To ask for your stories of how you met your DP/DH?

[dreamsandwished]

I've been single for a while now and have lost all hope of ever having the chance to meet someone. I'm a single mum with 1 child and between work and home life I just don't get out anywhere.

Can anyone reassure me with your stories of meeting your DP/DH? Give me some hope that it can happen!

In the pub.
I was working, he was a customer.

I knew straight away we were made for each other. As did his best friend.However he was very unhappily married and not in a good place emotionally.

We got together about 6 years after first meeting, once he'd divorced and sorted himself out.

Been together 10 years, married for 8.

Online dating.
By the time our first anniversary came round I announced I was 12 weeks pregnant.

Together 8.5 years now.

I met my DH at a party when we were teenagers, it turns out we had been at previous events together and never met despite having lots of friends in common.

My mum met my DSF at her old school friends house, she went over to see her for a coffee and he was a neighbour who popped in to see her friends DH. They hit it off and have been together 10 years, my mum was in her 40s. Don't give up! X

Met at a sports club (both trying it as beginners). It was at university but the principle still applies, and I have friends who've met partners in the same way well into their 30s.

Through work DH was a client of the company I was working for.

Match.com 7 years ago. Found myself single after a long term relationship ended so turned to OLD. Been married nearly 6 years with 2 children - good luck.
OLD is tough but there are some keepers out there, just be prepared to kiss a lot of frogs first

Internet hobby forum -- we didn't meet in person for months and I was engaged to someone else, with no intention of dating. We lived in different countries and the only reason I went along to meet up with him was to deliver a package he'd had shipped to me (they didn't do international shipping.)

That was 15 years ago, and we've now been together for 14 years.

Online dating (OK Cupid). We met after talking for two weeks and had our second date the day after our first. Two years later I moved down the country to be with him and the rest is history!

We both worked in Asda when we were students. It’s now 16 years and 2DC later

He was my trainer when I volunteered - allowed me to rip his shirt off and defibrillate him. When he went to Afghanistan on tour I joined his letter-writing harem, when he came back on R&R we got together, wrote many more letters to each other which I still have tied up with a pink ribbon. When he flew back for good he came straight to mine and we’ve lived happy ever after.

Met dh in a comedy club! Him and his mate sitting next to me and my mate. Got chatting swapped numbers and that was that. This was 15 years ago

At Uni. We'd both been there the same four years, but only met in the final term. Both went for last orders with the same group of friends; I was late because I'd been collecting other friends; missed last orders; asked where my drink was; he produced it out of his jacket pocket (in the glass!)

Married 32 years, 2 adult DC.

Tinder We'd only just joined, we were each other's first swipes! We got chatting and met up that night. Been together over 4 years and have a toddler (and I have a wonderful stepson) 😍

My dsis and her then bf set us up on a blind date. We only went to stop them banging on about how we were perfect for each other. Never been apart since. 15 years, married for 6. Hes my world

We met through work and went out together when I was 16, he disappeared a couple of years later with being in the army, he was always the one who got away and i thought about him all the time.11 years later I had just ended an awful relationship and he messaged me on Facebook around the same time, a couple of days later we randomly bumped into each other (in a pub I never visited!) and we have been together ever since and I gave birth to our son 3 weeks ago.It will happen for you and will be amazing when it does. I hope it's very soon

Another for Plenty of Fish!
6 1/2 years ago, I’d just relocated and was probably also on the rebound from a relationship that ended quite messily. Signed up as a joke when tipsy, egged on by a friend. Messages were exchanged for a couple of weeks, our first date lasted 10 hours (went bowling at 2pm, kicked out of the pub at last orders) and been together ever since. Moved in together after 11 months (and it would’ve been sooner had it not been for pesky tenancy agreements lol), married for 2 1/2 years, and I’m now 37w with our DS.
He is amazing and the best thing to ever happen to me. Weirdly it turned out we had friends in common despite being from towns almost 200 miles apart, one of which he met whilst living abroad! Small world, universe works in mysterious ways, etc.
Good luck!!!

I met my husband on POF 4.5 years ago. We’d both been on POF before, with no success really (someone else up thread has said to be prepared to kiss a few frogs. I kissed some real snakes too) and rejoined in the same week. He’d clicked to show he’d like to meet me, so I messaged him and we met 2 days later. Our first date lasted 6 hours and neither wanted to go. We scheduled another date for about 5 days later (the next time we were both properly free) then he messaged me the next day to say how much he missed laughing with me. I replied with “come round and see me then”. He did just that and that was that. We’ve barely spent a day apart since. He moved to Lincoln to South Yorks to live with me after 5 months, we got engaged after a year and are now married.

Met at sixth form. Reconnected thanks to Facebook

As a 32 YO single mum of a 5 yo DD i went on Tinder to date and have fun on the Fridays my DD was with her date... 15 dates and 9 months later i met my OH in a car park to go for a walk to a lake.. Our second date i told him i would marry him... 2.3 years later we are engaged and i hope we can marry next year (finances permitting).

Don't give up :-)

Went through the same year of HS together but we were in different circles. Met again when we we're 18 in a pub and the rest is history. Been together nearly 11 years, married for 5 and 5 DC. He's my best friend & soul mate

Through friends. He took the same class in uni as them. Wasn’t until they had all finished their last term that they said there was someone that would be perfect for me and they got us to add each other on Facebook. At first I was too shy to reply, I had admired him from afar on a few visits to uni town and apparently the attraction had been mutual.

Finally replied, got talking for a while and hit it off, visits were difficult due to living in different countries. First date was meant to last a week, he came over on a visit, didn’t leave until 4 weeks later. Parents loved him, brother thought he was great, and the chemistry between us was something entirely new.

Shortly after that he went home determined this wasn’t going to be long distance for more than a couple of months.

Moved back over permanently with his bags three months later.

Shortly after our 2 year anniversary now and we are married, living in his home country and 12 weeks away from having our first child together.

I think some people thought it was a whirlwind but both of our families get it, seems like we were meant to be and we just didn’t want to wait when we knew we were meant for each other.

Met at a party of a mutual friend.
Both needed to rush to get the last tube home.
Both got on the Victoria line, lived 2 stops apart from each other.
We fell in love on the Victoria line.

I was fast asleep in my bed at my parents home. He landed on top of me after coming in through my bedroom window in the early hours of the morning with a packet of bratties.
I never knew of his existence prior to that 😐
Been married for 36 years now 😅

40 years ago
Tennis evening classes
Almost didn't go as it was snowing
Dragged along by housemates
3 children and some grandchildren now
Often wonder what if I hadn't have gone .....Sliding doors!