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

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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?

His wife introduced us. They were already separated, obv. (before I get a kicking!).

He was DJing at a friends party on a boat when I first saw him but he was living with a long term girlfriend. Always hoped I would bump into him when I went out with mutual friends but never did. Two years later he turned up in a club on a night I was not even planning to go to and tried to rescue me from a caned guy who was badgering me for a kiss. Being assertive I told him I needed no help as I didn't kiss guys in clubs before midnight. At midnight he came over and asked me for a kiss. That was 11 years ago in Heaven, married, 1 DS and another on the way in 5 weeks and very happy.

My DP Stb DH was my ex's best friend We done everything together and realised we were meant to be. Shockingly enough my ex has nothing to do with either of us and 5yrs in we have 2 beautiful DD's and we are getting married in August

primrose - I'm very interested how it all happened after that reaction you had! you didn't know him and had an H so were you brave enough to approach him? how long did it take for him to feel the same? when I feel like this (rare) I become 'not myself' and nervous..maybe can ghet tips from you|!

No I didn't approach him that night, thought about him afterwards but just put it to the back of my mind, I loved my ex dh, wouldn't have dreamt of being unfaithful even if I'd thought dp had been interested that night! Eventually our paths seemed to cross, mutual friends etc and we became friends but I rarely saw him and when I did it affected me for days I didn't even realise he felt the same, I was 29 when we became friends, he was only 19! Anyway when my marriage broke down we got involved v.quickly and it wasn't easy as not everyone was thrilled (a few friends thought it was too quick/he was too young etc) Anyway, I could talk all day about it, I'm v.private in rl, so love a good mumsnet confession

We'd seen each other around our small city and fancied each other from afar. He told his friend 'I'm gonna marry that girl one day.'
He thought I was out of his league (?!)
One day he cane into my work with a regular customer my colleague knew, I begged my colleague to tell his mate that I liked his friend, which he eventually did after I took on his toilet cleaning duties for a week.
He came in a few days later and asked me out. 7 years ago.
I married him last year.

Happily ever after and all that!

I had seen my H around and my mate told his mate I fancied him. Nothing happened for around 6 months but I was standing outside the pub one night texting my cousin and he walked past to get a kebab. so being drunk I asked him in the pub for a drink! The loHe walked me home that night and didn't leave.... We moved in together 5 months later, married 3 years later had daughter 3 years after that.

(sadly now divorcing after 10 years together as he no longer loves me...)

I met DH at work, we became really close friends, both dated other colleagues, then a couple of years later when we were both single we realised that actually we wanted to be a couple - everyone else saw it coming a mile off, but we were stunned! 11 years on and 1 DD and we are still v happy.

Awww....all so romantic!

I met DH at work; the company I worked for took over the company he worked for. I was being walked around his office to meet everyone, and remember lightning bolts when he looked up from his desk and shook my hand. I can still remember clearly that first moment, and it was 18 years (and three DCs) ago.

My DP and I startes going out on the 17th June 2011. We had been speaking online for a while and then on the Tuesday before the engineer arrived at the office to repair a few things.

Anyway, I get a text of now DP saying he was in the area for the first time in years and I asked where? He said he has just left where I worked and as they say the rest is history. Less then 6 weeks later we bought a house together and fell pregnant. Thank you fate, xx

At work - at my first job after uni.

In a pub. I was working and he was a very regular customer

We were both frequent visitors to a couple's house, who were mutual friends. After about 6 months I suddenly noticed what a nice bloke he was, thankfully he felt the same way about me. It took a good few drinks at a NYE party to get things moving, and 10 years later, here we are!

I was supposed to go to a pub quiz with my parents - it was a snooze fest so i text my friend to see if he was out, he had just gone to town but said he would wait for me at the train station, I got over after missing 2 trains and we literally bumped into one of his other friends - and I mean she stumbled into me!

She was out with 2 guys and we all spent the evening drinking and dancing - eventually we went out separate ways - we went to the bus station and as we got there the girl was there but only with one guy and totally wasted - I got his number and tried to call to check he got home ok (they were from a different city and were only here for the night) - anyway the next morning he asked for my address to send a thank you gift as without my call he would never have gotten home - he sent some flowers and then came out the next week for y birthday - as we had gone out to town he apologised for not bringing a gift and I (very drunkenly) told him a kiss would suffice ... This was 5 years ago and we are now married with a DS ... He is currently snoring his face off next to me haha

thanks primrose - so who made the first step? and if you felt like everything has changed when you saw him, how did you manage to still be attracted to dh for years? you must be so in control of own emotions!

When I was very young I drew a picture of my future husband and gave him a name and occupation! He was going to be a vet or a lord!!

Throughout my teens and twenties he never materialized (perhaps unsurprisingly!!) and to cap it all, a Cosmo article said that for all those still waiting for their Mr Right to miraculously appear, it was a waste of time. I actually got quite depressed reading this.

Years later I enrolled on a post grad course and scanning the list of names of who else was on the list in the secretary's office I came across the name.

It was so freaky. Later I was in the college library when the guy I had drawn a picture of walked past me. It so freaked me out as I sort of just knew he'd be the guy with the name on that list.

It freaked me out so much that for a whole term I avoided going to lectures basically as I was not the sort of person who could go up to a guy and say 'hey, did you know you are going to be my future husband?' !! That whole term was like torture knowing he was so near yet I was paralysed about doing anything about it.

Months later I was in a dinner queue at a different college when 'he' walked up to me and said 'Aren't you on my course? How come you never go to lectures?'

I went to a lecture the next day and he sat next to me and gave me all the lecture notes for the lectures I'd missed.

15 years and many dc later we are still blissfully and happily married. One thing I got wrong though was his occupation! Funnily enough his family were wealthy landowners but lost the lot after WW2.

We met online, talked about stuff and nonsense for a month or so, and eventually he told me he was visiting his sister in my city, and did I want to have lunch?
I found him funny and interesting online but hadn't expected to fancy him. I met him at the train station and he picked me up and swung me around. . .
He stayed 2 nights and we only really left the house for food. His sister was our bridesmaid three years later, and still laughs about the totally out-of-character suggested visit, and knowing something was up when he never showed up and texted half-arsed apologies! :)
When he proposed it made so much sense to me. Everything about our relationship has always made sense and felt right. Very little drama, many many laughs, and mucking about with my best mate. I am very lucky - and of course, so is he