How did you meet your significant other?

Through a steamgifts thread. She saw what I wrote and left a reply below ;)

my hands were born with me

Really noone through speeddating?

Using online dating/apps is like buying a car via FB marketplace, and speeddating is just a moneygrab for desperate people.

F*ck this -.-

i was born with her

Single for 10 years. Only had 1 relation in my life, and it was only like 3 months long.

To be honest, I never have and never will use a dating app. I am a bit wary of things like that. Most people on those things are just looking for a bit of fun and not a relationship. That's not to say that there aren't nice people too, but generally speaking.

Once, I met her at school.

Wait, you guys have significant others?

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We met in high school, and have been together for almost 7 years now. Just lucky, I guess.

Depends on what you qualify as "success". I dated a Tinder match for 2 years, but we had a lot of problems before we finally called it quits. Everyones' luck is different I guess.

As others have said, I wouldn't look to Tinder for a relationship. Try something like OKCupid or something more geared towards relationships vs hookups. A friend met his wife through MeetUp (I think they played kickball together), another through Yahoo Dating (not sure that's a thing anymore).

I met my SO through WoW. :)

never tried to find anyone on tinder but friends said it's more like find sex app than find your love. They say there are other paid (paying discourage not dedicate people) sites on which there are more people trying to really find someone for life

in 2003 on a Mensa forum, at the time dating someone from the internet was pretty uncommon

on twitter. but well, in 2009 twitter was kinda small 😆

In my case it was at university, where we were both interchange students from different countries. The story continued and we are a family.

Never tried Tinder. I met my husband through family. He had gotten into some legal issues after a mental health issue, and moved back in with his grandmother to help her out and get better himself. I should mention early on he's adopted, not blood relation.

His adopted sister (my blood uncle's wife) thought it would be a good idea for him to make some friends out here since he had none, and Ive always been a loner. We ended up doing a river float and hed visit whenever they were in the area.

Then he had another mental health crisis and ended up in a hospital for awhile. When he got out, they highly encouraged our hanging out because he had a bad habit of isolating himself and going down some dark rabbit holes. Eventually he started making it a weekly visit, then spending weekends with his sister. One night I had a stomach bug and was really sick, and he stayed up until like...3-4am taking care of me (he literally held me up so I could throw up because I was too weak, brushed my teeth for me because I couldnt stand "being filthy", etc.).

Pretty much after that it was just accepted we were together lol We got married last year in August.

I have some friends who have found girlfriends through tinder..
From the top of mind two of them are in serious relationships.. But both of them are kind of weird and not in a "cool" kind of weird.. And their girlfriends are a bit weird as well.. I suppose you can strike luck and find someone for you, like you..
But I have bunch of buddies who are going through that site with no luck whatsoever..

It depends I'll say.. on what kind of personality you have.. And depending on whats your view on relationships.. Personally I dont think that deciding who you want to date from picture alone suffices, I like to talk with the person and see if I can stand that person. Tinder has opened up many doors and increased chances of encounter, but that has given us too much choice (not that its bad) but it feels the general view on relationships have been dumbed down to simply being together and fucking just for the little tick in facebook that says you are in a relationship, not because you found a person you love.. That may be my cynicism talking and I might be exagarating, but tinder is not for me..

Havent found anyone myself though.. Over the years have went on some dates unsuccessfully, never really getting the fling on.. Its not even that I am socially awkward or shut-in.. I go out and party, from time to time go to a club. I have bunch of friends and acquaintance around, so its not that I dont get a chance to socialize and meet new people - I just cant seem to get it going when I meet someone I like..

sad sad life.. and damn, that poll is depressing

PS.. If the girl is beautiful, her inbox is one huge sausage fest with low lifes and pathetic excuses of man. One close friend of mine is beautiful blonde girl. She is in relationship with one of my best buddies. she once showed me her facebook notification bar.. hundreds... I repeat - hundreds of massage and friend requests even if her profile says ''in relationship''... I mean how can you go on the internet and expect to seriously find someone when most girls will have tons of massages and you are just one puny little horny boy there. Even if you are a normal, functioning and not weird guy, good luck standing out.

Met my wife on an online browser based game about 15 years ago.

Through Secret Santa event on a very popular website.

I never had one

I met my wife 14 years ago on a social website. It was before facebook, and it was before people became aware how many creeps are out there, so it was a fairly open forum where people had profiles and could chat to each other, without much restriction. I had just been in hospital for an extended period of time and was still recovering when I started chatting to people on this site, as a way of meeting people in other parts of the world, with the view to maybe travelling one day. So it was kind of a 'pen pals' thing really, and it was a lot of fun. I was not really intending on meeting anyone so I deliberately avoided people in my country.
Anyway, one night I was looking through profiles and saw the picture of the cutest thing ever... it was a beagle puppy! My family had just got a beagle puppy and he's been entertaining me while I recovered, so it caught my attention. And then I noticed the girl. And it sounds silly, but I saw her and I knew I didn't want to just be 'pen pals' with her. She was in another country, thousands of kilometres away from me, but in her profile it was clear that she was from the same part of the world, and so I quickly wrote to her saying 'I'm not a creep, but I noticed your beagle puppy. We also have a beagle!' We still have the original awkward transcript saved somewhere.
Anyway, messages led to daily MSN messenger chats, and then to weekly and twice-weekly phone calls, and I booked a plane to go and meet her in person almost a year after we started talking. A few awkward first minutes in her presence and then it just felt so natural. She moved over here and we were married the next year, and nearly 12 years of marriage and 3 kids later, I still feel like I won the lottery.
So yeah, I guess the 'online thing' can work out pretty well, but I think it also depends on what you are looking for. And I know of at least 2 couples who met on tindr and are now married, so I again I think it depends on what you're both looking for. But there are other more long term focused options I think.

Tinder and all other "flirt" stuff are to 80% or more fake stuff.
They have it partly clear in their AGB (Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen) that they use Moderators or Agents and such stuff. They have "hordes" of people that write you as a female or better under a lot of female accounts to bring you to the point that you pay for the possibility to answer, see pictures, get their emailaddress or whatever.
Normaly they don't try to hide that fact and write it very open in their AGH because nearly none read it and think he really write with single womens.
A lot of Mens are cave dwellers when females are, maybe, involved (= don't use their brains and only other parts...).

I meet the most of my fem partners or subs in games (Minion Masters, War Thunder, Siedler online, Browser Games and and and), discords, at steam or over friends when i told them that i search someone and if they know a, maybe, fitting one that don't life to far away.
So mostly not with the intention to meet "now" a female. It was a, female, gamer/chat partner, not more not less. And i think it make a big difference if you treat the female the same way as all males (my fem contacts must go throught the same jokes and stuff as my male ones..) or if you "play a role" to collect "points". I am too old to collect such points and i know females have without that enough advantages at the contact with guys... so i don't offer them the same advantage with me. It make a difference in their acting and it is more relaxed because they know i am not on the hunt. At least not without a clear invitation ^^.

But to be clear i am mostly very direct and make clear what i want. So she can choose very easily if she wants what i offer ;o)
And i am mostly dominant. My experience is that, a lot of, females like that, when it is not 24/7 and not in a Macho way. That the dom is liked is maybe different in other countries and i can, mostly,, only speak from germany and other european countries like Belg. and Italy.
It give too much weaklings that aren't "real mens". I don't talk from that stupid, tough guys ... i mean someone that say his oppinion if it is liked or not, that hold her the door open, move her chair but expect at the other side too that she do little things for him too -it's always a give and take when it is healthy for both [not important if it is 50:50 or if someone give more.. but it is important if one only take and never give something... (so a little bit as steamgifts :-D )] and someone that can handle his stuff and don't need his mother that do all for him.
I hope it is clear what i mean. It will be often missunderstood in german ... so i am sure it is potential to missunderstood it in english too -special because i am very sleepy and my english is far from perfect in that sleepy level-.

Oh and i can recommend to post a "meal at my home" announcement in a group for sharing (as example food share). Write what you want to cook, offer a few places (4 ?) and pick the ones you like from the ones that want to come over. But better mix mens and females a bit (sooo sorry when you pick 3 fems and 1 other guy... -yes i am evil and increase my advantage with such "little" things-).
I meet in the past a few really nice people with that.
It fits for me because i like to cook for more people as myself and sometimes i want try something new. And a lot of the females like mens that can cook (win:win).
So maybe a solution for other ones too.

Oh and i am not the type of male that can talk at the first 5 min. like i know the female since a long time, so i don't see someone and share directly the phone number or something like that (my brother can do that from the first sentence). I need more time to warm up with someone.