Hey Pandas, Tell Me About How You Met Your Significant Other (Closed)

Costume party: she was dressed up as a man and I was dressed as a women. She is now my wife.

I was carrying a heavy box of books into my workplace when I heard a voice behind me saying, “Want some help with that?” And that is how my husband gained a wife, by the old-fashioned schoolboy “carrying her books for her” technique. He is still forever a sweetheart and a gentleman, after 21 years.

Well, I worked with a local rock band and we were doing a benefit show with another band. A girl I was friends with came to see the show and brought her friend with her. I took one look at the friend and she was just my type to a T! They went in, saw our guys play and came out between sets. The girl said she loved our band and wanted to get on our mailing list. (all done by cards back then!) So she filled one out... name, address & phone. My being a chowderhead around women and too punked to really chat, I folded her card and put it in my pocket. About 2 weeks later I sent out that months mailer that had our PO Box on it as well as my number on the bottom (for booking and info.) Guess who called me? So... I met her at a show, proposed to her at a show and no need for a wedding band as all my friends were musicians so we say we got married at a "show!" We've been together 23 years and counting!

I was walking to a specific seat in one of my auditorium college class. This seat was right next to the door so I could leave quickly without fighting the crowd.

As I was 3 seats away from my chosen seat, this woman took it! Flabbergasted, I did the next best thing I could think of and sat right next to her. We were married the following year.

We met in 6th grade, algebra. We started off as friends an he started telling me about how he was having some issues with his sexuality. He told he he might be gay and one day while in the gym locker room he kissed me and we started dating. We've been together for 11 years now and we're getting married in October!

My friend suggested I check out Puffin Books dating app (me being a book nerd and all). I did and discovered it was just a reskin of match.com and there was only one interesting sounding woman in my area anyway. I shut it down and never intended to look again. The next day I was walking to work and saw the woman walking in the opposite direction. I promised myself if it happened again I would ask her out. I saw her two days later and to my surprise she agreed to go for a coffee with me. The only woman I've ever asked out on the street. We've been married 11 years now.

Senior year of college, I was celebrating having finished my senior thesis with some friends. One of my friends’ housemates tagged along. When he walked into the room I thought “I want that one!”

He was very shy. It took his housemates seven months and seven gin and tonics to convince him to ask me out.

Twenty years and two kids later… we still can’t get enough of each other.

My future SIL & her roommate set us up, 40 years ago last May. Married 39 years in Aug.

Prison...been together for 26 years, married for 11 years. He's my soul mate and the love of my life, and we were both correctional officer's LOL!

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She asked my friend if he knew someone who could sell her some art supplies and recommended me. We had a nice chat and started dating after that. Been together for 3 years.

His brother was flirting with me at the bar. Married 4 years, together 7.

Met in entrance hall of our building, both lived here 3 years, never seen each other before.

He was working his way through college at a laundromat while I was taking care of my sick mother. I ended up taking her place in the errands roster, which is how he and I initially met. When she passed the week before Thanksgiving, my neighbors bought me and my brother a full turkey dinner in sympathy. I found out he had no relatives nearby, and we had a ridiculous amount of food-- so I invited him over to share. That was 11 years ago this November-- still sharing food today!

AA meeting. There is an unwritten rule that two alcoholics probably shouldn't date each other. We were both sick and needed to focus on ourselves. Over time we got closer and closer. We have both struggled over the years but we support each other.

I tell people our marriage is 90% perfect. 10 % total and utterly batsh** crazy. 😀 We are children of chaos. That's normal for people like us. ( Friends of Bill W. Will understand)

My hubby and I met in a video game. We were both in our 30s. After a couple years hanging out online, he came out to visit and my jaw dropped. He was - and is! - the complete package: kind, funny, generous and so hot. lol. Next month we celebrate our 15th anniversary. I won life the day I met him.

My beloved first got hold of me via email to ask me about a translation project that I'd abandoned. It was such a humorous and well-written email that it caught me off guard, and I broke from my usual policy and responded to explain why I'd given up on it (due to not having anyone to handle the software side of the project). She asked if she could help find someone to lend a hand. Within a week of that, she'd set me up with a contact within a translation group so that I could finish my project. That was well over 15 years ago now, but it still stands out in my mind as the first time that anyone had gone out of their way to help me make my dreams a reality.

He was my cat's vet.

I met my S/O at basic firefighter training. We were both volunteers, graduating together.

Every Christmas day evening it was the tradition for our group of friends to meet up at the local pub and play a drinking game called 'Jacks'. If you get the first jack dealt, you pay for the drink, second picks the drink, third fetches the drink and fourth downs it in one.

There were some nasty drinks coming out, including, but not limited to, a Baileys and lime juice concoction called a 'cement mixer' (a bit less 'drink' and a bit more 'chew') It was one of those nights when every fourth jack seemed to be falling to me, so I got to sample a whole range of abhorrent mash-ups from the bar.

We had been playing this for an hour or two when this gorgeous blonde (who none of us recognised) walks in with her friends. It was revealed later that they had not so much 'selected' our pub, but rather had been 'left with' our pub. Nowhere else was open within about a five-mile radius. Fate?

To cut a long story short, I was absolutely plastered and my future wife (blondie) was stone-cold sober when we first met over a ciggie in the frosty December air. Luckily, she didn't mind me drunk and we got on great and spent the next three days together. After two years, I proposed and then we married (each other). That was 14 years ago this Christmas.

I would like to say that it was the best Christmas ever! But one year I got a Lego Monorail, so....