I thought it would be fun to tell the story of how you met your DH. Ill go first.

Dhs parents own a car dealership and I was shopping for a car. He was a manager at the time and not supposed to be helping customers but they were short handed so he was selling that day. We went on a test drive and the car broke down, I went back a few days later and drove it again and something went wrong with the tire. Needless to say by this time I knew I wasnt buying that car but thought he was cute so I kept going back. I thought my charms werent working on him though and after 2 weeks he came in to where I worked and told me he was headed out of town and that the car was fixed so if I wanted to drive it again I should go talk to his brother. I was devastated that he was so obviously not into me. I had planned on going out on a date on a Saturday when he finally called and asked me out, so I canceled my date and went out with him. Come to find out they have a rule at the car lot that you are not supposed to date your customer so he really wanted me to go talk to his brother so I wouldnt be his customer anymore and when I didnt He finally asked his Dad if he could just ask me. We like to joke now about him asking permission to date me.

He says he knew by the end of the first test drive we would be married, it took me a llttle longer but I try not to tell him that.

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OMG!!!!

When I met DH(Kelly)- I was looking for a car..... I went to a dealership & wanted to test drive a Honda- so He came out and helped me. I was with my mother the first time, so he came out and asked me if I needed help "backing it up" and I mumbled to my mother "yes please" she laughed..... so anyway- I was interested (in the car ) And I went back with my Dad the next day.... I told my Dad that I thought Kelly was "hot", so I am right there in front of kelly and my dear ol' daddy proceeds to tell kelly " Well.. my daughter thinks you're pretty "hot"!" I could have just died!!!!!! Well Kelly tells my dad "well your daughter isn't too abd herself" and I KNOW I TURNED A BRIGHT SHADE OF RED!!!!!!!! So he gave my DAD HIS #(after I left).... I called him a while later & we have been together since then!

The car he sold me was a hunk of junk- although he will tell you it wasn't to this day- BUT IT WAS!!!! I look back at it and laugh all the time! We were & still are perfect for each other- but looking back I would have never imagined we would be sitting here married almost 7 years later trying to have a baby!
WOW! How time flies!!!!!!!

BTW- this was a great idea- I can't wait to read the other girl's stories!!!

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DH and I met in 1993 when we worked at a movie theatre together. I was 18 and only a few months out of highschool, he was 20 and taking a break from college for financial resons. We were a very "HOT" couple. Our theme song was Janet Jackson's Anytime, Anyplace"

We were together for a year and a half. He was my great love. We broke up in June of 95. We semi-kept in touch talking about once a year ( I also stayed friends with his younger sister)

I knew he was working in NYC so when Sept. 11th happened I called his dad's house to see if he was okay because I didn't know how close his office was to the Towers. He just so happened to be home (at his Dad's) for the weekend and he got the message and called me back. We talked and went out as "friends" then he moved to California a month later(Oct. 2001). We continued to talk on the phone and email for a few months as "friends" He came back to Philly for Christmas andd we went out. Then I was his official date for New Year's Eve. So we got back together and engaged all in the same conversation. We did the long distance thing for a year then I moved out to Cali after I graduated Community College (I refused to move until I had accomplished that) we got married in Aug 2003.

this is fun!



after being divorced for 10 years, and not really dating, i finally started reading all the ads on match.com, and put in my profile.........after a couple months of not really answering any of the letters (weirdos!!), i got one interesting one that seemed great to me....so i finally paid the $40 to join at the level where i could send a letter back in 2003..........we 'talked' via email for 3 weeks, then by phone for a week, then met at the area barnes & noble......and never stopped ........... we have so much in common, he & my dd get along very well, and lived only 2 towns away from each other for nearly 20 years.......
i first met anyone from his family about 3 months into dating, when i went with him to a reception for a baby christening.....his aunt came over, all excited, welcoming me to the family (in portuguese)....pedro was a little embarrassed translating it to me, later in the car....we both laughed, can you imagine getting married..........
we got married last summer, and are looking forward to our first anniversary......his aunt was so proud of herself...heehee

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have a happy day :0) Theresa

Well dh and I actually lived about a quarter mile from each other our whole lives. We went to school together and everything. We just never hung out. He was a cowboy and I wasn't! We never talked throughout school until our senior year. I had dated a guy for 4 years and we had been broke up for just at a year. Well Clint happened to drive the type of truck I liked at the time and I jokingly said to a mutual friend, "Clint can take me to homecoming in his Dakota". So my friend (a guy) ran off to tell Clint and he said OK. Well we went to homecoming (not even in the truck) and we've been together ever since. It will be 8 years this September.

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I met my dh 12 years ago when I was working at a restaurant with his sister. At the time, he was married. He and his friend came into the bar one night. I ended up dating his friend. About a year later, I ran into him again. At this point, he was separated. We started hanging out and became like best friends. I helped him through his separation and through his dad's death.

About 5 years later (after not seeing him very often... we kinda drifted), his sister got married. That was in May of 2001. A few weeks later, he came to my house for dinner and never left.

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I met Chris (DH) at the whopping age of 18. I was a college freshman and he was a sophmore (all of 20!).

More neat then the way I met him was the events leading up to it. I was dating a guy named Dan, who after 2 or 3 successful dates, simply vanished on me. I finally cornered him and he told me that "God told him not to date me." Needless to say, at 18 I was devistated. That is the ultimate dump line, right there.

I went in to class the next day and I saw Chris sitting in the hallway talking to a guy I knew from my class. As soon as Chris walked away, I ran over to the mutual friend and asked for the details on who that guy was. The mutual friend set us up on our first date and we just clicked. We've been together 8.5 years and married for 5.

So Dan was right, I wasn't supposed to date him.

8 months after my divorce, I went on a blind date, set up by a coworker. It was her other boss's son. He was also newly divorced. When we met, I looked into his eyes and saw forever! We were inseperable since. We married only 1 year later.

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I was a college friend of DH's older sister and when he got to campus as a freshman I was a junior. He instantly joined his sister's group of friends and we flirted for a semester before he finally got the nerve to ask me out....he was a little intimidated as a freshman to ask me out! That date we ended up talking/dancing all night on the stage in the campus music hall and we've together ever since (3 years dating, 2 married).

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I meet DH on a prayer board. I was going through a long overdue divorce. DH posted on many of my requests for prayers. We started PM each other, then emailing, then calling, and he was able to plan where he could visit driving his truck to my area one weekend. I will never forget that day as long as I live. I left early one Saturday morning for a 1 PM Gamecock football game. He was going to surprise me, but the surprise was on him, I was gone. He parked at the local truck stop until I could get there after the game. He walked out of the truck stop and I met him half way. We had one of the most rememorable first kisses, he literally swept me off my feet, that was October 9, 2004. The day after Thanksgiving he asked me to be his wife, his partner, his lover, for the rest of his life. We were married May 6th. He was truly sent to me by God, there is no doubt in my mind there or his.

As the song goes by Newsong, "When God Made you, He was Thinking About me" is truly "our" song, and is entirely true too!

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Wow these stories are really great!!!!!!

Well I was 25 when I met my DH Aaron and he was 24 ( I thought he was closer to 30 and he thought I looke 21 how sweet) I was at a bar with some friends and he was there with some friends and he had went to school with one of my friends and asked her who I was and then he bought me a drink and after the bar closed we went to Denny's to eat and were together ever since. That was the last weekend in Oct and we were married by June and will be 5 years this June. I knew the moment he said Hi to me that there was something special there.

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DH (Eric) was actually a trainer at the gym I worked out at. He wasn't my trainer, but when mine was gone or had another client, my regular trainer would always stick me with him. He was seeing someone else at the time, so I really didn't pay much attention to him. Plus, when you're going in to the gym and you're all sweaty and nasty, you aren't really thinking about a date! lol Well, dh stopped working there in about December 2004 and I didn't see him for a while. Then in March I was out on a Thursday night and he walked in. Again, I didn't really pay much attention to him, I had been dating someone on again, off again for almost 5 years, so I really wasn't looking for a date. He asked if he could call me sometime, I said sure, and he asked for my number. He called me the next day for our first date, March 12th, we were engaged on June 5th, and married on August 26th.

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Lisa, great idea for a thread!

DH & I were set up by his best friend & college roomate who I worked with at the time. We met for the first time right after Christmas when a group of us went out for drinks but we really didn't talk. We saw each other again at our friend's New Years Eve party. We stayed up all night just talking and getting to know each other.

DH left after New Years to go back home cause he lived about 2 1/2 hours from me. We talked on the phone for the next few weeks but cause of other stuff going on didn't have our first offical date until February. He drove up to see me every weekend & then moved here to be closer to me in March. We got engaged in December of 1995 & then married in January 1997. WOW...time flies

Great stories everyone! I love reading about everyone!

The first time I met DH I was bartending with a friend of his from HS. DH showed up to visit with his buddy, and apparently thought I was cute, so he convinced his FRIEND to ask me out I thought he was cute, but with his whole basketball history I thought he was way out of my league, so I didn't mind his friend asking me out. I went on 3 dates with his friend. They were very boring dates, not even a kiss (which is a good thing now!) anyways.....DH and I were casual friends because we hung out with some of the same people for two years. I then graduated from college and was accepted to grad school in Colorado. I was planning to move in January 2004. I saw DH on Halloween and told him I was leaving. He said we should go out before I leave. We went on our first date on Nov 13th, I spent Thanksgiving with his family, he spent Christmas with mine, we got engaged the day after Christmas, and got married in May!!! Everyone thought it was so fast, but no one really knew we had been friends for 2 years. After the first date, we knew we loved each other and wanted to get married within the first week! We will be married 2 years in May!!

As for Grad school, DH told me I could go and he would wait for me. I decided that where we live a MBA wouldn't amount to much, so I decided not to go.

Sorry, that was so long......sort of funny for such a short courtship

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Wow-I love the stories.

I was out with a girlfriend getting a drink at a resturant/bar and Don was there with a couple of his buddies. His friend asked if we wanted to join them, I said sure but I wasn't moving.......so they came to our table. Not knowing they were dirtbike riders ( I was holding out for a guy that rode dirtbikes, and I was picky) I thought Don was cute in a quiet sort of way. But I found out he knew my ex so I thought NO WAY, knowing how guys are if they know the guy. Don said he knew him but wasn't friends with him so he didn't care.

They had been out on their bicycles and drinking so they were a little obnoxious, but I held the conversation and fired back. His friend said, "so are you gonna give me your #?" I said, "sure but I'm gonna give it to him" and I pointed at Don. I was at first kidding-but Don had his cell phone out so fast I was like OK I guess he wants my #

He called the next night and asked me out for dinner. We both were up so late after our date just talking and we knew that was it. And we were married last Sept.

I love reliving that story.

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Great idea, I´m a sucker for love stories!!

Well, my Dh and I, went to the same grad school, and i had seen him aroud, and actuially didnt like him. One of my fiends started seeing one of his friends, so they planeed this camping trip, and she didnt want to go alone, and his friend didint want to go alone also, so they both asked us, to go along. I had never even talked to him. Both of our friends made out the entire weekend, and we were stuck with each other. So we talked and talked and talked, our friends were nowhere to be seen, so we cooked, took walks, went fishing, etc...
By the end of the weekend, we were friends, and by next week, he had called me for a date. Our first date we went to eat sushi, i´ll never forget that.
A year later we were engaged, then had to do the long distance thing for a while, and finally we were married on june 05. Today is our 10th month anniversay.
He´s the kind of guy that i always wanted, we can talk for hours, laugh at stupid things, and hes soo caring and i love him to death.

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DH and I were co-workers. He waited tables at Landry's Oyster Bar in galveston and I was the hostess with the most-ess...(ha ha) I had just recently split up with my ex husband who had been cheating on me. We became really good friends. My ex pretty much threw me out of the house, and DH lived with a bunch of roomates and offeredme a couch for ahile to sleep on. He was dating a total bomb shell who was also quite a bit older than him. They had decided to "take a break". She was really jealous of our friendship. Every time I saw her she would tell me how wonderful he was, but things werent going well in their relationship. The more she told me how great he was the more I agreed with her. I wasnt really interested in him at first other than being friends. But she convinced me. One nite, we were out with a bunch of our friends, and I heard another girl hit on him. Well, after i heard the other girl hit on him, I just turned around and kissed him. AND that was that. We got pregnant a year later. Our DD was our flower girl in our wedding. We have been together since 1994..we were only married in 2001. It has been a long rocky road until the recent years. We couldnt be more in love...Funny thing is never in a million years would i have just planted one on a guy...I dont know where that came from!

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Okay...well he's not my DH yet...but he is my DB..(new one, DEAR BOYFRIEND) lol...

Well, it's not very interesting but I figured I'd tell anyway.

We met on Yahoo! personals. We had both been on there for a while but neither of us had ever paid for it. Well, he'd been on 5 years...I'd been on a year and a half before we began paying. The first night I started paying and could actually contacted people he was the FIRST person I contacted. It was the first month he had started paying for the service after 5 years of being a member and he wrote me back. Things have been going strong ever since. We clicked immediately and fell in love shortly thereafter.

I believe it was fate and a match made in heaven. We both had so much in common it is ridiculous. From our jobs, to the shoes on our feet...we're a perfect match!

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I met my dh(steve) when I started work at our local pub.He asked his mates about me but because I was seeing someone he didn't make a move.I soon was single again.I saw steve a couple of times in the pub and chatted but he still didn't try to ask me out.(he still thought I was seeing someone)

I got sick of waiting for him to ask me out so a couple of weeks later I got a bit drunk!! and I asked steves mate for his mobile #.I texted him that night and he text me back.We met up 2 nights later in the pub and we've been together ever since.we got married in sept 04.

I still tell him that if I hadn't got drunk that night we probably wouldn't be together now.

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My DH and I went to high school together. He used to wink at me when I walked down the halls and I would giggle . We became barely acquaintances. Then a girlfriend of mine asked if I knew any cute boys, and I sure did! I introduced them to one another, and he took her on a "date" (okay we were in high school, it was a drive to probably no where) and he had me go with. After that, I knew I had to have him (ahh, teenage girls, we were so confused). My girlfriend understood and had no hard feelings. We started dating (I was 15 and he was 18 ). I fell head over heels, and uh, he just thought I was hot (he was 18, what can I say?). By 16 we had moved in, by 17 I was pregnant. We had our first DS when I was 18. We figured it out late that we couldn't "play" house. I moved in with my mom again and focused on school and raising my son. We continued dating. Since we were so young, we had a lot of growing to do, and I am thankful that we continued to tolerate one another.

He moved in with me (and my MOM!) when I was 19 or 20, and we had DD when I was 23. I finished grad school, and we were married in July of 2004.

I know we did it "backwards" according to most (even myself, I don't want my children to do it that way). And believe me it was a rough road at times. But is certainly did work out in the long run.

13 years and strong!

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~Meagan
Mama to 3
DS Rolando - 12
DD Soleil - 7
DS Joaquin - 10 months