how did you meet (International couples)

[Gingerlyme]

So since we here in the International section, our SOs and us are in different countries which begs the all fun question:

How did you guys meet?


Its one of the best questions and whenever we talk about it when new folks ask, we have a permanent smile on our face while re-telling the story.

So here's mine,

We were both in another country on a work trip for 4 days and we didnt talk until the last day. ( I didnt see him throughout the event because we were in different areas but he saw me for a bit). I was out with a bunch of mates on the last day, sort of an after party and he came along with one of his friend.

I thought to myself that guy is pretty cute, went up to introduce myself and we spoke for a bit then. We didn’t really speak a ton that night but he hit me up on twitter the next day when we both went back to our countries. He hates to tell the story now since i was the one that made the first move haha.

From there it was a skype romance and a month later, I went to visit him and we made it official. Been a wonderful 6months since. He came to see me a month ago for 2weeks and i am going to see him for the weekend next week!

We are struggling now, he is getting frustrated with the distance, but that’s for another thread.

Lets share the 'how we met story'

[sanjano]

We were both in another country as well, met only few days after we arrived, at a party. It was even a little bit strange; we have not been formally introduced, we only smiled to each other few times. Next day, we went out with a group of people, started a conversation and he walked me home after that. When I said "good night" to him, he hugged me briefly and just went home. Since then we started to spend a lot of time together. Finally we spent 3 months there, seeing each other every single day, having so much fun, and we realized that we have a lot in common, that we're quite good couple (if not even perfect ) and then I had to move back to my country... The rest is this long distance relationship. And I really hope it will work!

[Moon]

There are lots and lots of threads for this already, you should probably do a search in the upper right of the screen.

We met through work. I support our US office, he supports the EU, we had to talk often, became friendly, became friends, them became more.

[Unconditional]

Well, we meet through an app, I contacted him first with some smart aleck comment on whatever he posted. From then on we talked almost everyday since then, and it turned into exactly what it is now. Neither of us were looking for love or anything, it just sort of happend, and now we couldn't be happier. =)

[differentcountries]

I was organizing a health trip to his country, our hotel had connections to his restaurant. I was there every day at the beach with our group. He told everybody we would date before he had spoken more than five words to me. I thought he was crazy. Here we are, 8 months later.

[Harlequin]

We met on a penpal website. I reached out to him initially, because I thought he and I would make good friends. He wrote back, and from there we talked more or less constantly for about a month. Through a series of awkward events, we admitted our feelings for each other aaaaaand yeah. Here we are. We meet for the first time in September.

[kittyo9]

We met online through a guild in an MMO we both played.

[snow]

We met online through a first person shooter

[Malaga]

On Twitter. But not many people know about it. When people ask we just tell them we met on holidays. It saves a lot of explaining.

[merlinkitty]

I think we all love to tell these stories they're special to each of us for their timing and fortuitous luck

We met on Facebook through a group page, where we both had an interest. He was the only one who consistently spelled properly, showed quick wit and insight, a sense of "humour", and I kind of sighed and said "yep, I like this guy." I didn't send him a friend request because I thought he should be allowed to make the first move. And he did

We talked for several months and, for a number of reasons, he decided one day we should stop talking. Of course I was devastated, so much so, that I contacted him less than a week later to find out what had gone wrong. We picked up talking again, and with a few ups and downs, he's finally starting to relent to my persistence We've always had such a strong connection, I hated to lose that.

During one of our disagreements I remember telling him how much I hated how well we got along because it made it so much harder to stomach the idea that he wasn't willing to give it a try. I'm so very grateful that this man has come into my life, has opened up a whole new world to me, and shown me things about myself I never believed. He is the best thing that has ever happened to me and I hope to always make him proud

[Squinchy]

He was the only person in my gaming clan that played the same MMO game I did. He messaged me once when I was playing with "Oh you have Guild wars too? We should play together!" So we did. We ended up spending hours playing together, and the rest as they say, is history.

[jana89]

I went to study to Denmark for a year and as I was celebrating my b-day, I met him. It was just a few days before me going home for summer holiday, but we talked so much during that summer that at the end we knew we are meant to be It is unbelievable that it all happened almost three years ago.

[squeeker]

We actually met on a dating/friendship site called 'AspieAffection.com' (We both have Asperger's). He contacted me first, and we exchanged messages on the site a bit before we added each other on Facebook (and Myspace lol) and started talking every day on Facebook... and from there got to know each other more until we declared a relationship almost a year later and met in person a couple months after we declared our relationship. And continued to get to know each other and grow closer and plan visits and eventually plans for closing the distance.

[merlinkitty]

Myspace lol

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[François]

I met my SO on twitter. I simply posted a message saying ; #ifYouWantToDateMe accept me how I am. She saw it in the middle of twitter jungle and (she don't know why) she replyed "accepted !!!". I was so surprised when I saw her message, I checked her profile and started to follow her by curiosity. She followed me back and few days latter we started talking. During two years we have talk sometimes and discovered than we had few common points and becomes like friends.
Last october I broke with my gf (a two months relationship) and she supported me a lot and discovered than she was jealous when I told her about my ex. We startrd to talk more, sending messages on whatsapp, ... We becomed very close I felt my feeling for her growing up and I felt disapointed, I told her I would stop talking with her but she told me if we don't try, we will never know what we lose and finaly we decided to start a relationship the week of christmas.