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Reader Stories: How did you meet your partner?

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How do lesbians meet one another and fall in love? Share your lesbian love story.

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She Was the New Girl in Class

I became even closer to her. I would go home and come school with her. I started to change my attitude. I didn't know what was happening to me. I had feelings for her. But did she feel the same? It w…More

We Met at Church

We became great friends and we just clicked from the start. I always say to people, if love doesn't come easy then leave it alone. If its an effort or is very awkward, then it probably won't work out…More

Finding Love with a Woman for the First Time at 50

We talked online for a couple of months before we talked on the phone. She was such a wonderful woman during these early months of just getting to know each other. I was 50 and finally letting myself…More

We met during an Evanescence concert

She moved near NYC a week after we met, which is two hours from me. We talked for hours every day, and hung out a few times, and that winter we went to NYC together for New Years. We went to a hookah…More

We Naturally Clicked

We were both looking for the same thing..love. We met...we felt it...I have never wrote a love letter before I found my self writing a love letter to her. She touched a part in my heart that nobody h…More

We Fall In Love More Every Day

Well after meeting online. We talked on the phone for about a month or so. I felt like a teenager again on the phone for hours at a time, just talking and giggling.I was a nervous wreck when we decid…More

Friendship turned Life Partnership

Both of us were hit by tragedies concurrently one after another. Also there were happy occasions. When I was orphaned with my father's death, it was my girlfriend's mother who gave me refuge and help…More

The Kiss Keeps Reminding Us, "This is It!"

We fell in love with our first kiss. We both felt the connection, the electricity, the "WOW!" It was the first kiss and we just didn't want to stop. We still feel that high even when we've argued or …More

Police Officer and ER Nurse

The first few times we got together were all about sex. We were both just coming out of not so great relationships, and didn't want to dive right back in to something serious. It didn't work though. …More

I Met Her at Gay Pride in Berlin

At this moment, While I was dancing I met up with this German couple who were next to me. We started talking and made plans to go to Pride together. We exchange numbers and told each other where we w…More

I was her college professor

I fell in love with her the 1st time we had that phone talk. She was so assertive - she knew I had a girl then - but she would always make her presence known. She'd see me in the university; fetch me…More

My Same-Sex Crushes Should Have Been the Clue

We quickly became friends... she's one of those people you can't help but like right away. Smart, funny, doesn't take herself too seriously. We were good friends for 8 years. Then reality smacked me …More

She Told Me I Was Smooth

It was some weeks later, after talking everyday and every night, texting and meeting every other day for lunch and simply to see each other. A conversation we had about death and dying. I knew then I…More

I Met Her Moving into Another Girlfriend's House

We used to workout at the gym every day so we spent a lot of time together. One day she drove me home after a workout, walked me up to my apartment, and kissed me. I knew at that moment that she was …More

When I Looked in Her Eyes, I Knew She Was the One

When she picked me up at the bus station it was love at first sight. She makes me feel loved and cares about me very much. I looked into her eyes and I knew she was the one. Our love grows stronger a…More

It Was Like No One Else Existed

I was in a relationship with a man, I was indeed even married. I knew though from the first time I met her that she intrigued me. I had to get to know her, to get close to her. After we went out for …More

Neither of Us Planned to Go Out that Night

I think we had an inkling right away. At the end of that first night in the bar, she asked me to go home with her – not for sex, but just to sleep together – and I went. We did exactly wh…More

We Met on Move-In Day at College

For both of us it was love at first site. We were so afraid of what we were feeling though that neither of us wanted to say anything. One day she was getting out of my car and she just turned and sai…More

She Was Girl Number Four That Weekend

The walking, eating and the talking for about a month did something magical. One day, she walked me to the train station. She sat with me while I was waiting for the train to leave. She never made it…More

Forbidden Love

After being there for her day and night. Trying to be a happy but unhappy housewife and raise four kids. One night in my basement we kissed (about one month after the initial break-up). That was the …More

The moment I read her e-mail, I knew she was the one

Our families are both from the same city in a different state than we live in. We did not know this until after we met. Three months after we met we went "home". I met her dad. She met my sister's fa…More

Kissed Many Frogs

I wasn't so sure I was interested in her but it was clear she was interested in me at the end of the date when she asked me to go out again. I'm usually a bit more intense than I was on this first da…More

I Knew She Was the One When I Hugged Her

Tye Version: The question is when....we fell in love. Well, I believed we discussed our love for one another a month later. I realized I was in love with her when I couldn't eat, sleep, and function …More

She Trained Me At Work

I called to rsvp to her graduation party and just asked when we were going to go out. We were both invited to a party a few weeks later and she said she would see me there. We started seeing each oth…More

We Met Through My Mom's Ex-Girlfriend

It was crazy how we fell in love. We had to sleep with each other on a mattress in the living room floor because we lived in a 1 bedroom apartment. My mom's ex and her mom had the bedroom while we ha…More

We Met at Work

It was 1976 and we were both 21 yrs old and we were working at a factory. She started flirting with me by flashing that big beautiful smile and those beautiful blue eyes my way and I was hooked. I fe…More

It All Came Natural

We decided to be in a relationship the next day. After spending that night with her I knew I had to have her in my life for as long as I was on this Earth, we talked about it and made it happen. I kn…More

We Met the First Day of College

We became best friends and spent several years as inseparable, and never saw the next step coming. We woke up one morning, and went about our business and without reason, ended up kissing that night,…More

We Met at a Party and We Kissed

We were just talking about casualties, then she came close to me and kissed me smoothly. I was a bit surprised, buy as I liked it, I kissed her back. After that we went out to the mall, the park, we …More

I Passed Her My Number Through the Bartender

For me it was almost love at first sight. She has the brightest most beautiful smile, with adorable dimples, that I can stare at for hours still even after almost 6 years. Not to mention her sense of…More

I Got Lucky!

We spent 43 hours straight talking and getting to know each other, walked on the beach and watched the sun come up. And when I finally kissed her for the first time I felt electricity go through my e…More

Middle East Love Story

I think some women fall in love very quickly and have the capacity to love many women over a period of time. I've never been like that and always found it difficult to connect or 'love' as such but w…More

We Met Outside a Furniture Store

Sitting in the front of Ashley's furniture store in pain this beautiful person with pretty white teeth said, "You look like death, you okay?" Thinking no one could be speaking to me, but there she wa…More

We Met in A Group for Women Going Through Divorce

We started talking through posts and one day she asked me if she could call me sometime. I said yes. At the time I was doing the whole online dating thing and visiting the local lesbian club. I went …More

I Met My True Love At Work

We started sitting together at lunch and became friends. It went from friends to dating and we have been together going on 15 years. The time we spent together just felt like coming home. I felt like…More

We Met at Her Brother's Birthday Party

At that stage of my life I was totally over love. I had my heart broken for the umpteenth time and didn't really care much anymore. I had fun, partied hard, kissed as many people as I could without a…More

30 Years Later, We're Finally Together

We fell in love when we became friends. We found out that we could talk to each other about everything. We could only talk to each other. We would take long walks together, go fishing, sleep over's a…More

Online Friends Turn into More

She was driving the next day to see her parents...and it took her awhile, but she finally called. We were both crazy nervous but it was totally worth it.We gradually got more comfortable talking on t…More

We Were First Attracted to Each Other's Tattoos

I had decided long before this moment that my husband of 12 years and I were finished. This was right b4 Chirstmas 3 years ago. I took the 4 kids to their grandma for the holidays and came back in pi…More

We Met at the Park

She was still getting over her ex and I was in the process of trying to divorce. We talked the next few weeks and I made a pass. It was not real obvious. I asked her if she wanted to make out. She sa…More

Love Almost Lost Over Dropped Call

I suppose you could say we discovered we had so much in common, even silly things like the brand of underwear we wore to our favorite flower. We just had so very much in common with one another it wa…More

Midnight Walks to Get Icees

Maggie and I hung out a lot on the weekends. Since we lived at a residential school we had a lot of free time outside of class. On the weekends we would walk to Front Street in downtown Natchitoches,…More

We Flirted Non-Stop

While we were working together we flirted non stop. I was totally in love from the beginning but it took her awhile. When we weren't at work we were in constant contact via text and phone calls. Our …More

When I Saw Her Play with My Kids

I fell for her deep, "throaty" voice, first. I loved that we shared the same values. She was fun to be around. Then, I saw her play with my kids. I was hooked. I plan to spend the rest of my life wit…More

She Caught My Eye in Trade School

It first started when I would go snack shopping in her room.... just so I could see her. Trying to hide the feelings I had towards her in class, it just became more obvious. It was not until after gr…More

We Joked Around a Lot at Work

She was fun to be around, she was funny, and very considerate. When she was not doing the drugs, she was kind and the sweetest person. To be honest, I think I fell in love with her, when she invited …More

We Met on Lesbian Life

We actually met after only about a month. It's by far the craziest thing I've ever done, but I invited her to visit me in Tennessee. The day I picked her up at the airport, I was a nervous wreck. Wha…More

I Never Thought I'd Fall in Love with a Woman

When we first started hanging out, I was a recent divorcee. I was married to a man for 5yrs, and never once did it cross my mind that I would someday fall head over heels for a woman. She started han…More

We Had a Brief Encounter at a Bingo Hall

We had a mutual friend that she would hang out with. Whenever I knew she was gonna be there I made sure i was there to. We became friends and hung out, Went for coffee, and walks. We were visiting an…More

It Was True Love at the First Kiss

It happeend on any other night, I needed to stay after school to help out with the track meet, since I volunteered to help out for extra credit. She was there, her brother who is very athletic was on…More

I Was in a Bad Marriage When We Met

we were together for about a year and I went away for Christmas and it was on that trip that I realized the depths of my feelings for her, and I told her so many times on very expensive phone calls t…More

I Answered a Personal Ad

I was completely mezmorized the first time I saw her. I knew from the beginning that she was the one, I just had this feeling of this is where I am supposed to be. She made me feel complete.We are st…More

Love at First Sight

Shameca asked me could she come to my job to meet me and I told her yes and it was love at first sight.Every day we would talk for hours on the phone. Then we moved in with each other and every day w…More

She Had a Girlfriend When I Met Her

When we first got together I was kind of shy but I loosened up. She treated me so good that I just loved it, the way she touched me, caressed me. She did things to me that just made me feel so good a…More

Slow Typing Led to Love

Love at first sight. When we met and hugged ~ it was right! It was like we had known each other all our lives. We talked for the rest of the day and made love that night! It was explosive ~ it sealed…More

It Was Love at First Sight

We had been talking via email and text for a couple of weeks and decided we needed to go on a date. She was building a rabbit hutch for her son so she asked me if I wanted to help her out before our …More

We Met Online

After that first date I thought about giving it some time for the next time, you know playing hard to get! So I continued texting her and she occasionally called me, we kept at that for a whole month…More

At First I Was Too Shy to Talk to Her

When I met her the first night I was too shy to talk to her. I just watched from afar and spent the whole night blushing every time she looked at me. Before my friend left to go home I conned her int…More

Long Distance Love

When we finally met for the first time, we were six months in. It was over the summer. I was staying at my father's apartment in Kentucky, and she drove up from Tennessee to visit. She called and tol…More

Our Faith Sees Us Through

I knew she was my lady after meeting her and spending times together our LOVE HAS GROWN EVERYDAY. Her children and mine are grown so, they're out on their own. We will stay together no matter what be…More

One Day at a Time

I then did what most 20 somethings would do...got completely tanked and called Michelle bawling. I think. At least, her phone number was on my cell phone when I woke the next day. I called her apolog…More

We Met at Work

We feel like we are each others soul mates we fell in love right away and over the months were just gotten closer and more in love. I think I knew she was special when I felt I could understand her a…More

We Met Online

Before we met in person, a month-long e-mail conversation predated. It was awesome to actually read your own thoughts written by someone you've never seen. She was my missing part, the other-me, or s…More

Fanfiction Love Affair

Emails blossomed into IM into chatting. Seemed like we had so many interests in common it was scary. I had found my soulmate. Felt the spark but didn't want to scare her away if that wasn't what she …More

My Ride Connection Became my Love Connection

She and her GF broke up after the festival (nothing to do with me). We didn't live in the same town, so we started writing letters (it was the early 90's). We went to another festival together a few …More

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