I don't have one :c

I feel ya :c

Havent meet one
😭

*huuug

I feel ya too :c

-w-! None right now... Most of them met through either games or chat rooms or when I was in school. I'm not terribly social IRL... So I don't interact with enough people to warrant obtaining a new one, I guess.

yeah, being social IRL is tricky, especially when the environment isn't adequate for this type of thing

Grindr. We've been together since September 2019 :3

Wow! First time I see someone mentioning Grindr, I asked on another site and people mentioned a few apps but not this one.

Wishing you many more happy years together <3

Thanks!

Local hook up telegram chat like 4 or 5 years ago

I wanted to commission her to make an icon for my profile on FA, but I was 72nd in line. We started chatting completely by chance, fell in love, and moved in together three months after meeting

That is really sweet, amazing that an art commission led to love, thanks for sharing your story <3

I have one!!

My ex (who cheated on me a ton while we were together) had a DeviantArt chatroom. That's where we first met. We became friends and would talk on and off for about 5 years. They stuck with me through the breakup, through loss of home, friends, family... Until I was finally at rock bottom, I had gotten out of another unhappy relationship, I was in an unhappy place and so I thought to myself, to heck with it, I'll ask them out.

31Oct2011, I messaged them asking if they would date me. Turns out, they were having a horrible night too. They'd made plans to go out with their friends but their Uncle's gf had messed up everything so they were sitting at home crying when I messaged. It took them a couple moments to respond back and I was so nervous thinking I'd just ruined our friendship... but I guess they were actually yelling happily cuz they liked me too!! So they said yes!! And we've been together ever since >w<

They even paid to get me out of an abusive household and move in with them and oh gosh!! When we first got to see each other irl for the first time? It was late at night, I'd been on plane all day, and they LEAPED into my arms!! I moved halfway across the country with nothing to my name but it was the best choice I ever did cuz here we are, still together and still happy!!

Amazing story, it is great to see that you are still together and enjoying each other's company. Thank you very much for sharing <3

Deviantart almost 9 years ago! Then for the first time in Savannah for a trip two years ago. Lifelong besties!

Amazing how deviantart was able to connect people so well back then, it makes me nostalgic, I made great friends there around a decade ago, thanks for sharing your story <3

one of my friends on deviantart introduced me to my spouse thru their homestuck art and weve been stuck together ever since XD this was well over 10 years ago now

8 years ago, I met my wife at an anime con (cons in my country are mixtures of several fandoms; back then, there were none dedicated to furries, but they had a small booth in that one for fursuiters). She was in her first year of university studies (artist/visual representation) and was very new in the furry community. So, she created a fursuit head out of paper, glue, and paint. It fell apart after half a day, but she really enjoyed the experience while it lasted.

I was amazed to see how much she was able to create out of so little in a few days. She stood out with her energetic acting; there were several pricy fursuiters around her, but most of them just walked around, giving high-fives. I already had years of experience in making fursuit parts, but soon I realized learning the craftsmanship instead of making my products look better to make it a business was more fun. So, I offered to give her all of my workshop supplies and share all my know-how for free. It wasn't much to me, but for her (being a student on a tight budget), it was a treasure chest. Whenever she had some free time, she kept experimenting thoroughly and I kept on providing her with supplies and challenges. Eventually, at the end of her 3rd year, fursuits became her thesis subject, and she completed four heads for the thesis exhibition. One of them was eventually bought by her school as a faculty mascot.

We dated for 5 years, moved in together, survived the COVID lockdown together in a very small apartment (only had 1 room that was both a bedroom, workshop, study, and kitchen, haha), then I proposed to her. Our relationship was never a romantic one; we were always like a couple who had been married for 50 years. On that very first day, I did not only find her but also a realization in me. It was that my life was so boring, trying to build up a career and livelihood surrounded by like-minded people. Even though I was okay with being lonely, she somehow just kept starting a conversation day after day. I felt useful and, therefore, happy around her. There's not much in common with us apart from being experimentalists, but that's what keeps our relationship interesting after all these years.

How about you? What is your story?

Lovely story, what struck me the most is the part you said the relationship wasn't really a romantic one, but one that felt much more long lasting, to me that sounds like absolute relationship goals. Thank you very much for sharing <3

As for myself, I don't really have a story, at least not at the moment, but I sometimes get curious to hear and learn from other people's experiences ^^

Yeeah I was hesitant about whether I should add that. We are often judged based on how our relationship looks from the outside ^^"

It's just based on my experiences. I never wanted to show a face I couldn't maintain, only because people expected me to do it. A precious friend of mine told me a long time ago that "wellness is a thing to fight for every day", and it's interesting to explore the depths of this sentence.

Even if you don't have a story, I wish everything goes the way your heart desires <:3

Don't really have one.

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, on the rooftop garden, at night. I don't want to give away more than that.

Pretty fancy place to find luv :O

Very nice <3

Never had one.

Mine is an almost cliche story.
Met my wife online (OKCupid) way back early 2010. I convinced her to go on a date by writing a story of how I thought our ideal first date should go. She thought it was clever, and we agreed to meet at a public park bench on July 3, just before she was going out of town with a friend. Our date lasted a couple of hours, and we hit it off so well that she wanted a second date the day she got back from the out of town trip (2 days later). We have been together ever since.
So for a long time, we celebrated our "monthaversary" on the 3rd of every month. I think we stopped counting after 5 years hehe.

That’s pretty cool, and clever on your part to write out how the first date should go.

That is such a sweet story Kiyo, and doesn't sound cliché at all to me, on the contrary, you were quite creative on how you approached your first date. Thanks for sharing <3

I'll send ya a note on this.

One busy afternoon at the cafeteria in the building in which I worked, I saw a young woman carrying a tray and looking for a place to sit. Long, dark, almost black hair; I thought she was an Asian until she turned around. She asked me if the other seat at my table was taken and I told her I was saving it -- for her (11-1/2 years later I still tell her she should have run from that corny comment, then).

Never had one, and I’m not outgoing enough to really date. I always fear that the “furry stuff” will be an immediate red flag to most women. However, reading through the comments is nice. There are so many unique ways people have met and are happy together :)

Yeah, I love to read people's stories, it is something that can easily be taken for granted, but there is some uniqueness to every relationship and how people get together

joined the same dnd group and startet spending more and more time together

In a Discord chat. We just started talking about our shared interests and the kind of people we liked and it just went from there, arranging a meeting with each other before too awfully long in the relationship. We're still going strong and planning to move in together.

I met them in a dating app, and then at q coffee shop :)

I don't have one, and I can tell you I couldn't have one even if I tried.
Which I've stop doing.

*laughs… I found a computer dating form in a garbage can - before computers. (1977) She found her’s at a pizza place. We still laugh about it.

Same boat as most, despite opening my heart to many I only got the door slammed in my face to find out they were just using me and had no real love for me.

On January 1st, 2020, an artist on FA asked me if he could draw one of my characters.
And now we've been together for 5 years.

It's not often an opportunity like this arises, so I'm very thankful for the opportunity. Thank you!

I met my (then friend, now) boyfriend in a Discord server in the Summer of 2021, both pretty much home-stuck due to the Covid pandemic. I recall vividly the Discord server had a vent section. In this section he shared his frustration of his inability to spent (more) time on his hobbies (like making/playing video games, art, music). A frustration I felt and could relate to. We continued conversing about the topic for a bit. From there it took off as a friendship, to a point where we were almost in touch every day in DM's.

We went through both highs and lows, which we shared with each other as friends. Not just from loss of loved ones to general annoyances about things in everyday life, but also small victories and the things we enjoyed doing during the day. I appreciated his understanding and time, despite his rocky history with friends and relationships. For me it felt as no effort to be understanding and give my time in return. It clicked.

Fastforwarding one year later, think around June 2022, I mustered all my courage to ask if he'd like to be my boyfriend, to which he said yes. We started to have video calls. Both very serious on making the relationship work.

He invited me to come meet him in Canada during the Winter holidays (a late kind of date, I guess?). Personally it felt as a big leap, but on hindsight definitely worth it; had an amazing time with him. Meeting with him in person definitely helped boosting the relationship, and made the connection between us even stronger. He has been able to visit me two Summers in a row. And the upcoming Summer we are planning on meeting each other again. In Canada this time ^^

How about you? Would love you hear your story ^^

Lovely story, happy to see that you are still going strong despite the long distances, wishing you a great summer trip in Canada when the time comes <3

I don't really have a story at the moment, I've always saw myself as someone who isn't relationship material, but after going through some months of therapy and working out personal issues I believe things might be different now, so maybe I'll have a story to tell at some point ^^

I just find it fascinating to hear the ways people get together.

Thanks for the kind words!

I've never seen myself as relationship material for a long time as well. Sometimes life throws pleasant surprises at us. Life works in mysterious ways ^^". Wishing you best of luck with the therapy and working out the personal issues. May fortune favor you, and wishing you all the best. Looking forward to hearing your story when the time comes.

we met on twitter in 2016 talking about the same dnd podcasts and video games >w< and now we've been married for several years, haha. the secret is apparently to be really enthusiastic about the same topic and then talk nonstop and unhingedly at each other about it until you fall in love XD