Sliding Doors.......

JustinCredibleGillespie

zepsgal wrote: »

Seems we all believe meeting out OH's as out sliding door moment
I'm not going to waste tradition.....

Me and this guy went out at high school, I was 14, he was just turned 15. I fell head over heels in love with him, only the way a teenager can :rotfl: But he dumped me after 3 months

Heartbroken, I tried to get over him. Left school when I was 16, went to college. Girl in my class asked me up to her house one night. I didn't really want to go, but she insisted and wouldn't take no for an answer. In her house that night, her neighbour across the drive chaps the door to talk to my friend's brother.

Turned out that neighbour was my childhood sweetheart! Talk about random meetings! In fact, our Humanist Celebrant told that story at our wedding September 2010, been together almost ever since that night in 2001 x

Now if there ever was a random story! Its this one! I love a happily ever after . Congratulations xx

JCG

xx

zoesmummy_2006

hmmmm my sliding doors moment is more the one that got away!!

ive known this guy my entire life, his nan lived next door, older sister used to babysit me, I grew up adoring him. He had a few problems as a teen/young man making my dad dislike him (romeo and juliet lol!!). He'd give me a lift whenever he saw me, used to flirt if we were out but neither of us dared take it further.
He then dared one night when i bumped into him on new years eve-he moved in for a kiss and i said.........wait for it........"i cant, my dad will kill me". Yes, seriously!!! I was 18, scared to death of getting the guy I wanted, froze then blurted out that stupid line. Ive regretted that everyday since lol.
We're still friends (how?!?!?!?) but nothing further. He's been to prison for an offence, but has totally reformed since that, and is engaged and settled now. Im divorced and a single mum of 2.

I wonder how different things may had been had i not uttered that line and just snogged the guy..............

cat04

Some lovely stories Mine is also about meeting partners

If my secondary school hadn't gone down hill I would have stayed at the 6th Form there instead of going to college...where I met ex OH there as a student teacher (originally he'd been going to another college but had swapped last minute). If I'd been a good girl and gone straight home after college instead of going to the pub on his last day he wouldn't have asked me out and I wouldn't have spent the next 11 years with him, and married for almost 10 of those. I wouldn't have had my 2 beautiful girls. If he hadn't been a gigantic idiot and had actually bothered to attend the birth of DD2 I might not have had the lightbulb moment to leave him.
If I hadn't been with him I could have gone to uni anywhere to do my teaching degree, but I chose a specific area of the country (where I still am) to study due to where he got his first teaching job. If I hadn't come here I wouldn't have met the 'real life friend who is also facebook friend' who sent me an invite to an app on facebook which I randomly clicked on instead of deleting as I usually did and therefore met my lovely OH. If ex hadn't faffed about with our financial settlement for so long I would have got the deposit for our new home sooner and we wouldn't have ended up in our perfect home
In hindsight I have a lot to thank the ex for!!

aliasojo

zepsgal wrote: »

Seems we all believe meeting out OH's as out sliding door moment
I'm not going to waste tradition.....

Ok I'll play.

I initially 'met' my OH when a group of us were out for my then best friend's hen night.

We were in a pub, pretty drunk and this young bloke came up to me, said hi and asked me to dance.

It was obvious he was a lot younger than me (and I was drunk ) so I made some snotty remark about not cradle snatching and carried on my way. (Yes with hindsight I wasn't very nice to him. ) I never gave him another thought and actually forgot all about it/him.

Two years later best friend and hubby were going out for a quiet drink for her birthday and as I was home alone, they asked me along too. I wasn't going to go and play the spare part but they insisted it was only a casual drink and no big deal so I gave in and went.

There was a bloke in the corner who kept looking over and eventually came over to talk to us. He asked me out and after being together for a while, he told me that he was the young bloke in the pub I had snubbed 2 years earlier. I did have the good grace at that point to feel embarrassed and apologised for being a bit up my own @ss.

We've been together for 14 years now, not all the years have been easy but we're still here. I do sometimes wonder if we're meant to go a certain way.

Alizarin

zepsgal wrote: »

Seems we all believe meeting out OH's as out sliding door moment
I'm not going to waste tradition.....

Haha, me either!

Everyone expected me to stay at my secondary school for 6th form. But I decided that I hated the school and didn't want to stay a secong longer than I had to! So I changed schools, and that's where I met OH who was my best friend (but not boyfriend) for 2 years.

After 6th form, we had a major arguement and I left to go to uni. But I hated that too (!) so quit, moved back home and a month later made up with OH and we started going out. We're still happily together 9 years later

I always wonder what would have happened if I'd stayed at uni ... I'd have a science degree rather than an accountancy professional qualification, and I'd be miserable working in a science lab when I always disliked practical science work and always wanted to work in finance! ... oh yeah, and I wouldn't have OH!

JustinCredibleGillespie

Bump.............

Is there any others out there that would like to share?

JCG

xx

Olokia

My parents were planning to move to France when I started university and to help me get into the french university, I went to a college that did an international qualification instead of A-Levels. I met someone on the 2nd day of being there.

My sliding doors moment is:

A: Break up with boyfriend of two years and move to France with parents and go to university there. The plans to do this had been made since I was 11.

or

B: Stay with boyfriend and move in with him where he was going to University. Don't go to university and get a job instead. Live in England and visit parents in France occasionally.

I chose B. The job that I found, paid for me to do a HNC and I am now engaged to my OH of 8.5 years. We are getting married in May. I still wonder what A would have been like but apart from missing my parents sometimes, I think B was the right choice. (My parents didn't think so at the time though)

JustinCredibleGillespie

I think you made the right choice & you get to holiday in France for 'free'.

JCG

xx

vintagebrighton

My 'sliding doors' moment isn't to do with my OH and was something I didn't really have any control over. When I was 11 I passed my 11 plus and so desperately wanted to go to boarding school. Because I was a girl, this was 1973 and my mother was a fervent catholic I wasn't allowed to go. Out of all of us, 2 girls and 3 boys only the boys were to be educated, girls stayed at home and did women stuff! I often wonder which way my life would've gone if I'd got away

ska_lover

A few years back, I had been a single parent for years and got made redundant from my job as a secretary. I was applying like mad for every single job or oppurtunity that came up, and three months went by with nothing then all of a sudden I was offered a job as a van driver (which I didnt really have any interest in, but despearately needed the money) or a college course - both due to start on the exact same date. So I had the choice to make, the job or the course, but money won over and I took the job, just so I would have an income coming in. At this company I met my lovely OH and every job and promotion I have had since, has led from connections I made whilst at the initial job be it customers of the original place etc - it really led to some great opportunities . I am so glad I took that job!