True story on how we met...

Sometimes you don't need to include all the details of your story for your family members My parents didn't need to hear about our frat basement stories, so we stuck with "we met through mutual friends"!

I also finally admitted to my parents that I signed up for a film class in college just to flirt with my now husband. Oops! Sorry I didn't actually need that class credit

I haven't read through all the comments but SO many people meet online. Even if it's something you never imagined you would do, it's appropriate in this day and age. I'm not sure what you think you're accomplishing by keeping it a secret until a year after we met. FH and I met in Vegas and my family knew right away. Of course, I downplayed what actually happened the weekend that we met but I did not completely make up a story full of details. I am very close with my parents (not saying you're not) and if I told them on our one year anniversary that I completely fabricated a story complete with details (my family asks for alllllllllll the details), my family would be crushed that I lied to them and kept up that lie. I would highly highly reconsider not telling them. You are an adult. It shouldn't matter how you met; it IS childish to lie. If your dad would have freaked because you said you met online, think about how he's going to feel when you tell him you've been lying to him for years.

Why does it matter? I think this is a very silly thing to lie about.

We met on Tinder and we aren't embarrassed by it at all. It's even on our wedding website! The only people who give negative reactions are sad singles. Everyone else thinks it's funny.

OMG! I love this thread (laugh crying emoji) I am one of those brides too.... Everyone but my parents know how we actually met. We met through tinder (I know, I know). BUT! I was kinda telling them a little truth half white lie. After me and FH started talking I found out all the people he goes to church with are the people I counsel with at a summer camp and that we both work separate weeks at the camp. So I told them we met through friends at church. LOL they would die if they found out...

Mmmmm, I fudge the timeline. I say we started dating after my split from exH, which is true. What I don't share is how quickly it happened. I was going through the motions in my marriage for a long time and I was over exH very quickly once he ended things.

Basically, after YEARS of a sexless marriage, I was dumped, and I was looking to get laid ASAP. Which I did. That night would up being the beginning of the best relationship I've ever had.

We met at the strip joint soooo... Kidding. We met on POF and my mom got us this cute set of towels that says Two Less Fish in the Sea." Practically everyone meets online these days. Plus I can't see carrying a lie for a lifetime no matter how we met.

I met my FH by shoving him into a dumpster. True Story. We started actually talking through Tinder a month or two later because I was like "Hey I know that guy!". It's my favorite story to tell!

I would be honest with people. I had a friend that met her husband online and told everyone different stories about how they met; none of which involved the truth. It was really embarrassing when people started putting two and two together.

Secondly, someone on WW said they didn't tell anyone how they met and during the toast at the wedding, it came out and everyone was shocked.

We met on okcupid and we don't hide it at all, meeting in like is nothing to hide especially now.

Bumble for the win

I actually met my fiancé through a mutual friend, but prior to us getting together I did online dating. I think many years ago there was a stigma attached to online dating, but I don't feel it is that way anymore. I couldn't not be honest with my loved ones. When I was meeting guys from online, I always told my mom who I was with and where I was going just to be safe.

Same here!!! Everyone in my family married their high school sweet heart and mine cheated on me and wasted my time for 8 1/2 years. Being from the South and everyone already being married I didn't know where to meet anyone. I was browsing on pof and saw this super handsome guy and created an account but he was never on.. I deleted it, got back with my x and 6 months later found the same guy again. My family thinks I met him at a part time job I picked up.

I met my FH in 9th grade when he was dating my friend who lived next door but went to a different school, who met him through a mutual friend of ours that lived on our street but went to a third school, who met him through a different friend that went to school with her and lived next door to his dad, but FH went to a fourth school all together. We tell new friends that we met in high school, even though we went to different schools but at the same time and there's like 4 degrees girls between us lol. Our close friends know the whole story because we find it cute and ironically say "destiny" brought us together, but it's a bit complicated and "high school" is easier. We also broke up for last year of high school/first year of college (me)/first year of navy (him) but we keep that to close family and friends to avoid awkward questions in polite company

BTW, most of our relationship technically happened online because I was in school and he was stationed on the literal other side of the county. People always questioned that but I honestly feel that having an online relationship made us as strong as we are now because it forced us to be straight forward in communication, built intimacy because of the lack of physical presence and distractions, and instilled inherent trust in one another from the get go.

For some reason we do get asked how we met often. I've known FH since we were 12. We began dating in high school. We've been together nine years. I've had people tell us that's amazing that we are high school sweethearts and I've also had people say "omg, you've been together since high school. I feel bad for you."

Met mine on blackpeoplemeet.com. Everyone knows and they don't care. I probably would not have met him otherwise.

I'm not at all ashamed of us meeting on Eharmony. FH was a little embarrassed about it at first, but we've gotten through it.

We met on Tinder. I've always been open about it with my family. FH however never told his family exactly how we met or that it was on a dating site. When I made our wedding website in the how we met part I titled it as "All it took was a swipe" and it explained it there.

There's really nothing wrong with meeting online. Some irony here about meeting on A Christian site and crafting a lie with your pastor to cover it up...

I met mine in a bar which was supposed to be a one night stand lol. When I tell my mom/dad about how we met I just keep the part about having sex the first night to myself