>>4346523

If you truly found the person you were meant to grow old with, you shouldn't be shy about where that happened.

Son: Daddy, how did you meet Mommy?
Dad: Well son, your mother and I were at this big party where everybody dressed up.
Son: Like Halloween?
Dad: Yes, son. It was a lot like Halloween, except three days long and for grown-ups. And your mother and I had dressed up in similar costumes, and we got to talking, and the next thing you know we'd gotten hitched.
Son: Cool! Why doesn't MY Halloween last three days?
Captcha: unf; icudaddi

When I met Hypno, he was drunk as fuck and wearing an Elmo costume. It wasnt at a convention, nor was it Halloween.
I wish I had pictures. It was priceless.

meh. Its better than explaining a one night stand that became a relationship.

>MFW I'm too shy to approach people at conventions

I tried once at Megacon. I was Brief and tried to flirt with a Panty cosplayer who was super cute and was selling her art.
I went over and forgot what I was going to say and ended up just going "I.. l-like your a-art." And then clammed up.

>Then my Stocking called me back over for a picture and accidently kicked me very hard in the leg
>And I hit the floor
>In front of the cute Panty

>>4346565

Why does everyone's love story have to be a perfect story out of a romance novel

Chill out, nobody judges you for meeting somewhere where you'll meet like minded people. We've graduated from high school already :p

The hell with that, I'm going to sit my kids down and tell them hundreds of little unrelated stories about how I met my partner and make a TV show out of it starring RedDickies as Barney.

>cosplaying at 38
>cheese festival
>sailor moon outfit
>panty flashing
Girl you have a crazy imagination. I like you.

>>4346579
:3 i would watch that show
oh wait i already do
hmmmmmm neil patrick harris, or reddickies???

>>4346567
That sounds perfectly in-character, actually.

I'll do what a bunch of married couples do:

Forget how we met and make shit up so we have something to say. Then spend several days trying to remembering just how we met and hope it doesn't cause a rift that'll hurt the relationship.

But yeah, meeting up while at an anime convention would be somewhat memorable. Then again, people have forgotten more eccentric/weird/WTF meet up moments than that.

I met my husband on a BDSM website 5 years ago and our first irl date was supposed to be only a one-off S&M session. Oh well. I guess I will be telling my children the usual "mutual friends, dinner party" thing....

>>4346565
As if most couples go into such detail about when they first had sex when talking to their kids.... And if a one night stand does become a relationship few peeps will tell their kids "well it was meant to be a one night stand but we ended up together...." cause then it wasn't really a one night stand after all... Your parents can just say "we met at a party" and even if that is 100% truth you will never know if they met at a party and just made polite conversation and exchanged numbers and then dated or if they met at a party and had drunken sex in the bathroom in what was meant to be a one night stand....

You know I really have no idea where my parents met, come to think of it..

My parents met as adults in school in Mexico years ago. My dad went to go drop a friend off on campus, and the friend was like, "C'mon you should go apply! What else are you doing?" And my dad was like, "Ehhh...maybe idk. Seems kinda lame. I could be doing other things."

And then supposedly he saw my mom on campus walking somewhere, immediately after that.

"...Guess I'll apply. This school thing ain't so bad." Lololol what a fucker

There's more to the story, but that's how that got started.

I met my husband in a college dorm our freshman year because he was watching Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and I thought his love for Joss Whedon shows was pretty cool.

I'm gonna tell our kids exactly how it happened and watch them cringe. Ooooh, I can't wait for prom dates.

>>4346749
This. There is always a way to tell the truth but leave any dirty or embarrassing details out. So whatever your parents have told you can still be truth but there could be dimensions you don't know about. "We met in uni" could mean "your mother was being a total slut at a frat party on campus and I got her knocked up" for all you know.

My parents met at a Star Trek convention in 1979. I'm a second-generation nerd.

Feels awesome, man.

I'm so glad I don't have to say "We met on WoW" anymore.

Now I can say we met at uni. I sound so normal!

Don't know where my parents met, don't care :3

"We met online in a video game tournament. Your father's team lost so he joined mine and we ended up winning, which we couldn't have done without him"

it sounds cooler to my friends

>>4346805
just hope that they dont ask to explain what it means and your golden

>lesbian
If my girlfriend and I have kids, telling them how we met will probably be the least awkward thing I'll have to explain to them.

>Wisconsin Anime Convention and Cheese festival
I lol'd.

And who the hell falls in love with a 34 year old man who lives with his mom?

Anyway, I have no problem meeting someone at an anime convention. I mean, I met my now-ex-boyfriend who I thought would eventually be my children's uncle-that-dad-likes-about-as-much-as-mommy and also probably the-wingman-that-would-help-me-get-the-courage-to-talk-to-women-because-he-practically-is-one on /tg/. That would have been a wacky story to tell them, but like all my other relationships that I think will last forever, he now hates me.

But back to the point: I see no problem. My kids are likely going to be nerds like I am. They'll be going to anime conventions. They'll know what a convention is, they'll see nothing wrong with it.

in b4 my children are jocks and beat people like me up

"Well sweetie, -"

OH WAIT.

I'm not gonna have kids, that's right!

Enjoy never getting sleep, losing your figure, fucking up your life and marriage and throwing away 300,000 - 500,000 dollars, bitches!

>>4346888
>Enjoy never having the miracle of life, and nurturing another human being into becoming a decent person.
If I get kids, I think I'll live.

>>4346888
Mieh, whatever. My mom had 2 kids (incl. me) , got her figure back with proper diet and exercise each time and is still happily married to my dad (they celebrated their 46th anniversary earlier this year) and are pretty well-off. As for the sleep, in most cases you lose sleep the first few weeks due to frequent night feedings. It's not like you have a baby and never sleep properly for the rest of your life dude...

I met my husband when he moved into my house (mom ran a boarding house). I was 15, & he was 21. I don't think I'll mention that part to our son, as I don't want him to call me a hypocrite if I have to tell him 'no, you can't date high school girls' when he's in his 20's.

Honestly though, I think my mother was trying to get us to hook up, as he had the room which shared the balcony with mine.

I met my husband at the midnight premier of Spider Man 2. He was wearing a shirt with a dragon on it and it was love at first sight.

>>4346888
>losing your figure
Google some pictures of Heidi Klum. She has had children and still manages to be a Victoria's Secret model.

It's better than telling your kids you met at a bar, imo.

Kid: "Mommy, how did you meet Daddy?"

Me: "Well, kid, Daddy is much smarter than Mommy and gave her some help with her homework one day. Mommy got the idea that he was interested, and we exchanged info.

The truth was that Daddy had been desperate for a long time and had finally resolved to just ask out every girl who came along.

Mommy just happened to be the first."

No lie, that's what my husband told me when I asked him what had made him decide to ask me out, minus the speaking-to-future-child narration.

When I asked my mom how she met my dad she responded with "It was a blind date and I hated him." I'm still wondering how that worked out.

Yeah, well I fell in love with my girlfriend when we did drugs together! HEY KIDS IF YOU WANT LOVE TAKE ECTASY

>>4346929
lol wow that's sad.

"I met daddy because I kicked his ass numerous times in fencing and I was wearing a t-shirt from World of Warcraft. We had both secretly been staring at each other from across the room for 12 weeks and were too afraid to talk to each other. Yay secret stalkers!"

I met my boyfriend at my friends birthday party, which was at a bar so I was pretty drunk. And dating another guy, lol. I dumped the guy I was dating a week later and went on a date with my current bf because I wanted to get laid. He ended up being super awesome though.

kid: mommy how did you meet daddy?

me: well... me and my ex boyfriend had a privat server for an online game and your father was one of the players we caught botting... we talked about this for some time online and I added him on skype
and when we knew eachother for around 1 1/2 years I visited him for the first time and we fell in love... ( what a pity he lived a flight of 8 hours away... so expensive...)

kid: why do you always forbid me to play computer then?

me*thinks* damn shot myself in the foot

>>4346888
I wish someone had said that to your parents.

I met my husband in a World of Darkness/Final Fantasy chat room when I was 14. I am now 26. We're still together.

I admit I don't usually specify how we met though.

I met your father at college. I was dating someone else who treated me like shit, and your father went across the room to talk to me since he thought I was attractive. I had somehow gotten a rock stuck in my dslite gba slot, and he helped me get it out. I promptly dumped the other guy after hooking up with your father in my room when we were playing Blazblue.

It's been all love and hot sex from then on out.

>World of Darkness/Final Fantasy chat room
"Oh no, Sephiroth diablerized Aeris!"...?

my boyfriend and i met on deviantart. on the internet. i guess it's becoming more and more common to meet people online, but at least an anime convention is in "real life" and you can easily say it's some sort of party.

>>4347018
Omg such a slut! Fucking after only getting a rock out of your gba!

>>4347279
Bet he "rocked her GBA" if you know what I mean.

Yeah well, I met my partner of 3 years on Second Life, which I view as a worse place to find your special someone than at an anime convention.

"Mommy, how did you meet daddy?"

"Well, back in freshmen year of high school, I saw your daddy in the lunch room and spent three years trying to get with him. This included going out with other men to try and get my mind off of daddy. This miserably failed. So one day I sat next to him during lunch and tried talking. I somehow magically invited myself to his house. Once I got to his house he told me he really wasn't interested in dating because he was Chinese and was to busy doing calculus. This went into my ear and out the other one. We then proceeded to watch the Telemundo channel and laugh at a poorly dubbed version of Universal Soldier. For some reason I decided to put my hands under his shirt and touch his nipples. Little did I know that this was his fetish. I was invited back to his house."

True story... :0

>>4347279
Oh yeah, you know it.
This one time though, we were having sex in the back of my car and we got a ticket for parking somewhere at night. The officer waited for me to put pants on to give it. $50 for sex in a parking lot. Shit was not so cash.
I am a monogamous sexual deviant. Sage for unrelated.

Met my bf of almost 2 years now on Omegle and I'm not ashamed of it LOL

My parents met in Italian classes. My father was the married sexy teacher and my mother was married to someone else too. I don't know any other details, and I don't want to know them.

Because information like "oh, you were made at the beach, it was a crescent moon!" was totally unnecessary, and I wish I could forget it.

>>4347333
totally know that feeling....
the information:
you were made after we were out skiing.... in the bed you sleep in now...

was totally not what I wanted to hear

I was conceived in Hawaii. And my dad allegedly got sick because all the sex they were having drained all his energy.

But I'm okay with knowing that. Think it's pretty hilarious.

I was conceived when my mom decided to chase after a man who was already engaged to another woman. She delusionally hoped that a random scottish army man with a scottish fiance back home, was totally gonna stay with her and help her bear her child, guys.

Meanwhile, she's got 3 divorces under her belt and is currently dating a man who is already married and has a 16 year old son. She has caused them to begin to file for divorce.

>>4347292
So you fucked other guys and somehow settled for a Chinese guy? How in the fuck...

My parents met at a star trek convention in the 70's.

#bornthisway

World of Warcraft.

>"We've graduated from high school already"
>Anime fandom

You can have one or the other.

I met a guy on OKCupid 2 years ago and we're moving in together now.

I like being living proof that internet dating can totally work out.

My parents, both lawyers at the time, met in the court room. My father on one side, my mother on the other.

How did I meet my fiance? Gaiaonline.

When I date people I've met online, and my friends/family ask me how I've met them, I usually tell them our first physical encounter, rather than online.

>"Oh, we met on craigslist/OkCupid/plentyoffish/myspace/etc."
WRONG
>"I met her at the bookstore."
okay

I think geek romances are the cutest thing EVER. Like this couple I heard of that fell in love through their common obsession with LOTR, and got married with replicas of The One Ring. (I'm sure many couples have done this, actually, but it's still cute.)

My bf and i met on okcupid. doesn't make for a good answer to the question "how did you guys meet" but it doesn't really matter.

There are some seriously unhealthily shame-filled people ITT. You guys need to get over it and realize that people aren't as harshly judgemental as you seem to think.

>>4346567
holy crap, i wanna give you a big hug.

I learned that I was conceived during a family vacation to Australia because I found the photo album and could do simple math. I was about...eight or nine at the time, I think. I was rather traumatized by the thought.

Oh, and my mom accidentally mentioned that they hadn't wanted a third child and my little brother was an accident while I was in the room. I spent YEARS letting him know that he hadn't been wanted because I was an evil older sister.

>>4347371

christ, is your mom my mom?

My mother met my dad while she was doing her residency at a hospital in Missouri. My dad was on the construction crew doing renovations to a wing of the hospital. They met in the cafeteria and because my mom told him it was her birthday soon my dad asked her for her address so he could send her a card.

I was the Valentines Day sex baby that my mother didn't want. My brother was the birthday sex baby my mother didn't want. My sister was the Christmas sex baby my mother didn't want. My mother did not want children and has told us all several times that we were all accidents.

I am never telling my nieces/nephews how I meet any SO I may have.

>>4347411

You say that to our face. Yet behind our backs, you're likely all "Haha, look at the losers! I'm glad I'm not a loser like them!"

This is /cgl/, after all.

>>4347510

no, *because* this is /cgl/, he'd have just said it.

Funny thing is, my boyfriend and I met due to a game called Humans Vs. Zombies. We were both humans that survived the entire week.

I'm not sure if that sounds nerdier than meeting at an anime convention...

my mother pushed my father down at the local skating rink and yelling at him "IM GUNNA MARRY YOU ONE DAY" She was 6 He was 12.. She met my stepdad when she was 14 when he moved in next door. She married my dad in i think in 83? separated from him in 92, the moment my stepdad found this out he drove 8 hours from Arizona to California waited all night for my grandmother to wake and ask her where my mother was. They never really "married" yet but I consider him a better father then my real one. He has been in love with my mother since the day he first met her. I thought it was cute

>>4347591
That sounds AWESOME.

My boyfriend and I were constantly competing against each other in school. (Good thing my school has two valedictorians.) Instead of debating eugenics, (more or less yelling at each other) he announces that he's been infatuated with me since we took AP geography together in 9th grade

He doesn't like my anime, and insists I watch Sengoku Basara and Rainbow.

>>4347599
Yeah, it was! It's an amazing game, really fun, and I find that I always meet new people when playing.

If you get the chance, you should play. :3

My parents met at a club, which is funny because my dad doesn't even drink. He was hanging out with his girlfriend at the time and my mom was just dancing and having a good time.
...
My dad saw my mom and left the girl he was with so he could go creep on my mom :|.

I met my boyfriend at a con when we both showed up for a Team Fortress 2 meet and were the only BLUs there. I got to actually know him through playing TF2 and Left 4 Dead with him.

Valve is pretty awesome in my books for more reasons than just making good games. :D

I met my current Husband on neopets back around 8 years ago. And what do you know, we just got married this past March...weather or not I'll be telling our future children this is debatable..lol

>>4348601

"Mom, how did you meet dad?"
"Oh, we lived in the same town and er, met up with our mutual... friends.. from the same university and er, became friends.. SO, HONEY WHAT DID YOU WANT FOR LUNCH TODAY?"

The truth: We met because of Anime Expo. ;_; Not sure if I want to explain that to my kids. Maybe if they grow up liking anime or comics and we go to comic-con or something.

I met my fiance at clubs day in university. I was dressed up as Rukia and he signed up for the anime club because he recognized Bleach. He had checked out the anime club table earlier that day but we had Yaoi posters as a joke up so he avoid us thinking we were freaks. I was dating someone else at the time but once that relationship ended we started hanging out together and after staying over to his place (no sex) a couple nights to play survival horror games until 6am I knew he was the one for me.

I met my bf on /a/ in a troll thread. It was definitely not intentional at first but it eventually just happened when we decided to meet in real life.

>>4348692
dear god, i......just..........jeeze. what is it with old people? the older they get, the less of a shit they give.

i think i would've cried from humiliation.

>>4348692
Oh my god, that's terrible. I know old people are old, but it's not THAT hard to watch what you say. But they don't.

My grandfather grew up in the US Embassy in Mexico City (his dad was in the State Department or something) in the 1930s but he never had a very positive view of Mexicans. They were spics and wetbacks and, worse still, they were the hired help. A Latino family moved down the street of his mostly white, affluent neighborhood a couple of years before he died and he refused to believe they actually lived there...or that they were citizens. He'd insult them to their faces and then yell at us for looking so shocked.

I don't think anyone was very sad when he passed. I certainly wasn't.

My Mom was dating my Dad's motorcycle buddy, and after they broke up, she tried several time to set him up with her best friend. It's hard to believe that they've known eachother since she was 19, and he was 24. He's 60, and she's 55 now. Married for 28 years now, and I have never seen them fight. Ever.

I met my boyfriend through my ex. We all play Tetris. My ex (incidentally one of the best players in America) cheated on me/dumped me and his best friend comforted me through it, despite just knowing me through the game. It turns out we're very similar personality wise, have a ton of similar interests, and get along wonderfully. After a few months of breakup, said best friend asked me out. We've been together for over a year now.

>>4348720
Yeah. :( I kinda mumbled something to her and she walked away to find a different table. I apologized at length to the family (since I thought ignoring it would be WAY worse since it was super obvious they heard) and I said something about her being senile, even though it was really really obvious she wasn't, at all :/

Then I had to get extra food so it didn't look weird to my grandmother that I was taking a long time getting to the table >_> The entire rest of my visit I cooked all of our meals, lol.

depends how good their cosplay was.