James and I met at a local gay bar on $1 drinks night. He claims to have seen me from a distance because I was wearing a golden flannel and a fedora hat. The bar was mildly crowded, so he saw me from about 20 feet away. My back was towards him and I was [...]

My cousin had tried on multiple occasions to set Lydia and I up. However, we had both dismissed the idea as ridiculous because Lydia lived in Madison, Wisconsin and I in California.
It took a few years for us to meet in person. I was visiting my cousin in Madison, WI who had brain surgery in [...]

Background info:
Julia was born in southern California but is a norcal girl through and through, raised in the bay area from the tender age of 10 months. The San Jose Sharks and San Francisco Giants are her obsessions, and will curse any southern California team no matter the sport. Julia earned her B.S. [...]

Jeremy and I were high school sweethearts. We met in geometry class. Jeremy came on to me in class, but he had a reputation for being a “bad boy,” so I handled the situation by constantly trying to get him in trouble with the teacher (most often successfully. He found this love/hate form of [...]

It was a normal Sunday night at the skating rink and I was busy getting my “skate on”. I have been going to this rink since 1985 and have made a lot of good friends over the years. I did, however, have a strict policy of not dating anyone from the rink. (Seeing a former [...]

I met my wife to be three years ago. It almost didn’t happen.
I had been divorced for about 3 years when I met Pari Livermore. Pari is a wonderful woman who runs the Red & White ball, an annual singles party that she organizes for us generally older singles. She asks those who seek her [...]

Erik, known as “ERO“, was a scraping young college student athlete, a baseball player at Azusa Pacific University. Stacey was a ambitious college student at the same university. At night, Erik was starting his 16 year career in the television news broadcasting field by working as an assignment assistant at KTTV Fox 11 News. [...]

I was halfway through my one year internship with the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force in San Francisco when Jyoti started as a new intern. I was living in San Francisco at the time, but she was living in Gilroy and attending San Jose State. So, whenever I tried to ask her out, [...]

I had traveled to Kyrgyz republic years earlier to meet another woman and it did not work out but while there I met a translator (Marina), that worked for me and she remembered me. Years later she was working for a dating agency and Irina was trying to find a suitable mate. So Marina [...]

This may possibly be the only “How we first met” story written by the guy, so it probably won’t be very sweet.
We were both 21 and out at the bars. I was with the guys and Kim was out with one of her girlfriends. The guys were ready to move on to the [...]

We are both in our late forties and we met last spring.
We were both in a yoga class at Harbin Hot Springs. I felt him staring at me but I pretended not to notice. However, out of the corner of my eye I could not ignore his big strong legs in his tight black [...]

It all started in 2000 with a glance across the women’s retreat circle. Electricity filled the air as their eyes locked on each other. They were friends first and only saw one another once a year at the retreat. They both had crushes on each other, but had kept it secret. What made the situation [...]

Jen’s version: Brian and I met on March 8, 2008…it was a Saturday morning and I was almost done with my workout at the gym when he passed me and smiled at me at the same moment I spotted him and smiled. See Brian and I had smiled at one another for months, when I [...]

Solio and I first met in an AOL chat room back in the day when it was cool - during the beginning stages of meeting people on the internet. He approached me first asking the usual A/N/L/P (Age/Nationality/Location/Picture)? I sent him my picture; of course I made sure it was the best looking one of [...]

Ten years ago, during my freshman year at college, one of my girlfriends gabbed about this older, computer-geeky guy (Tom) who was trying to date her. She didn’t know if she was interested in him. One night at a party, my friend introduced the guy to me. She promptly left with him to take shots [...]

My husband planned on “accidentally” meeting me at the elevator of the Saul Zaentz Film center in Berkeley where we both worked. He rented an office in the building and I worked for a documentary producer who also was a tenant in the building. He noticed the pattern of my arrival to work [...]

Michelle is very much a bar person, preferring to soak in conversation and laughter surrounded by friends, while making new ones. For nightlife, Jess, is a polar opposite, interested more in going to dance clubs and losing himself on the dance floor. It was a dark and stormy night when Michelle was persuaded by her [...]

We met on October 21,1995. We met at a dental office. Jason was my patient and I was a dental assistant at the time. We fell in love on our first date. We went go-kart racing and dinner at Max’s Opera Restuarant. He told me the first night that we were going to get married [...]