51 years ago

50 years ago my older sister arranged for a young man to take me to a Valentines Day Dance at a club so I could meet new people. I was 17. I didn't like the young man but met my husband. We got a flat together in July And were married The following April.

I met my husband 50 years ago on board the northern star owned by Shaw Saville line. He was a steward and I was a passenger.It truly was a shipboard romance. We are still together after all this time! We are now sailing on the saga sapphire right now .We came back to cruising after 40 years.And it is just as if we were never away.

September 9th 1965 at the Lotus Club Forest Gate. It was above a Courts furniture store where we bought our first three piece suite. It is still there only now it is poundland.

Alf and I met first at Junior School but he went on to Senior School and we didn't see each other again until I was in my teens and he was doing his Pharmacy Degree practical training in Boots the Chemist near where we lived. We started going out together properly in 1974, getting engaged on my birthday and then married in February 1975. We had 24 years together before he died. Miss him very much

We met in 1971 at a party. As he stood in the doorway something told me he would be important. We talked/danced with lots of others before we got together and have now been married for 43 years.
All marriages have ups and downs I'd be interested in a thread discussing how to get over them.
I think it's luck in some respects - we still enjoy the same things and spend most of our leisure time together. Our careers mirrored each other from the point of view of promotions and salary and we have two lovely sons now grown up with their own lives. We have rowed often and that gets it out neither of us sulks. what do others think?

I met my second husband when his first wife went of with my first husband! We gradually got to know one another but it was several years before we married. Next year will be our 25th Anniversary!

My first husband and I met when I took a holiday job before starting university. He was my immediate boss, and we hit it off straight away, although it took a few weeks for him to ask me out. (Romantic - "You going to the party on Saturday?" "No, I can't get there." "Twist my arm a bit, and I might take you." ........How could I resist?!)

We married after I finished uni 3 years later, but divorced after 16 years. My current husband and I met on a dating site. We married 6 months after we met in 2001, and still blissfully happy.

We met at a friends house in 1962 when we were both 13. We had an argument over our love of our local football team (Spurs) and I decided immediately I was going to marry him. I had his name written all over my school pencil case and most of my friends thought I was mad! We married in 1969 and still love Spurs (almost) as much as each other

Meant I say I always introduce him as my first husband. Keeps him in his toes

He winked at me as was shown around the commercial glasshouses at a job interview. He was stripped to the waist, tanned & very good looking. I started work the next morning. He asked an English speaking friend if I'd go to the pictures with him that evening, bought me a ring a few days later & we married after dating a few weeks. I was 16, he was 25( tho' he said he was 21) He spoke little English, I spoke no Maltese....& it's our Golden Wedding Anniversary next week.

We never actually met as such. Knew each other since childhood, our two fathers were best friends before we were born, in fact my father fancied his mother but she chose his better looking friend. Although we knew each other, we were not at all interested (obviously!) and have few memories of the early years. Met again in our twenties in my parents´ sitting room, he came to pay them a visit. Have been together ever since, married in 1983. Not always easy but the bond between our two families and the same ethnic background has helped us get through the difficult times. We often joke that we had an arranged marriage.

We met in July 1986. I was working with his ex mother in law and she asked me if I would like to go with her and a few others to see Queen at Wembley Stadium as one person had dropped out. I was a hard up single parent and the ticket cost me nearly a weeks wages but I went. My husband was going too and we liked each other straight away. We have been together ever since and have a lot to thank Freddie Mercury for.

Mrsdof ... Come on ye Spurs ... !!!!! Supporting them is sometimes a painful job, but some of us have to do it. My DH supports Arsenal ...surprised we haven't divorced Ha ha!

We met in 1961 whilst both in the services and on extended leave - he RAF, me WRNS - and had a lovely three week fling. We went our separate ways and six years later did an 'eyes across an empty street' whilst we were both with other parties. Recollections stirred and we both returned to the same haunts 'just in case'. Success indeed! We managed a wonderful twenty nine years married before he had a heart attack and died completely unexpectedly. Mmmmmm...... weren't we the lucky ones........

We met at a Uni dance but I thought he was with somebody else, they seemed to dance so well together so I said no when he asked me out. A girl who knew him asked me if I didn't like him because I'd turned him down. When I explained she said she'd let him know. He got in touch the next week and we've been together since.

I met my DH on my first day at college in 1976. He was a friend of a girl I was in hall of residence with. We were just friends at college but when I left after 3 years and he stayed on to do a BEd I realised how much I missed him. I went to work in London for a while and I wrote to him everyday! We married in 1978, are still very much in love and we have never loved any one else.

How many of you regard your other half as your soul mate. Is there such a thing anyway?

I met the ex husband in June 1984 in a night club. I had 4 now adult children by him. I have now been divorced from him very happily since 2003. I was with him 16 years. I left him in 2000 filed for divorce the day after and then spent two and a half years sorting out the mess from it all getting the decree nisi pretty quick however it taking another nearly 2 years to get the absolute through a very long messy story I won't bore you with.

I met my 2nd husband in 2002 via the mobile internet. We were friends first. Got together officially at the beginning of January 2003.

Been with him since living together from February 2003 and we married in May 2007. I am now very happily married to a man who is everything the ex wasn't.

Ex was abusive. 3 of my 4 adult youngsters see my hub as Dad, he didn't have to be. My daughter is the only 1 still in touch with the biological one has my boys call him, through their choice. She loves my hub to bits though.

Been with hubby near 15 years now and they been the happiest years of my life.

People said "oh you got to he careful meeting someone through the mobile internet" back then "you don't know who they are"

I am like "I met the ex on earthland and look how that turned out" no one can really know anyone wherever you meet.

Sharing both sides so people can see you can find real happiness again after a horrible marriage

I met my second husband whilst we were both attending a magic convention in 1984.
He was performing in a close-up magic show and was the only British performer.
He made me laugh and I thought he was brilliant.
Afterwards we were introduced by a mutual friend, and we've been together ever since. And I can honestly say
It's been MAGIC!!

Cycling home from school as I entered my road new neighbours were moving in next door Wow! I became at fourteen years old smitten at the sight of a tall blonde Adonis helping with the numerous items out of the removal van. Why would he be interested in me I asked myself. National Service was the norm he was in the army serving abroad and our paths rarely crossed. I left school had numerous boyfriends but none matched my Adonis Seven years later my tall blonde Adonis asked me to marry him. I will never forget that day Our first meal on honey moon was egg and chips on Waterloo Station. Fifty four years we were wed.
I wonder how many of those marrying this day will see a fifty four year marriage.

I met my husband on 17th July 2006 when I was 60 and he was 65, on one of the Simply Walks organised by our local council. We had both been divorced for many years and were not looking for new relationships. It was my first walk, chatting to various nice people and I then found an interesting chap walking beside me; we talked, laughed, felt as though we'd known each other for ever and basically that's how we have been ever since. We married in 2009 - I always say I had to wait until I was 60 to find the love of my life, but that he was well worth waiting for!

What interesting stories, i am glad i mentioned it yesterday. Today as its 51 years and one day i have just booked our first break since hanuary and we are off to the sun (we hope) in cypripus next month.
So what shall i do tomorrow? Probably the housework i meant to do yesterday!

Eazybe no not related to silverlining47. Pure coincidence.

We met at school, in the sixth form. That was 53years ago and we've been married for 47. During the six years between our first date and marrying,I went to college for three years and he worked for a dept. store (that moved him every six months). Our relationship lasted the long distances and we sometimes only met up on Sundays.
The only communication was by letter and the odd phone call but we kept the relationship going somehow.
We must have been meant to be together.

I met my husband at work. We used to chat occasionally, and in those days I rode to work on a 2/stroke Raleigh Wisp moped. It kept breaking down, and he was the only one who could fix it! I thought that he was a keeper.

We've been married many years, and he's still fixing things.