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Where did you meet your partner/husband, and how old were you both?

175 replies

NoKnickersSnickers · 07/05/2009 10:12

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OP posts:
slug · 07/05/2009 10:41

In the pub on a rare evening out with a flatmate, beer goggles firmly in place. We were both 32.

poshwellies · 07/05/2009 10:42

In Denmark-I was on holiday and he was there working,I was 22 and he was 28 .
He came up to me in a bar as he thought I had a nice bottom .Left him with my email address several drunken hours after first talking and 2 weeks later he drove all the way from Germany to take me out for a few hours .The rest is history as they say.

NatalieJane · 07/05/2009 10:43

On t'internet (I don't know why but I am always at pains to exprss very clearly it wasn't a dating site, just a chat site from years ago - Freeserve Cafe anyone?!)

I was 17, he was 30.

We've been married for 8 and a half years, 3 kids, job's a good'un

mumbee · 07/05/2009 10:44

At a Christian conference, day 2, in a seminar entitle on how to be single in your local church i was 29 he was nearly 30. We married 1 year later.

We've been together 14 years.

Weegiemum · 07/05/2009 10:45

At Uni, I was 18, he was 19. Been together 20 years now, married for almost 15, with 3 dcs. Eeeek! 20 years!

flowerybeanbag · 07/05/2009 10:45

At school, we were both 14. Didn't get together until 17/18 though.

CaptainKarvol · 07/05/2009 10:45

At work. I was 21, he was 24. Took us many, many years to get together, buy a house, get married, have kids. As in I'm now 38 and we've got a 3 year old and a 7 week old!

TheOtherMaryPoppinsDiets · 07/05/2009 10:47

On a rowdy internet forum weekend away in Newcastle - although we hadn't really "spoken" much more than hello, good day? etc - eyes met across the pub etc etc

I was 31 he was 33

gardeningmum05 · 07/05/2009 10:48

we were both 15 on holiday in skegness,staying at the same site. he was from glasgow and i was from leicester. it was love at 1st site. we kept in touch for afew months but it fizzled out because of the distance.
later he moved to nottingham, and tracked me down 19 years later on friends reunited.met up and moved in together within the week lifes too short

CrushWithEyeliner · 07/05/2009 10:49

At an interview - he interviewed me-. He was 44 I was 24.

I got the job

bronze · 07/05/2009 10:50

in a canalside pub. We were both on boats going in opposite directions. I was 18 he was 23. Married 7 years this month with 4 children

wotsits · 07/05/2009 10:53

At university, I was 24 and he was 22. He helped me unlock 'my' kitchen cupboard (damsel in distress emoticon). Got married 3 years later, and still married 12 years on.

gonaenodaethat · 07/05/2009 10:56

At work. We were both 25.
We were junior house officers in our first job and no-one knew except us. I used to sit quietly while nurses talked about fancying him and then would go back and jump into his on-call bed.
We've been together for 15yrs.

Mummyfor3 · 07/05/2009 10:58

He was flatmate to a friend of mine, met him getting ready for a night out with my friend.

Tried to force myself on him much much later in dreadful drunken state and he had to do the Right Thing - not sure whether to be chuffed or offended by his restraint even now .

I was 28, he was 25 .

Now 1 mortgage, one wedding and 3 sprogs later, still talking to each other after 13 years...

Original poster
NoKnickersSnickers · 07/05/2009 10:59

Interesting reading - some lovely stories. Thanks for posts.

I expected more of you to have met in your late twenties/early thirties TBH - don't know why.

Like many posters, we met in our late teens - but sadly separated shortly before turning thirty.

I'm now 31 and single again. Bit worried I've missed the boat in terms of that 'golden window' for meeting someone.

Keep the posts coming. Nice to read some happy stories on this board - so many domestic violence threads lately.

OP posts:
LadyOfWaffle · 07/05/2009 11:05

Internet (AOL) Your screen name can have profiles, so I had one (being young, as you do) and under intrests it had cars. DH obviously had looked up the keyword, looked for people close by and came across me. A thing popped up saying "hi" and asked some sort of Q (may have been how are you? ) I replied, it went quiet and he said "you're probably busy, I'll leave you to it". Normally I just ignore IMs (you get alot on AOL!) but I said "no I'm not" to him and we got chatting and arranged to meet at my work (pub) sometime. We went out for a meal (he set up a tab but I was so worried about letting someone else pay for me I went and paid for us!) and then just kept meeting up and chatting/mucking around/going for walks etc. And that was that! I had just turned 18 (prob. was 17 when we chatted online) and he was... 21.

PlumpRumpSoggyBaps · 07/05/2009 11:06

In a nightclub. I was very drunk quite tipsy cos I was on a hen night that I really didn't want to be on and nearly didn't go on.

I was lurching dancing when a bloke tried to grab me. I turned away from him, saw DH and asked if he would 'save me from the short bloke in the nasty shirt' . He looked over my shoulder, nodded and grabbed me for a dance.

Ahhh. Romantic.....

He was 30, I was 35. (It also turned out that we'd been on the same dating site at the same time but never been matched up.)

PaulaYatesBiggestFan · 07/05/2009 11:08

on a staircase

at a party

he already knew my name (why wouldn't he!!!?)

20 years later

6 dcs later

not married but great sex

LadyPinkofPinkerton · 07/05/2009 11:13

At work. I was 21, he was 30

tattycoram · 07/05/2009 11:13

God you were all young! I was 33 and DH 38. Met online. A good mate of mine did online dating at the same time and also got married and had a son. It drives me mad whem my single female media friends feel sad at being single but won't do online dating. It can definitely work.

queenrollo · 07/05/2009 11:15

a group of us on the internet meet up at festivals and i met him in passing a couple of years ago (literally a drunken hello, which he doesn't remember at all)....it just so happened that both our relationships broke up at the same time and so we chatted on MSN to help each other through it. We didn't actually meet properly until a few months later when a group of us went to stay with mutual friends for a weekend. There was a spark and few weeks later on MSN he asked if he could come and see me again.
I was 32 and he was 41.......

NotKnickersSnickers - i met my ex (whom i have a child with) when i was 17 and he was 16 and we were together 14 years. When we split i really thought i wouldn't find another man, especially one who would take me on with a child and the baggage of having to have contact with my ex.....but i have found the most wonderful man (soppy emoticon) when i least expected it.

KateF · 07/05/2009 11:20

At a wedding. I was a bridesmaid, he was the best man! I was 28, he was 30. We married the following year, have been married 10 years, have 3 dds and are still friends with the couple at whose wedding we met.

cazboldy · 07/05/2009 11:23

when he came to pick up his little brother from my house and as his Mums car had broken down.

I was 11 and he was 17 and I developed a massive crush on him

merlin · 07/05/2009 11:23

Blind date set up by my sister and her friend (male) who knew us both.

I was 38 he was 33.

merlin · 07/05/2009 11:25

See Knickersnickers there is hope yet! I was divorced and had just come out of a broken engagement too but that is a WHOLE other story!