How did you meet your DP/DH/DW then?

[ElephantsAndMiasmas]

Right my friend and I are feeling horribly disillusioned about relationships at the moment. Could we have a nice thread? I love hearing about how people met and fell in lurve (am hard as nails usually, honest). So how did you meet your partner and did you hit it off straightaway?

We met at work.

Me and my friend went shopping for a pair of combat trousers. I couldn't find any so we gave up and went for a drink.

He had just been laid off and after going to the job centre to sign on, went for a drink.

He knew my friend and we all started talking and we have been pretty much inseparable ever since.

I never did get a pair of combats though!

Met through mutual friends. He'd been aware of me and I'd been aware of him but we were always like passing ships. Then we met at the right time in our lives for both of us :)

I used to run a pub and he was my DJ. I thought he was way too young but he wore me down in the end!

I was recovering from a huge operation, my kids were having to stay in respite, needless to say I was glum.
My friend brought DP round because he was happy and would cheer me up, I had spoken to him briefly on FB when he sent me a message "X is bringing me along tonight, I hear you've been through the mill, what would cheer a young lady up?" I replied with "chocolate, cake and ice cream"
They turned up with bags laden down with a weeks worth of shopping (including l the stuff I said) he was charming, he stayed all night and just talked about random stuff to cheer me up, he walked the dog and did my dishes, he he certainly did make my
life tons happier so my friend made a very good call

A mutual friend persuaded me to go and help him milk cows one January weekend. Got up at 4am, spent 3 hours getting covered in shit, getting soaking wet and freezing my arse off in the milking pit and married him 18 months later.

At work. We both joined the same bank on the same day. I was in HR so it was my job to go and see him to collect personal details for his file and payroll etc.

Yes, we did hit it off straight away - very much so. but we were just platonic friends for about a year before we got together.

I had a party at my flat just before Christmas, he came and didn't go home.

He moved in with me six weeks later. That was 22 years ago.

He was in a pub with his friends and I tagged along with one of his female friends. It became a regular thing and one night he kissed me while drunk after singing a song on the karaoke.

Very romantic . The rest is history.

I was the barmaid in the pub he frequented with his friends.
I was invited to a party at his house where we snogged but cos he's 9 years younger than me (just 24 at the v drunken snogging time) I wrote it off as a a drunken snog. A year later (and much wooing on his part) I finally gave in and we've been together 7 years and have a ds and he's a great stepdad to my dd and ds1.

Through work. Met him first years earlier but he was married and I was with someone and there really wasn't an attraction. A few years later I took over the business and he started working for the company again. This time both single and there was an instant attraction think he needed to mature a bit for my taste.

We went for a coffee one morning to discuss work, and I then went out with my friends, none of them knew I had been out with him, hadn't thought much of it, it was a business thing. Straight away they hit me with you're in love! They could see it straight away. A few months later we moved intogether and the rest is history .

All of the management (all female incidentally) have been there with me from the off and I can't tell you the amount of times we have moaned that we would never meet anyone. Our work is unsociable hours and we are a fairly closed team, not much movement in staffing. How were we ever to meet anyone?

Well all of us are now married or engaged to other members of staff! Its a running joke now if we do get a new male member of staff .

I have no single men on the staff at the minute but if I get one I shall let you know if you fancy a job? .

elephants I really liked him but he was so much older than me (13 years) that it didn't occur to me to fancy him IYSWIM!!

I was on a bit of a bender at the time and he stayed with me and we ended up partying for about 3 months non stop! After 2 weeks I realised I liked him 'like that' and wanted more than a friendship/party-pal

We have an arranged marriage - arranged by mutual friends who worked hard to get us together. I came to visit for a night and stayed a month and then moved hundreds of miles as we either had to make it work or forget it. It worked!

On a night out. He made some terrible attempt to ask if my breasts were real (I think I was supposed to be flattered). I was not at all amused and trying to flirt with my ex at the time.

We were later set up by our respective best friends who had been together years but then went on to immediately have a very messy break up. They were maid of honour and best man at our wedding with their new partners hovering. Awkward.

I was at a gig with my now ex dh. I saw him across the room and felt totally floored, like I'd been winded. He looked very young but just the sight of him made me feel physically sick as I somehow knew that everything had changed. He is now my dp of 4 yrs and still makes my heart skip a beat Incidentally my ex has since remarried and is v.happy too!

He was my boss I thought he was a total wanker(even although I really fancied him I didn't Like him as a person iyswim) but he got me drunk at the Christmas night out and the rest is history

We were fixed up on a blind date last year by interfering relatives, after the 1st date I wondered what on earth I was letting myself in for after the second I was totally smitten, we are getting married in 11 weeks!

We met when I was on student placement at his work - his workmate said I was off limits as I was a student and he was staff - never mind that I am over 30! I thought he was handsome and had lovely eyes. I got caught ogling his bum by his workmate (who gave me a cheeky wink). We didn't get together until I was there on another placement six months later, although he'd been dropping big hints (which I only realised later on) for a while.

Shame it all went to shit! ;)

"just the sight of him made me feel physically sick"

Now that's romance :o

Laugh away, I'm not the best with the written word but I was trying to explain the how weird/amazing and plain terrifying it was before I'd even spoken to him!

Sorry, I wasn't laughing at you and I do know what you mean. It can be very visceral. No accident that the cliche about love is being off your food etc though I am far too greedy.

We both checked each other out in a pub. Then it turned out we had mutual friends so chatted. Later same night he was in a band. The rest is history we've been together 11 years married two.

Love definitely puts me off food but probably for no longer than a few days Not offended at all, never felt anything like it though and if I do, dp knows it's time to pack his bags!!!

at work. was with someone else to start with but when we broke up I needed a dance partner so asked him to go with me. he said no at first, out of suprise I think, but then he asked me if he could go a few days later. it was really sweet.

I was mugged on the way home from work one night; went back to work so I could report it, dh saw what was going on, and came in the next day to make sure I was ok.

Met online ( match.com) September 1999, met a week later and liked each other but I had met someone else through a friend and was having fun with him. A month later I realised I liked DH2B much more, so broke up with the other guy and got together with DH2B. We moved in together, then got engaged 4 months after that, then married 5 months after than.
4 kids and 12 years later, we are still married!