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Where did you meet your significant other and how long have you been together?

199 replies

Benny91 · 06/12/2025 13:18

Just wondering, as I met my other half on a dating site and we’ve been together 7 years.

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RaininSummer · 06/12/2025 15:10

Pub poker. Twenty years.

Seasidegrandma · 06/12/2025 15:20

At my sister's wedding in 1970, he was the best man and I was the chief bridesmaid. So we've been together for 55 years and married for 51 years.

DoAWheelie · 06/12/2025 15:22

I was 18 and playing an online game with a few friends and one of my uncles the summer before Uni. We were in a large battle against another group of players and losing, so we all started contacting other friends to join in the game to help us out. One of the guys my uncle brought in was very funny and I started talking to him in game a bit. Turns out we had met once at a wedding 4 years earlier.

We carried on casually chatting over the summer, then when I started uni I found out he worked in the field my degree was in. He helped out with my first assignment and from there we were chatting every single night for hours.

By November we were together and madly in love. I got very sick around the same time and needed surgery with a long recovery so I dropped out of uni and moved to his city as I had a lot of family there who could help.

From then on we never spent more than a few hours apart for 15 years, 4 months and 11 days. He died 18 months ago.

Gardener82 · 06/12/2025 15:30

Online dating (Ok Cupid)
Together for 11 years married for 4 years.

LBOCS2 · 06/12/2025 15:31

Tiger Tiger Croydon 😁 together 16 years, married 15.

HansHolbein · 06/12/2025 15:31

Pub, 16 years ago. We’ve been crossing paths since I was 4, though.

Snackerbacker · 06/12/2025 15:33

School been together since we were 15, was pregnant with our first child at 15 too coming up ten years together now

CaptainCallisto · 06/12/2025 15:58

At work - I was a Christmas temp at his shop the year I did my MA. Been together 16 years, married 15.

Catsinaflat · 06/12/2025 16:02

We met online playing World of Warcraft. We have been together for 18 years.

yeesh · 06/12/2025 16:04

Met at work in 2000, friends for a year or so before getting together.

Hendersso · 06/12/2025 16:11

Dating app they can work! I knew the day I met him. 18 months.

Checkthemeaning · 06/12/2025 16:15

A year….he is my best friends cousin!

PegDope · 06/12/2025 16:30

At work. He was an external consultant on an IT project in my company.

Together 18 years married 16 years.

MadameSzyszkoBohusz · 06/12/2025 16:35

Pub, 21 years ago. Been married for 17 years.

xMonochromeRainbowx · 06/12/2025 16:36

At work, I was new. Been together 8 years. Also got pregnant the first week we met and I'm now pregnant with #4. Got married 2.5 years ago, before what we never had time to 😂

PinotPony · 06/12/2025 16:37

Killing Kittens. 7 years ago.

Coldbonnet · 06/12/2025 16:41

At a bar, 18 years ago.

Jamclag · 06/12/2025 16:45

A student Christmas party - 35 years ago 😱

Carriemac · 06/12/2025 16:47

At work 32 years ago
still happy 😃

nush18 · 06/12/2025 16:48

At one of his gigs (😳)when I was 16 and he was 19. Together 20 years next year and married 10 ❤️

Judgejudysno1fan · 06/12/2025 16:51

Member278307 · 06/12/2025 13:51

Met 65 years ago delivering his papers. Married 60 years.

Wow congratulations and how old are you if you dont mind my asking

Wonderknicks · 06/12/2025 16:58

Met at work. 40 years until he died 😢

Dragonfly97 · 06/12/2025 17:11

Nightclub, in a small market town, been together nearly 30 years, married for 26. Still very happy.

Fifthtimelucky · 06/12/2025 17:13

Met at work 37 years ago.

We’ve been together for 36 years and married for 33.

Sonolanona · 06/12/2025 17:19

A swimming pool in Malta. 37 years.
Was meant to be just a holiday fling😆