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Relationship Stories

I think he clearly meant how much was the minibar champagne they celebrated their fortuitous meeting with. :p
 
It was obviously a joke, and a fairly tame one considering how Timby set it up.

Call me old-fashioned, but thats a line you don't cross. Especially without a winking emoticon or a 'JK' at the end.

Oh, Come on. Timby didn't have to. For example, I met my fiancee in an university cafeteria.

I could have posted this

I met my fiancee in a cafeteria

or

I met my fiancee in a cafeteria ;)

The first quote? No. Do you know why? Because it sound so mundane and doesn't imply anything other than sitting down and eating. The second one-maybe. Actually, In Timby's case, a winky would made it less of a joke than the winky in my second quote....
 
Well I have told this before, but it is my only really good story and I like to tell it so here goes.

I met my girlfriend online in the summer of 1999. I was a poster on a social anxiety newsgroup. Basically I posted every day about how miserable my life was and how I wanted to kill myself. She was a lurker who didn't have social phobia, but was chatting online with another guy who had SA and wanted to know more about it. One day she wrote me an e-mail and said I sounded like the smartest guy in the group and would I mind answering some of her questions(later on she also admitted something about the poignancy of my unhappiness really touched her).

Well we hit it off very quickly. The e-mails grew into daily e-mails. She asked me if I would IM with her and I trepidatiously said yes. The first time we did it we were on with each other for 8 hours and I even skipped work so we could continue chatting. Our relationship grew over the summer. I even went out scouring Chinatown for a Chinese Fortune Telling Fish, a little novelty toy she told me she had as a child, to give to her on her birthday. I couldn't find one, but I told her I had looked. Towards the end of the summer though we had our first fight. I told her all the troubles I had and didn't know if I could ever let her in enough to really be with her. She told me she didn't know if she could carry on this relationship and she would have to think.

A few days later on labor day 1999 I was sitting alone in the lobby of a high-rise building at my graveyard security job feeling very alone and unhappy when someone walked in the door. As usual I stood up and said "Good evening what can I do for you". The person didn't say anything she just smiled at me and placed something down on the counter. I looked down and it was a Chinese Fortune Telling Fish. She had driven 500 miles from LA to San Francisco to give me her answer.

That was 12 years ago this summer and despite some very rocky times we are still together. One irony is even though I met her in social anxiety group she is the one person in the world I have never felt socially anxious around. Not even on that first day we met.:)
 
Rage, that is a great story. And I'm glad you could be comfortable with her, because if not her after such an outreach, then who?! :bolian:
 
I met my sweetie when she lived upstairs from me as a neighbor.

She moved out of the apartment and into my heart. :) She loves Monty Python, MST3K, and Life on Mars. She's a huge nerd. :lol: For Halloween this year, we want to go as Steed and Mrs. Peel from The Avengers. I've never felt so close to someone before, we really do compliment each other. We are planning to get married someday, so I guess that makes her my fiancée.

Not the bestest picture, but I loves it.

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She has been told that she looks like Sean Young, btw. :)

Nice picture, and I'm definitely glad to hear things are working out for ya, Flukie! :techman:

After yesterday I have a picture of my own too. The rain made my hair a disaster, but I like the picture anyway.

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We both look like that in most of our pictures. We're clearly very sunshiney individuals.
 
I can see that. :lol: My gf is a MST3k fan as well. When she gets depressed, I put on Mr. B Natural for her, and it's all better. :)
 
Glad to hear that works. :p

We're not really depressed people. Just somewhat cynical and downbeat. We get along quite well.
 
^ My best friend's sister met her husband on WoW
Jeez, couldn't they have met trough a good game :p

Naturally, each to their own. WoW isn't my cup of tea.


As for stories...well only real relationship I've had has been chronicled on here pretty well. But for those who hadn't tuned in back then I'll recap shortly.


Met my now ex when I was writing Harry Potter fanfic (shut up :p ) and she was a reviewer who loved my work and asked if she could be my beta-reader. I respectfully declined since I didn't like writing like that, but said we could could e-mail if she wanted to.

We did, and soon graduated to IM, and after a while started a tentative relationship when we realized we where both attracted to each other. That only lasted a few months because I didn't think I could handle a long distance relationship at that time (me in Sweden and her in Atlanta).

Had a bit of a rough spot but stayed friends. Then in December that year I realized that I did actually love her, and confessed that to her. She said that she felt the same way and I quickly booked a trip to come see her in the following summer.

Got there, thought things went pretty well, and was so giddily in love that I even proposed and she said yes. But a month later she dumped me, blaming on her religion. Later on it turned out that she'd realized rather quickly after my confession and her positive reply that she actually didn't love me and had not told me because "she didn't want to hurt me" :rolleyes: And when I came to visit her she'd been sort of involved with another guy for a month already. She's now married with this guy. Who's like me, except thin.

It was bad for a long while afterward, but I learned a lot of good lessons. And now I hope to love again.
 
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