weeks if I'm successful in my next venture.

I'm bitter in general, but I'll give you a happy story minus the sad ending............maybe.

I will give you the long version because I feel like typing it out.

One day me and a friend were eating at a Chinese buffet place. She noticed a friend of hers sitting by himself so she told him to get over here and sit with us. We started talking and he said that I reminded him of his brother. (Me and his brother have the same exact birthday by the way.)

Well I met his brother one day after talking to the brother on the phone. I dragged my cousin with me. We ended up getting together that night. We were kind of like twins in what we were interested in. So we automatically clicked. I was so happy even when I was away from him. It was like a euphoria that lasted for a month or so.


Now here's the sad ending. Feel free to skip it if you wish. He cheated on me. He had sex with one of my "friends", but I do give him points for calling me and manning up. She still won't admit to it.

But I was very happy when we were together.

These are all very depressing :(

my husband and i met by pure randomness. we were at college and there was this hypnotist show going on. we were both watching it and out of nowhere, he just says that this is very random. i agreed and we just started talking. he offered to show me around campus the next day, and after that, we were inseparable.
actually, tho, how we first saw each other was funnier. i was walking around the campus, and he almost ran me over with his bike. i don't really remember him almost hitting me or anything, but i do remember him riding around.

I'm a hopeless romantic and I've always wanted that sort of fairy tale, memorable moment when I meet the right person. Now... the way things happen for me are out of the ordinary.

I had always wanted to meet a guy at Fanime (an anime convention) that I could date. For the most part I found Convention Otakus to be... not my type of guys. I'm an Anime Otaku, but no one ever suspects I am. (I hate to toot my own horn) but I am very attractive and I am very trendy and fashionable and I look nothing like the stereotype. I also like guys who play sports and are smart and geeky at the same time. I like balance (I am a libra after all). So my friends dragged me to the Black and White ball and I was dancing with one of them dressed as Riku from KH. Another friend of mine was pairing people up and I leaned forward to my friend "riku" and said "I wish I could just ask someone to dance with me, but I'm too nervous to do that." And that's when she turned, grabbed my other friend and said, "Kami wants to dance with someone!" I was left speechless as the other friend darted off into the crowd. I hung my head in shame and was utterly embarrassed, because it now meant that she'd pick a random stranger and I'd have to dance with them.

Three songs later, and I was sure she had forgotten until I see her dragging some giant behind her. (I'm 5'3" and he's 6'5") And I'm standing there with my mouth open. She steps aside and said "Is this good?" Without thinking I grabbedthe guy's hand and pulled him a few feet away from the group. I let go and I apologized, looking up at his face, I suddenly had a wild fleet of butterflies attack my guts and I felt for a second like everything stopped as he smiled at me and laughed, saying that it was alright. I then introduced myself and we started talking. We jsut swayed from side to side and talked the entire time.

After a few songs, he said he had to go tell his friends something and that he'd be right back. And of course in my head I was like 'psha.. he's not. Oh well' I rejoined my friends and we all danced some more, then we did a congo line and the room shifted and we ended up on the otherside of the dance hall. SO I was definitely like.. "He won't find me" Right after thinking that, he came up behind me and tapped my shoulder. When Iturned around I smiled, getting those same darn butterflies. We danced together again, only this time to be interrupted by a girl who was cosplaying from the same anime as him and she asked to dance. Again he said "I'll be back." And AGAIN another congo line through the room (There were like 5 of them DX)

And again, me and my friends ended up somewhere else. And again, he found me. By this time, I was like "I wantto get to know him more.." so I asked him if he wanted to get something to eat with me and he agreed, told his friends and we left together. We went back to my hotel room, I changed out of my heels and then we went and got food with my friends then went to karaoke. And exchanged numbers.

The only problem was that he lived in Santa Cruz and I lived in Sonoma. 2 1/2 hour drive. But I did it. We went on a date the week after and dated the entire summer. I still really love him, but he hurt me in the end. But it made me believe the love at first site was definitely possible and I'm not the type to fall in love easily. I'm a very cautious person, and I usually reject guys because I just can't date someone I don't feel "more than friends" for. And I know the difference between lust and like (and maybe, one day real love)

So there is my romantic story :D

Here is a very unattractive picture of me from that night when I met him... apparently his friends took a few and this was the best of them.

The first thing I ever said to Chris was "I see you >.o"
I was on okcupid.com and when someone views your profile while you're online, you are notified in a little box at the bottom right of the screen. And I remember thinking as I started talking to him, "Wouldn't it be crazy if I actually did end up dating one of these guys from okcupid.com? I mean, could it actually go that far?"
And now almost 8 months later, I am with the love of my life. And all I had to say was, "I see you. >.o"
:heart::heart::heart:

We knew eachother since first year highschool. We were ok friends. Always had at least 1 class together per semester. We talked a few times, but we always sat in different areas of the classroom. (I was closer to the front, he went for the back) Then in grade 11, me and my girls, started sitting in the Tech Hall at lunch with his guy friends. At first we were on totally opposite sides, and then the groups kinda met in the middle. That year me and Tony also had a history class together, and he sat right behind me...I started really hanging out with these guys (I've always connected better with guys). And me and Tony, we love having 'poke wars'. *giggles* Everyone kept tetting us, to stop flirting and start dating. I had already had 3 boyfriends at this point (and dated one twice), so I really didn't take them seriously.
Me and Tony started talking a lot on MSN, and face book. Eventually like a month later, I asked him, as a friend, to be my date for Prom. He agreed, as friends.
It was actually due to 3 friends of ours, that we started dating. Duncan had to study for U3, and Tony told him that he could go study, while he talked to me.
And Duncan teased him about liking me, he denied it (he's telling me all this over facebook). Then his friend Fabian asked him one night, why he didn't go to Warhammer, because he was talking with me.
Later that month, I got a nasty viral infection, and he texted me and emailed me everyday.According to my girlfriend Kerry, Tony was really moopy and depressed at lunch with me not there. It got to the point our friend AJ, actually asked him in class one day, why he doesn't just ask me out.
*eyeroll*, so he tells me this on Facebook, and he asks me if its really that obvious that I like him. I told him that yeah it is, but I might be a little biased.
So technically I asked him out. *giggles*. And we've been happy together for exactly 9 months today.

I like to hear couple stories too. I asked my friend's grandparents and her grandma told me and really I thought it was cute but I know I won't ever have it. o.o;
Though I don't have a significant other and I am totally fine with that and I am going to read all the comments. They are so long but I guess...worth it. XD

This thread's so sweet!

As for mine, we were best friends for years.
I'd spent countless days sharing in-jokes with him, telling him all my secrets, crying on his shoulder after bad break-ups, talking about anything and everything... he was my favourite person.

I still don't know exactly when I fell in love with him, it just creeped up on me, I guess.
I didn't dare tell him how I felt, I was convinced that he just saw me in a totally platonic little sister kind of way, and that it'd ruin our friendship if we ever found out.

Then one Valentine's Day I was at work, and he turned up carrying a giant bunch of flowers, a home-made box of chocolates and a home-made card with a silly but cute little poem, saying I "made him feel rainbows inside".

We've been together ever since. :heart:

Now THESE stories are what I'm talking about!! :D These are adorable!!

I met my boyfriend at work, we both worked for the lift operations department at a ski resort i was just a regular lifty and he was a foreman (the foreman ride around all the lifts making sure the liftys are doing the job right, and give them breaks when they feel like it), when i started there i had no idea who he was and didnt really even notice him the first week..

untill he was getting assigned to all the lifts i was working at i didnt think anything of this at first even though he was purposely assigning himself to those so he could get to know me, so this was my first season snowboarding and i had already hurt my leg well one cold winter day when i was shoveling off my ramp, me being a Noob lifty stood in the path of the chair lift which hit me on the head and i got knocked right on my bum, i only blacked out for a second but i had to call my manager just in case and go to the clinic i was alright just had a bump and had to sit on the couch in the locker room watching tv the rest of the day, my boyfriend "casually" showed up asking if i was ok and sat with me for his lunch break, after that i had to work at the bottoms of the lifts untill my leg and head were better

well one day when i was hobbling around the bottom of my lift in the middle of a storm he came by and started helping me out, he noticed i was cold and ran off only to come back with an extra sweater and a cup of hot cocoa, it was so nice and after that moment i was hooked but im very shy and didnt do anything just yet,
a week later me and my roomys were at the bar and him and his buddies were there when we showed up, we decided to all go do some late night tubing which was a blast after we were finished everyone slowly started heading back to the bar, when it was just me and him he had asked me on a date! i was excited and of course said yes, we went on a few dates and finally made it official a week after he got his promotion to supervisor... it was kind of a forbidden romance since we werent allowed to date our superiors, we kept it hidden for a while but my boyfriend couldnt do that and told our manager, our manager told us he really didnt care about that rule just not to let the mountain manager know

since he was a supervisor now i didnt get to see him as much but he would make a point to stop by my lifts once a day to give me a kiss
unfortunatly me, him and 4 other people got fired for joy-riding snowmobiles

now i was never a person to believe love could happen untill i met him it has almost been 11 months now, we live together, have a wonderful relationship, and we plan to be with each other forever (hopefully that works out ^_^)

sorry mine was kinda long =X

Oh and dont worry im a much better rider now! lol

[helpful hint: I'm a girl] this is so full of ramble and bad writing, sorry D;;;

My girlfriend and I met in junior year of high school. She was in a group of different friends I kind of knew by association from my other friends. She was on and off in anime club like me and I knew some of her friends. I guess we first met in AP art portfolio, we didn’t really talk and I sat in the back. At first I didn’t really like her because she had a inuyasha bag and I didn’t really like that show xD Yeah first impressions are weird… Also she had a wrist band on once in class, and I had the same one, I get a little put off when people around me wear the same things- I’m strange and picky like that. So all of that year I didn’t really talk to her, me and one of my friends in that art class would loom over her and be all lol we’re just being weird at you -crazy faces- and she didn’t mind so it was cool.

Senior year some how some of my friends and some of her friends started hanging out. I’m pretty shy so really I only meet people through my friends when my friends are around because other wise I wouldn’t try to go up and meet someone. >>;; So again I had art and she was there along with one of her friends that I knew too giving me an excuse to be friends with her.

Our group grew closer and we all by half way through the year hung out all the time, she started to be one of my best friends. She’s very excepting regardless of what I do or say and very claming (I tended to be nervously energetic most of the time we hung out). We just got along very well together, I’m not sure how to explain it. I always wanted to hang out with her and when ever we did I was content, it was never a “What should we go do? I’m bored! D;; “ type of thing.

Some time through the year I told some of the group I liked her, because I wanted to know if they’d be agents it because we’ve only really been friends for half a year or less, and some of the group had known her for several years. It went over well, but again I’m very shy and didn’t know what to say or if I should chance asking her out. If she says no the friend ship will probably never be the same, that awkward “you like me I don’t like you” would hang over us. So I was slacking in my asking her out, in the mean time my friend had become suddenly very interested in her. She’d be flirty, sit in her lap, and hold her hang because they were “twins” (we were trying to do a group cosplay and they were twins in it). My friend lived close by to me too so she would invite herself over to my house when I had her over… that was upsetting because my friend is the attention grabbing type so she would be all sad and complain about her parents like she was so miserable and sit between us. =__= So all of this drama of my friend being a jerk made me back off a lot. The whole thing killed any courage I had built up; now I was wondering did she like my friend now? She’s cute and they’ve gotten pretty far.. I’m not very forward, and I’m sure my friend can out shine my shy any day of the week… I don’t want to step in all of the sudden and ask her out now. So I sulked expecting her better choice of a girlfriend (my friend) to date her or what ever. But in the end my friend clarified that she didn’t like her like that which made me very angry. What was the point of all that then?

Very upsetting the whole thing was, and I was back at square one. The school year ended and I went away to college a three hour drive from were I live. Me and her would talk every day on aim, I didn’t want to loose touch with her, also going to college is pretty scary and I needed moral support.
In august of this school year we were talking on aim and she said: “Jett [her old time friend now mine] keeps bribing me to ask you out, y'know.. crazy ho I mean, you can't put a price on that
but I do like you. > >'“ and I was like 8888DDD in my head, speechless excitement. We have a very funny relationship as you can see by the wording. But she I think is just as bad at voicing how she feels as I am so this was pretty big. We’ve been going out ever since~ seeing each other on weekends when we can, as often as we can because of the long distance driving and I don‘t have a car. My mom’s in denial of me being gay, she thinks the two of us are just very close friends, I’m not sure what to make of that. The same goes for her mom, I haven’t told my dad anything because seriously my parents are in there 60’s and they arent’ very open minded. My mom took it well because she’s very loving, but still doesn’t approve, my dad would probably hurt me… Regardless I don’t tell my dad much of anything because he gets so angry about everything so I don’t mind him not knowing. This part is confusing… I don’t conceder myself gay. That is I’ve had boy friends before, but she’s the only girl I’d be this way with, we just fit too well to not be love. I would love to live with my her for ever and grow old with her- I just can’t see myself with anyone else but her.


We went ice skating over winter break, I’m bad at roller balding and even bike riding. XD It was scary but fun~ I wouldn’t do that as willingly if anyone else were holding my hand.

Me and my girlfriend have known each other for... well, over six years! We lived in two different states, and both were apparently admiring each others' art work and writing the whole time. We fell out of contact for a while (late 2005 - mid/late 2008) and then started talking again.

The pathetic part is... we both had off-and-on crushes on each other for a long time. Finally when we were both single and having overlapping crushes... we didn't know what to do with ourselves. Neither would say it. I pined at her while she was dating her ex, and I never wanted her to know. I had no idea she had even ever liked me! They broke up, months went by... and we even told each other we had crushes. But for some reason, she took me saying this as, "I'm not feeling it right now, but I have had them and I'm sure they'll come back." I read her response of, "Maybe some time in the future they'll overlap," as, "No."

We even talked about getting married in our next lives and agreed that we should. And she sent me a huge box of Valentine gifts (and chocolate hearts). HOW WERE WE MISSING THIS?

Finally, someone I had been whining about the pining at pushed her into asking me out.

We've been happy and dating ever since. We were together about a month online before I came to visit last year and just never went back to my own state! We live together. Attached at the hip and still not tired of each other!

Originally Posted by kid-kokopelli

The first thing I ever said to Chris was "I see you >.o"
I was on okcupid.com and when someone views your profile while you're online, you are notified in a little box at the bottom right of the screen. And I remember thinking as I started talking to him, "Wouldn't it be crazy if I actually did end up dating one of these guys from okcupid.com? I mean, could it actually go that far?"
And now almost 8 months later, I am with the love of my life. And all I had to say was, "I see you. >.o"
:heart::heart::heart:

Aww, cool. I use that site too, xD

Yay.. <3 the stories... ^_^

Well, mine started last 2008. We were in one team and the team usually eat after work. He was the KJ (killjoy) type of person who has lots of excuses so that he can't join us. I hated him for that. Then out of the blue he started asking me to sit beside him and since we are not really friends, I always declined and informed him that I prefer to be with my girl friends. Then out of the blue again, he casually asked for my number so he can inform me for any work related issues. I honestly didn't have any idea that there was more to that. So there you go, we started texting and started talking about lots of stuffs. Then all of a sudden he would join the group. Then we started going out without the group. But right after he confessed his feelings for me, I was transferred to a different team and we worked on a different shift. It was that time that I saw his efforts just to be with me. Sometimes he has this tendency to be really KJ but if he knows that I really want it, he would go out of his way and do it. That made me <3 him. The courting/dating stage lasted for almost 2 months then we made it official. There are lots of stuffs that we both like/dislike but there are also lots of stuffs that we both have opposite views/opinions. I guess it's really true - Opposite Attracts. We are still together and planning what to do on our 2nd year Anniversary which will happen soon. We also plan to settle down next year. So that's it... Not the fairy tale type of meeting but I'm sure glad I met him. <3

love stories? hah! uhm... i dunno where to start...
ehehehe.... have nothing to share though!!!
T_T

die, if you don't have anything to share, please refrain from posting random spammage. :D Thank you!