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How did you meet your OH?

100 replies

Littlefuz · 15/04/2023 19:21

I’m not long out of an unsatisfying long-term relationship and feeling a bit down and hopeless today. I’m not looking to jump into anything just yet, but I do feel that I’ll be ready before too long because my last relationship was so lacking that I may as well have been single for the past 5 years.

I never meet new people these days so I’m feeling pretty nervous, would love to hear some stories of how others met their partners and husbands!

OP posts:
HowsAnnie25 · 15/04/2023 19:55

I met my husband at a gig. It was at a venue I’d never been to before but he went most weeks. We just got talking in the queue, didn’t see him again until we left and exchanged numbers.

Skybluepinky · 15/04/2023 19:56

Our kids were friends at school.

DanceMonster · 15/04/2023 19:57

At work. We were both on the same graduate scheme.

Georgiepud · 15/04/2023 20:03

Flatmate invited him along with others to our party. He stayed to help clear up after!

CC4712 · 15/04/2023 20:08

Work colleague invited me out for drinks last minute at a bar. My now DH was a tag along with the group.
Together 22yrs and married 12 now!

Newyearnewjobnewlife · 15/04/2023 20:14

Every single person I’ve ever dated I met in the pub or at work.

sealon82 · 15/04/2023 20:16

Online. Together for 8 years married for 1.

stealthninjamum · 15/04/2023 20:18

Online. Four years ago.

Highfivemum · 15/04/2023 20:22

Age 4 at primary school. Not dating obviously. we always got on though and went through school years as friends. Started dated in high school. Still together 6 DC later. He is my rock.

thefamous5 · 15/04/2023 20:22

At my dads birthday party. He was a family friends sons friend. He was 21 and I was 17.

Twenty years later we are still together

Ofcourseshecan · 15/04/2023 20:26

Through mutual friends. We kept seeing each other and chatting at their parties. Eventually our friends noticed and invited just the two of us to dinner. It’s been 24 years, 22 married, and we’re still happily chatting.

sendbackaletterfromamerica · 15/04/2023 20:28

Online

wendywoopywoo222 · 15/04/2023 20:28

Plenty of fish.

Kissed a lot of frogs but knew first time I met him he was different and fortunately he felt the same.

Arcticlife · 15/04/2023 20:38

Volunteering abroad and he was the owner's cousin who came to help with some DIY. Now relocated, married for 5 years and 2 DD.

RenoDakota · 15/04/2023 20:38

We first met in a pub over 40 years ago and were great friends for eight years. Became an item for the last eight months of that time, before I dumped him due to a stupid misunderstanding. Buggered off to London, where I had been at uni, lost touch and I met someone else two years later and eventually married him.
Fast forward thirty odd years and a strange sequence of events led to us getting back in touch. I had been separated from my husband for three years and he had never married.
Had Zoom dates throughout the first lockdown, fell in love, and met up in person when lockdown ended. Still blissfully happy together two years later.

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 15/04/2023 20:41

Work.

He used to follow me out to the kitchen when I went to make drinks.

TheScottishPlay · 15/04/2023 20:43

We're from the same town and knew him vaguely. We went to the same uni where he was a couple of years ahead of me. He was lovely to me when I was homesick. We got together after uni through spending lots of time together on a shared interest. We've been together 25 years and married for 22.

pookiedoodlepuppy · 15/04/2023 20:45

We were introduced by relatives .

LittlePoBeep · 15/04/2023 20:54

I was friends with his wife for a few years but barely knew him. They split up then 3 years down the line we started seeing each other. Still friends with the ex.

Rockingcloggs · 15/04/2023 20:55

In the pub when I was hiding in there instead of going to my Saturday job when I was at college!

Gotofriggingsleep · 15/04/2023 20:57

Tinder, my first ever blind date. It turned out that we had drank in the same pub for several years previously but had never spoken until our first date. Almost a decade on and very happy.

MissingMoominMamma · 15/04/2023 20:58

Church. I was curious about religion.

We’ve been together 26 years now, but don’t go to church anymore.

LighterNights · 15/04/2023 21:02

Work. Boring but it is what it is.

Startuplife · 15/04/2023 21:03

Hinge

whirlyhead · 15/04/2023 21:05

Work Christmas do - he didn’t work for my company but organised the event. My work colleague thought he was fit so I went up to him, grabbed him by his collar and hauled him over to talk to her. He promptly ignored her and talked to me. We then got into an argument. I thought he was gay but gave him my business card to make him go away. 20 years later he’s still hanging around.