A party, a brothel (long before Viagra, thank goodness), the internet.

I met my husband on my 26th birthday. At the time, I was going onto a music site a, morrissey fan site. He liked my user name so he sent me a pm to ask me about it. I sent him a short pm back about my user name and that was it. Well, I thought that would be it. A few months later I saw a thread of his asking should he grow out his hair. I was curious to see what he looked like so I clicked on the thread. The moment I saw his photo I knew I was going to be his wife.

I wrote a cute post about my thoughts about him growing out his hair. I spent so long making sure my post was smart and cute. I really wanted him to notice me. It worked!

We started to talk via pm and then onto IM and then onto the phone. It was just easy with him and different. Seven years ago this week he came to vegas to meet me in person. We both fell more in love with each other that week and we both knew that what we had was the real deal with each other.

A few months later I moved to, London to be with him and thats it. I have been here ever since. I still dont know how it all worked out. But it did!

I have mainly met them from online. Mostly dating sites.

online, in person..... still single, lmao...

I think everyone I've been involved with I've met online through various websites, dating websites, etc. ....*sigh*

2 of them by just standing there minding my own business .. Must of had a post it stuck on me that said talk to me .. 1 online

Chat room... where the most disturbed individuals live. I like a challenge! LOL!

Just bumping for some folks to read.

On old yahoo chat, another bf website, pof and this one I met in a Facebook group.

met people
 

mostly through other friends.

The really important relationships?

At school.
She was a student in my Pagan/Wiccan study group.
At NYC Pride.
She was drumming at a Goddess party my ex threw.
She came to an LSM meeting.

I've met a few whackdoodles online and will not be trying that again. EVER. I also met my last gf when she showed up at an LSM meeting, but that wasn't a particularly important relationship.

- Through an ex-boyfriend in high school. He told me, "I know this girl who's a lesbian, and she doesn't care who knows!" He introduced me to her, and that was all she wrote. I was head over heels. It was a short relationship, but an important one.

- In college through friends. It lasted about a year and a half, but then we moved to different cities after school.

- After moving to Atlanta, in the local womyn's chorus I met a woman who had an incredibly similar background to mine. I mean, she grew up on a farm and knew how to can vegetables. We would sit on the porch and shell peas together, and then put them up. She raises chickens now. (I got out just in time - I moved to Atlanta specifically because I was tired of living on a farm.)

- My hairdresser introduced me to one very important person. My relationship with her lasted for 7 years. I was a member of her extended family - until I wasn't. Never want to do that again.

- The latest I met online, and we've been together for 14 years. It started out as a hookup, and I really didn't think it would last more than three weeks. Just goes to show, you never know.

I now have a dear friend and what I would call a traveling companion. We met at the hotel I stay at when I'm in Chicago.

Maybe I should clarify she's a part time employee there....:giggle:

At the front desk.......

Relationships
 

I agree with CherylNYC, the most important relationships were met through friends.

Seems more like hookups on-line.

:sigh:

i've met girlfriends in just about every kind of venue, through friends, in bars, blind dates, group dates, by chance and yes online...online has actually been my favorite..i like to really know the thoughts & feelings w/o a facade which usually accompanies face to face encounters and it's usually a great deal quicker...as for hook-ups.. those happen everywhere..it depends what your motive is, in the first place:byebye:

No longer called hook-ups but "traveling companions"...I like that term better myself.

Love all my buddies, really I do.

:gotmail:

Ohhhhh! Is that what we used to call a trick?

Oh Ma'am, thank you. I thought that I was the only one that remembered "trick" with the over night bag in my car trunk.

Being from the Midwest I NEVER heard 'trick' in regards to a woman!

It was simply called a one night stand, regardless if a suitcase was involved or not..:giggle:

A trick is a whole nother term to some of us, depending on where you're from!

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tricks

playing a game of tag w/ my grandson ~ we spent 2 hrs. trying to out smart each other ~ he won . lol

Met people
 

I met most people through friends and at the club. Good dance music, good drinks and nice folks.

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THIS POST WAS SUPPOSE TO BE IN "WHAT MADE YOU SMILE TODAY " oooppssssssssss:blush::blush::blush::blush::blush:

I met my ex at a bar playing darts till they took my darts away cause I was hitting the ceiling ,walls, a few tables. hy bought me a drink , after that.

I've met people just about anyway you can these days - online, at a wedding, at work, at parties, through friends of friends, at the bar, at an event, etc...

I never judge how anyone met their partners - not this gal - but I find I look back more fondly at the spontaneous meetings. Two people in the same space at the same time, and if we hadn't connected, would have just gone on with whatever it was that we were doing.

You know...silly rom com stuff (haha).

spontaneous meetings.....
 

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I like to reflect on spontaneous meetings too.

The fact both of us ended up at the same place at the same time always intrigues me.

Serendipity/ Synchronicity perhaps?

My best R'ship I met at the gym,then I noticed she was the new tenant who moved in upstairs from me,at that time the B wans not in LGBT,so I got a lot of shit from friends.

But it was great and a breath of fresh air

I liked that it just happened,and was totally organic

Yes!
 

These are the encounters and relationships I always seem to drift back to - the organic, unplanned collision of two people in the same space physically and emotionally...and shit just happens.

I did wine service at a private charity dinner in Vancouver a year ago and just swooned over this strapping, dashing chef. One long look and a few words about the wines and I was running back to the restroom to check my lip gloss, fluff my hair, and give the girls one last adjustment into the right position.

The evening went long and we connected occasionally in the kitchen over some business (or some made up business). When it was all over, I pulled out a bottle of leftover champagne and brought it back to the kitchen to share...and no one was there. Oh well...but it turned out they were all smoking behind the house so I brought the bottle outside. No one had glasses so we opened it up and passed it around. The hot chef handed it to me and while I was drinking some of the bubbles spilled down my chin. The chef took their hand and wiped the drizzle from my chin...and into her mouth. Then, she said it tasted better that way.

That kicked off a year-long, bi-coastal, "international" (haha) relationship that in the end only lacked substance, not fire. I think the distance actually gave it more time to burn, since we weren't seeing each other too often and our differences weren't much of a challenge (I wasn't around for drama with her ex or crowding time with her teenage daughter). It was just...fun. Occasionally we'd drift into a "what if" scenario, but it was never anything serious. Seemed to me that would break our rules - what we had was always better when it was for fun, so why poke a hole in the balloon?

We still connect, mostly by email. If I ever get back to Vancouver, I might say hi...

I must say for me,I had no idea she was interested at all

I told my friend,the woman upstairs,keeps coming down here a lot...........DAHHHHHH

I had just got out of a 14 yr, one night stand,LOL"why is it young people wanna be in r'ships,LOL

I guess coz we knew each other from the gym,that we actually enjoyed hangin out and had heaps in common.only problem was the whole heterosexual bi sexual thing.My dyke friends didn't cope,her straight friends didn't cope,it was the 90's

Anyway,it was the healthiest R'ship ive ever been in.

the rest honestly,was just lust and should have been move on.
But hindsight has 20/20
maybe age,but now i'm more reflective,and have zero interest in r'ships,lust i would be fine,as we discussed in the other thread.
And I love long distance,I love having my space,and you have yours. And lets just shag LOL.
Sounds like thats what you had,great your still in touch.

I only just worked this out,I kinda like lust,not r'ships,not that ive had many.

except her,I make the joke."me n Jenny were like peas n carrots":)
But time moves on.