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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:
LookslovelyinSpringtime · 18/12/2021 09:56

At a party through a mutual friend.

BowledOverly · 18/12/2021 09:59

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar…..

Literally. He was a regular and we got chatting.

mrstea301 · 18/12/2021 10:29

Love reading all of these, it's so interesting and you never know!

I went to school with my DH but he was a couple of years ahead of me, we were friends for a decade before we got together, but v happy now!

Two of my friends met their husbands at school and have been together for decades, and another two have been OLD (match and tinder!)

PeaAndHamSoupFromATurkey · 18/12/2021 10:58

At the pub, a mutual friend introduced us. I met my ex (DC's dad) in the queue for a gig which is maybe a bit more unusual.

DB and DSIL met through online dating. She was only his second date on it. I did try it after splitting up with ex but didn't click with anyone enough to want to even meet them for a date so it's obviously just luck.

potoforchids · 18/12/2021 10:59

Tinder!

GiveYourHeadAWobble · 18/12/2021 11:04

We met online dating.

InsomniaAgain · 18/12/2021 11:19

At a wedding. Married with 2 DC now

BadLad · 18/12/2021 12:01

I've met most of my relationship partners in bars or at karaoke. Of the two that made it to marriage, one was set up by a mutual friend and the other was a chance meeting in a bookshop, when I commented on the book she was reading. I'm glad she wasn't a mumsnetter or I would have been dismissed as Random Comment Man.

cereallover · 18/12/2021 12:27

At work in a new seating plan. Initially I thought he was a dickhead and was moaning that he would probably report me for my swearing and general dickheadishness. Married and have a baby now :)

YenniferOfVengaBus · 22/12/2021 16:04

Is there a local small business organisation or chamber of commerce type thing? I met my husband during the coffee break at an event held by one of these.

OhGiveUp · 22/12/2021 16:59

When he came in through my bedroom window in the middle of the night and landed on top and of me as I was sleeping in my bed beneath it almost 40 years ago.

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