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How did you meet your significant other?
So I feel like i have gotten to know several of you ladies and gents but I don't know much about you. We often talk about our partners in conversations, vent about them in pole discussions and sometimes they even make appearances in our pole videos. So today I ask, How did you meet your wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend/partner/etc ?
Share all the cute love stories here, so we can all have a warm fuzzy feeling type of day 🙂 <3
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My best friend and I were hanging with his band. She was with him, I was with the singer. Later she switched to the lead guitarist and I ditched the singer and got with a bassist from another band. I threw a wild party and everyone was there, and the bassist wanted more of a physical relationship than I was willing to provide, I just wasn't that interested in him beyond the little bit of getting to know each other we had done. The next morning, everyone left over went out for breakfast and coffee. Adam was still asleep with a cigarette in his hand, burned clear through my couch. I don't eat breakfast food or drink coffee, so I just stayed behind. We joked about the cigarette hole and watched some TV and he never left. He would go to work and his apartment and band practices, but he would always ask to see me if just for a little while. We would talk until late in the night and he'd end up spending the night. Always just "snuggling" until I eventually had to ask if we were "together" lol. Then about three months later I asked if he was going to start paying rent (as his stuff had slowly migrated to my apartment). We eventually quit smoking together, and lost a lot of weight, and got engaged. I proposed to him, and at first he turned me down. He thought I was kidding. When I was devastated, he realized I had been serious. He later took me to a waterfall to accept/repropose lol. We married July 14th 2011 after postponing the wedding for a year. We had a tie dye wedding, everything was casual, even our officiant wore tie dye for us. We had a big beautiful cake and everyone kept commenting about how at least we had one traditional wedding thing. When we cut into it, everyone laughed because inside the traditional icing was all tie dyed cake. We have our ups and downs, he's slightly younger than me (TODAY IS HIS BIRTHDAY!!!! We are only one year apart for now!!!!) and we are both growing together. Its been an adventure so far and I'm can't wait to see what the future holds for us.
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Six Flags magic mountain 1994. We were both working there. We both worked in rides but they split them up by areas like area a, b, c. It was rare to get transfer out of your area to work another area. Only time it usually happened was if an area was short staffed. Anyways, I worked in area a my husband in c. I was working my ride & it was a few mins before my break. I stand up at the dispatch podium to get a look at how far the line is going…if it is bleeding out into the main walkway, I need to make an announcement on the loud speaker to have them move forward & then call someone to fix the stanchions in the line to extend the line. So! While I’m looking over the crowd, I see this guy in front talking to guests, who I’d never seen in my area before he looks cute but I’m not sure from that distance. Just then, my relief comes to the podium & tells me to go on my break & to fix the line stanchions on my way out. I head towards the front towards “the guy” his back is to me at first then he turns around and he smiles…I melted. GORGEOUS eyes, beautiful teeth & smile wow! He said Hi and the first thought in my head? I’m going to marry this man. Yep, this from a girl who before thought love at first sight was a myth/joke. It wasn’t, it was real! We chatted for a couple mins, then I shyly left for my break. Coincidently I started to runinto him alot more after that & after a cpl weeks of bumping into each other, we went on our first date. 3 months into our dating, he moved in with me. It wasn’t until after we were dating several months that he admitted that he had been eyeing me for awhile & worked his way into being transferred to my area as much as he could. Sly devil.
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We met in my very first college class. It was a terrible class taught by an eccentric wacko of a professor. At one point during a lecture, she started talking about a wild conspiracy theory, and the two of us shared a knowing look – "what the hell am I doing here?" We chatted briefly after class that day about our predicament. Then we began sitting next to each other, and eventually exchanged AIM screen names (remember those?)
I was in a (toxic, emotionally abusive) relationship at the time, so this very smart, friendly, and down to earth guy had to remain just a platonic friend. And besides, he was four years older than me, so ew, he's even older than my brother! I mentioned meeting him briefly to my boyfriend at the time (who attended another school) and he immediately went into a jealous rage, as he always would. I was spending time with a guy that wasn't him?! So I quickly learned not to mention any new male friends that I met. Big red flag, right? This is why I have zero tolerance for this kind of thing now, when I hear about other people with boyfriends like that.
So I friendzoned my husband, hard, for a year, during which he was the kindest, most patient friend a silly college freshman girl could ask for. We chatted online almost daily, about all kinds of nerdy things, and he patiently listened to my friend and relationship drama and shared a few stories of his own hilariously bad dates. All of the girls in my dorm knew my ex was a loser and I should really be dating my husband, but I had to come to that conclusion myself. It took a year to finally build up the courage to break free. It was hard to extricate myself from a long term, co-dependent relationship that had begun when I was only a teenager. My parents were high school sweethearts and my brother was engaged to his gf from high school, so I had no role model for how to break up with someone. But after spending enough time with sane, sensible people at my college, all who seemed to be a lot happier than I was, I realized that I deserved happiness too. And I knew I wanted to take a chance with the guy who actually made me happy. I finally built up the courage to end things with the ex. He responded exactly how you might expect – called me every horrible name in the book, decided I'd been cheating on him the whole time (I hadn't, but sometimes wish I'd dumped him a year sooner) and told all of our mutual friends what a horrible person I was for leaving him. Luckily, they could see things for what they were, and they are all still my friends.
Husband and I tried to keep it "casual" for a little while, mostly at my request since my head was still spinning from the crazy ex and I didn't even know what it felt like to be single and free. But it wasn't going to work that way. There was no way I was going to be able to casually date the best person who'd ever walked into my life. We fell deeply in love and have been inseparable ever since. We celebrate our second wedding anniversary this summer. We've been through a lot of difficult things together – illnesses, job loss, long distance moves, family drama, etc. but we always make each other laugh and always have each other's backs. He gives me strength and confidence simply by believing in me when I don't believe in myself. He's hugely supportive of my pole hobby too!
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I was only 18 when I met my hubby. I had a 4 month old daughter and I had not left the house since she was born. My sister (who was 22 years old) was going to a party with a bunch of her old high school friends. She literally dragged me to this party. It was held at a bar/dance hall and I was underage. I looked very young and I was so nervous I was going to get carded but I never did. (Mind you, I have been carded everywhere until I reached 38.) Everyone was dancing and then song came on that I loved and I asked who wanted to dance. My hubby actually jumped over the table and said he wanted to dance. I figured anyone who would jump over a table to dance with me must be pretty cool!
It wasn't until we were married for about 6 years that we found out that that original day we met, was suppose to be a set-up with me and a different guy. Everyone at that bar except me, my hubby and that different guy, knew that it was going to be a set up. When I asked "who wanted to dance", everyone was excited because it was this other guy's chance to 'make his move'. When my hubby jumped over the table, everyone was like, 'Oh crap, he is spoiling everything'!
We will be celebrating our 28th anniversary in just a couple of days – all because of a jump over a table!
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@krissykiki ahem where is your story?
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My Bob was a rebound date that kind of stuck around. LOL!!!!! I met him through a friend. We lived in the same small town and went to the same school but we were from different worlds. We grew up a lot differently and had different groups of friends. I met him in 2003. October. I had just bought my first car audio system. I just spent 3,000.00 on this stuff and they wanted 200.00 to install it all. My friend said he knew a guy. Bob was the guy. He installed it. As he worked, he held a small kitten named Tilly and talked softly to her the whole time.https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_heart1.gif He was sexy with that cigarette in his hand, which I now hate!!!https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_rambo.gif He could get me a discount from his work on a radio, which I had not purchased yet. He said he would call me in a week when it came in. I left. I kept thinking about him because he seemed different, trust worthy, and just NICE!!!! Respectful. He treated his mother nicely who kept popping outside with cookies and punch. ( I am not kidding either.) LOL!!!! My mom always told me to notice how they treat their mom. I had left my ex not even a week before this because he was not respectful of his mother and other things. So, finally I actually drove back to his house to see if he wanted to just hang out and drive around. (This is what you did in the town I am from) His immediate reaction was thinking something was wrong with the radio! LOL!!!!! We hung out and were hugging after the night was over. He asked if there was anything else he could do for me. I told him he could call me tomorrow. He actually said, "Is this a joke?" I laughed and said no I was serious!!! He called me and we started dating. We have had ups and downs, off and ons ever since. We broke up for a year exactly!!! We got back together the date we broke up the previous year!!! Soon after that, we were engaged and had the best big to do wedding. ( I would NEVER recommend big to do weddings to anyone now.) It was a Cinderella theme with little clear shoes on all the tables and on my feet OF COURSE!!!!!!! I love him to this day! More and more each day. He takes care of Elle and I like we are precious jewels.https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_queen.gif He is the precious jewel to me. He is VERY supportive of pole. He bought me my first one! He is not interested in learning it, but he goes to most of the functions and, spots me, as most of you have seen. LOL! He has noticed I have a problem with being consistant and has encouraged me to keep going by promising to buy me some fun pole stuff at the end of each month that I pole 3 times a week and stretch 3 times a week. We even keep a chart on the calendar like kids with their chores!!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!! We sometimes seem like an odd fit if you do not know us, but once you do know us, you will see it too.https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_flower.gif
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I met my bf in a bar, you know where all great relationships start! I was 20 and couldn't legally drink in the states and I was with a girlfriend and as we drove around I heard a bar in Windsor, ON was doing free piercings so I begged her to come with so we could get a piercing.
Well, it ended up the bar they were doing the event at was a meat market and my friends refused to go so we settled for a club I had been to just a few months prior with another guy. As we were walking up the street I saw a long haired, rocker hunk walk in front of me – he ended up holding the door for me. I melted. I told my friend that was the guy, the rest of my life guy. I didn't have the courage to talk to him but he befriended a useful tool and so I danced on a speaker in front of him in the tightest snakeskin pants imaginable – Rob kinda ignored me but his new tool didn't so I beckoned the guy over to dance then said I was tired lets go meet your friends! Then I got to meet Rob and we started talking, he walked me to the car, kissed me, gave me his number which I LOST but thankfully he called me the next the day and the rest is really history. 🙂
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I actually met my man through online dating. I know I know but my approach to online dating, was that I never went looking for dates. I honestly just enjoyed meeting new friends and having different people to chat with (being the only single girl in my social group got boring sometimes) We ended messaging each other back and forth about how we each wanted to change the world and stuff like that.
We were (and still are) in very different places in our lives. He is a little bit younger then me and is a student. I have been graduated and working on my career for a few years now. He is very energetic and when I first met him in person I had decided that he was probably too young for me but he was such a fun and wonderful person that we would be good friends.
We hung out as friends for a while, playing video games, going for hikes and sharing silly cartoons with one another. My roommate at the time really liked him and kept pushing me to date him. I had started becoming interested and tried flirtingg but got little reaction from him so I started to assume that he might just want to be friends. Since he was such an awesome person, I didn't want to weird him out if he didn't see me that way and just wanted to be my friend I decided to back off and let him make a move if he was interested. He was a slow move maker 😉
Finally we went on a hike in a gorgeous rainforest together and ended up getting a tad touchy with one another during it. Later that night he kissed me and we started dating.
I had gotten out of a REALLY bad relationship several months prior and still had the mind set that he was probably too young for me and that it would be just a summer fling. Nice guy, safe relationship and all that.
Well at the end of the summer I had found that I was really started to fall for him and we became more serious. We kept on dating, survived long distance for a while and recently did the big move in together. We will be celebrating our two years this month!
I laugh that I thought he would only be a short term thing and it turned out to be the happiest, healthiest, most fun relationship i have ever been. We support one another, talk things through, make each other laugh, and push one another be be better people. He values me for my strengths and doesn't resent me for my weakness, but rather acknowledges they are part of who I am, and he loves me for who I am. <3
I can only hope that we have many more years together as he makes an ideal partner in crime 🙂
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I met my husband through a online chat thing. We chatted on there which progressed to texts letters and long phone calls. He lived 160 miles away and came to visit after a couple of months contact. He told me he loved me that first night and moved to my area after two months of being together. We have had ups and downs but been together 10 years married for nearly 7 and have our two beautiful daughters. He drives me up the wall sometimes but I couldn’t imagine my life without him 🙂
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I've known my boyfriend (His name is Joe) for like, 10 years! We met at a mutual friends' baby shower. He was, unfortunately, high on T3's because he'd just had his wisdom teeth out. I barely remember it.
And then we met again when he was dating a friend of mine. They were actually just breaking up, and we were moving into a house (my friend, and a few others, and myself) together. He quickly became one of the best people around, because he was so good at listening, and he was there no matter what, if you had issues.
I suppose we just kind of stayed friends after that, and eventually we were roommates. My boyfriend (soon to be husband, and then ex-husband) lived with us, too. We were all fairly close.
And then, when husband became ex-husband (not that it was a very quick process), Joe was my rock that I could not have done without. He had also, recently, been through a serious breakup, and he understood. I spend a lot of time at his place, crying, watching cartoons, talking. I quickly realized he was one of the best friends I'd ever had, and probably will ever have.
And then… um, stuff happened? lol! We kind of started flirting, cuddling on the couch and stuff. I fretted like CRAZY about it! But we got together, and have been together for just over a year now. And I couldn't be happier 🙂
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My husband and I met on a cruise when I was 13, and him 17. I would always see him playing basketball during the day, and me and the other girls I had met were always watching him (like creeps!!! lol) and wondering how old he was, if he had a girlfriend (*rolls eyes*), etc. We finally went up to and IN the basketball court one day, and then we all whispered telling each other to go ask how old he was. No one would do it. I finally said "I don't care, I'll do it, we'll never see this kid again after the cruise!" (so unlike me, I'm usually shy), and I asked him how old he was. After that, we didn't talk much, we would run into each other the last few days on the cruise, and talk a little bit…but it was too much of an age difference then, we had nothing in common & we weren't doing the same things lol. About a month after the cruise, I found him on Myspace & added him. We talked all of the time, through AIM, myspace, phone calls, etc. We talked about everything, and we both talked as if we were dating, but it was one of those things where we knew it wasn't going to happen, and at that time we were okay with just having a fun, flirty, 'different' relationship. When I was 16, and him 20, he came to see me (I was in NJ, him NY). I really fell for him that night, and we had an awesome time, we both decided that we didn't want to do long distance though, I didn't even have my license at that time lol….literally within that same week, I went back to my ex boyfriend & only a couple weeks later he got a girlfriend, and then left for the Marine Corps 2 months later. We lost contact for a few months, and then started talking a lot more when we both had gone through break ups with our exes. I think at that point in our lives, we started to know that a relationship between us was possible, and something we wanted to "test out". I went to visit him after he got back from his first tour in Afghanistan in 2010, and then visited him in NY when he had leave to go hom after his deployment, I decided I would move down there (NC) & that I could not be away from him anymore, and let the opportunity of a relationship go! We got married in Nov of 2010, I was only 18 & him 22. We had a beautiful baby girl in 2012. And now we are currently going through a deployment, and I cannot wait to see him again!! Lol. It is SO crazy how things work out, it still is so surreal to me that this is how we ended up! But I do definitely feel like it was meant to be all along.
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My husband and I used to work together at a pharmaceutical company. One day I was wearing long shorts that kinda looked like a skirt and short heels and he made a comment about my legs. Later that day he was back up in our department and was talking to me. He asked me if I was married and I said yes. Then he asked "Happily?" and I responded some days yes, some days no. The next morning I came in and there was a note in my lab book that said "For the days that you are not, call me" with his pager number (yes, I said pager). Here we are 17 years later. For those that have actually seen us in person, there is a noticeable energy between us, for lack of a better way to describe it. He is my world and I never in my life imagined that a love like this could exist.
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I met mine on a modeling job. It was 3 years ago, I was 19 years old, and had been modelling for a year. I was hired to do a fashion shoot and the photographer had borrowed this gorgous house for a location (the one I now live in) We arrived at the house, and my boyfriend (which he wasnt yet) was really nice, and asked alot of questions about my job, like if I was comfortable with him being on set, othervise he could go see some friends. He was a true gentleman. He showed me the bathroom, where I could change outfits. When I went in there to change, I forgot my bagpack outside of the bathroom, so I sneaked out but naked to quickly get it, and there he was, cleaning the floor for the shoot and he just started at me, making this weird sound ( I think he was trying to speak) something like "bahuia" and I started to laugh like crazy, completly forgetting that I was still naked. Anyway, we finished the shoot and I went home again. A couple of days later, the photographer came by with pictures and he told me, that all my boyfriend had said to him was "I have to see her again" -And though I really liked him, I was going trough some things, and I didnt feel like I deserved a man like him, so I didnt do anything about it. A couple of months later, the photographer held a party, and had invited both him and me, and everyone except the two of us, had a plan to bring us together. Him and I,spend all night talking, dancing and having fun together, but nothing happened. He didnt make any moves, and further into the night, I realized how much I wanted him to. It wasnt untill he started talking about his poker games, that I saw an oppertunity. I have been playing since I as 16 years old, but I lied and said, I so badly wanted to learn that. He offered to teach me. A couple of days later, I was on my way to his house, for my lessons. When I came, he had cooked dinner, lit candles all over the house, and set up the poker table. After we had eaten, he explained the rules of poker, and set up for the first game. Needless to say, I won every game that night and I didnt tell him, just how good I was untill he gave up. I said "Im sorry Iied, I just had to see you again" and that was pretty much it. A week later, he invited me to go on a 3 week trip to turkey, and when we got home, we went to my apartment, and brought all my stuff to his house, which is now also my house 😀
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We met through online dating! When I first moved to the US I created an online dating profile with the intention of meeting some locals, since all my friends here were other foreigners. J sent me a message, something very generic-like, but his profile picture was cute so I figured I'd check out his profile to see if he was worth replying to. Once I got to favorite books and saw that he had listed Harry Potter, I had no other choice than to reply, so I messaged him something like "tell me one funny/interesting/random/weird fact about yourself". He told me that he only wear mismatched socks (that definitely covers the random/weird part), and asked the question back at me, to which I told him that I own a full Ravenclaw uniform. After that we sent a couple of messages back and forth, before agreeing to meet for drinks at a local restaurant two days later. (Fast, I know, but I prefer meeting someone in real life sooner rather than building up crazy expectations by chatting for too long.)
On our first date we never ran out of things to talk about, had a lot of fun, and danced until midnight – when he left me on the dancefloor because he had to get home and go to bed since he was going snowboarding in the morning! The next morning I woke up to a message from him (sent at 5:30am!) saying that he had a lot of fun, and wanted to see me again. From there it moved pretty quickly. We probably spent our whole third week of dating on his couch watching The Office on Netflix, within a month we were "Facebook official", and ten months later we were married! We've been married for a little over two years now, and I have never been happier about my impulsive nature 😛
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I actually met my boyfriend when we were 15. He was my cousin's best friend in high school. I thought he was freaking cute, but at the time I wasn't really dating, cause I was only 15, and we lived in different towns. He was weird and nerdy, exactly my type. He apparently really liked me from the moment he met me. He deals with anxiety, which was worse when he was younger, and every time he would get to see me he would get sick. It didn't bother me any, I thought it was flattering that he had anticipated my arrival so much that he made himself sick, though I did feel bad for him. I saw him probably twice a year or so, because whenever I hung out with my cousin and his friends, he would of course be there. Fast forward to me moving back into my home state after my bachelor's degree and I began living in the same city as him. I had just broken up with my long-term boyfriend of 4 years (apparently we were better at long-distance than actually together). I was somewhat 'homeless' in that I didn't have a place of my own to stay yet, so I was staying with my aunt & uncle. One night I was bored and decided to give this cute, weird, & nerdy guy a call that I knew lived in the city to see if he wanted to hang out. He just so happened to be off work that evening. He got sick the moment I arrived (I wasn't surprised, lol), but after he calmed down we talked and watched some TV. I ended up kissing him and, well, the rest is history. We've been inseparable ever since, going on 5 years now. 🙂
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