DH and I met at work. I fell in love with him on his first day.
If I were dating now, i'd likely do a combo of match.com, meetups, church, and the Boston/Mass sports & social clubs
That's adorable, re: you and your husband.
It got more complicated after that. He was living with a girl at the time, and it wasn't going well. He kept expressing interest but didn't want to hurt the GF. I told him he'd better shit or get off the pot, and he needed to deal with that relationship before he went any further with me. I was the Other Woman, LOL
Oh, and if Baltimore is to be compared, BSSC should be a blast. A guy in B'more took the Boston model and I did it all.the.time when I lived there. I'm not terribly sporty, but anyone can play kickball, KWIM?
Oh, and if Baltimore is to be compared, BSSC should be a blast. A guy in B'more took the Boston model and I did it all.the.time when I lived there. I'm not terribly sporty, but anyone can play kickball, KWIM?
I didn't know it got exported to Baltimore, but that's cool! I only play volleyball with them but I've seen the kickball league and it looks fun. I love that they have that and dodge ball so people who aren't necessarily sporty still have a fun option for meeting people.
Yeah, it was one of the first things I joined when I moved to Baltimore. When I last participated they even had a wiffleball league. That was a hoot! And they had the Social Teams (with sports skills) and the Extreme Social teams (who were there to have fun and get beer afterward). I met some great people there.
I noticed on Google that there was a MA Sports & Social Club. FD, maybe there's something near your area.
Post by bostonmichelle on Jan 30, 2013 21:41:48 GMT -5
We met in high school his sophomore year (he's a year older than me), we went to his senior year prom together and been together since. If I had to do the dating scene now I would definitely do an online dating service, most of my single girlfriends are going that route now.
Senior year of college. Engineering school that was 75% male... The odds were good, but the goods were odd.
This made me LOL.
My husband was dating someone else when we first met, but basically one of my friends moved in with one of his friends in college and we met at a party. I may have been dancing on a table with his girlfriend.
We met working at Riverside/Six Flags our senior year of high school. Crappy job, but I'll never regret it!
Aww, I miss Riverside! I refused to go to Six Flags out of protest. If I can be nosy, what year did you work there? I had friends who worked there in high school (early 90s), and my neighbors were supervisors there in the early 2000s.
H and I met on Match.com. He was too embarrassed to tell people where we met at first for some reason; I think he was linking it to the days of AOL chat rooms or something, heh. I tried eHarmony and had some of the worst dates of my life from there, so I am definitely pro-Match.
We met working at Riverside/Six Flags our senior year of high school. Crappy job, but I'll never regret it!
Aww, I miss Riverside! I refused to go to Six Flags out of protest. If I can be nosy, what year did you work there? I had friends who worked there in high school (early 90s), and my neighbors were supervisors there in the early 2000s.
H and I met on Match.com. He was too embarrassed to tell people where we met at first for some reason; I think he was linking it to the days of AOL chat rooms or something, heh. I tried eHarmony and had some of the worst dates of my life from there, so I am definitely pro-Match.
DH and I worked there (in the games department) from 1998-2000. We were both games supervisors for 1999 and 2000. Almost everyone from my town worked there, since I grew up in Agawam. Where are you from (or now, not sure what neighbors you are referencing)?
Post by 5kcandlesinthewind on Jan 31, 2013 12:56:36 GMT -5
I'm from Springfield, but live in Belmont now. One of my BFFs and I lived in Agawam in 2000/2001, which is when I lived next door to the two dudes who worked at Six Flags.
Post by CheshireGrin on Feb 4, 2013 3:34:36 GMT -5
I was single for a good four years after my divorce. Dated here and there, but never anything serious. There were only two guys who earned the title of "boyfriend," and neither lasted more than a few months. Other than that it was mostly a lot of first dates that never went anywhere. I did the online dating thing intermittently, but it never really worked for me. Always felt too artificial.
In the end, BF and I were pretty much set up by a mutual friend. He approached me at work one day and said, "Hey, I know this firefighter who's interested in you." (Unbeknownst to me, he had previously had a conversation with my now-BF in which he said, "I know this really cute nurse you should go out with." So, telling me that BF was interested was technically true, but only after he had been prompted, LOL.) So I looked him up on FB (as I was directed to do by my friend), recognized him by face even though I hadn't known his name, and sent him a friend request. We chatted, he asked me out, and the rest is history. (Well...after I spent about 6 months telling him we were just friends, that is. I like to take my time, apparently.)
We were on the same study abroad program in Copenhagen my junior year of college (we went to different colleges in different states). We sat next to each other on the bus from the aiport to our dorms, and he had to help me with my bag (I have an overpacking problem). Then we ended up living across the hall from each other