People with good to great marriages, how did you meet your spouse?

[Anonymous]

Met my beautiful wife at Mclean Linway Terrace park 15 years ago and it was a beautiful day in September. I took the day off from work, and went to the park with my acoustic guitar along my Jitsu buddy. She came up to talk to me after I finished playing "Pretty Woman", and asked if I could play that song again. We hit off immediately. Dated for 2 months, engaged for 3 months and been married for 15 years.

[Anonymous]

It was in college and he was playing tennis and I stopped to watch. He had a physical disability but he was an amazing player and a lot of people were watching. After the match I introduced myself and babbled about how impressed I was and he just laughed and then left. A month later I was at a party and he walked in and apologized for just leaving and one thing led to another.

[Anonymous]

Okcupid back in 2010! I've heard the site really went downhill though

[Anonymous]

At a dance as college Freshman. The friend I planned to go with bailed because the line was too long. I went alone. I walked over to a woman I vaguely knew from a class to say hi. He knew her well and also came over to say hi. She asked if we knew each other and did a brief intro. I recognized him from a performance he’d been in but we’d never met. He asked me to dance. We kind of casually ran into each other (“hey, I’ll be at this event Sat, maybe I’ll see you there if you’re planning to go”) for a few weeks and then decided to date just as we went our separate ways for the summer. Picked up Sophomore year. That was 22 years ago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:craigslist, 2008.

hahahahaaaaaaaa. this was before everyone had a smart phone and dating apps. oh man, DC was a different time then.

we're happily married with 1 son.

Also met on craigslist but in 2007...married a couple years later. Divorced after 10 years.

Can someone explain how these Craigslist relationships worked? Did you put an ad out looking for a lover, or what? I am so confused with the idea of finding someone on CG lol

It was less sketchy than it sounds now. I only went on one Craigslist date, but this was before dating apps. Even the online dating sites like Match and EHarmony were still really new. People met on Craigslist, MySpace, Friendster. Facebook was barely a thing. Anyway, it was like an ad in a newspaper, almost quaint. People posted notices (mfw, late 20s, like punk rock and water skiing, etc.). You sent them an email via Craigslist and if you wanted to, you would arrange to meet them at a coffee shop or something. You'd have a conversation. If you hit it off, you might exchange numbers.

Dating used to be much harder and require way, way more effort. Even early online dating. I remember feeling like I would never, ever get a date. And I was a good looking woman in my early and mid-20s. But it was brutal. If I'd had Tindr or Bumble or whatever, I could have been going out constantly. Though I sense I would have been just as lonely. Some things never change.

[Anonymous]

Work. We were friends first. Together for 15 years, married for 10.

[Anonymous]

At his going away party (for grad school) back in the late 90’s. I was literally dragged to the party because I had been traveling and was exhausted.

We will be married 19 years next summer.

So glad I went.

[Anonymous]

"The Personals" in the Bergen Record, northern nj paper, 25 years ago. (You had a confidential mailbox where people responded to your ad). He answered mine. We talked on the phone for a couple of weeks, met for dinner and fell in love. I think I found a new apartment and my future husband in the same week actually.

[Anonymous]

I worked for an advertising agency and he worked for the client.

[Anonymous]

I was an EMT and I was having dinner with friends in a restaurant when a customer collapsed near the bar. I ran to help and another guy came to help who was a resident at the nearby hospital. The customer survived and it worked out very well for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At a wedding. The groom, a mutual friend introduced us because we were going to be law school classmates in a few weeks. We danced all night and were in a group that shut down the hotel bar. When the happy couple returned from their honeymoon, we both inquired about the other . . . and learned that we were both in serious relationships. Sigh. We were just good friends throughout law school. After graduation and the bar exam, we both had travel plans with other friends, but we arranged to meet in London. When I saw him at the train station, I felt weak in the knees. Reader, we just celebrated our 25th anniversary.

I want you to write a book.

[Anonymous]

At a bar! I’ve actually never really “dated”, I guess? I’ve mostly just ended up in relationships with guys I was friends with - except this one time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In a bar.

Funnily enough, all my other boyfriends I met through friends.

Pp above - I hadn’t read yours yet - so just +1 - sorry!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At a party. It was a rager (going away party for a mutual friend who I honestly didn't know that well). I was near the door when he rang the bell, and I opened it to find my extremely handsome future husband holding the bread he'd baked from scratch for the occasion. We spent most of that night getting to know each other and that was it. Almost exactly 11 years ago. Zero regrets.

Aww . . . I want a home-made bread husband!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was an EMT and I was having dinner with friends in a restaurant when a customer collapsed near the bar. I ran to help and another guy came to help who was a resident at the nearby hospital. The customer survived and it worked out very well for us.

No! That’s too perfect!