How did you meet your DH/DP/DF/DW??
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Topic: How did you meet your DH/DP/DF/DW??
Posted By: Brenna
Subject: How did you meet your DH/DP/DF/DW??
Date Posted: 16 August 2007 at 9:52pm
Here's my story, add yours 
I was on a hens night and DH was on a stag do. The 2 groups sort of found each other at a bar in Hamilton and it turned out the bride to be had gone to uni with DH so she introduced him to all of us. He was VERY pi**ed and when he was introduced to me said "You have the most beautiful eyes" (in a drunken kind of a way). Anyway, for the rest of the night, he wouldn't leave me alone (which was actually a pain in the butt cause I was having a good time with the girls). Anyway, when we were all leaving he said "wana come home to my place for a coffee?" (coffee?? yeah right!) Anyway, all he got that night was a phone number. So at 3am he text me to see if I got home OK, then phoned the next afternoon and the rest as they say, is history 
-------------  My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: MILF
Date Posted: 16 August 2007 at 10:08pm
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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  ------------- Lyla - mum to Xanthe - my big 4 year old
and Jordis - 1 year old 
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Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 16 August 2007 at 10:11pm
hehe I met Dh at a local bar/night club too. He came up to ask me if my friend was scr#wing his mate... (oh to think how childish that was not too mention he was drunk too). Anyway later on that night he came to apologise and we started talking... ... did end up at his place but only cause my friend was you know his mate LOL... ( oh how rude) but all he got was alas the phone number too. Next day ended up at a cricket match he was watching (as he plays it) and he walked past several times but didn't say anything except a breif hello so thought oh well never mind he wasn't interested , it was my daughters 3rd bday and so I left, he texted me after I left and asked me to come back (I had only went round the corner) and so did and he asked me out. ...rest is history as they say
Theres alot more to that story.. hiim getting rid of a creepy guy for me, me keeping his friends at bay with my swedish friends, my ex being a bast#rd.. etc... but thats the gist of it. ETA: He was only s'pose to be a 'bit of fun' considering when we met he was 24 and I was 28 with 2 kids (didn't think we were at the same stage in life) but here we are together forever, best BIT OF FUN I ever had!  ------------- Ann 
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Posted By: Leish
Date Posted: 16 August 2007 at 10:28pm
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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 ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 16 August 2007 at 10:29pm
lol Ann, sounds er,  fun.
ok, am gonna be lazy as heck here and copy and paste from my bridal diary. lol I first met Mike through a set-up. I was only 17, had just ended a particularly messy teenage relationship and was not looking to be involved with any guy, no matter how spunky, for a very long time. Still my older sister set up a meeting, her friend was Mike’s aunty and he was boarding there. Apparently the two of them thought we were perfect for each other. (I guess they were right). It was all kept secret from mum, I have no idea why. Off I went one Wednesday night supposedly to babysit for my older sister, that’s what we told mum. Instead we went round to meet Mike. We had coffee with his aunty while waiting for him to get up the courage to come inside and meet me. He stayed working out in the shed for nearly an hour before finally doing so. He came in and shook my hand – which I thought was more than a little weird, then sat over in the corner of the room and hardly said a thing. Turns out he was the same age as me and his birthday was the day before mine. After that initial meeting, the phone calls began – those ones where you stay on the phone for hours talking about nothing. I started going to parties with him, movies with him, come to think of it we hardly left each other’s side. We were inseparable. When we weren’t together we were texting each other. Despite this, I maintained we were just friends and it came as a complete surprise when one day I realized he meant much more to me than that. Of course, he tells me that it had been his plan all along to make me fall in love with him, hence why he put up with having me play hard to get for so long. So we made it official that we were a couple and everyone around us was relieved that we had finally stopped fooling ourselves into thinking any less. 3 months later we moved in together. 9 months after that, we got engaged. and here we are 6 years later with 2 kids. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 7:52am
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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.) ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 8:37am
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I met Jesse at my friends place who was having drinkswhen she got back from oz. We just started talking and spent the whole night making fun of the articles in the Cleo mag.
I was on my way home and he asked me if I wanted to go to his place and have some wine I said yes told him I didn't like red wine but he gave me a glass anyway stayed the night we didn't do anything the next morning he aske if I wanted to keep seeing him I said yes the a couple of weeks later he started calling me his girlfriend and have been stuck with him since lol. 3 and a half years later we have a James and our first house we plan to get married soon hopefully by the end of next year. We found it quite wierd that we hadn't meet before that has we have the same group of friends pretty much. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 8:40am
| 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 |
Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 9:28am
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These stories are great... ------------- Ann
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 9:36am
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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! ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 9:40am
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ok - online, nzdating
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Posted By: sparkle
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 9:47am
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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! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 9:48am
hehe we are another nzdating couple
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Bombshell wrote:Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 9:49am
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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.
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Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 10:01am
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OMG OMG OMG NZDATING COUPLES!!!
NZD couple here too. Infact my last couple of boyfriends have been NZD guys as well. I thought I recognised you Bombshell? Were you on the boards there? I was CynicalPrincess and ExtraordinaryMachine. I used to go out with Logbo (shame) and was with a guy called sick_puppy for 2 years. |
Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 10:04am
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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! |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 10:05am
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Short stroy - we were flat mates and broke the golden rule of flatting. But hey we are now married and have 2 children. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 10:11am
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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. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 10:15am
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Ha ha - we met on Xtra Chat - I was tellyspice and mandyS - I can't print what DF was. I used to think it was weird - meeting on the internet... but seems i'm not the only one. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 10:17am
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.------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 10:23am
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Ok, I'll add a more indepth story.
I had moved back to Hamilton from Christchurch under the impression that my boyfriend of two years down there was sorting things out with our flat then driving up to live with me in Hamilton. I had come to Hamilton to spend christmas with my family and was going to look for a flat for us to live in at the same time. On New Years day I get a break-up e-mail. Gutless wanker couldn't even tell me to my face or even on the phone. All I got was a lousy e-mail. So then about a month later I had found a flat and a job and was flatting with a friend. I had messaged back and forth with DP a couple of times but never met or talked on the phone or anything. He was living in Thames. Anyway, so I decided to have a flatwarming party and on a whim decided to message him saying 'I would have invited you to my party, but you live in Thames and well the party is tonight, so I guess you couldn't come anyway'. Turns out he had driven to Hamilton for the evening on a whim. He had gone into an internet cafe and checked his messages, found my message and messaged back saying 'I guess your party has already started and you probably won't be online tonight so have a good time, here is my cellphone number'. I, at that moment checked my messages, found his, sent him a text and he only just got the text before his cellphone died. This all in the space of 5 minutes. He managed to quickly write down my address. Turned up 10 minutes later. I didn't think that anything would happen as I kinda thought he was just there to make up numbers. Then as the night went on, I got a little tired so I sat down in front of him on the floor and he started playing with my hair, so I rested my head on his knee and well.. he never went home. One month later I moved to Thames. Five months I moved back to Hamilton for a break because we weren't getting on. He visited me on weekends. One weekend he wasn't going to come over as he was going shooting with some mates, but decided to just come for one night at the last minute. Two days later we broke up. Two weeks later I found out I was pregnant. I moved back to Thames, then we both moved back to Hamilton and here we are today with a beautiful little boy.
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Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 10:28am
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Jono and I went to the same church, too. We even went to the same small group that met once a fortnight or so... but still weren't close and didn't really look twice at each-other. OK I just deleted a really long story here - I'll spare you all! Here's the shorter version: Instead of asking me on a date, he just asked me to marry him. Apparently he'd already figured we were a great match! I agreed to a date, and 2 months later were were engaged (because funnily enough, on that first date, I sat there thinking 'I'm sooo going to marry this man'). ------------- Andie |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 11:34am
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Alright, so mine is going to make me sound like a bit of a trash-bag, and well, I probably *was* a bit of a trash-bag at the time
I was drinking a lot (as in every day, all day) and went to a party at Willie's place. I knew *of* him coz I was friends with his daughter's mothers family (complicated huh?!) but I'd never actually properly met him. Anyway, we were all drinking, ran out of beer so started drinking homebrew out of these plastic 2L bottles (I did warn you, trash-bag!) and I was laughing about how it tasted like water. Oh boy did I get drunk! We were all going to crash there anyway, we usually fell asleep on the table/couch/floor/wherever but I got up to go the bathroom and Willie bailed me up in the hallway and said "you're sleeping with me tonight." I was like "whatever old man!" and went back downstairs, but long story short I did end up in his bed, the next day he asked me to move in with him. I was still drunk, I agreed, moved in a few days later and nearly 8 years later here we are with 3 kids. It's been a bumpy road, and some of you know that we split up when Maya was 3 months old and were separated till she was nearly 2, but things since then have been reasonably good .
BTW, that first night I slept in his bed but we didn't actually *sleep* together coz he said he "didn't want to take advantage of me being so drunk." How sweet is that! (And how much of a trash-bag am I that I would have slept with him if he'd wanted )
Not so much of a trash-bag anymore tho! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 11:43am
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ROFL yep Trashbag!!!!!!!
re NZD - I was never on the chat boards, was only on site for about 6 months (maybe not even that long) and dated a few guys off it but when DH came along we hung up our profiles once and for all!!! Hed been on it for about 2 years and hadnt met anyone....guess he was just waiting for me to come along! Engaged within the year, and married 9 months after that and a baby just over a year after that! |
Posted By: Leelee
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 12:46pm
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I met Df on a friends 21st bus trip, he was interested in me but I wasnt in him, he kinda followed me around and I was very drunk and I went home with my friends brother , fast forward 12mths, I was at the same friend birthday drinks and Df was there and he caught my eye and of course he was in a relationship, about a month later my friend invited on a bus trip and it happend to be for Dfs birthday, this time he was single but very drunk, I got his number, txt him the next day and asked him out, well here we are almost 3yrs later and getting married in a little under 6mths ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: EllenMumof2
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 12:49pm
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online here 2 NZ dating lol -------------  
 
Kalem 6! |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 1:29pm
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We met at a homeschool get-together when I was 9 and he was 11, but then I didn't see much of him for a couple of years and in that time his hair had gone from sandy to chocolate and I didn't even know it was the same person for a long, long time! Anyway, we had a small friendship going for a while and a few years later he started coming around to borrow my dad's computer games, and the visits got more and more frequent for a while but I didn't notice. When I was 16 (and he 18) I just knew we would be married someday. We started work on a good friendship at that point, were going out by 18 (him 20), engaged at 19 (him 21), married at 20 (him 22) and first baby at 21 (him 23) - 10 (yes, 10 ) months later.
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Posted By: ShellandBella
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 2:26pm
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My story is like mummy_becks...met DH when I went flatting, so you could say we have been living together since we first met . I moved in, he (unbeknown to me) was moving out in 3 weeks and over that time we got on really well, and one drunken night out I made the moves and we sort of 'hooked up'! He still moved out (I was in CHCH and he moved back to Nelson), but he only lasted 4 weeks before moving back down again to be with me . We bought a cat, found a flat, and have been happily together ever since. Its been five years now, and we've got another cat, got married, and just had our first baby together! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 2:27pm
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my story is dodge, but will read all the others first then post back. Am trying to cram as much in while jake is in his room "pretending" to be asleep. ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: BaAsKa
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 2:54pm
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DH and i grew up in the same town so i kinda knew him (went to different schools though). I went to school with his older sister but actually thought HE was older! (if you saw him you would swear that he is about 6 yrs older than what he actually is!). Then we both started working at newworld together when he was 14 and i was 16! and we just got chatting....yadayadayada...i asked him out on valentines day then got rushed to hospital 5 mins later with alchohol poisoning!! (partying the night before! lol).
His olds gave us soooooooooo much greif!! we had set days to see each other - friday 6-9pm and saturday 12-5pm!!  which we obviously never listened too!! then i went to uni in hams 2 yrs later and he went to tauranga for a trade course but we still stayed together then the next year i moved over to tauranga with him and studyied over there then the next year after that i got pregnant with Bay ....almost 8 years later, 2 yrs of marriage and 2 beautiful Sons and one happy marriage later - here we are 
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Posted By: Emmecat
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 3:19pm
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I met my DP at work- he was my courier! (insert package joke here) -------------   http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 3:28pm
LOL I always fancied the cute courier guys, he must have nice legs Emmecat. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 3:36pm
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Mine is a little more involved. DH's brother was getting married to my best friend. She asked me if I wanted to move into the house with 5 other people (5 bedroom place) her, DH's brother, DH, and an other guy and another girl (who I am still good friends with). I was like ok I needed to move to Palmy so that was a good time to move. I got introduced to DH and I was like so mine (he felt the same way). I ended up having a huge falling out with is brother (huge argument over the TV (just cos it's his doesn't mean we have to watch what he wants to watch) and me DH and the girl (pip) moved out. I didn't speak to my friend (ex SIL now) for the rest year. Me and DH moved out of the flat that we were in with other others and got a flat of our own and we haven't looked back. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 3:38pm
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I met DH in 1999. I was living in northern Virginia with a friend from university, and it was the summer between my junior and senior years at uni. My friend grew up in Japan as her dad was in foreign service, and one of her schoolmates from there came to visit her for a month -- DH. His dad had worked for a company in Japan, so his family lived there for 12 years, although they're all Kiwis. Anyway, I thought DH was the rudest person I ever met -- the infamous Kiwi reserve and standoffishness, in the flesh! I didn't really spend much time with him or my friend because I was doing an internship at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, and that took up most of my time and emotional energy. But one day I wagged work and went on a trip to a historical homestead with the two of them, and it poured down rain. My friend had locked her keys in the car, so she was trying to get hold of her dad while we shivered in the downpour. Then suddenly I decided to just be silly and and started running around in the rain, whooping and acting crazy. DH joined me... and I thought, "Hmm, maybe he's not a rude jerk." He left to come back to NZ and I forgot about him, until a few months later when he sent me a letter at uni, out of the blue. Then we were pen pals for a few years, while I had other boyfriends and graduated from uni, and started a job and got my own place. In May of 2001, I had saved up some money so decided to come to NZ for a holiday. DH offered me a room at his flat while I was here, so I took him up on the offer. When I arrived here, bleary-eyed and jet-lagged, it was love at second sight... We ended up in bed nine hours after my plane landed. (Sigh. I'm a slut. And now you all know it. I went back to the US after my holiday, and embarked on a very-long-distance relationship with DH. In those days, he could call me for 8 hours for a flat rate, so we would get on the phone all weekend. After September 11 happened, and I had lost two friends in the Pentagon, DH asked if I wanted to move down here with him. He came to visit me in Virginia at Christmas of 2001, and we decided to give it a go. So in June of 2002, I came here on a student visa and started a Master's degree at Auckland uni. That way, if it didn't work out between us, at least I'd go home with something. In July of 2003 I finished my degree and tried to apply for permanent residency and a work visa, but was turned down for both. So DH said, "Well, let's get married." I don't think either of us were ready for that step, but somehow we planned a wedding for 60 guests over the course of four weeks, and got hitched in August 2003. Suddenly, my permanent residency and work visa were granted, just like *that*. Today is our fourth wedding anniversary, too. And now we've got an Emma Rose, so I suppose I won't have to worry about them asking for proof of our relationship any more. How time flies... |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 4:11pm
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Congrats on the anniversary Katherine. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 4:33pm
| Hey, thanks, mummy_becks! I was just sitting here reminiscing about how we met... I can't believe it was only four years ago that we got married! Feels like forever! LOL |
Posted By: SuziE
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 4:38pm
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NZdating here too Quite a few of us arent there!
Turns out I met DH's brother when I was 17 ... and DH went to school with my best friend ... We've been together 3 years, married for 1 1/2 :) ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: peachy
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 6:36pm
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DH and I met in the school playground when we were 5 years old! We were good friends until I moved into the city at around 8 years old. I never saw DH again until 2001. How we re-met was my Uncle is a World Rally driver and as it turned out DH's Uncle is my Uncle's co-driver (what a small world)! I got DH's number off his Uncle as I really wanted to catch up with this long lost friend of mine from years ago, I gave him a call and we went out for dinner the following weekend. We went out every weekend for about a month, partying and drinking it up and after a few too many drinks one night we ended up going home together and weve been together ever since!
Now we have been together for 6 years, married for 7 months and we are 7 months pregnant! My Mum gave a speach at our wedding about how we met, it was the cutest story ever, especially since most of our friends thought we had randomly met in town one drunken night, not quite the full story, we go further back than that! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 6:50pm
Congrats from me too! Funny how a thread like this gets started right on (or just before) someone's anniversary. I've also been married 4 (and a half) years, it feels like it's always been this way, but then it also feels so quick sometimes as well!! ------------- |
Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 7:27pm
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Wow - neat stories! We have been together 10 years on Sept 12th! (Married for 6!) DH and I worked for the same very large company although not in the same department or even the same building. I had to talk to him on the phone in my job, and we were both quite cheeky to each other, but really only in that flirty kind of office "i need you to do something for me" kind of way! We eventually talked ourselves into meeting up for a drink one night after work (I was at Uni at the time as well as working - and to this day he rememebers exactly what I was wearing - my "student" clothes!) He reckons he fell for me when I said "I'll have a speights please"...but truth is, we spent a drunken night together early on, and then I decided I liked him better as a friend (I had a bad track record with blokes and didnt want to lose DH as a friend). We stayed really good friends for about 6 months, then I invited him to take me to my 21st (as my date). That night in a very drunken state I ended up taking him back to my flat and proclaiming my undying love for him. I moved into his fla 3 weeks later (after his flatmate basically said "well you are here all the time anyway you may as well move in!!!") DH didnt know much about it!! 10 years later - bubs on the way....no regrets! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 8:16pm
Can't be as bad as my trash-bag story ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Peace
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 8:28pm
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My story is incredibly dodgy
The first time I ever saw Hubby was when I was in one of the local night clubs, he was meant to be set up with my friend and she was friends/on a course with his flatmate. Anyways, we were on the dance floor (this was the era I call "slapper") and GF pointed him out and the first thing I thought ( and said out loud) was "OMG what a rugbyhead!". Turns out that my GF wasn't interested in him at all as he didn't do one night stands and thats all she wanted. So the other girl in our group decided that she was going to befriend him and since he was a bit of a sporto, they started walking together and every now and again they included me in the bargain. I actually really started to like him but he was into my friend, so I abandoned all ideas and encouraged my friend to "get some" off him. She used to go on and on and ON about how she wasn't into him like that *at all* and how he was her mate etc etc so eventually I decided that I might like to have a go again. One Friday we were out having lunch and my friend appeared to be in a HUGELY pissed off mood with him, she had basically just invited him along to ignore him. I shared my lunch with him and invited him swimming for the coming Monday. So we went swimming and ended up having a fool around in the pool and then had a REALLY good week getting to know each other.
I finally got around to telling my friend about a week later that we had got it on and she went off her RAILS at me. I was pretty shocked and bewildered as she had been going on and on and ON (right up till I told her pretty much!) about how she didn't like him like that. So after lots of yelling at me and shaking her fist, telling me she could never trust me with ANY of her male friends again, then telling me it wasn't going to last I kissed our friendship goodbye and lived out of Hubby's pocket till he had to move home for the summer. My friend spent the summer on the look out for my ex-partners to sleep with so she could "get me back", I had Hubby so I didn't care!" He came back about 2 months later and we have lived together ever since. Eight months later Hubby let me in on some information that got lost in my friends tantrum. Turns out that the Thursday before we had gone out to lunch she had got naked and launched herself on him, he was so freaked out by her body and not into "once off's" that he had turned her down! No wonder she was so mad at me! That was 7 years ago this October :) I never kept any record of any of the dates that we met etc etc or even got engaged as I thought it was never going to last. He is my #1 though and I would never let him go now! In an ironic twist, that chick stopped being friends with nearly everyone in our group after we started relationships. She bumped into my other friend on Monday and they had an impromptu coffee where she swore black and blue that she doesn't remember my Hubby at all and she just remembers us all drifting apart. LOL Whatever! ------------- DD1 May 2006 DD2 March 2011 DD3 August 2012 |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 8:47pm
oh, Emma, its not as bad, its waaaaaaay worse!!! ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: MILF
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 8:54pm
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all these stories are soo cute! i reading them! ------------- Lyla - mum to Xanthe - my big 4 year old
and Jordis - 1 year old
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 9:02pm
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ok, so I had a long "era of skank", about *ahem* a decade. Had a couple of BF, but mainly, I was just a drinking mate or FB, and I was the least beautiful of all my friends, so always dipped out, so I just skanked around, and if I did "sort of see" someone, I was always way more interested than they were and usually ended up being treated badly and feeling like a dick.
Anyhow, I was working as a chef (and hospo is a great place to work if you are into casual) and the pup I worked in had a great social club that had raffle nights every friday night and they sold meat raffles,a nd every friday about 6pm rod would trot out to my big fridges to get his meat and I would give him a mouthful of awful language about messing up my fridge. I was "sort of seeing" the bar manager who lived on the premises and used to stay over, and got seen leaving so many mornings that it got round the pub and the patrons, but we denied it (and as we were almost always drunk, the bar manager dude could never *ahem* get it up so we never actaully slept together anyhow so it wasn't a lie) Anyhow R likes to tease people and always gave us both a shout out and alot of cheek if I was takig a meal into the bar etc. Rod at the time had just bought a house with is live in GF. One weekend I was in the bar boozing and decided to hit him up to see why he always gave me a hard time, and one thing led to another (and alot more beer) his GF was away out of town (seeing her not so secret other boyfriend) and He invited me home for more drinks and I went. I slept in their bed with him, fully clothed and left my very distinctive perfume scent all over the bedclothes... Uh oh.. We didn't have sex, I made him wait for aaaaggges, cos I knew he was a keeper and wanted to try out waiting for a change, lol. Also, he had a girlfriend. He told me the relationship was over, and had been almost since they moved into the house and she slept in the spare room with her daughter. (I since found out this wasn't strictly true..) it took about 6 weeks for him to make the break with her and her to move out and for us to become an actual couple. We broke up after about 3 months and he went back with her for about 2 weeks (he wanted to be sure, I think) but that didn't last and we got back together, broke up again 2 months later (he had serious cold feet cos we both knew this was serious). After about 6 weeks apart as friends, I house sat for him when he went away onholiday with a mate and have never moved out. When he got back decided we had to go full noise or not at all, and here we are, 4 years, one mortgage, 2 children and a big fat greek weeding coming up. So there you have it, I am a homewrecking skank, but he loves me anyhow! Wow a novel!! ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 9:25pm
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aww I love reading all of these.
Heres my story: DP was kinda the cool kid around town so I knew of him and even manged to got to his 21st (I was 17) but he had no idea who I was. My friend started going out with his friend and so we spent a bit of time together drinking in a big group of people. One night after a few drinks at the pub we kissed but then I started going out with someone else so we didn't see each other for a while. About a year later we met up in hokitika (wild foods) and I was kinda with his friend (not exclusive just a bit of fun ) and we ended up spending all night together on the beach just talking. We spent a bit of time together after that but no matter hoe hard I tried we never kissed or anything so I figured he just wasn't interested.
He had an Impala he sold for a lot of money so he took me up to Nelson and we stayed in a motel and had a great time (still nothing on the action front tho and boy did I try). After all the money ran out we started on our way home but the car died so we were stuck in Nelson with no money. We stayed with a friend but had to sleep on a mattress base together with one salvation army blanket and I finally got the guts up to kiss him but nothing more than that happened. We decided to find jobs up there and stay there, so we managed to get some money and found our own flat. We got really drunk one day and had a big heart to heart and finally slept together. 2 weeks later I was pregnant
We have had a few tough times but I wouldn't change a thing
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 10:30pm
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love it...so far we have dodgy nz daters, one trash bag, a visiting american sl*g, and one homewrecking skank....
OMG girls we have gotta give ourselves better labels!!! |
Posted By: MelanieAndBree
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 10:55pm
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I have no one hehe... ------------- Melanie. Mum to Briahna Robyn, 3yrs |
Posted By: Chovynz
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 4:06am
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What busymum didn't tell you was that in the early days, we posed on the Christmas float - posing as brother and sister on the Homeschoolers truck. Anyway... I thought this girl who was posing as my sister would look better without her hat on - you know the one...the best one that shes kept for all those years in mint condition...The bow wasn't even krinkled as it had never been undone....until that day.
Oh boy. I tell you. She clapped her hand on her head, spun around with fire in her eyes and yelled at me. I was shocked i think for about 1 second then I just turned around and guffawed behind my hand. I reckon we really did look like brother and sister right then. ------------- Defending the male species since 1980
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Posted By: Lisha
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 7:04am
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We are another NZDATING couple, amazing how it works out in the end ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 7:28am
| fattartsrock...that's not so bad. I skimmed mine and left out the juicy details, but it's definitely similar to yours, kinda. |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 12:34pm
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I was a recruitment consultant, hiring temps and permanents for a outbound/inbound call centre... he came in for an interview. He walked into my office I looked up and thought "OMG I am going to marry you". My friend was there at the time and swears she saw the attraction between us.
I hired him, and gave him my cell phone number incase he couldnt' make it to work etc... and he text me a couple of days later, and that was the start of it... haven't looked back. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 2:52pm
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Our's is rather boring we meet working in a supermarket I was about the 4th c/o girl he picked the only one he decided to keep tho. Iwon't bore you with the detail's tho. ------------- Deborah Mum to:   
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Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 4:45pm
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Now that could sound the dodgiest of all! ------------- Andie |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 5:50pm
If the suit fits... ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Chovynz
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 9:35pm
Um...thats nice. how could it be the dodgeist? I dont get it. ------------- Defending the male species since 1980
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Posted By: hailstones
Date Posted: 19 August 2007 at 8:00am
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Ok....this could be a fairly long story......
We meet through work, I was desperate to leave school so took a crap (door knocking) job, hated the job and would've left but loved the people so much it made it kinda fun. I ended up hooking up with a guy ( arghhh can't see now what I saw in him!), and one night after a huge fight with my family moved out of home into my BF and mates flat (DH lived there too). DH and I became really good friends, although for a start nothing was going on just good friends. Slowly after spending heaps of time with him I started to develop feelings for him, he was soo sweet, but he had a GF and I had my BF (and I was denying to myself anything was there). Well...Bf ended up going to Auckland for a month leaving me and tonz in flat together, and we got closer and closer. I was a bit upset one day and he took me out to cheer me up, well we ended up at a vineyard drinking some wine and talking, all I remember about it was I looked up while I was explaining something to him and knew right then and there I was in love with him and he was the one for me.(years later he told me exactly the same thing). Nothing happened (not that I didn't want it too), and BF returned, life went back to normal, although BF did accuse us of doing something (I think he could see there was something there). Tonz ended up moving back to Dunedin (about 1.5 years later), I broke it off with BF ( he had moved to Invercargill for a job, and I didn't want to move too), we kept in contact and I came down to visit him once or twice. During all this time I had told friends 'this was the man for me and I was going to marry him!'. There were times during the visits with him it got very close to something happening, but nothing ever did. He was going through CHCH one year (was playing extra in lord of the rings - riding horses etc) and things did get a little hot, but nothing major. He promised to come back on the way back south but never did(He is known for not being extremly reliable!), man was I pee'd bout that. Fast forward to 2 years later, and a few BF (and a GF for him) I got his new phone number and rang him telling him he owed me an apology for not showing up that day and he said that he would come over and say it to my face, cause he still felt stink bout it. (I lived in milford Sound at that point) he drove all the way from Dunedin to Milford (bout 4-5hour trip one way) and told me he was madly in love with me and had been ever since the vineyard. *Heart flutters*, of course I had a BF (and he had a GF), so I sent him off telling him I had to think bout the situation. I ended up staying with the BF for a few months (not really sure why - another loser!), Dh had been trying to break it off with his but she was a bit of a wreck (from the sounds of things) and had tried to top herself so it was a fairly long drawn out process. They finally broke it off and We met up on my week off from work. We were like school kids - it was all a long time in the making (took bout 4-5 years of having feelings for each other to finally hook up), some of his mates (or should I say Mates partners) didn't really like me to start with cause they thought I was the cause of him breaking up with previous GF - so I guess I fall into the skank catagory as well. But here we are - 5 years later, married for bout 1.5 years and have a 5 month old wee girl. I am sure he is my soulmate and we were meant to be together. ETA - Holy Moly thats long - sorry I ramble on a bit ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Chovynz
Date Posted: 19 August 2007 at 9:22am
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Beautiful story. ------------- Defending the male species since 1980
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Posted By: Emmecat
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 12:56pm
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LOL- he has nice legs and a nice bum too! Seriously though, he used to come into work one day a week only , but a few times on that day. WE'd flirt but nothing ever happened and while I liked him, just thought that couriers were flirty by nature (I was right). This went on for about 9 months before he plucked up the courage to ask me out. We've been together ever since. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 5:17pm
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Cute stories!!
I met my DP at work at the Captain Cook while we were both at Uni. I used to make him walk me home after work if it was too late for me to walk alone (at 4am-ish). He started coming to visit me late at night when he had been drinking enough to have the courage! haha We had a night together but nothing much happened (very rare in those days I tell ya!). He asked me on a date and it was really really fun, but then he told me that he didn't think it'd work out... work was a bit gossipy and he didn't want us to have a 'public' relationship. Soon after I found out I was 4 months pregnant (to ???) and we both moved away. I day dreamed about meeting up with him again. 3 years went by and I decided to email him to see how he was going (remembered his email from a form we'd filled out at work)... he was in Christchurch and I was going down there for Christmas (last year) so decided to meet up. He came round and watched crap TV with me and it was fun all over again. I was a bit let down when he didn't even give me a hug goodbye.
After that I started getting a whole bunch of texts from him. I started to get suspicious when he was meant to be at his own leaving party but was sending me messages every 5 minutes... but I knew I couldn't get my hopes up as he was moving to Australia. A few days past and the conversations started to change and he started making comments about being in Wellington and how he didn't know if he was going to move after all. I was a bit confused... but then he told me he'd like to come and see how we'd work out. And he did! Much agonising over the risk of him coming here ensued but it has worked out fine. He moved straight in with me and it's now 5 months down the line and I can't see it ending... it keeps getting better and better
Sorry for novel
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 6:58pm
What's there to be sorry about? This whole thread is about novels ------------- |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 9:12pm
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Aw, Nikki thats choice, cos lets face it, you have had the crappest luck. ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: james
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 9:32pm
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aww these storeys are sooo sweet gives me hope ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 9:33pm
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Awww, some lovely stories...
Daniel and I apparently first met at primary school badminton, but I dont remember him. Then in third form we were in the same class and I had the hots for him then! lol Were in the same class for fourth form as well and by then were quite good friends. By fifth form were really good friends (I told him all my BF problems!). At our high school ball at the end of that year, I was very disappointed cos he asked one of my friends to go, and I went with another of our friends. At the after ball party (that took a lot of persuasion to be allowed to go) we finally kissed (my first, ha ha ) and then the next day we officially got together. Lasted about 3 months over summer, then he broke up with me and went out with a friend. He was witha few gf's that year and I had one for about a year. By seventh form we were mates again (had every class together that year!) and back to me moaning about my ex and how much I wanted to get back with him. After several months of badgering me about how much he liked me etc (I didnt want to start anything cos I knew I was moving to Auckland for uni the next year) I was finally persuaded! We had been going to parties and stuff together as freinds and we could talk for hours (still can actually), so it was a really easy relationship to start with. Six months later I moved to Auckland and he stayed here, which was the hardest thing I have ever had to do, but we stayed together the whole time with lots of visits both ways. Second year he transferred to Auckland and we have been living together ever since. Last week it was 8 years since we got together in seventh form, and we have been married for 2.5 years.
It gives me such warm fuzzies thinking about it all and how much I love my lovely husband Another long rambling story...------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 21 August 2007 at 9:02am
| aww thats the cutest story aimee |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 21 August 2007 at 12:04pm
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And Annie... haha, thanks. I think.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 21 August 2007 at 1:21pm
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We don't have a very interesting story. I was at school struggling to stay, he was at home either drunk or you know not quite with it. (upon reflection what did I find interesting about a stoned or drunk man?) We have been together 11 years married for 1 month and have the most amazing son together. I would not change our lives or the paths we have choosen to take together. |
Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 28 August 2007 at 10:45pm
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Well, I tried the nzdating thing after I broke up with my bf of five years(ended messy he cheated on me grrrr B*stard) and after that I was single for ages!(thats when I tried nzdating, I nearly met up with one guy but changed my mind.
Then I met my brothers friend And we hit it off, hes younger than me, hehe my toyboy!!! hehe but nah I dont see him as being younger than me, hes the only guy who had treated me like I deserve to be treated he is a gem and I love him to bits! It was hard for us to start with cos my brother wasnt happy about me dating his friend and some people looked down on me cos he is younger than me, but age is only a number and when u click with someone thats all that matters.
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Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 28 August 2007 at 10:58pm
there alot of us (me included) that belong to the 'Toyboy' clubs ------------- Ann
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 28 August 2007 at 11:46pm
Haha cool!! Yeah I dont even see DF as being younger at all ------------- |
Posted By: Jennz
Date Posted: 29 August 2007 at 4:34am
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I met DH 7 years ago. I had a friend who liked to live vicariously through me so would set me up with guys she liked so strange. Anyway one night she asked me to come over to her Bfs brothers house and turned out she was trying to set me up with this guy she knew from our uni. He was a t**ser but I really hit it off with his friend. We became really good friends- would talk on the phone/text heaps and always met up for drinks. He would crash at my house lots but nothing ever happened.
I dated other guys and we were just mates. I always has a bit of a thing for him but not major- then he got a girlfriend and I was sooooo jealous! Drove me mad. She ended it and we slept together not long after that- told him I didn't want to ruin our friendship so unless he wanted a proper go of it then I wasn't just going to 'fool around' with him, would rather just be friends than risk ruining it. He wanted some time to think and a month later he very cheesily asked me out. We've now been together 5 years- married for 1 1/2 with 2 kiddies. ------------- Jen, Charlotte 7 & Kate 3 
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 29 August 2007 at 8:42am
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I'll tell 2 stories because they link together ...
My ex, and bestest buddy ol' pal - I met in a bar. My now SIL had dragged me up to Ohakune for a weekend away, and there was a rugby game on at one of the local bars. At least I think it was rugby. It was an important game ... world cup maybe? Anyway, just before kick off (seriously, JUST before kick off) the power through the whole of Ohakune went down. Since my SIL and other friends we went with had left children at home (supervised ) they left to check on them, leaving me, alone, at a bar in the dark. So, I started talking to the random bloke who'd planted himself next to me at the bar, and then when the lights came up, turned out he was 6'5" and completely gorgeous ... and the rest is history. I moved to Auckland for him, and that was ... holy hell ... 10 years ago. Me, him, and the rest of the crew he was with that night are still good friends, and in fact, 2 of the other guys he was with that night are beyond good friends - they're family, the whole lot of them.
Anyway, through the ex, I met another guy who I was with for a year, though he was so many different versions of evil it wasn't funny and I won't tell that story. BUT he played rugby, and on that rugby team was ANOTHER guy who it turns out was my perfect match. We ran in the same circles spasmodically for about a year, and then things finally came to a head with evil guy and I decided to pursue he who is now DH. Not that he was difficult to catch, because I'm sooo fab
And that's the story of me and DH. Had I never met the random bloke at the bar (which I hadn't wanted to go to in the first place, but was dragged to by SIL), I'd be down several dearly loved friends, and one very special DH. I don't much believe in fate, but the way that night in the bar played out, it makes you think. The funny thing was that my SIL wasn't impressed with random bloke and dragged me out of the bar into another one ... where random bloke turned up a few minutes later with his group, so I got dragged out of there to somewhere else, where they turned up again. Then, I got dragged home, but the next day we stopped for some lunch before heading back to P Nth ... and who was there? ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 29 August 2007 at 11:10am
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cool stories everyone , i love reading them
Me and my DP met through friends, I was hooking up with his former friend and flatmate, who also happened to be my friends ex, they broke up 3 years ago but they did go out for 5years and my friend still doesnt know anything happened...im not proud of this btw, anyway he started being a real jerk, but me and DP could talk for hours and had heaps in common, but i only saw him as a friend, after things ended with the other guy he was really supportive and we'd go to the movies and stuff, but just as friends, i liked having a guy friend, and he said he wasnt ready for a relationship so i was like, sweet,least i get to be your mate,cos i really enjoyed his company. Anyway,one night i decided he was to come over and i would make him watch greys anatomy, because well, i love it lol and my friend who was on a visit from england rang and was bitching about her boyfriend who she just found out had been cheating on her and she asked me to ask Phil why men were such bastards, I cant remember what he replied but that was the first time i looked at him and thought, wow,your really kinda cute. Then a few nights later he came over to watch dvds, and we watched Jeepers Creepers, and he said something about american cars not being able to turn corners, and cos i was more interested in getting him to make a move on me, i said "really?" so he thought i was a bit thick lol, i sat with him,like right next to him as if it was the most normal thing in the world and kept turning my head reeeeallly close to his, oh kelly,how subtle, and he finally got the hint and kissed me, then we moved to my bedroom (cos dad wanted to watch tv in the lounge) but apart from him staying the whole night nothing major happened cos he didnt want to rush into anything and wasnt sure how he felt about me having caitlyn etc, which i appreciated cos at least he was honest. Then the next weekend we went out with a group and i saw my bestfriends younger sister who ive known all my life and the week before her boyfriend had been killed in the incident last october where the guy drove through a crowd on pakuranga highway, anyone remember it? another girl died too, and yeah just seeing how heart broken she was and the whole sucky situation made me really down, and he was really good to me and we ended up sleeping together that night, tho for awhile i was worried he felt he had to,but he assures me he didnt lol. That morning caitlyn got dropped home from her paternal nanas and he met her for the first time "are you my mummys new boyfriend?" was all she said, then "did you sleep in my mums bed?" Fast forward 10months and its going better than ever, hes my best friend, i can tell him everything, he loves caitlyn to bits,she loves him and i cant see it ever ending, he says he wants to marry me one day and im not one for being all day dreamy, im quite a realistic person, but i know with him its a matter of when,not if. Oh and so far hes remembered every anniversary, and he texts everynight to say goodnight and he loves me, we'll see how long that will last tho...... Oh yeah, will just mention for our 6months he came over and presented me with a box of love potion timtam biscuits and a card (with a very nice message btw) and i was such a prat! " tim tams?...timtams ? is that all you got me? timtams?" etc etc, till looking very bemused he gives me a jewellery box with a locket inside and my name on the front and "love Phil" on the back..."um...thankyou, i love it" i say,"so...did you get me a present?" he asks ," ummmm....want a timtam?" haha |
Posted By: ellabellame
Date Posted: 29 August 2007 at 9:07pm
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how i met sam.... lol
i got home from work one day and my flatmate asked "do you want to go to the singles party tonight?" i politely declined to which she replied "too bad coz i got you a ticket". we went round for drinks at her friends house and sam was there. apparently i walked out of the room to get a drink and he asked my flatmate "ooooh, what's that" (what's that???) she said "that's ella, she's nice, leave her alone". or course now that sam had been told he wasn't allowed me, he had to haveme, and here we are .------------- |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 30 August 2007 at 5:11pm
| back together?? |
Posted By: ellabellame
Date Posted: 30 August 2007 at 9:32pm
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you guessed it nikki ------------- |