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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:
Hassled · 05/04/2012 20:01

Colleagues. I was married to someone else. 2 years later - I'd divorced, we got together, moved in after another 2 years. Married each other 12 years later.

PuppyMonkey · 05/04/2012 20:03

I think I've got me a's and b's order wrong. Blush

We haven't ever got engaged or married is what I meant.
We have had sex. Lots. On the third date, as is the rule. Grin

IDontWantToBeFatAnymore · 05/04/2012 20:04

We arranged to meet after writing to each other for a couple of weeks and spending hours on the phone.

Met when we were 23. Moved in to my flat when we were 25. Engaged at 26. Married at 27. Shagged after 3 months.

HillyWallaby · 05/04/2012 20:06

Met DH at work, I was nearly 25 he was 29

Were friends for about 6 months first.

Snogged and fumbled after a party just before Xmas, but did not have full sex.

(he was married, but no children)

Had a stressful time for about 6 weeks trying to not have an affair, lots of clandestine lunch meetings and hand wringing, and passing of love notes in the office Hmm (we are so old that email did not exist then) we had few more snogs and fumbles but still no proper sex. (lack of opportunity as we were trying hard not to have an affair, remember?)

One night shortly after new year he left a message on my answerphone at about 1am (I was in bed asleep and didn't hear the phone) to say that he had told his wife he loved me and he was leaving her.)

He turned up on my doorstep the following morning and never left. That was 21 years ago. We hadn't even had proper sex yet. Shock

We did have sex that night. Grin

Got engaged the very second his divorce came through, I was almost 26, he was 30. Found out we were PG with first baby a week after we got engaged. Got married when I was 20 weeks PG.

Had two more kids. He is now 50, I am 46.

Yama · 05/04/2012 20:07

Yes, I was going to ask PuppyMonkey.

IDontWantToBeFatAnymore · 05/04/2012 20:10

PuppyMonkey Grin. I went back to check the questions you said never too Grin.

oikopolis · 05/04/2012 20:10

met at uni. me 19, him 20. started going out when i was 20 and he was just on 21.

a) moved in together after 3 years i think
b) engaged after 4 years
c) married after 4.25 years (we look SO YOUNG in the photos, OMG)
d) had sex... not even really sure! not long in though i don't think. weeks.

robino · 05/04/2012 20:12

Met through mutual hobby. First met when I was 15 and he was 25.

Erm, got together when I was 16 in 1993. Sounds horribly sordid but honestly wasn't; I was probably rather lucky though.

Had two years together, then I went to university and lived abroad and we had a very on/ off "really should have some freedom but I really miss you" relationship until 2000.

Moved in together 2001.

DD1 born 2007. DD2 born 2008. Married 2010 in secret without an engagement. DD3 born 2011.

Laambkins · 05/04/2012 20:14

Met at a work Christmas doo 2004
Did the no-pants-dance on the 2nd date
Moved in 2005 (house share - not really moved in together!)
Moved into first house together 2010
DD born in 2011

hathorinareddress · 05/04/2012 20:15

Oh I read it properly now Blush

Properly together having sex ... first date. Well it wasn't even a date really. He just came round and didn't go home that night Blush

WizardofOs · 05/04/2012 20:15

We met at work, he worked upstairs and I worked downstairs. We mingled socially after work in a large group but I had a boyfriend but then boyfriend dumped me so I thought I needed a bit of rebound action. It was only when it was a casual day and I saw him in jeans that I thought 'lawks! He will do'. At that point I was 23 and he was 27.

We were probably about 24 and 28/29 when we moved in together.
Got engaged at 27 and 31 and same when we married.
We had sex just under a month after first date which is probably the longest I have waited. He was a bit of a romantic.

DawnOfTheDee · 05/04/2012 20:19

Met dancing at the student guild. (age 21)
Had sex a few hours later. (still 21)
Moved in after one year. (22)
Got engaged 5 years after that.(27)
Got married 6 months after that. (still 27)
DD born Jan 2012 (almost exactly 10 years after we met!) (30/almost 31)

Ice9116 · 05/04/2012 20:57

I'm impressed by headfairy - a round the world yatch race!

We were introduced on match.com and met in a pub 4 weeks later - on the August bank holiday 2009.

a) moved in together January 2010
b) got engaged February 2010
c) got married April 2011
d) November 2009 (end of)

Bumpsadaisie · 05/04/2012 21:43

Met on online dating nov 2002. Emailed for couple of weeks then started meeting.

First did the deed on the fourth date I think.

Got engaged Nov 2004, roundabout the time he moved in to my flat and we started sharing everything.

Got married June 2006.

DD born June 2009.

DS born Oct 2011.

headfairy · 05/04/2012 21:55

Ice due to water rationing on board neither of us washed for the first four weeks after we met, I wore the same pair of shorts the entire time, didn't wash my hair or wear any make up. He didn't shave and looked like a yeti by the time we reached New York. It's a wonder we got together at all, neither of us smelled particularly pleasant! :o

Mamasunshine · 05/04/2012 22:36

Met my dh in a pub I had started working in

A) 4 months!
B) 3 years 4 months
C) 3years 5.5months!
D) 3months from first meeting

KatyMac · 05/04/2012 22:45

I chased him around a dance floor
a)6 months
b)9 months
c)53 weeks
d) DD (14) reads MN

Wink
rubyrubyruby · 05/04/2012 22:50

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Pollykitten · 05/04/2012 22:58

He's 14 years older than me... met at work, I was married, realised I was married to the wrong bloke. Didn't kiss or anything for nearly a year, now engaged to be married after 3 years of courting.

Pollykitten · 05/04/2012 22:59

Oh, the sex bit... that was much later...

cece · 05/04/2012 23:03

We mt each other on a raucous night in the student bar.

Met 1987
Moved in together 1993
Got engaged 1998
Got married 1999
First baby 2001
Had sex - within 2 weeks I think

We don't like to rush into things Grin

PinkPolkaDots · 05/04/2012 23:04

Met: aged 12 at school. Sat next to eachother in English Grin
(were best friends aged 12-16 before we finally got together in 2001
Moved in together: aged 19 in 2004
Engaged: aged 21 in 2007
Married: aged 24 in 2010
Sex: after about 3 weeks of being an official couple aged 16! Blush

Mum2Fergus · 05/04/2012 23:05

Met on Match.com, emailed/texted/spoke for a week then met in person. Had sex within about 4 hours of meeting. Within 3 months he'd sold house and moved to my country and in with me. 18 months later had DS who's now 3. Marriage on cards at some point but saving for bigger house first

likelucklove · 05/04/2012 23:09

I met my DP on a night out in town. It's not known for its best inhabitants a recent TV show proved that but quite a few of my friends also met their DPs after me in town also.

Moved in after 7 months.
Got engaged after 3 years 5 months.
Getting married at the latest (after meeting) 7 years.
Had sex after 3 months of weekly dates because we wanted to take things slow and get to know each other

likelucklove · 05/04/2012 23:10

And had DD 3 years and 11 months after meeting. We even forgot our 4 year anniversary last week because of all the newborn craziness! But we are going away in the summer together to make it up Wink