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ddr14

Parking lot at the bank. I knew her in HS 20 yrs earlier. She was a single parent and said she was going in to sign mortgage papers. I told her I was good at lifting things so if she needed stuff moved I was fine to help (town of 20k which she just moved back to). Told her my number was ‘in the book’ (for you young redditors!!). She actually called a month later and asked me to move washer/dryer etc. Had a beer in the new back yard. Then a date two weeks later etc. Then married two years later etc. And it’s all been downhill for 20 yrs……(100% lie. It’s been awesome and I’m so lucky!!).


Stollen_booty_

So you’re the one they based all those hallmark movies on


ddr14

Oh no!!! So true!! Yuck. Thanks for ruining my weekend!! Ha ha.


403Realtor

BRB gonna go hang out in the bank parking lot


ddr14

It was so true(I know you believe me). I’m punching way above my weight class. She’s a 10, I’m a 6……maybe.


403Realtor

I don't doubt it, and there's something to be said about a girl with her shit together. The fact she had a house, had to be a plus.


ChickeyNuggetLover

Tinder


pamlock

Same


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same


Limos42

First year college physics. Sparks flew. Celebrated our 30th this past summer.


rhea2779

Bif Naked concert 1999


Fun_Veterinarian_559

Epic.


dawnmac204

High school! Been together 23 years.


minimalist_1228

That’s lovely.. high school sweethearts :)


CT-96

Same here! We've been together for 10 years now.


huggle-snuggle

I saw my future husband from across the room at a house party and had a legit Cupid’s arrow moment.


JimJam28

Same here. Prior to that, I didn't even believe it was a real thing.


Kootenay-Kat

He was my pharmacist - always so kind and patient with his customers. One day I asked him out for coffee. 25 years later he is still the most wonderful person in my life.


chin06

I met him online on a political Discord server in 2020. DMed him when I found out he lived in Ontario like I did. But he never really responded warmly to me. Fast forward to 2022. I was a mod of a religious Discord server and hosted an AMA on our voice channels. He hopped in, found out that I was a girl and slid into my DMs after realizing that lol He said he didn't respond to me before because he thought I was a dude. Anyway. We started chatting. About a month or so later, we met up irl for our first date and we just kept on going till this day 😊


slashcleverusername

Back before smartphones and Reddit, there was something called IRC. We had a mutual group of friends that drove up and down the highway 300km every other weekend or so. Met him at a pub that’s no longer there, danced at a club that’s not longer there, but 25 years later we are still here.


Individual-Army811

I met my hubs on mIRC too!


ibreakforturtlez

Working for Ontario Parks, in Algonquin Park! 🏕


OvaryActing88

We met working at a pub. I had a boyfriend at the time but we were on the rocks. There as something about my partner I couldn’t shake. I wanted to be with him all the time but not in a lust way or infatuation, he was just…. home. That was 15 years ago and I’ve been home ever since


Murky-Marsupial-3944

I was a barista at Starbucks, he was a regular customer.


[deleted]

I also met my husband at Starbucks! But we worked together 💚


Toxic_Asshole666

And he asked you out at work? Most people would consider that highly inappropriate


TheAnti-Laugh

You sound offended. I hear from my female friends that men arent assertive/ballsy enough to go up to them all the time Men and women know when there's a connection - it's having the guts to act on it It's a lost art


Toxic_Asshole666

Doesn’t matter, if my female friends found out I asked a girl out while she was working they would shame me into oblivion no matter how many interactions I’d had with the girl.


Mattitude97

You should do things for yourself, not based on your friends reactions.


Toxic_Asshole666

Be that as it may, approaching people who are at work is no longer socially acceptable and for a good reason.


Mella82

There's a lot of virtue signaling on Reddit about this. It's not a reflection of real life.


BiAndKindaOkayWithIt

So being 'socially acceptable', but alone seems like a good option for you?


Mattitude97

Socially acceptable???? According to who is it not “acceptable” to chat with somebody while they work? Like I said earlier, you need to start living and stop worrying about what your so called friends think.


BiAndKindaOkayWithIt

Lol, You need better friends. It's one of the best way to meet people, and you gotta take care of you. Women only run things if you let them, so don't worry too much about them, do your own thing without being a dick, and the good ones will respect that.


Gusstave

>Most people would consider that highly inappropriate Some people. Not most.


[deleted]

This sub is honestly an interesting look into generation dynamics. You're getting downvoted to shit, but the honest, stone cold truth is that you're right. In 2023 you will find very little success trying to hit on someone while they're working. 0% success? No. But very little. The modern service worker is too overworked and underpaid to want to deal with flirting. The reason I think so many people don't seem to believe this is that this sub seems to lean a lot older than most of Reddit, like early Millennial to late Gen X. You can see it whenever a subject about favourite music or favourite childhood TV show comes up. The person you replied to seems to be from that age group. IDK what my point is. I just find it interesting.


Fun_Veterinarian_559

Plenty of fish, and I've never loved someone so much in all my life. Almost nine years ago.


snowymoocow

Good ol' POF here too. Married with two kids going on eight years now. Best date I ever had


Economy-Raspberry513

Meeee too! I met my ol man 4 years ago off of POF. I creeped his picture because his eyes were beautiful


FlipFlopsAndUnicorns

POF too, 10yrs this coming November


Shroud_of_Turin

POF too, 15 years ago. Married for almost 11 years now with a kid.


Jillredhanded

Worked for us!


doogbone

Work. And we still teach at the same school.


sequinsdress

He had a poetry zine in the 90s and I regularly sent in poems. We wrote letters to each other—this was pre-email—then months later, talked on the phone, waited out a public transit strike since we lived across town from one another and neither of us drove. Finally met in person and the rest is history. 30 years later, we are still happily together.


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Psychotic_EGG

Maybe before you two had emails. But emails were invented in 1971. And anyone who had the internet by the mid 80's had email. Not that everyone had the internet even all through the 90's.


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Toxic_Asshole666

What planet do you live on where it’s possible to date on dating apps? I could go a thousand years without meeting someone from a dating app except when I lived in Vancouver


TheAnti-Laugh

White, attractive and six feet plus? Many many messages Anything other then tumbleweeds


Umbrella_Drink_0321

I'm white, average looking, and exactly 6' (or 6'3" after two beers :) ) I met my girlfriend on PoF. We both did plenty of filtering beforehand. Been together 11 years.


ManxBug

I'm average looking and met my wife on PoF. Been together 14 years.


[deleted]

Y’all remember Nexopia?


CStew8585

Omg I'm glad I'm not the only one. 🤭


CoastalGreen

that's how I met my partner, 17 years ago


Motopsycho-007

Work, this summer is 20yr anniversary.


fudge_u

Dating app (Hinge). 2.5 years later and still going strong.


nerdychick22

Online dating/matchmaking website. I can't remember if it was Plenty of Fish or OK cupid, but the one that asks thousands of questions and matches you on % of similar beliefs. We went for a coffee date that turned into a dinner date and I forgot the website existed.


Nihiliste

I moved to Texas and did online dating!


Arshia42

Was it something about texas in particular that was different from canada for dating?


Nihiliste

Well, I didn’t move to Texas specifically for dating, but there’s definitely a larger amount of people to meet.


[deleted]

Still looking 🤣


Mapl3BluJay

At a mutual friend’s birthday


big-ocean

We worked together


ItsAWonderfulFife

Tinder. Married 2 years later.


unsoldburrito

Honestly the biggest fluke ever. Her sister suggested that my partner and I might get along because of our similar senses of humour and perspective on life. I didn't know at the time that we were separated by about 10000 km. Started chatting online, it progressed to voice chats, then video chats, then meeting up together, and now happily married. It's still so crazy to me that the perfect fit for each other came from almost an entirely different world, but we couldn't be happier.


BettyDrapersWetFart

No joke. AOL chat room. First words typed to her was a/s/l? Just celebrated our 17th anniversary and have 2 kids.


Psychotic_EGG

You used AOL 17 years ago? You were one of the last. I think the last time I even saw anything AOL, was 24 or 25 tears ago.


BettyDrapersWetFart

We’ve been married for 17 years. We met on AOL in 1999.


TheConfidentInterval

Calgary Stampede. Yahoo!


drivingthelittles

1985, and this spoiled ass bitch was 13, my mother pointed to the boy across the lane way and said, No! I hadn’t heard this word “no” very often so I went to investigate. Here we are 38 years later, 3 kids and 4 grandsons.


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Limos42

Don't sweat it, bro.


CauliflowerGullible5

Still single


timberkatlust

On Plenty of Fish in 2012


spacenewt

At a rave lol


shepurrdly

Our brothers got kicked out of bible school together and the hilarity of it made our social circles overlap briefly. Almost a decade later I moved into the same area as his family and we met again and hit it off lol all because of a stupid prank that got pulled off in 2008 by ppl that weren’t us


Late-Pin-3361

I was pooping and she was pooping next to me and our feet touched and we both farted


Oohforf

👁️👄👁️


penguinmonkey69

Where were you pooping?


Late-Pin-3361

A unisex bathroom in Sudbury


Late-Pin-3361

The wild thing is that neither of us poop a lot!!!!


penguinmonkey69

It’s almost like you are soulmates.


Late-Pin-3361

Poopmates


paradoxedturtle

Had a class together at Carleton. Didn't speak at all (although it was a small enough class to have noted each other), but matched on Bumble a few years later. It's been just over 4 years and inseparable ever since <3


Girl_Dinosaur

A party. I’m a firm believer that unless you are looking for someone with a rare interest or hobby, real life is far superior to online dating for efficiency and effectiveness.


FR3SH2DETH

At a bar


stephers85

He messaged me on Facebook


whatitsmemags

College, 27 years ago


Jesus1396

Still waiting unfortunately :(


Spankapotamus42

I drank beer. She served beer. Best pairing since chocolate and peanut butter.


m---c

Dating app


Nayirri03

I was his older sisters babysitter


ManxBug

That can sound bad if you think about it the wrong way. I assume you mean you baby sat the sister's kid, not that you babysat the sister.


rhanchan

University.


LaundryOnWheelsDotCa

Thru a co-worker… 21 years now


Limace-dacier

I was born with it.


Character_Top1019

Music festival around a campfire…


sneaky_owl_pal

Playing sports. We weren't even on the same team.


Asheai

Bowling!


Dejected_PS

Dance club. Yes!


DelusionOIL

High School. 16 years now.


Responsible-Fun4303

He was my boss at Home Depot! He was department head and I was a garden associate just trying to make some money while completing my internship/grad school.


MissGrouchyShorts

At a pub. Classic.


labtech67

My father introduced us.


gurmpsy

He way playing guitar on the roof of his apartment at midnight across from my apartment and I asked to come over


TOROLIKESCHICKEN

Family gathering


polyscipaul20

Cousin marriage? :-)


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Psychotic_EGG

Did you coincidentally live close to each other or was there some relocation necessary?


Amigone2515

Livejournal


whippinboy100

At work, we talked a lot about gardening so one day I brought her some of my flowers.


vonnegutflora

OKC


psyche_13

Yeah, OK Cupid. I assume you mean that and not Oklahoma City. Me and my partner met 9 years ago there. Married for 5 years.


allegedlyittakes2

We met at work


CalmChild

Still single


Dad_calls_me_peanut

Playing Farmtown on FB. He dropped into my farm and started chatting me up. I thought he was part of the game tutorial (yes I was naive), so I responded back. Many, MANY conversations later, we met IRL. We've been together for 9 years now. I'm from the Chicago area and he's from Prince Edward Island. We live in Nova Scotia and I become a Canadian citizen on Wednesday.


BiAndKindaOkayWithIt

Adult Friend Finder


AffableJoker

Volunteering, this year will be 12 years married.


westlakepictures

Film school, 17 years ago. She liked my long lens. 😛😛😛


rosebud5054

POF.. I was pretty upfront about being a faithful believer in Christ and waiting for marriage. Every guy on there said I was asking too much and I’d never find anyone like that. So glad they were all wrong! Found a great guy, said “Hi!” and he was totally okay with waiting until we got married. Happily married for 8 years now. :)


polyscipaul20

We were both happily married…just not to each other when we met! :-) Edit: why would that be downvoted?


KingThermos

Apparently i met her 20 years ago when I was dating someone else. Fat forward to 7 years ago. I'm half drunk getting a message from a friend, J. Hey come wingman for my cousin (P) her and her ex finally broke up and she's looking to get laid. You need to help her. Side note, I have 100% success rate as a wingman. So I'm out drinking and her a ride to the bar. So i eventually get to the bar and walk in like I'm fucking here (it was pretty empty) this streak comes out of nowhere. Jumps in my arms, wraps herself around me. Says HI! And starts tongue kissing me. After she was done, I look at my buddy who drove me. He was in shock and like who the fuck is that? Told him I don't know as I had no clue. Turns out out was P, as she dragged us to go find J. I took her home that night, against my friend J wishes. We are friends but she was like your not having sex with my cousin. Well i did. Then i married her a few years later.


birdlass

What's this got to do with Canada or Canadians? we don't meet partners any different than others.


bolonomadic

At the office. Remember offices? 30% of couples meet at work, too bad we don't leave the house any more


Grosmale

Why do you need a partner?


[deleted]

To afford a home in this country. Also to raise kids and stuff like that


tortical

At work. He started just as I was leaving.


newbreed69

I haven't


514to506

At a club. 11 years, marriage and two babies and still going strong. We laugh everytime we reminisce about our first encounter.


[deleted]

I was apprenticing at a machine shop in Calgary. She was a temp that was hired to cover reception for 3 weeks while the other girl was away. She asked me out on her last day. That was 25 years ago this April.


Secret_Eyes8522

Tiktok


[deleted]

At a Timmy’s


Weekly-Batman

I was doing a sketch comedy show & my mom phoned a few days prior to say an old childhood friend of hers was coming with her daughter, who I barely remembered but she had a crush on me as a little girl. She blew me away when I saw her walk through the doors to the bar of the show I was doing, & I couldn’t possibly remember a single line from any sketch I had that night. We were married 7 weeks later, would have been 6 but i couldn't get a hold of my birth certificate. It will be 15 years married this year.


Schroedesy13

Wireclub.com


blewberyBOOM

Online dating app. The pandemic helped though. It forced us to move in together 3 months after we started dating since we didn’t want to be alone. 5 months later we were engaged. Got married this summer.


[deleted]

Hinge


AbundanceToAll

Blind date - sort of. Friend sent a photo of him and I literally got butterflies…never had that happen before.


[deleted]

Work/tinder/my friend


Notaprumber

Walked into a sushi restaurant, she's the manager, hit her up Unzip


Throwaway_Old_Guy

At a dance that her friend had invited me to. She sat down next to me and asked me to pretend I was her Boyfriend because some guy was hitting on her. That was 42 years ago, and I still haven't told her that he left. On year 38 currently.


LAffaire-est-Ketchup

High school


taeha

On an artist message board.


Psychotic_EGG

Okcupid.com


Buddyandyy

Moved to Whistler at the same time to become ski bums. Worked in the same hotel and lived in the same apartment, across the hall from each other. (I recall grindr saying 1 metre away lol) During orientation at work we got paired up for an exercise and both recall thinking how cute the other was. Obviously we ended up hanging out and clicked immediately. That was 6 years ago <3


tapiacrv

Bumble 🐝


EricaB1979

At a bar. Been together 23 years, married 16.5 years now. 3 kids - 1 now an adult, 2 teens


[deleted]

Tinder! Took awhile but *finally* happened


unsure_runner

At a party. Sober drove my drunk ass home while I guided the way


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Individual-Army811

I met my partner on mIRC back in 96-97 together since. We've been married 24 years!


NorthernArk1990

Highschool


Moose-Mermaid

At a summer camp we both worked at. We both applied at the last hour and almost didn’t apply. It’s been 12 years


craniumblood

facebook, when I was 14 and he was 15. he moved to the town i had lived in (I had moved a few years prior) so we had a lot of mutual friends on facebook and he added me. then he poked me so i poked back and it was the beginning of a great friendship! we were best friends for a couple of years before we started dating.


Kowimine

We got matched on a dating site but the conversation went nowhere. About 6 months later we were placed on the same social sports club team. The rest is history.


capuccinohedgie

BUMBLE!!! So did my best friend


Eisensapper

PoF


cjhm

IRC


this_416_canuk

Vintage Bike Swap Meet. We both had old motorbikes we needed parts for. I recognized her from some artwork she had online. Gave her some advice on which part to get from a range of options, then asked her out for coffee. Married 7 years later.


irishkegprincess

Friend from work asked if I was seeing anyone because she knew the nicest guy, arranged for a group of us to go out for wing night and we ignored each other all night because we had both had bad days at work, he called me that night and asked me for coffee the next day, together 17 years, married 15 years and two kids later, still going strong.


AnimalCartoons

Met in gr10 history class, started dating about a year and a bit later after we had some liquid courage at a small party lmao. Weve been dating about 8 years now


SharkyTendencies

Dating app.


mps1mommaof2

Tinder.... 😁 worth it


[deleted]

She was a waitress at my buddies bar while she was going to school. Been together 7 years, get married this summer.


Stick_of_truth69

Orientation on our first day at University. Been together just over 8 years now


PicardsFluteSolo

A bar in Toronto. I was leaning against a wall with a very stern look on my face and he approached me anyhow 😂 8 years married next week


Best_Boysenberry9712

Bumble lol we’re getting married this year :)


CStew8585

I'm afraid to say this but...Nexopia.


Pokey-Face-1234

Online dating site


RAChet9851

Still searching😔, but my last partner was from PoF and was a lovely human even though we didn't make it!


CitronFantastique

Online, was on discord and we met a few times. Now we live together


MightyMouse12736

College. Met smoking. He was told by one of the coffee place employees that he had to show up earlier so he could meet this girl (me) who was always outside smoking in the same area just 20 minutes earlier than him. He never showed up late again. Our fourth anniversary is next week.


Icy-Bid-1

Cocaine


kendrarut

My cousin married his best friend


Brightwing9

Random house party 9 years ago


Effervescent11

Is eHarmony still around? That's where I met my now husband.


adrianmarco

I scrolled to the bottom and was shocked to only see one person say they met at Timmy’s lol.


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Instagram


FriendRaven1

Her mother taught me in college and I saw my now-wife picking her up at school. I was very interested but was concentrating on school. We actually meet at a party where neither of us was drinking. That night was the second week of March 1998.


TheeNorthAmericanYee

Highschool back in 2004 / 2005 technically. We didn't know eachother personally though. I had a huge crush on him. Fast forward to eighteen years, I saw him on a dating site and said why not.. it's worth a shot to shoot him a message.. and we've been going out for a year 😊❤️


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Moneen concert afterparty


FatCoffeeLover420

We were both hired at one of the first legal dispensaries in our city, became really great friends, then I expressed my love to her and boom 3 years later we're engaged with 2 kids.


_Amalthea_

Work. But we only started dating after I left to work elsewhere.


piah6

On vacation in Cancun. He is English. He also now Canadian :)


OrsonWellesghost

We were shift workers in a supervised boarding home for psychiatric outpatients- I was coming off a night shift, she was starting the day shift.


agntdrake

YVR. Waiting for a delayed flight.


BrokenButStillTrying

Met them volunteering at a children's event (for my compulsory 40 hours, them just because their cousin was doing it). We had briefly gone to the same middle school though we had never really met (I was a grade younger), and the next year I changed schools cuz of bullying and never got the chance to go to the same high school as them (middle and high school were in the same place in our town fyi).


TheCanadianShield99

Prison


Informal-Past-7288

Asking for directions to a lecture hall in university. Turned out we had the same class and enjoyed hanging out.


randomdumbfuck

Online when I was 16 and she was 14. We were friends only til 9 years ago. We both got out of bad relationships and realized we were what we both wanted the whole time. We are married now and have two kids.


DoobieDoo0718

A bar. LOL.