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

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Anonymous wrote:Curious what options there are nowadays (or in the past) besides online dating that have been successful. Obviously I understand there will good and bad, just wondering if there was a pattern.

Interestingly enough, we met in his bedroom. Married 6 months later. We laugh about our early days because they seem so unlike ourselves today. Like someone else said, it’s not about where you met. It’s what follows that matters!

I feel like you want to share this story and, honestly, I wanna hear! Que?

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Disco ONS, 1997. Married in 1998.

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Las Vegas - She used to work at the Spearmint Rhino. Going on 12 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Las Vegas - She used to work at the Spearmint Rhino. Going on 12 years.

Funny good friend actually met his wife at another Vegas club.

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12 years ago, Match.com

We both knew from our first date it was The Perfect Match.

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A running group through Pacers

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On the beach one morning. Dewey Beach, DE. Married now 24 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious what options there are nowadays (or in the past) besides online dating that have been successful. Obviously I understand there will good and bad, just wondering if there was a pattern.

Interestingly enough, we met in his bedroom. Married 6 months later. We laugh about our early days because they seem so unlike ourselves today. Like someone else said, it’s not about where you met. It’s what follows that matters!

I feel like you want to share this story and, honestly, I wanna hear! Que?

Haha it’s not that crazy. I was 18 he was 22. He was a marine, fresh out of the school house. My friend was dating his roommate and I came over to hang out. They shared a one bedroom apartment type room. I was sitting on his bed when he came back from a date with another girl. She had dropped him off in the parking lot. We hung out while my friend and her boyfriend were off together. Ended up “hooking up” casually that night and fell in love not long after. The rest is history! I am so glad because he is like George Clooney and has literally gotten hotter with age. And he is an amazing father.

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Washingtonian Personals section (RIP)

Married 19 years come January.

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We met at birthday party of a mutual friend. Our mutual friend was a good friend from college for me and a co-worker for DH.

It was the one and only time I met someone at a party, who turned out to be significant.

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WaPo Date Lab

J/k

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Anonymous wrote:12 years ago, Match.com

We both knew from our first date it was The Perfect Match.

Same, except 13 yrs ago. He was my first (and only) match date. Married 10 yrs with 2 kids.

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At the work. The company hires a lot of MBAs in different functions and there were a number of romances.

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Anonymous wrote:We met on an online forum, but not for dating—for a mutual interest. I think the fact that only people with fairly compatible personalities were there in the first place is a factor in our success.

+1

This is your answer, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:At a mutual friend's party. We couldn't keep our eyes off each other and spent the entire night talking. Funny thing was that we didn't get eachother's names or contact information. A true Cinderella story. Then we both spent the next day texting everyone we knew at the party to find out who the other person was. 13 years ago!

nice! I have a really similar story -- we met at an event through mutual friends, couldn't take our eyes off each other, but never got names or contact info. I remember watching him walk away and thinking "how do i meet someone like that?" we both started hanging out with those mutual friends all the time until we saw each other again, got contact info, and it was all inevitable after that.... 11 years ago.