How did you meet your DP?

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I just love hearing people's stories! So my question is where did you meet your DP and how did you end up being in a relationship?

Mines quite boring, we met at school, he was the year above and we've now been together around 15 years and had our first baby earlier this year. Not married (for no particular reason) and still very happy - just hope it stays this way!

I worked with his sister. She dragged him along to works Christmas party and he rang me about a week later. I'd given up on him contacting me. We've been together 20 years. One teenage DD. I only went to the party at the last minute. Really didn't fancy it. Glad I did now. I love Buxton by the way. It's a lovely town.

He was a friend of a friend.

Mine's a bit of an embarrassing one. My DP is my friend's son! She actually introduced us, so it's not too awkward. Plus, since she was already my friend, I know I'll have a decent MIL when we get married. Bonus!

On my course at uni. I ignored him completely for the first 3 years then in 4th apparently he made a bet with his mate that he couldn't pull me. I got drunk in a pub where he was, and here we are 20 years and 3 kids later...

In a nightclub of all places.
I was out for my cousins birthday with family and was having a moment, sat on a windowsill or ledge of some form, holding 2 bottles of WKD blue (nasty stuff, why did/does anyone drink it) and he came and sat next to me. We talked about his tattoo, he has an awesome half sleeve and kissed a fair bit. We swapped numbers too and my brother dragged me away to get food and go home after a while.
I text him something along the lines of "now you have my number what are you going to do" he replied something about getting to know me.
We started seeing eachother, but weren't "exclusive", after about 3 months I told him that this has to go somewhere or we call quits, I gave him a month to decide.

6 years, a dog and a house later, hes laying with his head on my belly getting kicked in the face by our first child, who is due in 18 days 😁

Worked with him. Absolutely despised him. Every once of me found him repulsive. Finally gave in to a date because at the time I was single and mingling 🙄🤭 and then that was that. Realised I was a judgmental prick :)

At school, I was trying to set him up with my friend 😳

18 years later we're married with 2 DC's.

We met on Plenty of Fish in 2011. It was still a bit embarrassing to meet via online dating (and PoF is notoriously seedy!) so we fudged the details for a while

We lived in different cities and the timing was totally off (work, personal issues, mental health stuff) so we texted frequently for almost a year before meeting. I think we both knew that it could really go somewhere so we wanted to be in the right place for a serious relationship.

After our first date we saw each other at least once a week for a year and then I upped sticks, got a job in his city and we moved in together. We’ve now been married for 3 years and just bought our first house

At Uni - we both joined an international students club. Got married after I graduated and whilst DH was studying medicine. Now have DT’s and have been married 25 years.

On the Internet, although before OLD had its own rituals and everything so we skipped all the excruciating-sounding ‘talks about becoming exclusive’ stuff.

Blind date; set up in 1994, married in 2001. Still going strong. ☺️

Tinder! On the very same evening that my ex Partner decided to leave because I'd lost my job - back story on old thread.

Never went onto Tinder before, but decided I needed a distraction, had my wine to drown out my sorrows and started swiping - Left, Right, Left etc!! 😂

DP matched and had super liked me, anyway he asked me to go on a date and I suggested he comes to mine for homemade pizza (I make wicked pizzas) and a drink. FF to Friday with me wanting to cancel all day due to anxiety and nerves. I called to cancel he said he'd just had his hair done at barbers so I didn't have the heart to tell him. He came over - he NEVER left, planning our wedding next year and having his baby in Jan!! We were literally made for each other, I never had thought it possible until I experienced it first hand myself. Thought I'd never have a baby either as I was 39 and with ex for 6 years, due to various reasons I would never have had a baby with him, but I wasn't fussed either so wasn't a deal breaker.

I was meant to update my previous thread but hadn't got round to it, so this can act as the update if anyone remembers my dire situation.

My best friend met and eventually married his best friend. The friendships have soured unfortunately, so did their marriage but we are still going strong after twenty years.

Mines quite cheesy!

On a long train ride through the middle of Britain.
I settled in, headphones and blackadder boxset on my phone.
I must've giggled a bit, felt someone staring at me.

Turned and saw intense brown eyes beside me.

I took out one ear phone handed it to him, he took it and watched (giggled) with me for four hours.

Ten years last week.

On the internet (Love@Lycos). I had just been dating a man that kind of put me off dating (he had 5 women on the go at once).
So wasn't really looking anymore, I stumbled across my other half in a group looking for friends. We chatted endlessly for a month before we met, he lived 200 miles away at the time. He came down to see me for the weekend and after 2 days I made a crazy suggestion that he move in with me. 13 years later we're still together and have been married almost 12 years.

At work.

He was supposed to teach me the job! Turned out we don't work well together on the same task and really irritated each other.

But, task sharing aside, we were incredibly similar and well suited.

That was 2001!

He lived with someone else and I had a boyfriend so it took a while but been together since 2004.

We still can't share the same task... but have learnt we work well together on different tasks!!

Tinder also
He lived a while away so we just chatted as friends on and off for a bit over a year, then he came into some money by chance and decided to up and move in with his brother - about 15 minutes away from me (although proximity to me had nothing to do with it)
I had a boyfriend by this time so we didn't meet up. I was disappointed that we'd never had a chance to see each other face to face so a couple of months after my bf left me we decided to meet just as a friends and it all just fell into place.

At a Buddhist temple

On FB. We had mutal friends but lived in different countries. Met up for three weekends over 6 weeks then I went to stay with him for a holiday and never left. We have been together 6 1/2 years and married for 4 weeks.

Saw him at the bar in a nightclub. Love at first sight. I bought him a drink and we have been together for 27 years so far. Still find him as sexy.

I met DH when I was dating one of his friends in my defence, I did end it with the ex before anything started up with DH. I'd been trying to end the relationship for a while, but lots or mutual friends made it awkward. Somehow we ended up swapping numbers, and he chatted to me on the phone whilst I painted my bedroom. I then, realised that I was never going to be able to move a bookcase by myself, so he offered to help me out.

He still bangs on about losing one of his 'best' friends because of me I do insist they can still be friends! But it we ever bump into him he runs away from us.

On Twitter (years ago when it was quieter and nicer. We 'met' through a mutual follow, got on brilliantly and had lots in common. We started messaging, then came emails and phone calls and finally a first date that lasted about 8 hours.

We've been together ever since and that was 7 years ago.

We met in a bar on holiday. We got chatting and then met there for the next four nights. We also “bumped” into each other on the beach. Dh later confessed he’d been walking up and down the beach for hours looking for me
I fancied him but don’t think he was interested in me, but in the last night he asked for my phone number. We then got together when we got home and married the following year! 30 years and two Dds later, I still love him to bits.

Such lovely stories here.❤️

At a networking event.
I had been in tears about 30 mins beforehand as I did not want to go (long story). Anyways, him and his colleagues were hovering around and they really pissed me off.