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!

Work, we were both with other people but found ourselves single at the same time 3 years later. Been together 21 years, 2 children.

Same as you op! My husband was upper sixth I was lower we were on off for a year then properly together when I was nearly 18. 17 years later and were married with two boys

I was bricklaying in a lock standing on scaffolding in Wales. I was divorced, had no money and volunteered to help restore canals. Had given up on men but still had my lippy on with my hard hat and wellies.

The second weekend of canal restoring the accomodation was awful, I slept in a boxing ring in a sports hall, so volunteered to do the catering to sleep in the empty house. We made sandwiches for 60!!!He became my very good friend and we married in 1991.

He was a juice plus rep, tried to sell it to me via Facebook I got annoyed so I blocked him.
Two years later we bumped into eachother at a cafe and we got talking then hit it off from there!
A year later we got married and now 3 years later we are expecting our DD
Still had him blocked on Facebook for a while after though and I never did buy anything from juice plus

At Uni. He was one of the many prospective suitors to my housemate’s fickle hand. Most of them were arseholes, but he was
genuinely. He also couldn’t be doing with game-playing. Took me to a beer festival at the beginning of my second year, went home with him, never looked back. Together /5 years, married for 20 this year, 3 boys. Life is good (mostly!).

DP was a friend of my best friends brother. First met him 15 ish years ago, bumped into each other at various places over the years and became friends. Kept in touch and went for the odd night out, always had fun and chemistry. Finally decided we should give it a go 5 months ago

We met in the glamorous surroundings of the NAAFI!! He had finished his night shift and I was having drinks with a friend. He was faffing with his mates about what everyone was drinking and as he went past me I gave him my order as well. He dropped it off on his way back and we started talking and talked until the bar closed. His mates were agog and mine was fed up. We celebrate our 25th anniversary soon and feel lucky to have got an all round good egg!

I was the gooseberry to my BF who wanted to meet the guy that she fancied and had snogged at the midterm disco. She fell asleep so I was left chatting to her guy. We had great fun, said our goodbyes and that was it. Met again at the end of year disco where he asked me out. Together 29 years.

During a prison riot. Well, there was a bit of a lull in the mayhem of flying bricks and fire extinguishers and we got talking. As you do.

Dh used to be a neighbour/ family freind's younger brother.

One day after a chat, he threw a paper with his number on it at me. Since I had a crush on him few years previously I started to text him.

Mixed dorm in a hostel in Argentina. He was checking in as I woke up from a siesta.

We both joined a youth group that raises funds for local charities. He later confessed that he'd only joined because his friend told him there were plenty of 'spare' women there😊

Through an introduction agency (not online). I was late 30s, he was divorcing. Probably never would have met him in real life as worked in different professions. He was the 13th guy I’d ‘met’ and was feeling a bit jaded by the whole process. I was his first. We married just over a year later had two kids then he sadly he died suddenly just before our 7th anniversary. Ten years on still miss him every day.

Ah Pip, I'm so sorry..

In the kitchen at a house party... 19 years ago. We both weren't going to go but did at the last minute, never met before that, he was the friend of the housemate of the person who invited me. Got drunk and went home with him, been together 19 years and married with 3 kids now. Not sure that qualifies as a nice story, but it's what happened - I never liked game playing

We met at 14, an instant connection if you will but both teens, both seeing other people. At 16 I moved 200 miles away but thanks to msn!! We kept in touch. Had a one night stand at 18 then no contact till about 5 years ago. We had both had such different lives! He was working hard on his own business, owned his own house, split with ex 2 years earlier. I had 2 kids, was at college, divorced! His face came up on people you may know on Facebook! I added him, we started texting then met up about a week later. We've been together nearly 5 years, my kids adore him, we have a baby together now! We own a house together and are getting married next year. His friends remember me from years ago and mine remember him! It's been great

I'd answered an ad. for an au pair in Italy. Got the job, plan was to learn the language then take off travelling for a year.I worked until about 4pm, then I was free. I'd always stop off at the same bar every day after work for a drink before going back for dinner.One day I stopped off and on my usual table there was an English newspaper - and someone had started the crossword! So I had my usual martini and lemonade and got stuck in to both...
Up to this point I thought I was the only Brit in the village but suddenly every day there was the newspaper with some of the crossword done.
One day I got off work early,went for my usual walk. and the owner of the newspaper was still there. And that's how we met.

At the end of a mutual friend's party; the last group sitting round a table, one vacant chair left, I sat on it, the guy on the next seat turned a smiled at me, that was it! 21 years later I still get that feeling when I see him.

Katinski... I love your story, it's the stuff films are made of.

@Katinski

That should be a novel! I would read it

hadalifeonce, and he'd only just been transferred to Italy from a stint in S.Africa, hence the sudden appearance of the newspaper on the bar table.

amusedbush so that'd be an X-rated novel then cos I got into all sorts of scrapes

@Katinski I'd still read it!

I think there are some truly lovely first meeting stories here.

He was the staff training officer at my first job. We had an affair for a few months, then he got hauled over the coals for "consorting with junior staff" and we decided to part. Over the next couple of decades we married other people and had our children, both got divorced.

15 years ago he went looking for some old friends - I was one of them. He tried ringing my old phone number - my nephew and his wife were living there and the number was the same. Nephew took his details and gave me his email address. We talked long distance for a year, then got together at the airport . We've never been apart from that day, and married 11 years ago. It all worked out in the end !

Glastonbury 2008 in the crowd for Groove Armada.