How did you meet your DH

I found him under a gooseberry bush.

No, wait, that was the children!

We first met in a works canteen in Shoreditch. Then he gave a home to our cat when my then flat mates all moved out and I had to find a bed sit. I excercised visiting rights on the cat and then more or or less made that my second home.

We met on Valentine's Day at a dance. I was on a blind date with someone else and he was with a girl who looked like Elizabeth I. I was 17 and he was 21. We were married within the year, 45 years ago. We moved in together while I was still at school doing my A-levels and I used to go home to sleep occasionally. I don't know why my parents didn't realise what was going on. My children say I was wild which means I know for certain they were quite well behaved when they were growing up!

I was having one of many fights with my then fiance on the phone and DH, with whom I was working asked me to give him the receiver and announced that would he - my fiance kindly get off the phone and leave me alone as DH was intending to ask me for a date that evening. So he asked and I did!

I went on a trip to Coventry with a girl friend, it was her birthday and the trip was a present from her parents,we were both 15 she wasn't allowed to go on her own so I was asked to go, (you know how when you go on holiday families often pal up with another family, it was a family like this we were going to stay with, and she secretly fancied the boy in the family,)I said I wouldn't go if it meant I was going to be playing gooseberry all weekend so it was arranged that one of his mates would come along to keep me company. Once we arrived at the friends house, I was introduced to my companion for the weekend,and that was it 46 years later he is still my companion, husband and best friend. As for the girl friend she never saw her boy again and I lost touch with her soon after.

I met my DH (my second) on a training course. it was my first week working for a water company. Gripping residential course it was, on understanding finance (company had just been privatised) About 20 men and me - a new experience for me, being such a male environment.
He was a young scientist (10 years younger than me) and confessed later that he had sat next to me because I was the only woman and therefore almost certainly more interesting than the water engineers.
I remember him regaling me about his job which involved dangling out of helicopters, throwing oranges and dye into the sea to track the currents, interesting stuff like that.
Six months later I concluded that he was the only eligible prospect encountered so far (there were a lot of men in that there company, but most of them very married and in any case not my type.) so I rang him up and asked him to a party.
he went to Hong Kong and I immediately got diagnosed with breast cancer. But somehow the relationship survived. We've been together about 22 years now - which sounds an implausible amount of time.

A sweet and lovin man .

We met at my local rugby club. She was the girlfriend of the other prop in the front row of the team I played in. I first bought her a drink late in the evening in the bar of a hotel where we were all on rugby tour. She had a G&T, I had a scotch; I was so nervous I poured her tonic into my whisky - a mistake I have not repeated in a year's 'courting' and nearly 40 years of marriage.

Were introduced by a mutual friend , 12 months later , were married .

Even after a breakup of 2 months .

Yesterday we celebrated 42 years of marriage .

Where , where , have those years gone .

Does not really seem possible , he still looks great to me .

for him and me XX

tanglerose that made me smile, I was a sat girl at Woolies when I was 15 think we had to be 15 way back in 1969 just before decimal currency and we had to work out the change!!
Doubt many youngsters could do it now in this calculator age!
seems like light years ago!

we met on blind date, and I was not ready to be serious, had another relationship on back burner, however he swept me off my feet and we got engaged 2 months later and married within the year! That was 36 years ago this year, some good some bad but pretty good on the whole he has been amazing husband!!

We met at a business dinner where my then husband was trying to persuade him to be a client. We got on like a house on fire and laughed all evening. Husband was not amused! I did not see him until four years later when his marriage had broken up and my husband had left me the year before for what turned out to be the mother of his son and his long term mistress! We have been together for 8 years and married for 5, he is wonderful and he still makes me laugh.

I was his secretary ! That was 35 years ago.

Gally.....both in the right place at the right time, for each other.

He was working at Head Office of a property developer as an architect and used to visit us at a local office down in the sticks. We lived in the same town, he was married, no children, and then she upped and left, so that's when I stepped in! Lived together for a year and married at the end of 1973. 38 years, 3 daughters and 6 grandchildren later, he died in 2012.

I was eighteen and Tony was in the army stationed in Germany(he was 25) I worked for Boots Chemist in Clapton London .A friend bought in the girls romantic comic called Valentine, where they asked for girls to write to soldiers as penfriends. So four of us wrote.We all had letters back. Tony wrote to me every day, then we met face to face Christmas 1963 got engaged 3rd Jan 1964 and married June 27th 1964. Next year will be our Golden wedding anniversary.

I met my late DH on a blind date. My friend was going out with his cousin, they both had Saturday jobs at Woollies! We met when I was 16 and married 6 years later. I always blamed him for not doing very well in my "O" levels!! We were married 24 years before his untimely death. I met my present DH on an internet dating site and we have been married 41/2 years.

I met my late DH on a blind date. My friend was going out with his cousin, they both had Saturday jobs at Woollies! We met when I was 16 and married 6 years later. I always blamed him for not doing very well in my "O" levels!! We were married 24 years before his untimely death. I met my present DH on an internet dating site and we have been married 41/2 years.

I should have included in my post that the girl who arranged our blind date had met her boyfriend when she came home with me for a weekend so we were both responsible for the other one meeting their husband and we are both still married.

And I am humming 'Oh mein papa, to me he was so wonderful, oh mein papa, to me he was so good' ...

Aaah Ravenmad what a lovely story. I could picture the whole scene in my imagination .

what a lovely story ravenmad.

Sunday 28th June 1964. At 3pm that afternoon my Dad had died. My Mum and I couldnt bear to stay in the house that night, so my then boyfriend decided we should go with him to work. He was a guitarist in a pub band. We sat quietly at a table, not drinking just listening to the music. Suddenly, a gang of merchant seamen, fresh off a long haul tanker, piled into the pub. They didnt cause any trouble as the evening went on but were a bit loud and merry. The band decided to play Oh Mein Papa as a tribute to my Dad..... I lost it and fled to the ladies in tears leaving my Mum sitting alone. Managed to compose myself as quickly as possible and on my return discovered my Mum, totally soaked in beer all down her cream coat and this sailor on his knees in front of her mopping her down and apologising for his tipsy friend, who had tripped and soaked her from head to foot. Mum, sat there with a straight face the whole time....I on the other hand dissolved into fits of laughter and with tears streaming down my face went outside to calm down. When I came back the sober sailor was sitting chatting to my Mum... that was Eddie, the father of my two daughters and probably the craziest man I ever knew...

Oh my word,, these stories are all I thought that they would be! its so nice reading them....

I always thought that people that meet early, like at school, did not stand the test of time but obviosly not the case.