To ask how you met your DP?

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My lovely friend is very down. She’s been Internet dating for a few months and now believes all men are, as Bridget Jones once said: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits or perverts.

She’s deleted all her accounts and is now looking for real life alternatives.

Could I ask you clever lot how you met and wooed your partners please?

At work.

He sat in 'my' seat in a pub. Asked what I "was gonna about it?" when I complained. I sat on his lap. We've been married 15+ years...

Through a friend.

I worked in a bar, he was a customer.

Twitter. We used the same theatre-related hashtag. Got chatting, got on really well, met up (ostensibly as friends) to go to the theatre, and boom, love at first sight. I didn't believe it could happen before I met DH but as soon as our eyes met I knew we would fall in love, get married, have babies etc and so did he. Can't explain it but it's the most certain I've been about anything in my life.

Work

Set up by a mutual friend Best thing about this scenario is that you know your friends already like him and approve!

Kickboxing!

First husband was my boss.
Second ( and final!) Was a single parent neighbour. Our DC played together outside and introduced us! We turned into the Brady Bunch!

These are great, thank you. I also met my husband through work, but her job is more solitary.

Friends Reunited website 10 years after leaving school - married 14 years next week

My Single Friend, very early on when it was just lovely people wanting to set up their lovely mates. First (but not last) date I went on from the site.

At work. I was a checkout girl, he was a stick supervisor

@IDrinkAndISewThings

a supervisor of sticks?

In an MSN chat room 17 years ago before they were all shut down due to too many weirdos on there. My screen name was NuttyTart and he was DiamondGeezer, he sent me a private message asking what sort of nuts I liked and I replied 'hairy ones'

Oh to be 18 again!

In a bar. His friend was meeting my friend and we were both dragged along for company. He was supposed to be a one night stand but 6 years later I think I’d like to keep him

I crashed into mine completely wrote his car off! He refused to go for a drink with me then added me on face book 3 years later ;-)

He was my martial arts instructor.

Pretty much every serious relationship I've had was via a group of friends with a shared hobby. It's a good starting point for getting to know people.

We were set up on a blind date. I think the person doing it was actually taking the mic as we couldn't be anymore wrong for each other lol. No joke!!!

Blind date set up by friends.
Do you not know anyone suitable for your friend?

Plenty of Fish. I came off of there twice because there were so many conceited weirdos, but you have to sift through the crap. 6 years later we're married and have a child

I threw myself into dating in my late 20s, did speed dating,said yes to every invitation and initiated attendance at as many events as I could find. Then, one cold night in December in Leeds, i was out with old friends and only wanting to spend time with them and I physically bumped into a man in a bar, I apologised, he offered to buy me a drink to apologise too, I agreed and asked for a tequila. Love at first drink. Married within 2 years and still happy 12 years later.

In a pub. We had mutual friends.

One of them had tickets for a rave and I drove everyone into town to go to it. Three out of the 4 passengers were trying to give me directions to Great Portland Street and all telling me different things. I pulled over, and told them to decide among themselves who was navigating because they were doing my head in.

Mutual friend#1 said quietly "DP's a despatch rider". I told DP to sit in the front and navigate and the others to STFU. He was impressed by my stroppiness.

We went to school together as children, lost contact but met up years later and here we are

Match.com 7 years ago. The first guy I winked at.