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How did you meet your partner? and other questions

73 replies

daffodilyellow · 05/04/2012 19:16

Because I'm a nosey cow curious

How did you meet your partner?

How old were you together before you
a) moved in together
b) got engaged
c) got married
d) had sex

I met my current boyfriend online (POF). We don't live together/aren't engaged/married. We had sex after one week

OP posts:
daffodilyellow · 05/04/2012 19:17

how long were you together, not how old...

OP posts:
Dysgu · 05/04/2012 19:25

Met April 2003 via internet (Udate) saw each other at weekends (between island and mainland)

June 2003 - I moved to USA
August 2004 - I moved home
August 2005 - bought house and moved in together.
July 2006 - got engaged
September 2006 - DD1 born
December 2008 - DD2 born

Still not married - we talk about it but it never seems to be a priority for either of us.

(Had sex on date 2 but had been in email contact for a couple of months...)

AKissIsNotAContract · 05/04/2012 19:29

We also met on POF. Moved in together after 6 months, engaged after 18 months, will be married after 2.5 years.

AKissIsNotAContract · 05/04/2012 19:29

Oh and shagged on 3rd date (introduced the kinky stuff by date 6)

tanfastic · 05/04/2012 19:31

Met on Match,com, dated for a year long distance, split up for three months, got back together and moved in together after about eighteen months. Got married after three years. Ds followed a year later.

Yama · 05/04/2012 19:31

a) pub
b) after 2.5 years of getting together
c) after 3 years of getting together
d) not saying Wink

weegiemum · 05/04/2012 19:32

Met October 1989, at uni, both age 19

Started going out April 1990

Engaged Jan 1993

Married/moved in/sex December 1994

We were very young and innocent (married at 24) but it's worked for us, that was 17 years ago and we have dd1 (feb2000), ds (feb2002) and dd2 (nov2003). As happily married as ever, if not more so!

headfairy · 05/04/2012 19:36

Dh and I were both crew together on a round the world yacht race.

We were together for 6 months when we moved in together
we got engaged after a year of going out
Married a year later.

We didn't have sex until six weeks until after we met as we were mid south Atlantic and a crowded boat is no place for romantic liaisons :o

2ombie5layer · 05/04/2012 19:37

Met while working together in June. I was 23, he was 21.

Got together after a drunken work night out Nov 2002

Got engaged Dec 2002

We stayed at each others from the start, I moved in with his parents in Jan 2003, but we got our own flat May 2003

Got married Aug 2004

Dont know about Sex, not straight away, even though we slept in the same bed.

Still very happy together.

roughtyping · 05/04/2012 19:38

School!

A) 8 years after we got first got together
B) not yet
C) ...
D) 3 months after we got together - how we behaved!

Yama · 05/04/2012 19:38

Just realised I got a) wrong. We moved in together after 2 months. Would've been sooner but he had to get a job near where I lived.

Kaloobear · 05/04/2012 19:39

We met at university.
A) a year and a half, though we were students so that was with other people. It was two and a half years from start of relationship to moving in as a couple.
B) got engaged just before three years
C) got married at about five years
D) had sex after a couple of weeks-though we'd been best friends for a year and a half before we got together

EmptyBotheredPocket · 05/04/2012 19:41

We met in Morrisons Blush Grin

a) moved in together- after about 4 months
b) got engaged- after 2 months
c) got married- after 2 years 10 months
d) had sex- 3rd date

Northumberlandlass · 05/04/2012 19:42

Met when i was working in a bar that he frequented with his then fiancé in 1995 (ish) I was 23, he was 26.

Started going out Aug 1996.
split after 6 months for about 6 months
Got back together mid 1997
Bought our first home early 1998

Although we had always agreed we would never have children my bio clock started ticking & we decided to have kids (altho ended up just having one).

So in 2001 (Aug ish) we got engaged & got married May 2002.

DS born Sept 2003.

Smile
DizzyKipper · 05/04/2012 19:44

I met him at university when he moved into the same student house as me, when I was 21. Got engaged at 23, getting married at 26. And it was 8 months after meeting, getting to know each and becoming really good friends before we started getting naughty Wink

Flightty · 05/04/2012 19:44

Met when he turned up at my house and wouldn't go away Smile

Have not moved in together properly but might as well be

Got engaged erm, almost 6 weeks after we met

Not married yet but neither of us is going anywhere

last q, not saying!

TwllBach · 05/04/2012 19:47

How I met DP:

It was my first night in my new uni town, 250 miles away from home. I got drunk and separated from my peer guide and group and wandered merrily around the SU chatting to different people. Finally, I sat down next to DP and his cousin who were locals from the next town over, got talking to them and then realised that I didn't have a clue where I was or how to get back to my Halls. DP very kindl offered to walk me home and, en route, kissed me in such a way that made me realise that all the kissing I had done before was nothing Grin it was the most amazing kiss I had ever experienced.

He missed the train home and stayed in my room in my bed, although all we did was talk and kiss. My mother went mental when I told her what had happened, because he could have been a raving axe murderer. Instead, he is the love of my life. As a teenager, I used to daydream about a boyfriend that I would have one day, and DP just was him. Most days it's like I dreamt him alive when he isn't using the hairdryer to warm himself

We moved in together, officially, 11 months later. In reality, he spent every night wih me in halls before I moved in to his mothers for a month while we house hunted.

We are engaged now, technically, and have been since January, five and a half years after meeting.

No dc, although two mcs last year.

I was 18 when I met him, he was 21. We moved in together at 19 and 22 and will (hopefully) be married before I'm 25 but after he is 27 we feel so oooold

AntsMarching · 05/04/2012 19:47

a) bar
b) 5.5 months
c) 5.5 months
d) 3 months

Was all very quick, but we both knew and 7 years later, still very happy and dd2 is set to make an appearance next month!

foxeeroxee · 05/04/2012 19:49

We met outside a rather scummy club when we were both shitfaced tipsy Blush that was on my 20th birthday,2006.
A.moved in together dec 2006 (just after dd born)
B.got engaged aug 2007 (and then split up may 2008,just before we found out we were having ds1)
C.not married but got back together sep
2010 after a lot of toing and froing!
D.week after we met and that was when dd was conceived haha
Lots of ups and downs but we are stronger than ever and have since had ds2.
Lovely hearing everyone elses stories Grin im also a nosey cow

Mmmcoffee · 05/04/2012 19:50

Met on holiday in the Lake District. It was raining. Grin

We had sex 3 days after meeting Blush, got engaged 10 months after, moved in together 14 months after we met, and got married a year later. DD followed 3 years after that.

hathorinareddress · 05/04/2012 19:50

Met at work but I was married at the time.

Sporadically kept in touch.

Not moved in

Not engaged

Not married

11.5 years from first meeting

I think I get the record huh?

Squitten · 05/04/2012 19:57

Dec '01: Met online through a website I cannot for the life of me remember! I was 18 (nearly 19), he was 25

a) We moved in together after nearly 2 years when his rental lease was up (I lived with parents) and we were already spending every night at each other's anyway
b) He proposed after 5yrs together/3yrs living
c) We got married the following year and I fell pregnant straight after that

Dec just gone was 10 yrs since we first met and we now have a 3.5yr old and a 1yr old!

JollyRogerRabbit · 05/04/2012 20:00

Met DH when he worked at the school I went to. In 2002. Re-met a few years after I left school in summer 2007 and got together Nov 2007.

a) moved in together Oct 2008. Bought a house Oct 2009.
b) haven't got engaged yet
c) got married Jan 2012
d) had sex second date. So a week after we got together or 7 years after we first met.

JollyRogerRabbit · 05/04/2012 20:00

Oh, and DS was born Apr 2011.

PuppyMonkey · 05/04/2012 20:01

A. Nightclub in 1994
B. Six months.
C. Never
D. Never