Meeting the "one"

@dorannmwin (36392)
United States
October 8, 2010 9:28am CST
I'm really interested in knowing how everyone met their significant other. Was it love at first sight or was the love that you share something that grew over time? For me, I met my husband through the internet nine years ago. I had given up on love in my life and suddenly, there he was. I wouldn't even say that my falling in love with him was at first site, it was at first true conversation. We talked on the phone several times before we met in person. The reason that I fell in love with him so quickly was because of the fact that I realized he was a lot more honest than most people I've met in my life.
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@carolbee (16230)
• United States
9 Oct 10
My husband and I dated in junior high. I was dating another fellow and he had an interest in one of my girlfriends. We switched one night and had a good time. So we started dating at 15 and always went on double dates with my ex-boyfriend and his new gal who was my close friend. We got engaged at 20 and were married at 22. Been married 41 years and have 3 grown girls and 5 grandkids. By the way, the girlfriend of mine is still a good friend. My friend broke up with the ex-boyfriend of mine and they each went their separate ways and married someone else. I wouldn't call it love at first sight because we were so young but I liked the way he looked and he was a challenge. I wasn't so sure he would stay around.
@carolbee (16230)
• United States
13 Oct 10
I am a little older than my husband so he was actually in junior high school when we starting dating and I was in high school. I knew him when I was in 3rd grade. We weren't friends at that young age but we knew each other and shared a class together.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Oct 10
That makes it an even cooler story. My husband is older than I am so had we met when we were younger I would have been in middle school when he was in high school. However, we didn't meet until I was 21 years old and he was 26 years old.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
That is actually a really cool story. I've never met anyone that actually got married to someone that they were dating when they were in high school.
@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
8 Oct 10
I haven't met mine yet!!
@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
13 Oct 10
I thought I did when I met my ex, but now I know I made myself think that way! The mind is scary!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Oct 10
You are definitely right. Our minds can really do some strange things to us.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
You will definitely know when you meet the right person in your life. Good luck to you in your journey.
@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
13 Oct 10
Wow! It's great to hear of someone who has gone through internet love and found happiness from it. I am not yet married but am in love with someone I met online, met several times in person and talk to everyday. I am not yet sure after all these years and all the trials that we have been together but I'm hopeful that it would work out. He's coming over here next week and I don't know what to think, I'm just excited and I would surely cry and really am hopeful. I wish he is the one and I the one for him. There's nothing more I want in this world but to just spend my life with him. Now I'm watching as the miners are rescued, and I can't help but cry with them. I can relate to how it feels like meeting the one you love once again. Whew!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Oct 10
You are definitely right about the story of those miners. I couldn't even begin to imagine what those people had to go through in the time that their loved ones were stuck. I certainly hope that your visit goes well this week as well.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
9 Oct 10
hi dorannmwin I have to smile everytime someone asks me how I met the man I married. I was 32, given up on finding Mr right, and was wo rking as a nurses aide in St lukes hospital in Phoenix A riz. In comes this smiling black haired man a bit older than myself with eyes which always seemed to sparkle. He was our new orderly and was he ever so self confident, and told me I w as doing the surgical bed all wrong;but I noticed he was also smiling at me even as he told me how I should be doing it. I had to give up being angry as he was just being himself and good natured to boot. It was really love at first sight, We both looked at each other and I felt that I had known him forever and he told me the same about me. We went on several dates and talked each other's ears off. We thought alike on so many things, and yet we were total opposites, He was outgoing and an extravert , and I was shy and an introvert but loved taking care of ill people.We both had wor ked in hospitals for years and we were bpth Christians. I was a methodist, he was a seventh day Adventist. He came originally from Washington State. and I from Sputh Dakota so we had s mall towns and farms in common. We were married for 33 years and I have been widowed for many years now.We married only six weeks after we met but we were mature adults and made our marriage wo rk.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
9 Oct 10
typo alert should be South Dakota not Sputh slippery fingers lol.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
That is a beautiful story. The thing that I like the most about hearing about how you and your husband met is that you both really liked to care for people that were ill. I am the same way, I loved the time that I spent working as a nurse's aide.
• Philippines
13 Oct 10
I met my other half thru a common friend. At first we became friends for about a yeart, until the time came when he started to be courting me. Then I fell in love with him. we got married after 6 and half years of boyfriends/girlfriends.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Oct 10
In today's day and age that is a very long time for a courtship to last. My husband and I were married about three years after we met though we were engaged for most of that time.
@Karunvig (714)
• India
8 Oct 10
lucku lady...
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
There are many times that I consider myself to be a very lucky woman.
@Karunvig (714)
• India
13 Oct 10
I wish u to be happy always... **touchwood**
@savypat (20216)
• United States
8 Oct 10
I met my Hubby on a blind date and he had to work really hard for a second date, but he kept at it and finally I saw the value in him. It was a hidden pearl, hard to find but worth it.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
Any good man, I've found in my experience is hard to find, but worth the work that it took.
@piya84 (2581)
• India
9 Oct 10
You are lucky.I met few guys and i though they are the one but then they turn out something else.lol I dont know if the one for me exist or not.I am optimistic though.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
I'm sure that you will meet the right person. And, as it happened for me, I had really given up looking, it just sort of happened for me.
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
9 Oct 10
this brought back many funny and lovely memories. hubby was a classmate of mine and i had a crush on his friend. then he started showing kindness and good deeds. we became friends and talked a lot about many things. the love developed unexpectedly for him. next thing i knew, it was his name i was uttering while hugging my pillow. LOL
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
That is such a great story that you've shared. I remember hugging my pillow as a young girl and wishing that it was a particular person when I was a young lady. Needless to say, the person that keeps me warm at night is not the people I used to dream of.
@gdesjardin (1918)
• United States
10 Oct 10
I met my husband through a mutual friend. A friend of mine from grammer school had moved to California right after high school. We had lost contact shortly after he moved because then I had moved out of state as well. Years later I ran into him up in Chicago when we were both up visiting family. We would stay in contact over the next several years. One day I called his house and this guy answered the phone. Apparently my friend was out of town and this guy was over feeding his dog and grabbing the mail, etc. We somehow talked for about an hour. He was just very easy to talk to. Several days later my friend asked if he could give his friend my phone number and I said sure. Mark and I talked for about a month and then he said he wanted to fly out and see me. I told him I was right in the middle of moving down south. He said fine, I will give you two weeks then I will fly down there. I said okay, and two weeks later I was picking him up at the airport. He was so sure that we would hit it off immediately that he only bought a one way ticket. We have been together ever since!!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
That is really a great story. I love how there are cases that people accidentally meet the person that we end up spending the rest of our lives with.
• Philippines
9 Oct 10
sadly, i haven't met the one. the first women i have known with was just infatuation,i thought i was inlove but really i was in some sort of new experience. but then, i got screw up big time, with humiliation and defeat, which i was completely unaware. I feel in love for real the second time. but it dried out knowing that my feelings weren't strong enough. serously, i haven't found the one. i feel young but some how i feel too old to be.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
I am so sorry to hear that you ended up having to experience those kinds of feelings. I have been there as well in my life and there is nothing at all about that part of time in your life that is nice.
• Philippines
8 Oct 10
To meet the one, you have to be bald. You also have to wear a trench coat and a pair of cool glasses and able to make cool prophecies. And then you have to enter the matrix and look for someone who looks like keanu reeves. I'm pretty sure he's the one. His name is 'neo'.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
ROFL. That's a good one.
8 Oct 10
Not to sound harsh or anything, but we've never met our significant other as there are always better people out there. However what we must ask ourselves is this, are we going to be the better person to stay in the relationship or let it go...?
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
I beg to differ with you. I think that there is a feeling within us that occurs when we meet the person that was expressly created in this world for you.
• India
8 Oct 10
Yup, the person or the ONE for us may popup anytime, anywhere.. It doesn't matter who, how, when, where.. I believe that everyone has to meet their ONLY ONE in their life. Dating on the internet may still seem to be absurd but depending on the users, it may prove to be one of the most effective way. For many people, love at first sight turns out to be wrong but for some, it proves to be the true!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
What I think is really funny with our situation is that it was prior to first site that I knew that Tom was the one for me. I knew that he was the one for me when I first talked to him on the phone.
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
8 Oct 10
i know others that have met that way but as for me, i met my hubby at a youth (church related) event. he asked me out and we went to a hockey game but after that, i didnt really like him for some reason, i cant remember why! we have been together for 25 years, married for 23 so i guess something worked, eh?
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
I always thought that I would meet the person that I would spend the rest of my life with at a church event, but that didn't turn out to be the case at all despite the fact that I was involved in youth activities when I was much younger.
@much2say (55330)
• Los Angeles, California
8 Oct 10
When I started college, I had a job at an art supply / framing shop. Everyone there became my bestest group of friends. Me and this co-worker started dating. Then not too long after, he decided I was too young for him and that he wanted to focus on his "career" since he just graduated college. I actually wasn't too hurt - but a bit angry on the way he handled the break up. Anyway, life went on. At the time, we used to work late hours and then go to someone's place to hang out (lots of mini parties). So me and this "friend" co-worker used to talk afterwards . . . "he" had a crazy girlfriend at the time . . . so we used to converse for hours about our dating deals. AND THEN . . . one thing led to another !! I liked him as a friend, so I never expected this . . . he said he liked me since the first time we met. Breaking up with his crazy girlfriend was easy according to him . . . and well, we've been together ever since!! I have always liked that we could talk things out (just like we did "back then") - and I have grown to love him more and more as time went on. I could see he had a lot of heart and was honest . . . he was a good man and I really, really liked it when I saw that he was great with kids. So, out of a bad thing, a good thing came out . . . a VERY good thing!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
Based on all of the experiences in my life, the best things that have happened to me have been a result of something bad that happened in my life. However, I wouldn't say that was necessarily the case with my husband.
• Portugal
8 Oct 10
aww thats cute^^ i met my bf in internet also^^ we are still together and didnt meet yet^^ we know each other for a year but we just started our relationship even less than a month^^ but i know he is the one^^ he waited me to accept him more than a year ahah but we live very far so we both need to work hard to meet soon^^ but i know he is the right guy^^ he is very honest and really loves me^^ i dont care if he is away^^ i know that he is the best guy for me^^ and im working to go see him soon^^
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
I'm sure that the day that you have the opportunity to meet him in person will be one of the most memorable days of your life.
• Bulgaria
8 Oct 10
I think that you have just a good luck.Nowdays its difficult to find corect and honest partner.Internet is overfilled with cheating people that only drag out information from you or just deceive for own happy.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Oct 10
I really do think that meeting someone in this manner is somewhat of a gamble, but I also think that my making the decision to do that nine years ago was one of the best decisions that I've ever made in my entire life.
• United States
8 Oct 10
I met my significant other through the internet 7 years ago, but I didn't love him back then; I was eleven, and we were good friends. We didn't consider ourselves together until April, and in July I finally got to see him for my birthday. We talked on Skype a lot, until he got a phone with an unlimited talk plan. It was hard to leave him and come back here, but I've decided that I really want to see him again, and since I can't seem to get a job up here, I joined MyLot in hopes of getting enough money to see him again. I know it won't happen over night, but every cent counts at this point. I love him and miss him so much, and I know he is the one.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
13 Oct 10
You are definitely right about the fact that every cent does count. I'm not in the situation that you are in, but I do know how it feels to be working long and hard online to try to make money to reach a goal.