For those in a relationship, where did you meet your other half?

[Tranquillity]

As titled.

[CarolinetheENFP]

pre-calc class
sophomore year
we were the only ones in the class at our small school.
(ENFP + INTJ)
<3

[Algol]

I am surprised online (general) or INTJf are not options! :p

[Tranquillity]

I am surprised online (general) or INTJf are not options! :p

Well, I thought adverts include online and offline.

[Henry]

As titled.

Avoid the workplace like the plague. There's plenty of drama there already and after a few months in a long term relationship you'll relish your time away from home.

[LvHmBirth]

I worked for my husband, at one time.
Then I went to another job, and we started dating.
Now, he works for me. (Just kidding. Sorta.)

[Muumeh]

online

[Noehelia]

Well, I thought adverts include online and offline.

No, they don't. You may meet someone online although you were not looking for a relationship.

[Tranquillity]

Avoid the workplace like the plague. There's plenty of drama there already and after a few months in a long term relationship you'll relish your time away from home.

I hear you there. I had one incident where it when pear shaped and had hate everyday as I see her all the time. It made work pretty unbearable. Think only go into it if you are really really sure.





Tranquillity added to this post, 3 minutes and 11 seconds later...

No, they don't. You may meet someone online although you were not looking for a relationship.

Ah, got you. Yeah, never thought of that.

Am quite skeptical about it tho. Does it really work? I have meet up with people from online forums before and a lot of people are totally different to their character online.

[Orpheus]

School, and we were also neighbors. It was kind of inevitable, us getting together. Liked her for a couple of months, then finally made my move. Took me a while mostly because she was way out of my league (she was extremely attractive).

[Noehelia]

Ah, got you. Yeah, never thought of that.

Am quite skeptical about it tho. Does it really work? I have meet up with people from online forums before and a lot of people are totally different to their character online.

It has worked for me and my boyfriend. We were both members of a web community for 2 years. But in this community there were plenty of meet-ups and parties among the core members (who were about 200) so I knew that people I knew in person knew him in person also, we had our photos from meet-ups in the forum, etc (but we had not meet because we lived in different cities). We highly regarded each other as we were interested for the same topics but we had never communicate in a more personal way, through personal messages for example. One day we argued about a philosophical thread he had posted, we continued the argument to personal messages, then in msn as there were plenty things we wanted to say about the topic, then we continued the argument on the phone and that's it. In 3 days we felt in love with each other although we had not met in person. In 5 days we met and started a relationship and now after 2 and a half years we have moved and live together in another country.

In this web community there have been many relationships among members although that was not the primal focus of the community. There have been initiated many friendships also from distance or up close. I had became close friends with another person for 1 and a half year, regarded him at the time my best friend, although I had met him only once. I had became friends with other people with whom we lived in the same town and we were going out together, introduced them to other friends of mine and they had became friends and so on. It was a community although web based and relationships had sparked as in normal communities.

Something like this I have noticed that is happening through facebook nowadays in my country. People do not usually have their profile open for others to see it except their friends and their friends' friend. But people with mutual friends add each other or the mutual friend introduces them online and so on. People do not use facebook exclusively to meet partners but to communicate in general. So when you meet someone like that it feels like you met him through friends but in an online environment.

[Josephine1012]

Ah, got you. Yeah, never thought of that.

Am quite skeptical about it tho. Does it really work? I have meet up with people from online forums before and a lot of people are totally different to their character online.

I agree with the poster above. The information age has created some strange opportunities. I avoid dating sites like the plague, but I also "accidentally" met someone through an online community, even though I was definitely not looking for a relationship. It just sort of happened..

P.S. I haven't voted in your poll, since none of it applies to me

[boldbidder]

My wife and I met 10 years ago (today as a matter of fact) in undergrad at a club. It was a pretty random thing, my roommate at the time begged and pleaded with me to go out, I wasn't much of a club person but I tagged along. My wife was going out with a group of her girlfriends to celebrate on their bdays and the rest is history :)

Wouldn't recommend meeting folks in clubs though as a rule...lol.