Did you meet your DH/DP the old fashioned way. You know, in person?

[MrsMoastyToasty]

I met my DH when we were introduced by my friend and her DP. It was my birthday and we'd planned a group night out in town with others and they had asked if they could include him . I said ok and that was that. The rest is history.

We went on to be bridesmaid and best man at each others weddings and godparents to each others children. In fact our marriage has outlasted theirs.

Used to love going on my CB radio . Happy days

Tinder for me

I did but it was in 1988 when that was the only way to do it. My children are all married or engaged and all met their partners the old fashioned way. One did have a long term partner through old but he turned out to be not all that nice after all. She's married to an old school friend now ♥

On a bus 😊

I have known my DH since we were young children, we were in the same friendship group through our teens, and started dating in early 20s. Married 36 years now 😀

Yes. When I was 18 all my mates had gone to uni, and I was still at home planning to work for a year. It was the halcyon days of 90s' house music, so I used to go to a particular club every week and got to be good friends with a large group of people, one of whom was DH. He never spoke to me, and used to leave a room if I ever came in, so I assumed he didn't like me and I didn't think much of it. Until we got chatting at 5am in a stranger's kitchen and suddenly I realised I was madly attracted to him. Turned out he felt the same, and was worried I'll notice him staring at me so used to escape whenever I was near.

Yup. He was working nights in a 24hr petrol station to save up money for a motorbike. I was a drunken student that would stop off for fags on my way home from the pub. I don't know if it's the same in the UK but here the petrol stations wouldn't actually be open, as in you couldn't go inside, you would just go up the hatch. Anyway we flirted through the hatch for a few weeks before he asked for my number. That was over 20years ago now. It's not the most romantic of stories!

In person, in halls at university. I was in 2nd year and he was a first year, making friends wherever he went. Took us a few months to get together but we've been together 33 years now and married for 29.

Yes! Blind drunk on a night out 24 years ago. A drunken kiss and the rest is history. My sister met her now husband three years after me in the same place in exactly the same circumstances 😂😂.

Yes. 43 years ago.
He was a friend of my brother and he crash landed on top of me after coming in through my open bedroom window in the middle of the night while drunk and brandishing a packet of frozen sausages.
He's lucky I didn't scream the house down being as he was a complete stranger.

Particularly with working from home. Their eyes met over a shared screen on Zoom just doesn't feel like the start of a romance.

Met ExH while backpacking in Mexico

I met DH at work, in the 90s. Before him I had a fairly LTR with someone who was a friend’s flatmate, whom I met at a party. My first serious boyfriend I met in a nightclub! It seems like it was all so much easier and less angst ridden and rules bound than now. You met someone, went on a date had sex, if you liked them you did it again, and if you still liked them you carried on; if you didn’t, you ended it. None of this ‘agreeing to be exclusive’, or texting each other for weeks and agonising over what each word meant that I see so often on here.

Through volunteering.

12 years ago at a friends party. I think it's harder to meet people in person these days though, and if you're older with work and childcare responsibilities that makes it even tougher.

I met DH at the wedding of mutual friends.
The bride and groom divorced several years ago but we're still together 36 yrs later.

At university

Yes, but I'm old!
Met at a conference hosted by the university Dept i was trying to leave and DH was about to join.

We were part of the same group of friends at Uni. After 2 years of hanging out and plenty of other flings and crushes between us, we got blind drunk at a friend's 21st and started kissing much to the shock and scandal of our friends. We weren't shocked though, we always had a thing, its just he had a huge crush on one of the other girls in the group and I had been seeing his friend so there was a lot of complications which held us back.

No, my DH and I met on a dating site. My ex before him and I had met at work and other boyfriends had been guys I'd met through people I knew or met on nights out.

I met mine online. Unfortunately we aren't all lucky enough to be the kind of girls that meet our soulmates as they eye us up across the bar/nightclub/student union/trekking the Amazon . I didn't have much luck with those types, most of them were losers. I don't feel I've missed out on anything and my husband is a wonderful man. Our relationship isn't lesser just because we didn't meet 'in real life'.

I met my DH in the students union nightclub in 1993. I occasionally get chatted up now at age 49 so I reckon I could meet a replacement in person if necessary (not that I am anticipating that happening).

I wouldn’t ever have the confidence to put myself out there on OLD. Chance conversations in real life are less intimidating for me. We’re all different.

I tagged along on mates works night out. Pretty goth girl he worked with decided to make it her mission to get me on the dance floor. Brainless me took far to long to realise it was because she was in to me. 15 years later and a kid together I've just about got the hint.

Yes, met DH at university more than 20 years ago, started dating a few years after we first met.