How did you meet your partner?

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Just curious really

I met my dh when I started a new job and he was on the same team as me, he trained me then got moved to another floor and team for a few months.

Then he came back to our floor with the same team and he sat opposite me as the desks were facing each other, over the course of a year we got to know each other through general chatting and I asked him out over the desks he said yes and we went on a date the next day and we been together ever since, November will be 4 years together

Online on a very random non dating site in my final week of uni. Did long distance for years

@BitOfFun You'e right, it never would have happened otherwise. I suppose we both would have eventually met someone else, but we do owe our relationship to both being early adopters on the internet.

Our kids wouldn't exist, which is odd to think about.

Tinder, I swiped right instead of left and the rest is history. I had been on Tinder less than a week when we met.

In a chat room (not sure dating websites existed) in 1998. He was in Canada, me in UK. Met in rl 10 months later. Married in 2000.

At work. There was a beautiful blue eyed man sitting proofreading memos at a computer when I walked in. I thought 'bagsies.'

Met my DH when we were 10, lived down the same street. Friends through secondary school and eventually got together at 17/18 years old. Been together 18 years and married 13 years. We have 2 DC. DS15 and DD11.

We'd known each other for ages (he was a customer of my dads; his mum went to same church; small village) but other than village events didn't really know each other. Enjoyed a flirt but never thought anything would happen until my parents had a party and I found out he was single before hand. Got very drunk and threw myself at him...

At university, 40-ish years ago. Been married 34 years.

Overlapping hobbies and friendship groups. Apparently his friends were telling him "You haven't got a hope, mate, she's not interested", whereas my friends were running a (secret) sweepstake on when we would get together!

Across the chargebar in a police station

Magistrate Court, I was a student probation officer

He was working too

Was at uni and heartbroken after a breakup with ex. Had a bottle of wine with my flatmate and he suggested I downloaded a dating app for a laugh. Spoke to a few lads just joking about and taking the piss, next thing I've agreed to go on a date with one..

He was a work colleague of my ex. A big group from my boyfriend's work used to go out together at the weekend & I'd tag along. It didn't take me long to realise I liked the colleague more than my boyfriend & we've been together over 30 years now.

I was 29 and was in a two year relationship with a man I was telling everyone I was going to marry.

Then I got made redundant and hastily took a lower paid job to make ends meet. My now DH worked on my team and from the first day made it very public that he fancied me. I just thought it was funny as he was six years younger than me and just brushed him off.

Then after a month he announced he'd got another job and I realised I'd probably never see him again after he left. Within a day I grew such strong feelings for him that we arranged a date on his last day at work.

We've been together almost 25 years now and have two teenage children.

We arranged a date through Tinder but when we got there we both realised we'd seen each other at work (I used to work where he worked but it's a big teaching hospital). I didn't recognise him from his photos because he'd had all his hair chopped off. Now we sometimes say we met on Tinder, sometimes at work

At a university reunion (10th anniversary of graduation). She was a friend of some of my university friends.

I had flown back from the other side of the world for the reunion. She came out to visit for a holiday a couple of months later. Dated long distance for two years and then moved in together overseas and married there.

Now back in the UK and married for 13 years.

Matched on Tinder, met that night as we were both on separate but equally awful nights out in the same city.

Very drunk on a night out and my sober friend needed to go to the loo, so looked for someone to prop me us against...

24 years later, he's not let go yet :)

POF 2 years ago. Had only signed up that day and got a message from him. Met up a week later and the rest they say is history!

@Elderflower14 I'm so sorry 💗💗💗

First night at uni, in the bar. DH rescued me from the resident bore, walked me back to my room at closing time, and moved in with me 3 days later!

We had 16 wonderful years and two DC together, before his death at 36, when the DC were still babies.
That was 27 years ago, I never remarried, and I still miss him. He was my soulmate.

I was in a slightly controlling relationship with a man who was constantly putting me down. Didn't have the confidence to get out of it. DP was an acquaintance of his and he fancied me from afar. He made an effort to get to know me and let me know he liked me. It gave me the boost I needed to dump the ex and then after a year of being single and becoming close DP and I finally got together. We are getting married next year!