How did you meet your partner? and where are all the single men?

ellesbellesxxx

I met my now husband on a dating site - about half of our friends have met each other online too!!! The only person we haven't told where we met is my Grandma as she is in her 80s, she would struggle to get her head around it - everyone else was fine about it

lincroft1710

Slinky wrote: »

Got mine out of the newspaper in the days before internet dating was popular.

Same for me, put ad in lonely hearts column of local paper, she replied.

emsywoo123

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

A couple have been tutor/student relationships. .

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Peter333

Gloomendoom wrote: »

OK, no need to get your knickers in a twist. My comment was based on the number of "dating someone from work is an absolute no no" posts that I have read on this very forum. Not yours in isolation.

emsywoo123 wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

LOL, I am assuming (or hoping!!!) that it's uni, and the student is 20! (and the tutor 27-29) Like Ross in 'Friends.'

System

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

Out of curiosity, why?

Its not much different to going up to someone in a bar...

but I wouldn't do that either. I'd just prefer to friendship to develop into something more.

Mrs_Ryan

I met my OH through a lonely hearts ad in the Metro paper 8 years ago. My ex before that was a friend of a friend and the two before that I met in nightclubs.

FBaby

When I met my OH on one of the dating website, one of my closest friends admitted that she'd met her husband on the lonely hearts column of the local newspaper. I was speechless as I would have thought it wasn't their style at all. They are both very confident, good looking, good jobs, clever, sociable, and I had assumed they had known each other since they were in their 20s, but they only met in their 30s both having never been in serious relationships before.

She said that it is not something they used to admit because of the stereotype, but she now feels that it is a lot more accepted and she has told all her friends who have all been surprised, but in a positive way.

duchy

AubreyMac wrote: »

Thanks for responses guys.

The few people I know who have done online sites have always said that there are far more women on the site than men. Can anyone vouch for this?

I'm reluctant on the basis that any date I have, we will just be the best of a bad bunch. I know that may be jumping the gun a bit there as I've not actually tried it.

A friend of mine was worried about other people finding her on dating sites as she has a unusual name, she's also a school teacher so worried about students/parents/collegues finding her.

How do you "know"
Who is "we"

Does this mean that you believe that all the people who have posted saying they met their spouse/husband on a dating site have settled for "the best of a bad bunch" ?

Maybe you should try it for yourself before deciding ?

Mini_Bear

I met my partner online, our paths would never have crossed in real life (works in construction, plays rugby and spent every spare minute refurbing his house). I was told by every guy I spoke to on M@tch that there were no under-30s women online in London, so maybe it's area and age specific.
My parents met through a dating agency in the 80s and have been happily married ever since (even after triplets!)
I would definately give online a go, it cuts out the awkwardness and you can see someone's hobbies and interests before you talk to them.

onomatopoeia99

AubreyMac wrote: »

So what do single men do in their spare time? surely they don't just sit at home in front of the telly?

I can only speak for this single man, but here goes ...

Being single and living alone, I have to do all the household chores, all the cooking, mowing the lawn and so on, plus household maintenance (replaced a load of guttering and the roof of the front porch not that long ago, for example). This consumes a decent amount of the time outside of work.

Evening class once a week (Italian, my fourth year of study. I'm still pretty rubbish though ), plus a few hours during the week doing i compiti (the homework). However after work I generally need to switch off and disengage my brain, so I tend not to go out that often aside from that else I'm frazzled at work the next day and as a consequence can be found watching telly or even on MSE of an evening.

Weekends are typically spent either refurbishing my home, which it is in dire need of since I bought it from a retired couple that seem to have done nothing to it in about 40 years (think artex ceilings and woodchip wallpaper everywhere, and I'm currently replacing the kitchen which is mostly the original units from 1951), or helping out at motorsport events - I haven't competed in a few years as work on my home needs doing more urgently than repairing my racing cars.

I have no time for photography, which is my other hobby, but that's generally a solo activity anyway.

None of the above puts me in the path of many single women!