How did you meet your husband?

[Anonymous]

J-Date (online).......Many of my friends have either met their husbands through contact on J-Date or met them at J-Date or other singles events. In a city that is so "busy", it's nice that there are opportunities/events out there designed to meet people.

[Anonymous]

Match.com for us too. Funny thing was we lived right around the corner from one another. (I was 30, he was 28 - if that matters.) We figured out as we got to know one another that we had been 'just missing' each other at events, sporting leagues (kickball, flag football) and the like for years. Made me believe in fate.

[Anonymous]

BBQ at a friends house. I was 23. He was 25. We got married 3 years later and now have 2 wonderful children.

DC is a great place for people in their 20's. I moved here after college and have never regretted it.

[Anonymous]

Jdate, four years ago. And FWIW, we've been to five weddings in the past three years where our friends met their spouses on jdate or match.com. All wonderful, attractive, successful people who just never met the right person in "real life" so they tried on-line dating. It really can work!

[Anonymous]

match.com

[Anonymous]

E-Harmony, after 9 months when I was already giving up! We knew on the first date that we were the one for each other, dated for 9 months and got married.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Match.com for us too. Funny thing was we lived right around the corner from one another. (I was 30, he was 28 - if that matters.) We figured out as we got to know one another that we had been 'just missing' each other at events, sporting leagues (kickball, flag football) and the like for years. Made me believe in fate.

This description reminds me of the movie called "Red." The man and woman kept missing meeting or running into each other at events, street corners until ... you have to see the movie.

[Anonymous]

I met my husband at work. We worked for a large gov't agency and played intramural softball where we initially met. Then we'd run into each other at our on-site fitness center, buti since I was getting over a long relationship, I was not interested in dating anyone, although I thought he was cute and nice. We continued to see each other working out and would chat, then several months later he asked me out and we've been together ever since, going on 12 years ago form our 1st date, married for about 9 with 2 wonderful children.

[Anonymous]

OP here - Keep posting - I sent this link to my skeptical and lovely daughter and I can't tell you how wonderful you all are to share like this! I hope this post goes on and on, they're all great stories!

[Anonymous]

She won't be able to afford an apartment on her own here but that's not important-it's better to be in a group house to meet the friends of your roommates. Didn't get a spouse that way but got dates. Also, does your home state have a state society? Many of them are very active, you meet lots of young single people that way. My sister met her husband online also but had a long term boyfriend she met in her early twenties while doing volunteer work. If your daughter is a college grad she should also get involved with her college's local alumni association.

My former roommate was a Marketing major. She loved to tell me that it takes 100 cold calls to get 3 people interested to eventually land one sale. So it is with dating-so your daughter just needs to get out there and make those cold calls, wherever she's living.

[Anonymous]

Online (AOL) almost 10 years ago.

[Anonymous]

I hit him with my car. He was jogging late at night in a black shirt and black pants. He survived, and we are still crazy in love expecting our first child.

[Anonymous]

Online -- Yahoo Personals. (I was also on Match and had many prospects and several dates through that service as well). My DH just happened to click on an ad for YP just to "see what was out there" -- he was in his first year of law school at age 28 and had recently gone through a breakup. He read maybe 200 profiles and mine was the only one he liked. We've been together for 4 years, married for 3, and had our first child 10 months ago.

[Anonymous]

at church.
we were friends for 3 years, dated for 2 and have now been married for 6.

[Anonymous]

e-Harmony four years ago, engaged 5 months later. Happily married for 3 years, with a beautiful son. We really are amazingly right for each other and feel like we should have/would have met some other way eventually, because we have so much in common.