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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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Makingpeace · 06/12/2025 21:23

At work by the photocopier 20 years ago 🫣 Both of us were agency temps! Started dating within a couple of months. Now married with kids and entirely different career paths, find it hard to imagine back to us working together again 😆

ApolloandDaphne · 06/12/2025 21:25

Met at uni in 1981. Married in 1985. Still together.

Ddakji · 06/12/2025 21:29

wandatotherescue · 06/12/2025 14:15

on a dating app 6 years ago, got married this year and found out I’m pregnant last week 🥰

Congratulations!

Ddakji · 06/12/2025 21:32

mondaytosunday · 06/12/2025 18:15

Introduction agency (not online). He passed away suddenly after we had been married 7 years.

So sorry for your loss x

StrikeForever · 06/12/2025 21:34

On a dating website. Been together 17 years, married for 10. He’s my third husband and my soul mate.

Ddakji · 06/12/2025 21:34

Work, been together 24 years.

mummybear35 · 06/12/2025 21:37

Met at uni, together for 25years, two beautiful young adult kids, the love of my life and best friend…sadly passed away suddenly and unexpectedly recently 😔 my heart is forever broken..for those lucky enough to still have theirs, treasure them and don’t take them for granted because life can turn on a dime and none of us are promised tomorrow..

3kidsaremorethanenough · 06/12/2025 21:37

Local Pub, the day after Xmas day there was an awful storm and the lights went out, pub landlord came around all the tables with candles and there Dh appeared beside me 🤣 27 years ago!

3kidsaremorethanenough · 06/12/2025 21:39

mummybear35 · 06/12/2025 21:37

Met at uni, together for 25years, two beautiful young adult kids, the love of my life and best friend…sadly passed away suddenly and unexpectedly recently 😔 my heart is forever broken..for those lucky enough to still have theirs, treasure them and don’t take them for granted because life can turn on a dime and none of us are promised tomorrow..

I am so sorry @mummybear35thats just devastating for you and your kids 💓

suki1964 · 06/12/2025 21:39

I should say pub in 1990, but he was a friends best friend from school who came to London for work

We didnt get on for the first 6 months but the wee sod got under my skin - eventually :)

BearSoFair · 06/12/2025 21:44

Knew him by sight because he was one of the local posties, but met properly at a mutual friend's party. 26 years ago!

KeenGreen · 06/12/2025 21:51

Met on a dating site too!

together 17 years and married 15 in January 😊

PTSDBarbiegirl · 06/12/2025 21:54

High school together 20 years.

PlanetSaturn · 06/12/2025 21:57

On a night out in a bar 30 years ago.

HollyChristmas · 06/12/2025 21:58

Online 27 years ago .

Mumwithbaggage · 06/12/2025 22:07

In a disco in St Tropez (not a fancy one) in 1983 when I was 19. Married 1988, 4 grown up kids.

Hummusanddipdip · 06/12/2025 22:08

Nightclub 14 years ago

Emmyweez · 06/12/2025 22:21

Volunteering - 25 years

SabreIsMyFave · 06/12/2025 22:22

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.

Met at a nightclub. Late 1980s. Been together about 37 years. Smile (Married 33 years.)

KingscoteStaff · 06/12/2025 22:22

Skiing with mutual friends.
27 years ago.

Grandmashorty · 06/12/2025 22:27

Met in a dive of a bar in 1984 in Liverpool.
3 kids later….

AquaShark · 06/12/2025 22:30

At work, 15 years ago

Catcooper25uk · 06/12/2025 23:00

Met in a friend's garden 1 summer when we was stood outside enjoying the nice weather he came over as was also friends with my friends unbeknownst to me. We got talking then he went back home added me on Facebook messaged me and came round to mine that same night to watch a film was a perfect gentleman and didnt spend the night we've now been together nearly 12 and a half years.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 06/12/2025 23:02

In the student union coffee lounge at lunchtime. Over 50 years - 😱!

BauhausOfEliott · 06/12/2025 23:07

He was a colleague. We got very drunk at a work do and ended up in bed. Been together nearly 23 years.