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

[NoKnickersSnickers]

At the pub aged 8. Our parents had become friends. Been together ever since - 34 now and got 4dcs.

Through a pen club. A friend had met him so I knew he was okay. We met and have been together every since. We were both 23.

At the pub - I came there for an interview, he was working behind the bar there already. He poured me a sneaky drink (much to my friend who'd set up the interview's disapproval), we chatted and there was a definite frisson... but I was seeing someone else and so nothing happened.

Apparently he went home and told his sister that he'd met this wonderful person .

Three months later, both still working in the pub, I'd split up with the someone else (never base a relationship upon a shared love of U2 and Blackadder - it can only go so far) and he followed me all around the pub family room one Saturday, recleaning ashtrays, mustering up the courage to ask me out...

I was 21, he was 22. We've been together 22 years this November, married for 18 this August.

queenrollo - I feel encouraged! Happy for you. Our dates are very similar - meeting in late teens, having a son, separating around 30. I can't imagine anyone being nice enough to take me and DS on as a unit, TBH. But hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised when the time's right.

At my sisters wedding,it was a massive set up, I was 20, he was 26. We are celebrating are 10th wedding anniversary this year and have 2 dd's.

NotKnickers: if it makes you feel better, two friends of my parents married recently. He was widowed a number of years ago (and was devastated by it, never thought he'd love again etc.) but then feel in love with his new DW, who had never been married and she's in her early 60s.

In the queue to a club, I was 19 he was 24 - both at Uni, I was drunk and pinched his bum. We got engaged about 2 months later, 15 years down the line, one and half kids later we're still not married!

We worked in the same office, different departments, for about a year before we got together.

Both 30.

I worked behind the bar of a pub that one of his mates was the manager of. He came in with terrible impetigo on his face and told his mate he fancied me. I told her he had no chance. We've been together for 18 years and have 2 DCs.

Both 20.

We met at school when we were both 14. We got together 2 months after we met and have been together ever since. We're both 27 now and have been married nearly two years and have a 5 month old DD. Not bad to say most people thought it wouldn't even last 2 weeks We were a bit of an unlikely couple, we both mixed in very different circles. He was a bit of a 'bad boy' and I was a bit of a swot so I don't think people thought it would last

When i was 12 and he was 14, he was seeing my best friend we mixed in the same social group and got together when i was 16. We are now 34 & 36 have 3 DCs and have been together for 18 years, married for 3.

noknickers, you will find a man who will be happy you have DS.
my DP was a happy 35 yr old singleton when he contacted me again. i had 2 children ,we met on the monday, moved in together on the friday. now have 4 children, his mates cant believe it
happy hunting

At his house party, he was going out with someonelse, he dumped her the next day and then it took us month to get together (through lots of interefering friends), we were 16, and we will be together 16 years in July, married 8 and hav 3 dcs

Oops married 9

Both postgrads at uni - he was coming into my friend's lab and she told me that the perfect man for me was joining their lab (based on his hairstyle and clothes)! So I refused to have much to do with him for a while, then we started going out after a few months. Been together 15 years, married 5, 3 DCs.

Oh, he was 25, I was 24.

My current DP who I hope to spend the rest of my life with - I was 50 and he was 52! We met online and struck up a wonderful correspondence. Met two months later and WHAM - that was it.

In work, I was his boss. He was 16 and I was 26. I was in te middle of a divorce from nobhead, cheating husbaband and he went to university,working in the holidays. When he was 19 and back from uni for the Easter holidays he asked me out and we had 3 days together before he went back. Spent everyday on the phone to him and sending letters. End of May we spent 2 days away together and he proposed to me. We have been together 15 years and married 11 years this year and have 3 DC together.

Everyone said it wouldn't last but we have had so much shit happen in the last 15 years and we are still as strong as ever and love each other dearly.

First year secondary school - we were 11. Scary really as DS1 is nearly that age! Got together at 16 - been together nearly 20 yrs!!!!

At uni. I was 18 and in my first term. He was 20 and in his third year. Didn't get together until after he had left. I was just 22 and he was 24.

Twenty years ago, married for eleven .

Oh I should add getting married this year!

Online, we were both 17 been together for nearly 7 years, married for 1 and have one DD (5)

pub

was 18

been together 17years and married on our 15th anniversary so been married 2 of them

At our local am dram group. He was 22 and I was 30 but we were friends for a couple of years before we got together properly (when he was 24 and I was 32). I'm 40 this year!

Met when i was 12 and he was 20 at my Uncles wedding reception (DH was the best man)

Got together when we were 17 and 25. Went out for the 1st time on a "date" arranged by my aunt.

Been together for 20 years and got married in 2007.

In a chinese restaurant in London, with mutual friends. We were both 28.