How did you meet your OH?

[Littlefuz]

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!

Through mutual friends. I worked with (and was friends with!) a woman who was with my now-husbands friend. She just saw it working between us, so showed him a photo then gave him my number. I guess she was right! We immediately clicked and we’ve been together ever since.

Online dating on POF! (Plenty of fish) Together 10 years and married 7 tomorrow, with two lovely girls.Had lots of rotten fish before my star catch, but got there in the end! ☺️

In the pub

Introduction agency. Not online - they interviewed everyone then you flipped through the books and picked up to five people a month you'd like to meet, and the agency sent them your details and phone number and if they wanted to they'd call, and vice versa. He was the 13th guy I met (one became a friend, two I had short relationships with, all were interesting people), I was the first woman he met. We married just over a year later.

Met through Scouting. Engaged within a few months, married two years later 42 years ago.

Work at a party, we worked at different branches of same company

Speed dating. 15 years ago.

He was a friend of a friend. She said, you must meet X, you'd get on really well. So she arranged it, and she was right! All still friends 30 years later.

Met my partner of 10 years through mutual friends. Also met my ex hubby through the same mutual friends.

It was a sort of singles thing, a bit before the internet stuff took off, but was more based on meeting people to make friends. Neither of us were really interested in going out with anyone as we’d both had an awful time with ex’s and divorces. But somehow we kept talking to each other a lot, about six months down the line we were really setup good and proper by someone and the rest is history. (we were told everyone was meeting at a restaurant at a specific time but we were the one ones that turned up). That was 20 odd years ago, married not long after. Our best man was the one who set us up.

Online almost 5 years ago

We were both 16 and met on a school trip.

I wanted tickets to see a sold out gig, and a colleague put me in touch with her friend’s colleague who was selling some. That was almost 20 years ago, and he is currently coughing across the hall in the spare room while I cough in the living room, because we both have Covid. True romance!

Met originally when we were in our teens and used to hang out at a local hang out place on the weekends, were friends but nothing else, friends on MySpace and then Facebook and then about 6 years later sparked up conversations online , I was going away so I carried on the online conversation via a text at the airport and he replied - text the whole holiday, came home met up, and were inseparable. 12 years later we have 3 children 😊 we sometimes go back walking, if we are in the town,near where we would hang out as teens and reminisce 🤣

We met as housemates and just clicked :)

I met my, now, DH walking the dog. We passed the time of day every morning for months whilst both of us walked our dogs on our local route. Then one day he asked if I’d like to meet him for a drink one evening. I accepted. We have just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary.

I would see him driving home from work as I was leaving College, really fancied him. Then saw him in the pub smiled and said hello and that was that..got married and had 2 children. He died.

We met through work. We were friends for a while. Then we were more. 14 years ago. He's still my lobster!

we were in residential rehab together

We were both activists in a political party.

I gave Facebook dating a go thinking it would be utter shit and met the one.

Through mutual friends. I wasn’t looking as was happy single. I have never done OLD or anything similar as was in a long marriage prior to that.

Online

Met my OH in a beginner's judo class. After a couple of weeks we swapped numbers, went out for a lovely meal the next weekend and the rest is history.

Glastonbury festival at the stone circle. Knew the friend I was there with. Spent the entire night chatting and had great chemistry. Then he casually dropped into conversation that he was waiting for his girlfriend to find them. I was furious and annoyed. Fast forward 3 years, the same mutual friend had some celebratory drinks in a bar and I turned up completely bedraggled as had just been dumped and had spent the week moping in bed crying and I turned up without any make up, didn't do my hair and god knows what I was wearing. He was there and remembered me from Glastonbury. I cried to him about being dumped. He was single then. We exchanged emails and chatted a bit through email then met up when I moved to the city he lived in (I was moving there anyway for work). Been together 15 years, married 8, 2 DC