Tell me about how you met your DH!

[Juytef]

How old were you? How did you meet? What was it about him that you liked? How did he propose?

My story is that we were 23&25 when we met at work. We married 3 years later

met at work, I was 17, him 21

been married nearly 40 years

I bought a flat and bumped into DH and his friend in the carpark. We realised my flat was below his and he invited me to his 30th birthday party (with a friend) as he thought noise might carry. I was two years younger.

It just went from there. We got engaged after two months, married 18 months after we met and 29th wedding anniversary now coming up.

So I basically married the boy next door. The friend I took to his party, ended up marrying his best friend!

I went out with my DH at school for a bit and had the same friend group. But at college we sort of changed friendship groups and he stayed an extra year. He was seeing a girl I hated so we didn't speak much. He ended up marrying her young (22) as they had a kid whilst at uni.

Fast forward a few years I was doing my PGCE and came back to my home town for half term and called a friend. He was going over to now DHs house for a lads night and I got invited (honorary lad apparently!)

As we arrived friend said oh btw they're getting divorced so she won't be here.

After that night out we started emailing and texting and after I moved back to my home town started seeing each other.

He wasn't actually divorced for another year and it was pretty acrimonious with family court involved. And I had a boyfriend living overseas so it wasn't that straightforward actually but eventually we ended up together! Now been married for 20 years.

I'd divorced after a short, abusive, disastrous marriage in my early twenties. I moved back home and hardly went anywhere to meet men and the ones I did meet weren't interested in a serious relationship. It was pre online dating so my darling mum suggested I put an ad in the dating section of the local paper. I got a few weirdos replying and I went on one date where I made my excuses and left pretty sharply, as he was nothing like his description of himself and he kept trying to touch me. My mum then decided to open and vet the replies and she rang me excitedly at work one day to say a really handsome, "normal" sounding man had replied. We arranged a date at my local pub and the minute I saw him I got a good feeling about him and we got on really well. It turned out we'd known each other and played together as children. I just knew he was genuine and that I'd hear from him again when he said he'd phone me to arrange another date. As I drove away I looked at him walking across the car park, literally tall dark and handsome and somehow I knew I'd marry him. 31 years later we are still together and my mum thought the world of him and he of her.

16, at school, break for year at 18, back together and married at 22. Still happily married after 46 years.

House of Yes? One of the men I was also dating alongside now-DH (who is still an excellent F with some occasional B when I’m in town) is one of the organisers!

Sounds like it’s moving on well, I hope you get the ending you’re hoping for :)

I was 16, he was 17. My dad coached his football team and I couldn’t stand him when we first met. I fancied him and hated that I fancied him because I thought he was an arrogant prat.
6 months later I went through a really difficult time and he was there for me every day and I realised he wasn’t actually a prat.
It took us another 6 months to tell my family we were together because we were so scared my dad wouldn’t be happy with us😂.

Met at work 20 years ago. Got engaged the day I won a wedding in a competition I forgot to mention I'd entered. Married 3 months later and celebrating 17 years of marriage this summer.

I was 19, he was 30. He worked with my BIL, who mentioned he (my DH) wanted to see a particular film. So I said why didn't he go with me. We got engaged 8 months later, and married the year after. I lost him 3 years ago, after 47 years.

At a conference.
I was 26, he was 22.
We got married 3 years later.

By complete chance, ds was born on the 11th anniversary of when we met.

No, but we LOVE House of Yes! I think it was something like our fifth or sixth date, and one in which he met some of my friends. Very memorable night. And thank you! It’s going well so far. We are apart currently (I’m back in the UK visiting family) and I don’t think I have missed anyone as much as I miss him right now. It’s like reverse homesickness. I’m going to take that as a good sign. ☺️

Met in 2009 at V festival via a mutual friend. I was 24, he was 25. Dated for 8 years and bought a house in that time and had 2 dogs. He proposed while we were on holiday in Dorset walking the dogs and I was holding a bag of poo 😂 got married in 2019, baby in 2021 and we've been together 16 year and married for 5 in Aug. We ended up getting married a week after the date we had met which was actually unintentional.

We met because my friend was going out with his best friend. I was 17, he was 20. We got married a year later, 18 and 21, I was 5 months pregnant with our first! We've been married 35 years now and have 5 boys (men now I suppose 😂)

Looking back, it seems crazy to be married at 18 but we've been through tough times and stuck together so I guess it was meant to be!

Not many internet/Tinder meetings so far on this thread then.

Do you still feel the warmth and love in your heart when you see him?

22 and 25. He was my boss. We both worked in the gaming industry and he was the only guy who took me seriously in an all-male team. He spoke to me like I knew what I was talking about, rather than the others who all constantly tried to catch me out on my gaming knowledge.

Dated 5 years and he proposed on his 30th birthday. We were married 2 years later (delayed due to covid!) . We now have 2 kids, a dog and a mortgage.

We were 13 and 14 when we met at my friend's house. My friend was his girlfriend, it was the first time we ever met but we clicked instantly (they broke up after like 2 weeks, typical teenage romance).

Hadn't spoken properly for a few years when he ran towards me on my 16th birthday when he saw me in town with my friends and asked for my number. We've been together since we were 17.

14 years and 3 kids later. We actually got engaged on the same date we became a couple and plan to marry on the same date too.

Met mine when we were both early twenties. His mate went out with my mate. I was in a relationship when we first met so we just said hello in the pub we both went to a few times. Then in 2004 he asked me out after I had just broke up with the guy I was with. I kept him at a distance for a while because I was on the rebound, but eventually decided I wanted to be with him and it’s the best decision I ever made. We moved in together in 2006, got married in 2011, and had our daughter in 2014. Married 14 years this year 😊

I was 19 and he was 26, met at work in retail. Formed a great friendship first and things went from there. Married at 23/30 and now been married for 13 years.

Match.com

I was 36 and DH was 32, no proposal.
Married 10 months from meeting.
21st anniversary this year.

I was 36 dh was 32.
We met on match.com and just clicked.
No proposal, we just decided to get married.
Wedding was 10 months after we met, just approaching our 21st anniversary.

We met on plenty of fish, I was 26, he was 27.
we just laugh about everything, I realised I was madly in love with him when we went to a rubbish music festival and my tent collapsed in torrential rain, we were lying on inflatable mattresses pretty much floating it was flooded so badly and I was just in hysterics laughing. I thought to myself “if I was with anyone else but him this would have been absolutely awful”.

he proposed in a hotel room while getting ready for a day festival, I walked out in just my chin rub shorts and my bra and he was down on one knee. Weirdly perfect.

What was the rubbish music festival and what was the day festival he proposed at? All sounds so lovely and natural. 😊

Rubbish festival was Kendal Calling.
day festival was Field day festival in London. We go every year so it was nice that he chose then, he wanted to do it at the actual festival but was worried my ring was the wrong size (which it was a size or so too small) so did it before

I love this thread 💗

I was 21 and I saw this fucking gorgeous bloke in a group photo on my co-worker/friend’s Snapchat story, tall, beautiful smile, well built, all that good stuff.
Anyway, I had a good nose but that was that as I was wasting my time shagging seeing my 35 year old manager at the time.
This gorgeous mate of my colleagues added me the next day as she’d told him a bit about me and shown him my photo as she thought he’d be a much better fit for me. We got to talking, I almost immediately called off my situationship and DH and I were inseparable from our first date, 10 years ago. We’ve been married 7 years now and have two wonderful children. He’s the very best person I’ve ever met.