Is how you met your SO a hi/story you're proud of if asked by others?

Sure. We met while dancing and we’re one of a handful of couples who met at this same dance workshop.

@wundayatta: That must be a lot of fun if you all still socialize.

Not proud or unproud, to be sure. We met when we were married to others, we weren’t looking for anyone but you know how wis.dm was :)

Yep, I won her in a game of chess.

Long story short. She had tickets to a Jimmy Buffet concert and both I and another of our circle of friends wanted to go. So, we played a game of chess. I won, and the rest is history.

It doesn’t matter to me. I don’t have any awesome stories one would see in a romantic comedy. It has usually just been me approaching the woman and starting a conversation or simply saying hi.

@Simone_De_Beauvoir: I learned the power of emotional infidelity while a member of wis.dm, yes.

What do you tell people though when they ask?

We met while working for the same company. We were friends long before we started dating.

Yes I am very proud in fact! I had a major crush on him when I was 12. Two years later we got together. Now we are engaged and planing to get married next year. True story too! :)

I’ve told this story on here before so to make it short: I was hitchhiking around England with a friend. He and his friends were driving.

It’s almost 40 years later; he still drives, I still ride.

The first time I met my wife, I got on a BART train (the local subway with anti-cell-phone issues) to go home from work. I was dressed for labor. I sat down on a seat facing another seat, and saw one of the most beautiful women I had ever seen. She was very quiet, and seemed sad (her husband had just made her return a hearing dog for the deaf). I leaned forward and said “Excuse me for saying this, but you are extraordinarily beautiful.” She nodded, without smiling, and said “Thank you.” From the voice tone, I could tell she was deaf.
Since she didn’t respond in any manner that encouraged further conversation, I simply read my book and waited for my station. I didn’t see her again for 2 years.

2 years later, a friend of mine asked me to come to the bowling alley, where they played in a league. My friend told me that she had a friend who was recently seperated, and living with a guy who makes her very miserable. My friend told me she had just gone into the bar, and I should go. When I went in, I didn’t recognize her from before. I sat on a corner of the bar, so that she could see me speak, and I told her I was a friend of her friend Bev. She was quite unhappy, but was, again, non-responsive. I asked her if her boyfriend made her happy, and she said he did, in a most unconvincing manner. I figured she wasn’t interested, so got a beer and left.

6 months later Bev asked me over for a bbq, and when I got there her husband told me Bev’s friend was there. When we were introduced, she was very friendly and responsive. I let her win at Monopoly (which I never do), and we began going out shortly after. It was a few months later I realized she had been the woman on the BART train.

It is a long, unflattering story, so I just tell people I met her when I was working in a male strip club.

@filmfann I like your story very much.

@filmfann :D

@Neizvestnaya Tell it how it is. Met on a q&a site, were married to others, wanted to be together, divorced others.

It’s not that flattering. We met late at night on the metro. We were both drunk and coming home from different parties. Things have worked out pretty well so far, though.

No, because she cheated on her boyfriend with me for 6 months :/ Judge as you will. We’ve been together for 2 years now, happy as clams.

@efritz: I wondered about that scenario. My fiancee’s ex wife met her current SO while cheating on her then husband (my guy) and I also wonder how they tell their story, especially in front of her and my guy’s kids. The kids told me once they weren’t entirely unhappy to leave their old neighborhood, school and friends because everyone seemed to know what their mom had done and would ask them and even pick on them about it. Do you guys have kids? Do you ever wonder how your relationship impacts them socially?

We met 10½ years ago on U-Date. I was not really looking for a relationship but was having fun talking to men all over the world. But one day while perusing profiles, one very sensitive and heartfelt profile took my breath away. I hadn’t noticed that this person had been looking at my profile for weeks but never attempted to make contact. Finally we started whispering (that was talking on U-Date). Ummm…the rest is history, we will celebrate 10 years of marriage on 10/10.
We don’t tell many people that we met on the internet even though it is a beautiful love story.

Congratulations @AmWiser!

My stepfather and his wife met on an internet dating site a little over 10yrs ago and they are enjoying a wonderful marriage too.

@Neizvestnaya – no, we’re both only 21. Thank god there were no kids involved!

@Neizvestnaya that makes me smile, I’m happy for them.

@AmWiser: I forgot, two of my nieces met their now husbands while members of J-date. The internet can’t be all evil.~

My guy came in to my restaurant every morning for coffee and we chatted more each time! Then he asked me out!

Proud of it? Nah, it just happened by accident on a non-dating website that I was researching for work-related purposes. Some friends said that it was a fairy tale, and upon their urging, we created a blog to track how we met and how it progressed. Here is a link to another Fluther thread describing the meeting.

Ten or more years ago, people used to give pause when having to explain that they met their partner in a bar. I haven’t heard one of these stories in ages. I wonder if they have been replaced with the internet meeting tales. They both bring about the same terrified reaction by others. In fact, the internet meetings probably more so. When I told co-workers that I was taking time off to go and meet my internet love interest for the first time, a few offered to travel with me to play chaperone.

We met on an online dating site, we exchanged emails everyday for a week, and then we met for a casual dinner. And I wondered where she’d been all my life.

Well not really proud but I don’t share it with everyone around.

Sure.

We met when we were sixteen, working at the same department store. I in shoes, she in lingerie. One night, my shoe straightening complete, I went to help her fold underwear – and the rest is history.

Yes of course and it’s quite amusing too! I was at a bar and she came up to me to bum a smoke from me and I told her no! Her surprised look was priceless. Since it was ladies night, I made a deal with her that I would give her smokes if she would get the $1.00 beers for me and I’ll buy. We closed the bar and went on our first date to a blues band that next weekend. That was 20 years ago.