how and where did you meet your partner?

[curious24]

Originally posted by Flori_DAMAN
wow

John

i was thinking the same thing...

and not being able to sleep sucks..

[OhioCouple]

Originally posted by jen
I believe that good hearts have a way of finding each other. No one has to be looking & once a good heart finds another, they are always together. So long as the owners of the hearts allow themselves to believe in what it is that the heart can see.

Awesome post, Jen. Just flat out awesome. I'm glad you couldn't sleep before you posted that one.

[TymKeepr]

Originally posted by jen

I believe that good hearts have a way of finding each other. No one has to be looking & once a good heart finds another, they are always together. So long as the owners of the hearts allow themselves to believe in what it is that the heart can see.

Your statement hit the nail right on the head! Neither S nor I were looking for a relationship. We had met previously for dinner with my former Dom 2 years before we started dating because of mutual friends in Atlanta. There was definite chemistry between us right from that dinner because the Dom I was seeing did not want me seeing S or playing ( in the BDSM sense) with him alone.

We kept in loose contact for the next couple years, e-mailing every 6 months or so. During that time, S's marriage completed it's falling apart and a local BDSM group began to form. I saw him again at the first public meeting and he managed to convince me to be on the board. At the next meeting, things got a little friendlier between us and S asked if I would play with him alone. :evil: I did and within a few months, he broke off seeing another woman from the group and things progressed from there.

Neither one of us was "looking" for anyone at the time. Things just happen when you least expect it! In fact, I remember talking about how we were not going to get serious since we'd both been burned before....famous last words.

TymKeepr

[sepacouple]

We met almost 15 years ago when I placed a personal ad in the local county paper. I figured it might be a way I could meet a few girls and just go out on a few dates, I was'nt looking for a serious relationship but we got engaged about 6 months after we met. So, once again, sometimes when you are not really looking............

[BodyScape02]

For us it was via an online dating service. This is “D2” the male half of this profile and I’ll give my version, interspersed with things she has said of the events.

It all began one cold, boring winter night stuck in my apartment. I had been newly single for about a year and was simply surfing the net with nothing better to do and wishing I had someone to talk to right then. I had been dating a few really cool women but nothing that made me feel like “this is it!” While cruising through the local paper checking out events that I could escape to (I doubt I would have gone out that night as it was bitterly cold and wet out!) I saw a banner add for a “Free” personal ad site….

I thought, “What the hell” and clicked it. It was a seemly cool site and it had pages and pages were you could write to your hearts content about yourself and your views on life, dating, sex…you know, the typical stuff. The next thing I know I was hours into crafting a carefully written thesis about who I was. I found it a bit therapeutic in a way and it really helped pass an otherwise lonely evening of boredom.

The next evening at home I decided to check out the rest of the adds of this “free” site and AFTER paying a fee, was able to browse the completed profiles…(Don’t they call this “bait and switch?”) Anyway, as anyone who as ever cruised ads knows, this can take a long time. One that really stood out was named “Decembersnow.” I booked marked it as she had the most lovely eyes and wrote quite a bit of good stuff in her profile. After finishing looking at a ton of ads I went back to the site’s homepage and there was this flashy-thingy that said I had new mail…not knowing how to use the site I floundered around and was able to learn it was from “Decembersnow” but couldn’t find the mail!!! UGGGGGGHHHH!!! What I didn’t realize was that it was auto forwarded to my regular email which read it as junk and deleted it.

So I sent her an email the next night and this began an exchange in which we wrote a lot and we seemed to really have many things in common. The one sticking point she had was that I had no photo up. I honestly have very few images of myself and at that time had none in digital format. She says what attracted her was the way in which I wrote and what I had to say. Eventually I invited her to come for a coffee and maybe a tour of where I work (I’m not comfortable in saying where as it’s well know, but it’s a cultural center that people travel from all over to visit.) We agreed to meet early on a Friday after she completed an exam at a university she was attending nearby but she still wanted a photo so she knew what to expect.

I rifled through my photos and chose what I (as only a man would) considered to be a great shot! It was of me with an 8 pound steelhead (a type of large lake trout) that I had caught with my fly rod. I was in my favorite floppy fishing hat and my toad patterned neoprene wading gear. My hair was messy and my face was ruddy as it was freezing out that day but I had a HUGE grin! Well, thinking this was a cool photo; I scanned it in and mailed it the night before we met.

Now she has said this many times, on seeing the photo she thought, “oh no, another dorky dude” and since we had already planned to meet the next morning she felt she was “stuck” in meeting me out of politeness. She figured we would be good friends and nothing more. She planned on a 30 minute coffee then a retreat out of there.

Thankfully, I am better looking in person….

That Friday morning I was at my desk working on some graphics (I’m a creative coordinator and produce a lot of graphics and such) when security called to say I had a visitor (they added a “lucky SOB” as they hung up). Cool! She showed! It was 9AM.

As I walked to the security consol, I could see this tall, long shapely legged woman with her back to me. She had beautiful hair down past her delectable bottom and I thought, “no way, I can’t be THAT lucky!”

I was!!! She turned and got this look, I noted her eyes got wide and I perceived the slightest intake of breath. She also began to get that expression where one tries to control a grin. Anyway, the chemistry was ON!! We did the old, “after you,” “no after you” on the stairwells trying to get a peak at the other’s bottom. LOL

Well, that short coffee turned into a 3 hour tour which became a lunch. I never take a lunch break, so this was special, on the way back from lunch I had to carry my coat in front of me (20 degree day) so as not to reveal the erection I was sporting…she had this way of just talking and moving that aroused me like I haven’t been before on a first meeting!

Lunch turned into another 4 hours or tour; thank god I work in a big building with a lot to look at!! The end of the tour led to her joining me for the company Christmas party that night. Nothing is as appealing to an intelligent woman as a chance to mingle with scholars, scientists, anthropologists and archeologists. LOL

Finally at 3AM (note: 17.5 hours PAST where she had predetermined she was going to split) she went home. And NO nothing happened… ;-) ((That’s another story!))

Well, we plan to marry soon. I can’t think of being with anyone else.

So I guess you could say online dating does work on occasion. LOL

[Ashley]

We met through an on-line dating service. I didn't know he was a swinger at first, in fact, he seemed quite shy. The first time we kissed, I kissed him. We dated about a month before he took me to bed. I asked him once , after I learned about his swinging, why he didn't try to have sex with me sooner and he just shrugged his shoulders. I like to think it was because he thought I was girlfriend material but maybe he just had more than he could handle

[WildFlower]

We met through mutual friends at a picnic. My friends asked me to come over for a cookout and I said sure. Then they quickly said " Oh yeah there is male friend of ours we would like you to meet , he is single." I was nervous been on one too many blind dates but couldn't cancel because I had already told them I would go. So I showed up with anxiety in the pit of my stomach but not to worry he was so polite and sweet with killer blue eyes, cute ass and we shared the same taste in music. So we exchanged phone numbers and had our first date and have been inseparable since three years later and just celebrated our first wedding anniversary....

[CantonCouple]

I had recently moved to town and didn't know anyone except my coworkers. One Saturday night I decided to go by myself to sit at a local bar-n-grill for food, beer, and the NCAA basketball tournament. She was my waitress, and she was very pleasant and very adorable. Great ass. I came back the next night, but she wasn't working. I ended up closing the bar with the kitchen manager, to whom I mentioned the cool waitress the night before. He put in a good word for me, and the next time I was there she and I had a beer or two after her shift. We've been together going on nine years now.

[Flori_DAMAN]

I was shooting pool at a restaurant. It was a Michigan beach bar on a little lake. I watched Donna walk in and told my pool buddy that my future wife just walked in.

She was wearing a full length white body suit. It zipped from the part that counts and stopped just short of the part that teases.

Within ten minutes we were engaged in conversation that was surrealistic. Within half an hour she whispered to me that she wanted to make love to me.

The rest is history.

John

[wiscpl]

It all began seven years ago this month. My how time flies when you are having fun. I had just fulfilled my obligation with the Marines and had returned home to start college. I was working as a cashier in a convience store and had noticed her several times as a customer. Shortly afterwards she began working there also to help pay her way through college. One night when I was working she came in the store with a friend. I asked her what she was doing that night and she said that she was just hanging out with some firends. I asked her if she wanted to see a movie after I finsished work. She said sure but wanted to know where one was playing at 10 pm. Of course I said my place. I couldn't tell you what movie we saw that night because the only movie star I could see was sitting next to me. We made love that first night and nearly every night since then. I proposed to her under a waterfall eight months later and married the following year. Five and one half years later we wouldn't change a thing!

[Misty&Todd]

I was in a horrible relationship and my roommate(the sister of the guy I was dateing) told me that the this guy at work likes me. SHe had also told him I liked him, we had never see eachother. One night I got up the nerve to ask him out on a date, he said yes and we were married 2 years later. WE have been together for 5 years married for 3 and we still act like were newlyweds, I love it.

[oleretired1]

we met when I arrived on Okinawa to begin my tour (we were both in the Army at the time); we had our first date on Valentines Day and have been together for the last 23 years......good times, bad times, 4 children, 3 grandchildren and he's still my best friend, lover and husband....would not change a thing


R of D&R

[ArcaneReference]

We met the old fashioned way - in a bar.

We went on a second date 3 days later, he moved in and never left.

[thump29]

We met at school. He was dating a friend of mine at the time and when things didnt work out with them I decided to approach him and we dated for 6 months and married. Now we are celebrating our ten year anniversary next month.

[Vjklander]

I found her in my bed. I kept her.
J