To ask for your true romance tales

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Its sunday, I want warm and fuzzies..

I walked into a pub that had a band playing, couldn't see them at all but as I was ordering a drink I really clearly became aware of the lead singers voice and though 'I'm going to marry that man'. Which I did.

Also, my grandparents met when they were 8 playing hide and seek at a friends party and were married for 60 years. My grandad said he knew he was going to marry my granny when they met.

I would like to read this too, having spent this morning rowing about stupid things like how busy the tube is.

We love each other to bits but today has been one of those days so YANBU to ask for nice stories so I can read them and feel fluffy too :)

Me and DH met. Within 3 weeks we were engaged. Four months later- on my wedding day- I found out I was pregnant (after being told I'd never have kids). DD was born a year to the day- almost to the hour- that we met!

Mine is a tale pof love and loss and love rekindled.

Many years ago, further into the distant past than I would care to remember, I met a girl, or should I say she met me?
We had a fling, a short and stormy romance. We were young, inexperienced and stupid. It went the way of most early relationships, we split and went our separate ways.
I grew up, I married, I travelled, I divorced.
She grew up, she had children, she travelled, she split from her children's fathers.
20 years passed since our childish fling, 20 years of maturity, growth, living a life that never felt my own. Eventually we found our way back to each other.
Scars of life had shaped us and changed the glasses we wore when we were young, no loner the rose tints, no longer the apathy of youth. No our lenses focused on what mattered, what was real, the hard cold light of day.
Now were in our fifth year, a life together far from what we knew. A child, growing rapidly and blossoming into a wonderful girl, a future brought as a thousand suns, a past in the shadows, teaching us forever more.

Wowsers

I met my wife on a friend's hen do. Never met before, she didn't know the hen, but worked with my friend, who thought we'd get on.
She walked in to the bar and I thought she was beautiful. We spent a lot of the night talking, dancing and generally not leaving each other's side. The time came that my friend was ready to leave, so we headed to the taxi rank. Halfway there I realised I was in love and that I couldn't leave... so i got my friends in a taxi to the hotel and I went back.
That was almost 5 years ago and we've been married 2.5 years. I couldn't and can't imagine life without her.

DD was about to move in with the "love of her Life" when she was told that said love was cheating on her. They split. A couple of weeks later she received a note from "the other woman" explaining that she (other woman) had known nothing of DD, and had she done so, she would never had been with "love of her Life"

"Other woman" asked DD to meet with her so she could explain.

26 years later "other woman" and DD are very happily still together

I met a man we hit it off 4 weeks later I was pregnant,I was 19 he was 22. 6 months later we where married, 2 months later our son was born this was 1996.

6 kids later we have been married 21 years next May,people said it would never last too young,got pregnant to quickly etc.

Goes to show when you know he is the right one age and length of relationship doesn't matter.xx

I don't know if this is romantic and/or ever so slightly creepy, but my great uncle was convalescing after a WW1 injury at a countryside house where there was a 9 year old girl staying. She apparently was very sweet about his leg injury and he said to himself "I'm going to marry this girl". He came back and wooed her when she was 20, they married soon after and were together until he died 50 years later.

Not me but someone I work with.
He was in the army as a young man, around 20/22 and a bit of a jack the lad, never really bothered about settling down, he says he was just out for a good time. Well one day in the mess hall, there's a new girl serving and she's beautiful. All the guys think she is lovely but she's not much of a talker and they all give up fairly quickly. Not my co worker. He's still getting flustered every time he goes up and, knowing that the winter ball is coming up, is madly trying to pluck up the courage to ask her out, more than a bit terrified she'll say no and he'll look a right arse in front of all his friends. Debating whether she's just being friendly to be polite or whether she really is making more effort with him than the rest.
So he gets up one day and today's the day, he's definitely going to do it, he's going to walk right in and just ask her. Well she's not there. He asks and is told she's moved on. Bugger.
A couple of weeks pass and he can't stop thinking about her and he's kicking himself for not just going for it. With the ball just around the corner he gives up on a proper date for it and thinks he'll just get drunk with his friends. Then one day, he gets a call and it's her. She'd been hoping everyday he'd pluck the courage up to ask her out and she was gutted when he didn't but she couldn't stop thinking about him either and so, having asked her friend who asked her friend who asked her boyfriend, she found out his name and unit etc and here she is, asking him to the ball instead.
They've now been married nearly 40 years and he adores her. It's lovely!

My Grandpa passed away when my Mum and Dad were in the process of adopting me so I never got to meet him. He knew he hadn't much time (kidney failure) and spent a lot of time on dialysis whiling time away. He spent huge amounts of time towards the end writing letters to my Grandma Mary, who he adored. He hid his letters for her to find after he'd passed away (inside the bundle he wrote for her was also one addressed "to my new Grandchild" for when the adoption went through, which I treasured more than anything I'd ever owned; Grandma gave me his letter for my first Christmas with my new family) and when she died left me his bundle of love letters. I've never read anything so beautiful. He described their first meeting, their love through the war, the losses, the joys, the adventures they went through together. I'm not one for romance but whenever my soul runs dry I dig out those letters. A whole lifetime of memories are within. It's the most beautiful gesture I've ever seen and gave my Grandma such joy when she needed it most.

Totallly outing myself, but pretty sure I've already done that many times!

Went travelling to Australia alone. Got bored, booked a 2 week trip. Got on the bus & a gorgeous bloke was already there - we got friendly on the trip but he was very much licking his wounds after a recent break up. The trip ended several hundreds miles from where it started & he followed me back. We went for dinner & he invited me back to his hotel to 'watch tv'.

We left three days later and have been together 10 years now. Two beautifu children, five years of marriage & that trip was the best thing either of us ever did.

In a club on my friends birthday, also my first night out as a single woman having ended a 5 year relationship.
Saw this guy at the other end of the bar. Fleeting thought of 'if I was interested in looking for someone, he's the kind of guy I'd be after'.
Not long after that one of the girls in the group I was in, who I didn't really know that well, drags me over to meet said guy. Gave me this whole speeel about how he was a friend of her sisters or something, I didn't quite catch it.
So we got talking and eventually I said, so how do you know L? He said I don't, she just grabbed me, talked at me for a minute and threw me at you!
3 years later we were married, now together for 16 years in total, 2 fabulous kids and couldn't be happier!
I did ask this girl why she did what she did that night. All she could say was I saw him, saw you and thought you'd look good together, lol.

And I thank her every year on our anniversary!

I was working at a youth hostel and heard the Bob Dylan song 'Times are a-changing' being played on a guitar from outside a guests room.

I knocked and went in and dh was sat on the bed playing the guitar. I just thought he was the most fantastic being I had ever met and although no words were exchanged, I was ready to spend my life with him there and then.

A bit if to-ing and fro-ing later, we moved 1000s of miles to be together, ignored the fact I am 8 years older and 14 years later he is still the most fantastic being. He's kind, funny and considerate and we just seem to get along.

I consider myself extremely lucky.

It's a long one and Sounds horrid in parts... but I promise, it ends well!

Met my high school sweetheart at 14 and spent almost 5 years together, sadly turned to a domestic violence relationship with varying eating disorders...

One afternoon I went to lunch with a friend and we just clicked, so bravely - I packed up, moved out and went to spend the day with him at his parents and never moved out...

I've finally found my knight in shining armour I think!

6 years later we were due to marry, had a beautiful home, future plans etc.

At the time, my boss is having serious man troubles, date after date, then she meets 'the one' she sickens me... 'he's so amazing, he does this, he does that, we're so in love... blah blah blah'

No ones relationship is that perfect I think...

They get married, have a beautiful daughter who I'm asked to be God mother to.

Then I found out he was cheating 10 months before the wedding!... will I ever meet my Prince Charming!?...

All the while, I've spent 3 years working with this guy, the 'IT man' we'll call him...

After a rough break up, I decide it's time to change jobs and have a fresh start in Feb 2014... which resulted in me moving to London to set up home with... the IT guy!

September 2015 he asks me to marry him, August 2016 we marry and in the September we find out we are expecting our first baby in May 2017... now he's snoring away next to me, but I couldn't be happier!

Now I'm the annoying friend who bangs on about how they have the perfect relationship!

True love is out there for everyone! Sometimes it just takes a while to find it!

11 years ago, I walked into my brothers bedroom to see a very handsome boy, great smile, beautiful eyes but quiet the cheeky chap. Fancy the boy, think he's so much older and would never look twice at a girl like me. Built up a wonderful friendship. Convincing myself we'd never be more than friends.
Fast forward 5years and getting hassle from another male friend. Bit of a player. Only interested in one thing. Creep to say the least. Handsome boy with a charming smile and beautiful eyes has grown into quite the man. Suggests a fake relationship to get the creep to leave me alone. Spend a few weeks going to his house, watching movies, playing video games. Chatting every spare minute of the day. One night he gets a bit cheeky, asks what it would take "to get you into bed". I'm horrified. He was so blunt. So straight to the point. I replied "a relationship". He goes quiet. I panic and log off. The next day he appeared at my door. Nice jeans nice shirt. Those eyes. That smile! He asked me out. I can't believe my luck. How could this popular boy. The one all the girls throw themselves at. How could he really be interested in a shy quite nerdy girl like me?
Nearly 7 years later we are engaged, have three beautiful children and a happier than we could ever be.
He knows how to drive me round them bend and get on my nerves more than any one else (aside from our dear son who is just as cheeky and handsome as his daddy) but one look at those beautiful eyes and that charming smile and I fall for him all over again! He's the love of my life but also my best friend!

My parents had one of those darling childhood romance stories (grew up next door to each other in rural farm houses, played in the mud and the rain together, know each other inside out... one of the fondest memories I have of them is that they can have a full conversation just responding to the odd word from the other and completely understand each other) - unfortunately they both prioritised their careers over their relationship and divorced after about 20 years of marriage, however they are both still extremely good friends, spend christmas through to new years together every year and are probably closer now than they were when they were married. The relationship they have now makes me feel gooey, if I'm really honest.

My OH actually went to school with my eldest brother and apparently remembers me from when I was about 6 (he would have been 16) when I stormed into my brother's room and yelling and ranting at my brother that he had eaten all of my cookies and that I was "very very cross" and apparently after I stormed back out he said something along he lines of "damn, why can't I meet a woman that passionate about cookies?" (but I think he lied about that...DB backs him up though, as apparently it became a running joke). I have no recollection of the entire incident, but do love cookies - so it's entirely believable.

In reality though, we just kept bumping into each other at school open days for our DC and eventually went out for drinks and then had the total opposite of a whirlwind romance (we took things SO slowly). He didn't even realise that he had met me before until I told him an anecdote about my brother one evening after we had been seeing each other for almost a year...

My husband and I originally "met" online in the bad old days of chat rooms, before OLD was really a thing with organized sites and stuff. We were stupid teenagers with no way to actually get together, and lived far apart.

After two failed marriages I was looking into OLD, and started talking to a man who was charming and brilliant. I fell in love fast -- and then one night, we were talking about creative works from when we were silly teenagers, and it all fell into place: we'd known each other half a lifetime ago, and had managed to find each other again. He'd kept a copy of one of my pieces for all that time on his computer.

We spent the first week or so after this discovery suspicious, both of us convinced our respective friends were playing a prank on us! But as it turned out, we got engaged, got married, and have the most beautiful little child the world has ever seen.