How did you meet your significant other?

[spiderrogue]

man, you are all old people....i was still in high school or jr. high when most of you met your others....makes me feel young...thanks

[jessica]

He used to sit behind me in a general ed class in 1987. We met again by a chance encounter on campus, and he remembered my name and I remembered his. I gave him my number and he called the same night and asked me out to a BBQ. I went just for the heck of it and I fell in love that evening. He tolerates my Planet of the Apes obsession. How can I not fall in love with somebody who runs like Cornelius? We have been together for 20 years and have 3 boys: 9, 6 and 3 years old.

[toysrus]

1987

Met my wife right out of HS. Went to spend 3 weeks with my cousin after High School , ended up moving in with my cousin for like 5 years because my wife lived right behind my cousin. So the summer of 87 was a blast, we have been together ever since!

[Hulk]

In a bar (how cliche), on a Tuesday, after working finishing working at both my jobs at the time. She was in grad school full time and working part time, so she had a full day as well, but we had both recently finished college and still had that crazy energy where you can go from 7 am to 10 pm, and going out afterwards still seemed like a good idea. Her part time job and my second job were at the same mall, so we had some common friends. I sat at her table and her roommate gave me a dirty look, and she didn't seem too interested either. I turned around and started holding court at the next table, and was on some sort of comedy roll, with people laughing up a storm. She left her roommates table to hang out with the new guy. The rest is history.

[Goblin19]

We worked together. We had a definite chemistry. Everybody at work thought we were a secret couple for a long time before we actually dated. She left our job so we could start dating and we were married about 2 years later.

[palitoy]

I was playing an episode of Battle of the Planets in my dorm room, this little french girl came in to watch. We became friends first as I had just gotten out of a horrible relationship and was on this whole single kick. Eventually I figured out I had this awesome person in my life who loved punk, old toys and crap movies, we've been together 16 years.

Now I'm facebook friends with that ex and kind of feel like I owe her one.

[Merlyn1976]

She was the babysitter for my older children...

Actually I'd known her a long time as I used to party with her cousin and would see her in passing every now and then...

[Bizarro Amy]

I met my husband through an online personals ad. You could post the ad for free, but you had to be a paying member to respond to ads or messages other members sent. I hid my email address in the text and used my favorite picture - I looked kind of gothy and was holding a "unicorn skull." He figured, "Well, there's someone quirky enough to put up with my comic, toy, and videogame habit." After a few emails, we exchanged numbers and met in person soon after. We dated for 5 or 6 years, and will celebrate our first wedding anniversary tomorrow.

[spiderrogue]

penpal section that was in toyfare mag, back in the beginning..i had added my name to it..she emailed me...the only one...lol...we started chatting through emails..then phone calls..then i took a bus down to see her...was supposed to stay for the weekend..stayed a bit longer(3 weeks)....went home for a week..moved down here that next week....been here since..that was nov/dec of '99....

[JPkempo]

Still looking.

[saildog]

Awesome stories from all!!!

I met mine in High school,I was her commander in JROTC ,she asked me for my phone number & we've been together ever since,going on 11 years this September

Hey dude...fraternization with the troops is not cool, even if High School hormones are behind it!

[Monsterama2000]

I placed a one-time free ad in a local singles paper in 1996. She was the only one that answered my ad, so I had to marry her . Next month is our ten year anniversary.

[4NDR01D]

She came into the record store I worked at, and ordered some cd's that our store didn't carry (Supersuckers, Oblivians, reatards, Deadly Snakes, etc). Well, this is the kind of music that's right up my alley, so I added a note to her customer account stating that "ONLY I" can call this customer when thier order arrived. Sure enough several agonizing weeks later I got to call her up and do a little bit of shmoozing on the phone, the rest they say is history.

[toys2cool]

I met mine in High school,I was her commander in JROTC ,she asked me for my phone number & we've been together ever since,going on 11 years this September

[Manspider]

We met in Economics Class at City University of New York.
She was wearing a black ACDC t-shirt.
I asked her out half way through the semester.
Some 15 years later, we're married with a precious 6 year-old girl.