Our best beloved

I walked into a little village pub with my best friend and saw him stood at the bar ordering a drink. Fell for him there & then, married him 2 years later and we were happily married for 42 years, he died 18 months ago, miss him like mad.

What a really lovely thread 1987H2001M2002Inanny thank you for doing this. I met my soon to be husband at my Work's sports and social club, he was volunteering behind the Bar and vaguely knew my friend who introduced us. Although we worked for the same company, it was huge and he worked in IT and I in Accounts so our paths otherwise would never have crossed. That would be 45 years ago this September.

Both late OH and current SO were introduced by a mutual friend - a different mutual friend each time.

60 years ago on my trike in a car park.

I worked in the offices at BT, in the 70s (it was all owned by G.P.O. in those days. He worked in the post room so used to come into the offices to collect the outgoing mail. He winked at me one day. I winked back, and he was so embarrassed, he dropped all the letters. That was my cue to chat him up. That was in 1978, we got married in 1980 and are still married.

In Singapore, 1969. Both working for British government, lived in the same residential compound, and met in the communal bar/restaurant. He asked me to the cinema one evening and that was it!

Meant to add we were married three years later on our return to the UK in 1972, and remained so until he died in 2018. Miss him so much

My DH was working with homeless men and I volunteered there when I was at uni, back in 1979. We got married in 1981 and still going strong!

I was living in a caravan in Cornwall and he camped in the same field. We wrote to each other for a couple of years and when he finished his degree he wrote to me saying he was coming to Cornwall to see me. Thankfully the letter was forwarded to me because I was back in Birmingham. I phoned him and said if you want to see me in Cornwall you’ll have to take me there. Next morning he picked me up in his car and we were literally together for thirty years from that day. Then had a heartbreaking divorce but we’re still good friends and still love each other very much .

In a bus station. He thought I was getting off a bus to join in a fight. We knew each other to look at but were at different schools.

Met when 18 in a Club in 1966 married 3 years later. He’s got more grumpy but we’re still holding on.