Let’s Start At The Very Beginning…

Let’s Start At The Very Beginning…

September 26th, 2007 @ 7:52 pm by Mrs. Chickadee
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This Monday a new season of The Bachelor started on ABC. Unfortunately, I’ve got to admit that I watch it every year, despite fully realizing it’s pretty much a wasted hour of every week. I love to see them fall in love…even if it is a short-lived TV sort of love. Also, this weekend, one of Mr. Chickadee and my good friends went on a date set-up by a popular dating website.

Together, these two facts have got me thinking about ways to meet significant others. Mr. Chickadee and I have an unoriginal story, as we went to high school together. However, our relationship really took off after talking a LOT online. It was really a way for me to get to know shy Mr. Chickadee before we started dating.

So, what’s your dating story? Did you meet in any interesting circumstances? Any internet set-ups out there? Tell me how your love story started!

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45 Responses to “Let’s Start At The Very Beginning…”

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Tea

we met online through our blogs despite going to the same college and nearly rotating around the same social outlets. there were many chances for us to meet but didn’t…until i graduated and moved back home [i was an out-of-state student]. we all laugh about it now.

9/26/07 @ 7:58 pm (reply)

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Jenny

Ooh… good topic!

Mr. Pants and I met at match.com. I had just given up after meeting a LOT of duds who just weren’t right, and he had just moved from NY to Seattle. He was here for two days and found me just before I took my profile down!

The rest, as they say, is history!

9/26/07 @ 7:58 pm (reply)

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bunnybride (message) 39 posts, Newbee

I guess we met online. Via craigslist twice. The first time I had a room for rent in an apartment and he was one of the people me and my other room mate interviewed. I let her make the final decision since she had to share a bathroom and she picked an aspiring male model that only lasted three weeks before she kicked him out. I never thought I would see FI again since he didn’t get the room.

Then almost two months later I answered an ad to buy a single Kraftwerk concert ticket. FI turned out to be the anonymous seller and he quickly realized who I was. We ended up going to that concert together as acquaintances and that became our first date.

We met as strangers twice on Craigslist to rent an apartment and to buy a concert ticket. I will be walking down the aisle to a string version of one of the Kraftwerk songs we loved at that first concert.

9/26/07 @ 8:09 pm (reply)

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Mereidth

Hotness and I met via Match.com as well- gotta love online love. But I wasn’t emailing him regarding his hotness, more of his interest in church, I needed a home church and he was uber excited… That one email led to another and we’re gettin’ hitched in May.

9/26/07 @ 8:10 pm (reply)

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amy

we met on Myspace. we were both students at the same university but probably wouldn’t have ever met each other otherwise.

9/26/07 @ 8:15 pm (reply)

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AulisIn08

Mr A and I met online, while he was overseas in Iraq. He just randomly IM’d me one day. Said,”I notice you live in NH, what’s it like? I’m thinking of moving there when my deployment ends” We talked casually here and there.. Hey, hi.. how’s it goin.. as we were on an 8hr time difference. I sent him some NH links so he wouldn’t waste what time he did have online searching for important links. He said, “when I come home, I owe you a drink for all your help”
I didn’t think anything of it.. and 3 months after he was home, and a little more chatting- he took me out! Such a good time! So comfortable.. and we’ve been inseparable ever since.

9/26/07 @ 8:59 pm (reply)

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KatyStardust (message) 90 posts, Worker bee

My FH and I met on MySpace. He randomly messaged me at some point stating, “I’ll make all your Narnia dreams come true.” The obscurity made me respond.

Oddly enough, we know a lot of the same people - but we met at the right moment - it was perfect timing or maybe even fate?

9/26/07 @ 9:09 pm (reply)

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Kate

We met on facebook.

I clicked on “Patsy Cline” in my music interests to see who else liked her, since that’s a pretty odd musical interest for a college kid. He was one of the eight people that had Patsy in his profile and I friended him. A few months later he messaged me out of the blue, we had a blind date, and it’s been (relative) bliss ever since!

ps - Miss Chickadee I noticed you were from/are living in Peoria, I’m from Bloomington! Small world, huh?

9/26/07 @ 9:37 pm (reply)

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Maegan (message) 272 posts, Helper bee

FI and I met at a volunteer event. Turns out we worked for the same company but different buildings and hadn’t met each other yet. He signed up for one of my volunteer events and was, technically, working for me that evening. Cusiously, he kept signing up for my volunteer events (hmmm) and eventually we started going out for a drink or snack after events and pretty soon were spending weekends together and going to movies and concerts . . . 6 months later we were “offically a couple” and 2 years later planning our wedding

9/26/07 @ 9:37 pm (reply)

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Kira

We met on a cruise ship. I was on vacation with my family, and he was playing piano during his break from med school. We were on the same excursion in Grand Cayman and I eavesdropped. A few days later, on New Year’s Eve, I had enough liquid courage to introduce myself, and we spent the rest of the night/morning talking. When we both got back to Texas, we went on a real date and hit it off!

9/26/07 @ 9:38 pm (reply)

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Bunchkie

We met swing dancing. I had a crush on him for over a year. We would flirt but nothing ever became of it. One day we were chatting as we left the building and he invited me out for coffee. We quickly realized that we had the same kind of humor and clicked. Plus great chemistry! The rest is history…

9/26/07 @ 9:44 pm (reply)

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uisinger (message) 4 posts, Wannabee

We met through… Livejournal. *wears nerd hat*

Specifically, one of the people on my friends list was a high school friend, and had FH on his friends list (follwo me so far?). He made us friend each other and exchange phone numbers because he said we’d be perfect for each other and needed to get married. We laughed at the time, but after we met…. our friend will be standing up in our wedding.

9/26/07 @ 9:46 pm (reply)

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shhh

We met at a fraternity party! I remember being embarrassed, because we only really got talking after we had danced together to a few songs… I realized that I actually kind of liked him, and there I was drunk dancing with him! I figured, oh well, I’ll probably never see him again, but needless to say I did

9/26/07 @ 11:05 pm (reply)

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Natakie16

Another Match couple here! I was about to give up too- actually had just had a horrible date a few weeks before and was about to take a break when he winked at me! We talked online for a couple of weeks, then on the phone for a couple more weeks, and then just out of the blue he asked if I wanted to meet for coffee that night. So I did, and it was great- it’s been 2 and a half years!

9/26/07 @ 11:21 pm (reply)

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Miss Chickadee (message) 208 posts, Helper bee

Kate: Mr. Chickadee & I are from Bloomington actually! We’re in Peoria now because he’s working for CAT.

9/26/07 @ 11:27 pm (reply)

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I came to NZ on a 6 month working holiday and got a job on my second week here working for the Police. I met my H2B there and we started dating 3 weeks after that. We’d been together 3 months when he first proposed, and I said yes to the 2nd proposal 15 months later!

9/26/07 @ 11:48 pm (reply)

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Linda

Another match.com couple here. But at the time we met, we lived about 2 blocks from each and never would have met without that website.

9/26/07 @ 11:52 pm (reply)

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Margo

My husband and I were both interns at Boeing, and we both joined a softball team. He’s great. I’m terrible, but for some reason, we ended up dating anyway.

9/27/07 @ 12:13 am (reply)

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Annie

Just like you, Miss Chickadee, the boy and I met in high school. I was a sophomore and he was *gasp!* a senior! So I felt pretty cool to be dating a senior boy. Anyway, it’ll be nine years this November since we’ve been together– I can hardly believe it!

9/27/07 @ 12:14 am (reply)

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Jackie

My DH and I met online - sort of. Both of us had friends convince us to create Yahoo personals profiles - me while I still lived in Minnesota 3 years ago, him a few days before our story starts. One night 2 of DH’s friends were at his house, and for fun decided to browse the personals after dinner. The first one he pulled up was me, and he yells to his friend in the other room “Hey this girl is in youth ministry in Danville, do you know her?” Sure enough, he was a volunteer in the ministry I worked for. So he got my e-mail address and gave it to DH.

We met in February 2006, he proposed in May on my birthday, and we got married last October! We will celebrate one year of bliss on the 8th. It’s been a beautiful whirlwind - who would have thought that God would have to move him and I to CA for us to meet?

9/27/07 @ 12:46 am (reply)

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