oldcrow
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Post by oldcrow on Jul 6, 2016 22:59:11 GMT
Where did you go for your first date with your dh,SO, partner, girl/boy friend?
How did it go? Did you have a good time? Did you know at the end of the date that you wanted to continue seeing this person?
DH and I along with others used to have coffee at the big table in the coffee shop most week days so we knew each other sort of. I asked him to go to a wedding that I was invited to and he agreed readily enough. I found out later he hates things like that. But after breaking the ice so to speak he asked me out and things grew from there. I remember thinking it was comfortable dating him but I'm not sure I had him pegged for *the one*. I really wasn't looking for -the one. So maybe that was what made it comfortable. Anyway here we are 25 years later.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2016 23:20:47 GMT
Our first was August 28, 1990--a double date with another couple to see the movie Arachnophobia at the theater.
We've been together ever since.
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Post by padresfan619 on Jul 6, 2016 23:23:09 GMT
Our first real one on one date was to the zoo. We had hung out in group settings a few times before but this was our first time hanging out just the two of us. I think by the third time we realized we were paying more attention to each other than the exhibits (I'm pretty sure we walked in the same small circle about 6 times) we were truly enamored. That was almost 6 years ago to the day, we have been together ever since.
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Post by deekaye on Jul 6, 2016 23:28:07 GMT
Almost 36 years ago DH asked me to a college football game. We had met a few weeks before in an English class. I most definitely knew that he was "the one", as did he. This Fall will be 29 years married, two daughters and 1.5 son-in-laws.
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Post by Tamhugh on Jul 6, 2016 23:34:30 GMT
Our first real date was to see the movie Witness. A few nights before hand, we had hung out at a party and sat on the stairs of our dorm talking until 4 am. I did not see him as "the one" for a very long time, but he claims that he always knew.
ETA... That first date was in March of 1985. I guess he knew better than me.
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Post by Ramona on Jul 6, 2016 23:34:31 GMT
He stopped by my parents house (friend of a friend) and asked me to go to the drive-in with him. Parents urged, so I went. Went he brought me home, he gave me the biggest hug. I felt so secure in his strong arms. I think I feel in love right then and there. 43 years in September! Eta: And with this post, finally made Full Member
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Post by KelleeM on Jul 6, 2016 23:34:45 GMT
Dh and I met for coffee after a quick intro on an on line dating site. I was done with wasting time with guys on line and told him we should meet. Less than an hour later he was at the place I had asked him to meet me. I knew I liked him from the get go but neither of us was really looking for a long term relationship. About 5 weeks later he told me he was falling in love with me. We moved in together two years later and got married three years after that. We're old (54 and 69) so wasting time wasn't really an option, LOL! We are great together. He has told me many times, most recently yesterday, that his only regret is that we didn't meet sooner. I continue to tell him that we weren't the people we are now earlier in our lives and it wouldn't have worked.
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Post by sillyrabbit on Jul 6, 2016 23:43:19 GMT
Our first date was at the county fair. I had just finished a beauty contest (and lost), and he asked me to ride rides with him. In the beauty contest paperwork, they asked for hobbies so I made some up not knowing they read them during the pageant. DH asked me during that first date, "so, you play piano?" and I said, "oh no, I just made that up thinking it made me sound classy." He thought that was the funniest thing ever and here we are 29 years later still making each other laugh every day.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2016 0:15:59 GMT
We had dinner and shared two entrees and then he asked me if I wanted to go see a movie. We saw the first Hunger Games movie. He held my hand and kissed me in the movie and walked me to my car after. I was a bit cold and my teeth were starting to chatter and he asked if we could get in my car. I told him "I'm not letting you get in my car on a first date!" I still tease him about trying to take advantage of me on our first date!
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Post by NanaKate on Jul 7, 2016 0:21:33 GMT
We met at work. He invited me out to dinner for my birthday. Showed up in a Lincoln Continental he rented for the evening because we were going to the Old San Francisco Steakhouse and he didn't want me to have to ride in his truck! We had a wonderful evening and I knew he was a keeper
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Jul 7, 2016 0:28:38 GMT
Almost 36 years ago DH asked me to a college football game. We had met a few weeks before in an English class. I most definitely knew that he was "the one", as did he. This Fall will be 29 years married, two daughters and 1.5 son-in-laws. Awww, lots of sweet stories here, but I have a question: what is a half son-in-law?? Save
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Post by moodyblue on Jul 7, 2016 0:38:02 GMT
We met at Village Inn, both ordered the same thing, and sat and talked for hours. I knew that night that he would be in my life for a long time, although I wasn't sure in what capacity. I think there was only one day since then that we didn't talk or see each other. That was 18 years ago. Our 17th anniversary is this Sunday.
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The Birdhouse Lady
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on Jul 7, 2016 0:43:40 GMT
I met my husband through a friend. My dh was her softball coach. We hung out several times with friends having dinner. I think our first real date was out to dinner at a restaurant on the lake.
This past May we have been married for 30 years!
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Post by quinmm14 on Jul 7, 2016 0:52:00 GMT
My dh worked with my former BIL, he invited him to a Halloween party so we could meet. We were the only two people there not in a costume, decided it was getting a little rowdy for us and went for coffee.
It took a while for us to really get together, I was just recently divorced and not ready for another serious relationship. He worked shift work at the time and would stop by my house at midnight and we'd go to this little coffee shop and talk for hours.
We dated for six or so years before we finally got married, and we've been together thirty years now.
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Post by J u l e e on Jul 7, 2016 0:53:34 GMT
We went to a ritzy fundraiser in downtown Cleveland. It was a tails and gown event with lots of important community members and lots of his artsy fundraiser going type friends. So not my style, but my husband had a large group of single friends or couples friends with no kids who were all older and had money and they did stuff like this all the time. The food was fancy and I was so out of my element.
We had such a great time though and it was the best first date (I was married for a while and divorced and before that my first dates were in high school or at a party in college). I knew I would marry him on that date. Especially when I was starving on the way home after not eating any of the fancy food and we drove through a McDonalds for French fries.
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Post by justjac on Jul 7, 2016 0:59:48 GMT
We met on a blind date (a double date with the friend who was fixing us up) at a street dance. I knew I liked him, but I didn't know if it was just as a friend or more. He claims he knew right away.
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Post by alissa103 on Jul 7, 2016 1:01:05 GMT
We had mutual friends, but met offfically when he and his friend were the DJs for my sorority's all-sister (all girls) retreat before school started. They had pretty good odds, no?! I requested a couple songs as a reason to talk to him. The next week we found out we had a class together (Sociology of the Family... too funny!) and he used to wait for me after one of his other classes before one of mine started to talk/flirt. Eventually he asked me out to a date party and the rest is history. I knew very early on that he was "the one." Like a month into our dating... but I kept that little tidbit to myself
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Post by Zee on Jul 7, 2016 1:05:44 GMT
I can't remember if it was at a pizza place, or shopping at the mall. I think it was the mall because that was a very neutral place. It wasn't supposed to be a "date". We worked together. I spent the entire time wondering how I could get him into bed, but since I was 17, I wasn't sure just where that would be. Logistics were difficult.
That was 1989!
And no, thethere was never anything romantic about any of it. We were friends who fell into lust who then fell in love. Everything just sort of happened to us--relationship, baby, marriage, careers, separation, and then love again.
Life has been interesting.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Jul 7, 2016 1:10:18 GMT
We met at a college party - started debating politics and the merits or lack thereof of Ross Perot. Our first "official date" was the next night, we went to hear some band play, that proved to be awful and loud and we couldn't talk so we wandered around Boston. It's hard to believe it's been almost 25 years. I knew immediately he was special - but never imagined I'd marry my college sweetheart. I was determined to be a single career woman, never relying on a man.... damn I'm glad I met him.
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Post by deekaye on Jul 7, 2016 1:45:38 GMT
Almost 36 years ago DH asked me to a college football game. We had met a few weeks before in an English class. I most definitely knew that he was "the one", as did he. This Fall will be 29 years married, two daughters and 1.5 son-in-laws. Awww, lots of sweet stories here, but I have a question: what is a half son-in-law?? SaveHaha, one daughter married, one daughter engaged (hence, the 1/2 son ).
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 7, 2016 2:16:57 GMT
Our first date was to see the movie Gangs of New York on Valentines Day. No, neither of us are romantic, it just so happened that we were both free that night and decided to go see a movie.
I had known him for about 17 years prior to that, he is a high school friend of my brother.
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Post by Kerri W on Jul 7, 2016 2:25:07 GMT
My sister likes to say she picked DH out for me. She met him through coworkers of his and decided we were "the ones" for each other. She had told me that she met somebody that she thought I should check out but said he didn't like to be set up. I didn't either. So she concocted this story about buying her son a dirt bike (which she really was doing.) Future DH raced dirt bikes, so she asked if she could bring her son to his bike club and check it out. She asked me if I wanted to just run by the club real quick...so I gave in because I know her persistence and I was curious. We ended up getting stuck and covered in mud trying to push her car out.
I remember standing by his couch and he walked into the room from behind me. I turned around and I can still feel the same butterflies in my stomach and recall exactly what I felt at that moment.
The next day she asked me if I was interested and I said "I'd go out with him if he asked." She called him at work about who knows what and he said "I've been going around all day asking everybody if they knew you had a sister. She's beautiful! Is she ok with me having her number?"
So our first official date was out for pizza and then back to his house to talk for hours. I wasn't sure how to take things at first because he took it very slow and was very gentlemanly...which sadly had not been my experience prior to that.
I had a feeling as soon as I met him of "oh there you are" as corny as that sounds. Nothing was rushed. We took our time and just explored each other. During that time my parents were going through a divorce and that really soured me on the idea of marriage so I was a tough-sell in that department but I knew from the minute I met him that I wanted to know much more and this was a marathon, not a race.
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Post by leeny on Jul 7, 2016 2:28:37 GMT
January 1977 we saw High Anxiety and went to an ice cream parlor after. I was not looking for a boyfriend because I thought I had one long-distance. We are total opposite personalities so I didn't think it would work anyway. The previous relationship broke off, and so he kept taking me out. I kept going out because he had a cool car and money to take me out! Just celebrated our 37th wedding anniversary and have three kids and one grandkid. We still have opposite personalities, but we just make it work.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2016 2:33:38 GMT
Our first date was at this pub that actually wasn't really all that good. We followed that up with a local minor league(really minor) hockey game. It was cheesy, bad, pleasant, and good enough that he wanted to see me again.
We've done other places that were bad. We're willing to try most places at least once.
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Post by freecharlie on Jul 7, 2016 2:43:46 GMT
Went to a Colorado Rockies game Listened to an Avs preseason game Then I went to a club to meet friends and he showed up.
Been together ever since
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Post by Mary W on Jul 7, 2016 2:49:30 GMT
We met through mutual friends. My friend insisted it wasn't a fix up, and to this day I don't believe her! My friend, her fiance, me, and dh went to eat then to the beach. At that point, we weren't quite sure about each other. My friend and her fiance got into an argument and went off down the beach, leaving dh and I standing there looking at each other. So he said, "Let's go for a walk." and off we went down the beach. We walked, talked, and made out! I knew that night he was the one. That was in 1982. We were engaged 3 months later and have been married 32 years.
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Post by PEArfect on Jul 7, 2016 2:55:08 GMT
My LH and I were 16 and 17. Our first official date, just the two of us, was June 22, 1992. We went to a restaurant for dinner and then to see Batman. My friend and her friend showed up at the theater and sat behind us. That was unexpected and unwelcome. When he took me home we stood outside and talked. He kept saying, "well I should probably go." I knew he wanted a kiss, but I wasn't going to move in for one. He finally worked up the courage after an hour. It was sweet and definitely worth the wait. Miss him!
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Post by jemmls4 on Jul 7, 2016 3:29:09 GMT
I met my husband when I signed up for scuba class. He was one of the assistant instructors. He was kind of shy and dorky and he and I and a bunch of the other scuba people were planning to go see Batman (1989 Michael Keaton Batman). Then one by one all the others suddenly had other plans except for us. I was supposed to pick him up and I almost chickened out. So we went to the movie then grabbed food after. I got back to my place around midnight and I had to pack up my gear and be at the dive store by 0630 for my certification. I'm hauling my gear out while a kegger is happening in my parking lot.
So in the morning I am super-tired and head to the shop. The scuba shop's owner's wife told DH he should ride up to the open water dive spot with me (2 hr drive).
Then I kept getting invited to dive store parties and to go canoeing and it finally clicked that they were setting us up. That was June, we were engaged by November and married next July. It'll be 26 years in a couple of weeks. We still dive and so do both of our kids.
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Post by kate on Jul 7, 2016 3:48:29 GMT
DH and I both backed into our relationship. We had a summer gig together, so we often had coffee together in the mornings. Another gal who worked with us warned me off, saying DH was a big skirt-chaser. I didn't care, because I was not looking for a relationship. I don't remember a First Date. Even when I moved in with him 6 months later, it was "temporary" and "for convenience" (see how we backed into it?) - seven years later, we made it legal. Our 19th wedding anniversary was yesterday. He is one of the biggest blessings in my life - and in all these 26 years, I have never known him to be a skirt-chaser unless I'm the one in the skirt.
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Post by Jili on Jul 7, 2016 4:07:19 GMT
I definitely knew I wanted to date dh, even though our first official date was not ideal. We had met each other in a class (statistics) the prior spring, and started dating in the fall. Our first date was a movie-- Dead Ringers, which was about twin psycho gynecologists. I'm not kidding. Not a great first date movie. I hated it. Dh chose it. I don't know what the hell he was thinking.
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