What's your meet-cute? (Aka meeting your significant other)

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Dp and I met at work, he was in charge of a shift I was working overtime on, and I spent too much time thinking about how I really fancied him and was far too distracted for my own good to concentrate on looking after the patients properly .

We had known each other for years, but he had left where i was working and we hadn't seen each other for years. I always loved him from afar but finally got together some 15 years later.

Omg a WHAT?!

Meet fucking cute? It doesn't even make sense 😩. I can't cope with this shit.

Now-DH and I got chatting at Church after a Sunday service. I offered him a lift home as he didn't drive (hoping he would suggest a coffee or wander through town first). He declined the offer as he was going for lunch with his family at a local pub. To keep the conversation going I mentioned that said pub was my favourite and he invited me along. I tried to say a polite "no thank you. I don't want to gatecrash your family time" etc but he didn't hear me as he was messaging his dad to let him know he was bringing a friend.

So yes, our first date also featured his mum, dad, and little sister.

Online dating 8 yrs ago

[quote NoEffingWay]@WarwickWoman what's it called please? I would be interested in watching it, cheers[/quote]
@NoEffingWay it's Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema on BBC4. Episode 1 is about RomComs and dissects the meet-cute.

Met in a bird hide on a wildlife reserve.

I met mine when we both accidentally tripped and fell into the same barrel of kittens and baby quokkas.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PgfiXtvej7Q

I’d heard the phrase before, from this 👆🏻

As this is a film industry term from the 40s, I wonder if it was a mishearing for "Meet cue" ?

I'd heard of 'meet cute' before. It is twee but I don't hate it.

I was a third year drama student and he was the barista who made my coffee every morning in the tube station cafe. 8 years later and we have two little boys!

We met in an MSN chatroom 18 years ago. Got engaged and moved in together 9 months later, and now married for nearly 17 years. Have 2 DD's (SDD's to him) and a DGS 😊😊❤️❤️❤️

@VerityWibbleWobble

Apparently I'm now so old I don't know what this phrase 'meet cute' even means?

It doesn't even make grammatical sense.

It's actually an old phrase!

I heard it first from here

When you read OPs post its obvious what meet-cute is. I feel introduced to a new phrase that I may never use. Ah I love these, I would love to have a partner that I 'grew up' with and have had all the history with. @BluebellsareBlue this is so heart warming, what guts for him to get in touch.

My meet-cute 🤮 is that DH, when I met him for the first time, was wearing the MOST hideous t-shirt I have EVER SEEN (colour of mushy peas, bloody filthy because student, barely covered his torso, etc, etc) but I still thought hello there. 6 months later we were engaged, and that was twenty two years and two children ago... 😉

We met drunkenly on a dance floor in a club, I got his attention by sexily(in my drunken mind) grabbing his bottle of drink and taking a long swig before handing it back.

Tinder...not very cute I'm afraid

Meet-cute? MEET FUCKING CUTE??

Ok, well mine was in a nightclub, I was pissed, he was on a stag - he came over and asked me for a fag (he didn’t even smoke bless him!) we chatted for a bit then he took my number (don’t remember anything we talked about)
Me and my mates then went on to another bar and he text me after about 15 minutes saying “shall we go out next week then?” And we did!
Been together 20 years.
The thing that made it so serendipitous though is that we SO nearly didn’t go in the club as it was the new trendy place to be and cost £10 to get in. My mates were refusing to pay and I basically stomped my feet (not like me) and insisted we went in as we always ended up in the same shit holes. So it felt like it was “meant to be”.

No meet cute stories from me but just marking place and to say that I knew what a "meet-cute" was from the Holiday. A truly wonderful Christmas movie for those who haven't seen it

I also asked DH for a fag when I did not actually smoke....the rest is history

I met my OH the first week I was at University. I went to a house party and he opened the door and we've been together ever since. That was 12 years ago now and we are engaged with a 5yo. I love that we have photos of us together looking so young and happy :)

I. Love. This. Thread.

We met at work. I won't go into too many details because they are honestly quite outing, but he came up to me eventually (four months of looks and shy smiles) and gave me his number on a mezzanine balcony. Our first date was in a tea shop in the pouring rain - the paving slabs were slippery and I fell and grabbed his arm literally two minutes after we'd met up. At first he barely spoke but once he relaxed he didn't stop talking (and still hasn't). It was only meant to be for lunch but neither of us went back to work for the afternoon.

Six years later, we're married with a toddler.

My story is:

I was on my way to deliver a training session on a Saturday morning in 1998.
Obviously as it was a Saturday I had the monster edition of the Guardian as well as some training materials as I got on the bus.

I hadn't had my eyes tested properly by then and was as blind as a bat, tripped and dropped it all over the bus.

A very 'cute' young woman stepped up to help, piled it all on my lap and sat down.

When we got to the training venue she was one of the participants and we got on like a house on fire.

Funnily enough though I had only recently moved back to the area I grew up in and had found a hairdresser who I got on really well with. She kept telling me a friend of hers was a lovely woman and that we were so alike we would get on well. Every time I saw her she tried to set me up and I refused.

Of course this was the woman on the bus, we have been together ever since, in a civil partnership for 8 years and she is just as wonderful now. We have had so much fun, had some hard times to deal with but there is no one I would rather spend lockdown with.

We both still work in the professional area of the training course and that and our shared politics have been an important part of our lives.

Off to tell her she's my meet cute just to see the eye rolling! 😉😊