How did people meet before dating apps?

[Aliciaukuk]

Ok finally deleted Tinder and Bumble.. they are full of ugly, broken men..

the lowest of the low.

How can i meet a partner instead?

People used to have dinner parties and meet that way but they are a thing of the past

From my friend group;
Hillwalking club
Rowing club
House party so a friend of a friend
Night Club
Married friends brother
Travelling..Two different couples
On a skiing holiday
In the pub
Working together
At an arts festival
A lot was through friends introducing their friends to new work mates/ club mates etc.

I split from my exH seven years ago.i dated men from dating apps, but the two relationships I had were with someone from work, and with a friend of a friend (my current DP). My workplace is intense, and loads of the single people there tend to date each other.

Sports or arts clubs?

Both involved in politics and met each other there.

In the distant mists of time, before the internet, drunken fumbles with some random in a pub or club led to most relationships.
They always ended in disaster because I never knew anything about the person until we were involved and then it was a familiarity rather than love that kept me with them.
Then online dating and the internet became a thing and I actually got to know the person before we met. we ended up married... That ended in disaster and divorce.
I think marrying LoveHoney would be the best option. 😜

Through mutual interests ... my first boyfriends were friends from the church youth club, met boys at college. Met my first DH through a friend's introduction and met my second DH through a mutual hobby. Would hate to go on 'apps' or whatever to meet someone. Everyone says that's the only way to meet people these days but my own DS (at 17) met his first GF .... through the church youth club!

Dinner parties are not a thing of the past and not sure many of our friends met their lifetime partner through that route.
I met mine runjing summer camps between school and university. Lots of friends met theirs at university or through siblings of the opposite sex. Others at work, at through shared interests or through church. Occasionally through parents friends making introductions. Those a bit late to partnership often had friends arranging introductions to suitable potential partners.

First boyfriend I met in a snooker hall. Met other guys and ex husband through work. Met guys in bars and clubs over the years.

Met my DH at a sports club (tennis). I met lots of nice men there actually. He was lucky I picked him 😉but, 40 odd years later, not sorry I did 😋

Well, there were these places called nightclubs…

I am not convinced much has changed. None of our children or our friends children have met their spousec or future partners through dating apps.

Sorry too soon. Younger generation have met through work, through church, through voluntary work, through things like sports clubs.

Pubs and clubs and parties im afraid
or work

Dh and I met in a club. He came home with me - now we're 23 years down the line!

In my day it was pubs, clubs, shared interests, groups associated with hobbies, work, friends of friends. As a pp said it meant people were 'pre-selected' to a degree, they were either on the fringes of you friend group anyway or had more or less the same outlook on life.

Nightclubs / discos
Pubs
Workplace
Through friends
On holiday

Work, friends of friends, brothers of friends, parties

I met all my boyfriends/partners/DH X 2 in pubs or clubs, or at work. I was never short of attention and it seemed far easier than it does now tbh. I've been single for about ten years. I wouldn't know where to start!

I've just been to a lovely wedding for two 70 year olds ... met through the rambling club .

Pubs, clubs, work, parties, friends and family of friends, hobbies, sports...

My godmother met her husband when she crashed into his car in hers. I don't actually recommend this approach, though they are not far off their 30th anniversary, so it worked for them.

Most of my friends met their partners at school or Uni.

through a friend during a day out after I stopped looking. Was quite ironic as I’d been searching for ‘the one’ for years with no luck - just one god awful date after another, until I stopped…

10 years later, married with kids, still madly in love with each other.

DH and I met at uni, both in the orchestra together!
Dsis - at work
Dbro - on holiday, then realised they had mutual friends
My Dparents - met on holiday when my dad and his friends crashed the party my mum and her friends threw (one of his friend's parents owned the house that the girls were renting)
In laws - I think at work

Of our immediate friendship group...
Uni
Sports clubs
Church
Friends of friends on ski-ing holiday
Friends of friends at house party / dinner party
Friends of friends at another friend's wedding

For me:
School
Work
Uni
Work
Nightclub
Holiday
A wedding
Online
Online

(All the on-line ones have been rubbish!)