Our best beloved

Met him when I was 16. His next door neighbour said she was borrowing an LP that she knew I would like and did I want to go up and hear it. He came round with it and we have been together ever since.

A friend of a friend

Thanks for sharing your memories ladies.Some so very happy and others sad. I wish life dealt us all a good hand.

I met my DH years ago he went to school with my BIL. I was invited to the attached social club met him there but we were both courting. We socialised quiz nights etc but I married and lost touch.
Years later whilst getting divorced I was asked to help out on his family business. We started dating with my children’s approval we planned on marrying when I finished studying in three years time. We got married just three months later.

As children. Married when I was just over 16 and finished with school, he'd been out and working/saving for 2 years so we could marry.

In a working men's club, where I was the barmaid, trying to pay my way through university. His dad was a committee member, who with his fellow committee members would wait with me, until I locked up and was safely on my way home.

Engaged in three months, married in a year and still together 48 years later. He was very shy and it took him six months to pluck up courage to ask me out.
He is my rock.

I had such affection for my FIL, who treated me like his own daughter, despite having eight children of his own.

Met him at a swimming pool in Malaysia in 1968. Married in 1970 in Singapore.

We met at a school science club meeting - annual event with people from all over the country. We lived more than 200 miles apart then.
We'll have been married nearly 40 years this year.
Best thing I ever did.

In a nightclub, he was a friend of a friend and we were celebrating his birthday.

At a dance, we went out for a few months, got married, and it lasted until he died, just over 53 years after our wedding.

We were both tutors in university halls of residence. My best female friend looked the male tutors over and said “Isn’t it awful to think we’ll probably marry one of them?” We both did!

BBC London hostel in November 1960 - he was a new graduate entrant, I was a secretary. Married in September 1962. It was clear from the very beginning that the relationship was either serious or off.

Met at work in November 1974, moved in together May 1975, married in May 1976. It was the talk of the office!

Initially at school where we hardly knew each other. We both married, then many years later he found me on Friends Reunited so we dated then married in 2015. He lives mainly in France whilst I'm in England.

1968, student union coffee lounge, as they called it. I was first year, he was 2nd.
Married in 1974.

At university in November 1966 - married in 1968!

In my first year at University, but it never occurred to us that we might be made for each other for another six years. In fact, we actually lost touch with each other for about a year.

LITERATE

library
most literal man ever meet hes gone and i have aphasia

Small ad in a magazine, pre online dating I suppose. I always remind him that it pays to advertise! 35 years this summer.

At a dance hall, over the Odeon cinema in Hounslow.
Married in 1961, still going strong after 61 years.

At work in 1967. We married in 1969 and he’s still tolerating me. It seems odd now but my Dad needed to give permission for me to marry.

In a scout hut 1966, married 1968
He died 1976 .

At a Young Farmers' dance in the 50s.

At a wonderful traditional pub a stone’s throw from where I lived at the time.

MrC’s sister was the landlady.
I was in the throes of almost having a nervous breakdown (seriously).

My mom had just died; I’d been royally dumped by the man who I thought I would spend my life with; my best friend had moved to the other end of the country; and I was totally out of my depth trying to do an art PGCE.

I was also drinking far too much.

MrC said it was love at first sight.
He asked my out numerous times before I succumbed.

He saved my life ♥️