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rocking23 · 6th Jan 2010, 10:24 PM

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How did the happy couples come to be?

(sorry if there's already a thread about this. I'm on my iPhone and am having search dyslexsia)

RaeofLite · 6th Jan 2010, 10:29 PM

I'm not dating anyone right now but I met my ex girlfriends on dating sites since there are no open lesbians my age or bi women my age willing to date females in my city.

6th Jan 2010, 11:20 PM

I met him before I went to college.

Me: From wisconsin, starting school in the bay area, CA.

Him: From georgia, going to school in san francisco.

The link: He is friends with one of my good friends, and after I came out she was very accepting! When he came out to visit her she introduced us. We got along great. When I started school in CA it just progressed into a romantic relationship.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

carrie90 · 7th Jan 2010, 10:35 AM

Hmm well my happiest and longest realtionship was wth my ex girlfriend I was with her for two years and I met her by hitting her with my car (accidently) so maybe that isn't the best story to share cause it doesn't always mean happiness

And I met my current girlfriend in the cliche gay bar luckily we both go the same college and that started cnversation

**Eleanor Rigby** · 7th Jan 2010, 11:46 AM

I met my husband during my second year at uni.
He was a friend of a friend, and at that time he had a grilfriend and I used to think that I'd like to take her boyfriend and her boots.
We saw each other a few times that year. He broke up with his girlfriend but then leave the university and I tought I'll never see him again. But during fall of the next year, his best friend and my best friend became a couple, and it gave me the opportunity to see him again during a party at my friends place.
We were both supposed to spend the night there, and our friends gave a little boost to the luck when they told us at 3 am that we were sleeping in the same bed (a one place bed) while originaly boys were supposed to sleep together and I was supposed to sleep with my best friend.
The one place bed and my silk baby doll did the rest

Phoenix · 7th Jan 2010, 12:13 PM

Online. Honest. One of my friends told me to sign up on this website because he was on it and he felt weird not knowing anyone. So I signed up and I started talking to a guy who lives near me and knows people in my town that I know. Almost six months later, here we are still together.

s5m1 · 7th Jan 2010, 12:36 PM

We met through friends. We are both in the same line of work. In the past, I had decent luck meeting nice guys in bars and online. While both bars and the internet can be used to hook up, I found there were many great guys who were looking for relatonships.

Revan · 7th Jan 2010, 02:00 PM

When I was dating him, online. Though like I said in another topic, he dumped me Tuesday

But yeah it was nice while it lasted..

olides84 · 7th Jan 2010, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eleanor Rigby

I met my husband during my second year at uni.
He was a friend of a friend, and at that time he had a grilfriend and I used to think that I'd like to take her boyfriend and her boots.
<snip>

Haha Cecile. So did you get the boots too?

Katherine · 7th Jan 2010, 02:13 PM

She goes to my school and was friends with my brother when I first met her. Things just kind of went on from there.

Tom · 7th Jan 2010, 02:17 PM

well, it's not quite the happy relationship yet but I really like this guy, we met at a new years party and have just got on amazingly well since then =]

7th Jan 2010, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Revan46

When I was dating him, online. Though like I said in another topic, he dumped me Tuesday

But yeah it was nice while it lasted..

aww thats actually made me sad. im sure u will pick yourself up again though.

Witch of the We · 7th Jan 2010, 06:08 PM

Through friends. Then we got close and became really good friends then I told him I liked him. He liked me and we got together. Now it's on and off.

grapevine fires · 7th Jan 2010, 08:18 PM

My ex and I went to the same high school. Apparently she had the biggest crush on me for months. I suppose one day she grew a pair (at a big football game where my "new" school was playing my previous school), and texted me (after getting my number from a friend of mine). I was going to tell her that I wasn't interested because, at the time, I was interested in someone else (who turned out to make me feel like shit every time I hung out with her), but then we started talking… and hanging out… and then one night, she stayed over at my house, and… I knew I wanted to be with her.
She was the only person I've ever had "relations" with who has been able to make me feel all tingly. :P
I don't remember what happened next, but somehow we managed to get into a relationship…

*sigh*

Revan · 7th Jan 2010, 09:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gaz83

Quote:

Originally Posted by Revan46

When I was dating him, online. Though like I said in another topic, he dumped me Tuesday

But yeah it was nice while it lasted..

aww thats actually made me sad. im sure u will pick yourself up again though.

Sorry to make you sad, but like I said, it happens and I'm okay.

**Eleanor Rigby** · 7th Jan 2010, 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by olides84

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eleanor Rigby

I met my husband during my second year at uni.
He was a friend of a friend, and at that time he had a grilfriend and I used to think that I'd like to take her boyfriend and her boots.
<snip>

Haha Cecile. So did you get the boots too?

I did ! For Christmas, just a month after I started going out with my husband

But the boots didn't last as long as our relationship, fortunately for me

**Owen** · 30th Jan 2010, 01:02 PM

I have only had one relationship thus far. We both went to the same high school and met through a friend I met in my freshman-year Spanish class. Though I never had any other classes with said friend, we stayed close, and I met my ex through him, who was a friend of his. A few years later, when he realized he was gay, he came out to me first via e-mail. At that point, I was still going through the phase where I was desperate for romance and viewed every gay guy I met as a potential boyfriend. He was the first person about whom I said, "Ok, just because he's gay doesn't mean he's boyfriend material. You don't need to ask him out; just be a supportive friend." And then he asked me out. Go figure.

It was nice while it lasted.

Austin · 30th Jan 2010, 01:03 PM

No such thing as a happy couple. Well, at least if you've been a couple for more than a few months.

The Paradigm · 30th Jan 2010, 01:08 PM

Tony and I went to Connect, a local Queer youth group. One day he asked for my Myspace and we messaged each other for a bit, then exchanged numbers and went to the movies and had lunch. We had a date essentially but neither one of us wanted to admit it. I shot him down about 4 times, then finally submitted and we've been partners for about 9 months now.

I judged him as the quiet nerdy introverted type with a real mean streak.
I couldn't have been more wrong.

6th Jan 2010, 10:24 PM	#1
rocking23 EC Addict Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Toronto Age: 19 Posts: 452 Join Date: May 2008	How did all you happy couples meet? Share your story! How did the happy couples come to be? (sorry if there's already a thread about this. I'm on my iPhone and am having search dyslexsia)

6th Jan 2010, 10:29 PM	#2
RaeofLite I've got the moves like Jagger Full Member Gender: ♀ Orientation: Sapphicly inclined Out Status: My closet is for clothes! Location: BC, Canada Age: 23 Posts: 3,111 Join Date: Apr 2009	Re: How did all you happy couples meet? I'm not dating anyone right now but I met my ex girlfriends on dating sites since there are no open lesbians my age or bi women my age willing to date females in my city. __________________ People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -Bonnie Jean Wasmund (and the lesbians)

6th Jan 2010, 11:20 PM	#3
71390S Guest Posts: n/a	Re: How did all you happy couples meet? I met him before I went to college. Me: From wisconsin, starting school in the bay area, CA. Him: From georgia, going to school in san francisco. The link: He is friends with one of my good friends, and after I came out she was very accepting! When he came out to visit her she introduced us. We got along great. When I started school in CA it just progressed into a romantic relationship. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

7th Jan 2010, 10:35 AM	#4
carrie90 The square root of 4 is rainbows Full Member Gender: Female Orientation: Gay Out Status: everybody really Location: Originally Montana but currently San Fransisco Age: 21 Posts: 1,327 Join Date: Feb 2009	Re: How did all you happy couples meet? Hmm well my happiest and longest realtionship was wth my ex girlfriend I was with her for two years and I met her by hitting her with my car (accidently) so maybe that isn't the best story to share cause it doesn't always mean happiness And I met my current girlfriend in the cliche gay bar luckily we both go the same college and that started cnversation __________________ I empower my Cheerios to live in fear by creating an enviorment of irrational, random terror -Sue Sylvester

7th Jan 2010, 11:46 AM	#5
Eleanor Rigby Filip's sidekick EC Advisor Gender: Female Orientation: Straight Out Status: Out as straight ally Location: France Age: 32 Posts: 5,400 Join Date: Feb 2009	Re: How did all you happy couples meet? I met my husband during my second year at uni. He was a friend of a friend, and at that time he had a grilfriend and I used to think that I'd like to take her boyfriend and her boots. We saw each other a few times that year. He broke up with his girlfriend but then leave the university and I tought I'll never see him again. But during fall of the next year, his best friend and my best friend became a couple, and it gave me the opportunity to see him again during a party at my friends place. We were both supposed to spend the night there, and our friends gave a little boost to the luck when they told us at 3 am that we were sleeping in the same bed (a one place bed) while originaly boys were supposed to sleep together and I was supposed to sleep with my best friend. The one place bed and my silk baby doll did the rest __________________ "Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means." Immanuel Kant

7th Jan 2010, 12:13 PM	#6
Phoenix EC Addict Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Somewhere between gay and bisexual Out Status: Very Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 755 Join Date: Sep 2009	Re: How did all you happy couples meet? Online. Honest. One of my friends told me to sign up on this website because he was on it and he felt weird not knowing anyone. So I signed up and I started talking to a guy who lives near me and knows people in my town that I know. Almost six months later, here we are still together.

7th Jan 2010, 12:36 PM	#7
s5m1 Gay and Couldn't be Happier! Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Maryland Age: 46 Posts: 861 Join Date: Dec 2007	Re: How did all you happy couples meet? We met through friends. We are both in the same line of work. In the past, I had decent luck meeting nice guys in bars and online. While both bars and the internet can be used to hook up, I found there were many great guys who were looking for relatonships.

7th Jan 2010, 02:00 PM	#8
Revan EC Addict Full Member Gender: M for MEEP! Orientation: Mutant and Proud Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Windsor, Ontario Age: 24 Posts: 6,564 Join Date: Jun 2005	Re: How did all you happy couples meet? When I was dating him, online. Though like I said in another topic, he dumped me Tuesday But yeah it was nice while it lasted.. __________________ "Is there some reason my coffee isn't here? Has she died or something?" - Miranda Priestly. Strength is not defined by physical capacity, but by indomitable will. ~ Mahatma Gandhi Procrastination is like masturbation, in the end you just wind up screwing yourself.

7th Jan 2010, 02:13 PM	#10
Katherine Professional Cuddler Full Member Gender: 75% female Orientation: 110% gay Out Status: 98% out Location: The land of rednecks and pine trees (Georgia) Age: 19 Posts: 1,745 Join Date: Mar 2009	Re: How did all you happy couples meet? She goes to my school and was friends with my brother when I first met her. Things just kind of went on from there. __________________ Overly emotional five-foot-tall vegetarian gamer girl who procrastinates way too much. Loves food, art, cats, and making people smile.

7th Jan 2010, 02:17 PM	#11
Tom chatroom whore once more Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Leicester or Bangor, UK Posts: 57 Join Date: Sep 2009	Re: How did all you happy couples meet? well, it's not quite the happy relationship yet but I really like this guy, we met at a new years party and have just got on amazingly well since then =]

7th Jan 2010, 06:08 PM	#13
Witch of the We Well Known Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: My friends and my mommy too! Location: California's version of Munchkinland and the West Age: 18 Posts: 185 Join Date: Jan 2008	Re: How did all you happy couples meet? Through friends. Then we got close and became really good friends then I told him I liked him. He liked me and we got together. Now it's on and off. __________________ We all can't come and go by bubble, now can we. Gods and people go hand in hand: gods need people to believe in them, and people need something to blame. The system seems to work quite well. I'm the Witch, you're the world. I'm the hitch, I'm what no one believes. I'm the Witch.

7th Jan 2010, 08:18 PM	#14
grapevine fires EC Addict Regular Member Gender: F*ed… my sex, though, is female. Orientation: love is love, sexuality is fluid Out Status: Pretty much everyone, minus extended family Location: Ontario, Canada Age: 20 Posts: 431 Join Date:** Jun 2008	Re: How did all you happy couples meet? My ex and I went to the same high school. Apparently she had the biggest crush on me for months. I suppose one day she grew a pair (at a big football game where my "new" school was playing my previous school), and texted me (after getting my number from a friend of mine). I was going to tell her that I wasn't interested because, at the time, I was interested in someone else (who turned out to make me feel like shit every time I hung out with her), but then we started talking… and hanging out… and then one night, she stayed over at my house, and… I knew I wanted to be with her. She was the only person I've ever had "relations" with who has been able to make me feel all tingly. :P I don't remember what happened next, but somehow we managed to get into a relationship… sigh __________________ Love Always Wins

30th Jan 2010, 01:02 PM	#17
Owen Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult EC Admin Gender: Agendered dude Orientation: Panromantic androsexual Out Status: Everyone and their mother Location: Massachusetts, USA Age: 21 Posts: 2,871 Join Date: Jul 2007	Re: How did all you happy couples meet? I have only had one relationship thus far. We both went to the same high school and met through a friend I met in my freshman-year Spanish class. Though I never had any other classes with said friend, we stayed close, and I met my ex through him, who was a friend of his. A few years later, when he realized he was gay, he came out to me first via e-mail. At that point, I was still going through the phase where I was desperate for romance and viewed every gay guy I met as a potential boyfriend. He was the first person about whom I said, "Ok, just because he's gay doesn't mean he's boyfriend material. You don't need to ask him out; just be a supportive friend." And then he asked me out. Go figure. It was nice while it lasted. __________________ "Stand firm for what you believe in, until and unless logic and experience prove you wrong. Remember, when the emperor looks naked, the emperor is naked. The truth and a lie are not sort of the same thing. And there is no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can't be improved with pizza." -Daria Morgendorffer

30th Jan 2010, 01:03 PM	#18
Austin Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Most people in my life. Location: Orange County, California, USA Age: 19 Posts: 1,790 Join Date: Apr 2008	Re: How did all you happy couples meet? No such thing as a happy couple. Well, at least if you've been a couple for more than a few months. __________________ Can I sail through the changing ocean tides, can I handle the seasons of my life?

30th Jan 2010, 01:08 PM	#19
The Paradigm That Which Lurks Regular Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Eugene Age: 23 Posts: 101 Join Date: Jan 2010	Re: How did all you happy couples meet? Tony and I went to Connect, a local Queer youth group. One day he asked for my Myspace and we messaged each other for a bit, then exchanged numbers and went to the movies and had lunch. We had a date essentially but neither one of us wanted to admit it. I shot him down about 4 times, then finally submitted and we've been partners for about 9 months now. I judged him as the quiet nerdy introverted type with a real mean streak. I couldn't have been more wrong.

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