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Tell me your stories of how did your OH woo you?

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ChunckyMonkey · 07/05/2018 21:38

Or how you woo'd your OH

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WeWere0nABreak · 07/05/2018 21:39

Alcohol Wink

We met in a pub, got drunk together, had a laugh - rest is history!

TerfinUSA · 07/05/2018 21:47

Woo? Like Derek Acorah?

Echobelly · 07/05/2018 21:52

He got me into bed (literally into bed, nothing else happened that night) with some port and watching 'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead' on DVD. Grin

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 07/05/2018 21:52

No wooing required, he simply was the one.it was a thunderbolt moment

BlueSuffragette · 07/05/2018 22:03

Blind date. He said 'how do you feel about getting in a car with a stranger'? Went for a curry. Got married 6 months later. Been married 20 years. He's my best friend, the love of my life and a wonderful dad to our teen daughters. Sometimes you just have to take a chance. Best thing I ever did.

JellySlice · 07/05/2018 22:08

No wooing. We tiptoed around each other for a few weeks, neither sure of the other. Though apparently our mutual friends were discussing us: the male ones were saying "He hasn't a hope, Jelly's not interested", whereas the female friends were running a sweepstake on when we would realise that we'd both totally fallen for each other! One day I turned around and he was standing right behind me, and we just fell into a snog, and nearly 25y and 3dc later...here we are!

SluttyButty · 07/05/2018 22:08

A swooping kiss after a walk in a park and lunch in a local restaurant Grin

AmazingPostVoices · 07/05/2018 22:09

He made me laugh.

Marmablade · 07/05/2018 22:10

Wetherspoons. FFS! Good job he's the loveliest man I've ever met.

TossDaily · 07/05/2018 22:12

Poetry, pot noodles and he was kind to my pets.

BananasAreTheSourceOfEvil · 07/05/2018 22:16

Honestly? Ours was no great love story.

I had a profile on Plenty Of Fish (other dating websites are available).

POF suggested I list all the things I liked on my profile. I did not like that suggestion, so decided to list all the things I hated.

One of which was 'Justin Bieber; I'd like to punch him in the face'.

Mr Bananas sent me a message saying he'd like to punch Justin Bieber in the face too.

The rest is history.

Essexgirlupnorth · 07/05/2018 22:20

Met at a friends BBQ I had complained I had been single for too long and friend had two friends she thought might be good. She had cornered him in a bar and told him all about me.
He followed me round like a lost puppy at the BBQ but we didn't really talk. I told a mutual friend I liked him and my friend asked if he liked me. A night out to get us together was set up. We had our first kiss in a dive karaoke bar. Went out the following week. Within six week he had virtually moved in with me. We have been together nearly 11 years and married for nearly 7

Echobelly · 07/05/2018 22:26

Love it, Bananas. The longer story is we actually met at a rave of dubious legality, where we talked and fancied each other but for some reason I thought he lived in a different town (he didn't) so didn't get his number. Then we met there again about 4 months later and did exchange numbers, went on a few dates (our first was watching the Christoper Nolan film, 'Insomnia', in Camden) - when we first met in daylight I couldn't believe I hadn't noticed his amazing eye colour, so I fancied him even more.

After a few dates, he apologised to me and said he was looking for something more serious as he wanted to settle down and he didn't think I was the person for that (I know in retrospect this meant 'My mum wouldn't approve of you and I'm not sure I can face the aggro right now'), but I just knew he didn't mean it the moment it came out of his mouth and indeed he called me more frequently after that! We became an item after my 25th birthday party, where he threw up down my bathroom door and I had to tuck him into bed. Shock He wasn't revoltingly drunk or anything, I think there was just a bug going round as I'd actually thrown up before the party started or I'd touched a drop!

Coming up on 11th wedding anniversary this year, about 16 years of being together.

peachgreen · 07/05/2018 22:33

He didn't need to woo me, I knew he was the one from the moment I met him. But our first date involved lots of red wine, a romantic walk by the Thames, talking for 8 hours solid (so much we missed the play we'd planned to see) and him getting onto my train with me so we would have more time to talk. Then he travelled for an hour and a half to turn up on my doorstep the next morning with flowers, coffee and a muffin because he knew I'd be hungover. A+ wooing.

On our third date we got caught in a thunderstorm on a long walk. He came back to mine so I could tumble dry his clothes before he travelled back to the other side of London. We both ended up all cosy in dressing gowns, one thing led to another and after that he basically didn't leave my flat. I moved in with him 3 weeks later and five years on we're now happily married with a gorgeous baby.

Nosleepmakesmetired · 07/05/2018 22:39

We met on March and talked solidly for about a week.

Went on our first date and laughed so much people were getting up and moving away from us lol.

Knew pretty much halfway through our first date I liked him a lot.

Spent an hour snogging in his car afterwards.

8 years together, 4 married and 2 kids. Still fancy the pants off him!

Nosleepmakesmetired · 07/05/2018 22:46

Match not March.

AlwaysHiding · 07/05/2018 22:49

We met at work. There were ‘sparks’ at first sight.

We moved in together after 4 months. Married 9 months later. Only child arrived 9 months after that.

We’ve just celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary and the sparks are still there. We adore each other. I’d be lost without him.

Fruitbat1980 · 07/05/2018 22:54

I invited myself back to his for some no strings attached cuddles (we were colleagues).
I lied Grin
13 years later....! He is still like WTF happened!

BG2015 · 07/05/2018 22:56

Bumped into him at the gym (but had seen each other on Match.com before and chatted briefly) I'd dismissed him as he was the same height as me.

Decided to go for a drink a few days later and he bought me an apple - I'm a teacher! I thought it was really funny, and now realise it was very 'him', he's very comical. Been together 4 years.

It's been interesting. Not always easy. I reckon we're together till the end now!

CaptainCabinets · 07/05/2018 23:00

He knocked on the door while I was on a night shift to give me a Fab ice lolly and left flowers on my windscreen for me to come out to in the morning.

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ChunckyMonkey · 08/05/2018 17:16

Some really good ones here. The love at first sight seem to last for some reason Grin

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LynetteScavo · 08/05/2018 17:22

He knew I had the day off work, took the day off himself, and took me to Bicester shopping village.

He actually hates shopping. I was conned Grin

LynetteScavo · 08/05/2018 17:24

I baked him cakes and took them round to his house each week. He later found out I used packet mixes. He too was conned Grin

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 08/05/2018 20:00

I took my mate along when we went for 1st date,in case dp was a secret bampot
on 1st date we talked,talked and talked about politics,bands,art.major kaboom moment
Went on to date whilst in different cities,different unis.for a few years til we moved in together

LynetteScavo · 08/05/2018 22:49

I just had to Google bampot.

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