How did you meet your wife, hubby, partner?

[summerdays]

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.

No - I know lots that did get together and then are still together 20 years on.

Met Uncle James at Uni, although he made no impression on me initially.

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For about three months I messed him around, going out and then chucking him, never sure, wondering if I was being silly. I finally came to my senses (he's a wonderful chap!) and realised that he really was ideal for me. We got married aged 22 which was 16 years ago.

I met Mr Summerdays at Uni in the first term - I have a photo of him in my room decorating it for Christmas (my Mum sent me a small plastic tree and decorations), but I don't remember him - though I guess we met through mutual friends. We started going out the second term which worked for a while but other friends started to serious, I got nervous as I didn't want deep commitment for the rest of my life at that stage and so started a 2 and a half year on/off relationship with me doing all the mucking around. Anyway he stuck it out, and eventually we married nearly 20 years ago.

 

[XmisterIS]

We met while dogging one fine evening. She was in the back of a transit, I was on the vinegar stroke, our eyes met across a can of Tennant's Super, and the rest is history!

 

[slugonabike]

Awww, there are some lovely stories here

I met Mr Slug at a folk dance club. I'd recently moved into the area having visited a few times to spend time with a previous boyfriend. MS asked 'Haven't I met you somewhere before?' and I laughed at the corny chat-up line, smug in the knowledge that we hadn't met. It transpired that I was wrong, our paths had crossed when we were with our previous partners and I had, apparantly, made a big impression on him.

We've been together for 28 years now. Like others, we've had our ups and downs but I've decided to keep hold of him rather than breaking in someone else

 

[ThePainInSpain]

1992, Snog a Dog Night

 

[surfdude]

i met mine in a wine bar .walked in saw her and knew she was the one for me . chatted to her and told her i was going to marry her . that was 23 years ago and still together . love at first sight does really happen .

 

[ttcycle]

Yeah great stories folks!

Bit of an unusual one, My best friend had started this art/activism/community group and we were getting things up and running. We were in the process of looking for people with different skills to set up a social left wing community centre that did practical skills and arts skills exchanges out in the local community. Anyway, we were looking for a unusual space and at the time a squat was strategically the way to go for political reasons. A lot of the people we met answered Gumtree ads. So we went to see a squat in Elephant and Castle that had been opened up by a Scottish fella to check out the space and see what could be done. Met my now boyfriend there as he was a photographer that had responded to our gumtree ad. I wasn't interested in him in that way as he's not my usual type of 'pretty' (that's how my friends describe my type apparently) but after the meeting, a group of us walked up to the tube and we exchanged phone numbers as I'm quite into photography (haha-understatement I suppose) and he said he was happy to chat about photos as 'he loved talking to people about photography' (I'm sure this was a ruse!).

Life took over a bit, job got very messy- some of you might remember some of my posts about work stresses (though cryptic at the time), I somehow stayed vaguely in touch with Mr Photographer and contacted him back then with the intention to talk about photography as things were so bad at work I didn't have long left there. I'd applied for a BTEC course and wanted some advice. We met up for a drink, ended both spilling our guts, he was staying at his aunts and caring for her as she was dying of lung cancer - I said to him that it was important that he remembered to look after himself otherswise when she died it would be a bigger blow and I ended up telling him about all the stuff that was going wrong with work - big safety issues not being managed well when working with patients one to one as an advocate, We snuck in some photography but mostly chatted about lots of things. As he was looking after his aunt, I thought I'd stay in contact with him to see if he was alright.He came round one time to my flat to help me with my portfolio as I was applying for the course and I don't know what it was but something switched where I just found him a bit attractive. His Aunt had a complex relationship with her prescribed medication and he didn't want to exacerbate the addiction and she ended up throwing him out because of this. We met up again the evening he left as he was able to stay out past 8pm as he didn't have to go and care for his aunt, I sort of plied him with drink not with any real intention as things were getting complex in my life and I knew a relationship wasn't the best thing for me at that time as I knew in a few weeks I was going to become homeless. Somehow, we wondered around after last orders looking for ingredients for a mojito (mint, I had a stash of good Cuban rum, ice cubes, brown sugar, limes and mint) - eventually made it back to my flat, drank more and we got together. He stayed with me in the last few days of living in the flat, we stuck together through our joint homelessness and had some of the most fantastic times. We've now moved into a flat together. It hasn't been long, we sometimes have tough patches, have gone through a lot but the good times have been and are amazing.I hope it really works out and keeps on getting better.

The boyfriend says:
I spend more time on Cyclechat talking about crap then about bikes apparently or riding them (had flu for a week)....I think that just means I need to get out on a Sunday ride .

 

[J.Y.Kelly]

Wife 1 was a friend of my cousin, and we met at my aunts house.

Wife 2 was married to my friend.

Wife 3 I've known since I was 8 years old, and I got re-acquainted with her at work. (I was her boss).

Wife 4 I haven't met yet!

 

[ianrauk]

I knew there were more great stories out there. Keep them coming folks. It makes great reading.

 

[Vikeonabike]

"Pvt W.........If you don't get your sorry little arse over here now you are going to be doing pressups in that puddle.

"No Pvt W....I have a question for you? Where is your F*ck!ng Weapon"

I had a good line in chat up lines back then.

 

[biggs682]

on the friends reunited , never met her before that , but we just clicked and talked on line and then phone before meeting and never looked back after over 6 happy yrs

 

[Jaguar]

On tinternet dating site. He pretended to like cycling and veggie food for a whole month

 

[ACS]

Mid 1970’s, it ‘twas a Thursday night and I was on duty in the Main Guardroom at RAF Machrihanish, near Campbeltown, when a group of girls staggered into the outside corridor to shelter from the elements and wait for a taxi to take them back to town after the NAAFI bop. One of the group, a petite girl (size 8) in a red cat suit, stood quietly to one side, looked over and smiled. Of course I failed to notice but Billy didn’t, as he later pointed out, warning me that George fancied some of it but she was playing hard to get.

The following week I got caught up at work and end up going down the NAAFI late on. As I walked into the Bop I witnessed the shy, petite dark hair vision slap George with a cracking right hander. Took George clean off his bar stool which reduced Billy to fits of hysterics and the vision and her pal (she had a real sour face) stormed off, clutching their handbags, in the direction of the ladies.

Having missed all the fun I went up to the bar, grabbed a beer and got caught up in a conversation with one of the lads off the opposite shift. He bugged out to the gents and found myself standing next to the little firebrand. Now full of the Dutch stuff, I turned into a tongue-tied idiot and burbled on about crap, got a round of drinks in and she did not run away back to her mate. Bonus!!!!!

It turned out that George had made a truly outrageous suggestion resulting in his massive ego being publically dented; which was no bad thing and after a couple of false starts, well I was 18, we started ‘stepping out’ (her Dads terminology).

Married 2 years later and having spent the best part of 25 years travelling the world and we still wake up together.

 

[Raistlin]

Went out at school, broke up and did not see each other for about 18 months. Saw her again, asked her to come for a drink and have now been together for about 20 years with two great kids.....

As said by others, once I saw her again I knew it was for ever

Nothing to do with me wanting a replacement for the stolen bike, honest

 

[Hacienda71]

Met my better half through friends in the UK. Due to being South American she had to leave the country when her visa expired. So I went over to visit her in Brazil and on the spur of the moment proposed to her shortly after arriving in Sao Paulo. Thankfully she said yes and 11 years on and 2 little ones later we are still happy and together.

 

[dellzeqq]

on the friends reunited , never met her before that , but we just clicked and talked on line and then phone before meeting and never looked back after over 6 happy yrs

that is just great. People say that the internet is destroying 'real' relationships, but if your experience (which matches my own) is anything to go by, the reverse is true!