How did you meet your DH/DP/DF/DW??

great idea!
the long story:
i met dh at new years in queenstown 1997/98. we were part of a big group camping, and we got talking and found we had lots and lots in common, but i had a boyfriend so we just talked. he told a friend that he would get me in the end though!

i broke up with the boyfriend, and thought about that guy i had met lots, so tried everything i could think of to see him again. *but* in the meantime i got another boyfriend, and wouldnt you know it, i saw him again! we talked, again, got on like a house on fire (and made the new boyfriend so possessive it took another month to break it off with him) finally, single and still looking for him (noone really had cellphones then, and of course i couldnt ask for his number when i had a boyfriend!) i went away for easter with friends, and his sister was there. i found out he was going to be at a particular pub on saturday night, so i went home again (dragging a friend with me) and went out to the pub to meet him. i made a group of people come with me too! and he was there!!! but with a girl i was gutted, but my brother scared her away by saying something revolting to her and i bought my now dh a drink of tequila....

the short story:

i got him drunk and took him home, and didnt let him go again

LOL - fun!!

We met at the gym. He was a bit of a gym junkie and I had just joined up and used to go to the very front of the aerobics classes so I could see what was going on and he used to think that I was an arrogant bi**h!! LOL. One day mum and I hung around after the class and he was helping the instructors work on new routines and one of the instructors introduced us to each other. I taught cook island dancing at the time and was introduced as "Alicia - a hula instructor" so was known to him and his friends as "hula girl". We got to chatting and one of his friends teased him about taking 5 years to complete a 2 year computer course and I stuck up for him and he fell in love I took a bit more convincing

Was on yahoo messenger and Grant added me as a friend before I even chatted to him. Apparently Linux version had a bug in it and you had to be friends with someone before you start to chat. At that point I was dating someone. Nothing serious or anything. We chatted late nights when I was suppose to be doing assighnments for uni and he was suppose to be working on projects.

He dissapeared for a while and I actually missed him a lot and thought that was weird. By now I already broke up with the other dude and thought just rebound. He came back online telling me he is now looking for a nymphomaniac wife. His words not mine. He is tired of the dating scene ect. Our biggest play argument was about me being a virgin and waiting for the right guy and him telling me I will die an 80 year old virgin and that the right guy doesnt exist and love is just an illusion.

We played truth or dare again (we played it the second time we chatted) and he dared me to go on a date with him. So I just asked is it a date date or a friends date. He stayed quiet and then said date date. He said he almost died when I didnt responded immediatly. To be honest we never went on that date. I booked a holiday down to his town but then he booked a week up to my place to meet my dad and to fly down with me.

Before that we started calling and we worked out we could have flown to each other every weekend for 3 months with the money we wasted on phone calls.

I went down and stayed down there. He tore up my return ticket called my dad and told him I have to help him down there with something. We drove back up after a month and my dad just told him to look after me and that was it. Before our wedding I asked my dad what he thinks and he stayed quiet and then told me he never thought he would say it but I better keep this one because they dont come like this anymore at all.

(This btw from the dad that did police checks on all guys, threaten to shoot them if they even think about hurting me, boasted to them that I know how to break all bones in their bodies so I can defend myself ect.)

DH is my brothers friend, thats how i meet him. first time would have been when he was about 13 and me 9ish. Did the week hold hands kind of relationship when I was about 13yrs and him 17yrs but that lasted about a month if that then didnt see him for 3 odd years cos my bro moved out and they flatted together then my bro took my best friend to her mothers wedding and then for some reason he brought DH to the after party thing and i was there and that night we hooked up and have been together ever since, coming up 13yrs

Dh and I have an odd sort of story.

My sister and I got a new flatmate who was a little troubled.
On her second night in the flat, she broke down and told me that the reason she'd left her previous flat was because she'd been raped by her ex boyfriend's brother and her boyfriend and flatmates hadn't believed her.
I felt so sympathetic to her, and spent most of the night up talking to her.
The next night she had some friends over for her flatwarming, and DH was one of them. She'd told me about him, said he was really supportive of her and hinted that there was a bit more to their friendship. He and I talked a lot and had a lot of fun together that night but since I assumed he was into her nothing happened.
In the following weeks, she started having a lot of breakdowns. After a few nights of sitting up with her I told her that I couldn't keep doing it as I was exhausted and asked if there was anyone I could call who could help her more than I could? She gave me DH's number.
Months went by and the drama's in her life escalated. The police got involved because the guy who'd attacked her's cousin was stalking her and trying to beat her up because she'd sent his cousin to jail.
DH was over 3-4 times a week helping her and we'd often all go out together to try and cheer her up.
My sister and I began to think something was a bit fishy though, when our Grandpa died and she became very jealous of the time we were spending with our family, hinting at coming along with us.
Then we compared stories she'd told us and found some big
inconsistancies. Coincidentally, that same day we ran into DH at the mall where she worked. He was staking her out to see if the stories she'd been feeding him about being followed home were true!
So we all went out for a drink and found out she'd told us all different things. We went home thinking we'd gently confront her to try and find out what the truth was, only to find her hysterical because her mother had apparently stabbed herself and was on life support!
Who would lie about that right?
We were up all night as she got phone calls from her brothers and the drs updating her. One brother threw himself through a window with the grief. Another was arrested for trying to punch a dr.
So it was down to her to give the order to switch off the machine..... and just as the did! (Flatmate collapses sobbing on the floor) Mother takes a breath!
We put her to bed and I remembered at last that I have her dad's cellphone number, so decide to call him and get him to come look after her.
Surprise, surprise, he knows nothing about her mother's attempted suicide, in fact she is very much alive and well!
So we ask him to come and pick up his daughter and her things instead!
DH stayed and let me know that there was very definitely nothing going on between them and never had been, and the rest is history!

What a ramble, sorry!

We're another "met at the pub" couple!

We were both out on the town with our groups of friends, very drunk and by the time I met DH I think I had already snogged a couple of others!!!! I remember seeing DH and saying to my friend "he's alright, go chat him up!" but she couldn't be bothered so I did instead.

Shocking as it sounds I don't rememeber much, but do remember asking him what he did for a living, and when he replyed "engineer" I said "oh, that brings home a good wicket doesn't it!" How shallow!!!!

It gets worse, I ended up saying to him "I feel sick, I'm going outside, wanna come?" Thank god I didn't spew! He ended up coming home with me where I passed out!

And the rest is History!! Together about a year before we bought a house together, engaged after 18 months, married after 3 years and now 4.5 years later awaiting Baby to arrive!

Wow Mel, what a huge drama!!

I met DF for the first time when I was about 13, we both went to Army Cadets together. He was the big loud obnoxious one and I....wasn't. I had a huge crush on him, but nothing ever happened. Then when I was 22 I went out with some friends one night in New Plymouth (we were celebrating something or other), and we met up again. It was supposed to be a fling as I was moving to Hamilton in 2 months (and I did) but three months after that (after weekend visits every weekend) he got a job and moved up here. And then, here we are, getting married in 5 months.

In 6th form (1996) DH's best friend moved to Auck and went to my school, and dated one of my friends. DH would come up and stay with him in the holidays, and we met once, but he cant remember!
Fast forward to 2000, I saw DH's friend at the mall, and we arranged to meet for a cacth up. He brought DH along. Then we met up a few weeks later at a club,..started dancing,... and DH and his freind dropped me home. He then text me in the week, and we went on our first date to the movies on Wed night to see Erin Brochovich,..well we didnt see much of the movie! Lol!
7 years later we have travelled for 2 years together, are married and have a baby!

Short story: Nat and I met at church

Long story: A mutual friend introduced us, and we became friends then spent a few months convincing ourselves there was nothing more there... until we really couldn't deny it any longer!

We've been married for 3 years 7 months now.

We have a bit of a long and sordid story which I won't bore you guys with - lets just say he "was" my ex boyfriends best friend    So we were friends since we were 15 and finally "officially" (ie told the rest of the world) got together when I was 20 after breaking up with my ex. I did feel a bit stink at the time but I knew it was meant to be    We have been married for nearly 3 years now.