I've been full-time trying to be social with all the lovely ladies that I come across. It is fun, and for the most part, they are smiling as well. I still kind of suck at it. I'm curious how ya'll met a s.o. in your travels.
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Well, it's a little early to categorize La Principessa as a "mate," but:
At a comrade's house the night before Thanksgiving. Heavy flirtation occurred over a weekend full of Black Friday protests in front of the Wal-Mart and Ferguson solidarity rallies. Two weeks later, me and Mr. Comrade made a video at a victory rally for striking UE machinists, I catcalled La Principessa and put it on her Facebook page.
She's been mine ever since.
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At University. I was living in a co-ed cooperative residence house with 27 other students, and she moved in to fill a vacancy. We both tended to be early risers (unusual for college students), and we both noticed that the other would be having breakfast about the same time every morning. Whomever got to the kitchen first would make a pot of coffee to share with the other. We would have breakfast together just about every morning, and got to know each other pretty well. Eventually, I asked her out on a real date, and she said "yes." We moved in together a few months later, married a few years after that, and celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary last week.
We still share a pot of coffee with breakfast every day.
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Honestly, I met my wife through DeviantArt quite a few years ago. We actually enjoyed each other's writing and campaign journals and started doing free form rp over Skype. About a year after that she offered to fly me to her current residence to live with her and try dating for a while. The very next year we were married and we're going on our 5th year in bliss together.
Yarr, good stories! Seems like it was "in your travels" rather than the 1% roll of a random encounter that I've been banking on. I'm still making the rolls, because who doesn't like random encounters as an adventurer? I do have plot quests that I'm on too, but I'm inpatient.
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Met my girlfriend at a college party. A college party that neither I nor she really wanted to be at. A foam party, no less. Those were dark days. She was wearing a Batman shirt and I thought she was cool, so obviously I didn't talk to her at all for the rest of the night. I thought she went home with some other guy (she didn't, as I later found out), so I figured I was out of luck.
About two days later, we found out we lived in the same dorm. She was helping someone with a survey, and we ended up playing doubles pool together for about four hours. Won 7 games in a row, we dubbed ourselves "Team Fantastic". After that, my friend Brian and I staged, with military-like precision, an operation to have me appear wherever she was and hang out. I asked her out; she had just gotten out of a break-up, said she needed time. Then told me she wasn't interested.
A week later I accidentally insulted her religion, and then she kissed me in a graveyard. Now, we're nearing on two years with no hint of slowing down. I introduced her to DnD, and now she's a regular player in our three games, one of which I DM. Trust me, I don't know how it happened either.
My best advice is just keep rolling the dice. You get that natural 20 eventually.
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She was the resident assistant in the dorm where a girl I was interested in lived. I called her and got the girl's number. 4 months later I was dating her, instead.
We've been married 25 years now, but have lived apart for 9. It's a weird relationship, but it works for us.
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At Uni she lived two doors up from me in our Residential College (you guys call them Dorms), we were good friends, we liked the same things, history and sci fi. She asked me out because I was totally oblivious to her flirting.
We have been together since 95.
Met in high school through a common friend. Been together ever since then, 26 years, married for 17.
Fiancee and I met playing WoW.
She kept following my awesome kilt around the local Celtic Festival and Highland Games long ago.:-D
Then I joined a Scottish Country Dance group so I could catch her.;-P
RPG Superstar 2015 Top 32, RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32
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Met at college. First thing I noticed about her was quirks of her vocabulary, like sometimes using "for" in place of "because". Became close friends, then got married after finishing college. Next year is #10. :)
Walk your path, then see who's walking next to you.
Meet her at university, some 21+ years ago..
I was 21, she was 28, and my (group) english teacher.
Been married for 20 years this past march.
Yarr, neat stories. Sometimes after chatting up a lovely lady for a bit, the foot drops and she mentions her husband. Sometimes I'm curious about their meeting and ask, other times I'm thinking "wonder how monogamous they are?" I may be telegraphing my intent too loudly, but it's me frame, and I couldn't hide it without sneaky bluff checks. Volunteer work seems to check my intent, and ya'll seem to be telling plot quest npc encounters. I appreciate ya'll sharing and I'm keeping up with the thread.
Was dating a nice girl for about 3 months when she wanted me to meet her best friend so here we go off to meet her. We get to her friends house and I meet this nice sweet young lady. Well fast forward 9 months my girlfriend is now my ex(still on good terms just wasn't working) and I get a phone call that her friend has just been dumped and is depressed. So here I go being the nice guy and start trying to cheer her up. Next thing i know I have been talking to her for 6 hours straight and the sun is coming up.
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I met my wife while roleplaying. So I won life's lottery and have been smiling ever since.
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I used to date women that worked for the same corporate office as I do. I was pretty good at asking them out. Problem is we often had little in common, just enjoyable company. The biggest issue is the type I was dating thought gaming of any type was childish. I may as well put on a diaper and suck my thumb if I was ever to reveal my hobby. So I put up with that for a bunch of years.
I got tired of playing crouching cougar, hidden gamer so I decided to give online dating a try. I am juggling about 5-8 different women right now trying to find the right mate. Im not there yet but I recommend trying online as opposed to hoping for a random encounter. Everybody has some cute happenstance story about how they met and lived happily ever after, everybody but you that is. Even when I was dating out of the office I had to make things happen. I suggest a change up in strategy. In any event, good luck out there.
Met mine in high school, i was on a date with one of her friends, it wasn't going well, so i started talking to my wife, after a few months of flirting i got her number and called and asked her out, she said yes! had our first date on my birthday two days later, we dated for 8 months, her friends talked her into breaking up with me, but we stayed good friends and about 7 years later got back together (I am a huge fan of incredibly circuitous plans in case you can't tell:-p) moved in right away, 2 wonderful years later we gave our families 2 weeks notice, got married for less then 100 bucks and spent our honeymoon driving across the country for 3 months.
we've been married just about 14 years and every day i love her more then the day before:-)
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My wife and I met at a roleplaying group. It was something my brother had been part of for a few years and so, when I moved back to this side of the state after college, he brought me in. Ironically, the game is now hosted at our house (after the guy who started it had a stroke, not long before our wedding), and I actually don't play in that one anymore. But, we are in a number of other games together at the moment (mostly Pathfinder, but still some 3.5), and are starting to get our kids (ages 5 and 7) into RPGs. 8^)
As another irony, she actually approached me about dating, and it was pretty much immediately after I had (privately) decided to stop actively looking for that sort of thing. So, sometimes these things come at you when you least expect it. 8^)
Mrs. Lincoln and I met in Abnormal Psychology class at a university. Fitting.
Yarr, thanks for the encouragement! I am giving online dating a go, though my results there are poorer than my irl game. Tell ya'll the truth, I was discouraged this morning, and thinking about taking a day off. Then I read the thread posts and thought to myself, why should I cry about chasing women all day? I know roofers who complain less about their cooked carcasses on flattop roofs in July. Went out, got a blog address, and networked into a girl's name that I'd encountered. Also found a potential wingman, who's going at it almost as hard as I. And tonight is D&D!
Online dating is a lot more work than people think. Hang in there Ulf and enjoy some dice rolling while you are at it!
After a few years of online dating with less than one response a year, I've pretty much given up on it.
Naked hot tub party.
Naked hot tub party.Duuuuuuude...fist bump!/dudebro
*fist bump*
Funny thing is, we both fully intended it to be a one night stand. That was 9 years ago. We celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary in June, and our daughter's 1st birthday is next month.
My lovely wife was the college roommate of my ex-girlfriend, who I was still on friendly terms with.
As I was single at the time, my ex suggested a fix-up, to which I agreed. However, my ex was a profound procrastinator, so I had to persistently pursue the meeting until it happened. We met, and it was remarkable chemistry. Have been married for 17 years, a couple for 21.
Bonus: She had never gamed before she met me, and now she thoroughly enjoys it.
Double Bonus: Our daughter was born last February. She's got her RPG onesies to wear on game night, and her foam dice to play with (and chew on).
I'd favorite ALL of these, but I don't want to steal Tacticslion's schtick.
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Naked hot tub party.Duuuuuuude...fist bump!/dudebro*fist bump*
Funny thing is, we both fully intended it to be a one night stand. That was 9 years ago. We celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary in June, and our daughter's 1st birthday is next month.
boy you guys sure do suck at one night stands:-D
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I'd favorite ALL of these, but I don't want to steal Tacticslion's schtick.
Unless you're closing in on 55,000 favorite'd, I think Tacticslion's shtick is firmly entrenched :-) favorite away if you want :-)
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I met my husband roleplaying! He was a bard and I was a druid. We've been together since 1998 and married fourteen years now, and we still roleplay. He's the most fun person I've ever known. ^_^
Beekita bow, online dating is tough now. The irl game is slightly easier I think. However, with the online video game, I can play while I'm @ home. It is a game, rejections are part of leveling up. There's this barrista, that I was trying to be friendly with. (Coffee shop across th street) Anyways she seemed miserable, and it brought me down. So, I thought a book may cheer her up. I asked if she would accept a gift, with a thrill in her eye, she said NO! And if it was acceptable she probably would have dumped coffee on me. I was sore for a bit, it's not often that I get hard rejects. But, I view it as a challenge, and my next coffee date I'll try and bring there. Who cares anyhow, we're in more real danger from jealous boyfriends in later stages than now as chumps.
My husband and I met at a summer camp. He'd just graduated high school, I had a year to go. We'd met the first day in one of our activity groups, and he randomly decided one morning to come sit with us at breakfast instead of the group he came with. We enjoyed each other's company, so we started hanging out more during our free times.
One day, while we were hanging out, we saw my sister coming out of the room where they kept the pay phones. She was seeing a gentleman at the time (that she ended up marrying), and I started flipping her crap about calling her boyfriend (we'll call him D). All of a sudden, you can almost hear his jaw hit the table.
"Wait, D from [redacted]?"
"Yeees..."
"Does he have a sister named B?"
"Yeees..."
"I'm Os. I dated B."
*echoes his jaw drop*
Turns out that several months before, he'd been dating my sister's now-sister-in-law, and it had ended with B moving in with another guy and planning to spring this on him when she came for his high-school graduation, until D had the decency to call him and tell him on his own. My sister had been dating D the whole time this was going down - they'd even seen pictures of each other. But for some reason, it just didn't click, for either of them, until that moment.
What makes this even funnier, is that my now-hubby lived four hours south of me, and D and B lived another four hours south of him. We were at a camp three hours north of me when this encounter took place. (And for the kicker, my sister and D had met in Hong Kong on a trip. No joke.)
Not exactly a reliably replicable circumstance for most people - but makes for one hell of a story. I still love telling it. :)
And as for the online dating thing - my mum and stepdad met through online dating. Eight years later they married, and fifteen years from their meeting, they're still going strong. There is hope. :)
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I met the missus nearly twenty years ago playing laser tag at the local Laser Quest center. She worked there and I would go there after work to blow off steam by playing a game or two.
She noticed that I was a regular and (for whatever reason) decided to challenge me to a one-on-one game, with the stipulation being that if she won, I would buy her dinner and if I won, we would go dutch.
She won, and we went on our first date.
(Flash Forward)
We've been married 17 years and have two boys.
I don't get romantically attracted to people, so it never happened, nor do I expect it ever will.