My wife and I met at a business fraternity. I suppose we were “fraternity brothers”. We joke that the kids are “dividends”. She had to pass my dorm on the way to our meetings which in the fall and winter meant it was dark. I called her up and asked if she would walk to the meetings with me as I didn’t want to get molested. We were friends for a year or so before it blossomed some 34 plus years ago.
Funny how this topic resurfaces
Junior year at college. Wife was an exchange student (domestic - wasn’t much study abroad back in the 80s) and lived three doors down on my hall. Was one of those lightning bolt moments. 34 years later…wondering if S will meet his future.
Mr. Sabaray and I were introduced by a law school classmate. He was a medical sales rep - the proverbial traveling salesman who’d been moved far from his home base and was her neighbor. She thought we’d get along. I didn’t think much of her taste in men, but I was at her apartment studying one day and he “dropped by”. Celebrated our 30th anniversary last year.
It’s not that young people now do not meet. The problem is they do not ask each other out on an actual, one on one, date.
Met my wife 27 years ago at a party as I was starting law school and she medical school. We were introduced by a mutual friend.
Grad school - we were friends for a long time before we started dating. For a while we shared the same lab bench.
He taught me how to use a rotovap. He changed my nitrogen tanks and pulled my TLC spotters. True love!
We met freshman year of college when I was dating one of his hallmates. The guy I was dating would talk to DH about our relationship to get advice, and then come back to me and say “DH’s name” thinks… When we broke up after about 6 weeks (he broke up with me), DH asked him if it would be OK if he asked me out. Old boyfriend said yes, but had a hard time with it for awhile. I figured since old boyfriend was getting advice from DH anyway, I’d just cut out the middleman by dating him.
BTW, old boyfriend is one of our dearest friends today.
We met at work. H was in grad school and started working for the company I was at part time. We kept it a secret until we both left the company because it was very small. We’ll be married 28 years this summer.
Wow, can’t believe how many people met at college! Freshman year too. Now I’m a little concerned that my daughter might marry her first-ever boyfriend, lol!
I met my husband through a mutual friend, at a pub in London. We actually met a couple of years before we began dating, but we were both seeing other people at the time. We met again when my friend was staying with my husband between moves. I told him on our first date (in an amusing fashion, of course) that if he had zero interest in kids, a house, marriage, and a cat, that he should say thanks but no thanks, so that we didn’t waste time. He didn’t run, so that was a good sign.
We were both over 30. His birthday was a couple of weeks after we had our first date, and I had a hard time choosing a gift for him. What do you get someone whom you have only dated for a short time and don’t know that well? I chose an inexpensive, practical gift that’s now acknowledged as a design classic. We still use it all the time, and it always reminds me of those heady, early days of dating
It was a setup. I was a high school senior in 1994 when DH moved in next door to one of my friends. Also, her boyfriend worked with him. She told him to be on the town square one night when she and I were cruising so we stopped and talked. That night the four of us went bowling and then during the week she talked to me about him and her boyfriend talked to him about me so he asked me out the following Friday.
I told my mom it would just be for the summer because we figured I’d meet someone at college…
Playing pinball in the basement of our dorm. My boyfriend was doing a junior year abroad. (Where BTW he found the woman he married.)
We met at work but through the national competitive running team. We wouldn’t have met through actual “work” since it was a huge company and he was an engineer and I was a lawyer. We were both competitive runners on the team.
We met at work, the summer after I graduated from college.
I was doing an internship and he was working at a rival company. We caught the same bus into town. He thought I was cute and asked around to see if anyone knew me. We met through a mutual friend.
We met through a blind date.
Nice, @scout59! Mr. B taught me how to pull capillaries for TLC, too. 
I was a bad capillary making student because the torch scared the begezus out of me. He still reminds me how I broke his favorite Dean Stark trap…
H and I were grad students and met at an academic conference where we were on the same panel. Afterwards, he asked me If I wanted to go out to lunch. We got married 8 months later–been married for 38 years in November.
It sounds bad, but my DH was my ex’s best friend.
I know! I know! I know!
I connected with my ex as a freshman in college; he and I had met in HS.
We dated during college and we talked about marriage. His friend was always with him (my DH) during trips and outings.
Once I went to grad school, I couldn’t do things with the ex. Of course, he was no longer in school, and his parents were supporting him (bad sign) so he was upset that I couldn’t pick up and take off-and go to Mexico for the weekend or go skiing for their the week.
I was ALWAYS at school during grad school.
During my thesis research I rarely spoke to the EX or went out with him because I just didn’t have the time.
I had heard rumors that my ex was seeing other people. Then on Christmas Day, ex dumped me. Found someone else.
About a month later, the best friend comes over to my apartment and tells me he wants to date me. He said that he had been waiting several years to ask me out but didn’t know how. He asked for water, and I told him to get it from the fridge. My roommate and I were always broke and always in school so there was nothing in our fridge except ice water, butter, and a pack of tortillas.
I swear I had no idea!
I didn’t want to date him!
I didn’t want anything to do with him romantically.
So I told him “no” I didn’t have time to date anyone and didn’t feel comfortable with the situation. I told him, “I’m sorry but I can’t”
Yet every weekend, for six months straight, there was always a basket of fresh picked fruit or vegetables in front of our door. His parents apparently had a huge property, with lots of fruit trees and fresh vegetables that would often go to waste.
At the end of six months my roommate had had it and she said “Aunt Bea, you are crazy not to date this guy! He’s extremely kind, nice, and considerate. He hasn’t pressured you into anything. He’s very well educated. He is employed. He’s heterosexual!”
I did agree to go with him on one lunch date. Initially, it was awkward but I guess something must’ve clicked because it’s been 30 years and three kids.
I met my DH in the fall of my freshman year, his second to last semester, when he passed me in the lobby of the freshman dorm and made a U-turn to hit on me. He was on his way to tutor someone.
We didn’t have a real conversation until the following fall, when I was asked to distract him at a fraternity car wash so the pledges could sneak off to eat… We talked and he asked me out. We dressed up for our first date and he kept telling the waiter “my wife would like …”, We dated until he graduate in December and long distance with visits, and got engaged during the summer before my senior year.
We got married the day after I graduated at a church down the street from the campus so that our friends could attend.
It will be 33 years this year. I know of several double alumni couples from our years at UMiami.
I met my husband playing in a Jaycees softball league. I was a Jaycee and he was a “ringer” my friend recruited to play with us for the purpose of setting us up, although she didn’t tell either one of us before she did that. It wasn’t until three months after the league finished up that we ran into each other again and he asked me out on a date.