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Steve and I met at the gym shortly after I graduated from vet school. Our meeting was organic, following two months of staring and smiling, and the occasional snapshot of Steve working out to send to my girlfriends…
Despite going to the same high school and having the same circle of friends, Ritchy and I didn’t meet until years later, when …
Sara and I met in middle school and it has been a long time since our first movie-theater date! Our parents picked us up and dropped us off, and we became boyfriend and girlfriend…
The short version of how we met is Jon was hiding in a bush on our college campus and when I ran by, he jumped out and tackled me…
Peter and I met on a night where we were both expecting a casual night with friends at a bar …
Michael and I started dating when we were 16. We met in our high school TV production class. We were friends, and started dating in our junior year.
Seth and I met on a dating app, swiping right and setting our first date at Haymaker Bar and Kitchen in Midtown. When the bar closed, we continued having drinks at the Molly Wee Pub, one of the only nearby bars still open. We just didn’t want the night to end!
Gerri Ann and I met when we saw each other out at a bar. We knew of each other because I worked at the member’s only club her family belongs to.
Brian and I have known each other for what feels like our whole lives. Our families have been friends since our parents went to high school together.
Esther and I met through a mutual friend. For our first date, we had dinner at a restaurant I was working at part time, after which we went for a walk on the walkway along the Hudson River…
Ari and I saw each other on a dating app. We met the next day at a wine bar on the Upper West Side. It was while sipping our first glass of wine that Ari mentioned he was a rabbi living in the suburbs…
We first connected on a dating app a few years before we started dating. We’d both shown interest in each other, but the timing didn’t work out. However …
Tal and I were high school sweethearts. We met in 11th grade and went on a date to Starbucks, where he bought me a reusable coffee mug that I still have…
Dominick and I met when his best friend married my cousin. We were both in the bridal party and started to bond when he was entertaining their flower girl.
Matt and I grew up with a lot of friends in common, but our paths crossed November 7, 2012, on social media. We had a lot in common and soon started dating.
I say Justin and I met on Facebook when he sent a friend request. He says he, “Thought he knew me,” but I think he just thought I was cute. Then …
Rick and I both grew up in Rockaway, but we didn’t meet until after high school. After a few years hanging out with the same friends and getting to know each other better, we started dating. Rick was instantly part of my family…
Chris and I connected online through a mutual friend. He was in his sixth year as a neurosurgeon and I was teaching violin to elementary school students…
I’ve been friends with Paul’s sister, Allie, since I was eight years old and I’ve always had a crush on him growing up and …
We met on a dating app which connects you through mutual friends. On our 1st date, we immediately hit it off. Our 2nd date was at a Mets game that weekend.
Blair and I met on a dating app and our first date was brunch at a popular spot in Boston. When we started dating, we worked a block away from each other.
Kyle and I met through mutual friends at a country concert. We immediately hit it off and a week later he asked me out on our first real date…
We met one summer while attending the Firefly Music Festival, each of us driving down to Delaware with our college friends…
I met Nadav at his best friend Justin’s birthday party in Manhattan’s Meatpacking district …
Dennis and I knew each other for 10 years before we started dating. When we first met, I was looking to keep things light, but we always kept in touch.
We were both invited to a mutual friend’s summer house in Belmar, NJ. When I arrived, Paul introduced himself and we hit it off immediately…
Michael and I met the summer before we went to college. He saw me online and that we were going to the same school. He reached out to me and …
Anthony and I met at a family-owned restaurant in Wappingers Falls. I was bartending my way through nursing school when he convinced me to go on a date…
Anthony and I met our junior year of college when we were 20 years old. On our first “real” date we bonded over the Yankees, family and friends, and Disney…
After spending a semester abroad in Italy, I met Joris, who had just been recruited for the tennis team from Holland …
At the end of our 1st date, instead of me taking the subway again, Morrie walked me 30 blocks back to my sister’s apartment so we could talk the whole way.
I met Stephen in high school through a friend, seeing him at social events and track meets. We reconnected in college, at a track meet, years later.
Mehdi and my brother have a construction company together, so when my brother had to go to Florida to work on a job, he asked me to help out as a design consultant…
Dan and I met as sophomores in college, but it was so long ago we barely remember our first meeting! Our first date was to a NJ Devils hockey game…
When I began working at The Brownstone, Jaime had worked there for several years. We had an instant connection, always talking and …
Meeting each other was such luck! We both were living in New Brunswick, NJ, where Josh was temporarily working on a political campaign and I was starting graduate school…
Nick and I met in college and we started dating shortly after graduation. After about two years of dating, Nick’s proposal was quite the surprise!
Mark and I met on OKCupid, an online dating app, and our first date was at Fire & Oak in Montvale, NJ …
Mike and I met online. We had our first date at Olive Lucy’s in Morristown and quickly became inseparable.
All it took was five seconds for our lives to change forever. I was hurrying along 56th Street in Midtown when a man across the street caught my attention.
Andrea and I went to high school together but didn’t start dating until after we graduated college…
Frank and I met at Seton Hall University. After being friends for about a year, I finally kissed him during Memorial Day weekend …