Where did you meet your significant other?

Are you from Alabama?

I met my wife back in August 2008 on Myspace (I know, right?). I messaged her and she messaged me back and then we started talking on AIM and then the phone. We officially met in person in September 17th (Which we consider our anniversary) and we are still going strong for 14 years and 4 years married.

It was about 8 years ago. I saw a book that I felt called by God to translate. I was working part-time while going to college at the time. I knew that the project would never get done unless I devoted many hours a week to doing it. I transcribed the entire book from there into Microsoft Word. (Years later, I would edit my transcription. There were almost no errors of a language I did not know.) I had to take a vow of poverty to do it.

This guy would come into the coffee shop all the time. He would tell me about his theology background. Eventually he asked me out. I sized him up impassionately: "Sure, why not? You don't seem dangerous." (Some have been.)

In our date, he took me to this hipster Japanese restaurant. It was so alien to me even if the setting was nice. I never would have eaten at a place like that. You know, one of those "organic" places where the workers look like hippies...

At his place, I told him that I'm tired, went to sleep. Told him that I needed to shower. Things like that. I stayed the night. The next day, we're just talking. We get along. He's going through a hard time from his last job and relationship. (He would later tell me that his therapist didn't think he would stay alive.) I saw a lot of promise in his home: folders all over the place, boxes, licensing issues. I saw something in him that he didn't see in himself.

It is Sunday night. He asks where I'm going since I didn't drive. I told him to drop me off at a library at the college. He used to attend there. He knew that it wasn't open on Sunday nights. What I was going to do was sleep in the woods, which I did actually enjoy. It was a nice spiritual retreat for me. Sleep there or in a church garden, wake up, shower, get dressed, go to work, leave, coffee shop for 6 or 8 hours, then drink and hang out with some pals, then go back under the stars and think. I found it very peaceful. He told me that he couldn't let me go back there. A week later, he took me to the school where I kept about 40 books in a locker that I rented. Then I got back and cleaned up his place.

He's a lot happier than he has ever been. I stopped drinking - not that I was ever an alcoholic but I had bad habits of chatting for many hours, then hanging out with others into 4 or 5 AM. After that, I got blessed with 2 rare breed cats since I always wanted orange cats, being as my favorite from childhood died (and my mother blamed me for that, which turned out to be a lie, like always). It would take me years to find out that the cats came from Saint Francis, discovered after I purchased a gold grail from Italy with his favorite Tau Cross on it. I also think the relationship is one of the only healthy ones I ever had in my life.

He did way more than he ever thought possible. We debated for awhile about a vehicle since he had a Sonata. He yearned for a Lexus SUV that he used to have. I implored him to get a Jeep. Either way, I worked to find him a Lexus. Found a Hybrid for $18,000. Did the math for him. On a strange fluke that never happens, I has forgotten my cigarettes that day. We went to an Enterprise thing. I don't remember the name but they appraise the value of your vehicle. Across the street was a gas station. I get my drugs. There happened to be by fluke (or miracle) a Jeep dealership. I told him to come. He did a test drive, loved it, then bought it. He now gets to enjoy his trips when he leaves town for work.

And he eats fine French dining almost every night. He doesn't get concerned with my mortification practices. I project next year that I'll be done with the transaction after so many years of perfecting the entire system, with not a single aspect overlooked. I'm logging every single word in the book, then categorizing them, to make sure that I have no issues in my axiomatic system. Then I'll get branded with my favorite cross

I wouldn't be on this forum if it wasn't for him. He pressured me hard to start a collection despite my resentment

I met my wife on a dating website. Most people are still skeptical about dating sites but it really works. Just make sure to choose a good option. Go to the PissedConsumer website before signing up and check reviews (here are edate customer service contacts, reviews, complaints, and overall info).

I "met" my wife on Match.com back in April of 2011. We hit it off really well in person the following month, and have been joined at the hip ever since.

Met my wife in 2010 working at a summer camp together. Had a crush on her the whole summer but never acted on it. Next summer we hung out, dated and then she dumped because she was going on an exchange. When we realized that was silly, I hopped on a plain to Australia and we travelled all around S.W. Australia and S.E. Asia. My mom said "you're going to follow some girl?" ... Little did she realize she'd be my wife and the mother of our 9 month old. Little did I know too, but I had a feeling.

Cool topic, trip down memory lane for us all.

This post didn’t age well, buckos.

I feel like there's a story here!

at my first job which was at an Arby’s which was also her first job

been together since late 2018