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!

Was out with some friends for a girlie weekend away in Manchester.

I was standing at the bar waiting to get served when I felt this almighty whack to my forehead. I'm only 5'1 and the guy standing in front of me turned around to take some drinks back to his mates, elbowing me in the head as he did so.

He apologised and offered to buy me a drink. When the stars had cleared I realised that not only did he have hard elbows, he also had eyes you could drown in!

We've been married six years now.

29. Decided to quit my job and go travelling. Met DH in a hostel dorm in South America.

Twas at a new years eve party - neither of us lived in that city so I thought it would just be a new year romance (we were both staying with different friends who were part of the same set).

But he said can I come and see you next week in (my town) and we had a weekend together that went really well, and four months later he relocated.

Pub. I was absolutely twatted, it was his birthday and I insisted he did a shot with me because I liked the look of him🤣

Match.com. Our vicar said we were the first online dating couple he had married. Reading this thread makes me feel more normal since a lot of you met online!! :)

I was going for a night out with my friend. We met at her house.

I walked in and starting banking away to my friend about my shoes. Then started talking about a house I wanted to go view. I had left exh 10 days before. She said she would help decorate and her brother would paint the cekings as he was tall, then pointed him out in the corner of the room. I hadn't even spotted him.

As we were leaving he made a joke and smiled and I thought 'Wow he is hot'. But having just left my husband, out it out if my mind. We became friends. For quite a while then got together briefly. I wasn't ready then got together again about 5 months later as a casual thing. But became serious, after mners gave me a kick up the arse when I posted about ending things with him.

He is sat next to me on the sofa now. He is amazing.

I have 2 kids. Who he met and got to know while we were friends so that's never been an issue. In fact when we told my 7 year old that we were a couple, he asked me why we took so long. He said he though we would be a couple a long time before.

Tinder.

I had been on 50 tinder dates before and all were fairly weird and disastrous but I enjoyed it nevertheless. Did not expect to find anything serious but found DP and almost four years on we have a 9 week old and own a house .

I was DP’s first tinder date fwiw so he was very lucky!

ExH - at uni aged 18, same corridor in halls, same degree course.

Late-DH - at work aged 27, he was my boss and I'd worked there over 10 years when we got together when I was 39.

DP - Online dating aged 46.

17 years ago at a rave!

He came over chatting, and gave me his number. I said to my friend “He’s going to be my boyfriend, he is”.

I rang him, we went out and we were living together eight weeks later, engaged terlve months later, married three years later and had DS a year after that.

He’s my best friend, soul mate and we adore each other.

Plenty of Fish 🙈. I met two wankers first though but this one seems truly wonderful and not a compulsive liar like most of them on that site!

30 plus years ago. I was a nurse. He was stark naked and unconscious. He proposed after 3 months and we were married 6 months later

Dating website. I was a single mum, 2 DC, zero social life. Me and a friend had a dating contest You had to chat to a bloke, meet up with him, second date, etc. I only met him because I messed up when putting my town, so it looked like I lived in his area. I couldn’t be bothered messing around with the app on my phone, and he lives in the middle of nowhere so I thought nobody would see my profile anyway so it didn’t matter. Nearly 4 years later, I live in the middle of nowhere too.

On Twitter. We both followed someone, I commented on something he said, looked at his bio and thought it was quirky and funny.We followed each other and got friendly which led to emails and a phone call where we talked for two hours.

It turned out we were very similar in age, both single and with loads in common. We had an epic and amazing first date 6 and a half years ago and we've been together ever since.

I was mid forties and 2 years out of a dreadful marriage. I couldn't face OLD and DP was the first person I dated post separation. I totally lucked out, he is a kind, handsome, funny, loyal prince amongst men. We lived over 100 miles apart so we would never have met if it weren't for Twitter. So random but I thank God for it.

Met my DP as we joined the same small group trip while travelling. Knew really quickly that we were perfect for each other and we fell for each other while travelling around the most beautiful places. We are now engaged and getting married next year. Hoping to have our honeymoon back where we met! Love how things ended up.

To complicate things, although we luckily lived in the same country, we lived several hours apart. Went into it knowing it would be long distance. Now we manage to split time between places so get to be together a lot more than at the beginning!

Through a shared volunteering commitment.

Good old birthday party for his brother I worked with at the time

2 of my friends went out, took 2 guys buck home with them that night. 2 weeks later one friend was at my house for a few drinks for my birthday, got a bit carried away and invited a few people over one of which had been one of the guys friends went home with on the previous night out, 7 years later we are still together, so technically met him because he slept with my best friend 😂. I was also a single mum OP.

30 years ago today I met my best friend at a uni open day. We got on like a house on fire and I accepted an unconditional offer, hoping she would go there too. 10 months later I moved into halls and my future DH had the room next door. We've been together ever since. Meanwhile BF didn't get the grades she needed for her first choice uni and ended up there too.

Playing netball!! He was a fill in for my team. Spookily I was then sent him as a match on match.com a few days later! Was fate

Met on a night out celebrating our birthdays, we were inseparable since then. 4 years down the line and living together

Met DH in the Students Union bar, my first night as a medical student.
He moved in with me three days later, as an illegal resident (for two years!) on an all girls corridor in halls.
I hadn’t managed to catch his name in the noisy bar, and after several days cohabiting was too embarrassed to ask him. I had to go through his pockets while he slept and found his name from his student railcard!
We loved each other to bits, right up to his death at the far too early age of 36.

POF here too. We chatted for many months and our first meeting had several setbacks due to DP having severe social anxiety.
He moved in about 9 months later. We’ve been together over 3 years now and are very happy.

I was a single mum to 3DC and used to take in foreign students for extra money. One night I took the student out for a few drinks she got chatting to a bloke who I had seen round town but never spoke to. He walked us home but then couldn’t get a taxi home so I let him sleep on the sofa. He pursued me for about a year after that but I just thought he was too young and I wasn’t interested in a relationship. We have now been together 14 years , got married this year and have a DS5 and are so happy. Don’t give up !