If you met your current partner when you were over 40, how did you meet?

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Inspired by another thread.
I've been single for over a year after my divorce. Haven't met any men during that year as I work in a female only environment, and I don't go to pubs/bars.
How did you meet your dp if you are over 40?

A mutual friend emailed me out of the blue about an old university friend of hers. She knew that I’d been doing OLD but not getting very far, so I think it put the idea in her head when she happened to meet him for a drink one day.

I then emailed him, and a couple of weeks later we met on a blind date.

Tinder! Like others have said be prepared to kiss a lot of frogs but there’s loads of nice men out there and it’s fun.

Plenty of Fish - he was my third 'date' from that site. We chatted on the site for a bit before I gave him my phone number and we progressed to Whatsapp. Been seeing each other for 19 months now.

Tinder! Kissed many frogs but this one might be for keeps.

Fingers crossed... (I’m 48!)

Online dating, single for about 14 mo after dh2 died, chatted to a few but no real interest, he was the 1st (and only) I met up with, been together about 5 months. I'm 46 now.

Recently, I reconnected on Facebook with a guy I'd last seen at sixth form college in 1991. We were acquaintances at sixth form, not friends, our paths didn't really cross. However, we started chatting on Facebook in July about a concert we'd both attended the previous night (we had both "checked in" and he'd noticed that and dropped me a line to ask if I'd enjoyed it). We chatted as friends for a couple of months, then he asked me out and we have had several dates over the last few weeks. It's going well.

A couple of my friends have got chatting with old acquaintances/friends on Facebook and ended up dating. Facebook has its critics, but I think it's quite easy to start a conversation about something if you're both fairly active on there and can refer to a status, photo or check-in - my friend messaged a guy with something like, "Hi James. I see you've just come back from Madrid. Would you recommend the hotel you stayed at? My mate and I are thinking of going" ..... 2 years on she and James are going strong. She had no interest in Madrid!!

Bumble OLD, both 40. Xxx

Met through work.
I wasn't looking for a new partner at all and sort of stumbled into this one as he was such a genuinely helpful guy who initially was helping me find somewhere to live as I'd moved to a new area and was living in temporary lodgings. He'd been in his own for 7 years taking care of teens since his previous partner died and had agreed to look after my cat whilst I looked for somewhere suitable to live.
It was a bit of a surprise to both of us, to be honest.
Got together and got pregnant at 43. Another shock! 

Tinder here too. I was 39, DP was 43. We're celebrating our 2nd anniversary tomorrow and moving in together next year.
I had about 2 years of OLD prior to meeting him, tried ALL the sites and found Tinder to be the best. I met plenty of frogs along the way but also some nice guys who just weren't for me. They are out there!

Work at 42 after a horrible ending of a relationship just 3 weeks earlier (though we didn't get together officially for another year and a half.

On tinder. I was bored and used tinder as somewhere to talk to people when I was on the train. My now dh, had just joined, and I’d only been on there for a few weeks. He was the first bloke I’d met from there (and me him), we’ve been pretty much inseparable since.

My friend is on there and everyone she’s met has been a twat so it really is a bit of a lottery

Plenty of Fish served me up a lovely date on my first attempt and his 150th approx.! We have been together 7 years and married for nearly two. It's a lottery!

How the hell did people over 40 get together before the internet? 

Met in a swimming pool! Got chatting as we queued to go on a water slide then teamed up to go down on a donut together!

Another on POF, met a couple of duffs first but this one is a keeper. Wasn't instant for me but can't imagine why not now!

Met at age 41. He was the EMT in back of the ambulance I was on. He came to see how I was later in the day. 12 years later we are married with an 11 yr old dd.

On a cycling holiday.

I have never done OLD. I am 49, and met my DP (the greatest and only love of my life) because he was one of my DC's teachers. I was in my early 40s when I met him. I have a horror of OLD!

48, at modern jive dancing

53 on a ski trip. Had met him before a couple of times in the previous 10 years, this time we clicked.

Fab stories here! Also 40s.... on POF, Bumble and recently Hinge. Be prepared to weed through a lot and have a thick skin and there are many conversation non starters!

In a horror fiction group online. I write. He likes my writing.

Met on Match, me 46 him 48 July 2017

My second date, his first.

Married on Saturday!!!

In a bar, when I was 50 and on a (shit) 1st date with someone else. Saw a lovely man across the room , our eyes met and eventually I found a reason to go over and speak to him briefly (corny "Have we met before" line) and that was it. Been together 5 years now.

My heart is melting with all these sweet tales!