Skiing
“Nowadays, people will swipe left on someone for seemingly superficial reasons, such as liking the Red Sox or using too many exclamation points.”
I have thought about this as well. Social media makes it too easy to judge people and reach quick and perhaps wrong impressions before you even meet them.
I met my H in the library at our law school. I was waiting to meet a friend, who was loaning me his sister’s genuine Catholic schoolgirl uniform to wear for Halloween. H came bounding up the steps, wearing a leather jacket and balancing a motorcycle helmet on a pile of books. I had never seen anyone so handsome so close to me. When he introduced himself, I literally forgot my own name. We became friends after that and ultimately got together romantically years later. We married for our D’s first birthday (she is our second child). Ironically, the Catholic school that the uniform came from was from a place I had never heard of before but where we have now lived for over 20 years. If I was Catholic, that would be my church.
Well, he was a young professor and I was a graduate student…
Hahaha, that’s true,but I never had him as a professor. But I did meet him at a graduate student Friday afternoon gathering that invited faculty. H and I noticed each other’s northern accents in this very southern town. We got to talking and the rest is, well you know the rest.
I met my ex on a backpacking trip a mutual friend organized to the bottom of the Grand Canyon over Christmas one year. It wasn’t a total bust – we were married for 23 years.
And two great kids, @intparent!!
I met my late husband at a college graduation party for my roommate…which he crashed. Though we hadn’t met before there was much overlap in our friend groups so we knew of one another for awhile before meeting. Many of the folks at that party are still my closest friends despite our being spread out across the country.
My husband and I met in grad school at UCLA. I had already been there a year when he started. He sought out help in a class he was taking that I had already taken and we eventually started dating the following year. We didn’t get married until I got my degree six years later (he got his degree the following year). We’ve been married for 26 years.
My sister and her husband met at the wedding of mutual friends when she was in her mid-40s and he was about to turn 50. They found out they lived only blocks from each other in San Francisco–first marriage for both and they recently celebrated their 10th anniversary.
Every person I’ve dated has been someone at the workplace. When I met H, inter-office relationships were not allowed. We dated two years before we told the boss, the first of three couples to come clean. We’ve all been married over twenty years, still working for the same boss.
We met junior year of college at National Model United Nations. We were on a terrorism committee representing different countries (and schools). I had a cold and looked pathetic, so he asked me to lunch. And so it began. I have a vague recollection of being introduced to him at the previous year’s conference, but it didn’t stick at that time.
Our Jewish mothers set us up. I was finishing college and he graduated four years earlier. We will be celebrating our 30th anniversary next month.
You could have looked too pathetic if he wanted to ask you to lunch, @CountingDown! 
@doschicos, I had a mug of hot chocolate, a wad of tissues and a box of cough drops. Stick 1500 college students together in a conference and all kinds of germs spread! 
I had moved to Golden, CO because
- Nothing was keeping me in Nashville years after grad school – single, transferable job, etc.
- My sister and her young family were in Arvada, another Denver suburb
- I had met a young woman who was my sister’s neighbor, and we had hit it off.
So I moved to Golden.
Went out with the girl – was actually with her back when i started posting on this site, in 2011-12 – and then we broke up.
Several months and a few rebound dates later, I tried – for no particular reason and with little thought – OK Cupid.
I saw a photo of my redhead wife covered in paint after a Color Run, saw that she was from Iowa (I’m from Wisconsin) – thought that was cool, Iowa and Wisconsin in Colorado – and so i messaged her. 16 months later we were engaged, 13 months after that we were married, and now we’ve been wed for (i’d better know this…) about 2.67 years.
You live near Red Rocks, @prezbucky! I’m envious!
Our freshman year of college, in class.
First day of freshman year in college. He was a junior who lived on my hall (with co-ed bathrooms). It was love at first sight. We’re still havin’ fun (41 years later), and he’s still the one. 
Am I the only person here who actually met their spouse in a bar?
We have been married over 37 years.
At a wake.
I’ll leave you to wonder about the details
We met in a bar — after arranging to meet through an old-fashioned personals ad in the Philadelphia Inquirer. His brother had actually written the ad because H was approaching 30 and BIL thought he needed a push.