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

rach_k

I met my husband on a cancer support forum. Neither of us were exactly looking for love at the time but we started messaging, found loads of common interests as well as the more obvious shared experiences, became friends, met up, fell in love... we've been married 6 years and have two kids now. I always think that getting ill was actually quite a good thing for me - I'd never have met him otherwise as he was 250 miles away.

If you don't fancy online dating sites, why not try forums for interests you already have? It might be that your interests are just more popular with women in your local area but a few miles away it might be all gorgeous men wondering where the women are! Then if you end up together, you can say, "We met through tightrope walking" if you don't want to say online. It depends who I'm talking to as to what I say - if it's somebody my age I say a cancer forum, if it's somebody I think may not like the idea of the internet I just say a cancer support group.

PlymouthMaid

I would give internet dating a go (and did a few times). Another place where there are a lot of blokes is the casino or poker leagues in pubs. A fair few will be single but also bear in mind that a few could have a gambling and/or alcohol problems so check them out well before getting involved.. No good if you don't enjoy things like that but I have never been one for clubs and dancing preferring cards etc. I met my OH at a poker game in a bar.

kittendothroar

I met mine as he worked for a friends company and ended up in the same social circles... the ex was also through friends before they started company. And the one before that was friends of my friends boyfriend. I keep things close

AmyTurtle

I met my first ever boyfriend on holiday - he was in the room next to mine and we had a long distance romance!
In my late teens and twenties worked evening jobs in pubs and met boyfriends through that including my ex-partner of 7 years. I soon realised if they are in the pub enough that you get to know them they probably have a drink problem :beer: Met a couple of others through friends while out in pubs.

Met my current partner of 4 years when I moved in to the same houseshare as him after splitting with my ex - he was living there for a work contract.

There's no stigma to internet dating IMO - my mum (61) does it and she's met a few oddbods but no serious psychos. She's currently dating a nice widower she met on Zoosk.

Shen81

Single and not looking ever again. My ex of 5 years cheated on me for over a year with my housemate from university. I found out when I came home from work one day to find he had emptied the house of all his possessions and left me a letter saying how he had fallen in love with her and how they had been having a relationship right under my nose without me knowing. The letter was pretty brutal and I didn't deserve to have my heartbroken in that way.

It will take something special for me to trust a man again.

Starrystarrynight

Met my hubby at work, but we didn't get together until I left for a new job.