How did you meet your significan other? Where was your first date?

[Anonymous]

I just thought it'd be fun to branch out and know about how other people met. (:

I met my boyfriend whenever I was not looking for anything. We met on a dating app called Hinge. I was never on Hinge. It was just on my phone, but it wasn't my number one priority. I was very focused on myself being single and independent. Working at my job and myself. My dating history was just not great. Last person I was with, they ghosted me. Came back again when I was actually on my first date with the guy I'm with today. Ironically enough, I was like... Nope! Blocked the guy. Got to know my boyfriend, and I haven't looked back.

We (who I'm with today) went on a dinner date. I was nerve-wrecked because it was a burger place. I was more of a coffee/drink type of date and taking a nice walk, though it was cold. We met on January 2nd of this year. (: We got together in May. We've been going so strong!

I got ghosted by a situationship, where I was going through a hard time. I had a childhood dog passing away, and my grandma from step-dad side got diagnosed with Alzeheimers. This situationship was confusing. The guy saying he likes me and all, yet nothing happened outside of my apartment. Red freaking flag! I ran from that situation! Lol.

I am 25. My boyfriend is 27. We're still babies.

[SnowedIn]

What a great question!

This story is about my now-wife of 23 years. We met in Japan. I was in the Navy and a Sailor on the aircraft carrier stationed there. She was the daughter of a Sailor on a destroyer in my carrier's battle group.

I went to a Christian Serviceman's center outside the base in Yokosuka. One thing I was really good at and people who went there loved was arranging banquets. People really liked doing the work for them and attending but no one liked arranging them. Enter, me.

One night, a young woman walked in the door. She had on a dark blue hoodie from San Diego, California. I had on black pants, a black shirt, and a red velvet vest. Barry Manilow meets Johnny Cash for those who remember the reference.

I looked across the room and thought, this is the woman I'm going to marry.

She has told me that she looked across the room and thought, this is the man I'm going to marry.

That was their first night at the center and I worked extra hard to make the family feel welcome.

Because of deployments and work our first date wasn't until about 9 months later. It was for ice cream and crepes in Tokyo, Japan. With her little sister as a chaperone.

And 23 years, 10 cars, 9 houses, 8 moves (1 from Japan, 2 to Guam and 2 from Guam), 5 cats, 4 kids, 2 mice, and 1 rabbit later, she's still the best thing to ever be part of my life.

[tenor55]

You’re babies? We met in high school; she was 15 and I was 16. I still remember our first kiss. It was at her house by the side door. WOW…could she ever kiss!! Soon we were going steady (is that a thing anymore?). I would go over to her house and she would come to mine. Those were our first dates and, when I took her home from my house, we would park and make out. Our first real date came when I took her to an Italian restaurant for her 16th birthday. We were sexually active, she got pregnant, and we got married at 16 and 17…now WE were babies! We celebrated 50 years last summer.

[Asker]

Aww! I love that. How cute! (: When I say we're babies, I guess we're still young in some peoples' eyes. We still are learning things. Etc. My boyfriend and I were very steady with the dating experience. We haven't been sexually active until 7-8 dates later. We've been taking our time, and we are still taking our time. Not looking into marriage yet. Just traveling and enjoying life as it is. Doing our own path.

[tenor55]

It is ok to take advice from others, but continue doing your own path! I loved “just traveling and enjoying life as it is.” Sometimes in the midst of life, we forget to enjoy the journey!

[DancingQueen16]

I met my boyfriend Alex in middle school 6th grade to be exact and we became really close friends but as the years went on I started to develop feelings for him but I was too scared to tell him that I liked him because I was too scared of being rejected and making things weird between us anyways fast forward to July 1st of this year he texted me and told me that he liked me and asked me to be his girlfriend and I said yes and we haven't had time to go on an official first date yet because we're both in our first year of college and busy but he's told me that he wants to take me to a nice restaurant for our first date

[tenor55]

That would be so awesome if it turns into a lasting relationship!

[SnowedIn]

This is a really wonderful story.

[Akam93]

I've had a lot of first dates with my exes. My first boyfriend high school, second through a mutual friend, third was at my first job. And I forgot where our dates were. 🤷‍♀️

[Guy13]

Dating: most public and corny place possible is Starbucks and that’s where it was 💪

[Akam93]

@Guy13 nothing wrong with Starbucks.

[Asker]

Starbucks is a classic! Never so corny. Just an easy place to enjoy a good drink, whether it was coffee related or not. Got comfy and it was an open shop.

[Akam93]

Local coffee shops are great places also.

[Guy13]

@Akam93 safe and lemon cake is good too

[Akam93]

@Guy13 I dont like lemon cake actually.

[Guy13]

@Akam93 good. I don’t like sharing 🙃

[Akam93]

@Guy13 we can share a drink then. ;)

[mstbooblover]

My "significant other" and I were both students to an evening art school. We got to know each other better during a school trip, and she invited me to her place, and there things became very intimate...: alea jacta est ;0)

[HaveNoName]

It was at our engagement.

Immediately after that, we went out but with company.

First "date" alone was after we got "legally" married though still "long distance" apart.

[moviedude714]

Not everyone gets to be in a relationship or date that young unfortunately

[loveslongnails]

We met on line.

[jimmy2]

I walked into the door of my home