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To ask how you met your partner ?

186 replies

Crosswordqueen99 · 17/12/2021 15:22

I have a single friend who says she would like to meet someone nice, ( she's lovely, she deserves to), but all the men she meets online and / or on nights out make it plain they are just looking for sex.

I met my current boyfriend through a flatshare arrangement, ( it was a HMO). However, she is also a single parent to a two year old so wouldn't be able to meet a boyfriend in similar flat sharing circumstances to myself.

She can't meet anyone through work, ( she works in her aunty's buissiness, it is only her and her aunty there). She is also a single parent to a two year old so wouldn't be able to meet a boyfriend in similar flat sharing circumstances to myself.

So basically, how did you meet your partner ? I'm expecting there will be a lot of at work/ online/nights out but hopefully there may be something that will give idea's.

OP posts:
Firenight · 17/12/2021 16:25

Through a shared hobby

Libertynan · 17/12/2021 16:25

match.com 15 years ago.

As a single parent it was the ideal way for me to hunt for a new man. I didn't come across too many weirdies - and had some interesting nights out.

Oh - and of course got my DH :)

MsJaneAusten · 17/12/2021 16:26

Tinder.

I don’t understand it’s bad reputation. I only met nice people on it. I’m sure there are twats there, but you filter them out in the same way as you could in real life.

Alexis7890 · 17/12/2021 16:27

Through a friend. My friends husband worked with him and thought we’d be a good match so gave him my number

whereshalligo · 17/12/2021 16:28

At a work colleagues engagement party.

boymum88 · 17/12/2021 16:31

Plenty of fish 7yrs later married 4yrs and two kids

itsmellslikepopcarn · 17/12/2021 16:31

Tinder.

I’m a single parent too and self employed so there was no chance of meeting someone IRL. He was the first person I spoke to on there and he’s fantastic! Even does the cleaning..

Musicaltheatremum · 17/12/2021 16:32

My husband..met at uni in operatic society. Married 24 years then he died.

Fiancee met on Tinder 3 years ago.

howley1 · 17/12/2021 16:32

another for Tinder. we met up after about 5 days of chatting. Been together 7 years now Xmas Smile

LikeAbatOutOfHell · 17/12/2021 16:33

Divorcee in late 40s 'met' online in a chat room, together 18 years, married 5

Samanabanana · 17/12/2021 16:39

I was actually working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met DH Grin

thingymaboob · 17/12/2021 16:39

Glastonbury festival, he knew the friend I was there with and we bumped into him. We spent hours talking and having a great time and I really liked him then he drops into conversation that he was there with his girlfriend who was performing so I obviously left really annoyed as he'd been flirting with me for hours.
2 years later we end up at our mutual friends Bon voyage party at a bar and he was single and it turned out we were moving to same city at the same time. I looked like a wreck and was really depressed at that party as my boyfriend had just unexpectedly broken up with me. I was a mess and almost didn't end up going out to the bar. We've been together for 13 years and have 2 children. Life is funny.

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PollyDarton1 · 17/12/2021 16:41

Of the 3 major boyfriends (I'm single now)
1 - Uni (3 years together)
2 - Match.com (2.5 years together)
3 - Tinder (7 years and one DS)

My ex DP will always be the love of my life but he had too many issues that he wouldn't get help for. We met on the Sunday night online and went on our first date the following night. Both deleted the app there and then. Even though we aren't together and it's for the best, he isn't and never was a dickpig like some of them.

I've been OLD for about 2 months and have had some shit experiences so far 😂

KohlaParasaurus · 17/12/2021 16:42

I met my first husband at work and my current (forever, I hope) husband through a mutual friend.

fussychica · 17/12/2021 16:42

At school a million years ago, so no help hereGrin. DS met his partner on Tinder nearly 5 years ago.

Chasingsquirrels · 17/12/2021 16:43

H1 at uni
DH2 at work
Bloke I'm currently seeing on OLD

Chishnfips · 17/12/2021 16:47

He gave me a light watching the Chems at Glastonbury.

Darkpheonix · 17/12/2021 16:55

He was making a brew in my best friends kitchen (its her brother). I hadn't met him before as he lived quite far away and just moved back to the area.

I walked in said hi, we chatted a bit and then a few weeks later we got together.

Covidtrap · 17/12/2021 16:57

Tinder. Both didnt know what we where looking for or wanted but bonded over our past experiences. Dont get me wrong it was just about the sex at the start but we seen a deeper side to each other and when we trusted enough to open up we ended up falling in love. He is my rock

NeedsCharging · 17/12/2021 16:58

I dated his best friend when I was 16.
21 years later I bumped in to him in my local pub.
We have been together 7 years.

MrsToothyBitch · 17/12/2021 17:00

Tinder. Met up within a couple of weeks ad nearly two years later, we're newly engaged.

OGenkiDesuKa · 17/12/2021 17:08

Tinder. I was a single mum so could t really go out much.

We married on Monday just gone and have a beautiful 7 week old baby.

Christmissy · 17/12/2021 17:15

Work! But it was a casual student job so no office vibes with politics involved.

OffMyCloud · 17/12/2021 17:17

His older brother had asked me out on a date, and we went out together a few times. He was a really nice guy, but we didn't "click". We sometimes see each other around, and I met his brother. Even though they are very similar physically, there was an instant attraction with DH, I can't explain it.

After a few months we started a relationship. I felt really strange about it for a while, but it all worked out great.