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To ask how you met your partner

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trevthecat · 17/01/2018 11:14

Love stories of how people met!
Me and my partner met at 14, I went out with his friend!! We kissed at 16 but I moved 200 miles away. We met up once at 18 and had a one night stand but didn't speak again for 10 years! 3 years ago I was in a pub and walked past him, we chatted a bit and went back to our friends, that night he found me on Facebook and we met up again. 3 years on he's my best friend, we are getting married next year and we had a baby 3m ago.

So what's your story with your partner?

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Treaclepie19 · 17/01/2018 11:16

At school when we were 16. We've been together coming up to 12 years!
Very boring 😁

lurkingnotlurking · 17/01/2018 11:19

I'll need to cut out a few details as they would be very outing... We met via a friend when we were teenagers. I decided he was the most attractive person I'd ever met and that I should try to get together with him. We met a month later and spent the day with his friends, one of whom was my friend. By the end of the day, I'd chickened out and decided he wasn't interested. He made the move and 21yrs later we are still together.

HelgasFlowers · 17/01/2018 11:19

He was a friend of a friend’s friend. We met at a party when we were 18 and subsequent gatherings. I then went of to uni, we both had other relationships and then when I moved home I contacted him to see if he fancied doing something and have been together for the nine years since. I always liked him, he always liked me, so in a way think it was meant to be (though I don’t believe in soulmates!)

QuackPorridgeBacon · 17/01/2018 11:19

At his friends house. I knew his mate and was there seeing him and he rang mate to say he was coming over. I got mate to ring him back and get him to stop at the shop for me and grab two pot noodles (never knew this guy at all at this point and barely knew our mutual friend) he does which is lovely, then he walked me back to my aunts as I didn’t know got to get back home (very recently moved to the area) nearly five years later and two kids and we are still together. Fuck knows how lol

fourpawswhite · 17/01/2018 11:20

Went to school together but he is 3 years older so didn't "know" him. Moved my horse to his farm age about 15 and that was that. Married 19, 20 years together. Had some sad times but love him so much. My best friend, well with infertility, my everything really.

Coastalcommand · 17/01/2018 11:21

I had a rubbish boyfriend who I suspected of cheating, but I could never get enough proof to leave for good. It was on and off for ages. There was a man at work who asked me out for a drink. One night when I was on a break from rubbish boyfriend I went out with him, And he completely swept me off my feet. He made it clear from the beginning that he wasn’t scared of commitment. I never went back to their rubbish boyfriend, but I did later find out the definite proof that he was cheating. My colleague is now my husband.

Auntieobem · 17/01/2018 11:24

A few friends and I were in a queue to a club, one of my friends started getting hassle from someone else in queue. Another bloke stepped in and calmed the situition. Meanwhile I noticed a beautiful man with the saviour bloke - and felt him bum. 24 years later club has been knocked down, but dp and I still going strong.

WhatToDoAboutThis2017 · 17/01/2018 11:24

We went to secondary school together and were in the same year so have known each other since we were 11, then started dating at 16. Engaged late teens, married early twenties, both now nearing thirty and as happy as we’ve ever been Smile

Trinity66 · 17/01/2018 11:25

He actually lived about 5 minutes away from growing up but I never knew him as he's 5 years older than me which may as well be 20 when your that age, we went to the same school and all but I would have just been starting when he was in his final year, anyway years later when we'd both moved away from that area we grew up in, I was out in a night club with a friend when i saw my brother with some of his friends, i almost avoided him because we work together and I had been out sick that week and I didn't want him to think I was lying about being sick (I wasn't I just felt better and had a bad case of cabin fever) So anyway I decided to go say Hello, we chatted for a bit and I went away, when i left my DH who happened to be a friend of my brothers (but I still hadn't met him until now) went up to my brother and said woo, who is she? and my brother said Fuck off that's my sister lol anyway my brother ended up calling me back over and introduced us and the rest is history pretty much, we've been together 15 years

Pinky333777 · 17/01/2018 11:27

At a ghost hunting evening 😂
He found me on Facebook the next day and it went from there (he swears he wasn't stalking me and he was actually looking for a fellow comedian he was working with that evening who shares my name)
Pretty remarkable if that's true and he found me again by chance!
He says he wanted to talk to me all evening but I seemed disinterested and he didn't really get the chance 😁

pinkie1982 · 17/01/2018 11:31

Met mine in the pub I was working in. it was his after work local. He was extremely drunk but funny, asked for my email address. After a couple of shifts he added me on MSN - V romantic.... Then asked me to the cinema, which I was late for as I wasn't going to go. Roll on 10 years and a DS and many ups and downs but settled for a long while now.

Peanutbuttercheese · 17/01/2018 11:34

We met at work, we both worked in higher education and were in the departmental library. It was a very beautiful room with huge windows and oak lined walls. I knew a new researcher had started but he was in a different group. He was 26 and I was 29, our friends all thought we should be together. Took 18 months of friendship first. I had always found romantic relationships difficult because you need to obviously consider another person. I found most boyfriends suffocating, DH and I like our life together but both are happy to do things independently. We both ended up working in different Universities so bought a house in between so we had similar commutes.

I had already been engaged twice but found both of them too clingy.

Scoleah · 17/01/2018 11:50

Used to speak on MSN
I remember him from school but never really spoke to him (he was a year younger than me)
Got speaking when I was 18, had just passed my driving test so offered to pick him up! (He used to be really annoying and take things off my car, like the Ariel just so he'd have to come back and put it back on to speak to me)
Had been in the car around 40mins, We were driving down a hill, when I had a Blowout, toppled the car 3 times, hit a lamppost in half, went through some railings and landed in someone's garden!
Had the Police & ambulance called, were both taken to Hospital. He had hurt his back, I had bust my nose and bit a hole straight through my bottom lip! (Had 18 stitches)
As you can imagine how my lip looked after, massively swollen, along with the rest of my face so I refused to see him, but he kept persisting.. so went out for a walk etc had a talk and have been together ever since!
That night turned into 11 years together this year, married for nearly 3 with 2 beautiful Kids!

(Also took the person (trader) that sold me the car to court, as it had been a write off previously, which we weren't told. Car had no airbags or no pretensioners in the Seat belts, so our faces took the full brunt of the Crash as there was nothing to hold us in the seats! Shock apparently he couldn't afford to repay us, and could only afford £10 per month! Eventually got paid back 2 years later! )

Scoleah · 17/01/2018 11:52
  • oh and it had a Dodgy weld in the chassis, which had collapsed when we were driving and caused the blow out..
purplelass · 17/01/2018 11:56

I'd come out of a 23 year relationship in summer '15 and around christmas time I was getting lonely in the long winter evenings so decided to join POF to just have online company and the compliments the guys were dishing out were an ego boost, I was never going to actually meet anyone of course!
In Jan '16 I got chatting to a bloke, met up with him 10 days later and celebrated our '2 year anniversary' yesterday - so much for not actually meeting anyone :D

LancashireTea · 17/01/2018 12:07

We met through my best friend and former flatmate. They lived in the same Halls at uni and their group still meets up loads. I went along with her to the pub where they were meeting (a London Wetherspoons). He offered to buy me a drink, I declined as I didn't want to make a spectacle of myself. Ended up getting rather drunk anyway, talking to him and yeah... We get married this year and have a 3 year old DD.

snash12 · 17/01/2018 12:14

We were in a band together, he looked so cool playing the guitar :)

MatildaTheCat · 17/01/2018 12:19

Totally by chance. Over thirty years ago.

I went for one drink with my flat mate after a late shift at about 10pm. At the next table was a group of young chaps. One of them very politely came over and asked if we would like to join them.

Reader, I married him.

CuppaSarah · 17/01/2018 12:20

In college at 17. I looked him up and down and thought, wow I'm gonna marry him. My gut instincts are never wrong.

MrPan · 17/01/2018 12:21

MrsPan was hanging out of an office window at 8am shouting at somebody to turn down the volume level of their car audio. I was walking by and thought "who IS this woman?" so went in and found out.
Got married to her 6 weeks ago.

derangedmermaid · 17/01/2018 12:24

He was my maternity replacement. I thought he was a cunt for three years.
One ten minute conversation and we became firm friends and then fell in love.

I like him so much. Obviously I love him, but I really really like him too.

FriendsFornever · 17/01/2018 12:30

I've NC as this is quite outing and a bit embarrassing.

I met DH at university- he was part of a society that I joined. But, there's a bit of a backstory too....

I went off the rails and fell in with a gang when I was 15. There was this guy, then 18, who was pretty serious news in this gang and a well-known drug dealer around the local area. We fancied each other and started shagging from time to time.

After a couple of years, I got myself together, went to college and got accepted to a very good university.

Anyway, I went away and I think we were both thought it was unlikely we'd see each other again. We weren't particularly bothered though we both said we'd miss the great sex (he really was amazing at it).

At university, I met a gorgeous medical student and started shagging every now and then (he was is pretty amazing at sex too). This gorgeous medical student is now my DH.

One weekend in first year when we were still FWBs, his brother came to visit for a night out with DH. DH wanted to introduce me to his brother but warned me he was a bit of a hot-head. When his brother arrived in a ridiculous Mercedes with blacked out windows blasting Vybz Kartel at a million decibels it was none other than the awesome-at-sex drug dealer I'd been shagging for the last year.

DH was pretty shocked but had no right to be pissed off as we were only FWBs. Anyway, we all went on this night out and ended up having a three-some Blush.

After that, DH distanced himself from me for a while saying he felt pretty weird about the whole situation. That was fine. We both got on with life for a few months. Then we arranged to meet for food one evening and he basically confessed his love for me and we started dating seriously.

It was very awkward at first whenever I used to see BIL but it's been years now, we're all much more grown up and it's (I think, mostly) fine. Grin

Alloftheboys · 17/01/2018 12:31

Was going to be bridesmaid for my friend. Didn't have a boyfriend and didn't want to go to the wedding single. Went online and found OH.

By the time the wedding came around 11 months later I was 6 weeks pregnant with DS1.
Still together and now have DS2 as well.

RatOnnaStick · 17/01/2018 12:36

My best friend was with his best friend. Going strong for 18 years now (unlike them).

MrPan · 17/01/2018 12:36

Friends..I'm sure I've read that plot in a Mills and Boon.....

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