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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:
Dee03 · 15/04/2023 21:09

Facebook dating...been together just under 2 years

Xanadu58 · 15/04/2023 21:11

At a bike rally. Been married 9 years.

Mother87 · 15/04/2023 21:12

Met through mutual friends - I used to do a bit of running hated it & he asked if he could join me, so we kept meeting to run & started to chat/like each other and had to do this fecking thing we both hated for several weeksGrin & eventually snogged in the park. 23 years later and never run together since

Mightyouandiconfabulate · 15/04/2023 21:13

He was in a band with two of my best friends.
Of course I would go and watch them.
Friends for about a year before we went out.
been together 30 years, married 23.

BitOutOfPractice · 15/04/2023 21:14

Online. Together 10 years this month. He’s lovely.

IsThePopeCatholic · 15/04/2023 21:21

At work (teachers in the same school).

Chickpea17 · 15/04/2023 21:24

Through my ex-boyfriend he was one of his friends. No we didn't cheat but my ex-boyfriend did. Been together over 15 years and 4 year daughter

HamBone · 15/04/2023 21:26

Both working abroad, met on a night out.

otherwayup · 15/04/2023 21:26

He was my ex dh's friend 😬

Honestly not as bad as it sounds, there was no affair and we got together after my first dh & I had separated!

Isthatascratchonmygrandmother · 15/04/2023 21:27

I had heard of him because he had beat my then boyfriend in an arranged boxing match that I couldn't attend. I went to a nightclub a few months later and locked eyes with the DJ. We got chatting in the smoking area and he told me his name and it was very awkward. Married 11 years 2 DC now 😂

Aposterhasnoname · 15/04/2023 21:29

In a bar on holiday. When the bars closed we sat on a bench outside and talked till about an hour before his transport was due to arrive to take him to the airport. 25 years and still going strong.

halfthesun · 15/04/2023 21:33

Tinder in 2021 getting married this summer Daffodil

Dj2020 · 15/04/2023 21:34

Online

Fudgeytastic · 15/04/2023 21:37

In my local. Known his brother for years and we used to socialise as a wider group but me and him had always been taken... until a year ago. Love of my life!!

Mamoun · 15/04/2023 21:38

He was an old friend of a work colleague. Said colleague invited me to his house for a party. That was 12 years ago, married 9 years and 3 beautiful young DCs.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 15/04/2023 21:40

Conference. A mutual friend introduced us.

A few weeks later he rocked up as an MSc student in the Dept where I was doing my PhD.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 15/04/2023 21:43

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 15/04/2023 21:40

Conference. A mutual friend introduced us.

A few weeks later he rocked up as an MSc student in the Dept where I was doing my PhD.

That was in 1997. I found those conference proceedings recentjy. DS was born 11 years to the day that dh and I met.

dozydoo · 15/04/2023 21:43

Friend of a friend, our friend had a massive bbq and invited pretty much everyone he knew 🤣 I saw my now dh and asked another friend about him, (I decided there and then I quite fancied him and was aiming for at least a bit of a fumble at some point!🤣🤣) said hi to each other that night, but that was it. Then kept bumping into him, we always had a laugh, then at another friends birthday party we swapped numbers, about a week later he picked me up to go for a Chinese and that was that! I pretty much never left his ☺️ we've now been together 14 years and married for 4, with 3dc.

Highfivemum · 15/04/2023 21:51

Love reading these.

Baneofmyexistence · 15/04/2023 21:51

I worked with a friend of his. We had a work night out and my colleague brought my now DH with him.

secretrugbyfan · 15/04/2023 21:51

She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar..... 😀

pookiedoodlepuppy · 15/04/2023 21:52

I think it's fascinating that even in the age of online dating , most people are still meeting through friends , colleagues or relatives , interesting .

macshoto · 15/04/2023 21:57

'Significant' university reunion - friend of friends.

Phos · 15/04/2023 22:03

I moved in with him 😆Well sort of anyway. We were housemates in a shared house in London. I moved in two weeks after him.

neighboursmustliveon · 15/04/2023 22:07

We met at work. I started where he already worked and we got together on a night out 6 months later. We have been together 22 years this year.