Romantic, old school ways of meeting someone

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Does it happen anymore, anyone had it happen to them?
I’m talking meeting someone walking your dog and meeting the love of your life, with their dog..or meeting someone in the queue at a coffee shop or locking eyes on a train or in a bookshop…yes all very cheesy, but I need hope
Oh, also, my favourite..connecting with someone you knew from school/when young or seeing them on a visit back to your hometown.
Yes I used to love watching corny Channel 5 films 😂

Met up with an old flame over 25 years later. We’d kept in touch but hadn’t seen each other for about 8 years, and it was the first time we were both single again. Instantaneous. That was 4 years ago and still going.

My mate recently met a guy on a night out, eyes met on the dance floor, got chatting, they clicked, swapped numbers and started dating soon after. None of us really thought it's possible to meet someone like that still these days but apparently it is. Wild!

I met up with my first boyfriend from school about twenty years later and post divorce. We had a thing for a while and if Richard Curtis was directing my life we totally would have stayed together. Turns out he was a v active eco warrior and spent time gluing himself to things in protest..too much drama for me.

It happened to Katherine Ryan. She went back to her hometown to film Who Do You Think You Are, bumped into her high school sweetheart, and now they're married with kids. I think that was after like a 20 year hiatus during which she moved across the Atlantic and had her first child and became famous.

I met DP volunteering at our kids' sports club.

I've been with my boyfriend for 2 1/2 years. I chatted him up in a pub watching a band. I'm 50

@Grannywithnoplanny But why is it so surprising/rare to meet someone like that these days? Do people not look at each other/flirt when on a night out anymore?

This has happened to me this year. Someone came to survey the house. Really got on well and i asked him out.

My ex-SIL is mid 50s and met someone new about 4 years ago.

They went to secondary school together, stayed on the same street, but didn’t mix in the same groups, and hadn’t seen or talked to each other in over 30 years. He lives 120 miles away but his mum still stays on the same street as her mum, and they said hello and had a chat when the two mums bumped into each other. He got her number via the mums and called and asked her out and they are both quite happy living separately but spending time together at each others at weekends, holidays, weekends away, with each others families etc. Don’t think they will ever live together as they both have families and grandchildren local to them, but they have a great social life at weekends and holidays.

Talking to a young work colleague (twenties) last week. He met his girlfriend because she was working in the cafe he went to.

My sister had a bit of a thing for a guy in high school. They had a few snogs but never properly got together as a couple. They then went their separate ways. She got married, had kids, then got divorced.

A few years later she ran into the high school guy at a get together with other high school friends. They quickly started dating and eventually got married and now have a 14-year-old together.

As a side note, current BIL and exBIL both look quite similar. DSis clearly has a type!

And a couple of stories about young 'uns. My nephew met his girlfriend at work. Niece met her boyfriend because she is friends with his sister.