To ask how you met your partner

[trevthecat]

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?

At Uni around 30 years ago. He was with his then girlfriend. We flirted with each other for a few months while I broke up with a boyfriend and he split from his girlfriend. We first kissed at a Jimmy Cliff gig in London and have been together since.

DF brought him to a Tolkien Society meeting, I didn't know how I had a kidney infection, it reacted with the alcohol, I passed out, DH waited with me until the ambulance arrived. We didn't actually get together until 5 years later.

We met online. Joined at the weekend. Chatted on the Tuesday. Met on the Thursday and that was it. Only ever proper date. 13 years together and still going strong.

About 6 and a bit years ago I slipped over in a nightclub on a split drink. Cut my hand on glass and was a bit dazed with a very bloody hand. Guy at the bar pulled me into the loos to clean my hand up and take the glass out. Now married with 3 kids.

Skiing. At a bar in the resort - he had dislocated his shoulder after crashing on a run way beyond his ability. If I had realised then what an indication of his attitude to life that was .....

On a medium secure unit in an old Victorian asylum. He's a catch.

At a sports club. I had split up with my on off boyfriend a few weeks before and was completely off all men forever. Together 10 years now.

Internet dating. He was my new year's resolution. He went to an all night party on Jan 3rd and I nearly sacked him off (not judging just really not my thing and didn't see myself with someone who was into that).

We met on the 5th for a drink, we'd both had a mad day and were running late so I texted him and suggested we put back the meeting time by 30 mins. He didn't read it and was just about to leave when I turned up. He thought I was flaky for being late, I thought he was flaky for not reading texts properly.

Communication has never really improved but we're still -hanging on in- blissfully happy

I don't remember the specifics. O was at a NYE party fell and had concussion.

Still together 10 years on though.

At my first meeting of a university society when I was a fresher. The society had a ratio of about 5 men to one woman as members. I'm not very good at making friends so I was entirely awkward all night especially when it was mostly blokes. He sort of lived on the route back to my halls so said he would walk part way with me since I was new to the city and this was my first proper night out but ended up walking me all the way home and we went out on a date the next night. Been together just over 17 years now.

On a message board online of our favourite band. Started chatting to each other, clicked and I met him in person a few months later. Moved countries to live with him after 8 months. We have two DC and been together 18 years.
When we first met, we went on holiday together in the Lake District. It was amazing and we still refer to it as ‘THE holiday’.

We both worked for the same company but never actually met until we went to Wales for an event.

That was 2014. Still together now with a DD

At university. We did the same course and got together about 2 weeks in. That was in 2000. Been together ever since. Married for 8 years and have 2 kids.

Online by accident. As in, we got talking and just.... clicked. Not saying it was love straight away but we just got on so well. Never ran out of things to talk about was like an instant best friend.

I was still in an abusive relationship with my kids Dad and my now DP gave me the push I needed and the help I needed to get away. He got numbers for places local to me to phone for help, he even rang them himself asking for advice on how he could best help me. Once I was in refuge then we talked about whether we wanted to be together. And we did and still are.

We have our ups and downs (mostly ups) and I have been left very damaged because of the stuff my ex has done to me but now I have DP and my kids by my side future isn’t as scary or difficult to imagine as it once was. I’m very lucky.

Technically at primary school, though he was a boy so naturally we had nothing to do with each other! We started hanging round together at 16 because one of his friends was going out with one of mine. We had a drunken snog one night, but didn’t get together until we were about 26 and he asked me out to dinner. I knew that I was probably saying yes to the rest of my life, to be honest. We’d both had a bit of a thing for each other for a while, and he was (and still is) the nicest guy I know. Five years on and we’ve a two year old, another on the way in a few weeks, and we’re getting married this year. I have no idea how I got this lucky!

Through the student wing of the Labour Party. We’re both really fun people, honest!

I was a student, he wasn't. We smoked a joint together at a party.

We met when I was on holiday in London. He was sweet and clever and we dated the whole summer. Married the following year and celebrate 8 years in May. We were a bit older but just clicked so it was easy to make the move to England from America.

Through a friend, I didn't even like him at first, not my type. But he pestered me so much I gave in and decided to meet up with him. Been together 6 years now!