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Original poster

so, you wonderful women who met Dp/DHs in 30s

26 replies

boudoiricca · 26/02/2008 13:57

please tell us your inspiring stories of where and how...?

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Iklboo · 26/02/2008 14:00

At local drama group. Joined after b*stard XP left to get some confidence and meet friends.
DH (8 years younger) was with someone so we were mates first. When they split up we started seeing each other occasionally, then more seriously..
2001 - decided we were in love
2002 - he moved in
2003 - we got engaged
2004- we got married
2005 - we had DS

I was 32 when we got together 'properly', he was 24

nickytwotimes · 26/02/2008 14:00

I met my dh when I was 30, does that count?
We met through a mutual friend (female) who I worked with and he'd been to uni with.
Just noticed, this is lone parents - I was childless at the time. So, probably a useless contribution, but, well, anything's a bump, innit?

Drusilla · 26/02/2008 14:01

Do you want lone parent stories or single childles stories?!

Carmenere · 26/02/2008 14:02

Martial arts seminar - hint - there are LOADS of men who do martial arts

Anna8888 · 26/02/2008 14:03

I was 35, he was 36 and we met at the annual alumni cocktail party given by a firm we had both worked at in the past, though at different times (we had never met before).

Love at first sight.

Iklboo · 26/02/2008 14:03

This is Relationships isn't it?

Original poster
boudoiricca · 26/02/2008 14:04

ALL stories please!

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nickytwotimes · 26/02/2008 14:06

Sorry, it is relationships. Not entirely sure what's come over me today - I am losing the power to read! must be all the trolly-squabbling fallout...

Drusilla · 26/02/2008 14:09

I was a week off being 30 (and v happily single btw) and was introduced by a male friend of mine who had met DH on holiday and stayed in toucvh with him. we lived at opposite ends of the country but he had gone to my friends for the weekend. Had bit of a long distance thing for a while which is a PITA

Original poster
boudoiricca · 26/02/2008 14:20

MORE!!

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warthog · 26/02/2008 14:48

went out with dh when i was 31, married at 33, dd when 33. never looked back !

AlistairSim · 26/02/2008 14:49

I was 32, he was 46.

He chatted me up at Paddington Station.

erm...that's it really.

Original poster
boudoiricca · 26/02/2008 14:51

how did you meet, warthog (I love your name btw)?

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Bluestocking · 26/02/2008 14:51

We were both 35, we met in the kitchen at work (same kitchen, completely different parts of the organisation). I e-mailed him and asked him out for a drink.

warthog · 26/02/2008 20:01

thank you - i like yours too!

we have the same hobby and met that way. i was living with someone else at the time, so i had to extricate myself first.

i'm all for doing a hobby that really interests you, that is likely to have lots of blokes interested too. scuba diving, climbing...

MsHighwater · 28/02/2008 21:20

Strictly speaking I was 29 when I first met dh but it was a few years before we got together.

1997 - met at work, the end of my first week in my new job. At this point, I was single and he was still with his 1st wife. Later in the year, my office moved into the building he worked in.

2001 - having begun to fancy him at some stage, often used to meet him "accidentally" over the chiller cabinets in local supermarket, buying ready meals (as was he) before returning home alone to eat it.
Then he rang me at my desk to ask if I was free for a concert that night as he had a spare ticket. Went to concert, got a lift home and a chaste peck on the cheek. Asked me out again a couple of days later and have barely spent a day apart since.

2002 - Married
2005 - dd born

brightwell · 28/02/2008 21:59

I was 37 with 2 dc & in the middle of an acrimonious divorce when I met dp, who is the friend of a friend...it was a set up! Said friend thought we would be good together, that was 7 years ago.

mazzystar · 28/02/2008 22:02

met him at thirty, through but not at work, snogged at works christmas party - oh yes how dignified - denied we were an item for a year, moved in a year later, ds a year after, married a year after that.

rookiemater · 28/02/2008 22:34

Met through a dating website when I was 33. I didn't get an initial spark but thought that he was awfully nice. Kissed on 3rd date, literally felt sparks fly.

Bought flat and moved in together within a year, married within 2, baby within 3 yrs

perpetualworrier · 28/02/2008 22:41

After years of really destructive relationships my sister met her now DH at the age of 31 (he was 37) at a spinning class (cycling, not wool) They have just had DS2.

Oblomov · 28/02/2008 22:50

I went to rent his room. Nearly didn't go and see it because I thought he sounded a bit 'wierd'. Liked him as soon as I met him. Within weeks, my rent was 'payment in kind'. Have been together 7 years now.

beaniesteve · 29/02/2008 00:11

I was with my last boyfriend for 12 years. We bought a house together, got a dog... havingkids was an issue which caused a lot of greif. My ex was a big drinker.

I have been a member of an online community for about 4 years and a local man joined up so I said hi, we realised we had mutual friends etc. But when I met him (at a geeky computer people meet-up) I didn't really talk to him much and my sister thought he was an arsehole.

About 2 years ago we met up again and something clicked, we swapped numbers as friends and for a while we sent texts and emailed eachother and then met up for another geek meet. Only no one else turned up so we got a bit merry then I said I really must go home (to the now ex) so he walked me halfway to the station. I said bye and started to walk away but something stopped me and I walked back and kissed him. That was Oct 2006.

After more texts but no physical contact we went to London for another geeky meet in Nov 2006 and realised this was something serious. In Dec 2006 I ended my relationship but then spent 10 months waiting for my house to sell, living with the ex, seeing my now OH as much as I could etc. It was pretty traumatic as my ex behaved really badly ( I can see why to be honest) but we now live together in a new house and are trying for a baby

I am 37 he is 31. He is the first man I have ever considered marrying and the first one to want a family.

My sister absolutely loveshim now

AnnainNZ · 29/02/2008 00:29

2004 - met, both 32 (nearly 33), he shared a house with a friend of mine from work. I thought he was a bit of a slapper (tbh, he was) so I turned him down a few times. He was v persistent. Six months after we got together we moved in.

2006 - got married on Christmas Eve

2007 - dd born, 10 months after we got married

slug · 29/02/2008 10:17

We were both 32. We met is a pub, I was shamelessly drunk and fancied him cause he's got very pretty eyes and a fab arse. We swapped numbers and I told him not to call me for two weeks as I was finishing my PGCE and had no spare time. Two weeks later, I was clearing out my desk, having handed in my last assignment, and found his number. I called him, asked him out, moved in with him 2 years later, had a baby 4 months after that and have been together happily for 10 years now.

The poor boy, he was like a rabbit caught in the headlights when faced by my somewhat direct Antipodean approach

lizziemun · 29/02/2008 14:07

I was nearly 30 (met in august i turned 30 in october). He was 27.

Met at a pub quiz/blinddate. Got engaged 6 weeks later, moved in with him after about 6mths then got married after about 18mths.

Have now been married nearly 7years and have 2 children.

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