how did your relationship start?

bravobeastie

Li0nhead wrote: »

This being a money saving site i want to read a story that starts 'I was shopping in poundland....."

well along those lines, to save on parking I used the car park of a little nursery shop when I went shopping in town. My car was stolen from there and my (now) hubby was the manager. That's how we met

Been married 6 years and together nearly 9 years

annie_d

First marriage...I was approached aged 20 by a 19 year old boy in a launderette...he asked me if he could ask me a personal question...I said yes...he asked me to marry him....I said yes. 18 horrendous years and three children on we gave it up. Second husband met in a chat room...me 40... Him 24....been together 12 happy years...married for 10 of them...I think it is ten....my memory is rubbish.

cloverfan

Thank you all so much for telling me how you all met I am loving it! Please keep them coming. I am interested to see how much attraction is needed lol

cat04

Ex - Was a student teacher at my college and asked me out on his last day a couple of weeks before i TURNED 17 (should have realised then it was doomed as he lied about his age - we assumed and he confirmed that he was 23, but he was actually 25). 11 years and 2 children together, married almost 10 years when I left him.

OH - met on Facebook of all the sodding places (I hate that we met on FB grrr) in the last few weeks I was with my ex (very long story but in a nutshell controlling ex knew I wanted to leave, booked our 1st ever family hol to Euro Disney and hyped DD1 up for it, so secretly bided by time until a few days after we got back from hol to leave). Met up and clicked straight away. After 6 months of living with my parents (drove 75 miles each way to spend the weekends with him whilst ex had DDs) I moved back to the area and we've been living together ever since. Just waiting on a proposal.....

Savvy_Sue

You have only to look at our wedding photos to know that I did not marry DH for his looks - NHS horn-rimmed specs, floppy hair in an indiscriminate style - so I'd say that fancying him was pretty well down the agenda.

I've worked on him a bit over the years: we've just spent a fortune on new glasses, and he's preening because the optician said they were 'really cool'. :rotfl: He decided to have his hair cropped short, so it sticks up all over, and suits him much better.

I've known him since we were 7 or 8 - we remember the same Sunday School teacher. Then we were in 6th form at different halves of the same school (mixed schools were around, but less common than today). He was most definitely NOT fanciable, and not even that much fun to spend time with from my POV - a bit geeky and obsessive, even argumentative.

Saw him occasionally during Uni holidays, and he didn't seem to have changed a lot. He invited himself back to my house once, and my sister nearly wet herself laughing at the idea of us going out together.

Anyway, we graduated, he stayed in his Uni town and I went back home, but we both went to the same play at the Friends Meeting House in London. I saw him across the auditorium and thought "that's him, it can't be him, what's he doing here" etc. Wouldn't have done anything about it, except he walked all the way across and in front of our seats on his way out, so I said "Hello", he stopped and did the "what are you doing here?" thing, and we chatted. Wouldn't have gone anywhere except he wanted an address I could get him, so I wrote to him (no emails or texts in those days!) and we started writing.

THEN he went to Finland for a few months, we carried on writing, he came back to his parents for a week or so and was just desperate to talk to someone other than them, we went for a drink, and so it went on, very gradually. I was a bit of a mess in those days, depressed and neurotic so not a great catch myself, and I realised he was just lovely and loving to me, without any pressure at all.

I had quite a few other male friends, btw, most of whom were better looking than DH, but none gave me that 'feel-good' feeling so consistently.

Eventually I moved to be near him, because he wasn't going to get serious in a long-distance relationship.

Well, here we are, married nearly 30 years, 3 boys who've inherited many of his distinctive characteristics (and my nocturnal tendencies!)

There ARE better looking men out there, but why would I want one of those?

Superbiatch

My OH used to fix my pc at work and was going through a break up right about the time I was. It was like we 'fell' together and we're still going strong some 10 years later :j

jennyhugggies

Me and my fiance met while i was in a&e in my local hospital. He was working as a porter and had to take me for an x ray and we just started talking. Eventually he finished his shift and cheekely i phoned a friend and told her about him. Next day i had to go back for another x ray and he was working again. Turned out i had to stay in hospital and for everyday i was in, he visited every chance he got! He was finishing his shift at work and was off for the rest of the week and i was leaving him to the hospital door but on the way down in the lift he kissed me After i got discharged from hospital we sort of lost touch but not for long. I rang the hospital and asked to be put through to the porters office and i left my phone number for him to contact me. A few days later a text message came through from a strange number with a nice romantic poem. It made me fall even more for him then! From that we stayed in touch and became more than friends just a short while later (2 weeks later ) and after just 2 months we found out i was pregnant with our first child.

Now 8 years on with 2 kids we are as happy as the day we met each other in A&E (Well i was sore but still happy to have met him there ) And yes it was love at first sight! He really was and is the man i was dreaming of. He anoyys the heck out of me some days and yes, LEAVES THE TOILET SEAT UP, But at the end of the day, i leave the toilet seat down! He is what i dreamt of and he is what i got so as you can probably guess, im the happiest girl in my town!

tight_scotsman

vicx wrote: »

It started with a kiss

with me it started with cyst

Li0nhead

bravobeastie wrote: »

well along those lines, to save on parking I used the car park of a little nursery shop when I went shopping in town. My car was stolen from there and my (now) hubby was the manager. That's how we met

Been married 6 years and together nearly 9 years

Ah the old 'arrange for the object of your desire's car to be stolen meaning she will need to deal with you' trick :D:D:D


(joking.)

Lunar_Eclipse

I wasn't massively physically attracted to my OH initially when we met/started dating on a Summer hols type basis (we were 18!) although there was chemistry. He had (has) the most gorgeous eyes and an intelligence/wit that really grabbed my attention. I really liked him as a person and the earth most definitely moved whenever he was near my personal space.

We've been together 23 years, married with kids and I am definitely very attracted to him. I think our relationship was one of 'love growing', we were talking about old age together after about 2 months. We were soul mates from the beginning and I always had an 'it's meant to be feeling' about life with him.