Go on, cheer me up on a Friday night. OLD success stories?

[TheGirlWhoWearsReiss]

Sick to the back teeth of Tinder, also sick to the back teeth of being alone.

I met my DP on Match in 2012, the year Tinder was launched. I do wonder whether Match would have worked so well for me had I tried 2/3 years later 🤔

In 2007, I went on a long-haul holiday with ex-DP, which we had started booking before we broke up. We got talking to a man whose friend had found love on Match.com - this was quite a new site then. When we got back from holiday, ex-DP got straight on it, and had met someone on Match four months later. Two years after that, they got married. I was a bit slower off the mark, but met my DH on Match in 2010 (after a fair few disastrous dates, I gave it one last chance). One of my best friends met her DP on Match too, and another one on Plenty of Fish.

Met DH on a Christian singles website, got chatting on MSN (!). Finally met in real life a couple of months later. Got together, got engaged after 9 months, married 9 months after getting engaged It was definitely different then though, it wasn’t like swap details and meet, we really got to know each other through MSN chats (I realise he could have been playing me but he wasn’t!). Been together 12 years now!

Tinder date two years back. Typing from a villa in the Algarve with both our kids (we had 1each) crashed out after day 4 of our first family hol :)

Met DH on POF. Spoke online for 2 weeks, moved in to his 2 months later, been together almost 6 years and very happily married.

I was sick to the back teeth of tinder. Just about to give up but in March matched with someone and organised a date. Almost didn't go, I was busy and had too many bad experiences to be hopeful any more. But I did, and he was lovely, and it's only been 4 months but I hope it might be a success story!

Met on OKC in 2010, getting married next year after 10 years together. He's my hero and best friend and makes me piss myself laughing.

Wanker still leaves his pants on the floor every day but he'll do, he's great otherwise. My life was shite before him!

Love this thread, good memories... Met DH on Match in February 2006, was fed up of not ever doing anything because I couldn't find anyone on my wavelength. Was living at home with my parents and needed to take some positive action.
Best £50 I've ever spent, he's my soul mate, we've been married 10 years and 3 wonderful DCs. Never thought I'd be so lucky, like a Pp said, he was the first person I met on OLD and his membership was just about to lapse when I 'winked' at him and sent the cheesiest message ever.
BIL also met his now DW on POF.

Met DP this time last year on POF, took me a couple of dates to really click- thought we might end up as friends- and then suddenly that was it.
I'd been on 3 or 4 other doomed dates over the preceding few weeks and had some 'interesting' convos with nutters.
In our early 50s with low expectations of success but truly have to pinch myself every day cos he's so perfect for me. He tells me he's the luckiest guy in the world

I met my DH through OLD,we've been together nearly 14 years and have 5DC(he helped make our youngest but has become Dad to all 5DC)were very happily married.

Were good friends as well as Husband and Wife and we just really work well together,we rarely argue which is lovely because we'd both been married(divorced before we got together)to horrible people before we met,so being with someone that just loves you,likes you and wants to spend time with you and doesn't want to cause arguments every second minute of the day and doesn't make you feel like your walking on egg shells every minute that your awake still feels like a breath of fresh air even after 14 years together.

We spoke for a couple of weeks online before I'd give him my number and then we spoke every day on the phone for another 2 weeks before we met and we've been in a relationship since our first date pretty much.

it's worked for us and 3 of my DH's friends met and went onto marry the women they'd met OLD as well.