Blind date. That was 10 years ago.The guy who set us up dropped off the face of the earth before I ever had a chance to thank him. -AllGarbage
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I told her, “If I weren’t so socially inept, I’d be trying to have a conversation with you.” Married almost 9 years. -Moni3
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She just started talking to me and never stopped. -dongsandbuttes
At a garage sale.
Well, technically my mom’s garage sale. My father was a hoarder, but not of old newspapers or glass bottles or garbage… he hoarded consumer goods. Tools, CDs, home improvement stuff, camping gear, hunting and fishing stuff, the man had piles and piles of it stuffed into his home, most of it pretty high quality, all bought on clearance. The old man was a sucker for a deal, even if he didn’t have a use for it. After he passed away, it fell to us to figure out what to do with a stock of overstocked goods large enough to open a store… So we sold it at rock-bottom prices in the front yard, as is tradition.
It was a miserably hot summer’s day. My mom requested that I come over and help, because the house was on a well-trafficked street, and the sheer volume of stuff meant there would be tons of people. She was right– there’d been a zillion people the day before, and though we’d sold a lot of stuff, there was much more yet to go. And today, I’d put an ad up on Craigslist– it was even busier. It was a long day of haggling with strangers, but at the end of the day, we’d sold 90% of the load, and we were just getting ready to close up and celebrate our success with pizza.
Then this car pulls up, and out hops this gorgeous girl. She starts poking around in the CDs first, finds a couple she loves, then waves me over and starts asking about some she’s unfamiliar with. Think she thought that since she’d found a few things she liked, the stuff she hadn’t heard might be in the same vein, not knowing it was purchased indiscriminately from bargain bins all over town. I answer as best I can– I hadn’t heard most of them, but I was able to steer her to a couple she might enjoy. We kept chatting, and I sort of showed her around in between helping other people who kept showing up. There was definitely an instant attraction and some really great conversation. She had to get going, so I made her a sweetheart deal on the stuff and helped her to her car. She got in, drove away, and then I realized… I hadn’t gotten her number. My brother and my neighbor had a fucking field day at my stupidity.
BUT! She’d told me where she worked, at a restaurant down the road, and she’d told me the days she was usually scheduled. So I did something very unusual for me and pursued it. Friday afternoons, I’d drive over from my office and ask to sit in her section. The food was terrible, but she’d stop and chat as long as it wasn’t busy, and I caught her mirin’ a few times. So on my third visit, I told her I’d love to see more of her and asked for her number.
Ten years, a marriage, and a child, and we’re still head over heels for each other. So I guess I owe my dad for the posthumous hookup.
TL;DR- am the only person in history to get something at his own garage sale. -Baseproduct
I met her at a gaming club. I was playing D&D, she was hanging out with the MtG crowd. She caught my eye from afar but, being an introvert, I never went up to her. All my social energy was being spent on the D&D, I had none left to leave my close friend group and greet someone new.
If there’s one hobby you can do while being solitary it’s writing, and that eventually led me to NaNoWriMo. I got to talking with some of the people on the local forums and one of them turned out to be her. She invited me to a write-in with a bunch of locals. I didn’t really want to go out, but now this girl I liked was directly inviting me out. I couldn’t say no.
We became NaNo buddies for the next couple of years and started hanging out outside of that. We spent many nights during her senior year of college hanging out at her apartment watching various shows and writing together. Then she graduated and moved away, and we slowly lost contact.
Flash forward four years. I’m still single and resigned to living single for the rest of my life. She pops up on Facebook again. We’d been Facebook friends since before she moved away, but she rarely used the site. Now we’re chatting, and soon the chatting moves to skype. She’s thinking about moving back into town and wants to know if I’d go around looking at apartments with her.
She does the several hour drive and we look at a few places, hang out for a while, then she goes home. A few weeks later she tells me about this cool nearby theme park. She does the several hour drive, we hang out for a while, then she goes home. This goes on for a month or two and I’m just the densest idiot that ever deserved to be an evolutionary dead-end because I’m not realizing people don’t just drive for hours to spend a little time with a friend.
Finally, in the most adorable Skype message I’ve ever gotten, she asks me if the next time she comes down it could, maybe, possibly, if I want it to, be a date. I told her I’m someone who enjoys happiness so of course yes.
That was two years ago. We’re getting married in July, and we still laugh at how dense I was. -TheShadowKick
Introvert girl, I met my husband on Xbox Live (Halo 3) almost ten years ago. Been married for six years now. -TY_SM
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We’re both introverts, but I definitely can force myself to be bold. I was a waitress at a restaurant he came into. He asked to borrow my pen, I told him “only if you write down your number.”
Sometimes introvert guys need a girl who is not afraid to make the first move. We’ve been together almost 14 years now. -KlvrDissident
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(Introvert bf) Tinder. His picture was him hanging upside down from a tree and his bio said: “proof that nerds grow on trees”. We both made it clear we were looking for a relationship, met up the day we matched for coffee, hit it off, and that was that. -zlae
She asked me if I wanted to play Mario Kart. I said yes. -toolatefortheparty
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After 4 years of no dating following a crushing breakup, a mutual friend called to my attention she was into me (I was oblivious). I didn’t know her very well, but I was ready to “try again”. I wasn’t even sure I was very attracted to her but I figured it couldn’t hurt to go out on a date with a nice girl.
We hit it off, she’s pretty shy, which is why she said she’d never had had the courage to try to talk to me. In the course of the first date, I’m slowly realizing “She’s amazing!”
Many years later, now we have two kids and there’s just a lot of love in our lives =D -vozmozno
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Both of us work at a grocery store. I saw her and thought that she was the cutest there but never really did anything about it. She works as a cashier and I work in produce. She would always do the reshop and I soon realized that she was doing that for a reason and started flirting with her back. We have been together 11 months now. -Smirking_Sheep
I’m female… but I am very introverted. I met my now husband at the gym, I would always work out with my brother and my now husband thought I was dating my brother because we were always at the gym together (ew). When he asked my brother how long we had been dating, we both looked at each other and said: “uhh.. we’re sibling so never…” He asked my brother if we could all work out sometime and I went full on awkward when we did. He was showing me a new work out and he almost smashed my face in with a dumbbell, I walked off because I was so embarrassed and started working out alone then he asked me out to lunch and we hit it off. -beatbox28
At a Japanese rope bondage workshop. She needed someone to tie, I was looking for someone to tie me. 4+ years later still strong. -takate_kote
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Put yourself around extroverts one of them will adopt you sooner or later! -uglygala
The thing with introverts is, it’s difficult to keep a conversation going… until (that is) you find this one subject, they are most passionate about!
It’s not long ago I shared how I met my husband. (He’s the introvert) he kept coming into the bar I worked, and I kept asking him questions trying to get a conversation going. But l kept hitting a wall! It didn’t stop me from trying though. (It confuses me to think back on because I was also very annoyed with him!) But anyway. After asking about so many things, I finally on day 4, asked him about books… and the boy never shut his mouth there after!
So to all introverts out there: asking questions is difficult, but you’re all passionate about something, whatever it is. Lead the conversation towards that one subject, that you feel confident talking about. Then all the rest will come more easily. -flyingmops
She came over to me in a coffee shop while she was on vacation in my country, to ask how to tip. We had a two-hour conversation, and then an amazing five-hour lunch two days later.
She complained about her hostel and I offered her my spare bedroom. She accepted. Nothing happened although it seems crystal-clear in retrospect that we were falling for each other (duh). I didn’t want to be douchey and make her feel uncomfortable under my roof, so putting the moves on her was not something I seriously considered.
Two nights later, I had to be gone for most of the night, on a work assignment, and I asked if she would please watch and walk my dog in my absence. I came home at 5 a.m. and was greeted by my suddenly very soft, very fluffy dog. She had somehow understood “Will you please wash my dog,” and apparently didn’t find that a strange request at all.
The next evening, after we’d been talking over a bottle of wine for hours, it seems she’d had enough of my apparent indecisiveness, took the wine glass out of my hand, put it down, and leaned in for a kiss.
That was 26 years ago. We’ve been married 23 years. -DaytonaDemon
On the Greyhound.
During my time in the Army, I was stationed at Ft. Eustis, VA. On my way home (Denver, CO, at the time) for Christmas, I saw her sitting across from and slightly behind me. Honestly, I didn’t pay much attention to her at first, but my buddy, seated next to her, did. After getting shot down repeatedly for a day and a half, he finally got off the bus. Shortly thereafter she came over and sat next to me and we started talking.
After that, we got split up (put on different buses) and I kicked myself for not getting her number. Then, when the bus stopped in St.Louis, there she was standing right there in the entrance, almost like she was waiting for me. If my bus had arrived 15 minutes later I’d have never seen her again.
Then I found out the bus to Denver was delayed due to snow, and wasn’t going anywhere for at least two days. She hurried over to the ticket counter and had my ticket changed to Des Moines, IA (where she was going) so I wouldn’t be trapped in St. Louis for two days. We spent the next four days getting to know each other, then I continued home. We had a long distance relationship for about six months until I came home permanently, by which time she had moved to Denver and rented an apartment.
We got married three years later and have been together 10 years total. -kevon87
