If you're in a relationship or looking for one, where did you and your partner meet/where are you looking? What places would you frequent to meet new people?
Posted Jan 12, 2018, 11:41 PM UTC
Reddit lol. It was pure luck. The fact that I met him alone might make me believe in a higher power because I’m so thankful for that little instance of luck amidst a life deprived of it.
I used to run a forum called "Single Nerds of [my state]." It wasn't a dating group necessarily, just a discussion forum specifically for single people, or for taken people who'd met their partners through the forum, and it was for "nerds" so people could find other folks with similar interests more easily instead of having to navigate a broad dating or friendship pool.
There was a guy on there whose comments I liked a lot, and we had some interests in common. One night we were chatting on the forum and I suggested we go to a bar to read SCP stories together (that was what we'd been talking about). I didn't really have romantic intent behind it, but I found out later that he totally did ahaha. We hit it off immediately and stayed out until 5am. Never looked back.
I think meetup groups in general can be good for this. You know you have something in common at least, there are already some activities planned out, and any fairly large group of 20- or 30- somethings becomes a bit of a dating thing.
On a video game. I didn't intend to meet anyone off of tf2 of all places and I certainly wasn't looking but we kind of clicked and here we are.
Wow, of all places
We met through mutual friends.
Ninja edit: That was the short story. Basically, his friends set up a Facebook page to get him a date. My old roommate was friends with his friends and she invited me to the page. We ended up going out and here we are two and a half years later.
Thats quite a story lol, I'd die of embarrassment if my friends did that shit to me
Eh, he had a good sense of humor about it. They didn't do it without his permission or anything. They asked if they could and he just went with it.
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Ah alright, that's pretty funny, and definitely an interesting way to meet
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Really?
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Yeah, I have a couple of friends who have met their current boyfriend on tinder.
online lol we met on tumblr!
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We met in primary school when we were both 7 and became best friends straight away. We only started dating when we were 17. We are and always have been nerds together
Thats awesome
I met him through our mutual friend when she brought him along to an out of state burlesque competition we were going to.
The internet, on a site totally unrelated to dating. It was long distance for a while but now we live together.
I met my partner on an app called "Plenty of Fish" - neither of us were the type to go out and we were both into video games and staying home to play on our PC. I bought him Dying Light as a gift after a couple of dates and we got close by playing together. 2 years later, still with him and we live together.
I wouldn't consider myself nerdy, but I am pretty introverted. I met him in the study group I started for a lecture class in undergrad. He came to one of our meetups and my friend said he seemed into me, so we got coffee after. We've been attached by the hip ever since.
Bumble
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I’m quite nerdy but not a full on introvert. I went on Craigslist looking for someone with a spare concert tickets for a concert. I found someone with a spare ticket. At the concert, I saw the guy that became my soon to be second husband. I was looking for a way to talk to me, but he did me the favor since he knew the person who took me to the concert. I noticed he was taking pictures of the event and asked him if he was a photographer and if I could have a business card. He gave me his business card.
I messaged him that night but didn’t get a respond until a few days later. It turned out that the phone number he originally gave me was from a burner phone for business purposes. A few days later (that was two weeks after the initial meet up) we went on our first date and we started going out right away.
It has been nearly eight years since that happened. In 2012 we had our son Lucas.
We met at a party where our already interconnected friend groups were mingled. He worked with my friend's husband, so we knew of each other vaguely but didn't actually know each other yet.
We met on a forum for a video game in 2002
We met at work. He was my supervisor.
He was dating my (now former) friend at the time. Long story.
On OkCupid.
Same. I signed up when I moved to a new city as a way to find out about good breweries in the area. I called it "patio scoping" as it was just turning to summer.