Redditors who do NOT have a romantic "how we first met" story with your significant other, how did you meet?

Ooof ours is quite the unromantic story and very long. Im sure its going to be buried but its fun to write out.

I went to a Blink 182 concert with a group of friends during summer break and met up with some other friends in the parking lot to drink. I had never met him before but he went to college with one of my friends from high school. He had a girlfriend at the time and I have a picture of them making out in the background and me doing the thumbs up in the foreground. We met but didn't speak.

He broke up with the girl soon after and then we met again at our mutual friends camp. He had apparently asked our friend to throw a party and invite me so he could talk to me. We both got hammered, I beat his ass in drinking games, and we hooked up that night. I assumed this was a one time thing and snuck out the next morning and left for my summer job. We went back to college 4.5 hours apart and texted now and then but nothing crazy. In October My good friend asked me to come with her to visit our mutual friend at their college. I went thinking I'd see the kid again and hook up. I was excited to see him, he was fun to talk to and cute.

I get there and he completely ignored me so I hook up with his housemate. I clearly misread the signals, no big deal, not looking for a relationship anyway. We kept texting and eventually he admits that he is incredibly shy and thought I was so awesome that he literally could not even look at me. He said he was drunk the night I met him so it was easier to talk to me. I told him I went to specifically see him and thought he wasn't interested. I visited him a few times and he asked me to be his girlfriend a bunch of times. I kept saying no, I just got out of a long term and long distance relationship and didn't want to do it again. We kept talking and seeing each other and eventually he just started calling me his girlfriend and I didn't stop him. The first handful of times we visited each other he still couldn't make eye contact with me.

We celebrate our eight year anniversary in January and have an awesome life together. Within a few months of dating him I drunkenly told him I was going to marry him. He still treats me like I'm too good for him but it's the other way around. He's amazing.

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