How did you meet your wife, hubby, partner?

[ianrauk]

Having a chat with peeps at work about how we meet our spouses or partners.

I met my current wife in 1995 on the Vampire Ride at Chessington World of Adventures. I was with jnr and a mate she was with a couple of friends, so she sat next to me, got talking as you do (as much as you could talk on those things, asked if she fancied a beer after the ride... bish bosh.. how's yer father and all that...and the rest is history)

Another chap at work met his wife on the train to work on his commute. He had seen her for months, according to his missus he never got the signals that she liked him as she tried to sit next to him or near him for ages and he just didn't click...

 

[beanzontoast]

Over breakfast at Uni. I was late getting to the refectory, so was she. We had the place to ourselves. Later we got talking and discovered we had a huge amount in common. And away we went!

 

[PaulB]

I met my wife in rather unusual circumstances. It was in an orthopaedic operating theatre. Our eyes met, and I seriously mean this, over the gory mess of an opened up hip as the femoral head was being sawn through. She was scrubbed during this total hip replacement wearing a full face visor and a Charnley ventilated suit. Me and my mate had switched the scrub suits so that she (4' 10") would be wearing the one designated for the surgeon (6' 3") and he'd be wearing hers. As they were miked up in those days so they could be heard outside the Charnley tent, she had to literally stand on her tiptoes so her mouth would come level with the microphone to make herself heard. She looked so helpless, it won me over. Despite our cruelty, she kept laughing through the procedure and so clearly had a good sense of humour. Mind you, she needed one!

 

[Hilldodger]

I've watched all her films and will be travelling to the south of France soon and stalking her.

Did I say that out loud?

 

[Paulus]

I was in the Boys Brigade and she was in the Girls Brigade c1973. I took her to watch Spurs play Wolves on a rainy tuesday night in November as a first date.

 

[Greedo]

Used to visit a client in a business centre and Mrs Greedo was the manager and often kicking about the reception area.

Got chatting to her as I really fancied her. She was just my type. (A cross between Catherine Zeta Jones and Christine Bleakley from the One show without the buck teeth)

4th time I saw her I asked when we were going for a drink. She went bright red and then I picked up a diary on reception and pointed at dates saying "what about this day" etc.... She gave me her mobile number and called her one Sat afternoon asking her to meet me at 7.30. She turned up and the rest as the say, is history!

I know this sounds trite and corny but I knew the minute I saw her I would be with her. I just felt it!

 

[addictfreak]

Met mine will out on the town with the lads. Never looked back, a great lass. Just wish she was into cycling!

 

[beanzontoast]

Our first date was in (though we didn't know it at the time) a really rough pub near the Uni. Needless to say we were so engrossed in each other that we are oblivious to the 'cowboy saloon - this town ain't big enough for both of us' type action going on around us!

 

[Wigsie]

Twas the year 2000, I was engaged and doing 'research' for a live chat/dating website I was building at the time. I joined msn and yahoo messenger and various other dating sites (purely for experience purposes) and I joined a few chat rooms, I started talking to a few folk and one lady struck my attention. She was on Yahoo Messenger as she had recently moved to the UK from South Africa and was using it to keep intouch with her friends. Chatted online for a year or two (just friendly plutonic stuff never sexual) then I left that job and stopped using a PC for a while.

We lost contact for around two years (in which I had become single, I broke the wedding off 4 weeks before the date ), I then logged onto messenger while at my folks for sunday lunch and she was online, we chatted again for an hour or so then exchanged numbers, chatted and texted for a few months then decided to meet. We are now married with 2 sprogs !

 

[Kirstie]

I met my other half as he was renting a room in the house of a very good friend of mine. As we both loved mountain biking, music, the arts, the outdoors, industrial archaeology, engineering etc etc etc it was a match made in heaven. Except for when he first asked me out I said no, because he was planning to move away. After a few days I changed my mind and asked him over 'to fix my video player as it was broken'. He didn't move away - he moved in!

The reason why he rented the room in the first place is a result of a number of tenuous connections and co-incidences. He rented that particular room because his mum was extremely good friends with my friend's PhD supervisor's wife...and my friend happened to have a room free at the time, as I had moved out - it was the room I used to rent...

 

[Jim_Noir]

December the 7th 1991. Was at the Glasgow Tech (Now the Caladoina university) Student union. Back in the 80s early 90s it was the Goth club in Glasgow. Um so yeah, meet there... as did every couple I know!

 

[snapper_37]

Freeserve Chat in December 1999. March 2000 she had left her job, family and husband and moved from Wales to up here. Few nasty months followed with the backlash from various parties, but we got through it and as happy as pigs in shite.

 

[Globalti]

I once met somebody I probably could have married while out cycling in Wiltshire, while I was down visiting my parents. I stopped at a tea room and strolled in the door at the same time as two women and a bloke. The proprietor took us for a group of four (me dressed in cycle clothing!) and seated us at the same table in the empty dining room. Not wanting to make a fuss I suppose, we got chatting and about an hour later I realised that this female and I had been talking non-stop and hadn't even noticed that her friends had wandered off. The remarkable thing was that she seemed to have the same deep-set grey eyes as me, it was like looking into a mirror. Then I discovered that she lived in Australia and was only back visiting her family. So I groaned inwardly and rode off into the sunset, she following me outside, clearly disappointed at the turn of events. I often wonder what would have happened if we'd agreed to meet up that evening for a drink....

I met my wife after answering her personal ad in The Times. She and I had both reached the stage where we had realised you couldn't go on hoping for a bit of luck and you needed to take the matter in hand.

 

[beanzontoast]

December the 7th 1991. Was at the Glasgow Tech (Now the Caladoina university) Student union. Back in the 80s early 90s it was the Goth club in Glasgow. Um so yeah, meet there... as did every couple I know!

Actually, I'm just thinking - I know of only one other couple who met in our year at Uni and subsequently got married. Plus one couple who were living together after Uni, but they may or may not still be nowadays as we've lost touch.

 

[ColinJ]

I didn't.