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To ask how you met your DP?

109 replies

Coastalcommand · 02/03/2018 17:29

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?

OP posts:
RatHammock · 02/03/2018 20:24

At a punk gig in Camden in 2007. I almost didn’t go but my mate persuaded me. How different life would have been if I’d stayed home that night.

FoodGloriousFud · 02/03/2018 20:25

PoF together over 4 years and getting married next year. He is literally my other half, felt complete the day we met. Mushy but true!

BrazzleDazzleDay · 02/03/2018 20:25

Facebook football club group. Came up from london to visit and never left, got married 7 months later.

ElleMcFearsome · 02/03/2018 20:51

World of Warcraft Blush very happy a number of years on though Smile

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 02/03/2018 20:59

Meet in our teens, and attended different unis in different cities
Did the long distance thing,then moved in together

Darkbendis · 02/03/2018 21:20

While studying abroad. A couple of years long distance relationship, then I moved here and we got married. Many years ago.

Flupi · 02/03/2018 22:46

Were lodgers in the same house in our early 20’s - first jobs

DonttouchthatLarry · 02/03/2018 22:57

A mutual friend said she knew 'a bloke who's just your type' - she wasn't wrong Grin. Been together nearly 18 years and married for 4.

Icomehereseekingpeas · 02/03/2018 23:44

Aww these are lovely! Hope I meet the one someday Smile

Andromeida29 · 02/03/2018 23:49

OLD. He was my one and only date. Been together 13 years this year and ttcGrin

Thehop · 02/03/2018 23:54

Met my husband on match dot com

NotUmbongoUnchained · 02/03/2018 23:59

On a hen do! We were doing a scavenger hunt and I asked him for his pants.
—then shagged him in the toilets—

RubySlippers77 · 03/03/2018 00:08

Ceroc! I know quite a few people who've met through the classes

DoryNora · 03/03/2018 00:14

In a nightclub! Got on like a house on fire and spent most of the night chatting in the smoking area before going back to his for a shag. 4 years on and I wouldn’t swap that drunken night for the world!

Colourmeblind · 03/03/2018 00:25

I met my Oh at the crematorium. I excused myself after a family members funeral to have a few minutes to myself, sat on a bench. He sat next to me on the bench before his friends funeral which he was early for. We chatted for around an hour and thought that would be the last I ever seen of him. Bumped into him 2 weeks later in a pub over 50 miles away from home and he asked me out on a date the next week and the rest was history.
A very strange scenario but still very happy 6 years later and a baby, I believe that fate brought us together.

AgnesBrownsCat · 03/03/2018 01:07

He went to primary school with my friend . I fancied him from a distance . She introduced us .

FortheloveofJames · 03/03/2018 07:14

Work- sat across from each other when we both started at a new job. Became really good friends and then it just happened naturally. We not have DS, 9 months old :)

Arapaima · 03/03/2018 07:18

We met at work - started working at the same company on the same day, got together 8 months later.

Llanali · 03/03/2018 07:20

In a night club, on a sober night out, and had a one night stand.
That turned into several one night stands, a ten year relationship, five year marriage and several babies.

MrsMonkeyBear · 03/03/2018 07:21

Moved in with his best friend.

I had to move to be closer to work and his friend had a spare room advertised on gumtree.

It wasn't an immediate thing as i was seeing someone else. 9 months after meeting him, we were engaged and a few years on we are married and have 2 kids.

Godotsarrived · 03/03/2018 07:22

In a bomb shelter on the West Bank back in 1993. Been together ever since that night. Married 23 years now. Even have a grandchild. 😊

BlondeB83 · 03/03/2018 07:23

Tinder! Happily married now Smile

Stardust91 · 03/03/2018 07:26

We met in an online game (Lord of the Rings Online) about 6 years ago, both from different countries. We eventually battled the distance and moved in together. Now married with baby on the way.

Shutupanddance1 · 03/03/2018 07:26

At a mutual friends 18th birthday party - 10 years later and we are as happy as Larry, married, second baby on the way! Took us more than 3 months to go on our first date tho - I didn’t feel ready.

Think not putting pressure on yourself is probably the best way to meet someone and being open to new experiences as well!

BlueUggs · 03/03/2018 07:28

We worked together for 10 years in a very close setting. Been together 4.5 years, married for 2.5. Incredibly happy. Lots of my friends have had success on my single friend dot com.