How old were you when you met your partner...and how did you meet him?

[prettyfiestyforasmallone]

hi everyone

I have been single for about a year I'm 35 and all my friends and married so at a very different stage in life to me...

I'm ready to meet someone special I've tried online dating but it's just not for me.. I've tried match.com ok cupid and pof had lots of response but I like funny men and it's so hard to find that through online messages..

so you wise lot what do I need to do to meet someone... I'm also feeling that at 35 I may have missed the boat
so tell me your stories of how you met your partner especially if you were over 35

(or alternatively if anyone has any single male friends send them my way)

32

At work

We've been together 20+ years and married for 5

damn I work in a all female office!

I was 42, he was 46. Neither of us wanted more children so our ages were not an issue. If you're 35 and want a family it's a whole different ball game. We met online through Lovestruck and have been together four years.

31. We knew each other vaguely. Originally met in a pub years ago but I had a huge break up and wasnt ready to settle so went off travelling.

It will happen for you! 35 is very young

I was 18. We met in a pub and he walked me home that night. Been together 5 years now.

38. Match.com .We have been together 8 years - married for 6.

he is funny :)

I did have a couple of pointless medium term relationships through the same site prior to meeting DH. It pays to be persistent.

Met at 20 at work. Been together 14 years

31, met at work on my first day, together three years married for one.

24

He was a patient . Although he had the sense to wait until his treatment had finished before he asked me out, otherwise I'd have had to turn him down!

51. Friend of a friend. Came to help with some house repairs. Took his top off on a hot day.

Oops, posted too soon. Been together 11 years, married for 4.

17, we met at work. Been together 11yrs.

15.At a Young Socialist meeting 47 years ago.We've been married for 40 of those.Still involved in politics,him more than me.

I was 39 & met DH on Twitter. Wasn't looking to meet anyone but I liked talking to random strangers & he was one of my thousand or so followers.
Met online in the June, met for real in September & I moved into his house in the October. Been here 3 years this week. We were engaged after 18 months & married last year.
Try Twitter, if you're not already on there, it's not a dating site but I personally know of 3 married couples who met on there. Plus it's fun.

I was 35, and had thought it was too late for me.
I met DH on a train. He was doing the tourist thing (he's an Aussie and he came to the UK to watch the Ashes and do some travelling). I walked past where he was sitting at a table and something inside my head said to turn around and ask him if I could sit at the table.
Four months later I went to Australia for Christmas and came back engaged. I emigrated five months later, got married five months after that and was expecting DS when I walked down the aisle. We have DD as well now.

I was 25, my husband to be was just 23. I never went anywhere exciting, wasn't a party animal, worked in a very female dominated environment and had little hope of meeting a partner at all.

Then I went on holiday. I was brought up in a family of hill walkers - all childhood holidays were spent in the Lake District or, later in my teens, in the Alps. I hadn't had a proper holiday for years as I wasn't the sort to have friends I would go on holiday with. So when I hit 25, I decided if I wanted to do anything, I should get on and do it on my own, so I booked a walking tour of Mont Blanc.

I was very fortunate. I had been on similar holidays in my teens with my parents and the other people in the walking group had been middle aged, but on this holiday, they were all, bar one, young. You met the people you would be walking with in Geneva airport. As I was getting off the plane, I was behind a man in an Fair isle sweater. He looked Irish and held what I thought was an Irish passport in his hand. I had always fancied Irishmen and I remember thinking, I wish he was going to be in our group.

Well, he was! That man in the Fair isle sweater was my husband to be. Turns out it was an Australian passport but he is of Irish extraction so I was right about his looks. We got chatting the next day and have hardly been apart ever since (that was 24 years ago, married for 20 years).

If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone. My advice to you would be to pursue the things you love as you are far more likely to meet a compatible soul doing the things you love than you are on a dating website.

We were both 19, at uni, and met through a mutual friend: we don't actually remember the first time we met. He noticed my hair, and I noticed that he was a nerd. We didn't start going out together for another 5 years, when it suddenly dawned on each of us that the other was actually attractive and interesting.

Been together for 25 yrs now.

Dumble, love your story!

I met DH when I was 18, whilst on a gap year. That was 13 years ago.

My BF met her DH at 29 after being single and not having been on a proper date in almost 9 years through a collegue. He set them up and a date.

Another friend met her BF at 31 last spring on a group holiday. She is now set to move across the world to be with him.

A few weeks after my 18th and we met in a pub. We've been together 9 years.

We met in a medium secure unit in an old Victorian mental hospital.

Met dh when we were 14 at a festival. Nearly 10 years ago now!

14 met through friends. Been together 15 years.

My ExH I met when I was 23 - got together when I was 25.
We worked together.

My current OH I met when I was 42 and he's a tradesman - that's all I'm saying on that!