Please tell me your happy love stories or meeting someone when you didn’t expect it!

[Troveshe]

Just feeling tidally fed up and could do with funding some Hope from somewhere...

a guy I know vaguely from a hobby messaged me in the spring to say happy birthday. We carried on messaging intermittently, then more frequently, and then every day. We got together in August, are planning a holiday and every time we say goodbye I look forward to seeing him again.
he said 'I love you' a few weeks ago. I'm not ready to say it back so I whisper it into the crook of his arm when we're snuggling so he can't hear me.

@Palavah 😍

@Troveshe I know it's boring to hear but something will happen for you. All you can do is make sure you've loads of things you want to do for yourself in the meantime. He'll think you're incredibly cool for all your adventures and you won't have itchy feet when it comes to settling down.

DH was my postman. Always thought he looked nice and we'd nod hello etc, then went to a friend's party and he was there. Got talking properly, I went home with him, 20 years and 3 DC later he hasn't managed to get rid of me yet

My husband died when DS was 7 months old. I was working full time with DS in full time childcare and had no life outside of visiting family.

DS made a "best friend" at nursery when he was 3 1/2 - turns out his BF's dad was a widower.

We've been married for 5 years now and have a 3yo as well as my DS and his two DSs. 🥰

I met my now DH at work, he was 20 I was divorced with 2 DS and 31. It was only meant to be a fling but we just clicked . The age difference was never an issue and 22 years later we are still blissfully in love. He is my best friend, my business partner and my lover . We laugh constantly and have huge respect for each other . We now have had two DS together and I think we have a wonderful family and life . I guess people may of been shocked at the beginning but anyone who knows us , can see why it works . My oldest son ( from my previous marriage) recently said, I want to have a relationship like you guys have . Made me cry

I was sent to Kenya for 6 months and had to leave my DD who was just 3. The first day I was there I met my now DH across the crowded hotplate. He was the master chef, I was the new admin..... Rest as they say is history.

I was very happily single and certainly not looking to meet anyone - ever! I belonged to a UK-wide hobby-related group. Occasionally a local group of us would meet up. One day we had a meet-up planned but I really didn't feel like going. The others persuaded me to and I reluctantly went along. When I got there, someone new turned up. He was from another part of the country but had fancied a day out so had taken a day off work to join us. I didn't get to spend much time with him that day but we friended each other on FB and the rest is history. We've been together for 12 years now and are very happily married :-)

@Spaghettio

My husband died when DS was 7 months old. I was working full time with DS in full time childcare and had no life outside of visiting family.

DS made a "best friend" at nursery when he was 3 1/2 - turns out his BF's dad was a widower.

We've been married for 5 years now and have a 3yo as well as my DS and his two DSs. 🥰

So happy that you both found happiness together after losses ❤️

I was widowed in 2018 and moved city in 2019. New job, new flat, happily single, wasn't interested in meeting anyone. Start of lockdown, got chatting to my next door neighbour (also single) been in a relationship since June and making plans for the future. Never, ever thought l would meet anyone again.

I was having a lovely time shagging around after my marriage of 15 years broke down. One of the chaps I swiped right on was great to chat to. We spent 60 hours on the phone to each other in the first week, when we met i couldn't stop shaking I was so nervous. I fell in love almost immediately, he says the same but we held off saying it for a bit longer. It's been 10 months now and I still adore him. I am so grateful I decided to go with the flow and see where it went rather than shied away because it was 'too soon'.

My mum made me move my horse from a stables to a very rural farm when I was 16. Idea being I would have to cycle there and she could leave me to it.

I was cross, being 16 and all my friends being elsewhere. Walked round the corner in a huff and saw DH, the farmers son. I knew him from school but as a face not a person. Within a week were were dating, married by the time I was 19. 20 years married next week, baby two likely to be born that day after 15 years of being told we would not have any! He's a very grumpy farmer but I love the bones off him.

I moved out of a shared house because I had accidentally fallen in love with my best friend and it wasn't reciprocated. I moved into a house in a different part of London with 3 strangers. I've now been married to one of those strangers for 8 years.

I moved into my new place after leaving an abusive ex.
Was just pleased to be single and wanted to stay that way for quite a while.
When sat near the window I kept seeing this bloke visiting the house opposite now and again.I knew he didnt live there.
Got chatting to a neighbour and when the same bloke gets out his car, who is that I ask he seems to be around a lot.
Found out he was a relative of bloke oposite and was single and shy.
I phoned him one night and asked him out .
Been together 25 years

I love these threads. Keep them coming 😍

OLD, aged 35. Together for 11 years, married for 10, 3 DC. Couldn't be happier ☺

@PrincessConsuelaBH thanks! It took us both by surprise, but we're v happy. 🥰