Just out of curiosity really! I have come through a hard time, but am feeling great now, very happy in myself and about to start a new job. After being single for a few years I feel ready to get out there and start dating again. Unsure at this stage if I will get to meet many new people through my work, but it's possible. Thinking of trying online dating.
Where did you meet your partner? Was it purely by chance or were you looking for a relationship?
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Onwardsandupwards2014 · 10/05/2014 14:50
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chipshop ·
10/05/2014 15:36
We worked for the same company, me in London, him oop North, had to communicate on a daily basis on the phone and by email. We got on but nothing personal.
After about a year he asked me to go for a drink when I mentioned I would be visiting family who lived in his city. We got hideously drunk on our date, had a long distance relationship for years and we're now in the same city, same house in fact.
It does remind me a bit of Gavin and Stacey. 
RockinHippy ·
10/05/2014 15:41
I first saw him in the street near where I worked many many years ago & he caught my eye, but we didn't meet until a few months later when he started to work close by, he's from the same part of the country I am originally from & we sort if made a connection because of that, but I was living with a boyfriend at the time & didn't really think too much of it.
He turned up at a wedding as the new boyfriend of a close friend a few months later & they were together for a few years,mew all ended up living in the same street & socialising a lot, becoming very good friend & though I always thought him very handsome, thought a lot of him as a friend & felt a strong connection to him because if our shared roots, I never really thought of him in that way as we were both in relationships with others & neither of us operate that way.
We were friends for many years, but never single at the same time - due to us both having dodgy insecure & controlling partners at the same time, we lost touch for about 4 years. I split with my ex & had no interest in meeting anyone new at all, I'd had enough & was happily single - but his ex from years back who was still my friend couldn't understand how I could be happily single & kept hassling me for to know what I would look for in a man - I rember one day just to shut her up making this long list of what wasn't acceptable to me anymore & what the next man would need - she piped up with OMG - that's future MrRockinHippy - to which I pulled a 
face & told her to lay off
Then a mutual close friend died, I had the job of letting some people know about a memorial that was arrange for him - so ended up getting the number for & ringing my old friend, but only as a friend - turned out I was visiting the town he now lived in with a couple of friends that weekend, so we arranged to meet up -
next night I had a bizarre dream where I visited his house, married him & didn't leave. I clearly remembered the decor in his living room - quite a shock to arrive & find it was exactly as it was in my dream
The rest is history - we've been happy together over 15years now, married for 12 - DDs due date was given as the birthdate our friend whose death had got us together , though she was late
GemmaTeller ·
10/05/2014 16:30
At work.....he was introduced one day as a new senior manager and I took one look and thought 'yes please' 
...apparently he thought the same....
We've been together 23 years
Tanith ·
10/05/2014 16:48
At a classical music concert.
I hadn't realised that my seat in the upstairs balcony was so very close to the edge on my left side. I hate heights and I couldn't stay there, so I asked politely if future DH would mind swapping seats and he very gallantly did so.
Years later, he admitted he knew the venue well, had deliberately chosen not to sit on the end, and spent the entire concert in terror because he hated heights, too 
They demolished the venue some years ago and rebuilt a much safer gallery in the new venue.
callmewhatever ·
10/05/2014 16:49
On a night out. Was invited out but was tired and in bed at 10pm, then decided I wanted to go out. I randomly put my drink down on her table and she stole it . We had a drunken snog and exchanged numbers. She's not got rid of me since. Married with 2 dc.
KipT77 ·
10/05/2014 16:54
... That reads as if my date with DH wasn't interesting. It was ace, he was the last internet date
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Lanabelle ·
10/05/2014 16:56
Highschool. 14 years later and he's almost fully house broke 
nah, I was 13 and he was 15, I was the new kid in the tiny school and he had moved about 7 years prior form the same county I was from. We had the same funny accent which got us talking and would both take train journeys back on holidays to see friends and family together. Everyone thinks its weird that we're still together
MeadowHeartshimmertheFairy ·
10/05/2014 17:03
On match.com and about to give up!
Now living together and engaged. Didn't imagine after leaving hideous XH that I would ever be lucky enough to find one of the good ones. I did
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