To ask you how you met your DP?

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Recently single, dealing with the pain and disappointment still, so not quite ready to meet anyone new yet.

But I’m constantly being told by friends that the “right one will come along when you’re not looking”

I’m not great at meeting new people, so just looking for some hope, I guess?

15 years ago both working abroad as holiday reps & our worlds collided 😍

Really need more info on the sausage guy?!

Met my dp at work. He was so shy and just bloody lovely!

Not wishing to drip feed, but... 😂

My parents are divorced, and it was an ugly one. My relationship that has just ended was full to the brim of gaslighting, so much so I’m still questioning my own sanity

These stories are amazing to me, you’re giving me hope that, although I’m not ready by a long chalk, I could one day just meet someone who is decent...

I’m not fussed about money, looks, anything material...

I would just like someone genuinely kind who doesn’t lie to me.

I met him on Match. I'd spent the previous 2 years going on lots and lots of dates with guys from POF but non of them really amounted to anything. I joined Match and he was date 3 from there.
I was 32 and looking to meet someone to marry and have children with and was quite upfront about that. It certainly scared away anyone a bit flaky! I knew I'd found a winner fairly quickly into our early dates and we were married with 2 children in under 5 years.

meeting people in pubs and nightclubs is tricky. alcohol brings people together with pissed people. down the line health complaints will arise, and you'll be nursing a drinker...

I met mine outside my house, he came to pick me up for an appointment. We went out for lunch for months before we got together. It's been much more relaxed becuase of it, but lots of electricity because of waiting

His friend was going out with my friend...
I was 26 when we first met but we lived in different cities and we were both seeing other people. I was 29 when we got together. We are together 20 years this year and married 15. I am so glad I met him!

Tinder . I had been using it on and off for around a year before we met, had been on a handful of rather disastrous dates so truly didn’t expect the one with DP to be any different.

Four years later we are engaged with a baby and own a house together. Proof tinder can work, sometimes... But expect to wade through frogs first.

We were both co-opted onto the same community project. Together seventeen years, married nearly fifteen. We were both late forties when we met.

Time is on your side OP.

Tinder too. We'd both literally signed up that hour and saw each other, matched, spoke over the site all night bantering about things we had in common and then met the next night. We came off the site that evening. He commuted to work (a good hour) and I hadn't set my distance that far out so was fluke we found each other when we did.

We've got a 2.5 year old now

I wasn't looking when I met my DP.

I had been single for a while after dating a few fucking knobheads (either during or after split) and I was happily so.

Work sent to to a town about 3 hours from home, I didn't mind it was a change of scenery and I drove it weekly anyway.

On site one day (I am in construction) and I got talking to DP - see him regularly and there is some flirting etc. no biggie.

Work night out and we go outside together, things happen. At first it was only casual during the week as we are both working away from home in this place and went home at weekends. Then we started meeting up at weekends (we are about 2 hours from each other).

The rest is history. Together 4 years, living together nearly 2 (although he is still away for work during the week) but we are happy out.

I totally agree you find love when you least expect it and not to go looking for it!!

Take some time out for you, focus on yourself and when the time is right you will meet someone else. And until then have no strings attached rebounds!

OLD. On Gumtree!

School, both 15, been together for 26 years, married for 15.

Love of my life

I went to a club with my friend. His friend and my friend snogged. We chatted politely as they rolled all over each other.

He found my email through a tenuous work connection. That was 15 years ago. The days before mainstream internet dating.

Other friends met partners online dating, pub quiz, work, out hillwalking.

At an evening Italian class. I was 27 at the time.

Tinder

He was a friend of my brother's @Tubthumping1
They went on a night out and my brother said he liked British sausages, so my husband liberated some from the cookhouse freezer. ( My husband was posted to Germany with the forces, my brother was a contractor on the base )
They came back to my parents house, where we lived to cook the sausages, and my brother had lost his key, so my husband came in through my open bedroom window after climbing the drainpipe.
My bed was directly under the window, hence him falling on me. The second part of the unorthodox introduction consisted of my husband saying ' hello, can you cook these sausages ' in rubbish German 😂
Quite why he didn't give my brother the sausages to hold while he climbed a drainpipe I have no idea.
I don't think the camp chef was impressed to find a broken window and a missing pack of sausages the next morning.

Not quite the milk tray man 😂

Work.

Three years of speaking on the phone and via email, we finally got our shit together.

Where I work there is a large amount of inter-dating. It's actually like a soap opera sometimes.