How Did You Meet?

[...butterfly...]

Describe in detail (what you were wearing ect) how you and your S/O met.

 

[Wakeup2god]

Funny you should ask with a screen name like yours. Just over a year ago on a similar Christian web site to this I responded to a certain lady's post with the following article that I'd written. That was in january of 2004. Last week we got engaged.

The Butterfly Creator


It is sometimes with grief that we witness the passing of a season. The death of something born to us, or maybe a time that we ourselves have lived. The end of a journey once ventured upon. We lay down to surrender, and are embraced by the Fathers loving arms, like the wings of the mother bird covering her young from wind and rain we are covered by grace most sufficient. Death makes way for new life as we are recreated. As we share in the sufferings and sacrifice of those gone before we are redesigned. With pains of birth we open new eyes. Eyes that see new purpose. We break free from the shell of the old self and as we do we burst forth like light, like rainbows. We spread wings unseen before, bright new wings that shine for others to see. Then we fly as the new season begins. Flights of freedom, flights of pure discovery as we see things from a new height. With a new found lightness we launch into the unknown knowing we can fly but having never flown before. Then we know we are a new creation. Once crawling and restricted we now soar freely. The creator has remade us, reshaped us for a new purpose. A new design for life, the perfect design of the butterfly creator.

 

[MrsSeptemberPenguin]

um.......We go to school together. At the end of my 10th grade year she introduced us. Didn't really think anything of it.Then the next year we had a couple classes together, and became pretty good friends(I liked him at this point but I don't think he really knew).Then came summer, that stunk cuz we didn't have contact. I couldn't bring myself to call him for fear of being to obvious. Came back this year, restarted our friendship,and I decided there was no way I was going to graduate high school and lose contact with them all. Then In January on our way up from lunch he asked me out to dinner..........and the rest is history.

 

[AngylBelle]

Wow, we met when I was 7 and he was 12, so I really can't say I remember that well. He and I had a mutual friend whose parents were good friends of my parents (make sense? ?). We used to play together but were more aquaintances than anything...partially because what 12 year old takes a 7 year old seriously, lol. There was a point where we didn't really see each other for a few years and when I was 12 I got the BIGGEST crush on him...he was the hunky high school senior of course. I was even so bold as to tell him that I was going to marry him some day and he thought that was the most adorable thing a lil kid had ever said to him. Well, I moved across the country when I was 14, and moved back when I was 18 to go to college...needless to say he saw me in a completely different light. We have been together ever since and are planning our "predicted" wedding for late next year.

 

[halifaxhoney]

(While reading this please keep in mind I had left the church a few years before)

I met my boyfriend at work. He is nine years older than me but he didn't look it. One night I was at a party and I just blurted out that I thought he was really hot and my ex said "do you know that he's 26" I had no idea but I was like whatever and didn't think anything of it.

The next day I went into work and my ex had told all of our co-workers. I was really embarassed and couldn't look future S/O in the face.

A few weeks passed and my friends and I decided to go to the bar. I didn't get in so I went over to work and got something to eat. FS/O was working and we got to talking. Later that week I was working and he was like "if you are going to The ****** we should meet up, here is my number".

So that weekend I tried to get in again. This time all of my friends got in and I didn't. So I called my friend Brian, he left his phone at home...So I had to call FS/O and we've been together ever since.

 

[Quantum_Man]

I met her at college, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute or RPI. I was a freshman and she was a sophmore. I went to one of Christian clubs on campus, to my first ever meeting there in October 2001. There happened to be a retreat that night so not many of the regulars were there, but she was there, and she had a solo to sing during the meeting, she sang "Child of God'. It wasn't love at first sight by any means. But I did think she had a great voice. Later on in the meeting we had to break up into groups of 3 or so to pray, I was sitting in the back and so was she, so we were in the same prayer group. We hadn't even said hi to each other beforehand, but we were introduced quickly before praying.

I didn't start to like her till the start of the spring semester of my freshman year though, and the same with her. We started dating in March 2002. Later on she confessed to me that on that first day we ever met and prayed in the small group, she thought I was ugly.

 

[KristianJ]

I think I was wearing a white shirt and denim shorts, but not that it matters much Anyways, my S/O and I met for the first time in December last year, after about 5 or so months of IM chatting, which was a result of meeting here on CF. She needed to buy a new bass guitar and was looking to buy an acoustic too, and I'd offered to help her out with some semi-expert advice. So we met up, introduced ourselves, went to a music store and played around on instruments for about an hour and had a fairly nice chat over lunch at Subway. Didn't really have any thoughts of a relationship at the time, but we were keen to meet up again, and did so a few weeks later. Things went from there, and yeah...

 

[Sascha Fitzpatrick]

I met him courtesy of a group of friends I'd met via a Christian Radio Chatroom. We started having net meets, and before long most of us abandoned the chatroom and started ringing each other for group dinners, movies, etc etc.

I never spoke to B on the computer, but became quite close to him through these dinners and movies and rockclimbing functions.

The first time I remember talking to him properly was just after I'd dared his brother to scull a drink of beer whilst I sculled coke (obviously he won). I was very naive back then!

Sasch

 

[ardeur]

I met him going on three years ago in a Physics class we were taking together. We're both in the same major so we ended up having most of our classes together after that. If I recall, we were in our Physics lab and I had forgotten my lab manual. I turned around to ask the person behind me if we could work together and share lab manuals. It was him who I asked. He asked me what my major was and that started up a friendship.

It definately wasn't love or even like "at first site" (which I don't believe in). It was about a year later, when we started hanging out regularily, that I began to really enjoy his company and learned to love his personality and character. I don't know exactly when he began to have feelings for me, but I know it's been for more than a year and a half now. He's been dropping very not-so-subtle hints that he wants us to get married in a year or two.

 

[Ithilwyn]

We had been introduced through an online dating service and had already been talking online for a little over two weeks. I honestly wasn't thinking of him seriously as a possible bf, but wanted to at least meet him in person a few times before turning him down. (Can you hear the smugness in my voice? I really was looking for a reason not to date him.) We met for dinner and were having a good enough conversation to continue the date at a coffee shop. It all nearly ended though with a poorly timed political comment, revealing that we have a few differences there; it nearly ended the date and all possibilities of a future relationship. It was just the sort of excuse I was looking for. After thinking and praying about it for several days, I decided that we might actually be able to work around our differences...best decision I ever made...

 

[Spoilt Victorian Child]

We were sitting in the student union and she said she liked Godspeed You Black Emperor...

 

[Cright]

My sister was his realtor for four months when he was house hunting. After he closed on the house my sister asked us if we would go out to dinner together. After convincing us that neither was crazy or anything, she then did some more convincing for us to meet for dinner. We met at a restruant, had a great time... and well.. we'll be married in July.

 

[Ceris]

I've typed this up a few times, but ok here goes:

My girlfriend (let's call her seddata, cause that's her username of CF) and I met last October (October 29th, 2004 between 9 and 10:30pm if you want to get specific). So I was a Christian weekend retreat in the mountains where there were Christian groups from about 5 different colleges in the immediate area. I had been going throughout the weekened just having a fun time and trying to get closer with a group of about 7 other guys from my college. We had just finished small groups (which were great in and of themselves). From then on we had free time for the rest of the night. At that point, I really felt like singing. If you know me at all, you will know that I absolutely love to sing: In my room, in the car, on my way to class, everywhere (even the shower - sometimes). So I went off into this field about a few dozen yards away from all the buildings. And I just started singing. My voice, however, carries quite far (if you want to hear me sing, click the speaker icon in this post). So all of a sudden, these two girls show up. One of them says, "Hey we heard you and you have a really nice voice." I was a little surprised that hey would come up to me, but hey - I'm a theater guy and I love the attention. They asked me to sing a little for them so I did (how could I refuse?). At that point a group of people came along and said "Hey, we're going on a night hike. You guys wanna come?" One the girls went back, saying she had homework to do, so that left me and my (now) girlfriend tagging along with the group. We wound up in the back of the group talked the whole time. It was quite dark in the trees (and only 2 people out of 12 had flashlights) and I wound up offering my arm to her to help her find her way. (I have good night vision and I'm twice her size, so I could support her if she fell). After that (a good hour or so), we wound up finding a group of people that had put on some dance music and were having a good time. So I wound up dancing with her for the end of the night and taught her some tango .